The Coon

Phoenix Jackson is as worn down as the path she travels. She conquers many obstacles in her journey to get her grandson his medicine. The difficulties endured include racism, her old age, and poverty. The short story, “A Worn Path,” was written by Eudora Welty in 1940. The main character is Phoenix Jackson. She is described in the story as an African American woman from the south who is very old, frail, wrinkled and small. The story takes place in the 1930’s, many years after slavery…

A.) My immediate reaction to A Rose for Emily was positive. I liked the episodic approach. It gave a better way to give background information of the characters and situations. For example, section two, it brings the story back thirty years. “So she vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before the smell” (DiYanni 80). I found this interesting because not many stories incorporate this type of approach. I did not find A Worn Path very interesting,…

The vast majority of money spent on food advertising comes from branded foods manufacturers and fast food chains;television is the primary medium used by the campaigns. Katharine A. Coon, MS; Jeanne Goldberg, PhD, RD; Beatrice L. Rogers, PhD; and Katherine L. Tucker, PhD explains how television influences obesity in America. television is a big part of our culture and has a huge influence on what we eat. Children are their main…

It was already almost noon and ridiculously hot, the way it only is in august, in that strange in-between space before the end of summer break. Lisa counted the ridges of the sidewalk that blurred past underneath the wheels of her skateboard, vaporwave leaking out of berry-pink headphones. She knew the path by heart, and didn't really bother snapping out of her midsummer reverie. Most of her friends were still vacationing somewhere, but at least that gave Lisa the time to fly through the suburbs…

racism, sexism and homophobia and harassment, name calling and gender stereotyping. An example of racism and harassment from the film comes in the scene where Coach Boones house gets damaged by a brick thrown by a passer-by as they call out “Coach Coon”. This direct discrimination can also be related back to the ‘ego-defence’ mechanism wherein a real or perceived threat causes feelings of anxiety (moral anxiety – fear of violating societal codes) and in order to reduce these negative emotions,…

American Deceptions and Reflections: An Analysis of the Sociopolitical Stakes of Oscar Micheaux 's “Within Our Gates” “If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.” ― Junot Díaz For many Americans, ideas of what constitutes Blackness are heavily influenced by media portrayals of African Americans; yet, these popular representations of Black Americans and their culture often highlight dated stereotypical images. As a result,…

Two-time Academy Award nominee, Jeff Cronenweth has been perfecting modern realistic cinematography for years. His last few films such as The Social Network (2010) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), have taken place in modern times and the cinematography in them further the audience's belief that the films take place in present time. Cronenweth, alongside frequent collaborator, David Fincher teamed up to bring forth another modern film with a deep interpersonal, psychological, thriller…

African Americans under the Lenses of Racist Ideology In the history of humanity, African Americans have always been under the pressure and oppression of the common ideology that crates racism towards Africans Americans. For many years, many African American have been violently beaten, raped and tortured with no one to question or suppress these violent actions taken against Africans Americans whether in reality or in the entertainment industry. Louis Althusser is a French- Algerian Marxist…

They say it is not our difference that divide use, yet our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences (Audre, Lorde). Many believe racism to be a thing of the past; an epidemic that died after the civil rights movement, or the equal rights act. The sad truth reveals that African Americans continue to fight the struggle for freedom, racial segregation, and deceitful stereotypes as they did before. In the poem Skittles for Trayvon: A diminishing Suite in Verse, For Trayvon…

During the first decades of the 20th century the United States had been seen as a racist state. Racism is defined as prejudice and discrimination directed against someone of a different race based on one’s belief (Webster). Racism during the years of 1900-1930 was very crucial. Laws were developed to try to limit the racism but Whites still found a way to treat others as if they were beneath them. Racism usually existed in the inner cities and that’s where racism reached a high peak. One group…