...Shalise Edwards November 30, 2014 Dr. J. Jones ENG 348 Analysis of Sula by Toni Morrison Sula by Toni Morrison was a very interesting and enlightening literary work. Morrison has relayed a message of good versus evil in the novel involving the main characters, Sula and Nel. Nel was portrayed as the good character, while Sula was depicted as the evil character. In the life of Sula, there was good in her situation because she seemed to shed some light on the readers. She was instructive to the readers because of the destruction that took place in her life. Personally speaking, a reader would side with Nel because of all the good she seems to portray, but she was not always perfect. Nel found herself in mirrors looking at her nose in disgust because her mother, who was so upright and orderly, did not like her nose. Her nose reminded her mother, Helene, of the broadened nose her husband genetically passed down to his daughter. In her childhood, she convinced herself that she liked herself just as she was. For example, Nel stated “I’m me,” several times until she drifted off to sleep. She made this statement to help herself realize at an early age that she can be no one but herself. Throughout the novel, Nel convinces herself she is fine, or good just as she is; no one had the ability to tell her otherwise. When Nel and Sula became best friends, they were “one.” Secretly, Nel desired to be a part of Sula’s household because of the disorder and numerous families that lived within...
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...Stella Harutyunyan Per. 1 Sula and Nel The 1920s was a time of racism, sexism and discrimination. No freedom compared to the one we have today and not many who were brave enough to create it. In Toni Morrison’s novel “Sula”, two girls named Sula and Nel dreamed of living their lives to the fullest since they were little, but as they grew older their lives separated into different paths. Sula decided to get out of town and live her life searching for freedom and Nel ended up living the typical town life marrying a man she barely knew if she loved. Sula demands and seeks freedom while Nel continues her life playing by the rules and misses out on freedom. Sula is really complex and hard to understand at times. We sometimes feel sorry for her, sometimes appreciate her courage, and sometimes hate her for being so insensitive to other people's feelings. She's anything but boring, and she challenges herself to earn her freedom. We first encounter Sula as a child living in a chaotic household run by some pretty strong-willed women. Because her surroundings are so noisy, messy, and busy, she prefers the quiet and neatness of Nel's house. We learn much about Sula through her relationship with Nel. However, as these two women mature, they begin to separate and each start to grow into different perspectives on the community in which they live. Growing up Sula witnesses a lot of events that shape her into becoming an adult. But unlike Nel, Sula decides to leave the Bottom and live...
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...San Pedro Sula (Spanish pronunciation: [sam ˈpeðɾo sula]) is a city in Honduras. The city is located in the northwest corner of the country, in the Valle de Sula (Sula Valley), about 60 kilometres (37 mi) south of Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean Sea. With an estimated population of 873,824 people in the main municipality, and 1,245,598 in its metro area (2010), it is the second largest city, after the capital Tegucigalpa. It is the capital of the Cortés Department. As of 2013 San Pedro Sula has the highest murder rate on Earth. Cathedral San Pedro Sula was founded on 27 June 1536, by Pedro de Alvarado under the name Villa de San Pedro de Puerto Caballos, close to the town of Choloma. There were around 18 towns populated by indigenous people in the Sula valley at the time. Early descriptions of the landscape indicate abundant swampland and dense tropical forests, with little land good for agriculture or cattle raising. The city's name became San Pedro Sula in the 18th century, after several changes. The "Sula" part of its name comes from the Minas de Sula, gold mines located to the west of the village of Naco. Panoramic view of Downtown San Pedro Sula For the first few years of its history, San Pedro was the colonial mint, where gold, found to the west in the Naco, Sula, and Quimistán valleys, had to be brought to smelt, and where the Spanish Crown collected a fifth of the value of the gold. The mint was moved toGracias, and ultimately to Comayagua in the 1550s. ...
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...Nicaragua. This country was once part of the Spanish empire and became an independent nation in 1821. It’s population consisted of seven percent of Mayan Indian descendants, ninety percent of Mestizos (indigenous Mayan mixed with Spanish and Europeans), along with 2 percent of blacks, and one percent of whites. Honduran terrain consist largely of a mountainous interior with coastal plains lining it lower perimeter. The official language is Spanish, yet dialects in Mayan and African do exist in various isolated regions. The citizens of Honduras live in mostly small rural areas in family units having the same neighbors for years. There are a few small metropolitan areas, the two largest being its capital, Tegucigalpa, and San Pedro Sula. The national religion is Roman Catholic, however, there is much credit given to its past culture infused with Mayan lore. Financially, Honduras is the second poorest nation in Central America and one of the poorest in the Western Hemisphere. It relies heavily on its agricultural exports, mostly of bananas and coffee. Most of its economic growth depends on the United States economy. There is a large divide in the small rich upper class and the rest of its residents which remain in poverty. Most of the decisions are made by the affluent ruling class, and based on personal opinion and emotions, not what may be best for the people at large. Good health care is available to those who can afford it. Outside of the large cities...
