The documentary, Love and Diane, offered an intimate and in-depth look at the struggles that a family can face in providing effective structure and defined roles that enable success within the family context. In the film, Diane, a recovering crack addict, struggles to correct mistakes she has made in the raising of her children, including her daughter, Love, and attempts to prevent these same mistakes from impacting her grandson, Love’s son, Donyaeh. A multitude of factors make this a difficult task to accomplish, and the film depicts the socioeconomic and cultural factors that can have a multi-generational impact on a family. The decisions that Diane makes evolve have ramifications that affect Love, and in turn, her behavior and actions…
First Lieutenant Sharon Ann Lane was a nurse in the Vietnam War. Unfortunately, she died in June earlier this year. She was a month short of her 26th birthday. She was awarded the Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm and the Bronze Star for her Heroism at the 312th Evacuation Hospital at Chu Lai which was attacked by a rocket, which caused her death. ____________________________________ Above picture-…
Throughout the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larson wrote intermittent narratives that emulated portions of her life, such as Passing; these narratives emulate her desire for access to wealth, middle-class comfort, and white privileges. Larsen herself, scuffles with identity after her Negro father from the Virgin Islands dies at her age of two, and her Danish mother marries a man of her race and nationality. At the age of five, Larsen attends a small private school whose pupils were mostly German and Scandinavian. Labeling herself as a mulatto¬¬, a daughter of an interracial family she does not identify a specific connection with her West Indian relatives. Passing protagonists, Irene Redfield, and Clare Kendry also struggle with racial and sexual…
Doris Watson was born on December 24th, 1937, in Leland Mississippi to the union of Arthur and Carrie Ferguson. Doris was baptized at an early age at Greater St. Matthews Church in Leland Mississippi. She attended Breich High School in Leland. On December 16, 1956, she was united in Holy Matrimony to Willie James Watson and to this union was born five children, Debra Ann, Bonita Lynne, Darryl Thaddeus, Willie Roy, and Jermaine.…
In the book, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore (2011), the book talks about many themes. One topic is the relationship between mother and children. In the beginning, we see with joy in chapter one, her children live with her and with their father because she cares about them, while Mary in chapter one, one of her children live with her and another child live with his father. In chapter two, Mary decided to move to Northwood because she wants to be safe for her and his child Wes. Also, Joy decided to live with her parents in the Bronx because she can’t live alone, and she wanted to protect her children.…
Speak essay Speak is a story that follows a high school Freshman, named Melinda Sordino, as she goes through the five stages of grief. The reason she goes through the five stages of grief, is because she was raped at the beginning of her 9th grade year at a high school party. She was bullied for calling the cops on the guy who raped her at this party. Even though, the people didn't understand why she called them. Though she was harassed at school, her problems at home were just as bad.…
Doris Knight was born on February 3, 1936 in a town in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. Mercersburg is a borough in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is 72 miles southwest of Harrisburg, the state capital and it is located at the eastern foot of Cove Mountain on the west side of the Great Appalachian Valley. Her parents, Bertie and Guy, raised her to be a smart and independent young girl from the very start. Both of Doris parents’ birthplace is Pennsylvania.…
Although four out of every five people seem, lost all humanity in todays world, Richard LeMieux shows that one person who still has their humanity through his humbiling experience. The purpose of LeMieux’s excerpt “The Lady In Red” serves to illustrate to the reader a world in which people contain no desire to even help out an unfortunate man on the street and he successfully persuades the reader of this horror mainly through pathos appeal. LeMieux and his dog Willow find themselves in a rough situation and must resort to begging on the streets. The author explains, whenever LeMieux runs into less fortunate people when wealthy, he, most of the time, gave some money, even if he knew they lied and made up fake stories. LeMieux learned the hard way, the cold truth of humanity and the absence of generousity.…
Master Sergeant Doris Willis was my drill instructor and ROTC teacher my senior year of high school. She was a about my skin complexion and my height. My first impression of her when I met her was I didn't really like her. I felt she was somewhat of a rude type of teacher. I knew me and her might go at it a couple of times throughout the school year, After a few months, I began to realized she was like any other mother.…
“Since my friends didn’t stand up for me, I urge other people to speak out. Because you can’t ignore an army of voices. I would like to see people stand up for others who have been assaulted because the words of our enemies aren’t as awful as the silence of our friends”. Often times you can feel trapped when you feel like the whole world seems to be against you and which is exactly what happened to two young teenage girls, Audrie and Daisy. The documentary, Audrie and Daisy, is a well intentioned exploration that intends to spread awareness of teenage sexual assaults, show social media can amplify a situation, and exposes a society that allows boys to disregard other people’s humanity.…
A final testament to Mrs. Paruch being an outstanding advisor is the positive impact she has on virtually everyone she meets. She’s not only an incredible advisor, but also an amazing teacher. She helps all of her students and spend the time with them that they need. Her students leave her class each day a little smarter than when they walked in. She doesn’t only teach her students though, she shows an immense amount of care for them and her fellow staff members.…
Blankets Analyst Blankets, written and illustrated by Craig Thompson, is a graphic novel about his life experiences from childhood to young adulthood. The book is very broad and does not spend much time on too many situations except the relationship between Craig and his brother Phil, girlfriend Raina, and a little bit on the two families involved. Raina is by far the most important person in the book because of her influence on Craig while growing up. We see Craig and other characters change a lot throughout the book but we also see why.…
Appropriations of successful texts often make critical changes to the original novel for a variation of intentions. These changes often reflect the cultural values of the time period and upon analysis the similarities and differences between the cultures are revealed. The film Mary Reilly (1996) is a recent appropriation of the 1886 classic novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Stephen Frears, director of Mary Reilly, has cinematically and creatively chosen to omit or carry on certain techniques, characters, plot points and themes from the original text in order to create a film that continues the legacy of Stevenson’s work yet remains engaging to its audience.…
“Parenting gone wrong” is a phrase used to describe a child’s bad behaviour when he or she does something unexpected. Many call this phrase harsh because one can never control children. If children behave in a certain way later on in life it can’t be blamed on their upbringing, but does it really have nothing to do with bad parenting when a child feels abandoned and feels that they have been forced to do something they never wanted to? The story “Next term, we’ll mash you”, which is written by Penelope Lively, focuses on how the bond between parents and children can affect a child’s life.…
Should parents be held accountable for the actions of their children? Hearing about what is happening in schools all across the country, being a parent they should talk to their children more about the outcome of something bad happening, maybe not as many young teenagers would go partying, do drugs or bully someone to the point of death. Communicating with your child is probably the biggest outcome of how he or she acts. Teaching them to respect the feelings of others and having them vent their frustrations and anger are all within the parent’s realm of authority (Coconi). It is a parent’s responsibility to recognize their child’s behaviors and rectify them before an innocent or weaker child is hurt (Coconi).…