...The danger of a single story Stine Krog 2.u Risskov Gymnasium. Boom boom. The sound of drums beating. The tribal music. African people dancing. Disguised behind the music and festiveness lies hunger and despair. This is Africa. In the meantime cars are driving through a city filled with lights, technology and well-educated people. This is Africa. There are two stories of Africa represented here. One is not more truthful than the other. Some people unfortunately only define Africa by a single story. This is a topic Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie(CNA) addresses with her TED-talk “The danger of a single story.” This essay will contain an account of the phrase “The Single Story”, and an analysis of the way CNA engages the audience. It will furthermore discuss the term cultural ignorance. CNA defines the single story as a term used when individuals define other individuals by a single story. She uses her own life experience to define the phrase. She starts by explaining how “…vulnerable we are in the face of a single story.” She refers to the single story she had of Fide’s family. She had always been told how Fide’s family was poor and didn’t have anything. Therefore she was very surprised when she went to Fide’s village, and discovered that Fide’s family could actually make something. Later in CNA’s life, she went to a university in the United States and found that the people had a single story of Africa and therefore thought that she was uneducated, and not even able to use...
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...It is unfortunate that stereotypes exist all around us, including setting a foundation of our culture, especially as Americans. Speaker Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie of Ted Talk "Danger of a Single Story," further exploits this idea. She talks about, from personal experience, the sad reality of a single story creating a basis of stereotypical ideals for an entire culture to be seen as. She believes, "Show a people as one thing and one thing over and over again and that is what they become." This idea conceptualizes a stereotypical mindset that inevitably cheats people and places of their true essence. Chimamanda was of Nigerian origin and grew up in a modernized world with a passion for British and American literature starting at a very young...
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...The Scarlet Letter: The Feminist Approach The Scarlet Letter tells the story of a woman labeled by the Puritan society due to her actions and vows of silence to not explain herself.When looking at the feminist approach to literature, the reader must know the three premises and principles. First, language, institutions, social power structures have impacted throughout history reflected particular interest. Second, woman have always resisted or subvert, and at the last but now least, patriarchal dominance and feminine subversion is evident in literary and cultural text. In Bentuck's analysis of The Scarlet Letter, she uses the statement “ Hester Prynne, however, subverts the Puritan- patriarchal laws of meaning in two ways. First, she embroiders and embellishes the community's representational codes, thereby confusing them. Second, Hester refuses to name child's father.(pg.397)”as one of her primary arguments. In addition to Hester's ability to subvert, Benstuck's argument and statement that The Scarlet Letter“focuses attention on representations of womanhood, with special emphasis on Puritan efforts to regulate female sexuality within religious, legal, and economic structures.(pg398)” is her thesis for her analysis. The people of the society Hester Prynne lived in were strictly judgmental on one if they had not chose to take the “proper” and “righteous” way to reproduce. Benstuck speaks on the biology and religious aspects of man and woman to support her idea gender issues...
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...Another assumption is that driving with a cell phone put the driver more at risk than driving and conversing with a passenger. For an example "The authors found that the use of a cell phone while driving significantly situation awareness and significantly increased the perceived mental workload relative to no cell phone and adaptive control conditions" (Drews and Strayer). Also, the passenger aware the surrounding of the traffic, and respond to the differences in the driving rush. This act can be explicit, for example by implying to traffic dangers or even more implicit by watching the conversational flow in response to increased difficulty of the driving procedure. This is a simple understanding of the potential dangers of traffic and the driving...
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...The personal account, Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist by Yossi Klein Halevi captures the emotions of a Holocaust survivor in a way that other historical sources are not able to. The memoir is about Halevi’s story growing up as the son of a Holocaust survivor in Brooklyn in the 1960’s-70s. When reading this memoir it is important to understand, memoirs are primary sources that follow a single person’s first-hand account and focuses on a specific event or experience, not their entire life. Other historical sources are usually broader and depict a period of time rather than singular personal stories. A memoir is limited as a primary source; Memoirs are limited to only one individual's point of view, rather than an analysis of many people's perspectives...
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...be more resilient against and brutal towards. The idea that V is fighting against an all-controlling government helps us accept that V is technically a good guy, fighting for freedom like the United States. Another common theme throughout the film is lies and deception. The government shields the truth from the public, even though they know it couldn’t possibly be true. For example, when they lie about the blowing up of the statue in the beginning. The government continues to lie about the state of danger the country is in by showing inaccurate news reports of officers shooting their own peers who happened to be dressed like V, but the government portrays the fallen officer as V, himself. The use of lies in the story line only continues when V takes Evey by false imprisonment. V portrays himself as the government, as he beats her, tortures her, and convinces her to fall in love with someone she thinks is real. The use of lies, in my opinion, is to show the influence of a single idea from one...
