1) Bruce Reimer, who lost his penis as the result of a botched circumcision in 1996 and was raised by his parents as a girl. As Bruce grew up he knew something was wrong in his life, and he later reclaimed his male identity. Reimer’s story is often cited in nature – versus – nature debates as evidence that people are shaped more by their biology than by their environment.…
Briar Rose is centered around one woman's Holocaust experience and intermixed with the classic fairy-tale, Sleeping Beauty. Yolen's uses of classic fairy-tale elements such as a prince and the curse of a long sleep are used to connect us to the horrors of the death camp Chelmno. The result is a story that is fresh and shocking as it tears away any of the numbness one may feel for another account of a Holocaust survivor. Suddenly the fairy-tale ideas of rescue and evil are invested with modern connotations.…
Discuss this view with detailed reference to your prescribed text and ONE other related text of your own choosing.…
Essential Question: What does a child have to go through to have the courage to live his life for himself?…
"Tupac Shakur could possibly be the most influential and compelling of all rappers" (Dyson 106) Do we really know who Tupac was? The famous phrase, "never judge a book by its cover" applies to Tupac 's own personality and character. A first look at Tupac and you see darkness, you see a violent man with no purpose or direction in his life. Then you look deeper inside him, you step into his shoes and see a kind, caring, but very confused man.…
Discuss the ways in which text you have studied has value to a contemporary society in your response, refer to at least 3 of the following: ideas and themes, characters, language, structure and context.…
In our everyday life we see students doing things like coughing, sneezing, not being clean, or simply not washing their hands. Students do not realize that all these factors can affect their health. There are many ways that we can prevent health problems being passed in the campus caused by eating in the incorrect place.…
Day to day, people attempt to live unconstrained by convention or circumstance. Often the people around us hold us back from thinking and feeling the way we truly do; However, there will come a time when we will need to say what we truly believe. In this story, “The Glass Roses”, the main character, Stephen, is faced with the issue regarding his father, “a real man”. When faced with his father telling him how to live and what to believe.…
The Drowned Rose --------Show how different points of view in the family community are developed in the story and how it affects the reader response.…
Tupac Shakur was a black African American rapper who lived his life with poverty, violence and drugs. Tupac Shakur was born in New York City. His parents had separated before he was born, and his mother moved him and his sister around the country for much of their childhood. Frequently, the family was at the poverty level, but Shakur managed to gain acceptance to the prestigious Baltimore School of the Arts as a teenager. While he was at the school, his creative side flourished, as he began writing raps and acting. All his poetry relies on vivid imagery and violent language to create a very realistic picture of how terrible life can be living in the ghettos of America. Tupac Shakur was a poet, an actor, and the voice of a generation. He was able to make movies and videos, write and record music, and still found time to write remarkable poetry before his untimely death. In one of his poems, “The Rose That Grew from Concrete, Tupac’s theme statement is “people surrounded by trouble and failure can still live and succeed”. This is almost an exact reflection of struggle for success. People who come from broken homes, troubled youth, failed pasts or other tough backgrounds still can succeed and make something beautiful of their life.…
In the short story “A rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, it starts off with the unknown narrator explaining Miss Emily’s funeral and why the townspeople actually attended. From this the reader learns what type of character Miss Emily is. She does not like change and cannot handle denial. Her family’s name and the way she was bought up by her father is the explanation for this. Throughout the story the reader realizes how respected her family was and what lengths Miss Emily is willing to go to keep the man she loves by her side. The allegory in a rose for Emily would be the townspeople and Miss Emily. Miss Emily is stuck in the past and the town treats her as if nothing has changed. Miss Emily being so isolated in her home shows her unwillingness to accept that the South is changing even when the influences of the North are taking over. The new generation with their new ideas tried to change the ways of Miss Emily but failed. When they demanded taxes, she refused to pay, and she won. This is symbolic of Miss Emily’s efforts to keep the South’s culture alive. The conflict in this short story is internal. Miss Emily cannot understand the idea of death. When Miss Emily’s father dies she refuses to believe it. She also suffers a lot when denied because as soon as she thought her boyfriend, Homer Barron, would leave her she bought poison, the arsenic, and he disappeared. She killed him to make sure that he would never leave. The arsenic was a symbol of getting rid of something. It is used to “kill anything up to an elephant” (4) and for Miss Emily is was used to end Homer Barron’s life. Homer Barron is a FOIL character because he is constantly around Miss Emily giving her the impression that he wants to be with her and because of that Miss Emily falls in love with him. Miss Emily is an indirect character because we cannot understand her. For example, she wants to be by herself which is why she is never seen outside her house but she longs for a partner in life and when…
Rodgers helps the readers understand how a story is established as a classical detective story by referencing John Cawelti’s test for establishing whether a text follows the classical detective formula. Rodgers states the three conditions that must be met “1) the story must have a mystery that needs solving; 2) there must be concealed facts that a detective has to explore; and 3) these facts must become clear in the end (132).” (414) By referencing this evidence it is clear to me that A Rose for Emily follows these rules and therefore is declared a detective story.…
William Faulkner strategically uses plot to manipulate time in A Rose for Emily (Faulkner 566-74). The plot is sectioned into five parts. The sections are structured to go from present to past, instead of the more common chronological order. It is this manipulation of time that builds the suspense of the surprise ending.…
The introduction to the lesson says that Faulkner's "great theme was the American South." "A Rose for Emily" is a good example of regionalism. Identify two examples of local color from the story.…
In a Rose for Emily, William Faulkner uses a variety of imagery and flashbacks to show the kind of woman Miss Emily is. The towns’ people all know of her based off their accounts and what they have heard of her home. Miss Emily was created to be an exceptional female figure. Feminists have fought for the right of women to be free from the old social restraints which have been in place for so long. A feminist believes a woman should be strong and independent. In some ways the main character, Emily, is this kind of woman, but for the most part she is portrayed as weak and fragile, though she is not.…