Dichotomies

about Ax Handle Saturday and the 1960 Jacksonville Youth Council NAACP sit-ins. I wrote the book for several reasons: 1) The local press blacked out all news about Ax Handle Saturday and the sit-ins which led to that infamous day; 2) there was a dichotomy between “revisionist civil rights history” and the real civil rights history truth; and 3) I wanted to both tell the story and set the record straight before more “revisionist history” distorted real history.…

Treasury, during her time she was criticized by her male coworkers for not contributing enough for the Treasury (Bertazzo). She also served as both the State Secretary of Energy and the Minister of Energy (Bertazzo). Rouseff is no stranger to the dichotomy within gendered politics, she was repeatedly critiqued for her looks while her male opposes were not at all. During one of her presidential campaigns, Rouseff went through a total makeover to receive more voters including a new hairstyle,…

“Remember, it’s an in-between space. neither here nor there. It is dangerous.” (Badami 110) Diasporas overtly or covertly are always burdened with the pangs of nostalgia and regret that results from a ‘hyphenated identity’. This ambiguous identity fails to clearly demarcate the place in which diasporas can settle themselves and look at the things and relate to them. The term ‘diaspora’ has never been approached with a universal, conventional idea but is always seen with different…

John Milton’s Paradise Lost is one of the most monumental and celebrated works in English literature. Often described as an “epic to end all epics”, it is renowned for its grandiose scale, unique manipulation of epic conventions, and the complexity of its narrative, characters, and language (Stallworthy et al. 1830). Among these distinctive features, one of them is quickly recognisable to the reader: its unconventional portrayal of Satan and the Fallen Angels. Departing from traditional Medieval…

separate and dissimilar. Due to the fact that the speaker’s act of wandering and feeling of loneliness is not a cloud – apart from in the made-up context of the poem – a deliberate and explicit metaphoric transference has to occur to connect the dichotomy between them, thereby achieving an innovatively fictitious correlation between them. That very impact is what gives the metaphor the power to perceive the dissimilar as similar. Conclusively, that example underscores the nature of metaphoric…

Childhood experiences are a primary factor in determining future behaviors, perspectives, and mannerisms. The nature of childhood is attributed as a time of discovery and, moreover, revelation in support of one’s development and preparation for the future that awaits them. Such attributions are shared with the experiences of Linda Hammerick, the protagonist of Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth. Amongst her return to Boiling Springs, North Carolina, the correlated nostalgia brings forth an…

control of the San Dominick. Before this occurrence and even after, Captain Delano believes that Benito Cereno is in control of the ship, and is transporting human cargo to be sold and delivered. Melville’s use of irony and metaphors highlight the dichotomy of slavery and freedom. He reverses the patronage from Anglo Saxon control to the enslaved as a pun against the institution of slavery, claiming that slavery is wrong and a faulty institution, and white Europeans are constantly in danger of a…

The Ggeh as a Symbol for Henry’s Character in Native Speaker The Immigration Act of 1924, considered a milestone in American history, completely eliminated immigration of Asians into the United States of America. According to the U.S. Department of State, the paramount purpose of this act was “to preserve the ideal of American homogeneity.”1 Americans were determined to shape the identity of those living within the country’s borders into an “ideal American society.” However in 1965, a new…

Student ID: 13817824 Unnatural Causes Reflection The seven episode documentary series presented by California Newsreel, Unnatural Causes, uses research along with human stories to describe the ever present social determinants of health that plague American society. This series moves through multiple determinants such as the social gradient, race, social exclusion, as well as many others to impress upon its viewers that our health is intimately associated with the environment (Alderman &…

The main crux of Karl Marx’s theory of class lies on the notion that “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles” (Marx et al. 1992). As he sees it, humans have been struggling with class divisions and conflicts resulting from that for thousands and thousands of years. The conflict between the haves and haves not continues to build before tensions erupt and a revolution occurs that restructures the order of society. This has been continuously happening over…