The Coon

In an excerpt from the autobiography Fault Lines (1993), Meena Alexander explores her fractured identity as an outsider who has known too many cultures to truly belong. She explores and represents this identity using imagery and metaphor. Alexander communicates her individuality in order to discover who she is and to relate to other people’s feelings that they don’t belong. She addresses those who have also felt that they have a broken identity, using a reflective and distressed tone to…

What is polycystic kidney disease? What are symptoms/signs? Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is caused by multiple fluid filled cysts that form within the kidney. It may affect one, or both kidneys. Symptoms include: loss of appetite, vomiting, constipation, lethargy, excessive thirst, and urination. Signs that a kitten, or cat is affected can include enlarged kidney, and fever. Severe cases in kittens may result in death from renal failure by the age of 8 weeks, or it could result in stillbirths…

Let's begin with where the red fern grows is a very interesting book/movie. The book had a lot more detail than the movie. If you like watching movies over reading books this is perfect for you. But if you like reading books over watching movies this is also good. Now let's get started talking about how they are similar and different. To start of with let's talk about the book. The book is so much more interesting than the movie. When the two dogs die that is the saddest part in the book. But…

Show Boat Show Boat was first presented on stage in the year 1927, and it had a lot of characteristics that if presented to the contemporary audience, may be provocative or offensive (Ferber & Hirsch, 2012). The timing of the presentation was at a time marked by high levels of racial discrimination. Some of the words and dialects used in the performance may seem offensive to some social groups in the modern society. The setting of the show was at a time when there were widespread socio-economic…

Book Review The book called Hip-Hop Revolution The Culture and Politics of Rap by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar was a very informative, historical source for learning about the background of how hip hop came to be. Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar is an associate professor of history and director of the institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut. With his skills, Jeffrey Ogbar writes a book that examines genders in hip hop, authenticity of hip hop, and races that had an influence on hip…

When I was in junior high, up to my sophomore year in high school I never cared about school or my grades until I was expelled from coon rapids high school for allegedly distributing marijuana to other students. I was then transferred to an alternative school called Crossroad which I hated because I felt like I was around dumb criminals all day. Later that year I had an IEP meeting at my new school at the time, with my family, case manager and principle of crossroad and talk about my how I can…

The Bluest Eye and why it needed to be so messed up Toni Morrison is known for her unique style of writing. Her raw and unforgiving style lends itself to speaking about topics that are hard to understand the deep nature of. She has a way of speaking to an audience that few other authors have. In The Bluest Eye she uses this style of writing to convey the harsh reality faced by black girls in the 1940s. Pecola in particular has a miserable life which can only be fully understood through…

The incessant push for smaller class sizes is a result of extensive research conducted over various years. Research supports an overall positive impact, from additional attention for students by teacher that can lead to lower retention numbers, and more efficient special need referrals, to more active student participation and a higher morale due to a more efficient educational environment. It has been proven time and again that not all children, persons for that matter, have the ability to…

situations: an elderly, bald black man, or a shaved, polished black man. The usage originated from the claim that African Americans can be so dark they are almost purple, reminding those who used the term of eggplants. Another similar example is the word “Coon," which initially isn’t offensive, is widely known to mean raccoon or the alternate name of a type of domestic cat. But when used as a racial slur towards African Americans, it refers to them as thieves, as the stereotype associated with…

comic acts, variety acts, dancing and music that were only performed by white people. In this show, the whites want to play as a black person, they paint their faces black to portray being black. The stereotypes used during this era were Jim Crow, Zip Coon, Mammy, Uncle Tom, Buck, Wench/Jezebel, Mulatto, Pickaninny. Jim Crow was a character created by a white man called Thomas Rice. He always painted his face black whenever he was about to go into his play. It was said that Jim Crow was a man…