Anne Orthwood’s Bastard tells the story of John Kendall and Anne Orthwood and their bastard son‚ Jasper. It began with John and Anne’s meeting and ended when Jasper came of age. This book gave a detailed description of sex and law in early Virginia and how it differed from the law in England at the time. Two of the main themes seemed to be respectability and social mobility. During the 1660’s and 1670’s in Virginia‚ respectability and social mobility were two of the most important aspects people
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sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them‚ but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity”. Meaning‚ it is our heartlessness that allows us to feel indifference towards others; it steals the harmony in the world. Octavia Butler allows us to explore this cruelty in her science fiction novel Kindred. The novel is based on an average black woman Dana. Dana is called back in time to the antebellum south to save her ancestors. The author uses a variety of literary devices such
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‘Yeats’s poetry is driven by a tension between the real world in which he lives and an ideal world that he imagines’ The poetry of Yeats gives a deep‚ profound and though-provoking experience. His sweepingly broad thematic focus deals with issues that are timeless and universal. We realise Yeats both is a very public and a very private poet‚ his work ranging from the personal and political‚ to Irish history and his own life experiences and emotions. He grew up in a very transitional time
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One of the most important quotes Judith Butler uses in her writing is seen in‚ Imitation and Gender Subordination. Judith Butler explores the ideas that gender is about a performance one must do and how gender has become an imitation of what others deem as acceptable behavior. She also explores that idea of why gender is important for a society and states‚ “Drag constitutes the mundane way in which genders are appropriated‚ theatricalized‚ worn‚ and done; it implies that all gendering is a kind of
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W.B. Yeats was born in Dublin‚ Ireland. He was a lonely and unhappy boy‚ because of which he began to day dream and write escapist poetry. Yeats grew up as a member of the former Protestant Ascendancy at the time undergoing a crisis of identity. In 1889‚ Yeats met Maud Gonne‚ then a 23-year-old heiress and ardent Nationalist. Gonne had admired "The Isle of Statues" and sought out his acquaintance. Yeats developed an obsessive infatuation with her beauty and outspoken manner‚ and she was to have a
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1. This poem suggests that politics are not important. Does the poet convince you? Write a paragraph in response‚ with reference to the text. 2. Yeats uses symbols to express some of his most profound ideas. What symbols in this poem appeal to you? Use reference to the text in your response. 3. ‘Yeats is yearning for order‚ and fearing anarchy.’ Discuss two ways in which the poem illustrates this statement. Support your answer with reference to the text. 1. This is a political poem. What kind
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environments‚ but do not hold that moral behavior. No matter how opposite our moral behavior is in comparison to our past development‚ we are still influenced by our past experiences. In Dick Gregory short essay “Shame” he depicts the effect of his developmental history on his present moral behavior. Growing up poor Gregory felt “... pregnant with poverty. Pregnant with dirt and pregnant with smells that made people turn away‚ pregnant with
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The Singing Butler “Nati! There you are.” He rushed over to where she was seated on the ground on the BACKSHORE of the Spanish beach‚ and he joined her. Her stilettos lay there‚ partly covered by the sand‚ where she had kicked them off and left them. She appeared to have been there staring out in to the sea for a while. Wearing a long‚ scarlet gown with a HEMLINE just below her ankles‚ matching gloves‚ and her silky‚ chestnut hair elegantly pulled up‚ Natalia looked exceptionally beautiful. But by
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struggle the African-American culture faced. Daniels did this by properly identifying his target audience‚ defining the message he wanted to convey to his audience‚ and in turn‚ compiling an all-star cast to complete his vision for the movie. “’The Butler’ offers a powerful cinematic corrective to past failures and‚ in many instances‚ is revelatory in its deft treatment of America’s racial
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at some parts of the text. It was surprising when Gregory went against the movie manager when the manager didn’t allow him to sit downstairs.”’I’m sorry‚ Mister Gregory‚ but you know you can’t sit in the orchestra.’’Why not?’’Because colored seating is in the balcony.’My St.Louis dream died that night….’If you want me in the balcony‚ you’ll have to put me there.’”(Gregory 83). I was also surprising to read about the black doctor being mean to Gregory. The doctor faces the problem of racism‚ but he
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