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What is purple and pink and has success written all over her? Well, some might say that it is the very successful CEO of Lime Crime Cosmetics. Her name is Doe Deere and her rise to success was a bit bumpy. Still, she believes that pursuing her dream and never giving up is the key to her success story. The purple and pink haired CEO of Lime Crime Cosmetics was born in Russia. However, she moved to the United States at the age of 17 to pursue her dream. Her early dream was to become a musician.…

Allan Glickman AP Literature and Composition Mrs. Crespo Pd: 4th October 3rd, 2014 Title: The Color of Purple Author: Alice Walker Main Characters: Celie: The main character of the story and the narrator through letters. Her writings to “God” and her sister are viewed from her perspective. She grows up with no education and an abusive father who later takes her babies away from her. She moves out and marries Albert so that her sister, Nettie does not…

Racial and gender discrimination--when one race or sex has more power than the other has made a significant amount of impact on our society, ethics, and law. Alice Walker’s novel, The Color Purple, and Zora Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, both contribute to raising awareness and influencing the movement for black feminists. The Color Purple is about an African American woman named Celie, who survives the vigorous abuse from her father and husband, hoping that one day she will…

the confidence to say no to her. Alice Walker takes two completely different people and shows how even though their situations may not be the same as one is dealing with her eldest daughter and the other an abusive husband both stories capture the journey that each character takes to get to the point of them standing up for themselves which makes the two stories correlate with each other even though the danger of each situation is not the same. Alice Walker beautifully captures the struggles…

Author Alice Walker, American author and feminist; or perhaps better known as a ‘womanist’, portrayed the varying aspects of her own life through the characters she detailed in “Everyday Use”. It can be argued that each character represents a different time in her life. At a young age she was timid and self conscious similar to Maggie, which she then divests as she becomes a confident young woman like Dee. Walker shared an odd, fragmented relationship with her own daughter, almost parallel to…

Cupping Student Debt In this cartoon, Joe Heller illustrates the feelings that every student has in relation to students loans. Heller’s purpose in this cartoon is to draw attention to the enormity and un-manageable amount of debt they acquire over the course of their college career. He uses a combination of wording, design and symbolism in order to effectively empathize with the struggle that every college student experiences, drawing the conclusion that college is too expensive, forcing…

person can perceive their heritage differently. Some people are proud of their heritage while others want to leave it in the past and start over. What’s good for one person may not be good for another even within the same family. In 1973, Alice Walker who is a novelist, short story writer, poet and a political activist, wrote “Everyday Use”. “Everyday Use” is a short story that follows two sisters, Maggie and Dee, who live with their mother in the deep south. Maggie is shy and humble and…

“How much of life is a matter of perspective” (Walker). Alice Walker is a very well- known short story writer, novelist, poetic, second-wave feminist, civil rights activist and children’s book author. One of her most influential novels was the Color Purple, which turned into a motion picture in the early 1980’s. She is the only African American women to win the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Alice Malsenior Walker was the youngest of eight children, born in 1944 to sharecroppers in…

The story “Everyday Use” was published in 1973 and written by African American Womanist, Alice Walker. She is more famously known for her book, “The Color Purple”, but “Everyday Use” is in no way inferior. Throughout her books themes of struggles in black communities and how they affect African American women is a recurring idea. In some sense it is like an autobiography because she has lived through many situations in her books. The author likes to write about the struggles of black women, and…

However, the latter was not happy about the fact that they abandoned the young girl for her so easily. The narrator admired the girl but was certain that the latter felt contempt towards her for becoming the new center of attention from all the men. She despised the fact that men were criticizing the young girl in order to win her heart. When a party was thrown for the departure of the, the two women are able to share a moment with each other. We the witness an…