Constantinople is a Miss-stanbul‚ not Constantinople so‚ if you’ve got a date in Constantinople she’ll be waiting in Istanbul.” The ‘50s can be seen as America’s Victorian period where things mattered at face value and everything “scandalous” was kept private. There was a way to go about living and anyone who lived differently than the norm was
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Who am I Without Him? The author of “So I ain’t no Good Girl”‚ Sharon Flake‚ develops the characters in a way I find realistic and original. It is told in a first person view of the main character; although‚ we don’t know her name‚ we know her boyfriend’s name‚ Raheem. He is known for his good looks and muscles. They have been together for two years now‚ but he treats her as though she is nobody. The narrator has an attitude against other girls‚ because Raheem tends to stare. When she finds him
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The Forgiving Bad Girl (Critique on So I Ain’t No Good Girl by Sharon Flake) “So I Ain’t No Good Girl “is a short story from a collection of short stories called “Who Am I without Him”‚ and “So I Ain’t No Good Girl” is about your average bad girl. The Author‚ Sharon Flake‚ writes a story about a girl who thinks she’ll be nobody without her boyfriend‚ Raheem. The narrator in “So I Ain’t No Good Girl” is a girl who thinks of herself only as a bad girl. This specific bad girl obeys her boyfriend
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“Ain’t No Makin’ It” Structure Agency Subculture Cultural Capital Habitus Key Concepts 1. Structure: The relatively permanent components of our social environment. (a) What structural forces might you implicate in explaining why the HHs and Brothers were unable to achieve their American Dreams? 2. Agency: The choices me make -and the consequences of those preferences and actions- implicated in a social world where “free” individuals
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relationship in “So I Ain’t No Good Girl.” The narrator would do anything and everything for her boyfriend. She deals with him looking at other girls and the fights they have as a couple just to keep on being his girlfriend. You could even say she favors boys over her education. Even though Raheem‚ the narrator’s boyfriend‚ is abusive; she still stays with him. Flake provides the narrator’s emotions throughout the whole story. She shows many examples of what the narrator has to put up with in “So I Ain’t
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15 Say It Isn’t So A week passed by in no time and I felt worn out. For the past seven days‚ my mornings and afternoons were consumed with Johaly and wedding stuff. I was sick and tired of talking about flowers‚ dresses‚ jewelry‚ makeup‚ and hairstyles. I didn’t dare tell Johaly that because I told her that I was going to be here for her. If that wasn’t bad enough‚ my nights and early mornings were filled with flashing lights‚ strippers‚ alcohol‚ and clubbing with Shay. Her schedule was jammed packed
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school in Newington Green‚ despite being a woman in patriarchal England (bio.com). All of women’s worst characteristics come from the notion of lacking proper education and learning to value superficial things. In regards to opportunities for women‚ she says: “Business of various kinds they might likewise pursue‚ if they were educated in a more orderly manner‚ which might save many from common and legal prostitution. Women would not then marry for a support‚ as men accept of places under government‚ and
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This Ain’t Chicago is Zandria F. Robinson’s study of the relationship between location and race‚ class‚ and gender. She identifies the regional differences‚ specifically of the African-Americans living in the south and north. The study analytically separates the southern blacks from their fictive kin and whites they correlate with in order to explore the differences in regional identities. The study took place in Memphis because Zandria believes that it “sits at the physical‚ temporal‚ and epistemological
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IFE ANAMONYE ENG 102 PROF CAROLYN “Aint I a Woman” In “Spfourner Truth‚ Ain’t I a woman” talk about the inequality black people face in American. During her time she faces discriminations as a black woman. In her speech she tells people about the way woman that suffers from their own form of discrimination. She said “woman needs to be helped in carriages lifted over ditches‚ and have the best place everywhere” (1-9). She
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I heaved the large and surprisingly heavy box of DVDs and CDs into the back of our 1997 4runner. The strong‚ southern sun beat down through the ancient oak tree’s branches above as we finished packing the car. The day had been slow‚ and I could feel a throbbing soreness in my arms from continuously lifting objects into the moving truck earlier that day. I couldn’t‚ and didn’t want to believe that we would soon be leaving the world I had always known. I glanced back at our ranch and the barn that
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