bell hooks’ examination of black female spectatorship is‚ as she discusses in the essay ‘The oppositional gaze’‚ is a comparatively unexplored territory by scholars. She focuses on cinema in its early form as a unique site for a gaze to emerge that opposed the assumed maleness and whiteness of the viewer. Hooks’ main argument stems from the idea that the black women are doubly excluded from the practices of looking as a hierarchical structure continuing to use this in terms of cinema. She argues
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through Esther‚ the main character in The Bell Jar. She could make this story come to life because it was her own story and she lived it‚ and so she told it; Of course with the help of some literally devices! Plath used her personal writing style‚ theme and tone to make her story the fullest. Plath had drowned us into her world with her writing style. Through out the novel‚ Esther had constant flashbacks of important events
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Every now and then life gives us a challenge‚ and often that challenge can define our life and who are. The memoir wrote by Jean-Dominique Bauby describes such a challenge. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly challenges the minds of readers to imagine a world of pure terror where ones whole existence changes due to being trapped in their own body‚ left to live life through one’s own memories and imagination. Bauby begins by describing how he is awakening from a stroke and is trapped in his own body
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In the movie‚ The Diving Bell and The Butterfly‚ the seven different genres of humanities each have their own role and are displayed throughout the film. Starting out with literature‚ it is displayed in a number of ways. The title of the film refers to the ways that Bauby describes himself and the situation he is in. With him being paralyzed‚ he feels as if he is trapped inside a diving bell with all the pressure from the ocean making it impossible for him to move or act for himself. The butterfly
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According to the book‚ “The Millionaire Next Door‚” most people who have over $1 million either in their bank or tied up in investments have never spent more than $300 on a suit. These people range from retired investors to caravan salespersons. They haven’t lived a glamorous life full of fast cars and catwalk clothes; they have built their wealth by cutting back on what they spend rather than by earning more money. Here is how you may cut back your budget so you have more money to invest and build
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Broken Bonds Family dynamics vary widely from household to household. There are those that have parents and kids who cannot spend more than a few minutes apart‚ while there are others that do not even speak on a daily basis. For the latter‚ there can be a plethora of outcomes from those strained familial relationships. “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden explores some of those issues and their complexities‚ focusing mainly on a breakdown caused by a lack of understanding of all that a father
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School Bells I started school in Mexico‚ I went there for kindergarten and half of first grade. Those two years were very fun. In kindergarten my mom would take me to school every morning we would go walking since it wasn’t to far away from my house. My mom would take me lunch it would be fresh and delicious. In Mexico‚ you bring your own lunch the school does not provide you with it. SO when lunch time came we would all go outside and wait for our moms to come and bring us our lunch. There was
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A response to The Bell Jar You would expect anybody to want the story of depression and suicidal thoughts to leave your memory as soon as the last page was over. However‚ The Bell Jar is more about the spirit of survival when you are trapped inside yourself and frightened because the rest of the world expects something completely different from you - something you cannot give them. Something you don’t want to give them‚ if it were your choice. This is a highly auto-biographical account by Plath
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The man in "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden uses the boy version of himself as an example for other children teaching them that they should never forget to appreciate how hard a loved one works for you or the dedication they show to making sure you are cared for. Also a lesson for adults that they may suffer extreme guilt later in life when it will be to late to free yourself of those type of emotions. I can identify with the emotions he goes through‚ easily placing myself in his shoes seeing
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I tried for all those years to be civilized but I am not and I’m through pretending.” (248) She wanted to be alone by herself. It might seem that she was running away from them‚ but according to her‚ to go with them would have been running away. For her the truth was there not in the city. From any
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