Indigènes‚ or the forgotten heroes: Perhaps‚ the movie that provides a deeper representation of North Africans in the French context is Rachid Bouchareb’s Indigènes. The movie explores the experience of soldiers from North Africa and other French colonies in the continent. The story focuses exclusively on a group of North African soldiers who are fighting to liberate France from the German occupation during World War Two‚ but the nature of their patrimony is excruciatingly ambiguous. The characters’
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The story of Zenzele: A Letter to My Daughter by J. Nozipo Maraire along with The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and Motherland by Vineeta Vijayaraghavan all encompass the idea of freedom‚ a liberated country‚ an escape from a neighborhood weighing down. The idea of freedom fosters a home for creation and exploration‚ opening up a world of possibilities full of balance between self-care and community. Motherland by Vineeta Vijayaraghavan shows this idea through Maya’s journey of self discovery
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"Bernie" is an outrageous dark comedy that you must see to believe. Based on a true story‚ “Bernie” tells the tale of a small town’s beloved mortician who almost gets away with murder. The film takes place in Carthage‚ Texas‚ where Bernie Tiede is hired on as a funeral director at the local funeral home. Bernie is popular with all the locals‚ especially the recently widowed. After the passing of her husband‚ millionaire Marjorie Nugent takes to Bernie’s kindness. An odd friendship blossoms and the
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Baldassare Castiglione‚ and influential writer of his time‚ created a book called The Courtier which laid out the foundations for the “social elite”. He describes qualities and actions that a man and woman must do to get to the top. An excerpt from the book shows the similarities and differences between the expectations of an elite man and woman. Castiglione explains a male’s role first‚ showing that a man must take on a healthy lifestyle‚ exercising his body and mind to become known as a hard worker
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A girl named Steph‚ who lives in Weeksboro‚ Maine‚ is getting help from her friend to get a boyfriend. Alexandra‚ one of Steph’s best friends‚ thinks she needs to have a boyfriend‚ like everyone else in the eighth grade. They find a whirligig they believe has magical properties and try to wish for a boyfriend on it. Brent’s whirligig impacted the girls because it gave them hope that there was some magic out there working to help their "wishes" or desires come true. The girls believe the whirligig
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Tituba Analysis During the salem witch trials‚ there was a contentiousness of accusers and accused of witchcraft which created a great disproportionate disparity between the empowered and the inaudible or unintelligible. Tituba‚ a black slave from barbados‚ was one of those inaudibles that was accused of witchcraft. She as an individual suffered from a miserable life of poverty and excommunication. In the community Tituba was not viewed very highly. She worked for Reverend Parris as a slave taken
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In the book as a whole‚ Esther is very analytic and brusque when it comes to how someone is feeling‚ especially in this section. Even more so with Shekure‚ she knows exactly what she is feeling and how to read her personality. Esther knows that something is going on between her and Black because initially‚ she was the one that helped them get together romantically because she is the matchmaker of the community. Esther knows the background of Shekure and Black since they first and she is incredibly
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Adichie’s protagonist Ifemelu‚ is a girl who travel from Nigeria to America for college. During her stay‚ she makes several accomplishments including a successful blog that talks about race relations and a prestigious award at Princeton. She has a few boyfriends during her time in America as well‚ each coming with their own good and bad times. While in America‚ she is not whole heartedly resistant to the American culture. The biggest issue for her is the void between people of different color. This
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The Sympathizer follows a nameless narrator‚ a communist spy working as a captain for a South Vietnamese General‚ beginning just before the fall of Saigon in 1975. The narrator is destined to be divided as a half-Vietnamese‚ half-French‚ American Educated‚ Communist sleeper spy working for the anti-Communists‚ raised with only his mother’s love. He most often plays the role of a loyal captain‚ who happens to be a spy‚ but he constantly reminds himself that the role is meant to be his reality. He
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I chose to write about The Ceiling. This story begins with the narrator attending his son’s birthday party and he remembers the day so well because it is the first day that he saw the object in the sky later referred to by the press as the Ceiling “The square was without blemish or flaw‚ no larger than a child’s tooth‚ and I could not tell whether it rested on the moon itself or hovered above it like a cloud.” (Thing’s that fall from the sky pg.103-104). The object continued to grow larger and larger
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