Indigo Girls

They teamed up with fellow Georgian Vic Chesnut to record 1995’s album, Nine High a Pallet. The Indigo Girls came into prominence as a part of the late 80’s folky singer/songwriter revival. The combination of two different personalities and techniques for songwriting provided both tension and an interesting balance. Emily Sailers was more complex musically and leaned toward a more abstract and spiritual style. Amy Ray drew from the aspects of punk rock. She had a more abrasive and direct approach. They first took the name Indigo Girls while they lived in Atlanta during 1985. They performed together in the early 80’s, though under the name of “The B-Band.” In 1986 and 1987, two albums were released, their self-titled EP and Strange Fire. Strange Fire only had 7,000 copies pressed and very little interest was created. The label Epic Records soon signed them. Alternative music was widely popular during the 1980’s and 1990’s in Georgia. Dozens of bands and subgenres were formed during the…

The Most Handsome Drowned Man in the World is the story of a drowned man who washes up on the shore of a tiny coastland village. The people of the village care him over night, and soon become enamored with his great beauty. They proceed to more for the drowned man, who they name Esteban, and decide to make their island home better in memory of their handsome man. Using the conventions of character, setting, and tone and mood a possible theme for the short story could be “inspiration can come…

Nature and women intertwine dramatically. They both nourish and reproduce offspring. Even though they are both loving and nourishing, they are abused and misused daily. Typically, nature and women are victims of charismatic men. As humans, we often don’t appreciate the ones who care the most for us. In this analytical essay, I will discuss the intersectionality between three ambitious and empowering women. These women are Winona LaDuke, Wangari Maathai, and Akilah Jaramogi. These women are…

who serves as the provider and decision maker in the household, while the mother and girls of the family are the homemaker(s). In this story, however, there is just the daughter while that of the father is mentioned in two very particular scenarios: when deciding to marry the daughter off and after the girl’s heroic and death defying…

Throughout the story, there are numerous scenes in which female characters are degraded; whether it is a girl being raped or getting killed. Even the surroundings in the stories, like the sculptures, are extremely sexist in a way that disturbs the audiences to some extent. I will argue that Burgees and Kubrick’s main focus is to demonstrate the mass how ugly prejudice against females is. The sexism is demonstrated to an extreme in this story that it provokes the audiences to rethink the sexual…

persona. Connie had a tendency to be very flirtatious with the opposite gender. The story shows this in the passage that states “A boy named Eddie came to talk to them……after a while he asks Connie if she would like something to eat. She said she did and so she tapped her friend’s arm on her way out” (Oates Page 900). For example, Connie had a three-hour rendezvous with a boy named Eddie that she met at the drive-in restaurant. The time that Connie and Eddie spent together may have been full of…

The girl in Pilon is a child whom is still oblivious to the male species. She has yet to realize that her body is “causing men to look at her.” The girls in The Sleepover are teenagers who are obsessed with males and intrigued by the idea of being with them. While in Hills Like White Elephants the female is an adult woman and has learned to fear men and is intimidated by the man she is currently with. From the formalist view, looking at each story individually and coming to the conclusion that…

speech, however she called me as her baby in front of everybody at the end of the speech. Instantly, everyone inside the room started laughing, and it was a real disaster for me in my special day. Also, my mother has an old-fashioned attitude. After I grew up, my mother still treated me like a child, and she began to intrude on my private life. I have never been expelled from school (even though Math was not my strong suit), I never slept away from home without her consent, and I never drank…

unrelenting fourteen year old girl named Mattie Ross, brings it upon herself to avenge her father’s death after the outlaw known as Tom Chaney murders him and flees the territory. The young farm girl quickly seeks out to hire the U.S. Marshal, Rooster Cogburn, who is just as familiar with whisky as he is with guns, to track down Chaney. Shortly after this quarreling duo set out on their man hunt, they are accompanied by a Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf. However, the Ranger happens to be chasing Tom…

(pg.6). Fink begins to use the scenery around the characters as an extension of this non-numerical sense of time as is seen in Behind The Hedge. Recalling a past memory the character does not recall the date or the exact time. She recalls the changing color of her room and the position of the flowers in her garden. For before the main character finds out that the little girl whom she found in her garden has recently been killed she describes the color of the room she is sitting in as “the color…