Power, Masculinity, and Sexuality: A Need to be in Control “Going to Meet the Man” is about a man named Jesse, who believes he is a god-fearing man in his community. Jesse, a middle aged white man in the civil-rights era Southern United States, is a Deputy Sheriff in his town, just like his Father was. Jesse grew up during a time when white men were in control of black men. When Jesse was just a child, he witnessed a lynching that he never forget. Witnessing this event and growing up in a racist area has caused Jesse to be a man who needs power, strong masculinity, and hypersexuality over the African American race. The short story opens with Jesse trying to have sex with his wife. With his inability to get an erection, he gets aggravated and lies there. “He could not ask her to do just a little thing for him, just to help him out, just for a little while, the way he could ask a nigger girl to do it.” (Baldwin, 2512) The reason Jesse is unable to ask his wife to help him have an erection like he can with an African American girl is because he feels that he can force them to do what he wants because he knows he has power over them. This power he has alone causes excitement for him. “The image of a black girl caused a distant excitement in him, like a far-away light.” (Baldwin, 2512) Although Jesse has power over black people, it becomes clear that he is also struggling with his masculinity because he cannot perform in bed with his wife. “And he wasn’t old enough yet to have…
Julia Alvarez writes “I Want to Be Miss America”, to open people’s eyes to how something as small as a beauty pageant makes a huge difference on a teenage girl’s self-esteem and childhood. Alvarez makes a strong argument using pathos and ethos to sate her claim. She claims that everyday teenagers are trying to mold themselves into what they see in pageants in order to feel beautiful and fit in. Constantly trying to fit into the American ideal of beauty creates low self-esteem in teenagers and…
Over the next nearly a thousand years in Europe there is extremely reduced hygiene practices and rules. And the common people very rarely cared about general hygiene, years do not take a bath. So it was in the VI century, it was in the XIII century, it was at the end of the XVIII century BC! "Happy is your nose, do not smell the smell of Germans", - said at the end of the V century BC Gallo-Roman aristocracy Sidonius Apollinaris. The French philosopher Montaigne (XVI century) stated the fact…
Continuing, “The High Middle Ages” (1200-1400), the Gieses broke the era into two centuries; the 13th century was considered the “Golden Century, an era of affluence and growth” in contrast the 14th century of catastrophe and contraction (Gies 166). The 6th chapter is devoted to the High Middle Ages, the authors elaborate on the continuation of technological momentums that the Europeans experienced during this first century of this era. Another advancement that must be mentioned of is the…
Count Saint Germain: The Immortal Count right? Can one man really live longer than life itself? Saint Germain was supposedly born in the 1600s but there is research that leads to him being alive as late as 1970. There are records that date him back as the time of Casanova, Madame de Voltaire, King Louis XV, Catherine the Great, Anton Mesmer, George Washington and others. He has also been connected to a number of occult movements and conspiracy theories. His story all started in the late 1 00s…
rejoice in heaven once their time on earth is done. Chinese Make Silk The Chinese knew how to make silk by the 27th century BC, but it wasn’t until the Second Century BC did the creation of silk begin to be exported to Europe and other areas.…
Globalization Globalization occurs as one of the most novel phenomena that have taken the world by a storm. While much has been hypothesized regarding this phenomenon, it is important to note that there exits distinct factors that drive it. Since the sixteenth century to the present, there are various key factors identified as the key drivers of globalization. Transportation is one of the major factors that have and continue to drive globalization from the sixteenth century to the present. In…
The Old Jewish Prague is the second oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe. You can see gravestones from various historical periods there: long black Gothic ones, marble stones from the 16 th century, typical Renaissance decoration, mighty Baroque gravestones, and some of the Rococo ones. This cemetery was founded in the April 23, 1439 and is the oldest existing graveyard from the 15th century. This Jewish element has been the foundation of the medieval Prague and has a unique look to it since the…
The design of the structure was general but has 196-foot steeple which was the highest building in the nation for more than half-century until 1810. Churches in the 19th century achieved compatibility with highly artistic designs and sophisticated functionality. St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan Island is one of the best known 19th century’s gothic style churches completed in 1879. The building employs the gothic revival style which literally sought the revival of medieval gothic design…
Today I will like to talk about a plant name Urtica Dioica (Stinging nettle). Stinging nettle is a plant that has been used as medicine to heal our body in so ways. It is “herbaceous perennial flowering plan originally from Europe, Asia, northern Africa, and western North America, and is the best-known member of the nettle genus Urtica” (wikipedia). The leaf, flower, seed, and root of stinging nettle are used differently when it comes of what it can heal in our body. (Urtica Dioica). In…