Mardi Gras

poem, but it goes to great lengths to describe a person using symbolic metaphors; for example when the poem states “you are the prince of Paraguay” or “floating down from Minas Gerais” (Strand 33). This poem appears to be describing a person in a Mardi Gras parade. A person that Strand seems to be attracted to, it almost reads like a Bukowski poem. This is attention-grabbing because it shows that Strand is fairly flexible as a…

Disney dominated the animation industry as it created the Disney Princess Empire beginning with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in the 1930’s. Many of the Princesses from Disney are the idealistic way that women were seen in the earlier dimensions of society. With America diverging from the idealistic role of a woman, Disney diverged in the same way by adding Tiana, the first hard working and ambitious African American to the Disney princess line- up. The Princess and the Frog is one of Disney…

Ellen’s speech, in my opinion, was informative. She commenced to tell the audience about her life before stardom, letting everyone know that she worked several different jobs that paid about minimum wage. Almost every college student can relate to that scenario, going to classes and working one or two jobs just to make ends meet while in college. Then she went on to talk about how she had no ambition and felt lost and didn’t know what she wanted to do. What college student hasn’t felt that…

If you are still in the celebratory mood after Polka Days, then come to more festivals around Wisconsin. Some of the many coming up are Festa Italiana, Plein Air Festival, German Fest, Taste of Wisconsin and Burger Fest. The Festa Italiana is a three-day event from July 22 to the 24 at the Henry W. Maier Festival Park in Milwaukee. This festival celebrates Italian traditions from the past, present and into the future, while sharing the Italian culture with the community. This festival has fun…

My philosophy of Multicultural Education is someone that provides a successful learning environment for every student. In my future classroom every student will accept all cultures and I will try to prevent very little if any prejudice and discrimination. In order to achieve this type of environment I must be culturally competent. To be culturally competent means you have to take the time and researches the different cultures, genders, and disabilities in your classroom or school. This…

Cruelty is defined as a callous indifference to or pleasure in causing pain and suffering. There are many reasons why people dish out cruel words and none of us can say we are completely innocent of doing so. In Tennessee Williams's play A Streetcar Named Desire there is, once again, no denying the acts of cruelty allotted through the scenes. In the play both Blanche Dubois and Stanley Kowalski commit acts of unforgivable cruelty, but Stanley is by far more cruel over all. Blanche’s cruelty…

The Story of Ruby Bridges An epic is a long narrative poem. An epic is the narrating of deeds and adventures of a legendary hero. An epic is what Ruby Bridges had to go through at, William Frantz, the school of integration. In an epic, there are villains, and heroes. An epic has people that do right and know what’s right and have the people that tries to bring others down because they don’t want to see them succeed. The school of integration, William Frantz, is an Epic event because it meets…

Christmas. The cultures can be similar to the Dutch, French, and the German. People apply the Dutch tradition in the North, French traiton in the south, and the German tradition in the northeast. The Belgians have their own customs to follow on Mardi Gras. In the small town of Binche, people celebrate by walking in colorful outfits and wearing wax masks and weaving bundles of willow…

Segregation was a terrible, but big part of history. Most acts of civil disobedience go unnoticed or undealt with. Well, Ruby Bridges made sure the one she had to struggle through did not. Several angry, white protesters committed the most cruel and disgusting act of civil disobedience by boycotting and threatening Ruby Bridges. Ruby Bridges was born on September 8, 1954, which was the year that the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decided to desegregate schools. In Tylertown,…

This documentary "Dreamworlds- Desire, Sex, and Power in music Videos" tries to explain how the popular culture influences contemporary music video and how this is affecting today’s culture. “Dreamworlds” insists that these narratives and cultural attitudes have shaped these music videos into sexualizing women, and filtering the identities of both men and women into “myths” about sexuality and gender. The subject group in these music videos tended to be mostly about women and how they are…