Birdcage

Another wire that could be added to the birdcage is the label put on prisoners. It brings shame and a stigma to these people of the African American communities especially when many of these individuals are targeted by police. Alexander (2011) stated that “the shame and stigma associated with Jim Crow is less damaging than the prison labels today.” Our newest caste system, a race-neutral criminal justice system, can afford to assemble, arrest and incarcerate a large number of black and brown men…

The birdcage as we call it is made up of many wires; it is those wires that are a metaphor representing each of the ways that African Americans today are oppressed by the War on Drugs. Alexander makes many arguments throughout her book that support the previous statement. One of the arguments that she makes is that the criminal justice system exercises a new method of racial control by using the War on Drugs to target black men. She supports this argument by mentioning how the Anti-Drug Abuse…

To those who are open to it and who seek out the company of ghosts, it is always thrilling to record evidence of a haunting on film. This euphoric feeling is multiplied when the site in which this evidence is captured is as lovely and haunted as St. Albans Sanatorium. It was during a photo session on November 1, 2014 for which Pat Bussard O’Keefe was shooting for After Dark Magazine, that two of the Ghost Writers’ team members recorded a most unusual anomaly. Pat and Ken O’Keefe photographed a…

There are two symbols used in the jury the canary and the birdcage. The first one the canary is used to show the readers her life before being married. Minnie was as free as a bird before being married, she was so pretty, she used to sing like a bird. The birdcage used is showing the reader that it is Minnie’s life being married. Minnie was trapped by her husband and their marriage She let herself go being tied…

1. Bailey and McIntosh both explain the structural features of oppression by linking the concepts of oppression and privilege together. a. According to Bailey’s article, “any understanding of oppression is incomplete without recognition of the role privilege pays in maintaining systems of domination” (Bailey, 104). With privilege, the dominant social groups have the ability “to construct, define, and control the construction of categories” (Bailey, 106). Therefore subordinate, or oppressed…

Trifles, a message is conveyed on a much deeper level than seen at first glance. Throughout the play, the women start feeling closer and defending Mrs. Wright more and more as they ponder around the house discovering things. When they discover the birdcage and the dead bird, Mrs. Hale remembers a much younger Mrs. Wright, a time when she was a happy joyful young girl. The women see the depression in Mrs. Wright brought on by the oppression of Mr. Wright and soon they began to rethink their own…

Cheap birdcages are no match for the cats' ability to destroy these cages, leaving the birds vulnerable to their attack. Even if the cage's doors are closed, the cat could still find a way to pounce upon their prey. However, acquiring a high-quality birdcage, preferably a heavy and sturdy cage that possesses a good stand, will render the feline's efforts futile. It must be clear that…

in the play, no characters had been introduced yet. Currently, the setting of the majority of the play was being described. In fact, not a single bird had been introduced until this instance, "An old car battery powers the audio system, a covered birdcage sits conspicuously in the corner of the room" (5). As shown above, a major theme was introduced in the book. Notably, people we constantly getting hurt or killed throughout the country. As a result, people were in a middle of a war. Surely,…

are commonly overlooked. In the short play “Trifles,” the women of the story do not overlook the small things in the house, such as the quilting and the birdcage, while the men believe these are unimportant objects that have no relevance to the crime. Throughout their search for evidence and motive, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale discover a birdcage and ponder the importance of this trivial trifle. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale compare Minnie Foster to the canary and find ways in which her motive for…

Eastwood and Harlem, both small neighborhoods in America, are weighed down by the world’s view of them; poor, predominantly black, violent and in need of “help” (Ralph 9). In Renegade Dreams, Ralph tells the story of activists, gang leaders, patients and teenagers while constantly refusing to portray them as victims. He gives us a glimpse into Eastwood, “a community that was battered but far from beaten.” Caught in the bonds of racism and poverty, the Fontenelles appeared Parks’ article A Harlem…