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    Maya Angelou‚ named Marguerite Johnson by her mother‚ was born April 4‚ 1928 in St. Louis‚ Missouri (“Maya Angelou”). When she was three years old‚ she and her brother moved to Stamps‚ Arkansas with her grandmother because her parents divorced each other. Because of Stamps’ location in the racially divided South‚ she experienced both racism and a high level of cultural pride. She moved back in with her mother but was traumatized when her mother’s boyfriend molested and raped her. At the time‚ Angelou

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    Jasanoff‚ Maya. “The Other Side of Revolution: Loyalists in the British Empire.” The William and Mary Quarterly 65 (2008): 205-232. In‚ “The Other Side of Revolution: Loyalists in the British Empire‚” Mary Jasanoff discusses the treatment of British sympathizers during and after the American Revolution. Loyalists included many different demographics of people such as slave owners‚ slaves seeking freedom by joining the British army‚ and allied tribes of Native Americans. In this article‚ Jasanoff

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    Written by Tammy Carter In history‚ women have always struggled to gain equality‚ respect‚ and the same rights as men. Women had had to endure years of sexism and struggle to get to where we are today. The struggle was even more difficult for women of color because not only were they dealing with issues of sexism‚ but also racism. Many movements have helped black women during the past centuries to overcome sexism‚ racism‚ and adversities that were set against them. History tells us that

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    In ‘I know why the caged bird sings‚’ Maya Angelou explores various themes that reflect her real life situation. One of the most outstanding themes is racism. Maya was born and bred in a highly racist society that was largely divided between whites and blacks. This shaped her early life and young adulthood. ‘I know why the caged bird sings‚’ presents a vivid autobiography of her experiences. In fact‚ the title is a metaphor describing her desire to escape from her confines‚ just like a bird struggles

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    MARKED WOMAN BY: DEBORAH TANNIN Deborah Tannin‚ the author of this essay is a professor of linguistics at georgetown university and has written many books for scholarly and popular audiences. She explains the meaning of the word "marked"‚ and how it distinguishes the male from the female She wrote this essay in 1993 and is different from her usual work. This essay focusses on the differences between how the men and the women present themselves in front of the world and what distinguishes them

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    Woman in the Dunes aka as “Suna no Onna” directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara‚ which is a film adaptation of Kobo Abe’s novel. Scene description (Time code) Narration Man seating in the small house. (24:21 – 25:01) The story begins with a school teacher‚ who is on an expedition collecting sand bugs alone in the sand dunes area. He missed the last bus out of the dessert and so the local villagers offer to let him stay overnight in one of the recently widow’s house which is below the dunes. From

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    151 9/19/10 Can We Be ‘Unmarked’? “There Is No Unmarked Woman” Deborah Tannen In Deborah Tannen’s essay “There Is No Unmarked Woman” she describes how every woman is “marked” in some way. She tells about how everyone judges or “marks” a woman by what kind of clothes she is wearing‚ whether they are tight or hang limply from her body. What kind of make-up she is wearing to how she styles her hair. She says that just by writing her essay and pointing out the fact that women are marked makes her

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    around for over a hundred years. The idea of white supremacy was concocted in order for the white race to feed their ego. Key figures‚ including Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou‚ wrote about their experiences in the point of view of an oppressed African American struggling with racism. Langston Hughes’s poem “I‚ Too‚ Sing America” and Maya Angelou’s poem “Still I Rise” are a response to the hatred in the white man’s heart. Although these two poems share similar goals‚ they have elements that cause them

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    artwork to what they go through to create the art.This documentary follows Maya Lin’s experience as she created some of her most well known work in addition to who she is. This was an interesting movie as she has many unique thoughts and ways to create her art while she also faced struggles as she created her monument for the Vietnam war. To me Maya Lin is a strong woman who works hard to create art which carries a message. This woman at the young age of 21 was a student who was an artist who was in between

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    The modern woman can be perceived to be the product of the woman before the 1950s. The woman before the 50s-experienced plenty of struggles when it came to exercising her rights. She did not have the freedom to vote‚ take part in the technical field or be involved in leadership. Furthermore‚ the woman from the minority group were the ones mostly affected because of racial discrimination. The woman was confined to her household; responsible for keeping the house in order and taking care of the children

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