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The Coldest Story Ever Told: Kanye West’s Undeniable Cultural Energy Kanye West, musician and artist, has optimized and originated many artistic styles that have led to current patterns in modern popular culture. West’s constant innovation in music and general reflection of the New School’s rejection of Old School ways has placed him the class of an icon among youths. In his three-decade span of activity in the music industry, West has evolved through eras of soul, electronic, alternative, and a…

less dominant individual. When Rihanna stares at the camera during her video she displays her power by looking maintaining her humanity. Rihanna’s dancers also maintain their womanhood because they are not reduced to their body parts, like in the Nelly video. Rihanna showcases the dancer’s abilities and sexually that displays their talent. Throughout the video Rihanna is empowered by her provocative performance, unsanctioned sexual behavior, and promiscuous appeal to which she controls. There…

Life has always been a mystery to me. Every single thing that a person does can impact their life, no matter how small or insignificant the matter may be. It’s funny to think that maybe I wouldn’t be the person I am today if I did something as simple as go to a different school. Or maybe I would’ve been more of a trouble child if my parents had treated me poorly. Everything that happens in our lives contributes to our personality and our actions. Psychology is all about how people work and why…

Fun Home is a graphic novel in which the author, Alison Bechdel, portrays a significant part of her life through the use of allusions. Bechdel uses various allusions to literature to analyze and make sense of her memories. The utilization of the literary device throughout the novel creates a strong connection between Bechdel 's life and various literary works. Allusions are used not only to describe the members of the Bechdel family but also to describe the relationships within the household.…

Douglass witnessed, where his aunt, Esther, was cruelly flogged. This was one of the first major events that made him question why things were the way they were. Following the flogging of Esther, he starts to see it more often, like in the cases of Nelly and Denby, where extreme force and cruelty were used. This brutality makes him question why more is not being done about the problem of slavery and why God would create a situation like this, especially given “that killing a slave, or any…

The short story “The Summer my Grandmother Was Supposed to Die” by Mordecai Richler illustrates the overwhelming, unjust pressure imposed on women in the 1950s. The media pushes an impossible, unrealistic body in today’s modern society which is hotly debated; however, in the 1950s, women were expected to be more than a perfect body. They were expected to be a perfect wife who takes care of an inordinate amount of work at home and does not express herself. The short story centres around the…

Wuthering Heights, Cathy decided to marry Edgar for his money and because Heathcliff's lower class, even though she loves him, "It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am,” (Page 99). In Mrs.Dalloway, Clarissa marries Richard for his money, and now she doesn’t see herself as her own person anymore, She had the oddest sense of being herself invisible; unseen; unknown; there…

It is a common occurrence in novels for a leading character to be given a “foil” character. This character is one who is not necessarily a main character, but still important, and provides contrast to a/the main character in a way that heightens and highlights that character 's characteristics, in the way that we can say that day defines night and vice versa. In Emily Bronte 's Wuthering Heights, this contrast between characters clearly takes place between the book 's central character,…

that she feels transfers fully admonishes the notion of innocence. The consequences that Cathy must face to make the full immersion into experience involve taking on responsibility for the independence that she so readily sought out at age thirteen. Nelly confronts Linton with the notion that Cathy came to Wuthering Heights not “because she hated [him}, but because of her kindness, and she must now live with the subsequent effects and abuse (Bronte 213). No longer naive and immature, Cathy takes…

Mikayla Pen Block D English 11 December 12, 2014 “I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.” Be yourself and ignore all opinion of others, the best thing you can do it be yourself. John Lennon was an inspirational singer and song-writer. He spoke about people being true to themselves. Positive vibes came from Lennon’s music and his…