textual form. Hughe’s articulate and diversely structured poetry regarding Plath and their association encourages the audience to understand the situations within their relationship from his perspective. Hughe’s poem‚ ‘Sam’ is his version of Plath’s ‘Whiteness I Remember’ reflecting on the memory of a horse riding incident. A variety of techniques are used throughout the poem creating conflicting textual form‚ including the use of rhetorical questions‚ ‘Did you have a helmet? How did you cling on?’Immediately
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Discuss the key symbols in the film (like the white whale); what do they represent? Does the film deal with class issues? In watching the movie 2010:Moby Dick‚ I found a lot of religious symbolism surrounding Moby Dick ‚ the colors black and white‚ and the depths and shallows of the ocean. Moby Dick‚ the white whale‚ appears to represent the unknown‚ specifically in spirituality. He is the epitome of an unknowable God to everyone in the movie‚ with the exception of Ahab‚ who quotes that “…he’s
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key points that our mind represses such as sexual energy‚ female sexuality‚ bisexuality‚ and children’s sexuality. In a horror film‚ the monster symbolizes either repressed feelings or the fears of society. The monster of the film also represents “otherness”‚ which is what society represses in one’s self and then projects onto another inferior part of society to be hated. Normality in horror films is “the heterosexual monogamous couple‚ the family‚ and the social institutions that support and defend
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ugly too”. Here‚ Hughes proclaims an idea that transcends the boundaries of race and language - the pride in having survived through generations of institutionalized pain. Hughes is proud of his black identity not despite the world devaluing his blackness‚ but with the knowledge that this devaluation has not broken his spirit. He acknowledges that his life does not come from a lineage of people who have had easy lives‚ but that this does not need to define his individual existence. Hughes describes
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In “Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat” takes place with a man and a woman in a green boat. One thing that caught my attention reading this was that the men’s race was a huge aspect. Reading through this story I realized that no other character was described by race. While the man and women are talking in the green boat the women or the man never clarifies what’s going on in their relationship. The women quoted “I am putting on weight‚ I told mother”. I didn’t catch on at first what
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Nicole Wineland-Thomson Short Essay #2 Edward W. Said November 12‚ 2009 Edward Said’s Critique of Orientalism Examining the Pacific Studies discipline in New Zealand as Orientalist Edward Said ’s critique of the set of beliefs known as Orientalism forms an important background for anthropological studies. His work highlights the inaccuracies of a wide variety of assumptions as it questions various models of thought‚ which are accepted on individual‚ academic‚ and political levels. Said’s
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Disabled women in society are doubly marginalized; they are neither understood or accepted by mainstream heterosexual society or by feminist theorists. Indeed‚ according to Susan Wendell‚ their embodied social reality has been ignored by philosophers and feminist theorists. The main focus of Susan Wendell’s article on “Towards a Feminist Theory of Disability”is to use the power of her own experience of going from able to disabled to argue that the voice of the disabled is missing from the standard
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Ethnic Studies 001 2015 Summer Session 1 Tues. & Thurs. 1:10-4:00 p.m. INTN 1002 Professor Macías Office: 4042 INTN Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs.12:00-1:00 p.m. E-mail: anthony.macias@ucr.edu Introduction to the Study of Race and Ethnicity This course is an introduction to race and ethnicity‚ focused on the United States‚ that examines the “evolution” and continuing relevance of racial identities and ethnic notions‚ as well as the development and defense of advantageous privileges‚ over time‚ contextualized
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She gathers her papers and moves away as STEVE‚ arms still outstretched‚ turns toward he camera” (276). O’Brien literally tenses up her whole body; like she is afraid of his arms reaching out‚ that his blackness will consume and overpower her if she embraces him. She sees him as a man‚ not a boy; she sees differences and stereotypes and ignores his humanity. She‚ regardless of the jury’s decision‚ has decided he is guilty. Myer uses “pensive” to indicate
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Sharon Lei English 101 Professor Ewan Magie 13 October 2013 Critical response to Eric Liu: “Note of a Native Speaker” Eric Liu is a writer for MSNBC and a fellow at the New American Foundation. In his essay “ Note of a Native Speaker” he starts off listing way that characterize that he is “white”. He discussed how he did not ‘ask” to be white. That he began his assimilation‚- which means “whiting” before he was born .He described how he was raised in a non “typical “ Chinese family that
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