...The Devil In The Blue Dress by Walter Mosley, portrays the societal and racial hierarchy in post-World War II Crenshaw, California. Throughout the novel, readers are shown the dynamic relationship between the black male and the white male by the characterization and experiences of Ezekiel Rawlins. This dynamic racial relationship is both parasitic, mutualistic, and commensalistic -ultimately defining it to be an interestingly blurred and fluctuating concept. The relationship is demonstrated through Easy’s mutualistic job as a private investigator, his parasitic interaction with the police, and his commensalistic relationship with Daphne. Easy is an example of the African-American who traveled from the South during the Great Migration. His...
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...I could image being friends with a character such as mouse from The Devil in a Blue Dress but I see why other couldn’t because of his crazy and quick to kill ways. Mouse is type of person there is no shades of grey with him. To others Mouse may be very unpredictable and dangerous person. Whenever I get myself in a sticky situation where I needed someone to look over my back it would be mouse. I can see myself hanging with Mouse but from a distance. Mouse is very loyal to those, he considers friends this proven when Easy called mouse’s wife and Mouse suddenly pop up to save Easy from Frank Green. That why I need a friend like Mouse because he will fight with the end with me. Mouse knows the true definition of being the real friends there is no black and white with him. When he heard that Joppy kilt corethea he instantly shot at Joppy attempting to kill him. He probably would have killed joppy then until Easy told him how much they could be getting paid. Mouse listens clearly when there money involved....
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...I GO OUT OF MY WAY MY WAY TO SEE YOU I GOT OUT OF MY WAY TO PLEASE YOU I AINT PLAYIN NO GAMES I NEED YOU. HOPE YOU KNOW I NEED YOU. YEA BABY, I GET UP OFF MY KNEES TO, YEA BABY, THE VEINS IN MY ARMS IS DEAD SO I HAD TO SHOOT UP IN MY CALFS INSTEAD THAT’S WHAT YOU GOT TO DO TO GET A FIX MY PARTNER AINT GOT NO VIENS THIS NINJA IS SHOOTIN IN HIS DICK, ANYBODY GOT A SHOP IM SELLIN FOOD STAMPS LAST NIGHT I BROKE INTO A CAR I GOT A COOL AMP I LIKEM Y LLIVING DARK WHO GOT A NEW LAMP? TRYING TO GET MY BAG ON THAT BLUE STAMP MEET THE LADIES ALL MY DUDES STRESS THE DEVIL DOES NOT WEAR PRADA THE DEVIL IS IN A BLUE DRESS I DO NOT BELIVIE IN CAN NOT ALMOST OR MAYBE LAST NIGHT I SAW THE DEVIL SITTINGIN IN MY ROOM AND WE GREETED WITH A SMILE SAID THAT HE BEEN THERE FOR AWHILE LAST NIGHT I HEARD THE DEVIL TALKING IN MY HEAD HE SAID IT IS AN EMERGENCY HE SAID HE HAD SOME WORDS FOR ME HE SAID WHAT ARE YOU DOING THIS MUSIC FOR MONEY HOES CLOTHES YEA THAT IS ALL A NINJA KNOWS CAR ON THE ROOM BITCH MARBLE ON THE FLOOR ONE HUNDRED JOINTS YEA THAT IT IS ALL A NINJA KNOWS TELL THE TROOP YOU KNOW I GET IT BITCH AND ALL THESE NINJAS...
