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    Louis Owens, in his account “Motion of Fire and Form: Autobiographical Reflections” and Wendy Rose, in her collection Bone Dance, create experience-and-memory-based narratives that help them to shape their identities. They are able to recreate events to which some of the pieces may be missing, allowing them to better understand their history and their place in a world of categories. They learn from their families how to fit in and interact with the environment around them when they do not fit…

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    show a reflection of society itself, which exposes society’s flaws to the audience. Throughout the play, Hansberry illustrates the struggles of an African-American family to move out of the city and into a better neighborhood. Through the family’s liminal journey to their new house, Hansberry shows how corrupt and divided society really is: LINDNER (putting on his glasses and drawing a form out of the…

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    from accessing Mary and Jesus. Furthermore, the portrait 's background highlights that Mary 's semi-divine status puts her in a liminal space. On one hand, Mary is a human just like the viewer; but, on the other hand, her purity and allegorical status make her un-relatable. Furthermore, Mary 's status is superior to the viewer 's. The ambiguous tone of Mary 's liminal space emphasizes that although mortals will be able to recognize Mary and Jesus’s superior status, they cannot understand the…

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    form of representation in order to express the contradictions of feminism, sexuality, and power. Blues music articulated the cultural and political struggle over sexual relations. Hazel Carby stated that “Women blues singers frequently appear as liminal figures that play out and explore the various possibilities of a sexual existence; they are representations of women who attempt to manipulate and control their construction as sexual subjects”. To solidify this statement, Carby refers to writer…

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    introduced to the key ideas of becoming an adult in Hindu society. It is also believed that the boy enters his second stage of life called Brahmacarya, literally meaning ‘travelling on the path that will disclose the Supreme Being’ (V. Narayanan, 2002, Pg.88). During the liminal phase of the ceremony the boy receives the Sacred Thread. It is made of three strands of knotted and twisted…

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    Victor Turner explains rituals in anthropology as actions with cultural purposes. There are three stages that represent Turner’s definition: the separation stage, the liminal stage, and the aggregate stage. The separation stage, the first stage, is an indication of the detachment of the individual or group. In the case of playing college softball at Transylvania University, this would be when a student in high school decides…

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    Throughout the stories of “The Monkey” by Stephen King and Dracula by Bram Stoker it is seen how there is an element of the uncanny at work. As each of these narratives is read, what we have become familiarized with as human beings becomes foreign and unsettling to us. What we thought we understood has been changed and has now become frightening. To better understand the uncanny I will first summarize how Sigmund Freud describes it, then I will argue that there is an element of the uncanny in…

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    Christian Though at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, Indiana. Each of these theologians are widely published in the field Christian thought and theology and each of them approach the study of Christology in different ways despite both being process theologians. Christology…

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    created by Victor Frankenstein and the community was inevitable due to the creature being the other, the only one of his kind. However, the difference in appearance is not a valid reason to dehumanize an individual who is striving to be a part of the community. Prior to the creature becoming alive, in no way was he considered hideous in appearance to his creator. Victor stated, “I began the creation of a human being” (Shelley 45) from his perspective, not only was the creature beautiful but it…

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    attached with it and what offers them genuine bliss is to have and foster children. The gendered identity of women is also constructed through discourse while all women share a common understanding (maternal identity). They value the importance of being a “mother” and the mothering role not only makes women mature psychologically, for some,…

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