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Pastor Elrod's sermon today was based on Matthew 5:3; which is the opening verse of the Sermon on the Mount.
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B: Though the speakers in Okita’s poem and Cisneros’s short story have strong roots in foreign cultures, both of them feel more connected to their American identities.
The sons and daughters of immigrants grow up with a contradictory culture in their spirits, they grow up being form there, but also from here, this is what they try to portray that, they both try to make clear the conection and bond they share with their old cultures and with the country that gave them a nationality.
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