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...help, and I didn’t understand most of it until now. Now that I look back I realize that those people wasn’t normal. They was dead. Now since you know my story, I’m going to tell you about the one experience that changed my life. It was Halloween. One of the nights I see the dead the most. I sat writing in my journal about the children that have went missing in Ohio. I looked outside and saw the moon. It was surprisingly big tonight. I looked at my clock. It was midnight. I decided I should go to bed now. As I got up I heard a noise in my closet. “It’s just another one of those encounters”, I said to myself. I opened my closet door and saw a young girl. Her red hair in pigtails with two blue bows tied at the top. The bows matched her blue dress. She had frilly socks with dress shoes on and she smiled it me. It was at that moment her appearance changed. She was soaked like she had went swimming in her clothes or got caught out in the rain. Tears ran down her face. One of her pigtails was undone and a bow was missing, along with one of her shoes. She mouthed “help me” then disappeared. Maybe it was a child that drowned. I opened my laptop up and went to google. “Girl drowns in Ohio” I typed hoping that would be enough to find out more information about her. One link pops up, I click it and skim through the page. “Local girl, Elise Calico, age 7, disappears from party in 1990. No witnesses report seeing her leave the area. Rescue crew searched a nearby lake hoping to...
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...Art Timeline XXXXXXXX Axia College of University of Phoenix Introduction to Art ART 101 Introduction Breaking free of the naturalism of Impressionism in the late 1880s, a group of painters sought independent artistic styles for expressing emotions rather than simply expressing visual impressions, concentrating on symbolic meaning. The term Post-Impressionism was coined by the English art critic Roger Fry for the work of such late nineteenth century painters as Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others (The Art Industri Group, 2002). Although often consciously at odds with one another and quite different in style, these artists are grouped under this common label that propelled art into the modern era. Rejecting the limitations of Impressionism and its strict and rigid beliefs, Post-Impressionism artists abandoned traditional subject matter and defined form with short brush strokes of broken color, thick, dark outlines, and simplified colors. In this timeline of Post-Impressionism oil paintings, the artwork exhibited will show the early stages of this French movement in early modernism, and the different techniques and uses of shape, color, outline, and form these artists incorporated to convey symbolic meaning and personal emotion. [pic] Fig. 1 1879 Apples, Peaches, Pears, and Grapes Paul Cézanne Oil on canvas Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia Apples, Peaches...
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... Abstract When referring to an organizations culture, one might automatically think about its people and where they come from. Fortunately for me my organization is much more than just the people who work in my building. The Marine Corps was born on November 10, 1775 has been full of observable culture from its inception. Although stocked full of different cultures and traditions that have been ever present for the last 229 years of existence. Throughout this paper, the dress and language, technology along with some of the artifacts, symbols and stories associated with the Marine Corps will be addressed. Dress and Language One of the most noticeable examples of dress for the Marine Corps is our service and dress uniforms. It isn’t very often that you encounter someone who hasn’t seen or at least doesn’t know about how striking a Marine in the Dress Blue uniform is. Fortunately for us, we have the most awe-inspiring uniform of all the armed services. Since the Dress Blue uniform is one of our most recognizable uniforms, it is reserved for only special occasions. It is worn for public relations types of events such as the annual Toys for Tots campaign. It is also worn during the rendering of funeral honors for deceased veterans. Another reason for wear is our annual birthday celebration. The guidelines that exist for this uniform compare it to being appropriate to wear at any gathering where the civilian equivalent is considered formal. ...
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...Scream Queens: Not Your Average Scare Scream Queens is a new series that has just started airing on Fox; in a nutshell it is a new genre called Horror Comedy that takes place on an “everyday” college campus. Seemingly out of the blue a masked “Red Devil” begins targeting what is thought to be the “IT” sorority, Kappa Kappa Tau. The audience wants to know if it’s by random or grand design. The big question remains throughout the show, is the Red Devil someone who is just plain evil, or a reminder of the past of Kappa Kappa Tau? Like most “whodunit” shows, it keeps viewers guessing, every episode has the audience questioning a different character each week. Although it may seem like a typical mystery show it should not be overlooked, everything...
