THE BLUEST EYE The Bluest Eye is a brilliantly written novel revealing the fictional trauma of an eleven-year-old black girl named Pecola Breedlove. This story takes place in the town of Lorain‚ Ohio during the 1940’s. It is told from the perspective of a young girl named Claudia MacTeer. She and her sister‚ Frieda‚ become witness to the terrible plights Pecola is unintentionally put through. Pecola chooses to hide from her disabling life behind her clouded dream of possessing the ever so cherished
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The Bluest Eye Questions 1. The Bluest Eye provides numerous examples that show the idea that white is beautiful and black is ugly. These white beauty standards deform the loves of black women. There are many examples that white is superior like the white baby doll that was given to Claudia‚ the idea of Shirley Temple‚ how the light-skinned Maureen is cuter than the other black girls‚ and Mrs. Breedlove’s preference for the white girl over her own daughter‚ Pecola. The adult women learned to hate
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That is Potter’s reality. Likewise‚ “Grainstack” is merely a still life of a field according to Monet’s reality. However‚ in “The Innocent Eye Test” we get a sense of a reality besides the reality of an artist. We are thrust into the mind of a cow. Although all of the cow’s attention is directed towards‚ “The Young Bull‚” we can not ignore the significance of the other painting. The cow
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There’s large amounts of symbolism in the story‚ especially in the latter half. To begin‚ the title of the story Cat’s Eye represents the marble that Elaine was fond of in her childhood. She stated that the marble was something she could protect herself with‚ and it represented her lost childhood because as time carries on‚ she didn’t care much for the marble and forgot about it completely till she discovered it much later on in her life. It symbolized her innocence and who she was‚ and when she
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Deviance – Any violation of a widely held norm. Crime – An act that has been declared illegal by some authority. Deviance‚ like beauty‚ is in the eyes of the beholder. There is nothing inherently deviant in any human act‚ something is deviant only because some people have been successful in labeling it so. (J. L Simmons) The definition of the situation implies that if you define a situation as real‚ it is real only in its consequences. What is deviance? Technically deviance is any violation
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Reviving The Death Penalty "An eye for an eye‚ a tooth for a tooth" is one of the oldest and most famous sayings in the world. It comes from the Mosaic Law in the Bible and it is an edict that has ruled millions for thousands of years. Today the issue of capital punishment has our nation split down the middle. The two sides have drawn lines in the sand and are emphatically holding their ground. The need for capital punishment is greater today then it has been at anytime in the past for several
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In Cat’s Eye‚ Margaret Atwood portrays the lasting negative influence misogynistic behavior has on Elaine Risley throughout her life through parallelism and motifs. Initially‚ Elaine Risley‚ the dynamic protagonist‚ decides “it’s time to go back” (459) to her hometown for an art gallery she is featured in and she remembers how she learned all of her disavowal tendencies. Upon arrival‚ she recalls the 1st time she encountered “real girls at last‚ in the flesh” (52) and does not know how to act around
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The Angry Eye -Jane Elliott Discrimination occurs when a person is treated less favourably because of their racial or ethnic origin‚ religion or belief‚ disability‚ age or sexual orientation. Jane Elliott decided to use role-play a situation portraying the discrimination that a person of different colour would be constantly exposed to in day-to-day life. The Angry Eye is a provoking documentary of a diversity training session conducted by Jane Elliot on a college campus. On this video it was
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ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY of the EYE Even though the eye is small‚ only about 1 inch in diameter‚ it serves a very important function -- the sense of sight. Vision is by far the most used of the five senses and is one of the primary means that we use to gather information from our surroundings. More than 75% of the information we receive about the world around us consists of visual information. The eye is often compared to a camera. Each gathers light and then transforms that light into a "picture
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In the morning‚ have you ever had to grab your glasses to see the blaring alarm clock? Do you consider yourself "blind as a bat"? If you nodded your head to either of these questions‚ you’ve probably heard about the LASIK eye surgery that can‚ in some cases‚ fix all of those problems. LASIK is a relatively new procedure for select candidates who know both the benefits and risks of the operation. LASIK stands for Laser- Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis. This is an operation in which the shape of
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