Trailer trash

That idea of white trash is prevalent in the south, and it’s possible her family was the definition of it. Parents that married straight out of high school for the mother to escape an abusive family. A family with a father that openly cheated on their mother, and a mother who stayed at home, running a beauty shop from their basement, whose reactions to her husband's actions were the talk of the small Baptist church. Growing up on a street of only the Call and Baldwin family, she was surrounded…

Natural born Killers shows us to see the other side of the coin. Our humanness, and what is naturalized in killing, is more human than natural. To be human is to step apart and outside nature. We, humans, distinguish ourselves as more than nature. Somehow more conscious or self-aware in such a way that we can reject our basic foundations of our own absurdity. We are not God’s gift to earth – we are natural born killers. Our humanness is not unlike I Love Lucy radically fabricated. Every crevice…

Marital Histories My father’s parents were never married. My grandmother had several children with several different men and my grandfather raised them as his own. My mother’s parents were only married the one time and they were married about fifty years. My parents have also only been married the one time, they do not agree with anyone getting divorced, no matter how far the couple grows apart. My sister has actually been married and divorced and is now engaged to a racist man that I have…

2. Experimentation and Testing The second example of human speciesism toward nonhuman species is with experimentation and testing for products and scientific research. There are lists of companies that test mice, rats, rabbits and dogs for cosmetics and other cleaning items. Scientists research on nonhuman animals to study disease and test new treatments and operations. We are discriminating other species when we mutilate their bodies for profit because we would not experiment and test on other…

family status; she did not want Scout to pick up ideas from Walter because he was a lower class citizen. “ ‘But I want to play with Walter, Aunty, why can’t I?’ She took off her glasses and stared at me. ‘I’ll tell you why,’ she said. ‘Because— he—is—trash, that’s why you can’t play with him. I’ll not have you around him, picking up his habits and learning Lord-knows-what. You’re enough of a problem to your father as it is.’...” (Lee 227). Social class and status cause separation in modern day…

In the story of the Glass Castle Jeannette encounters countless events that significantly affect her security and well being. No child should ever be forced to find ways, (although clever), to meet their basic needs. Such as, warmth on a cold day, food when there is none, and safety when in danger. Section 1 begins with an incident that profoundly affected Jeannette to the point that she recalls it in detail. It 's my earliest memory. I was three years old…I was standing on a…

It’s weird to think about my life up to this point in time. I’m a 23 year old college student who’s so focused on making it through a 16 credit hour semester on top of working full time that other than current events it’s strange to think back on my life and what all has happened. I grew up in a nice neighborhood on the east side of Sandy, Utah. The house I lived in was large, much like the other homes in the area. But unlike the other homes this house was just a front to hide the very…

consisting of predominantly black families and also found comfort in imitating the rebellious attitudes of the rep groups around such as N.W.A and Public Enemy. Huxley (2000, page 7) quotes Eminem describing his upbringing as “stereotypical, trailer park, white trash upbringing”. His race is a defining factor in his case because he broke the mould by emerging as a white rapper. Eminem wasn’t the only white musician to achieve commercial success in rap music, others include ‘Vanilla Ice’ and…

Liam MacDonald Joseph Campbell The Hero of a Thousand Faces The Hero of a Thousand Faces was one of the most influential book of the 20th century and I have never met someone who has disliked it after reading it. It's true that the book has a huge impact on writing and story-telling, and can be seen used making movies. Famous Directors like George Miller, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Francis Coppola owe their successes to the powerful pattern that Joseph Campbell identifies in the…

with ant bites that looked like measles. Others came with TB. Then they just disappeared again as their migrant parents moved on, chasing the seasons, leaving doctors to wonder what ever happened to the sick children. Twelve men lived crammed into a trailer meant for two. Prostitution was allowed, out of mercy. There had to be some relief. The people, fresh from the rainforests and death squads and endless slums, did not mind it so much. The town was called Immokalee. It means home” (Bragg…