What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl by Patricia Smith Compared to Country Lovers by Nadine Gordimer. Carolynn Hanson ENG125: Introduction to Literature (ABG1239A) Instructor: Corey King October 15‚ 2012 When comparing and contrasting the poem What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl by Patricia Smith with the short story Country Lovers by Nadine Gordimer. The poem and the short story are both great examples of the difficulty of life between different ethnic backgrounds. The Poem What It’s
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Margaret L‚ Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins‚ in their article‚ (Why Race‚ Class‚ and Gender Still Matter‚ published in Belmont‚ CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning‚ addresses the topic of race‚ class and gender and argues that their relevance is due to the fact that they continue to structure society in ways that value some lives more than others. They supports this claim by using the matrix of domination in relation to gender‚ race and class‚ then advise the reader to look at an issue through a broad
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Introductions to Literature Instructor: Duvan Arsola 08/09/2011 Comparison Paper of Child of the Americas by Aurora Levin Morales and what’s it like to be a Black Girl by Patricia Smith The literary works I will compare are “Child of the Americas” by Aurora Levin Morales and “What’s It like to be a Black Girl” by Patricia Smith. The works focus on the psyche of two women of African descent‚ plagued by the historical American public perceptions of their culture. These negative perceptions play
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The literary works that I decided to compare are “Child of the Americas” by Aurora Levin Morales and “What’s It like to be a Black Girl” by Patricia Smith. These two works focus on the psyche of two women that are of African descent‚ the plagued by the historical American public perceptions of their culture. In these negative perceptions that played an important part of the individual’s psyche due to prejudice. It was misconstrued and distorted the minds of these young African American girls. The
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My Comparison Paper Latosha Sweet ENG125: Introduction to Literature Sheila Gordon 03/07/2011 The literary works I will compare are “Child of the Americas” by Aurora Levin Morales and “What’s It like to be a Black Girl” by Patricia Smith. The works focus on the psyche of two women of African descent‚ plagued by the historical American public perceptions of their culture. These negative perceptions play an important part of the individual’s psyche due to prejudice. It has misconstrued and distorted
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written in the first person as if the author is to be perceived as the character in the poem. Three poems that have persona as a theme are "Countess P’s Advice for New Girls" by Natasha Tretheway‚ "Negro Hero" by Gwendolyn Brooks and "Skinhead" by Patricia Smith. These poems are about different types of people but all use the same theme‚ that theme being the use of persona by the author. In "Countess P’s Advice for New Girls" by Natasha Tretheway from the book Bellocq’s Ophelia‚ the author characterizes
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1970 The Beatles break up‚ and 448 U.S. colleges and universities are closed or go on strike and killing of students by the National Guard at Kent State and Jackson State universities. First Earth Day celebrated‚ reinvigorating the environmental movement worldwide. Soviet dissident and author Alexander Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize for literature. U.S. forces in Vietnam reduced to below 400‚000 troops. The Apollo 13 space mission was launched from Cape Kennedy and the Russian unmanned
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Media underwent changes in the 1970s that served as distractions from the government’s scandals and increasing stagflation. All the “magazines promoted social reforms with a vigor they had lacked for several years[…]. The United States as a whole may have seems to linger a cultural and political malaise during the 1970s‚ but the media was more active than ever.”(The 1970s:Media:Overview para 1). Literary media has always existed‚ but is was in the 70’s that their embracement of the time periods changed
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The castle is located near San Simeon‚ California about 250 miles from both San Francisco and Los Angeles. It used to In 1919‚ William Randolph Hearst hired Morgan to take his 250‚000 acre ranch and turn it into something spectacular. When completed in 1947‚ the estate had 165 rooms‚ 127 acres of gardens‚ terraces‚ pools and walkways. Morgan inserted a variety of different architectural styles throughout
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New York journalism William Randolph Hearst manipulated his newspaper’s titles to persuade the publics opinion to increase paper circulation. Carl also talks about the publisher of the World Journal‚ Joseph Pulitzer doing the same thing. Due to the Spanish American War all of the newspapers were being very competitive‚ so both William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer sent war correspondents to Cuba in 1897. Hearst’s illustrator Frederic Remington told Hearst‚ “ there was no story to report”‚ Hearst’s
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