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...The Goal – A Process of Ongoing Improvement The Goal tells the story of Alex (“Al”) Rogo, a Plant Manager for UniCO Manufacturing. The plan is always behind schedule, and the plan was in danger of being closed. At the beginning of the book, Bill Peach, an executive at the company, gives Al three months to turn the operation around. Al enlists the help of his physicist friend Jonah, who advises Al on the impact of bottlenecks in a production environment. In addition to the primary story about Al’s attempt to turn around the struggling plant, there is also a secondary story that focuses on Al’s personal life as he continues to devote more time to his career. Key Takeaway #1 – Identify the primary goal of the company Being able to identify the primary goal of a company is the first step in creating a path to success. Anything that gets the company closer to their goal is considered “productive”, while anything that takes them farther away from their goal is considered “non-productive”. After a pizza and a six-pack of beer, Al comes to the realization that his company’s primary goal is profitability, or money. He also realized that over the past year, the company has been moving further away from this goal. Robots were brought in to help with production; however implementing robotic production actually increased costs and operational expenses, and were actually less productive for the company. Manpower that previously did the job of robots was redeployed to other parts...
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...I was not interested in dealing with numbers, money in particular; secondly, at that time on, if someone asked me to describe the defining characteristic of businesspeople with one word, venality would be the first that came into my mind. In my opinion, I thought that business people do not and should not care about anything other than maximizing profit; otherwise they are not good business people. But now, especially after I encouraged myself to take some business courses at school (Business Ethics in particular), I am embarrassed to have to admit this because I realized that I was totally ignorant and biased to have such negative impressions on all the business people. According to Chimamanda Adichie’s words, I have been “reading a single story”. (Adichie, 2009) I found Adichie’s speech was a mind-blower to me. I have always considered myself to be more considerate and knowledgeable than others who are about my age and have similar amount of experience as I do. Even so, whenever people talk about Africa, poverty and epidemic of certain diseases always come into my mind first. I even tried to rationalize my opinion by searching for data from my limited book selections, which I realized later that I was merely using particular cases to generalize the whole, just as how unfairly I judged all business people. I also realized that I was caught up into the overconfidence cognitive bias by considering myself as more considerate and knowledgeable than my peers. It is lucky for me...
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...forest to bring food to her ill grandmother, arming her with a knife and warning her against the dangers of the woods. The girl sets off on her journey unafraid because she knows the forest well. As she is walking, the girl hears a wolf's cry. She turns with her knife drawn to face the beast, and when it lunges, she cuts off its paw. It retreats back into the forest. She wraps the wolf's paw in cloth and continues on her way. When the girl reaches her grandmother's house, the snow is so thick that no tracks can be seen in it. She finds her grandmother in bed with a terrible fever, and when shakes out the cloth to make a hot compress, the wolf's paw falls on the floor. It has changed into a hand, which she recognizes as her grandmother's because of a single wart on it. Expanding... The girl uses all her strength to pull back her grandmother's covers and beneath them discovers the cause of her fever. Her grandmother's severed arm is already rotting. Hearing the girl's cries, the neighbors rush in. They examine the hand and declare the wart on it to be "a witch's nipple." They force the grandmother out of bed and to the edge of the forest, where they stone her to death. The story ends with the summary, "Now the child lived in her grandmother's house; she prospered." Analysis Bacchilega calls "The Werewolf" the first of "Carter's three 'women-in-the-company-of-wolves' stories." In this story, Carter combines the...
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...The Goal – Critical Thinking Analysis #1 Marion Byrd, Peter Laurin, Kelly Powell, and Jon Warren MBA 475 Operations Management BSA 523 Dr. Paul Ewell December 3, 2012 All team members have signed this form and are in full compliance with the Certificate of Authorship expectations. In addition, it is fully understood that any Study Team member who did not fully participate in the project yet signed this form will cause the entire team to be subject to an HONOR CODE violation as applied per university policy. Marion Byrd _________________________________________ Peter Laurin _________________________________________ Kelly Powell _________________________________________ Jon Warren _________________________________________ THE GOAL – Critical thinking analysis #1 Ch 1-5 Alex Rogo is a plant manager of UniCo, being scrutinized by his superior due to inefficiencies of order shipments. A critical order was overlooked by plant workers and Alex’s boss stepped in to make him aware of a possible plant production failure and the ultimate possibility of closing the plant. Peach, the division president, informs Alex that if no perceptible improvements occur within three months, the plant might be shut down. In order to fill this critical order, Alex’s staff must pull together and not spare any cost or effort. Several problems occur during this process, including losing a capable and qualified machinist, resulting in the main production equipment of the division failing...
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...strong, Wilfred’s imagery goes against this. He uses metaphor to convey this using “drunk with fatigue”, invoking a strong image of them exhausted and weak. When the gas actually comes the soldiers do not react with training, but instead are described as fumbling, and just putting their helmets on just in time. The earlier imagery of exhausted and overworked soldiers shows how they are not prepared for the gas, or any danger of war, therefore they are likely to die. This again highlights that they are they’re not the soldiers that the Latin phrase refers to, strong and heading to worthy deaths, they are weak, and ill prepared for death, and their health is not valued, they are there to fight and die. The use of gas instead of conventional or seen enemies, shows the reader the faceless nature or mechanism of death in war. Death can come from anywhere, and it does in the poem, when the gas appears without warning. The death of soldiers through the gas is described horrifically and, imagery helps with this by portraying the emotion. The way Wilfred Owen tells this story through the poem shows that his view of the war was that the soldiers have no comprehension of a justifiable cause, or a meaning behind their sacrifice. Wilfred Owen used many literacy devices including...
