“Stupid blue door why can’t you just be like all the others”. These thoughts often flooded Lena’s mind when she came home. Lena’s father painted the door of their house blue while all the others on the reservation were white. Jeannette C. Armstrong the author of Blue Against White clearly shows that Lena is troubled with the life pressure of being different. Immaturity wants assimilation maturity supports individualism. Lena leaves the reservation for schooling in the city. She finds that she
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unforgettable. I enjoyed this book for various reasons such as the great detail in which the author describes events in the book. Every point in the book was clearly explained. I felt like I could see Mrs. Baker’s two vicious rats‚ Holling’s sister’s hippy friend Chit‚ and Mr. Hoodhood’s architectural designs. Also‚ the historical time period in which the story takes place tests the character’s strength and courage. Student Danny Hupfer stands up for what he believes in and defends Mai Tai‚ who escaped
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Expressionism started as a visual art form for an antidote to the beauty of impressionism. The point was to deny immediate perceptions of things‚ to analyse things then send them back as a pure but different view of that thing (it?s sometimes called ?anti-realism). I can give you a very simple example of expressionism: If I showed an impressionist a vase of flowers‚ they might produce something akin to ?A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers? by Edgar Degas. An expressionist might show you something
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All Structuralist theories of crime and deviance seem to suggest that crime is socially constructed rather than focused on the individual. Albert Cohen‚ combining Structuralist and sub cultural theories drew on Merton’s idea of strain but criticized Merton’s ideas of crime being an individual response and believed that he ignored non-utilitarian crimes such as vandalism and joy-riding. Cohen was particularly interested in deviance which was not economically motivated but done simply for the thrill
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her parents are financially stable and able to provide for her vs. Ponijao who lives in Namibia a 3rd world country. Hattie gets rubbed with a build up brush; Ponijao bites a bone secured in earth. To top it all off‚ Hattie is compelled to go to a hippy-dippy music class where the facilitator serenades‚ "The earth is our mom‚ she will deal with us.’’ and soon thereafter Hattie gets up from her own particular mother’s lap and heads distinctly for the entryway. Ponijao from Namibia is exposed to risks
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The Beatles and Their Hidden Drug References Were the songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles hidden drug references due to them living in the sixties and seventies when drug use was very common? The songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles are some of the best songs ever written‚ but to many people’s surprise The Beatles have hidden references to drugs like marijuana‚ acid‚ heroin‚ LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide)‚ and cocaine. Both Paul McCartney
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Most people are familiar with the term "flower power" used by hippies in the 1960’s to peacefully protest the Vietnam War. What many don’t know is that influential poet Allen Ginsberg fabricated this phrase (“Irwin Allen Ginsberg”). In many ways‚ such as this‚ Allen Ginsberg is a forgotten hero. The specifics of what Ginsberg accomplished in his life and nonconformist political poetry are overlooked‚ but the legacy he left behind will last forever. Allen Ginsberg is best known for his riveting long
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had many different stages across history‚ from tribes’ traditions and war adornments to mark of undesirable societies (in the case of Jewish people during the Nazi revolution) and prisoners; from rebel behaviour to a particular lifestyle such as hippies. Nevertheless‚ these traditions‚ lifestyles or any other term used to
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Cosi is a play written by Louis Nowra in the 1970’s. The comedy is about an inexperienced director‚ Lewis‚ who chooses to earn some cash and gain professional experience by working with a group of mental patients in Melbourne and directing a play for them to perform. Although the play is a comedy‚ there is many real messages throughout the play that are deeply significant‚ these messages are explored through different themes such as the nature of madness which is best showed in the characters; Roy
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The fifties and sixties of the twentieth century are two of the most influential decades of American history. With out the events of the fifties the vibrant and rebellious sixties would have never been possible. Political‚ racial‚ and social tensions are what pushed many of the events that happened in the sixties. From teenage conformity to loosing to the Russians and sputnik in the space race the events of the fifties were screaming for a drastic change in America. The political struggles of
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