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...| Viaje de Misión Medica | En Trinidad, Honduras | | Lydia Keipp | 19 Octubre 2015 | Honduras Honduras | Cuando llegué al aeropuerto de san pedro sula en Honduras, tuve que pasar por "costumbres" que tuvieron un tiempo muy largo. espués de eso, me monté en la cama de un camión a La Lima, Honduras, donde desempaqué suministros médicos y luego Almorcé con mango fresco también. Cuando llegué al aeropuerto de san pedro sula en Honduras, tuve que pasar por "costumbres" que tuvieron un tiempo muy largo. espués de eso, me monté en la cama de un camión a La Lima, Honduras, donde desempaqué suministros médicos y luego Almorcé con mango fresco también. 18 de Junio En ese día, tuve que despertar a las tres y media de la mañana para llegar al aeropuerto a tiempo para mi vuelo. Bebí mucho café, pero el café no me gusto tan bueno como el café hondureño. 18 de Junio En ese día, tuve que despertar a las tres y media de la mañana para llegar al aeropuerto a tiempo para mi vuelo. Bebí mucho café, pero el café no me gusto tan bueno como el café hondureño. El Ambiente El Ambiente El ambiente era muy impresionante. Soulard Parque se encuentra en la ciudad cerca del arco. Tenía carácter, con edificios de ladrillo y grafiti. Un Mercado de agricultores está cerca del parque con frutas y verduras de colores vivos. El ambiente era muy impresionante. Soulard Parque se encuentra en la ciudad cerca del arco. Tenía carácter, con edificios...
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...Fee – 40 Quetzal Bus Belize City to Bus Terminal before Guatemala Checkpoint – 9 USD Taxi Bus Terminal to Guatemala Checkpoint – 5.5 USD Taxi Guatemala Checkpoint to Flores – 60 USD Honduras Entrance Fee – 26 USD Bus Flores to San Pedro Sula – 74 USD Bus San Pedro Sula to Ceiba – 12 USD Boat Ceiba to Utila Islands – 52 USD Boat Utila Islands to Ceiba – 48 USD Taxi San Pedro Sula Centro to Tamarindo Hostel – 4.50 USD Taxi Tamarindo Hostel to TikaBus – 7.50 USD TikaBus San Pedro Sula to Managua, Nicaragua – 64 USD Nicaragua Entrance Fee – 30 USD Taxi Managua to Granada – 56 USD Bus Granada to San Juan Del Sur – 8 USD Nicaragua Exit Fee –6 USD Bus San Juan Del Sur to Rivas to Nicaragua Border – 8 USD Bus Nicaragua Border to San Jose – 22 USD Taxi Bus Station to Costa Rica Backpackers Hostel – 8 USD Food Caye Caulker – 46USD San Pedro – 42.75 USD Flores: Dinner – 10 USD 2nd Day Lunch – 15 USD 2nd Day Dinner – 10 USD Ceiba: Dinner – 5 USD 2nd Day Breakfast – 1 USD Utila Islands: Unlimited Drinking Water – 5 USD Groceries 1 – 13.5 USD Dinner @ Mermaids – 3.9 USD Pizza 2 for 1 – 11.75 USD Ice Cream – 1.30 USD Groceries 2 – 7.50 USD Lunch @ Cheap Place 1 – 4.50 Lunch @ Cheap Place 2 – 4.25 USD San Pedro Sula: Groceries – 11 USD Managua: Dinner – 4 USD Granada: Lunch – 4 USD Dinner – 7 USD San Juan Del Sur: Lunch – 6 USD Dinner – 6 USD Groceries & Fruits – 2 USD San Jose: Dinner – 6 USD Groceries 1 – 24 USD Lunch – 10 USD Groceries...
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...The Ozanam Center was originally established by the Diocese of Brownsville to house Central American political refugees. The Center was first named Casa Oscar Romero in honor of the martyred Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador. As the conflict in that troubled region began to subside, so did the number of refugees. In 1995, the shelter gained its independent status as a non-profit organization and was named The Bishop E. San Pedro Ozanam Center and expended to serve anyone who needs temporary shelter. The Center currently serves mainly the Cameron County but many of our guests also arrive from the Willacy, Hidalgo Counties and other parts of the U.S and the World. The Center provides a unique holistic Homeless Services Program, delivering emergency shelter, case management services, Food Pantry services, and Homeless Prevention services to the area's most vulnerable residents: needy families, run-away youth, the elderly, individuals with substance abuse problems, mental illness and other special needs. Most guests are self-referred or referred by local social service agencies, law enforcement and the community in general. The Corporation, BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDRO, OZANAM CENTER, Inc., operates exclusively for the charitable purpose of providing assistance to those in need by: A) Providing temporary shelter and housing to homeless, regardless of sex, color, creed and national origin; B) Offering referral to social services agencies and humanitarian...
