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    harmful when used irresponsibly because it can inhibit the brain’s functions including: disrupt memory‚ change brain physiology‚ and reduce self-awareness. Hence‚ Toni Morrison incorporates the detrimental consequences of alcoholism into her novel The Bluest Eye to show the destructive capabilities of alcoholism through the actions of her character‚ Cholly. His Aunt Jimmy raised Cholly‚ but unfortunately‚

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    Eye Gaze Communication Boards   [pic] Introduction In many cases individuals are unable to communicate with others directly by using oral language‚ hands‚ or other body parts.  Because of technology and innovation‚ this population now has the option of utilizing an eye gaze communication system in which a person ’s direct stare can provide a particular selection.  With the help of an eye gaze board‚ people whose communication abilities are impaired can still express what they are feeling or

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    Cynthia Ms. Stern AP Language Bluest Eye Passage 28 November 2012 Bluest Eye The passage is an excerpt from The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. The overall purpose of this excerpt is to showcase both Claudia’s and Freida’s innocence as they struggle to comprehend—and fix—the tragedy of the situation Pecola was in. Our astonishment was short-lived‚ for it gave way to a curious kind of defensive shame; we were embarrassed for Pecola‚ hurt for her‚ and finally we just felt sorry for her. Our

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    [REDACTED] 3/19/2013 [REDACTED] Marginalized Society in The Bluest Eye Within any sort of organized group‚ division is inevitable. Throughout history‚ civilizations have felt the need to distinguish between rich and poor‚ Pagans and Christians‚ black and white. Society takes these labels further and uses them to define people‚ as individuals and as smaller subgroups. Through these labels‚ society separates people based on preconceived notions‚ automatically coloring its perception of them

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    French Eyes demonstrate the effect of the male gaze in French oil paintings‚ almost all drawn from the extensive collection from Carnegie Museum of Art and The Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The ten selected works feature one or more female sitters and are painted by male artists from 1870 through 1910. The concept of the gaze in examining visual culture deals with how the audience views the subjects in the presented work‚ in this case‚ oil paintings. There are multiple forms of the gaze that can be

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    internet clips constantly. People are fed images of what "beauty" is supposed to be‚ but this idea of beauty is from the eyes of producers‚ models‚ musicians‚ and actors. It seems to me that only the people who are thought to have beauty are deciding what is beautiful. In Toni Morrison’s book The Bluest Eye there are many instances dealing with the idea of beauty‚ both through the eyes of some young girls and from an older point of view. For example‚ Claudia has a problem with white people who she believes

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    Errick Pope Pope 1 English 1102 Dr. Barker January 23‚ 2013 The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison’s‚ The Bluest Eye is a novel about the events that occurred in America during the 1940s. It is mainly about an African American family‚ the Breedloves‚ and their everyday struggle to cope with the situations they faced during that time. In the 1940s‚ African Americans had to deal with

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    Common Core Research Paper Analysis on The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye is a story that describes the life of a young African American girl named Pecola Breedlove whom was wrapped up in a life of poverty and hardship growing up and made to believe that she was ugly by the early 1940’s American society. Pecola Breedlove was a young girl growing up black and very poor in the early 1940s. During her life she was tormented and teased ugly by almost everyone that was a part of her life or whom she encountered

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    Neurotic Human behavior: a psychoanalytic approach to the Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Abstract: This study is a psychoanalytic approach to the Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. The previous research of psychoanalysis to this novel was always by using Freudian psychology. Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis focuses on determinism that human Nature is not flexible. But he doesn’t emphasize much on one’s self-realization and self growth. Freud was pessimistic and believes that neurosis is present in every

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    Tori Morrison portrays the premature loss of innocence in her novel The Bluest Eye‚ by explaining encounters that little girls are faced with‚ like violence‚ sex‚ and the ideas of beauty. (what is the argument Morrison makes about those ideas?) When one girl loses her innocence it causes a chain reaction that corrupt children’s brains because it creates the feeling of importance and maturity to share your knowledge. The things that they learn can forever affect their personalities and behavior.

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