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How do the poets effectively explore a young person's need to belong? In the poem Heidi with blue hair (1980) a young girl decides to dyed her hair blue and for this she is sent home. The headmistress is arguing with her that blue is not a school color, even though there was no rule against it she was punished. Although the situation her father stands up and defends her child. Her father does not want to mention her mother's death but somehow they believe that the rebellious attitude is due to…

read and criticised by people from all around the world. This story sets place in Jackson, Mississippi, in the early 1960s, which is a big turning point of Civil Rights Movements in the United States. The city is located in the zone called deep-south, and at that time, it is an area of an extreme racial discrimination. Even when there is the Civil Rights Movement, this…

The Cruelty of Dehumanization White supremacy originates primarily in the degradation of black bodies in order to have control over them, which is best done through persuasion that their black bodies are ugly. Therefore, using the device of dehumanizing the body, slavery aimed first and foremost at women. Audre Lorde affirms that, when considering institutionalized slavery, it is essential to understand that more central than liberation alone was African American women's maltreatment (P.70). It…

In To Kill a Mockingbird there are lots of racial, gender, and religious, discrimination. Which is shown a multiple amount of times throughout the novel. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee which takes place in Maycomb Alabama, where there is a lot of racial discrimination. But there is also some gender, and religious, discrimination. The main Characters of the book are Atticus, Scout, and Jem Finch. Throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird the author gives the reader…

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a first person narrative describing the life of Jem and Scout, a brother and sister who are the main protagonists of the novel. Jem and Scout grow up in a town where they are constantly surrounded by racial inequality, social unrest and prejudice. Jem Finch is considered a normal young boy growing up in the small Alabama town of Maycomb. Like his friends Jem likes to likes take part in activities that are perceived to be masculine in nature such as sports.…

walk around in it,” said Atticus Finch In To Kill A Mockingbird. This is a story that tells about Scout Finch, his brother Jem, and his father Atticus. The author, Harper Lee’s purpose when writing this book was to show racism and prejudice in the south in the 1930s. One of the focuses of this book is the court case of Tom Robinson, which ended up with an innocent man dying because he was black. People in the book also use racist language, and are sexist too. In the story, one of the main plot…

As it happened in Hemingway’s earlier works such as In Our Time and The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms has also revealed the author’s resentment of war and politicians and before Frederic’s full disillusionment of this occurs, this resentment and political disillusionment has been revealed by many of the author’s characters; Pissani once points out that ‘There is nothing as bad as war. We in the auto-ambulance cannot even realize at all how bad it is” (47). Soon thereafter Pissani adds…

In the novel The Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison, the narrator is on a journey towards finding his identity as a black man in America at a time where black people were oppressed by whites, during the civil rights movement. This journey in the novel is one of education and development, we see how the narrator develops while trying to find his identity and how he deals with his experiences that affect him in different ways. The notion of invisibility and furthermore the motifs of blindness and…

INTRO. The year 1927 brought about a new National Monument –– Tsodilo Hills. Tsodilo Hills is located in Botswana, Africa. Tsodilo Hills is an African rock art site, one located near the border of South Africa, “near the borders with Namibia and the Caprivi Strip, west of the Okavango Delta” (Trust for African Rock Art). Located at the site are roughly 4,500 paintings and etchings. African rock art is an understudied, underappreciated form of art and culture that runs deep in the…

Under the influence of war, soldiers become intoxicated by the chaotic environment and seize the opportunity to commit immoral acts. However, several factors including politics, the participants, and the concept of war itself, allow for this dangerous environment to exist; this is especially true in regards to the United States’ experience during the long and brutal Vietnam War. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photographs from the war, and the film Apocalypse Now convey the nonexistent boundaries…