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...author’s own ethnic gaze inward, the reading of self as ethnic subject. Author Toni Morrison’s works explore race, and gender, author Sandra Cisneros brings together stories of cross-border bilingual culture. Morrison and Cisneros share views of the development of young women, the search for love, hate, and compulsion, in a world filled with loneliness, pain, and inexplicable violence. There is no feminine identity in a time of masculine dominance. The cultural content of ethnicity is largely interchangeable. Race and genetic makeup are not the defining category for ethnicity. Differences occur because of the map as it is drawn around them. In Sula by Toni Morrison, the community of “The Bottom” considers Sula evil and bad. Sula Peace is a main character shaped by two incidents in the beginning; a comment made by her mother, which was basically that she did not like her daughter, but she loved her, and in the death of Chicken little, a little boy whose character is introduced primarily for the creation of an incident. The first experience taught her that there was no other that you could count on; the second that there was no self to count on either. Sula has only friend, Nel Wright, who chooses to stay in the place of her birth, to marry, to raise a family, to become a pillar of the tightly knit black community. Sula rejects all that Nel has accepted. She escapes to college, submerges herself in city life, and...
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...THE COPPERBELT UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC AFFAIRS SUCCESSFUL UNDER GRADUATE AND POST GRADUATE CANDIDATES FOR THE 2014 ACADEMIC YEAR The Admissions and Regulations Committee Acting on behalf of the Copperbelt University Senate at its meeting on Monday 13th and Friday 17th January 2014 respectively approved the names of successful applicants to the various Programmes for the 2014 Academic year. Successful applicants are advised to collect their letters of offer from Academic Affairs effective Wednesday 5th February 2014 according to the listed schedule below. Thereafter letters of offer to admitted students will be sent by EMS to either Residential or Postal Address given on the application form. Prospective students are advised to make inquiries at their nearest Post Offices. The Admission list will be made available on the University website at: http://wwww.cbu.edu.zm Fees are payable through ZANACO Student Bill Muster to the Copperbelt University account Number: 0450610000000069, Kitwe Business Centre, Obote Avenue, Kitwe. Deposits can be further made at any ZANACO Branch to the same Account by the date indicated in the offer letter. For further inquiries contact. The Deputy Registrar (Academic Affairs) Copperbelt University Box 21692 KITWE Telephone No. 260-212-225761/223716 COLLECTION OF LETTERS OF OFFER FROM WEDNESDAY 5TH – 13TH FEBRUARY, 2014 DAY DATE th Wednesday Thursday Friday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 5 February,2014 6th February...
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...Reading Response Gender Google Searches When the class originally began to discuss the different Google searches that we would be analyzing, my original thoughts were that the “suggested searches” would not differ between the two genders too drastically. Little did I know the recent history on the topics typed into the search line proved that to be very wrong. There were four different types of initial searches the class would be looking at. One that asked Google what men and women should do, what they shouldn’t do, what they cannot do, and what the sex’s need to do. All cues were searched for both men and women, analyzing what Google used as “suggested searches” or “common searches” from past attempts explored on the search engine. Before taking 350, prior to the experiences and information learned in the classroom, my views towards gender issues as a whole were very misguided and skewed. The issues between genders in economics, and the world in general, almost didn’t even occur to me, as I had never really had too much of an interest in learning about the different problems that follow. Its not that I didn’t care that these issues and problems were happening, but a lack of information towards them didn’t allow me to investigate further. Thankfully after almost completing 350, gender issues in economics and the world in general are now very apparent, and in the future will hopefully be closer to achieving equality with the help of our class, and the classes to come....
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...“Parenting as a Religious Jewish Feminist” by Haviva Ner- David Haviva Ner-David’s, the writer of “Parenting as a Religious Jewish Feminist,” talks about the tallit (prayer shawl) and the tefillin (little boxes strapped onto the arm and forehead that contain scriptural passages), both traditionally worn by only men for prayer, which she believes enhances her perception of God and the sanctity of her own body. She mentions that in the bible Michael the daughter of King Saul and the first wife of King David “Wore tefillin and Sages did not protest her action.” It was most commonly understood that the Rabbis exempted women from performing certain time bound mitzvoth, such as putting on tefillin, because women’s time belongs to others their children and their husbands. As a mother of four with Michal being the oldest she talks about how she takes being a Jewish mother seriously. She introduces her children to Toraah and Mitzvot with love. She does not want Michal to grow up feeling as a Jewish female, resentful of her religion or marginalized and irrelevant all of which she often felt as a child and young woman. David goes on about how she would love to see her children adopt the values that she had chosen for herself meaning seeing her daughter pray with tefillin, and hear her son tell her that he refuses to say bracha thanking God for not having created him a woman. Michal and her other daughters may decide to follow in her religious feminist path or may not. As a mother she...
