Part one of term paper
No one has a perfect life. Throughout one’s life there are many obstacles. Depending on how one chooses to deal with such obstacles, their affect can range from strikingly nocuous, to unexpectedly beneficial. In some situations, however, these obstacles are so overwhelming that one cannot help but be detrimentally affected. As Poet, ...

Part two of term paper
... a young girl, Ruth lives in a southern town called Suffolk, in which Jews are looked down upon. People laugh at her as she walks down the street, and snicker when they hear her speaking Yiddish. Children at her elementary school tease her for being Jewish. Ruth becomes ashamed of her identity, and tries to conceal it by changing her name. She explains, “My real name was Rachel, which in Yiddish is Ruckla, which is what my parents called me--but I used the name Ruth around white folk, becau ...