Liminality

When it comes to depicting what people assume about what a disability life would resemble the majority of the time they end up coming up short. Allen Rucker gives us the opportunity to develop a detailed perspective. After waking up one day with a cold to ending it paralyzed for the rest of his life. Rucker considered himself a healthy, athletic family man who work in Hollywood, he was only fifty-one- year-old when everything changed. By taking this novel and analyzing it with concepts about the…

The most common and dangerous stereotype that Africa possesses, is that of tribal attitudes and actions. Often, people believe that Africans, above all other ethnic individuals, are unhealthily attached to the tenets of their tribe. One might even be supported in this thought when observing the way African migrants and diasporas act within their new environment. However, through this paper, I decided to explore how those of the African diaspora come to their identity. Due to the connection…

Creating Ambiguity in Natural Spaces: The Ecological Queering of Gender in Cereus Blooms at Night and Small Beauty I argue that Small Beauty and Cereus Blooms at Night establish ecological spaces as ambiguous in order to deconstruct preconceived limitations around the natural, and further explore — and encourage the exploration of — queer subjectivities, particularly genderqueer subjectivities, in an organic context. SMALL BEAUTY IN THE CONTEXT OF ORGANIC TRANSGENDERISM Nicole Seymour, a queer…

Classical dance, in general, is defined as a subtle expression of culture, and is supposed to give joy and happiness to any person who practices it irrespective of class, gender, religion, and location. This description, however, is an oversimplification because in reality there are multiple factors that need to be considered while defining classical dance. Indian classical dance includes multiple forms, each associated with a certain theory or region, rooted in religious backgrounds. One of the…

Sethe’srememories about that horrendous past were so agonizing that they came in broken and disconnected parts in which the death of her mother was fused with of her daughter’s.Indeed, Sethe’s real healing initiates with her reintegration into her community, at the end of the novel, because being part of a community again means that she was not alone anymore, as she felt after her mother’s and daughter’s deaths. The community ritual of rescuing her is a symbol of forgiveness. Morrison brings in…

“Research Paper” What determines what makes someone good? What determines what makes someone evil? The way evil and good can be portrayed depends on a group 's opinions and background. God and evil have many different definitions, but when it comes to “Beowulf,” the idea was portrayed perfectly. “Beowulf” was able to portray good and evil throughout the poem’s actions, beliefs, monsters, heroes, Anglo-Saxon characteristics and paganism. “Beowulf” is an Old English literature poem that was…

Dreams serve as an effective way to look deeper into the character of a novel. Dreams allow authors to speak through their characters in a new way and act as a ploy to insert an idea or theme into a narrative, subtly. Dreams can speak to the mind of a character in profound and indirect way (WC) as well. Furthermore, dreams reflect both A Map of Home and Minaret and act as a motif to highlight the main characters as well as add to characterization. The two protagonists, Najwa and Nidali, come…

Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) is the first selected woman poet in this study. Writing in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth, Mew’s poetry straddles the fin de siècle and early modernist periods. Thus Victorian and feminist approaches are used in examining her poetry. Mew's poetic voice is an integral link in women's writing from the end of the nineteenth century into the first two decades of the twentieth century in that it enables contemporary…