...marriage, her husband had turned into a monster. Beatrice carefully tended to the wounds attained on her left cheek the other night. The water boiled over – causing the cooker to be clouded by the salty foam. She waited in the kitchen with its burning stove that was cooking 4 pots at a time - exuding smoke from all four corners of the cooker, and making the Kitchen seem almost surreal. The room all of the sudden seemed quite dark and claustrophobic; Beatrice, unable to handle the humidity reached for the rectangular shaped window. There she perched: with her wavy, blonde locks seeping out of her roots resembling gold dust, her beautiful white smile, and an hourglass figure to rival Marilyn Monroe’s. Catherine’s extreme beauty caught Beatrice’s unwilling attention. Her eyes grew cold and wild all of the sudden as she noticed Eddie’s admiration for Catherine. She got out the colander whilst still staring at both Eddie and Catherine having a conversation through the window. She reached her hand into the cobwebbed cupboard noticing her sleeves imprinted with various markings of the day’s activities as a housewife; Eddie’s housewife. Beatrice quickly rolled up her sleeves abandoning the colander mid-way through the cupboard. Catherine would never have a dirty sleeve; she thought. She suddenly sprang on her feet with the upmost agility, an accomplishment for a woman nearing her fifties. She straightened her flowery dress which now wrinkled with age. She turned around; both Catherine...
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...Paper Invidious comparison is the act of comparing one person to others according to their class, race, sex, or religion. This act can have a negative effect on people who are aware of it. Growing up in California, where the predominant Hispanic races were of Mexican and Central American origin, I was constantly compared to those Hispanic backgrounds. This was frustrating because I am Colombian and the Colombian Culture is very different from the Central American culture. My mind could not understand why people would compare me to them if I am South American. The traditions, food, music, slang, and even accents were different. American non-Hispanic people would call me, among many other things, a “dirty Mexican” or “wet back.” This was extremely frustrating because neither one of my parents hopped the border nor were they dirty. My young mind did not know how that these people were just ignorant so my frustration turned into anger and total repulsion of races of those other backgrounds and countries. A sense of insecurity and even self-hate would overcome me. I did not want to be Hispanic, I wanted to be white, and I wanted to be accepted. My way of seeing things changed in 2006 when the Immigration Equality Movements became popular. Latino activists would speak at events and in a sense give the people a sense of empowerment and hope. Attending these events made me feel proud of my Hispanic heritage and a love for the Hispanic population as a whole started to grow. I embraced...
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...Art and Culture The role women and their influence in the twentieth century started when they were challenged, by men, not allowing women to be included in the art exhibits and therefore the feminist movement had begun. The feminist movement was started with four women artists: Yoko Ono, Adrian Piper, Carolee Schneemann, and Eva Hesse who participated in and prompted the artistic directions. The purpose of the feminist movement was to protest for equal rights, sexism, gender roles, and reproductive rights so women could be allowed in the American art world. In 1971, art historian Linda Nochlin published an essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” In this article she argued with art critics and historians. Nochlin explained how women were being excluded from all art exhibits and collections. Women started protesting by picketing museums and staging demonstrations. In 1972, women started shaping American society by opening their own art galleries all over the world to show their work. They opened feminist art programs at Fresno State College and California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts) in early 1970. By 1974 over 1,000 United States colleges and universities offered women’s studies courses. In 1975, women started creating images of their bodies to proclaim women’s right to control and enjoy their bodies, which was the start of women’s liberation, while other women decided to dress up their painting with embroidery, knitting, quilting, and china paintings...
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...World Religions Report: Islam HUM/130 March 13, 2011 Introduction of the religion Islam is a major world religion, with over 1 billion followers worldwide. Followers of Islam are called Muslims. The origin of Islam can be traced back to 7th century Saudi Arabia. Though Islam is one of the largest and most followed religions in the world, it is the youngest of the many religions. According to Secular History, the prophet Muhammad introduced Islam in 610 A.D. after experiencing what he claimed to be an angelic visitation. Muhammad dictated the Qur’an, the holy book of Islam, which Muslims believe to be the preexistent, perfect words of Allah. Though the origin of Islam is generally accredited to the prophet Muhammad but to the devout Muslim, Islam began long before Muhammad ever walked the earth. The Qur’an was dictated by Muhammad but according to the Qur’an, it did not originate with Muhammad. The Qur’an testifies of itself that it was given by God through the angel Gabriel to the prophet Muhammad. "This is a revelation from the Lord of the universe. The Honest Spirit (Gabriel) came down with it, to reveal it into your heart that you may be one of the warmers, in a perfect Arabic tongue" (Sura 26:192-195). "Say, 'Anyone who opposes Gabriel should know that he has brought down this (the Qur'an) into your heart, in accordance with God's will, confirming previous scriptures, and providing guidance and good news for the believers'" (Sura 2:97). Interview summary ...