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...1920s Fashion: Style in The Jazz Age 1920s fashion was the perfect blend between style and function. Beautiful clothes that allowed women to move. Even 90 years after The Roaring Twenties ended, almost everyone still recognizes the style: * Cloche Hats * Flapper Dresses * Famous Fashion Designers * Elegant Art Deco Inspired Evening Wear * High Heeled Shoes * Simple Costume & More Complex Jewelry * Men's Fashion (suits and sportswear) * Art Deco Fashion Louise Brooks Wearing the Top Fashion of the 1920s History of 1920s Fashion Fashion is shaped and influenced by the society and events which surround it. Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. -Coco Chanel 1920s fashion is still famous because it was a huge shift from the previous era. Society changed quickly after World War 1: customs, technology, manufacturing all rocketed into the 20th century. Society was speeding up, airplanes were taking people across the country in a matter of hours rather than a matter of weeks, automobiles could travel between several states in an evening. Young Women Dressed in Typical '20s Fashion 1920s fashion reflects society's rapid movement and change. No longer were women willing to trade their mobility for the old stodgy customs of the Victorian era. Old-fashioned torture devices like the corset and the crinoline no longer served a purpose for...
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...containing Arnold’s secret numbers reads, “‘Now these numbers are a secret code, honey,’ Arnold Friend explained. He read off the numbers 33, 19, 17, and raised his eyebrows at her to see what she thought of that, but she didn’t think much of it” (Oates). Hurley also argues “the secret code derives from the nineteenth chapters of Judges and Genesis.” Judges 19:17 reads “When he looked and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, ‘Where are you going? Where did you come from?’” According to Hurley this provides both “the title for Oates story and the following analog to its plot, ‘Judges 19 concerns a man of the tribe of Levi who searches out and returns home with his concubine. Similarly, Connie has been the concubine of the devil (Arnold) in Oates story, and he searches for her to embark on a journey’” (Hurley...
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...Twirling a flag can be fun. You have to get dramatic with it. You have to be graceful with it and a little wild with hair flowing. First there’s tryouts. Tryouts start off as a clinic, which shows us the basic. We learn how to do carve, blue devil, sunshine, windmill, spin drops, speed drop, and how to jazz walk and run. I felt so lost when learning the jazz walk and run. It feels like we were running as ducks. A carve, blue devil, windmill, and spin drop were easy to learn. A windmill when you sweep the flag by your foot and drop it behind your back and come back up with. A spin drop when down on odds and up on even but you’re going in a circle. A carve is when you make two circles then a bottom circle. I couldn't get the sunshine for nothing. The sunshine start of like a windmill but you drop it behind your back grab it with your left hand. For some reason it was difficult. I started to get discouraged. I knew I couldn't give up. It's the day of tryouts. I'm nervous, palm sweating, and confidence was below zero. We went in groups of fours. My Best friend was in my groups and this was here second year on flag line. That wasn't fair. The doors open and my heart start pounding fast. We started off with the basics. I messed up on the blue devil because my thumb wasn't in the correct position. Coach Riley cue the music and rolling in the deep b Adele start to play. I'm smile the entire time even when I messed up. I swear to God I didn't make it. Coach Riley came out with the results...
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...Award nomination for best supporting actor. Two years later he won the Oscar for best supporting actor for his performance as a freed slave fighting in the Union army in the American Civil War film Glory (1989). 93444.jpg Denzel Washington in Malcolm X (1992). David Lee—Warner Bros/The Kobal Collection Washington’s skill as an actor and his popular appeal as a leading man were firmly established in the 1990s. He gave memorable performances in the romantic comedy Mississippi Masala (1991), the Shakespearean comedy Much Ado About Nothing (1993), the courtroom drama Philadelphia (1993), the hard-boiled mystery Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), and the military thriller Crimson Tide (1995). The latter was the first of several popular movies he made with director Tony Scott. During this time he also frequently worked with director Spike Lee, starring in Mo’ Better Blues (1990), He Got Game (1998), and most significantly Malcolm X (1992). Portraying the civil rights activist Malcolm X, Washington gave a complex...
