response to the title of the poem was a fifteen-year-old Latina girl becoming of age. Quinceanera can be compared to Sweet Sixteen or becoming eighteen-years-old all of which represent the transition into adulthood for a young lady. Traditionally a Quinceanera is celebrated among the Latino culture and catholic community. The poem demonstrates tone well using her emotions and feeling toward turning fifteen. This author takes her own experience and puts it into the poem. She describes the time she
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with the feminist scholars on the faculty of my university. As soon as I explained that I wanted to write about Medea came the assumption: of course‚ they said‚ you will be looking at the patriarchy as the issue in her behavior. And when I replied that indeed I was not going to be looking in that direction‚ but rather at Medea herself and at the meaning intrinsic to her acts and her story‚ interest in my work evaporated and they declined to serve on my committee. Though long a feminist myself‚ I
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repurposed materials in order to convey bold personal points. Among these creators were the young female founders of the feminist punk rock movement‚ Riot Grrrl. Radical‚ edgy‚ and angry‚ they were driven by the feeling that feminism had become antiquated and secluded. Their women’s studies professors used language that felt arbitrary to them‚ and they wanted to open the feminist conversation to include their own young life experiences‚ all while taking over what they saw as a male-dominated rock scene
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It has been a known fact for many years‚ and will continue to be one for years to come‚ we as human beings let others influence the way we and our society perceive ourselves and quite possibly our cultural group as a whole. In Richard Wright’s‚ “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow‚” he uses a series of rhetorical devices to introduce the issue of race‚ as well as to show the effect Jim Crow laws had on African Americans. His focus on these devices allows us to see just how powerful others’ ideas and actions
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“The Ball Poem” John Berryman‚ experienced a loss. He writes about the pain associated with that loss and the memories that were connected. John Berryman expresses Symbolism‚ Imagery‚ and Metaphors throughout his poem by telling his story as a child‚ and the significance behind what could be the grief of losing his father. Berryman writes in his poem about depression and sadness. He uses the little boy and the ball to compare to a situation that most of us readers have experienced. The poem isn’t given
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A Man Saying No “What is a rebel? A man who says no.” (Albert Camus‚ The Rebel) Black Boy is more than a mere autobiography‚ dealing with a man during the time of Jim Crow laws. Indeed‚ though the book is generally advertised as such‚ the greater theme here is not of the black man versus the white; it is of Richard’s fight against adversity‚ and the prevalent and constraining attitudes of not just his time‚ or the “White South”‚ but of the attitude of conformity throughout all time. Richard develops
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------------------------------------------------- Example: ------------------------------------------------- Discuss how the theme of ‘childhood’ or ‘war’ is expressed in two of the works you have studied. (You might discuss the theme of childhood in a poem and a novel you have studied this year) 1. Think about important themes that appear in each of the texts that you have studied this year. 2. Consider significant characters and their role in the texts you have
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convey their ideas‚ opinions‚ and express their feelings. Some poems can be understood easily while others seam vague. But whatever they are‚ they all contain some common elements of poetry such as theme‚ figurative language‚ and tone‚ etc. ¡§Constantly risking absurdity and death¡¨ and ¡§betting on the muse¡¨ are two poems which are written by two different poets. By comparing and contrasting these two poems‚ the full beauty of the poems can be greatly appreciated and their theme can be deeply explored
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Madelyn Martinez English Comp II 1302-1005 February 28‚ 2013 “The Story of an Hour” as a Feminist Text The narrator introduces Louise Mallard as a wife with some type of heart problem. Her sister Josephine and Richards take great care when telling her that her husband has died in a train accident. Despite the sad news she receives‚ she is unable to contain her feelings of liberation and is elated with thoughts of a long life free of her spouse. Unfortunately for Mrs. Mallard‚ her husband soon
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In 1990‚ both Eve Sedgwick (Epistemology of the Closet) and Judith Butler (Gender Trouble) made significant contributions to the ever burgeoning field of queer studies with theories about sexuality as performance. Following the central Foucauldian thread in which sexual conduct is but a construct specific to one’s cultural context and a factor of historical and cultural connotations‚ queer theorists proposed gender as a socially and culturally constructed performance. The performance of gender is
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