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outgoing, and she stands up for what she believes in. Personally, I find that Tracy and I share these positive traits. We share many similarities in our personality. The Character Tracy Turnblad is a very confident woman. She looks past all those who insult her and tell her she can’t pursue her dreams. Throughout the film, Tracy is mocked for her size. She is told because of her weight; she can’t be a dancer or a performer. As stated by the stage manager of “ The Corny Collins Show”, “And so,…

In “The Tell-Tale Heart” it is clear that the narrator’s conscience has overtaken him and it is up to the reader to discern whether the narrator is actually insane or whether he suffers from an over acuteness of his senses. However, when Poe makes the suggestion that the narrator is insane based on the narrator’s own claim of insanity, then the actions of the narrator serve to expose the narrative irony in the story. In this regard, Poe makes the audience believe that the narrator’s insanity…

If you are a woman, you would not want to live in Igbo society. In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, he describes a society where men have more power than women. The main character, Okonkwo, has many conflicts regarding his masculinity. He tries to be an excessively masculine figure in a society that has more of a balance between masculinity and femininity. Achebe promotes many stereotypes about masculine and feminine traits in his novel. Okonkwo is a hyper-masculine character who…

For every coin, there are two distinct sides. Sadly, UC Davis, like every other college in the US, has had the same problem with Free Speech. On one side, many of the people who attend or work at their campus want to be able to speak their minds freely without being harassed or chastised. For them, being able to say whatever they want is a right that should not be limited by policies and restriction, while, for others, there should be a limit to what people can say. By specifying what students…

that Hamlet loved Ophelia, but due to his vengeance, Hamlet had to avoid Ophelia. He had left her and hurt her and broken her feelings. Hamlet tells Ophelia, “Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?”(3.1.123-124). Hamlet insults her and hurts her feelings, which causes her to get mad. Hamlet is the main cause for Ophelia’s madness. Ophelia as a person does not make decisions for herself. She is controlled by two men, Laertes and Polonius. During…

The general argument made by Jaweed Kaleem in his work, “In the ‘land of the free,’ are you free to sit out the national anthem?”, is that it is okay and not okay to sit out for the national anthem. More specifically, Jaweed argues that Colin Kaepernick should or should not sit during the national anthem. He is suggesting that some people believe that the American flag is sacred and not standing during the national anthem is insulting it. Others believe that everyone has the freedom of speech,…

ignorant towards someone’s feelings can be as simple as a disagreement with a friend and not keeping in mind how they may feel about the critique that you are giving them. Often people tend to give out insults very easily and often not worrying about how the person on the receiving end of the insults may feel, usually just to make yourself feel better. Being ignorant towards someone’s feelings is clearly shown in The Boy in the Striped…

the Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell. The similarity is they both involve killing. The differences are one is killing for fun the other is killing for revenge. One took place on a island the other at a fair and catacombs. One started over a insult the other over things he hunts. The similarities are they both involve killing people (p.26) (p.12). They are killing innocent people. They both started as friends at first then they turned on each other. They were out to kill each other. They…

The heightened vulnerability of the brain to emotional and psychological insults during childhood likely results in long lasting changes in the brain that increase the risk of being afflicted by depression later in life43. Notably, understanding the link between childhood stress exposure and brain function can therefore provide…

The most compelling criticism that Citizen creatively makes evident is the way that people go about asking questions without taking into account the emotions that their questions or comments may elicit in others. In Citizen there was a sense of privilege when people asked questions, the raw and explicitness of questions that unsettled people of color. Citizen questions the way people are aware of social injustices yet the way they approach someone counter argues their knowledge. The reader is…