Everyday

Everyday Use is a short story written by Alice Walker .Like most of Walker’s work there is a recurrent theme. The theme is representation of harmony as well the conflicts and struggles within African American culture ( Velazquez ). Everyday Use focuses on a mother and her two daughters Maggie and Dee. The story starts with mama and Maggie waiting in the yard waiting on Dee and her boyfriend. . Enotes states “Seen from a greater distance, both young women might seem stereotypical—one a smart but…

In the short story, "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, symbolism is riddled all throughout the text. To highlight just a few, symbolism is used to distinguish the physical attributes between the two sisters, Maggie and Dee, to note a death and/or embracing of identity, and to symbolize an inanimate object as a physical manifestation of heritage. For example, in describing the sister's attributes, Maggie is described as "a lame dog", lacking physical beauty, lacking intellect, or lacking ambition.…

individual or group’s mindset. Learning the different aspects in psychology can help one to understand why an organism functions the way it does. Some of these aspects include human development, social behavior, health, and etc. Psychology relates to my everyday life because it involves negative reinforcement/negative punishment, introversion/extraversion, and Freud’s pyschosexual stages of develeopment. Negative reinforcement involves one taking away something unpleasant from their surrounds…

It is easy to fall into sexist tropes regarding fictional characters, more specifically, women. It is important to note that some works require contrast personas to prove the authors point. “Everyday Use”, written by Alice Walker, is no exception. “Everyday Use” is an example of how Mama Johnson and Dee are two completely different people. Mama Johnson is humble, masculine, and resilient. On the other hand, her daughter Dee is self-centered, superficial, and ungrateful. First, Mama Johnson is…

Stigma plays a massive part of my everyday life, and I am constantly worried that people see me as inadequate or discriminate against me because I take anti-psychotic pills daily, or maybe because my anxiety can be restrictive. This stigma has become more evident the older I get. People seem…

Trope are used in everyday life. The essays I read were “Don’t Eat Before Reading This”, by Anthony Bourdain, “Men Explain Things to Me”, by Rebecca Solnit, “The Tale Telling Days Are Over”, by Ian Frazier, “From Jamaica to Minnesota to Myself”, by Marlon James. Many people use it for others to understand their feelings in one way or another. Trope has typically five different expressions they use throughout their essays. Trope is any unit of figurative language such as simile, metaphor,…

Everyday Feminism is an online magazine that teaches readers to relate feminism to actual life and mend from and stand up to daily oppression. Everyday Feminism attempts to uphold a considerate, appealing, and sympathetic society of feminists who are encouraging of each other’s marginalized identities and knowledge. Everyday Feminism is an enlightening stage for individual and communal freedom. The mission that this website has set out is to help people take apart day by day brutality, prejudice…

The article “Everyday Aggression Takes Many Forms” summarizes the research and experiments that have examined a multitude of questions related to how people harm each other daily. Study shows that the loved ones who we talk and interact to the most, are more likely to make us mad or angry. We can show aggression in many forms, whether that be rumors, gossip, physical harm, emotional harm, and much more. The way we aggress towards these people all depend on our relationship with them. Whether the…

How Critical Thinking Can Be Used in Everyday Life Critical thinking is “reacting with systematic evaluation to what you have heard and read” (Browne & Keeley, 2012, p. 2), which “can be used to either defend or evaluate and revise your initial beliefs” (Browne & Keeley, 2012, p. 7). The real question here is, “How do you do that?” Well, critical thinking can be achieved by asking the right questions, using reliable evidence, and evaluating your thinking. Asking the Right Questions Information…

Dee is on her way home with Asalamalakin. She always wanted more than her family history or what Mama could offer her. Dee is intelligent and driven, her accomplishments have come at the expense of her mother and little sister. Even though most people should value their family rather than the materialistic things that represent their family; to her, she has a different perspective on her family and Mama. She wanted to get the quilts that are passed down from generations. Even though Dee went…