The title of Santha Rama Rau’s short story “By Any Other Name” refers to the character of Santha‚ who is a five and half year old Indian girl‚ which experiences discrimination for the first time while attending an Anglo-Indian school during the time period in which the British ruled India. Her mother had always home-schooled both her and her sister‚ Premila. When her mother gets ill‚ because her father is an officer of the civil service‚ they can attend this Anglo-Indian school for free. Her mother
Premium British Raj Alter ego New York City
I am writing to you today‚ to explain what I believe about your discriminative views on names of children and scapegoating it onto their parents. May I call you Katie? Maybe I should stick to Ms. Hopkins‚ because you have made it really quite clear - you don’t like me. In fact‚ apparently‚ you hate me a lot just because I don’t have a top-notch name. I don’t really understand why you would feel such hate towards me; it’s such a strong‚ negative word and I wonder why you feel the urge to use that
Premium Family Mother Parent
Gloria Steinem‚ who is said to be the great american feminist‚ wrote the article “If Men Could Menstruate” in a 1978 issue of Ms. Magazine. The article raises the question of what would the world be like‚ and how would it be different from the present if women no longer menstruated and men did. This is a rather engaging question and an amusing scenario to consider. Steinem paints a mental representation of what our society might be by giving examples that are entirely valid. Shes aiming to show how
Premium Gender Woman Gender role
Gonzalez 1 Anabel Gonzalez Mr. Helle English p.2 7 September 2009 Thematic Effects on Novel without a Name Novel without a name by Duong Thu Huong provided a real insight on war from the Vietnamese point of view. Readers are able to contemplate with the themes that reoccur‚ what the war truly is like‚ and the effects it causes on the people‚ society‚ and the individual. Three main reoccurring themes of this novel were disillusionment of the war‚ betrayal‚ and the loss of innocence that the
Premium Human The Little Girl The Loss
why I changed my name to Nina. When I was a little girl I recall my mother always telling me that I had Native American blood in me. I was fascinated by the thought of being a real Native American‚ the history of these natives just intrigued me for some reason. They seemed to be these strong willed people‚ despite their land being taken from them. In my mind I have created this picture of them being highly intelligent and nothing nor anyone can stop them from doing what they were driven
Premium English-language films Native Americans in the United States Debut albums
Geraldo No last Name As civilizations transformed from barbaric societies into each individually modernized nations‚ social hierarchy proved to be inevitable. In the short story‚ “Geraldo No Last Name” by Sandra Cisneros‚ a fellow named Geraldo was killed in a fatal hit-and-run tragedy (though he could have been saved if the surgeon had no neglected him)‚ however‚ his background was a mystery‚ and no one knew his last name or his existence except for a girl he encountered at a dance‚ Marin
Premium Immigration to the United States Illegal immigration Immigration
Before I was born my parents had started looking for names they could give me. Since they had no idea if I was a boy or girl they came up with names for each sex. Each male name they had in mind for me had value along with each girl name. My mother and father had come up with a list of names they each liked. So once I was born my parents decided they wanted a family name and dubbed me Gabriela Patricia. Gabriela is my uncle’s name in feminine form and my mother was very fond of it and thought it
Premium Family
Names come in many flavors‚ variety‚ and sizes. For most‚ a “name” like mine‚ Rosa Elena Bernardo‚ it means more than a simplistic cold identity derived for numerical organization and recognizing an individual. Otherwise names would be numerical instead of Alphabetical. Names all have a deep rooted cultural‚ and even sometimes spiritual relation towards one’s identity and oddly enough‚ it has a significant impact on a person’s perception of life that correlates with many of the name’s meaning and
Premium Love Culture Family
In the name of the father review Plot and genre In the name of the father is a biographical drama film based on the true story of the Guildford four and how they were falsely convicted for an I.R.A. bombing they did not commit. The story follows Gerry Conlon of the Guildford four from his early days stripping lead of houses in Ireland to his days in prison fighting to be absolved of a crime he had nothing to do with. The writers of the story makes great use of archetypal storylines to make sure
Premium Corruption Figure 8 Theft
Characters Pursue Them In the play "Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams Blanche had to take the streetcar that is named Desire‚ switch to the one that is called Cemeteries and then to get off at Elysian Fields; Williams’ use of these names for the streetcars and the street itself summarizes the development of the main characters of the play. Every character has its own desire but the reality causes all their dreams to end up in Elysian Fields - the land of the dead according to the Greek
Premium A Streetcar Named Desire