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confidence and I certainly didn't feel brave. I felt weak. Weak because I don't love my body the way you love yours. I haven't gotten to the point where I can throw caution to the wind, wear a bikini to the beach and stick my finger up at anyone who snickers behind the…

The power of knowledge is something every human should attain, but it does not always come at an ease. In Bich Minh Nguyen’s, “ The Good Immigrant Student,” she writes about the hardships and racism she endures while trying to receive a good education. Frederick Douglas, a former slave and author of, “ Learning to read and Write”, describes his determination to be literate, while at the same time explains the obstacles he had to overcome. Both Nguyen and Douglass use imagery, include personal…

It was the Christmas of 2007. My father was driving my sister and I to my grandparent’s house in Rice Lake. It was a bright, blue, sunny day, and the ground and trees were covered in white, as there was just a fresh snowfall. I always loved going to my grandparent’s house. My grandma was my role model, the one person I always looked forward to going to see. My grandma had been battling uterine cancer since 2006. She had surgery to remove the cancer in 2006, but in 2007 the doctors found the…

I have been living in the United State for two years as an international student from Vietnam. Living here gives me a chance to interact with people of other races. As we know, America is a democratic society, which means we are supposed to be treated fairly and have equal rights. Moreover, America is also where we can have more freedom, and opportunities to achieve our goals. I was excited for a new life. But my mind has been changed since the day I was discriminated, which I did not expect. As…

It was late at night and all I could see were beams of light flashing before my eyes. When suddenly came a mysterious shaped object zooming through the air. Could it be? Are aliens actually attacking right now? If so that means I must have been right all along. My friends and family never believed in aliens, but I did. They would always pick on me and tell me to “get real,” but I never listened to them. The mysterious object that passed me brought me out of my thoughts. I got a closer…

reference adds to the meaning because the women are talking about an artistic and intelligent topic quite at odds with his inner turmoils (Explanation of: Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock). Next he mentions the eternal Footman who holds his coat and snickers. Then he says how “No!” He is “not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be” (Line 121). This alludes to Hamlet's inner monologue of “To be or not to be?” This question plays on words because even though Prufrock does not believe he is like Hamlet,…

uses nonsense words in a greater variety. It uses imagery, onomatopoeias, portmanteaus, and rhyme. Line fourteen uses imagery when it describes the Jabberwock as having “eyes of flame”. Line eighteen stated that the blade made a noise of going “snicker-snak”, meaning that the word is an onomatopoeia. An onomatopoeia also appears in line twenty-three, reading, “O Frabjous…

elementary school in which I brought a Korean snack to lunch, and all the kids responded in an abhorrent manner. The kids’ eyes screamed with distaste and looked at me with condescending glares. Pursing their lips in disgust, they would whisper and snicker amongst themselves. Since that day, I never brought any Korean food to school. Even speaking my mother tongue left people flabbergasted. If I could just educate some Americans that there are other languages besides English. As for my last name…

An epigraph from Dante Alighieri’s Inferno starts off the poem by T.S. Eliot known as “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” In Italian the word inferno literally translates to hell. Thus, Inferno is an all too fitting title for the well known work of literature, especially when one takes into consideration that it occurs in the multi-layered and multi-faceted world of Hell. Eliot’s decision to use a section of Dante’s Inferno for his poem’s epigraph, not only leads the reader to believe that…

Eden Robinson's novel, Monkey Beach, recounts the details of Lisa's life and community and her attempt to live freely from the Westernized views and opinions. Throughout the novel, various characters will respond differently to Lisa's character and power because each individual has his or her own beliefs and experiences, which can contribute to their sense of what is acceptable as a norm. Furthermore, Robinson suggests that through the expectations of family and of society, Lisa's autonomy may…