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...GOOD WIVES Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England 1650 – 1750 Good Wives sheds an illuminating light on the lives of early American women in New England. According to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, men used women both positively and negatively. From my understanding of the book “Good Wives” there were more negative then positive ways of how men used women between 1650 and 1750 in Northern New England. The true test of this book was based on the fact that their were no female diaries on record to date written until 1750; so doing a true evaluation on facts of the time required use of many different resources other than written materials. In my opinion, most of this book may be facts but a true portion of it is hearsay; however, Ulrich did write two other books on tops similar to this one so she has a reputation for being very knowledgeable on this subject. The one and only positive way men (husbands) used women (wives) were as Deputy Husbands. A Deputy Husband would stand in the place of her husband in his absence or if he were unable to perform his duties. “Some wives were servile, some were shrews, others were respected companions who shared the authority of their spouses in the management of family affairs” (p. 38). In performing her husband’s duties, a wife not only gained the respect of her husband, but she also gained his trust as well. As a consort (“a consort tuned her life to her mate’s” (p. 9)), a wife who harmonized with her husband...
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...Skye Meadows EGL 102-09 John Steinbeck's short story "The Chrysanthemums" is about a proud, vigorous woman named Elisa Allen who feels frustrated with her present life. Like Elisa, the chrysanthemums are beautiful, vigorous, and flourishing. Their flowerbed, like Elisa’s home, is neat, orderly and scrupulously authoritatively mandated. Elisa specifically identifies herself with the blossoms, even verbally expressing that she becomes one with the plants when she inclines to them. When the tinker descries the chrysanthemums, Elisa visibly brightens, just as if he had descried her rather than the chrysanthemums. She offers the chrysanthemums to him at the same time she offers herself, both of which he disregards and tosses aside. His repudiation of the flowers additionally mimics the way society has abnegated women as nothing more than mothers and housekeepers. Just like her, the flowers are unobjectionable and additionally nonessential: both are merely decorative and integrate little worth to the world. First, the chrysanthemums denote Elisa’s young children. She is always in her garden and manages the chrysanthemums with love and care, just as she would handle her own children. Elisa is very protective of her blossoms and puts a cable barrier around them; she ascertains "no aphids, no sowbugs or snails or cutworms" are there. "Her terrier fingers destroy such pests afore they can get commenced" ().These pests represent natural harm to the blossoms, and, just as any good mother...
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...The Difference between Men and Women in Society Over the year’s stereotypes, views and places of men and women in society have changed a lot, some for better and some for worse. Some people tend to believe and follow the crowd maybe because certain things were taught to them growing up and hearing it again from others drills it deeper into their minds. Others possibly could be due to the fact that they are not open minded about things like equality and giving other people chances to move above where they sit. Unfortunately that is how the majority of society is and it doesn’t always change for the better. Men and women both are the same in certain aspects but treated so different in many others. A general setting in where this happens is in society. Before I get into what they are I want to talk about where they come from and what they are influenced by. The main contributor to this subject is the media. Things like music, television, movies, internet and even things like blogs can set an idea or thought and then kick it into motion. The thing that differs how an idea from present time to past time spreads is the media. In this time we have many more influences on society then 50 years ago. Our parents and elders are also a huge part of where we get our views on men and women I society because they get it from their parents and so on, it all goes back so far. Our culture is also so influential on everything we believe nowadays and our culture is what set the ideas for our grandparents...
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...ATTITUDE OF MALE EMPLOYEES TOWARD FEMALE MANAGERS IN SELECTED ORGANIZATIONS IN GHANA Alexander Preko PhD/CE, Business Studies Department Wisconsin International University College, Ghana, Legon Ghana ABSTRACT The study examines the views of male employees working under female heads in selected organizations in Ghana. The research is significant because it testifies how male negatively regard female heads despite series of both international and national conferences and platforms that advocate for women to assume managerial positions at the workplace. The study employed a case study and descriptive research design. The sample size was 122 respondents from 17 organizations. A purposive random technique was used to select only male employees who have worked or are still working under female heads. Questionnaires and secondary data were used to collect data. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyze data which were presented into simple descriptive tables. The study revealed that majority of the male employees (69.5%) preferred to work under male managers and coded managerial positions as masculine position. It is recommended, therefore, that male employees should embrace and integrate female heads in decision making positions, as women now constitute majority of the working population in the world. Keywords: attitudes, influence, managerial position, negative, perceptions, positive. International Refereed Research Journal ■ www.researchersworld...
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