Rockstar fabric challenge‚ I immediately knew that this was a challenge that I wanted to take part in. As silly as it sounds‚ I kept getting a melody stuck in my head every time I looked at the fabric and it reminds me a little of the Sneakers that I wore when I was little. The 1986 collaboration/revival of Aerosmith’s “Walk this Way” featuring DMC Run‚ inspired this quilt. I wanted the quilt to feel edgy and an almost a graffiti texture but still rock and roll! I use several techniques for the manufacturing
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Brent Staples published “Just Walk on By” in Ms.Magazine during the racially tense time of the 80’s . In this essay‚ he talks about racial tension from his perspective as a young black male facing discrimination during these times. Brent criticizes our society for how common this form of discrimination is and addresses those who perpetuate stereotypes. He goes on to explain the root cause of people abusing intimidation of others‚ describing it as a learned behavior taught from infancy. Brent continues
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Why do people spend time worrying about things in the past‚ when they have so much future ahead of them? In the award winning novel‚ Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech‚ a mysterious note is dropped off on the Winterbottom’s front porch: “In the course of a lifetime‚ what does is matter?” Through this metaphor‚ this message is trying to reveal to people that they should not fret the things in life that won’t matter in a few days‚ months‚ or the course of a lifetime. Even thinking about events that occurred
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Waiting for Godot Absurdism What is absurdism? The belief that human beings exist in a purpose-less‚ chaotic universe. "Absurdity presents humanity "stripped of the accidental circumstances of social position or historical context‚ confronted with basic choices" [Martin Esslin] The history of Absurd Theatre Absurd Theatre emerged during a moment of crisis in the literary and artistic movement of Modernism -which itself began in the closing years of the last century‚ becoming most prominent in
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schools with a very high number of dropouts. Making sure all students receive the best education and excel in school has been a problem for a long time. Presidents after presidents have promised change in the education system and have signed documents in hopes it would make a difference‚ but there has been very minimal change. In the documentary “Waiting for Superman‚” David Guggenheim stresses the importance of improvement of the current education system. He presents the issue by using the three appeals
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THE LONG WALK "The Long Walk" by Stephen King is easily comparable to the book “1984” George Orwell‚ because they both share the value of a constant surveillance of it citizens. The governments of each book control their citizens by constantly watching them‚ occupying them‚ and always reminding them of the consequences of disobeying. The government sees everything‚ if you disobey‚ you will suffer.
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Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space 1. Why does staples characterize the woman he encounters in a paragraph 1 as a “victim”? One of the author’s purpose of characterizing the woman he encounters‚ is to share the reader a personal life experience in order to engage and catch the reader’s attention with this ironic and sarcastic situation. The author uses this type of language to transmit and inform the magnitude of racism at that time and how can affect an individual
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The tragicomedy Waiting for Godot‚ written by the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett‚ is one of the pioneering pieces of literature which were a part of a new genre‚ called Theatre of the Absurd. Upon reading it‚ one can easily infer why this is the case- throughout the 2 acts the play consists of‚ there is virtually no plot. Two vagrants‚ Vladimir and Estragon‚ loitering around a rather vague setting- a country road next to a tree- with only a passer-by every now and then‚ wait for a certain Godot
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Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is a mid 20th century play belonging to the genre of the "Theatre of the Absurd"‚ and focusing on the senselessness of the human condition. The idea of the absurd is a major theme in Waiting for Godot and is embodied in its main characters. Estragon (Gogo) and Vladimir (Didi)‚ taken together‚ represent the universal man facing the world. Beckett uses each character to show the limitations and absurdity of different aspects of human existence. The
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“Waiting For Superman” is a eye-opening documentary of the short comings of the American public school system and the struggles in the lives of the students and their families. Featured are students from across America that have been negatively affected by the public school system. Each of these students and their families have great hardships to overcome yet have a strong will to succeed and a never give up attitude. The parent of these children do not like the way that their children are being
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