On a surface level‚ “Evil in the Kindest of Places” by Luke Hulse and “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell do not share an outstanding number of similarities. Given‚ both memoirs do recount a time in the life of the narrator that shaped their character in some meaningful way. The two stories shine when it comes to giving the reader a sense of the dread or futility of the situation the storyteller has found themselves in. When reading Hulse’s work‚ it is difficult not to feel the tension and terror
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September 2014 Urmila Pawar’s ‘Aaydan’ (The Wave of My Life: Dalit Woman’s Memoir): A New Feministic Movement of Dalit Consciousness Abstract: Indian women voices have been silenced for ages due to various reasons. The contemporary Indian women are bold and well-educated. They are thoroughly aware with their rights and duties. They need to spread their voices in order to strengthen the female perspective. Through memoir genre‚ they are able to write from a female perspective and create a strong
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his family would come‚ but to his distress‚ they didn’t show up. “For more than three hours‚ we stayed at the wharf‚ anxiously waiting and expecting to either see our families or to talk to someone who had seen them.” ( Quote from A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah) He waited in Mattru Jong with his brother and friends‚ until the war reached him there as well. They fled the village‚ and in their fear‚ they continued from village to village‚ never stopping one place too long
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faced by them. Through literature they are trying to break the shackles of the society and thus bring the problems faced by them to the main stream. The memoir of Nujood Ali is one among them‚ which uncovers the harsh reality that she had to face in a tender age. Written by Nujood Ali and Delphine Minoui‚ the English version of Nujood’s memoir I am Nujood‚ 10 years and Divorced‚ attracted worldwide attention. Translated into many Asian languages‚ the book addresses international social issue of
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Katsushika Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa is one of the most iconic works in the history of Japanese art. Presumably created in Japan around 1829-1832‚ the woodblock print was part of the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series which featured ravishing sceneries of Mount Fuji. Being the first print in the series‚ The Great Wave off Kanagawa was a phenomenal success. Hence‚ Hokusai added ten more designs into the collection. Before the emergence of Japanese printmakers such as Katsushika Hokusai
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Fragments‚ a short Holocaust memoir‚ was published in Germany in 1995. Binjamin Wilkomirski‚ the author who is also a Swiss musician‚ claimed that he was a Holocaust survivor. He described the book as a memoir of his early childhood experience in concentration camps. The book became very popular and was soon translated into nine languages. After three years‚ it was published‚ and the public began to question the authenticity of the book. They found that Binjamin Wikomirski was a liar‚ and that he
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crippling a woman’s feet in the process‚ this prevented women from having a greater effect on society‚ and bounded them to their homes. In a way‚ it was telling them to just sit there and look pretty. In Japan‚ some women gained status and fame as geishas. Although they were not valued as sex objects like prostitutes‚ the white paint on their faces and the symbol on the back of their necks were viewed as beautiful and erotic. During the period of the second industrial revolution‚ the development of
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Sailormoon‚ the world renowned animated series‚ comes from the Japanese Shōjo manga‚ written and illustrated by female author Naoko Takeuchi. The main distinguishing feature of Shōjo manga is that it is specifically aimed at young female viewers and involves some form of (usually magical) female protagonist (Saito 143). Kumiko Saito‚ in her essay on Magical Girl Anime and the Challenges of Changing Gender Identities in Japanese Society‚ acknowledges that the Shōjo genre exhibits “various possibilities
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“Cultural appropriation is a sociological concept which views the adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of a different culture as a largely negative phenomenon.” Fashion has always crossed boundaries‚ in the case of cultural appropriation has it gone too far? Although cultural appropriation can sound like a simple concept at first such as Chinese food adapting into American culture‚ it’s not that simple. Cultural appropriation can make people stereotype one another and stigmatise
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have to test it. In the memoir of Ishmael Beah‚ A Long Way Gone‚ he travels across the Sierra Leone bush to get away from the Revolutionary United Front(RUF) that is attacking his home village. Melissa Fay Greene from the Elle Magazine writes‚ “No outsider could have written this book‚ and it’s hard to imagine that many insiders could do so with such acute vision‚ stark language‚ and tenderness. It is a heartrending achievement.” This really sums up the feeling of the memoir‚ it tells a true story
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