An exploration of the innovative methodologies requires an awareness of the goals and objectives of teaching literature in general and the novel in particular‚ the advantages of teaching novels and teaching methodologies. It is very difficult to agree on the goals of teaching literary texts. In the past‚ teaching literature was viewed as a way of making people better human beings and better citizens. The purpose of making English Literature a course of study at University College‚ London in the
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Similar feminist shifts happens in Kunstler’s trilogy‚ although the shifts in his novels are not so pronounced or dramatic. His book is the most subtle of these three nextopian novels. In World Made by Hand‚ the main character describes a town meeting and notes that “all the trustees were men‚ no women and no plain laborers;” the town “reverted to social division” that is unethical in today’s society (Kunstler 101). A return to clear social delineations is evidence of a slip back in time‚ toward
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Honesty is Not Always the Best Policy Lying is wrong. Or so we’ve been told. In the young adult novel Crooked Kingdom‚ the sequel to Six of Crows‚ by Leigh Bardugo‚ lying is anything but uncommon. The novel starts off in the dark‚ filthy alleys of the Barrel‚ the lowliest part of the largest port town of their fantasy world‚ Ketterdam. In this city‚ merchs become rich beyond imagining through slyly manipulating trade; inherently‚ they’re involved with a lot of gambling‚ risks‚ and lying- things
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the age of colorblindness. There are more African Americans under correctional control today‚ in prison or jail‚ on probation or parole then where enslaved in 1850s. Civil Rights advocate and writer of The New Jim Crow‚ Michelle Alexander acknowledges in her book that the African American community is suffering more than the non-colored people when it comes to the U.S Justice system. Alexander introduces the book with a story about a man names Jarvious Cotton
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This week’s readings discussed a concept called “The New Jim Crow” which is about how black people and Latino’s are most likely to get more prison time than their counter-parts even when the crime committed is the same. The author goes on to talk about how people who are black and brown get stopped more and searched than any other race. Personally‚ I think the reason why people who are black and brown are most likely to be stopped and searched is because ‚ in most cases they cannot afford a good
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McGuire Essay Jim Crow laws were enacted after the Reconstruction period and were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States and continued until 1965. They mandated racial segregation in all public facilities. Facilities for African Americans were inferior and underfunded compared to those available to white Americans‚ and sometimes they did not exist at all. Jim Crow laws mandated the segregation of public schools‚ public places‚ public transportation‚ restrooms
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Woodward’s novel “The Strange Career of Jim Crow” was simply a book about racism. Other critics also attack his style of writing in this very popular novel. However‚ I believe that Woodward’s novel is not just a book about racism. It is a book about history. I believe it is a book about race relations‚ not racism. Woodward shatters the stereotypical view of segregation through chronicling the history of America from reconstruction through the late 1960’s. The Strange Career of Jim Crow is not
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In Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina 1896-1920‚ Glenda Gilmore exposed the benefits of adjusting our angle in studying the southern political narrative of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In studying elite‚ educated‚ black and white women‚ Gilmore found sources that voiced the opinions and views of these women. By placing educated black and white women at the center of her study‚ Gilmore revealed how the political activism and mutual
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Michelle Alexander’s book‚ “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”‚ essentially analyzes the United States criminal justice system. The main thesis/argument of her analysis is that mass incarceration constitutes a new system of racial oppression that is similar to slavery and the original Jim Crow. Furthermore‚ she claims that mass incarceration has had a profound impact on how criminal justice issues are interpreted today. She also argues that individuals who have fallen
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The town I grew up in is located near Lake Ontario in a quickly growing town‚ Grimsby‚ Ontario‚ Canada. Grimsby was founded in 1790 and was originally called “Number 6” and then “The Forty”. The name “The Forty” was made by United Empire Loyalists who set up camp at the centre of Forty Mile Creek who traveled from New Jersey to Canada for a better life. Their camp was set up at the centre of Grimsby which later on became a part of the downtown core. Waterfalls were the power source for mills to saw
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