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Joshua Gittens Mrs. Thunell English II Honors 6 March 2017 Old Thesis Statement: In Thomas Jefferson “Common Sense” and in Thomas Jefferson “ Declaration of Independence there are similarities and differences in ideas about patriotism and equality. Thomas Paine and Jefferson use basic techniques to make their writing and feeling known about the problem at hand. New Thesis Statement: Thomas Paine works were empathized in “Common Sense” which inspired Thomas Jefferson “Declaration of…

Essentialism ideologies are the beliefs that certain categories or groups of people have intrinsic, or “natural”, characteristics or dispositions (Ferguson). These beliefs are encapsulated in society giving unspoken power to the “norm” enabling the belittlement of the “unnatural” groups. This central concept is what promotes systemic racism, sexism, homophobia, and heteronormativity. These social institutions are what allow for the reoccurrence of unjust treatment towards these “subordinate”…

offer advice to Johnsy on how to persevere. To begin, Johnsy from “The Last Leaf” does not defend against her obstacle, pneumonia, suggesting that she does not illustrate perseverance. Her story begins as pneumonia spreads throughout Johnsy’s village of Greenwich, New York. A small woman,…

When you take your teens electronics away and they start acting crazy without it that means they are too attached to their social media life and it's time to cut them off. "take Melanie, a 16-year-old Greenwich Village student, who spent up to seven hours a day updating her Facebook and instant messaging with friends. When her previously high school grades began to drop, her parents confiscated her desktop, and Melanie threatened to leave home. For an entire…

First of all, before any details of the doings of the homosexuality, certain information about their history needs to be presented. There weren’t terms or concepts which correspond to the mordern dichotomy of ‘heterosexual’ and ‘homosexual’ in the ancient Greece. The description of acient Greek attitudes is important to recognize that there was regional variation. For instance, there were general strictures against same-sax eros in parts of Ionia, whereas it was approved of and celebrated in…

Love and peace seem like the most two stodgy words for artist. In today’s world, there are only a few artists who can convey love and peace directly from their artworks. Yoko Ono is one of them. She is a multimedia artist, Avant-Guard artist, singer, and she is also known for her work in music and filmmaking. However, some people think her works are too simple and easy to understand, some people think her works are not creative at all and even cannot be called art. Yoko thinks she is not an…

Society believes that there are three forms of alienation – from ourselves, from other men, and from our world. Alienation of Jerry in Albee’s “Zoo Story” was his inadequacy of being a human being in relation to the world. He sees the world as an object of perception and is distance from the world, rather than living with it. Jerry meets Peter. Jerry and Peter are as dissimilar as possible. Peter is a respectable citizen, a husband and father of two girls, two cat and two parakeets. He…

The 1950’s and 1960’s transported the idea of urban renewal to fruition. The passage of the 1949 Housing Act, The Housing Act of 1954, and The 1956 Federal Aid Highway Act demolished numerous neighborhoods of historical and social value throughout the United States. Jane Jacobs, a woman with no political or neighborhood planning background began fighting against the bulldozer mentality in New York City that sought to construct highways and skyscrapers, which displaced many individuals,…

Rochester and withdrew after a year so she could practice writing. She then attended Syracuse University in 1937, met her husband Stanly Edgar Hyman. Together they started a literary magazine Spectre. After graduation in 1940 they moved to Greenwich Village. Shirley had stories published in The New Republic and The New Yorker. She had four children. In 1944 “Come Dance with Me in Ireland” was chosen as Best American Stories. In 1945 her husband was offered a teaching position in Vermont and…

Before Stonewall provides a historical overview of the development of the experiences within the LGBTQ community in the US in the 20th century, leading up to the police raids and riots at the Stonewall Inn in New York City in 1969. The documentary begins in the early 1900s. In this time nobody really knew anything about the gay community, in fact the word gay was “dirty.” If there were any suspicions that a person had gay tendencies they were committed to a mental institution. As the 20s’ came…