...Corporate America Racism I walk into the office in the IT industry; everyone looks at me as I walk to my desk. My boss comes over and tells me I made a mistake in my code, the application is not working. He says we need this fixed before out next meeting. As I’m checking the codes, I realize that the glitch that needs to be fixed has nothing to do with me John did not enter in his codes correctly. My boss come back over, “hey Lisa we are going to have to move you to this table in table in the corner, we need more space in the office area for renovations”. “Sure” I said “I’ll move my desk by the end of the day with everyone else”, “Oh no Lisa it would be just you sitting in the corner”. I face racism every day at work, and on job interviews. It seems it hard for corporate America to believe that I have a Master’s Degree from Northwestern University and I have 15 years of experience developing web sites. In the IT industry there are not a lot of black women in this field and the view that are in this industry has to prove their intelligence, and skills. College students Driving and still suspect My friends and I are driving on our way to the movies. We wanted to hang out before we all left to go back to college. It’s 5:00pm, we are driving in my friends Destini’s SUV we just pulled out the my driveway and only went a block before the police pulls us over. Officer is there a problem? Yeah the two men in the back were not wearing seat belts, and you did not put your blinkers...
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...Time Hole Posted: Friday, August 17, 2012 Role to be read: Betty Demographic: Female, Teens (15-19) [BETTY] FEMALE, TEENS (15-19). A LITTLE NERDY. LOVES THE INTERNET AND OBSESSIVELY POSTS ON HER VIDEO BLOG. SCENE SET-UP: WHILE ON A TOUR OF THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER AT THE CERN HEADQUARTERS WITH HER FAMILY, BETTY FELL INTO A “TIME HOLE” AND WAS SENT BACK MILLIONS OF YEARS. AS AN AVID VIDEO BLOGGER, SHE DECIDES TO CAPTURE EVERYTHING USING HER SMART PHONE. PLEASE BEGIN BY SAYING YOUR FIRST & LAST NAME DIRECTLY INTO THE CAMERA. THEN TURN TO YOUR RIGHT, THEN LEFT. THEN BEGIN YOUR SCENE. BETTY (Out of breath) Hey guys, this is going to sound crazy but I’m ... lost ... I'm .... lost ... in a time hole. Just a few minutes ago I was looking at the Hadron Collider with my family. I wandered away from the group, fell into a hole in the ground and now I’m ... I don’t know where I am. Its like a big jungle. I ran into a venus fly trap the size of a Prius. After that what I can only assume is a Pterodactyl chased me into this cave. It was ... it was definitely a Pterodactyl. Ugh, why didn’t I get a picture. This video would get SO many hits if I got a picture. Wait ... I’m a million years in the past. I could change the future if I wanted to. I could invent the smart phone. I could invent the internet! All I need to do is find a way back to CERN. (Hears footsteps) Hey! I think someone is coming to rescue me! Help! I fell into a time hole! Help! Wait. Never mind. Its the Pterodactyl again. Seeya...
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...Character Monologue It destroys me that they all come running up to me when they need someone to listen to them whine. They just carelessly suspect that I'm immune to sadness and depression. What they don't know is that I'm just like them. To them, I'm this person filled with joy and God knows nothing can drag me down. They assume I don’t have any troubles in my daily life, nope, all just rainbows and sunshine. They don't stop to consider that maybe all this depression surrounding me gets me down once in a while. No, how selfish of me, they've got their own problems to deal with first. They want to hear me say that everything will be okay, and that things really aren't as bad as they seem to be. You know, generic bullshit that’s on every page of social media. I’m having to listen to them ramble on about their crushes not liking them and their boyfriends not spending every minute of every hour of every fucking day with them. Maybe, it's my fault. I put on this front like I'm always so happy and cheery, so they naturally gravitate to the happiest person they can find within a mile radius. Maybe they're hoping a little bit of what’s left of my happiness will be passed onto them. Maybe they think that they'll be happier if they're like me. Oh, God. Stop me. I'm going on an ego trip again. But they wouldn't want this happiness spared onto them, it’s not happiness, quite the opposite. I can barely handle it anymore. People say that I'd make a good psychologist, and maybe they're right...
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...THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST AS A MONOLOGUE MONOLOGUE: A monologue is presented by a single character, most often to express the mental thoughts aloud, sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience. Monologues are common in dramatic media as well as in non-dramatic media such as poetry. Monologues share much in common with several other literary devices including soliloquies and apostrophes. DEVICE OF MONOLOGUE IN THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST: This is probably the only novel of its kind, a novel with no lyrical descriptions of people and places. It has no dialogue at all; in fact, the entire novel is a long, gripping monologue. A novel in the form of a monologue and without a dialogue is a brilliant and novel idea, and it works magnificently in this case only because Mohsin Hamid is a superb writer with formidable powers. He grips the reader's mind with polished and haunting prose. The hero of the novel, Changez, a student from Lahore, Pakistan, attends Princeton University. After graduation at the top in his class, he secures an excellent and well-paying job at the elite valuation firm Underwood Samson. He becomes well-adjusted and well-accustomed to the American way of life, falls in love with the beautiful and elegant, Princeton-educated Erica, who hails from an aristocratic family. For the first time in his life Changez is happy. Then, unexpectedly, on September 11, 2001...
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...S(ex) F(or) C(ommerce) -its (???) licking good!!! Critiquing the Market in ‘body’… -submitted by: EkataBakshi To: Prof. Harish Naraindas Course: Economy and society in India. “What we became: Ruined Tools Infertile Holes Bloody Meat Exiled Silenced Alone… What we got called Ianfu-Comfort Women: Shugyofu- Women of Indecent Occupation (- SAY IT, The Vagina Monolouges- Eve Ensler,2008) Prostitution, pornography or sex work has been in history one of the most demeaned kinds of work. But today there is a drastic change in the way prostitution is viewed. There are demands from every corner about decriminalization of prostitution. In its draft statement ICPR (International Committee For Prostitute’s Rights) states, “Until recently, the women’s movement in most countries has not, or has only marginally, included prostitutes as spokeswoman or theorists. Historically, women’s movement (for example socialist and communist movements) has opposed the institution of prostitution, while claiming to support prostitute women. However, prostitutes reject support that requires them to leave prostitution, they object to being treated as symbols of oppression and demand recognition as workers. Due to feminist hesitation or refusal to accept prostitution as legitimate work and to accept prostitutes as working women, the majority of prostitutes have not been recognised...
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