Grammatical tenses

Though gay rights have only recently been legally approved nation-wide, discussions on gender awareness, definitions, and queerness are not new. Whether these topics have been around for thousands of years or just in the last hundred, they have been sighted in many ways over time. One such way is in pop culture: the accumulation of materialistic things, such as fashion, songs, and objects, and the non-materialistic things, such as ideas, beliefs, and values, of a population. Society and pop…

How do the texts you have studied explore confronting aspects of the human condition? Encapsulated within the human condition, is the universal awareness of inevitable death, whereby the fear of death challenges individuals psychologically and emotionally to consequently instigate the aspiration for a purposeful life. Thus, the desire to discover purpose and achieve fulfilment in life, resultant of the distress of eventual death, compels individuals to find meaning through the enhancement of…

The author of this book had expressed that boys should show more characteristics of leadership, masculinity, and the capability of being logical. Each of the jobs, that the boys were expected to do, have placed a large emphasis on these traits. The example “Boys are policemen. Girls are meter maids.” showed this opinion well. Men were expected to put their lives in danger and use their muscles and brain to catch bad guys, while women would not be heard of doing such a task. They were expected…

Insanity and Narration: an Analysis of Darl Bundren As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner is told from the perspectives of fifteen different characters. Some have just one monologue. Others have several. The lengths all vary from five words to several pages. However, it is still plain to see which character is at the center of the novel. Although the story revolves around the death and burial of Addie Bundren, it is her second son, Darl Bundren, who holds the strongest spotlight. Of the…

I can write about anything else. I can write about the similarities and differences between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. I can write about the use of Anglo-Saxon language in my favorite folk epic Beowulf. I can even write a haiku, you name it, the subject could range from Donald Trump’s hair to the hopeful return of Michael Phelps in Tokyo 2020. Anything at all. Yet, to ask me define myself is a daunting task because I am still trying to figure out who I am. I am envious of people that…

As humans, several things make us irritated. While some things that make certain people annoyed do not have the same effect on others, the basic concepts are the same. One thing that I have noticed all people get enraged about is being around someone who they do not particularly admire. Perhaps the worst of all, is being in the same setting as a stereotypical know it all. Most of the time people do not know how to identify know it alls which leaves them no way to resolve the annoyance the know…

Gendered behavior is something that we all see every day and participate in, whether we realize it or not. In a typical American setting, there are two genders that are associated with distinct sets of behaviors, styles of dress, modes of interactions, and likes and dislikes; the genders of male and female. Over the long holiday weekend I observed both myself and my family members performing several gendered behaviors. These gendered behaviors varied from having their nature in the way we…

The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence are some of the oldest documents that established freedom and are still in use today. It wouldn’t have been possible to write such an outstanding piece of Literature and law purely based on research. Well recognized ethical speakers and activist such as Martin Luther King Jr, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton experienced inequality in the “American dream and for the most sacred values” (King) in their time of living during segregation. With their…

Otsuka uses the novel’s structure to highlight the function of the narrators, the Japanese picture brides, as Other in both the historical context and more specifically in the novel, The Buddha in the Attic. The Other, a term used often in Feminist theory and critical analysis is essentially “a person or group of people who are perceived to be different in some fundamental way from oneself and the group one perceives one belongs to” (“Other”). That is, the Other is a group of people that are…

The title of Amy Tan’s story, “A Pair of Tickets”, hints to a lot of things. First of all, I assumed from the title that the story will most likely contain a journey-a start and a destination. After reading it, I realized this was true both figuratively and literally. Tickets, whether they are train tickets, airplane tickets or movie tickets, are used for allowance of entry into a particular place. The title also declares that this experience was being shared, because there was a pair of tickets…