Deceit I also enjoyed Goody Cloyse's character. Goody Cloyse character is based on an actual woman (Sarah Cloyce), who was tried and convicted of witchcraft during the historical Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Her character proves that people hide their real identities. Goody is a Christian woman who assists young people study the Bible, but in secret she performs magic rituals and joins witch conventions in the forest.…
I found Karen McCarthy Brown’s Mama Lola to be an innovative and intimate “ethnographic spiritual biography” exploring the lived realities, material and immaterial, of a Haitian Voudou priestess and her family in New York City from the late 1970’s through the 1980’s. (xiv) Brown’s approach is innovative because she treats her subjects’ as multivocal and fluid. Brown heeds her own advice and contrary to most ethnographic scholars before her, appropriately represents her own, albeit limited, voice, and positionality as similarly multiplicitous and in flux, reciprocally performing “meaningmaking” with Alourdes and family. Brown’s many voices aptly declare numerous interrelated aims, including “to describe as fully and accurately ... Alourdes’ daytoday practice of Haitian Vodou”, to “plant images of quotidian Vodou practice in the minds of thinking people, images that would linger and soften the formulaic association of Vodou with the superstitious and the satanic”, and to portray “Vodou embedded in the vicissitudes of particular lives.” (xv, xiv, 15)…
In “So I ain’t no good girl” by Sharon Flake gives you clues about a girl and how she and her boyfriend have relationship problems. Raheem (the boyfriend) is very abusive. Raheem has and wants control over everything. The way they both act it seems like it was not not meant to be. As if they were not supposed to be together. The story is an “ok” book. The characters are good characters. Based on this information the characters could be much more open about themselves and how they feel. Raheem needs to have less self-esteem on his self. The characters needs to be more confident, less self-esteem, and more open. If Raheem changes how he acts, the story may actually be better. Raheem and the girl need to change how they both act. So “I aint no good girl’ by Sharon Flake is a marvelous story. But the characters are too scared and too selfish; they just need to be better.…
The article, “No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch,” by Ann Hodgman was one of the weirdest and most confusing articles I have ever read. I realized the word bitch, in the title, was linked to the meaning female dog only after I was halfway through the article. It also took me half the article to understand that Hodgman was literally eating a variety of dog food. She sounds like quite an adventurous lady compared to myself. I would never think of trying dog food under any circumstances.…
Let’s face it, when you are pregnant and hear you are having a girl, one of the first things that fuels the excitement is knowing you get to dress her up! After having two boys, I finally got a girl and went crazy with dressing her up…I just couldn’t help it. Now that she is a bit older, I love finding ‘Mommy-and-me’ looks that we can wear together. These days the trends for kids and adults is so similar that is easy to style your little one and yourself alike!…
In So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson explores different stories about public shaming and how they come about. Ronson never gives us a clear thesis on what should be done about the act of public shaming. But rather he lets us make our own inference. When reading the book, I saw many connections to my thesis that I choose for the research project.…
“So I Ain’t No Good Girl “is a short story from a collection of short stories called “Who Am I without Him”, and “So I Ain’t No Good Girl” is about your average bad girl. The Author, Sharon Flake, writes a story about a girl who thinks she’ll be nobody without her boyfriend, Raheem. The narrator in “So I Ain’t No Good Girl” is a girl who thinks of herself only as a bad girl. This specific bad girl obeys her boyfriend as a dog would to his possessor. Sharon Flake, author of “So I Ain’t No Good Girl”, enhances the portrayal of the main character, a bad girl; by adding a unique feeling of pity for this bad girl while also showing the hopelessness of the girl.…
The identity of the Bra Boys can be seen through their values and attitudes. They are presented through the Cody, the value of brother ship and Attitude of brother ship through their tattoos and being there for each other.…
Shameless is a show based in chicago which is kind of weird knowing how bad chicago is with all the crime that’s going on and the high murder rate but then again Lancaster hasn't been the safest of cities in the u.s either. Well shameless is about a dysfunctional family who struggles with life every single day, and every day there seems to be a new problem that occurs. Even though the main characters happen to have their own set of problems they always value family first and remain loyal to each other while I watch their family acting how they are it made me appreciate my family because we can be so many things but at least we're not crazy like the gallagher family. The main characters in the show consists of the gallagher family, Frank , Fiona , Lip , Ian , Carl , Debby , Liam and other supporting characters like Mickey and Karen. my personal favorite on the show is lip because he’s the cool brother who gets good grades and all the hot chicks he is sorta like me but I get bad grades well I did in high school. On a serious note this show made me feel every…
Throughout the book, “So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed” there is various situations where people have made mistakes and have regretted it after being publicly shamed. Everyone who post things on social media is at risk at putting himself or herself out for public shaming. After all public shaming only takes one mistake or misinterpretation. Jon Ronson decided to make a book with different stories of people getting publicly shamed. There are also different forms of public shaming demonstrated throughout the book.…
The two poems I chose to write about are Elizabeth Bishops “One Art” and “What my lips have kissed” by Edna St. Vincent Millay’s. I chose both of these because they both in a way are describing love, and loss for something or someone. Even though they do not come right out and say it, both poems deal with love and the loss they have experienced. In Bishops poem she talks about how losing comes at ease and how nothing that has been lost has been disastrous. However, in the last stanza of her poem I believe she is talking about the loss of her lover and her talking about it in her poem is how she is coping. She says “may look like (Write it!) like disaster” in the last stanza of her poem is how I believe she is coping with the loss of her lover.…
She speaks in a “low, thrilling voice”, a voice that holds an “excitement” that is “difficult to forget”: “a singing compulsion, a whispered ‘Listen’, a promise that she had done gay, exciting things a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.”…
“Between Me and You” a book created by Ta-Nehisi Coates describes how tough it is being an African American man in America. The book which I read a couple of months ago showed how hard it is not to be targeted and judged in society if a person is of color. Coates mentioned how the rise of police brutality scares him on a daily basis for his African American son who is able to see these attacks on the black community through different outlets. Due to the use of social media, cellphones, video cameras and more we are able to see the destruction of minority communities. Though, the use of excessive force and police brutality happened years ago, now we are able to see blatant racism right before our eyes. The killings of Corey Jones, Tamir Rice,…
Think back when you first met the lover of your life, it was like Fire Works! The both of you were excited and happy to be together, but as the years have passed reality sets in and you find yourself waking up to the same person. Keep the passion in your relationship alive long after the fire. Just because you’ve been married 10, 20, 30, 40 years don’t mean that it’s time to let the fire stop burning, my husband and I after thirty five years have not allowed the fire to go out, it’s still blazing greater now than before believe me age dose not play a factor it’s the love that you both have for each other. Think about the thing that makes your spouse great think about the times when you first met and fell deeply in love and wanted to see each…
Second, McKay describes her performance as “gracefully and calm” (line 5). This shows she is not a part of the chaos around her, and she just dance and sing regardless the environment where people have “wine-flushed, bold-eyed” (line 11). Here, her heart is chaste and is clearly not as obscene as her operation.…