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...Nothing ever goes wrong and everyone does what they are told to do. But as a result of all the rules the Capitol has made, it's actually turned the society of District 12 into a dystonia society. A dystopian society is actually the exact opposite. The society is dehumanizing and very unpleasant. District 12 is non wealthy , dirty and everyone is living in poverty. None of the citizens are happy living there. They only stay there cause the Capitol won't let then leave , those who do try to leave will only get taken by the Capitol and will never been seen again. Katniss says “I've never been on a train, as travel between the district is forbidden…” (Collins, 2008, p.41). By the people of District 12 never leaving they show the people of the districts that they have nowhere to go and they will have to follow the rules if the Capitol forever. The society of District 12 is horrible and very unpleasant, the people have no power and they are forced to listen to the totalitarian government. The Hunger Games, reaping and tesserae are all just a horrible reminder to the people of Panem that the Capitol has all the control. The people of all 12 Districts have no power at all. They don't get to make any decisions to help their districts, even with the decisions that are made they don't help any of the district it only help the Capitol. The Capitol turned Panem into an unpleasant place. Everyone is scared of the Capitol but no one will stand up to the Capitol so they are faced to live with...
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...Jenny Jones 3-3-09 English 101 B Talking Dirty to My God! My paper will be on 2 different poems and there from the book “Talking Dirty to the Gods”. The first poem is called Silkworm and the second poem is called Janus. Both the poems focus on the culture, beauty of life and history. My paper will in tell about the art of poetry and the art of how to tell a story inside of a story. When slaves were to tell stories, they couldn’t write down there dreams or there life and what they went through, so they were to say it in a story form. So they, meaning the kids would never forget there heritage. Therefore, when they became slaves they would sing songs and they would also make other things to remember there past to show there future. The first poem I chose was Silkworm on page.53 when reading the poem it made me think about love and how it was taken away from a lot of African Americans. In the first line it says “they made a fancy catch for a nightgown out of me”. When I first read this poem I, at first didn’t understand what the book was insinuating, but after reading that line about three times it made me think about the slaves and there body being taken advantage of and body being sold as if we were animals to be bought and used for pleasure. To look at this in a different way would be, were you are made to be someone else’s toy and to also not have a real purpose...
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...Muckraking, from its beginning in the Progressive era, up until now has been a way of ‘beast-slaying, exposing the dirty underbelly of the gargantuan corporate and political monsters that have plagued our country. Muckraking presents their secrets to the general public. It has, more often than not, been the catalyst for great change in legislation. And the battle hasn’t necessarily always been publishing investigative articles in newspapers. Photographs, fictional covers for extremely truthful situations, television, and social media have all been used as tools to publish findings. This powerful tradition continues today. These unconventional ‘weapons’ are extremely compelling and effective in spreading the knowledge of issues, thereby putting more power into influencing changes in both private and government policies. A major problem in the United States during the early 20th Century was the issue of Child Labor. Children were being put to work instead of being educated....
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...Student Publications Student Scholarship Spring 2013 Oppression, Sexual Violence and Their Effects on Native American Women Isabella J. Baxter '15 Gettysburg College, baxtis01@gettysburg.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship Part of the Native American Studies Commons, and the Women's Studies Commons Baxter, Isabella J. '15, "Oppression, Sexual Violence and Their Effects on Native American Women" (2013). Student Publications. Paper 87. http://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/87 This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution. Cupola permanent link: http://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/ 87 This open access student research paper is brought to you by The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College. It has been accepted for inclusion by an authorized administrator of The Cupola. For more information, please contact cupola@gettysburg.edu. Oppression, Sexual Violence and Their Effects on Native American Women Keywords Native American Women, Sexual Violence, Oppression, Colonization, White Feminism Abstract This paper is a response to the chapter “Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide” in Andrea Smith’s book Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide. Smith argues that U.S. colonial culture strategically uses sexual violence against...
