that they left off the island and drown in the sea. Many experts agree that the colonists most likely went to Croatan tribe to the main land, but no contact was ever made. In 1703 one group of explores stated they found a tribe of natives who had blond hair and blue eyes and practice Christianity but scholars are skeptical of these sightings, mainly because no fiscal evidence linked to any native tribe to the lost colony. Some Scholars believe drought drove away the colonist. Next three…
Additionally, Fragoso impresses that cultural appropriation is not applied only to minorities, rather is a human tendency to interpret themselves as the victim. For example, she contrasts that people still believe “American beauty has always been…white skin, blond hair, and blue eyes” (Fragoso), which also discriminates a majority culture. These series of specific instances transitions Fragoso from induction to her examples of the reality of…
January 7th started as a normal day for my parents. That day my dad George had to be at work early in the morning so they got up around 4 that morning. George my brother who was 1 and 1/2 at the time went over to a friend’s before my dad headed to work. My mother Jessica wasn 't due for another 15 days, so she was doing her normal morning routine when unexpectedly her water-broke. She called my father and told him, and he rushed and came and got her and went to the hospital the same one my…
Beautiful Ugliness Often, one does not think about what death sees. Usually the common thought is what someone sees when they face death. Their last hours, minutes and seconds. There is never really a thought of what Death sees and experiences on his way to take someones soul, especially if he is always around the same people or person and is constantly taking people out of their life. Eventually each loss starts to accumulate. In Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, the ugliness and beauty of…
Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” has been discussed, at length, throughout the literary and academic community since it was first published in 1966. Literary critics have discussed a variety of analogies between fairytale, or mythological, characters, and the characters in Oates’ “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” In “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Oates uses subtle, and sometimes obvious, references to a variety of childhood fairytales and…
about the two. Although the University of Oklahoma and Florida state university are both affordable and inexpensive universities, the differences between them far outweigh the similarities. For example, University of Oklahoma is a far more preppy ‘blond like people school, is more tolerant…
How to Disappear is a fiction novel written by Ann Redisch Stampler. The plot line includes two main characters and many, many side characters. Nicolette Holland is your average popular teenage girl. She has beautiful blond hair, loves cheerleading, all the boys want to date her, and all the girls want to be her. After her mom died, she moved in with her wealthy stepdad, Steve. Jack Manx is our second main character. He is an amazing athlete and has perfect grades. But he has one major flaw: his…
Identity is like a bird’s choice of migrating to the south for the cold weather. It is someone’s opinions, claims, or choice on one’s personality, family, and culture. The bird or other animal flying to the south for the chillier weather made the choice to decided if it would stay near the cold and risk getting injured or hurt, or if the bird would fly to the south to the warmer, safer weather. This is an example of how one’s identity is created: through your environment, background, and status.…
Expectation breeds motive, perhaps even the motive to murder. The rights people feel entitled to sculpt the basis of their decisions. Some people merely justify procrastinating; others, murder. It’s extremely easy to self-justify, particularly due to expectation. This expectation is the stereotypical American Dream, which is extremely open to interpretation. This relentless desire for ‘stability’- for this fallacious sense of material comfort- expresses itself in different characteristics. In…
In the story American Horror Story: Murder House it surrounds a boy named Tate Langdon and his misadventure with his friends and family Vivian Harmon, Dr. Ben Harmon, and Constant Langdon. Tate was born in 1977 to Constance and Hugo Langdon. Tate was the brother of Adelaide, Beauregard, and possibly one other unidentified albino sibling. Though he alone of the Langdon children has escaped visible physical defect, he is very mentally disturbed, perhaps owing in some part to his absentee father…