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    Life in Southern America as we know wasn’s the easiest in the past‚ where the patriarchy ruled and women found themselves under appreciated. kind of left at the mercy of men. Some chose to fight back and stand for themselves‚ but most ended up lost as slaves to their husbands. Celie clearly belonged to the second group. In such tough life‚ she always was a follower‚ she never stood up for herself. A total opposite of that‚ belonging to the 1st group‚ was Shug. Celie first came across to know Shug

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    the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals‚ as well as those African-American women outside. She provides the work of Black feminist thinkers‚ Angela Davis who was an American political activist‚ Alice Walker who wrote the book “The Colour Purple‚” and Audre Lorde an American writer and civil rights activist. Although the book focused on the black feminist thought of intellectuals and activists‚ the author believed‚ that those experiences and perspectives of black women would serve as a lens

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    The traditional male and female roles that take place in Celie’s life in the American south often mirror the gender roles in her sister Nettie’s African culture. In both worlds‚ women are considered inferior and therefore are subservient to the males surrounding them. This custom was prevalent throughout the world at the time of The Color Purple’s setting (circa 1930). Beside the hierarchy of male dominance‚ many other similarities between the sexism of Nettie’s African surroundings and the sexism

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    Describe an important relationship in the text and explain the effect of that relationship on characters‚ events and ideas in the book. An important relationship in the novel Purple Hibiscus by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie is the relationship between Kambili and her Aunty Ifeoma‚ and her family. It introduces Kambili into a less sheltered environment where she is not only free to speak her mind‚ she is encouraged to question things‚ and form her own opinions. She also looks up to and admires her cousin

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    THE COLOR PURPLE: THE NOVEL AND THE MOVIE A comparison A story that describes life style of the early years of the XX century but most importantly that defines the love and survival of two sisters; is definitely the novel The Color Purple written by Alice Walker and the movie that’s based on it‚ directed by Steven Spielberg. The obstacles that the sisters have to face are very life risking. Although the novel and the movie have more similarities than differences‚ they still explain the major

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    In the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker the reader is immediately introduced to the harsh reality of Celie’s life‚ with the very first sentence being‚ “You better not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy.” From that point onwards the narrative follows young Celie from she raped and abused by the man she believes to be her father to becoming the wife of Mr._____ ‚ with his decision being almost solely based on the fact that their consummation agreement includes both her and a cow

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    Kara Walker is a disrupter. The kind of rabble-rouser that evokes the power of the visual to create artistic works that undo the sanitized rendering of American history. Her form of resistance has its genesis in placing on display the horrific conditions and savagery that black bodies have experienced at various stages in time. Often‚ visual forms of opposition are more palpable since the eye‚ to humans‚ is the most trustworthy conduit that we own. Therefore‚ the act of looking‚ is a robust entry

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    20 | 25 | 30 | 60 | Cold | 3 | white | white | white | white | white | white | white | Mostly white some blue | Ambient | 25 | white | blueish | Light blue purple | blue purple | blue purple | purple | purple | Dark purple | Hot | 96 | white | purple | DARKpurpleple | Dark purple | Dark purple | Dark purple | Dark purple | Dark purple | Questions A. Write a one-paragraph analysis of the results for the procedure. Provide reasons for the difference in the rate of diffusion at the

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    Cultural collision is the colliding of two or more very distinct cultures. It causes tension between the two groups; exhibited in Purple Hibiscus and Things Fall Apart. Kambili is the main character in Purple Hibiscus‚ she demonstrates cultural collision between her and her father. The cultural collision is not strictly between her father and her‚ it is with Papa and his side of the family preventing Kambili to get to know them. Papa does not like his side of the family because Papa-Nnukwu has an

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    In the literary works‚ The Color Purple‚ Woman Hollering Creek‚ and Seventeen Syllables‚ the characters of Nettie‚ Cleófilas‚ and Mrs. Hayashi experience similar impediments via patriarchal dominance in their cultures that limit their ability to move outside restrictive gender roles. In The Color Purple‚ Nettie‚ an educated black woman from the south‚ who travels to Africa to become a missionary‚ highlights the sexual oppression that links African Americans and the African Olinka. The two worlds

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