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identity) and a legal resident Grande is allowed to move between both countries. She is personally in harmony with her identity; however in her visit to Mexico she is viewed as an in-between/liminal individual. Reyna at times finds herself living in the hyphen of her Mexican American. To her Mexican childhood friends she is not Mexican enough and to her American friends she is too Mexican (Grande 2013: 320). This at times can be conflicting; however she finds internal harmony by stepping out of…

Another way to use “est-ce que” is for you to put a question word before it (remember “key question words” from Chapter 6?). To ask formal questions, what you can do is invert the conjugated verb and subject pronoun, then join them together with a hyphen. Keep in mind that when you are using the inversion method with the 3rd person singular (il, elle, on), and a verb that ends…

Is wearing the hijab a sign of faith or of religious oppression? That is the question that has concerned many scholars in the fields of religious studies and women’s studies. Shelina Zahra Janmohamed argues in Love in a Headscarf, that wearing the hijab a sign of her faith. She believes that it is her religious duty to dress modestly and practice veiling. For her, it is a mark of devout faith in Islam and a marker of the religion that she practices. Even though she faces the pressure of a local…

Part 1: Hill’s Document, Klan Violence Against Blacks The Klan wanted him to stop preaching and giving other black people hope. Making other black people feel as if they are worth more than they are seen as. The Ku-Klux sees it as black people “stepping out of place.” A place that was made for them, a place they needed to sit quietly in. I believe Hill wasn’t killed because of the large impact he had on other black people. They knew people trusted him and his word, so they felt they would get…

is the Thing With Feathers” shows her nature side of writing. This poem contains a bird that represents hope which cannot be destroyed. Dickinson used the syntax “abcb,” capitalizes certain words so the readers will pay close attention, and uses hyphens to give the poem the effect of a soft, slow, feather floating through the air. Dickinson includes imagery through her poem such as “perches in the soul,” “ the chilliest land,” and “sings the tune” (biography online). The tone she creates is…

Many people fear death at the back of their mind, unconsciously dwelling over the surreal fact that they would have to come face to face with it some day, yet most do not bring themselves to explore it completely until it lurks in the corner or appears on their doorstep. The sonnet “And You as Well Must Die, Beloved Dust” and the dramatic monologue “Identification”, explores the concept of death and how each writer comes to grips with it. Both poems express reactions to the inevitable nature of…

The rapid advancement of technology at the dawn of the 21st century has not only spawned the invention of new technology, but has further refined existing practices to bring goods which previously existed only for those at the forefront of the technological arms race into the hands of consumers. The epitome of this is the creation of websites, a skill that once belonged only to a select few that dedicated significant time and effort into honing their skills. Now creating an inexpensive, but…

‘Still I Rise’ by the American, Maya Angelou presents the character of a black woman who is oppressed in the 1970s but refuses to accept this. ‘Disabled’ by Wilfred Owen, however, is concerned with a character who is ‘broken’ after the disabilities he suffers in the First World War at the beginning of the twentieth century. The poem ‘Still I Rise’ is about a woman who discloses that she will overcome anything due to her self-confidence. The line ‘But still, like dust, I’ll rise’ is a metaphor…

In the New York Times article "In Defense of Gender," author Cyra McFadden pleads her case for why the attempts to make the English language gender-neutral have gone too far. Furthermore, she addresses different areas in which gender neutralization has become common, including job titles, last names, and pronoun usage. Ultimately, while she hopes that there will be a resolution to this issue of language leaning towards one gender, she concludes that there must be another way that does not…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ and Sylvia Plath’s novel, ‘The Bell Jar’, scrutinises how both women, the unnamed narrator and Esther, become mentally unstable. Both protagonists exploit their real life situations in their story and novel to emphasise how being a woman living in a patriarchal society has caused mental breakdowns. Moreover, they make attempts to explore and understand their suffering of depression and the possible ways to overcome it. The short…