Illustrative Paragraph "The Gym"
Gym is too helpful for us: Nowadays, maximum people wish to go to the gym to have a good body, such as dieting, exercising, burning fat, and so on. The gym has digital tools to make our exercise easy in daily life, also there has an instructor to guide us. Going to the gym is a huge advantage or a commitment that people should make if they are serious about getting in shape.
Write a two or three sentence paragraph on how you used Mind Mapping to select your Topic for the essay project.
How I use the Mind Map to select my topic for the essay: First and foremost, I place the subject in the middle of my writing. Around the theme. I write some significant words that are linked to the subject. Finally, I try to
sentence into a paragraph.
Unit 3
"In Cuba I was a German Shepherd" Review 1.
Beautifully written and hauntingly evocative, Ana Menendez's collection of
interrelated stories In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd gives an
unforgettable glimpse of what it is like for Cuban exiles to begin their new lives in Miami. Whether touching upon love, family, aspirations, or memories, these stories are full of gentle humor and trenchant observation nostalgic remembrance and corrosive longing. Menendez is masterful in
shape our lives, even when we are far away from home.
Review 2.
"In Cuba I was a German Shepherd" is an endearing collection of eleven short stories showing scenes from various Cuban people's lives after moving to America. As the author is a daughter of exiled Cubans, I had high expectations for this book in terms of real emotions piercing through the
text. She definitely delivered as even in the short amount of time the reader has with each character, you can almost feel for and with them. Throughout the book, the stories shift and flow from past and present to give the reader a more complete view on how these people's lives connect and how there
are very similar situations and problems present in such different people's lives. Ana Menendez does a great job of connecting stories from what seem like random people in ways a reader has to search for. Not only is this book an interesting look into other's perspectives, but it is also a
find their own connections due to the non obvious parallels. When the point
of view switches between third and first person, the reader is able to see different sides of a character. In the portions of the book where the
narration is in first person, you can feel the emotions of the speaker and how the situations in Cuba are affecting what they go through every day. In the portions of the book where the narration is in third person, you can see what's going on with the characters situation and what is going on around them. This difference is important throughout the individual narratives because each short story has