Middle Passage

Massachusetts. A city otherwise rich in history, but unluckily dubbed over by an ingloriously annoying jingle, “Lynn, Lynn, city of sin, you’ll never come out the way you came in.” I heard it chanted through elementary school hallways, mocked by middle school kids, and hummed by high schoolers. You would think its omnipresence would keep away travelers, but, then again, my grandmother didn’t speak English. She came over from the Dominican Republic thirty-six years ago, with my mother…

marked the end of peaceful protests as consequences for rebelling against the government became more severe. Since then, the conflict has escalated, leading to a loss of more than 300,000 lives and the displacement of six million people throughout Middle Eastern countries. While financial aid for Syrian refugees has increased over the past decade, the rate of refugees continues to grow at a faster pace. Due to the number of refusal to help refugees, the image United States has amongst other…

Both pieces speak of the bias of ethnocentrism from the west in accordance to the middle east. History is seen only by what is contemporary at the time according to the first piece by Abdullah Laroui. Within the second piece by Edward Said he is clarifying about his book over orientalism and the continuation of the same thinking that people see the middle east as a picture that does not move since it is not the same as those who are looking at it. Additionally both pieces remark about the issues…

as his morals and values are concerned. (Personal communication, February 6, 2016) I do agree with him, however, I think his social class has a bigger impact on his life than he is aware of. Most of the people he works for are of the upper middle, or lower upper class. This association creates opportunities that he would not otherwise have. It increases his income because the majority of the people he is working for want difficult jobs completed and have the money upfront to pay him. The…

Karl Marx is a renowned leader and philosopher known for preaching his beliefs regarding socialism and differences between the social classes, and his viewpoints on society eventually grew into the principles which make up the Marxist lense. The Marxist lense can be used to analyze works of literature by timeless authors such as Ernest Hemingway. Marx was a believer that the primary cause of historical change was social class warfare. He also felt that the state or government has always used its…

comprises of a junior secondary school (years 7,8 and 9) and a senior school (years 10,11 and 12). The school has identifiable cultural groups of Polynesians, africans and vietnamese along with European Australians. Many students come from a low to middle socio-economic background. Sport at FLSHS consists predominantly around the football codes of rugby laugher, soccer and touch football. These along with basket ball and volleyball make up the sporting backbone of the school. Swimming does not…

comprises a junior secondary school (years 7, 8 and 9) and a senior school (years 10, 11 and 12). The school has identifiable cultural groups of Polynesians, Africans and Vietnamese along with European Australians. Many students come from a low to middle…

open. Billy Tabeshaw went back and fastened it. They were gone through the woods.” (Hemingway 3). Even though leaving the gate open isn’t some drastically detrimental act that screamed rebellion, it matched with Dick’s personality shown through the passage as relying on subtle, almost petty replies or actions to convey his displeasure about doctor (who represented the bogusis as the employer). The act of leaving the gate was the last attempt from Dick to “silently” rebel yet it was countered by…

American Sign Language, body language, English, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, and a myriad of programming languages; these are all of the things in which, at one time or another, I attempted to gain literacy. I have always been fascinated with the way people communicate and interact with one another, knowingly or not. Communication, however, is not merely limited to the spoken or written word. In fact, a lot of what we encounter in everyday life does not fall into the traditional realm of language.…

My Progress English has always been a favorite subject of mine. Back in elementary school English and Reading were one and the same; then, came junior high and suddenly English became all about writing, mainly writing my own ideas. For some time I struggled to find a voice and by the time Senior Year came around I found Creative Writing and had a strong sense of voice. In Creative Writing (my final high school English class) there were no comma errors, little required organization, with an…