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The American society is composed of an ethnical mix, with members of many nations which blend into one unique American identity, while keeping their authenticity. This authenticity can be seen clearly in the cultural diversity. Just like any other identity, American is fluid over time. It changes and alters, in accordance with societal changes. Identities are not carved in stone. While we have every right to actively participate in the process of fashioning our identities, they still have a relative autonomy, and change over time. For example, if I am an Italian immigrant who lives in the U.S., I still have every right to claim my Italian cultural inheritance, but it doesn't make me less of an American. By living in America, I am adopting new cultural traits. My children will have their own perception of their cultural identity that doesn't have to be the same as mine.
When someone makes reference to a familiar story or cultural reference, such as Ulysses and Achilles from Homer's "The Odyssey", it is considered an allusion.
<span>C. She lives on the twentieth floor of an old apartment building somewhere in Manhattan.
This option is accurate since it contains articles and modifiers that are grammatically correct:
i) "the" is used before the word "twentieth" (a noun modified by ordering- i.e. first, second, third, and so on...)
ii) "an" is used before the word "old" (which begins with a vowel)
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Esperanza admires Marin because "she is older and knows lots of things". Marin is worldly, and flaunts a sense of sexuality that the younger girls are only beginning to discover. Marin also has dreams of escaping Mango Street, and appears to the others to have options which will allow her to do that.
