Women are often looked at as weak, inferior and only use is to bear children and raise them, compared to men who are looked at as strong, superior, and gods on Earth, women are not looked at as equal to men. The play Big Love by Charles L. Mee, displays the different views of genders and their thoughts on marriage and equality with the opposite sex. Within the play we see the different gender views of marriage in a way that each character is another level of a gender stereotype. This play proves that women shouldn’t just be a stay at home mother or a man’s trophy wife, but rather an equal life partner, and if not a life partner they should be able to choose their own life path. Women should be able to choose their own life path, all men do…
Do Something, Jill The Road from Coorain is the autobiography of Jill Ker Conway and what her life was like growing up in Australia in the 1940’s during World War II. Spending her childhood on Coorain, a sheep station in the outback of Australia, Jill and her brothers are raised to the traditional Australian ways of stoicism, strict education, and British pride. After multiple disasters affecting Coorain, Jill moves to the city- a change as different night and day.…
While researching Publishers Marketplace, I noticed you enjoy fiction, mystery, and romance. Because of this, and your reputation at Writers House, I want you to be the first literary agent to consider my work. At 150,000 words, Center Ice was written for the young-adult in all of us. Born and raised in Minnesota, Becca Cooper is a skilled ballet dancer who struggles with a secret that could shatter her life.…
Have you ever been thrown out of a shop because of your race? For Cassie Logan, that was the case. There were many similarities and differences between the book and the movie Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. The character Mary Logan was the wife of David Logan in both the book and the movie.…
Between the World and Me is a phenomenally written work of literature. A memoir of the life of black Ta’nashi Coates in the form of letter to his fifteen-year-old son. Readers follow him as he goes from a boy in the ghettos of Baltimore, to what he refers to as the Mecca that is Howard, to a man raising his son in a white America. Coates makes good points, but as I continued to read it seems that he contradicts these point. At first glance this book seems like a father’s attempt soothe his son’s uneasiness about his position as a young black man in America, during a time when many young black men are being killed.…
This is especially seen in the figure covered in roses. Additionally, another technique I used was my artist influence, Gerhard Richter and his method of dragging applied paint across a canvas to create a smooth-like texture. I applied this technique on the white background of each piece with a butter knife to make the background interesting. In particular, Gerhard’s Richter’s is the artist influence on my three pieces as I wanted to capture his technique of dragging applied paint across a canvas to create smooth-like…
can be obtained by force, it cannot be secured and maintained, especially in modern society, without the element of consent.”. (67). Omi and Winant make it clear that tactics of the past, like genocide and segregation, will not be effective, so instead white people have given minorities some say in how they are ruled to give the illusion of control. Toni Cade Bambara may have experienced feelings like this in her own childhood in segregated 1940’s Harlem and chose Sylvia, the narrator and main character of “The Lesson”, to express the beginnings of her awakening to the reality of “common sense.”…
Hung Liu decided to paint this using oil on a canvas. By her using this media it made it appear as if it was photograph. This allowed the viewer to get a flash of the past since it made it look antique and the dripping effect by the oil further contributed to that very thing. Hung Liu style is quite impressive as well. Throughout most of her paintings she uses oil canvas and frequently has a great deal of contrast of colors within them.…
In Dorothy Allison’s “This is Our World”, Allison describes how art has had such an impact on the way that she views different aspects of life. She started her essay by describing a Jesus mural behind a baptismal at a Baptist church when she was only seven years old. The mural became a very important piece of work to her and it allowed her to view art in a different way. Allison uses very descriptive language when it comes to explaining art. Later in her life she compared writing to art.…
Without a stable family, life for Jeannette Walls and Adeline Yen Mah was disastrous. Though they both come from different cultural backgrounds, they share similar experiences of a tragic childhood. In Yen Mah’s autobiography, Falling Leaves, she recaps her life in a disunited family under a strict step-mother, Niang. Yen Mah tries desperately to distance herself from Niang by traveling to America, only to discover that Niang did not care enough about Adeline to leave a portion of her money in her will to her. While Adeline came from a wealthy family in China, Jeannette Walls experienced a life with a disunited, poor family.…
Diane Hester wrote a suspense thriller cold Run to me. Run to me is about Shyler O’Neil’s a women suffering post-traumatic stress after the death of her young son. She retreats to cabin in the woods of Northern Maine, and isolated setting were she grew up, spent many vacations with her family. She’s living there for two years when young Zack blanged her. Shows up a young boy being perused by killers.…
In “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” Katherine Boo argues that societies are becoming corrupt because of capitalism’s prevalence in modern societies. Capitalism is creating an economy where products and profits are owned by companies and individuals instead of the government. ("Capitalism" Merriam Webster) Having profits owned by individuals drive owners to create inequitable systems that take advantage of lower class citizens. The systems drive the lower class to compete against one another to create a small profit, that will soon be taken away by the individuals or companies that “own” the profit created by the system.…
Brides is a production by widely known Greek director Pantelis Voulgaris and screenwriter Ioanna Karystiani based on Karystiani's novel. Set in 1922, the film follows the journey of 700 "mail-order brides" from poor countries all over Europe as they cross the Atlantic towards the promised husbands in America. In Samothrace, we meet Niki whose fate dictates that she be shipped to Chicago to marry the tailor Prodromos, the man to whom her older sister was married yet without success. Then, we meet Norman Harris, an Irish-American photojournalist covering the Greco-Turkish war. When American newspapers repeatedly reject his photos, Norman gives up his work to return home to Detroit.…
Ellison’s depiction of Liberty Paints and their process of mixing white and black substances in the creation of the Optic White…
Paul Gauguin was a prominent figure for the French avant-garde. His career was teeming with work that was much different to the previous Impressionists. His Post-Impressionist art showed new explorations of color. These discoveries had vast reviews from art critics– mainly after his passing in May of 1903. Gauguin studied and practiced numerous techniques during his investigations.…