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of the United States eating black-eyed peas as a way to ensure good luck and prosperity throughout the year ahead. Although I am not from the South, many of my friends have families that are. The topic of eating black-eyed peas on New Years was brought up over the course of the evening and the group eventually arrived to the conclusion that we must make black-eyed peas. We asked the party’s host if we could scour their kitchen for the almighty black eyed pea and they gave us permission to do so.…

Ella Minnow Pea is the kind of book rewarded for its impressive vocabulary and clever use of the English language. There is a reason for this. The book is written entirely through the exchange of letters between characters, so there is no dialogue or personal thoughts that the reader is given to understand the characters. Due to this, the character development shown throughout the book is seen by the word choice of the letters alone. Since Nollop is an island that treasures language to a high…

Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird and The Black Eyed Peas’ song “Where is the Love” both tackle the problem of racism and overall intolerance of others. Lee’s novel takes place in the 1930s and focuses on the Finch family as the father, Atticus, takes on a case where he is defending a black man from the accusation of a white man and women. On the other hand, “Where is the Love” addresses discrimination as a whole and seems to question your empathy for other people. When placed side by…

According to the Washington Post, about forty-two percent of protests are actually successful. Throughout the whole book of Ella Minnow Pea, by Mark Dunn, many civilians decided to rebel against the council, thinking they would make a change for the better. The most prominent way people rebelled was by breaking the law, which we saw in Ella Minnow Pea, many people purposefully went against the law, some secretly while others were overt. Although some believe that acts of rebellion can prompt…

“Ellaments” of Satire: an analysis of Ella Minnow Pea “Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship,” Bruce Colville once stated about censorship. In the novel Ella Minnow Pea written by Mark Dunn uses letters, notes, and mail by citizens throughout the small island of Nollop, a tiny strip of land off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop is named after one Nevin Nollop, creator of the famous pangram “The quick brown fox…

was a good idea to photograph her family from a detached perspective because if she didn't they would have had to wait more time. They would take more time on investigating who she was. Dorothea Lange at least knew were she was located which was at "Pea Pickers Camp" in Nipomo. In my opinion I don't think knowing her name would help in any reason because she still had evidence of how they were living. Really all they needed to know was the town. She might have had many mistakes on how many…

Other people on the other hand, may say that academic culture does not affect how people view people and the world. In the essay, “An Indian Father’s Plea”, an Indian student's father is writing a letter to his son’s teacher about the extent of his son’s education. Among many other points, his father shows the teacher how much his son has learned over the years despite his lack of a “traditional education”. His Father goes on the state that, “He is a full basket coming into a different…

In her essay “Pea Madness”, Amy Leach’s use of metaphors contributes to the idea that people in the world put harsh expectations on themselves due to the expectations from society. “Pea Madness” focuses on the life of peas and how they develop and grow whilst having people constantly watching. This can be seen as a metaphor for people in today’s natural world, specifically teenagers. The teenagers are the peas and the lattices they grow on is high school. But those who planted them, that is…

Approximately thirty years ago, Anne Swarts graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in music studies. She went on to say that, “having a degree that has little to nothing to do with journalism or mass communications was and still is fairly common.” She broke into the industry by becoming a secretary at an advertising agency where she quickly fell in love with what she described as a “high energy and somewhat chaotic environment.” After a few years of working her…

without tires. This means that without the ability to express oneself freely, success and communication in a society becomes quite challenging, similar to trying to smoothly operate a car without its essential component of tires. The novel Ella Minnow Pea, written by Mark Dunn, is a clear example of this concept since the society’s speech in the story becomes restrictive, ultimately impacting the community. This is seen through the horrible conflict, a distinctive character, and the usage of…