Spirited Away

Monkman created this work as a response to George Catlin’s Dance to the Berdash (1830). A Berdash is also known as a two-spirited person, or someone who takes on the roles and dress of male and female genders and was something that Catlin (along with the majority of Europeans) viewed as disgusting and wrong . In The Triumph of Mischief Miss Chief is the Berdash and is being…

Christmas Carol by Charles Dickison, is an old miser that is wealthy who didn’t care about others until three Christmas ghosts visited him and taught him a lesson about caring for others. George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life by Frank Capra, is a spirited adult who always lived his life helping others until something tragic happens and he gets visited by an angel. Scrooge and Bailey have similarities that are distinguishable , but they do have different lives, first of all there is a actions…

and motivated me to pursue my education. As a black American female I learned the value of diversity, having experienced first-hand the misconceptions that can shape in a homogeneous environment. For instance from being called “too much of a free-spirited city girl,” in the country to later being “too old-fashioned…

When Anne of Green Gables begins Anne is a free spirited, adventuress, young lady, who goes against gender norms since she would rather go outside and play then stay inside and make sure the house is taken care of. As the novel continues, Anne becomes a responsible, and educated young adult. When Anne first goes to live in Green Gables, she was not what Matthew Cuthbert and Marilla Cuthbert expected, since they had wanted a boy to help them with the farm. Although Anne was not what they…

Susannah Cahalan’s memoir, Brain On Fire, conveys her journey and struggle through a detrimental disease, in which she loses significant aspects of her core identity. The memoir exemplifies the theme that loss of identity yields self discovery, concentrating primarily on how her experiences shaped the progression of her life before and after her disease. When creating the found poem, I wanted to focus the ideas around Susannah’s struggle for her identity. I utilized repetition with the phrase,…

In the novel Their Eyes were Watching God, The main character Janey is forced to conform outwardly during most of her life. Janey struggles to be satisfied with her life because she is actually a free spirit who is being oppressed by the people she is around. Throughout the novel, Janey experiences two unhappy marriages and eventually finds love and freedom with her third love interest. Janey’s conformity and her internal war against conformity contributed to the books theme of women’s…

mouth"(pg72). Mr. Donner is kind to do all these things for Charlie even though he is not his son he treats him like one. Fay Lillman is Charlie's neighbor in his new apartment. She is a free spirited artist, she has a relationship with Charlie but Charlie got stuck in his work and they drifted away. " the place was thick with the odor compounded of paint, linseed oil, and turpentine".(pg120) One of the one of the main settings of the novel is the International…

performance shaped both the story’s direction and its reception by the audience. It is argued that in an eponymous and partially autobiographical motion picture, Diane Keaton’s subtle and natural portrayal of Annie Hall, a free-spirited ingénue, steals the spotlight away from Woody Allen’s…

From the very beginning, the text indicates its historical context by stating things such as, “In 1820, only a few miles away from what is not the great city of Cincinnati.” This indicates that this took place many years ago in an indefinite area of that time. One of the biggest things that wouldn’t fit in a different time period is the region in which people are “sparsely” spread about. Now a day you really wouldn’t see that as much. Back then though it was pretty common.The story had a lot of…

1954, there was still controversy regarding the equality and justice for black workers. It took the measures of blacks having to sue both the company and the union to gain the respect that was deserved even though desegregation did not entirely fade away until years later. The perseverance of blacks had become a progression and the fight for equality was turning into a injustice system within itself. “Black workers always supported the union, but the union never made a concerted effort to…