whatever they want with their children‚ even if it means selling them to a sex trafficker. In the book Sold‚ Patricia McCormik gives an example of how the step-father of the protagonist‚ Lakshmi‚ views her‚ "But a girl is like a goat. Good as long as she gives you milk and butter. But not worth crying over when it’s time to make a stew"(McCormik 8). In this third world country‚ women and girls are to be used and are for man’s pleasure. Lakshmi was thirteen when her step father sold her. He is a greedy
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Say What You Want to Say in the Maya Angelou’s poem “Sounds like Pearls” Sounds‚ as written in the first line of the first stanza in the Maya Angelou’s poem “Sounds like Pearls”‚ start to emerge in the mind as we start to read the poem. Sounds are something that we can hear‚ enabling people to communicate‚ socialize‚ interact with other people. Moreover‚ the art of spoken communication had been invented long before the written communication was invented. In the first stanza‚ by comparing sounds
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Summer Swimming Incident Shayla Smith stayed a few nights of summer vacation with her friend‚ Tamara‚ whose Mom and Dad‚ Bob and Susan Tuttle‚ took Shayla and their daughter‚ Tamara‚ camping. Shayla’s mom was happy for the break‚ as Shayla is dyslexic‚ and that has caused her to have a difficult time at school. Consequently‚ she acts out‚ and is a handful for her single mom! The campground is small‚ but has a fun mini-golf game‚ hiking trails‚ and has a pool‚ but no diving board‚ and no lifeguard;
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What Is it Like to Be a Bat? In his paper on What Is it Like to Be a Bat? Thomas Negal argues against reductional explanations of mind by appealing to the subjective perspective of phenomena by exploring the question of what would it be like to be a bat. This paper will attempt to explain Negal’s analysis and discuss how quantum theory may show how our perception and reality may both be subjective. In his paper‚ Nagel argues that the analogies and theories frequently employed by scientists to explain
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What Saves Us and The Way of Tet by Bruce Weigl are two poems that find the small pockets of beauty in war amidst all of its’ ugliness and elaborates on that beauty with Weigl’s powerful and eye opening writing techniques. Weigl writes with painstaking care and every syllable‚ adjective‚ and break is surgically placed here and there to evoke specific emotions from the reader. Bruce Weigl approach to writing is captivating and pure. In the first poem What Saves Us Weigl writes about a young man who
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be able to pull off a reasonable imitation. There seems to be something that is innately known by being female that is missed in the imitation of a female. So what essence of femininity is so hard to relate to a non female? This question can be broadened to encompass almost anything that we do not have firsthand knowledge of what it is like to be that person‚ species‚ nationality‚ height or weight. Thomas Nagel uses an example very similar to this in his dualist view proposing that there is a gap
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Will Smith In my life ‚ I have had many Idols-From Eddie Murphy to Tupac‚ they have never been scarce in number. However‚ I am taking this time to dedicate my essay to the one person I find has had an adventurous life-Will Smith. At the age of sixteen‚ Smith met a DJ at a party. The pair became friends‚ and the rapping duo DJ Jazzy Jeff and soon enough the Fresh Prince was born. Wilfard Christopher Smith Jr. was
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should rise above gender issues and be her own person or stay with her controlling husband who treats her like a doll. Throughout this classic play‚ Nora’s feelings toward Torvald have altered to the point where she needs to decide what is best for her. The only reason Nora’s feeling started to to change was because of her trying to get the letter back from Krogstad which had the proof of what she done. Failing in the process‚ Nora assumes that her husband will come to the rescue and save her from
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In Black Like Who?‚ Rinaldo Walcott addresses the erasure of the Black body in national historical narratives to the extent that “many people continue to believe that any black presence in Canada is a recent and urban one spawned by black Caribbean‚ and now continental African‚ migration (43).” As a matter of fact‚ as exemplified by Myriam Chancy‚ Canada is widely considered as a harbor‚ as a place of tolerance and diversity for people seeking refuge “differentiating it from the United States and
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The poem “Strange Fruit” was written by Abel Meeropol not a southern black man‚ but instead a Jewish-American high school teachers. “Strange Fruit” was published in 1937. The poem conveys a message about the brutal past about racism around the 1900’s. The poem was inspired by a photograph that Meeropol had seen‚ the picture took place in a lynching‚ the victims were two innocent black men that were hanging from a tree‚ The picture haunted Meeropol for days. This poem was very chilling and terrifying
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