Quickwrite: I would like if this law passed because it is feeding the poor. Some kids don't have food to eat each day. They fired a teacher for giving a kid food.…
The Holocaust left a lingering hurt with many of the survivors and perpetrators of the war. As a result, victims often suffered from post-war trauma. Traumatic responses, by first generation Holocaust survivors, were often projected onto their children. Authors Art Spiegelman and Hans-Ulrich Treichel illustrate the above in their memoirs Maus I and II and Lost. Both the parents in the memoirs re-enact their repressed emotions, regarding their experience in the Holocaust, through their children.…
One of the earliest cases of Townsend using her sources to draw a conclusion on a subject is found in her discussion of Malintzin’s birth name. In the first chapter of her book, Townsend states that, “We do not know what name they gave her in the days following her birth.” (Townsend, Ch.1). This boldly suggests to the reader that there isn’t any account of what name was given to Malintzin at birth. Shortly after establishing this claim Townsend respectfully refutes the fictitious names other historians supposedly thought was hers.…
The sun drifted high above the USS Maddox as the destroyer surged into enemy waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. Despite the waters being under international authority, the threat level of enemy attack was fairly high. The mission was to relay any intelligence gathered about North Vietnam to South Vietnam. The destroyer was highly equipped in relays and espionage equipment as well as defenses. Not long into entering the Gulf of Tonkin the USS Maddox was under heavy attack by multiple enemy torpedo patrol boats.…
Mercutio’s use of figurative language demonstrates the Great Chain of Being because of his intelligence when compared to the lower class who are not as high or educated as he. This further demonstrates society and perspective of that time. Mercutio is a kinsman to the Prince of Verona, who is high on the Great Chain of Being due to this status. It is then fair to say that Mercutio would also be higher up on the chain than others, like the Nurse and Peter. Mercutio demonstrates this intelligence by telling Romeo “True, I talk of dreams; /Which are the children of an idle brain, /Begot of nothing but vain fantasy;” (I. iv.…
STEREOTYPES THAT ALL BLACK PEOPLE ARE LAZY “Not willing or wanting to work or use effort to do something.” (Cambridge). When we think of the word lazy, we associate it in a negative context by reason of how we relate it to the familiarity as to how it is used. Psychology Today talks about a laziness myth that claims: Human beings have a deep-seated need to grow and learn throughout their lives.…
In To kill a Mockingbird Atticus is extremely authoritative, wise, and experienced. This is shown in his actions throughout the story. For example, he disciplines the children and teaches Scout to read and write at a young age. When he disciplines the Jem and Scout, they listen and take him seriously. Additionally, it takes a very intelligent and experienced person to teach a very young person to both read and write years before it is taught in school.…
Lipkin explain the idea a being a woman in western american society and she supports her claims by adding every example thought of and not, that beats the idea of gender and gender roles into the head of girls since birth. She referencing that from the hospital a girl is presented with a pink hat and a boy a blue one, from then on she the girl is made to know her roles in life in some subtle and very obvious ways. Girls are made to play with toy vaccums and boys play with play hammers and builder blocks, which shows the difference in women and men jobs in society. The ratio to male to female contruction workers, and male to female maids could definitly reflect this very choice of play. We as girls are given easy bake ovens…
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”(Lee 39). To Kill a Mockingbird shows its true meaning in every character. The novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, tells a story of two siblings, Jean Louise Finch (a.k.a Scout) and Jeremy Atticus Finch (a.k.a Jem), plus their friend, Charles Baker Harris (a.k.a Dill), during their summer adventures. In the novel, they make many assumptions about a strange, reserved man on their street, Mr. Arthur Radley (a.k.a Boo Radley), and like to mess with him.…
Rome is especially key for the headway of western city/people, in history going from little tribes in Italy to be the foundation of western city/people. It is also seen as one the most successful western civilizations/people and governments. Rome has encountered various movements through its history going from a city of generally of the same Italian tribes to an (including people of different backgrounds) empire. During the founding of Rome there were numerous stories about it’s starting.…
The books Maus I and Maus II are graphic biographical memoir of the life of Artie Spiegelman father Vladek Spiegelman, and his mother Anja Spiegelman. Artie, who authored the oral history memoir, is a child of the two Polish Jews who survived the mouse and cat game of historical genocide Holocaust, which was a systemic persecution and coordinated murder of millions of Jews and other targeted groups by Nazis regime (Maus II, 45). The father experience of Auschwitz is the other focus of the story (45). Spiegelman’ mother, Anja committed suicide in 1968, whereupon his father, Vladek Spiegelman burned Anja’ diaries. The author uses the work to uncover the view of the Holocaust and how such event changed individuals’ experiences and societal effects…
It is the shared experiences that we impart with and our personal perceptions of the world around us that truly influence our ability to find a sense of belonging. The level of belonging we identify with is directly governed by these intrinsic values that we uphold. In the memoir “Romulus, My Father” (1998) by Raimond Gaita, these ideas are explored through the protagonist, Raimond Gaita and his promiscuous mother, Christine, as their separate ideals and views become juxtaposed to demonstrate the depth of belonging each of them possess. In the comparable short story, “Neighbours” by Tim Winton, a newly-wed couple find themselves segregated from the street filled with European immigrants but are able to assimilate through their shared experiences…
Attempting to belong can be described as a balance between upholding and sacrificing individuality in order to facilitate acceptance. Gaita's text reflects how being dedicated to one's convictions and identity, instead of conforming to external expectations, impacts a sense of connection. From the text's onset, Romulus' identity is prominently established and maintained through his work; a metaphor for his character. His work is driven by choice, providing him with a sense of affiliation, as it is completed to "exacting standards", "unsurpassed in quality." This work ethic is projected through Gaita's unique expression of the onomatopoeic rhythm of Romulus' hammer, "tap tap bang, tap tap bang"; a skill which later serves as a vehicle Romulus…
How does Spiegelman’s use of contrasting shading methods, specific metaphors, and vivid symbolism in Maus show not only the views of the Nazis of the Jews, but how the Jews ended up viewing themselves. Spiegelman’s use of shading portrays the loss of identity, sets the scene, and shows the guilt that Valdek felt during and after the Holocaust. On pages 51, 55, and 58, Spiegelman uses the pattern of prison stripes on the faces of the mice to portray a sense of loss of individuality. It is normal for the clothes of prisoners to have stripes on them, but when Spiegelman expands that pattern onto the full bodies of the Jews, it makes the reader understand the sense of lost individuality the Jews felt since the reader can’t tell the mice apart from…
People often make bad decisions that makes them regret afterwards. For example, People gamble and lose all of their money, make bets on things that they are not a hundred percent sure of. We can see such examples from people’s life experience and from many movies and various literatures. In the short story “The Bet”, Anton Chekhov wrote about two gentleman who make bet on whether life imprisonment or execution is more moral than the other. The lawyer, who went to prison tried to prove that going to prison is better than execution, later regrets making the bet.…