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...Zombie Outbreak in Literature Looking at literature, there are so many different genres and subgenres. When writing is involved, there are hundreds of possibilities and potentials to make an amazing piece that’ll be loved, hated, and talked about for years to come. There is a certain genre that has come into higher and higher power, that’s almost as well renowned as romance or adventure would be the horror genre. In horror there are so many amazing authors, capable of causing the reader to feel such intense emotions through just their writing. But unlike romance or adventure, these emotions are more so fear, anxiety, or paranoia. They write books or poems that leave people checking their closets, plugging in a nightlight, and hiding underneath their blankets to go to sleep at night. Some of the most amazing authors include H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Edgar Allen Poe, Dean Koontz, and Peter Straub. All of them having different writing styles and stories, yet their pieces all yield the same results. Just like all the other genres, horror can also be broken down into different subgenres. This includes types like psychological horror, which leaves the reader questioning everyone’s sanity, even their own. There’s gothic, involving a mixture of psychological terror in romantic settings, including mysteries, ghosts, castles, decay, madness, hereditary curses, and death. Also on this list of subgenres is supernatural, the main cause of people seeing things out of the corner of their...
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...People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have continued these traditional fights as well as adding new agendas. "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; The Declaration of Independence holds these rights to be self evident and unalienable. In the eighteenth century when these words were written they were called natural rights, today we call them human rights" (McShea, 34). The issue of whether or not to grant animals rights such as those humans retain, is a greatly disputed issue. Animal right is an extremely intricate issue that involves the question of animal farming, animal experimentation, and animal activists. There are not many happy farmers milking their cows on the farm anymore; this is the food industry; it is dirty; it is unsafe, and it is a massacre of innocent animals. Cows, chickens, pigs, and other animals processed into food are not kept on a farm; they are crowded into pens and cages that are too small to even allow the animal to turn around (Krizmanic, 36). So if the animals are not growing up on farms, where are they? Animals are raised at places called "factory farms" (Krizmanic, 36), which is also known as intensive animal agriculture (Kamrin NA). A factory farm is just that, a factory. Food is brought to the confined animal on conveyer belts, and eggs and other products are taken away on conveyer belts (Krizmanic, 36). "Crowding, rough...
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...Dr. Shouleh Vatanabadi Middle Eastern Cultures 11 December 2013 Marriage and Sexuality in Midaq Alley Naguib Mahfouz’s Midaq Alley, set in Cairo during the late years of World War II, was revolutionary and avant-garde not only structurally in the sense that it came to define a paradigm for the modern Arab novel, but also culturally given that it openly addresses issues of marriage and sexuality in Egyptian society. Through relationships between male and female characters, Mahfouz heavily criticizes traditional societal views on the role of women and homosexuality. The characters Salim Alwan and Kirsha are male archetypes whose violent dysfunctional relationships with their wives serve to criticize the greater societal issue of subjugation of women. Meanwhile, Hamida’s various engagements with Abbas, then Salim Alwan, then Ibrahim Faraj, reveal attitudes of extreme disrespect toward women and even unequal treatment for women before the law. Finally, though difficult to sympathize with, Kirsha nonetheless draws the reader’s pity as he is victimized by an anti-homosexual society that prevents him and his family from living fulfilled lives. Kirsha and Salim’s domineering treatment of their wives sheds light on the plight of married women in Egyptian society. Throughout the novel marriage is presented as an emotionless contract rather than a loving mutual relationship. The blunt causal structure of Kirsha’s reasoning in the statement, “I am a man. I am free.” implies...
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...Rethinking the Regional Novel In the previous chapters, I have discussed the polemics of the regional novel during the course of its evolution as a special category. An attempt was made there to trace their development in the British, Indian, and Telugu literary traditions. The British regional novel is a different phenomenon from that of the regional novel in India. Yet, there have been some important continuities in the genre. Preoccupations with landscape as also with identity conflicts have continued as distinctive components of the regional novel. As the introduction discusses, such developments are partly products of the socioeconomic milieu of the writers. In this concluding section, I return to that assertion and draw together some observations, discussions and arguments to offer my views on what might actually have gone into the making of the regional novel. Firstly, I review the major queries regarding the nature of the "region" and the "regional novel" that have cropped up during the course of the thesis and consider how they might be explained. "There is no universally accepted definition of the region," observes Norton Ginsberg, (qtd. in Cohn 101) The study comes out with the hypothesis that the "region" cannot be given one particular identity and definition. When we come across labels like Regional College of Education, Regional Engineering College, etc, we are bound to associate the region with something local and inferior as opposed to the National and the...
