Breaking Down Constructs: The Path from Resistance to Reconciliation What is the purpose of a border? Is it more than a line that separates two things? In an interview‚ American-Canadian author Thomas King explains how “borders are these very artificial and subjective barriers that we throw up around our lives in all sort of ways. National borders are just indicative of the kinds of borders we build around ourselves” (qtd. In Andrews‚ 172). His short story Borders documents the journey of a Blackfoot
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There are so many avenues for kids to take. Peer pressure is tough! Friends can take their vulnerable friends down the wrong path. No doubt about it. Life on the street is full of distractions. Many kids on the street do not have the love at home and when that happens‚ they look in the wrong places. Three boys‚ without fathers‚ working mothers‚ living in the hood of Newark New Jersey faced these very issues. Drugs‚ gangs‚ and prison were a reality for their friends. They flirted with this type
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have an abortion just because your child was going to be born with Down syndrome? Patricia Bauer didn’t; she raised her daughter with Down syndrome because she felt that is was the right thing to do. Down syndrome children should be treated like the equals they are‚ not like some sort of alien. In the very beginning of Bauer’s article she is simply explaining the abortion rate these days‚ and how it is mostly children with down syndrome that get their life terminated. She is able to write this
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November through December in 1928‚ Erich Maria Remarque published a novel in the German Newspaper. The novel was soon published a year later as a huge success in 1929 in book form. The novel was titled All Quiet on the Western Front. Remarque published this novel to show of a generation of men who‚ “even though they may have escaped its shells‚ were destroyed by the war." This novel discusses the struggles young men had to go through during the time of war. Although they were still very young
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All Quiet on the Western Front In the novel ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ by Erich Maria Remarque‚ the main character Paul Bäumer’s development shows the horrors of the First World War and the effect it had on the young men who fought in it. Paul Bäumer is the main character whom is nineteen years old‚ Bäumer volunteered for the army along side four of his classmates. Some parts in the novel is written in past tense when Paul Bäumer is collecting his thoughts. Most of the novel is written
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starting point meaning how their adventure begins‚ a midpoint which means what happened while they are on their adventure‚ and an ending point which means their return and how they view themselves now. Luite portrays these characteristics in the book The Street by: Ann Petry‚ Luite tries to help people before she helps herself‚ she meets a new man who she thinks things will get better with‚ but after everything that Lutie had been through things don’t really get better. Over the course of the story Lutie
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The Quiet Beauty of a Hunter’s Lair For my visual description‚ I chose to write about a photograph captured by Jason Vaughn‚ The Quiet Beauty of a Hunter’s Lair. The picture is part of a series called Hide. The picture was taken in Columbus‚ Wisconsin in the year 2013. Photographs from Hide were placed in the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Wisconsin Triennial and the State of the Art exhibition at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. The photo‚ which is twenty-four inches high by thirty
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and gravel for miles on empty country roads only to come to this place. They had returned to Attica. They came in on a road so covered in grit that their passage was marked by two long gray stripes torn through the sandy dust. The truck rolled down Main Street Attica with a speed born of the confidence that traffic was a thing of the past. At the edge of town‚ past an abandoned public swimming pool‚ where the houses started to thin out‚ were the towering walls of Attica Correctional Facility. It looked
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The House on Mango Street Plot: Esperanza was happy to live in a house of her own‚ but it wasn’t at all she expected it to be. She wanted to leave the house on Mango Street immediately. Esperanza makes one new friend‚ Cathy. Cathy is only Esperanza’s friend until next Tuesday‚ by then Cathy will move since the neighborhood is too awful. After Cathy leaves‚ Esperanza makes two new friends Rachel and Lucy‚ who are sisters. Throughout the story‚ it shows how Rachel and Lucy’s friendship grows with
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In a time period filled with war and conflict‚ the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a difficult read due to the heavy topic it pertains to. The story begins with Paul Bӓumer and his friends from school joining the army. They joined because they thought war would be honorable thanks to Kantorek‚ their teacher. After their ten weeks of training and their first two weeks of being on the front lines‚ only eighty of the one hundred fifty men return. Paul’s friend‚ Franz
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