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Throughout Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, there is focus on repression, silence, and obedience. Kingston weaves her story through five small tales that show the expectation of Chinese and Chinese American women. With a focus on the tale of the “No Name Woman,” the plight of Kingston and her family is exposed, as is the years of Chinese oppression. Through the tale of the “No Name Woman” in The Woman Warrior, Kingston reveals her own desire to be…

Through The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston recounts on her life as well as her family’s past. Her cultural background calls for many unheard of customs and stories. Kingston’s mother teaches her daughter lessons through stories to show the importance of a message. Both death and ghosts reappear throughout the memoir and how ghosts never die. Kingston describes how revenge is a driving force for many actions throughout the memoir and how death seems to be answer to all issues but is not.…

In 1993, academy award winning actors Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington starred in the movie, Philadelphia, the first major motion picture to address the issue of HIV/AIDS (Howard, 2015). One intent of this movie was to highlight homophobia, the irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals ("Homophobia", 2016), in addition to highlighting the Nation's baseless fear of those infected with HIV/AIDS. These fears were fueled by a lack of education regarding…

social media leaving critics useless. When people write these reviews, the reviews are bias, racist, and unprofessional. In order to get a more professional, unbiased, and not racist reviews, people need to read real critics reviews. Whereas people like us who write movie reviews on social media such as Facebook, Yelp, Twitter, and etc. are called amateur critics. The difference between amateur critics and professional critic is the professionalism that a professional critic gives a review.…

reviews at all including the critic Bosley Crowther who stated that violence is cheap and awful. On the other hand, Pauline Kale…

Most of the critics and commentators of the famous picture film The Birth of a Nation had a lot to say about it, and for the most part I would say that they all agreed in the fact that the film was the most extraordinary achievement of the cinema. Such an influential and controversial film had everyone speculating about it. Many argued that he film identified Negroes as an unbridled, bestial, horrible race and that the film itself brought all different kinds of human emotions before people’s…

Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 20,” which has most critics riddled about Shakespeare’s sexuality. Within the first quatrain, the sonnet leads the reader to believe the speaker is talking about a woman; however, in the last three lines the gender of the subject is revealed to be a man. Critics debate whether or not Shakespeare himself is a homosexual because of the way his sonnets are written and to whom they are about. In “Sonnet 20,” Shakespeare’s sexuality is questioned by critics, who focused mainly…

a perfect critic detaches himself from the biography, political and socioeconomic commentary that a literary text may be about. The perfect critic distances himself emotionally from the work he is critiquing and does not let his emotions disturb his thought process. In this way, the perfect critic illuminates the work he is critiquing rather than associating it with his emotions. The first issue I have with Eliot’s argument is that it relies too heavily on the idea that that all critics should…

Every critic has their own way of evaluating a play. Some may prioritize aspects that other critics do not. However, there are basic universal problems that all critics should address. Authors Oscar G. Brockett and Robert J. Ball state that what all critics need to basically focus on is the understanding, effectiveness, and ultimate worth of what they are critiquing (Brockett and Ball, pp. 32, par. 3). Yet according to journalist Maria Bustillos, critics could have their own opinion and follow…

Edward Harrison Norton As vibrant as Edward Harrison Norton youthful look could be in the world of entertainment, an idealistic individual would have thought that he was from a generation of actors. The disciplinary skills that he acquired from his military father and his mother, an outstanding tutor gave him an edge in his approach to life activities. It is indeed a fact that whatever an individual needs to specialise in should start from the early stage of life; Edward’s early interest in the…