Sula

how the black people in America suffered for getting their identity and to overcome racial discrimination. Women all over the World are always suppressed based on caste and community. In the novels of Toni Morrison it can be seen clearly especiallyin Sula, Beloved, and The Bluest Eye.It tells about the oppression of the black race and…

They say sex sells… and that is ultimately the issue. Sexual intercourse was once considered by society to be a private act, a physical pact made between two people behind closed doors. How did such a seemingly private act turn into such a lucrative business; when did it become acceptable for men and women to view their bodies as sexual commodities? In the primitive ages, it was necessary for cavemen to observe the act of procreation so that they could ensure the reproduction and longevity of…

In Medallion, as the people have kept the community spirit of the southern black since the slavery days of Bottom, they live as "neighbors" (3), taking care of each other, including even the prostitutes. They look after the children instead of their disappeared mother for 18 months (34) and the orphans. It is natural for them to cook and to clean the house of the solitary elder. All women participate in raising children and taking care of the old is a good aspect of the traditional value, which…

The United States, while seen as a free nation, holds a troubled past as shown by the Jim Crow Era. Originally, the Jim Crow name was created as a character for a minstrel show and evolved into a symbol people associate with the period of segregation of African Americans in the U.S. Segregation had roots that delved deep into history back to the slave trade and slavery across nations. Although, as with every way of life, there are extremist groups such as the KKK, that seem to personify the Jim…

Politics OF Fear, Equality and Quest of Equal National Labyrinth in Toni Morrison’s Fiction: Thesis statement: Toni Morrison’s fiction probe the quest of ideals of equality misshaped by the dominant "Whiteness" and aspires for ideals like social equality and independent home once distorted by their white masters in U.S. culture that ultimately negated the blacks as beings having life and soul dwelling their identity based upon fear of extinction and slavery. Introduction: Toni Morrison in her…

The feminist movement in the United States was a social and political movement that promoted equality for women. The movement transformed the lives of many individual women and made a keen effect upon the American society throughout the twentieth century. The idea was to create equality between men and women, as well as create equal opportunities for both genders. Feminism had and continues to have an enormous effect on the societal female gender roles, as people fight for change. There was an…

1. What are the advantages of smart cities? More than half the population of the world will be living in smart cities by the end of next decade. People want to avail benefits of a high tech environment living as an added advantage for those who want to. Technology is an aspect that is more responsive to people’s necessities, as one of the advantages of living in smart cities. Technology is also a powerful resource that tends to make people move towards cities making use of it. It is a response…

In her book Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, bell hooks focuses on the condition of black female life in America. hooks discusses the external social oppressive forces of racism and sexism influencing the oppressive lifestyle for black women. The core of this oppressive social atmosphere as hooks writes is the historically established “social hierarchy based on race and sex that ranked white men first, white women second, though sometimes equal to black men, who are ranked third, and…

novels, the relationships of mothers to their children and the children they want to have become a reoccurring thematic element. These relationships, with their differences, impacted every woman’s femininity in differing ways. The female characters from Sula, The Color Purple, Being Mary Jane, Salvage the Bones, “On Monday of Last Week” are powerfully influenced by the importance of motherhood and the emphasis placed on it in society. In each of these stories, motherhood impacts each…

Winning this tournament meant everything for our team, I would had never imagined that we were capable of achieving such a goal. In 2014 the annual volleyball competition of Bilingual schools took place at “Escuela Internacional Sampedrana" in San Pedro Sula, Cortes. Our school took teams to compete in four categories in Pre Juvenile girls, Pre Juvenile boys, INFA girls and INFA boys which was my category. Our team had gone under a harsh training, but not only had us, all teams gone through the…