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...HOW TO WRITE A LITERARY ANALYSIS ESSAY The purpose of a literary analysis essay is to carefully examine and sometimes evaluate a work of literature or an aspect of a work of literature. As with any analysis, this requires you to break the subject down into its component parts. Examining the different elements of a piece of literature is not an end in itself but rather a process to help you better appreciate and understand the work of literature as a whole. For instance, an analysis of a poem might deal with the different types of images in a poem or with the relationship between the form and content of the work. If you were to analyze (discuss and explain) a play, you might analyze the relationship between a subplot and the main plot, or you might analyze the character flaw of the tragic hero by tracing how it is revealed through the acts of the play. Analyzing a short story might include identifying a particular theme (like the difficulty of making the transition from adolescence to adulthood) and showing how the writer suggests that theme through the point of view from which the story is told; or you might also explain how the main character‟s attitude toward women is revealed through his dialogue and/or actions. REMEMBER: Writing is the sharpened, focused expression of thought and study. As you develop your writing skills, you will also improve your perceptions and increase your critical abilities. Writing ultimately boils down to the development of an idea....
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...Two equally strong but antithetical voices speak in Christina Rossetti’s poetry: the sensuous, which is with some justice associated by critics with Pre-Raphaelitism, and the ascetic, which is not confined to her devotional verse, but speaks also in her secular poems. The critics Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar have defined the aesthetics of renunciation as the key element of all Rossetti’s writing, and they suggest that her aesthetics derived less from her ascetic Christianity than from her position as a woman poet in Victorian England. The tension between the sensual and the ascetic, between revelry and renunciation, however it may be interpreted, is central to Rossetti’s poetry. One temptation is to view this tension as the meeting of two intellectual movements in Victorian England: the Pre-Raphaelite movement in art and poetry and the Oxford Movement in theology, both of which profoundly influenced Rossetti’s thought and art. The Pre-Raphaelites got their name from their conviction that after the Italian painter Raphael (1483-1520), European art and poetry took a wrong turn toward representational realism and away from symbolism and simplicity. The poetry and art of the English Pre-Raphaelites, consequently, celebrated sensuality, minute detail, formal simplicity, and a symbolic system emulating medieval iconography. It is true, as Rossetti’s most recent critics have maintained, that she cannot be considered merely a passive learner of Pre-Raphaelitism—indeed, she must...
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...In Defense of Recreational Drugs If illicit drugs are harmful to the mind, body and soul, than why do people continue to manufacture, distribute and use these substances? The prohibition of these illicit substances as outlined in the Controlled Substances Act of the United States goes against all logic. Propaganda across the United States promotes the myth that psychotropic drugs impair moral judgment and is a cause of destructive deviant behavior. There is evidence that refutes this claim, illustrated by findings in several of the government’s own studies. The truth is that the majority that dabbles with these intoxicants is misrepresented by the media and politicians as delinquents, but are respectable citizens with jobs to work, bills to pay, and classes to attend, and are indistinguishable from the general population. Their use is not accounted for as many are reluctant to admit to it, due to the illegality and prejudice against use of controlled substances in our society. Such illicit substances must have some intrinsic value because of their continued use. Just as prescription pharmaceuticals can prove to be valuable in a specific context, so can all classes of illegal drugs. The poison is in the dose not the chemical itself. The unconstitutional War on Drugs in the United States needs to cease, because it is based on heresy and fear mongering. This calls for reeducation of the American people about the true nature of drugs; for this legalization and regulation of all...
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...for “English Language Arts.” Being that we are in an Arts school, but one where academics must and always do come first, it is important that we approach the subject as what it is: an art form. How does one study the arts? What exactly do we do when we study drawing, sculpture, music, or dance? Well, anyone who has studied the arts will tell you that studying the arts essentially involves two things: • Learning about, and developing an awareness of and appreciation for, existing works of art in that particular form; • Developing the skills and techniques associated with the art form, in order to create our own works. In the case of language arts, much like any other art form, we will be studying existing works of art (i.e., reading books, stories and poems), and developing the skills to produce our own (i.e., writing). That’s what English Language Arts is. We will also be preparing ourselves for New York State’s Regents Comprehensive Examination in English, which we’ll all be taking in June. This two-day, six-hour, four-part exam requires no specific knowledge or content, but it does require the skills to listen, read, understand, respond, interpret, analyze, and of course, write. Everything we do in class is designed to develop those skills, and prepare your for that exam. So, So what does that mean to you, the student? It means we’re going to do a lot of reading, a lot of writing, and most importantly, a lot of thinking. See, when you reach high school, particularly the upper grades...
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