Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed is a “take on Shakespeare’s play” The Tempest. The plot focuses on Felix and how he represents‚ as well as performs as‚ Prospero. The story of Felix and the story of Prospero are often parallel to one another. However‚ the conclusion of the play and Atwood’s novel do not seem to line up with one another. Atwood offers a summary of The Tempest at the end of the novel and this summary describes how Prospero ends the play‚ “Prospero finished the play with an epilogue‚ in which
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The Hollow Tree During the Civil War‚ Lincoln told the story of “The Hollow Tree” to illustrate the dilemma that the north was in given that many people who lived in the north were actually southern sympathizers. In the story‚ the tree was determined to be hollow and a dilemma faced the owner of the tree and house that lay underneath it. For if the owner of the house cut the tree down‚ the tree would cause tremendous damage because of the size of the tree‚ but if the tree wasn’t removed‚ it
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The documentary “Race and Terror”‚ by VICE news documents the events that happened during the Charlottesville rallies‚ and the protestors’ views on the results of the protest. Throughout the film‚ Vice news portrayed obedience‚ violence‚ and authority shown by white nationalist‚ alt-righters‚ and neo-nazis in order to explore human identities. The documentary relates to the first two units that we have learned in our psychology course‚ more specifically prejudice‚ empathy gap‚ morality‚ and cognitive
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Before taking this course I had a clue that like my race‚ Latinos‚ blacks had a community in which they felt safe to be who they are. One can see where black communities feel safe for they are surrounded by their race for they feel the safest free from prejudices‚ even though‚ now there is not as much racism as before it still exist in many situations seen around America. I was aware many blacks moved away to chase for freedom and jobs such as Latinos move from their home country to live the American
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Octavio Paz Lozano once said: “Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather‚ speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think” (N/A‚ 2000). Paz was a man of many talents. His knowledge and ability to write throughout his life earned him the title as on the greatest Mexican authors and diplomats of all time. Paz’s works supported both the surrealism and existentialism literary movements‚ two movements that he experienced first-hand while traveling throughout
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Donta’ Broussard 1393380 THEA 1331 "Our Town" Described by Edward Albee as "......the greatest American play ever written."Our Town explores traditional American values of community‚ religion‚ family‚ and the simple leisures while adding an unusual set‚ a Stage Manager who narrates and controls the action. Our Town addresses themes as mortality‚ the human condition‚ and the value of everyday life. In Our Town‚ the main role belongs to the Stage Manager‚ who jokes with the audience‚ narrates
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The Infamous Rosalie is a compelling novel which investigates the matriarchal power that existed in slavery. It follows Lisette‚ her obstacles and those of her family members. Glissant discussed that [h]istory can be told through folktales and novels to express a different perspective than [H]istory. Trouillot in The Infamous Rosalie contradicts the typical version of [H]istory by providing the stories of the people who are often unheard. Trouillot focuses on making the characters more than slaves
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The central argument being made by the filmmaker is the hardship of the Middle Passage. It gives accounts from history professors about the suffering of African Americans during this time period in their lives‚ as well as‚ quotes from the slaves who endured the Middle Passage. I do detect some bias in this documentary. For example‚ there are only two professors that speak in this documentary‚ which is interesting to me‚ because the creator of the documentary is usually the one who accounts the
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Media has been questioned on what is real or fake in life. Individuals manipulate the uses of images to create their own fantasy for people to believe in‚ both in good and bad ways. People neglect the realities of life by selecting specific visuals to display to create biases. In the music industry‚ videos are often used as medium of controlling the minds and perceptions of what people think is going on in the world or what is a glorious way of living. Musical artists create the perception that living
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The novel “The Thousand Streams”(2006) by Khaled Hosseini captures the sorrows‚ tears‚ and joyous moments of the women and children living in war-torn Afghanistan‚ a tribal society dominated by patriarchy and religion which offers little to no compassion to the women. Born in such society‚ Hosseini introduces a female character‚ Mariam‚ who grows up with war and chaos. Society‚ after offering decades of violence and isolation‚ tries to steal Mariam’s happiness‚ feeling she lacked since childhood
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