Epigraph

The play’ name (which represent the family’s dreams) is based on Langston Hughes’s Montage of a Dream Deferred. In the poem, part of which serves as the play’s epigraph, the poet asks “What happens to a dream deferred?” considering whether it shrivels up “like a raisin in the sun” or explodes (473). For instance, Mama and her late husband’s dream of owning a home forms the heart of the play. Similar to Mama, Ruth…

The reclamation of identity is an ideology that is widely present in Tomson Highway’s Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing. Through a cross-cultural approach delivered through the merging influences of both Native and Western perspectives, the notion of the reclamation of identity is portrayed through hockey, religion, as well as shifting gender roles. Jessica Langston and Mike Chaulk’s “Revolution Night in Canada: Hockey and Theatre in Tomson Highway’s Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing”,…

Hemingway once said “All thinking men are atheist” perhaps this way of thinking is what inspired the development of his character Harry in his short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Harry was a writer who had fallen ill in the plains of Africa. His body began decaying from the outside in, and he would later fall into a sleep where he would never awaken. We are also met with the character of a leopard who dies, but instead of dying stinking in the plains, he dies in a frozen coffin of immortality…

“Cultural Capital and Critical Race Theory” was an article written by Tara J. Yosso and found in JSTOR’s database. The introduction begins with an appealing epigraph citing Gloria Anzaldúa’s work on including people of color in academic theory. Anzaldúa asserts people of color have been excluded from certain areas of academia and it is important to “not allow white men and women solely to occupy it” (qtd. in Yosso 69). Inclusion in these spaces are vital, Anzaldúa notes, because by “bringing in…

Morals - Good or bad? The main protagonists in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot, and “A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka, are both trapped within themselves. Alfred Prufrock, the protagonist in Eliot's poem, and the hunger artist, the protagonist in Kafka's short story, both have the same person vs. self conflict, but why? Their morals have led them to this conflict they have in common, and although it’s good to have morals, sometimes it can get out of hand and lead to…

a quote from Genesis detailing the fall of man and the sin of immortality, laying the foundation to interpret a parallel between Adam and Eve and Tommy of the past, present, and future sequences. It is the opening shot to the film, and it is the epigraph to Izzie’s book. It reads, “Therefore the Lord God banished Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden and placed a flaming sword to protect the tree of life” (The Fountain). Adam and Eve committed the original sin of the pursuit of knowledge of good…

Reading the title of the book reveals one of the main characters, Jakob. The back of the book reveals more information about him. He is a Roma boy living in Austria during World War II. He is trying to run from the Nazi’s persecution of the Roma people within Europe. Colors seem to play an important part in the book as they are in the title and are described in the back of the book. This book is a fictional story written by Lindsay Hawdon. After writing this book, she traveled to seven different…

Indeed, the epigraph that precedes Hayden’s poem, “Sundays too my father got up early / and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,” (1-2) in direct contradistinction to the father’s force in Espada’s poem: “you better learn / to eat soup / through a straw, / ‘cause…

Felt Difficulties 1) When Roderick Usher and his friend opened the lady Madeline’s enclosed coffin, why didn’t she make any action? 2) Likewise, by the time they uncovered the coffin it was already two weeks from her death. The body of the corpse had to be decomposed to certain extent. However, it didn’t show any signs of decomposition. So, why didn’t they notice that? 3) At the ending part of the story, Roderick Usher admitted that he had heard his sister’s voices, and movements coming from the…

“We feel a malaise and a guilt that at another time in history might have motivated action, but that this time seems instead to be coupled with a terrible sense of helplessness.” -Colin Beavan, No Impact Man, pg. 11 No Impact Man, written by Colin Beavan in 2009, brings up the concern of multiple issues affecting the earth negatively. These issues include the destruction of forests for paper, water pollution, over-consumption, and global warming amongst others. All of these issues are…