Fatherhood

In Dorothy West’s The Wedding, parents decide their children 's’ futures; their ideals are instilled and then passed on, from child to successive child. The cycle of the Coles family begins with Preacher. His life’s work is the improvement of the Coles’ name. He becomes a preacher, pandering to a white community through faith. However, Preacher becomes aware that he cannot rise to the top of society in one lifetime, but rather, over many. He views his son Isaac as the vessel for his successful…

Stride: Discourse and Race in Baltimore A Baltimore Program called Stride, nestled within the Center for Urban Families, seeks to support urban communities around employment and parenthood, predominantly fathers and ex-prisoners. I’ll be using Foucault and Racial Formation Theory as a lens to determine how power is at work within this program and at large, as well as their boundaries these theories may have. Understanding Programs like Stride and their effects on communities of color, primarily…

The importance that love plays in one’s life can never be underestimated, especially when it has a way of changing a person’s outlook on life. Author Martin Puchner, wrote “The Norton Anthology” published in 2014 in the W.W. Norton Anthology, where Wofgang Von Goethe’s masterpiece on Faust, a dramatic tragedy where the main character Faust experiences inner struggles which leads him to striking a deal with the devil. Wofgang Von Goethe begins early in the drama by painting the picture of Faust…

If one where to take a look at the Franklin, one may assume he has had a comfortable life. Being a landed gentleman whose pockets overflow with gold and whose kitchens overflow with meat and wine, he gives the outward appearance of one impermeable to worry. And this is an appearance he wishes to maintain, for as he trots towards Canterbury with a smile on his face and a whistle upon his lips, he is frightened for the soul of his son. Born to a family of freemen in the countryside of England,…

The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award A celebrated Hollywood film version, starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford, was made in 1940. Plot The narrative begins just after Tom Joad is paroled from McAlester prison for homicide. On his return to his home near Sallisaw, Oklahoma, Tom meets former preacher Jim Casy, whom he remembers from his childhood, and the two travel together. When they…

misinterprets the so-called “American Dream” and uses the distorted view he manifested to spend his life chasing dreams that will never exist. As M.M. Shariful Karim put it, “A careful analysis of Willy’s character, his… guilty conscience, failure, fatherhood and other dimensions of his mental manifestation will reveal the soul of a common man being affected by psychological disorders.”(59). Willy’s goal in life is to be like Dave Singleman, a man he met on one of his first sales trips. Dave was…

Julie Thao HSER 395-02 Personal Cultural Analysis February 19th, 2015 My primary ethnic heritage is Asian more specifically stripe, white Hmong. I interviewed my mother Yia Vang and my father Moua Thao about our family history and the origin of the ethnic Hmong. I have been informed that I look a lot like my mother from my sisters and friends tell me that I look different from my siblings. My ancestors originated from Northern China where they lived off the land alongside the Yellow River prior…

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, commonly know as Frederick Douglass was born into one of the worst periods in the last century to be of African decent. Douglass was born into slavery around 1818, (according to “Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave”, it is stated that Douglass never knew his exact age or birth year), near Tuckahoe, Maryland. September 3, 1838 Douglass was able to escape slaver and become a free man by boarding a Philadelphia, Wilmington and…

The definition of garbage is “a thing that is considered worthless or meaningless.” At this time, I feel comparable to a piece of rubbish. Following the events of the past year have left me with no other alternative manner to perceive myself. What does meaningless mean? To me, the word means to be with a lack of quality or purpose. What is the meaning of the word “worthless?” Being without worth carries the obvious interpretation of possessing a zero value or importance. Consequently, I arrive…

Travis Bever September 15, 2017 Analysis Essay Final Draft The article, Three Reasons Not to Make This January Your Divorce Month by W. Bradford Wilcox and Samuel Sturgeon, emphasizes the importance of considering all the possible outcomes that stem from a divorce when determining if you should end your low conflict marriage. The article appears in the National Review journal and considers the negative correlation that a divorce has on the children involved, the possibility of the marriage…