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...up in a green handkerchief, but the grandmother had on a navy blue straw sailor hat with a bunch of white violets on the brim and a navy blue dress with a small white dot in the print. Her collars and cuffs were white organdy trimmed with lace and at her neckline she had pinned a purple spray of cloth violets containing a sachet. In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once she was once a lady.(O’Connor 138) In that quote she mentions the grandmother possibly going through an accident leading to her and the family’s death at the end of the story. The readers do not expect the ending to come. When reading “A Good Man is Hard to Find” for the first time, the previous quote does not exactly give the ending away. Once re-read, the reader could piece together the hints O’Connor hid in her writing. O’Connor added very clear hints in her story, implying the true ending of the story. In the previous quote, it gives a hint of the grandmother lying dead on the side of the highway. O’Connor also mentions in the story a passing of a graveyard, also hinting toward death. In Short Stories for Students, Kathleen Wilson states, “In the first paragraph of the story, O’Connor introduces the Misfit, the murderer who eventually kills the family. Similarly, as the family prepares to embark on their vacation, the Grandmother plans her outfit with an eye toward tragedy. Dressed in a polka-dot dress trimmed with organdy and decorated by a spray of violets, ‘anyone...
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...Throughout the book, there have been many examples of this theme when Mariatu was living in the refugee camp and also when Mariatu was living in Canada. Mariatu is shaped by her society because when she was young she started farming with her best friend, Mariatu, and how Mariatu would spend her nights by dancing and would dress as the devil during a performance for the entire village, “We spent our nights dancing to the sound of drums and to people singing… the entire village met to watch as people put on performances. When it was my turn to participate, I’d play as the devil, dressed up in a fancy red and black costume.” (Kamara and McClelland 15). Clearly, Mariatu remembers her childhood and her village and how she was influenced by it. Mariatu shows many traits she has learned from her village such as her dream of palm oil, “Whenever you dream of palm oil, my grandmother had told me when I was seven, blood will spill by the end of the day,” (Kamara and McClelland 25). As seen this has stuck to Mariatu throughout her entire childhood and also her adulthood. Mariatu’s dream of palm oil is very important because this is what leads to the climax of the story. Mariatu Kamara has gone through...
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...The winding stairs made travel harder as I used one hand to gather my dress that was trailing on the floor. The other hand I kept on the gray, wet stone and tried to make sure I didn't trip. Something was wrong. I could taste it in the bitter taste in my mouth and feel it with all my heart. I shook my head to clear the thoughts that began to pollute it, I just had to get down the damn stairs. I cursed as I literally tripped and fell into the wall, but continued on, undeterred and more determined to make it to the bottom. Usually, I was happy with the distance I had between my mom and my haven, but as I raced down the stairs, I was more than anxious to find out why my six...
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...Halloween: Harmless or Haram? An Islamic Perspective Every year, on the evening of October 31st, millions of children across North America paint their faces, dress up in costumes, and go door to door collecting treats. The adults often decorate their houses with ghostly figures, carve scary faces on pumpkins, and put candles in them to create “Jack-O-Lanterns.” Unfortunately, among the millions of North Americans indulging in this custom, many are also Muslims. This article will shed some light on the significance and origins of Hallow’een, and why Muslims should not participate in it. Origins of the Hallow’een Festival The ancient Celtic (Irish/Scottish/Welsh) festival called Samhain is considered by most historians and scholars to be the predecessor of what is now Hallow’een. Samhain was the New Year’s day of the pagan Celts. It was also the Day of the Dead, a time when it was believed that the souls of those who had died during the year were allowed access into the “land of the dead”. Many traditional beliefs and customs associated with Samhain continue to be practiced today on the 31st of October. Most notable of these customs are the practice of leaving offerings of food and drink (now candy) to masked and costumed revelers, and the lighting of bonfires. Elements of this festival were incorporated into the Christian festival of All Hallow’s Eve, or Hallow-Even, the night preceding All Saint’s (Hallows’) Day. It is the glossing of the name Hallow- Even...
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