Bonjour France! French teacher Mr. Kevan Morshed and his wife took nine students to France. Morshed got the idea from the his high school study abroad trip; the trip was consisted of vacationing and going to school while staying with host families every night. The group also met up with Morshed’s French brother Baptiste. Like Mr. Morshed, the students formed relationships of their own with their host families.…
D’Arcy McNickle’s novel The Surrounded, explores the internal strife that many natives that attended the Indian schools faced due to their ambiguous sense of identity. Through the portrayal of the characters’ varied responses to the struggle of finding balance between the learned ways of the Western world and their indigenous upbringing, McNickle shows how the acculturation of native youth ultimately led to the destruction of the vitality and drive of the entire population. Unfortunately, the conflicts faced in the novel provide still relevant insight to the dejection of the Native American people in the twenty first century. Archilde Leon, the protagonist of The Surrounded, depicts the emotional turmoil that many Native Americans felt after…
One way in which the Natural portrays aspects of King Arthur is which Pop Fisher. Fisher is like Fisher King. In the book, when Pop gets sick, the fans stop showing up, the playing field become dry, and the team loses games. Another aspect is The Waste Lands when the King is ill the land is dry and bare. Perceval comes to help the king and the grass starts to grow and flowers flourish.…
Traditional values are defined as beliefs and moral codes that are passed down from generation to generation within a culture, subculture or community. When thinking of traditional values one thinks about religion, marriage, schooling, and overall the mores of a family. Fascism relies on these values and controls them in any way possible. The government controls every aspect of your life and of society. They impose strict regulations on businesses and on the family life.…
Migrants are people that migrate from different parts of the country to another. This decision is based on political conflicts, religion, economy, industrialization, and much more. A migrant migrates to a new country looking for peace, and most significantly a better future for their children, wives, and themselves. Education is a major component of which migrants leave their homelands. Receiving an education can make you a somebody in the world.…
Like the previous poem he utilises repetition, however the phrase “Please resist me” at the beginning of the first six stanzas is not a petition for approval but instead is received by his audience as a taunting challenge. These three words coupled with lines such as “colonise me, compromise me, conflict me” act as a powerful statements exhibiting a tone of loathing, defiance and mocking. Providing a stark difference to the first piece, encouraging the unjust treatment that he is so familiar with, suggesting that deflecting the coarse words and actions has become second nature. Metaphors such as “Keep me under the gun” likens the oppression of migrants to a never ending war where they constantly find themselves under fire and control, however it again shows that in their diabolical treatment they have found strength. Unlike Zevos’ writing where he conveys a message of similarity between us and those with different heritage, Lesson embraces the divide, unloading guilt and contrite onto the audience.…
He often comments or acts in ways contradictory to his thoughts and actions from earlier in the essay. One instance is as he is sitting in class, his teacher makes a pop-culture reference about a robot on TV. Sedaris contemplates that the Tomkeys must have thought she was having a heart attack due to her excessive movements and their lack of TV knowledge. He wonders, “what must it be like to be so ignorant and alone” (Sedaris 800)? But he should be all to wise in this matter.…
The Strange Character of Meursault In what perhaps is Albert Camus’s most notable work, The Stranger, the main character Meursault can be considered as a vessel for the philosophy of existentialism, an idea prominent in the time period in which the novel was written. Though at first glance Meursault may come off as a simple, uncaring man, as the story progresses, the reader is able to see Meursault as a complex and intriguing person. While in the beginning of the book Meursault is focused only on completing his physical needs, when his ability to fulfill them is taken away from him in prison, he is forced to truly think about his life, becoming fully absurdist in his philosophy. From the very start of the story, the author…
Dr. Suess once said, “Why fit in when you are born to stand out.” Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, is a dystopian novel focused around the habits that arise as technology outsmarts the population. The focus of the novel is a man named Guy Montag who lives in a society that has been overrun by the government. Technology has been imposed on the population to regulate their everyday lives. Everyone appears happy except for Guy Montag, who is beginning to question his own actions.…
In David Sedaris essay, “Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa” he speaks of his and his partner’s childhood life. His writing is effective and meaning full especially when he speaks of his partners fifth grade trip to the slaughter house, the afternoon after seeing the moving about the talking car, and also the importance of their family. Sedaris seem to be envious of his partner’s life as a child though, he makes it clear that he is half way joking, letting readers know this right from the start. When he speaks of trip to the slaughter house he also remarks “Were there no autopsies scheduled at the local morgue?’ showing that he thought it was comical and strange.…
David Sedaris’s essay is a satirical peace that turns the readers’ attention towards the way we live our lives. He does so by utilizing irony as a way of comparing two families and their two very different ways of living. One family lives an interesting life, while the other watches strangers live their lives on…
Inside Albert Camus’s The Stranger, Camus portrays Meursault as an absurd hero. Meursault was attached to the physical world, and he was different from a normal individual. Meursault would have a direct impact from the “shimmering heat” (17) of the sun, which ultimately caused him to “squeeze his hand around [his] revolver” (59) and kill an Arab. As a result, Meursault had to live in jail, and he had to change his routine. He would spend “sixteen to eighteen hours a day” (79) sleeping, and his time would pass slowly.…
From this quote, we see that after enduring the emotional and psychological and even sometimes physical abuse, Mr. Sedaris finally can understand the teacher's insults fully in French. While that may seem meaningless compared to what he had to suffer, to him it meant the world. The article starts with him only understanding half of what the teacher said in French to him. He never gave up, despite the anguish the teacher put him and his…
The Social Contract Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762) Introduction His books were a blue print on how Rousseau wanted to know the reasons of why the people gave up their natural liberty over the state of nature. How the political standpoint became such an impact in people’s lives. One of the things he did state in his book that stuck out to me was that, “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”…
Everyone will experience death in their lifetime. This idea is shown in The Stranger by Albert Camus. The book explains how many will recieve life out of death. Through Meursault’s observations, Camus’ The Stranger demonstrates that for Meursault to find his meaning of life, he must observe his physical surroundings.…