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intention to appeal to individuals who are from a similar demographic. The movie eulogizes Curtis '50 Cent ' Jackson as most people writing their own story would like to depict themselves; an eventual successor (a hero). It is common knowledge that in our present time, especially in…

I want to write my course paper on a man I idolize and completely respect, This man i speak of is Andre Romell Young, a.k.a ‘Dr. Dre.’ My goal is to shed light on Mr. Young’s Achievements, business moves and career paths, I will highlight some personal things about Mr. Young but as long as it is relevant to my points. In 1984 Dr. Dre started his music career at a local Compton night club ‘Eve After Dark’ as a Disc Jockey, he was apart of a group known as the ‘World Wrecking Crew’. Here Young,…

this is shown in the story “Sixty-Nine Cents” written in 2007 by Gary Shteyngart. The author used different symbols to express his ways of leaving the Russian culture and adopting the American culture. Which is “go to Florida, where I understood that our nation’s best and brightest had built themselves a sandy, vice-filled paradise; have a girl, perfectly native born, tell me that she liked me in some way; and eat all my meals at McDonalds.” (Sixty-Nine Cents) One of the symbols that Shteyngart…

The photo “Five Cents Lodging,” Bayard Street, shows the image of a small area akin to a confined space with beds stacked in decks (Riis 1889). The bed has people sleeping on it, which doubles up as an indication of being a lodge. The fact that people are sharing beds leads to the interpretation that it is a place offering cheap or low-cost accommodation. Approximately three boards can be seen clearly with each having two occupants. The people use the bedding to cover themselves and as such,…

K. Sello Duiker’s initiative behind the unreliable narrator, Azure in Thirteen Cents, is too question whether not having an unreliable narration, would the novel’s message with the effect of magical realism still be as effective. With the novel being written in first person (character-narrator) and in present tense, a style which is not seen as conventional and efficient. Not seen as the normative structure of a novel. The novel is a magical realist novel; having elements of both realism more…

In the story “Sixty-Nine Cents”, Gary Shteyngart reflects back on his life as a young immigrant. When he finally turned fourteen, Shteyngart lost his Russian accent. With his new-found self, the author speaks of his hopes. Although, with the lack of his family’s money, those dreams would most likely not come true. He reminisces about his desire to go to Florida, get himself a girl, and eat meals often at McDonald’s. The author connects the idea of how parents’ lives can also influence their…

Penetration in Post-Apartheid South African Bildungsromans: A Comparative Analysis Between The Smell of Apples and Thirteen Cents Stellenbosch University English Professor, Shaun Viljoen, wrote in the introduction of K. Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents, that “a comparative study of a string of South African boy bildungsromans, from (...) Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples (1995), to Thirteen Cents” would “cut across the racial writing divide” (xxii). Albeit the idea behind this paper was not…

Roy was very insecure about his body so he changed how he ate in order to get the body he wanted. Roy tried to change his body to what society wants and what major companies expect. Major companies put the idea of change is the only way to live life to its fullest. In the documentaries Jean Kilbourne’s Killing US Softly 4, Miss Representation, Byron Hurt Hip-Hop beyond Beat & Rhymes. We see how hyper masculinity and hyper femininity is shaping out society. Big Companies will do any thing to…

~MY REFLECTION~ For this project, my audience was the readers of the Five Cent Cigar, so basically I was writing to the students and staff here at URI. When beginning this project, I thought very carefully about who to interview because I wanted to pick someone who would be interesting and meaningful for the readers to learn about. I chose to interview Luis Gonzalez since he is a member of the Student Senate, which I think is an organization not a lot of people here on campus know about, but I…

The 100% American Enigma: Revisiting Linton’s "One Hundred Per-Cent American," In Ralph Linton’s essay "One Hundred Per-Cent American,”, the author suggests that ultimately even though Americans strive to be 100% American, they are ultimately foiled by the fact that almost every product we consider to be American is non the less derived from some other nation. Linton’s argument that ultimately no matter how hard the American people try, reaching a 100% American culture is unattainable,…