2013 What’s in a Name? The topic in general from the America Now textbook is asking us what do we know about our names‚ what they mean. Our names can suggest family origins‚ religious‚ racial‚ an ethnic identity and social status. What’s in a Name? encompassed many things that many people didn’t actually know about their names and what they mean to have that name or nickname. Like giving a favorite object a name. Most times many people have trouble coming up with appropriate names for a certain object
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The initial reaction of the reader when reading the story of “Yellow Woman and a beauty of the Spirit” a diverse community of the pueblo people who contain an incredible amount of peace and harmony within their community. The amount of the acceptance they are all have towards one another is different from the common culture in which we see today. The story revolved around main points and ideas that’s the author stylizes. The author explains how me and women are equal and at peace with one another
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interview with Susan Brownmiller‚ Maxine Hong Kingston says “talk-story” is “actually an Hawaiian pidgin phrase‚ borrowed street language from her adopted city” (Brownmiller 178). “Talk story” is also a style of learning used by teachers. Hawaiian classrooms are highly diverse; therefore‚ talk story enables the students to speak‚ learn‚ and listen to each other. According to English Language Arts and Content Area Director Shira Hillyer‚ “It is a celebration of children
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My last name is everything to me. It sets me apart from most people in the world‚ and shows that I am part of a strong family. Also‚ my last name illustrates facts about my ancestors‚ where my family originated‚ and even what they have accomplished. If I proposed to the perfect girl and she said "yes‚" but only if she could keep her last name; we would have to have a long chat about this decision. I feel very strongly about the idea that my wife should have my last name‚ but I understand
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Monique Wittig’s works‚ The Lesbian Body (1975) and “One is Not Born a Woman” (1980)‚ might seem similar to Cixous’s‚ in that she engages in a political project designed to create a non-phallogocentric discourse‚ but she turns to “lesbianization” rather than bisexuality. She posits an opposing model to the heterosexual mode of language that transcends the categories of sex and gender‚ and she calls it the “lesbianization of language”. She claims that‚ saying‚ “lesbian is the only concept I know of
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numerous letters dated from ‘about sixty years ago’ all addressed to either ‘My Dear’ or ‘Dearest Alice’‚ immediately we connect this with the recently deceased Alice Drablow. Furthermore they are all signed ‘J’ or ‘Jennet’ who we later learn is the woman in black. This introduces a relationship between the two; what kind however‚ is still unknown. Later we learn how ‘the writer’ is a ‘relative of Mrs Drablow’ and is in a not unusual predicament‚ being ‘unmarried and with child’. Although we do not
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the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America”(5). Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior tells the story of Maxine’s childhood as the first American-born child in her Chinese family. In her transition from her Chinese household to the American culture and world around her‚ Maxine finds it difficult to fit in with both cultures. In Woman Warrior‚ Kingston uses
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Important Symbolism in Young Goodman Brown What’s in a name? Parents often put a great deal of thought into picking out a name for their children in hopes that others view it as a reflection of their uniqueness and a representation of their future aspirations. Authors also put a great deal of thought into their characters’ names and supporting objects to help the reader understand the meaning of their writings. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses duplicity in the characters of Young Goodman Brown and Faith;
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In the except from Maxine Clair’s “Cherry Bomb”‚ the adult narrator relates significant memories from her fifth grade summer. Through the narration of her private box and her cherry bomb‚ Clair is able to capture the youthfulness and innocence of childhood summers.In the beginning of the first paragraph‚ emphasis is put on the immaturity and youth of the fifth grade narrator in her memories. “Life was measured in summers” is a form of generalization that a child who has yet to experience the stressfulness
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October 2012 The Woman Warrior: Slashing Silence With a Steel Pen In her postmodern autobiography‚ Woman Warrior‚ Maxine Hong Kingston narrates her life as a Chinese American struggling to find her identity in a home permeated by ambiguity. As Kingston matures‚ she comes to recognize the destructive nature of silence‚ and is able to articulate the malignant cause and effect relationship silence has on the individual human psyche as well as the well being of others. Kingston begins her autobiography
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