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...A tattoo is a form of a body modification made by inserting special needles with indelible ink into the dermis layer of skin to change the pigment. Tattoos are known from the ancient times. The original meaning of tattoo were the ritual rites. In many cultures the only people who could wear tattoos were the Chiefs of the tribes. Only someone who killed an enemy and got his tattooed head could wear tattoos. The most popular way of tattooing that time was the facial tattooing called “Moko” which is still being used nowadays. ‘Moko’ facial tattoo History of tattooing The earliest record of tattoos was found in 1991 on the frozen remains of Ötzi the “Iceman” who was dated from the 4th to 5th millennium BC. His lower back, left wrist, right and left ankle, behind his left knee and foot were worked with several dots and lines, made by “rubbing powdered charcoal into vertical cuts”. These tattoos are thought to be made to reduce the pain, because their placement resembles acupuncture. Ötzi, the “Iceman”, 1991. Egypt was another place with a long large number of mummies found covered with tattoos – at first lines and dots, later images representing different gods. As much as Egyptians were expanding their empire, the art of tattooing spread as well to other civilizations like: Crete, Greece, Persia, Arabia, and finally around 2000 BC it spread to China. It is believed that Greeks were using tattoos for communication between spies, Romans marked criminals...
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...F~r~: Wo(d~ 01 ~ Sy~1rY~ 2o1o~) Karma Bi~ Kiislzwaii f Sin gli, 1950 Kushwant Singh (1915 -) An important Indo-Anglican novelist. Singh published his first volume of short fiction in 1950, three years after India’s independence. Almost ali of the stones deal with rural and urban Indian life with its many contrasts: tradition Vs. modern ideas; India vs. (post)colonial Britain and religion VS. secularism. Singh is best known for his humorous way of giving a political commentary to the social and behavioral characteristics of Westerners and Indians. Also, he has translated Sikh religious texts and Urdu poetry. Pre-reading 1. Match word and definition: secularism sb verds lighed oxide sb oxyd (kemisk stof) ~rans’lucent ad] gen nemsigtig patronage sb riedla denhed in’different ad] ligegyl dig, ligeglad murmur vb mumle old chap ‘gamle jas’ dis’tinguished adi distingveret, elegant trimmed ad] klippet Savile Row sb berømt skræddergade i Lon don car’nation sb nellike scented ad] parfumeret smoothe vb glatte Balliol sb berømt col lege i Oxford umpteen ad] ‘hundrede og sytten’ koi hai indisk kom her livery sb uniform wire gauze sb trådvæv Karma The sum of a person’s actions which decides your future life and reincarnations Destiny/fate A power believed to control events decided before hand in a way that cannot be changed or control led 2. Try to explain the two concepts in your own words, and discuss whether you believe...
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...THE MARRIOTT MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHY A living tradition of values and beliefs "A businessman once said, 'A business succeeds not because it is long established or because it is big, but because there are men and women in it who live it, sleep it, dream it, and build great future plans for it." "We have realized for a long time that you can't have a service business with a lot of employees without having people who know how to manage. So we have been teaching our management how to manage, as well as our employees how to take care of their jobs. Good management and trained personnel are the most important factors in our business." "Good personnel will work for a competent manager. Go to every length to find, hire, and train good employees and treat them like your family. This is the crux of your whole operation." "'When we had six or seven Hot Shoppes, I'd drive to every one of them every day, sometimes twice a day. Every time I visited, I'd find something was wrong: the root beer was flat or wasn't cold; the lights hadn't been turned on at night; or the barbeque machine wasn't clean. There were just a lot of things our management didn't do or didn't see. So I decided then that if we were going to have a lot of places, we had to hire supervisors to do what I was doing - going from one store to the next, training managers." "Some of my remarks may appear to be too detailed, but it's the little things that make the big things possible. The close attention to the fine details of any...
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