Chicana/o Narrative: Immigration‚ Family‚ Feminism and Transgressions In the late twentieth and twenty first century Chicana/o narrative has become a medium to express the injustices that the community faces along with identity conflicts at the individual level. Chicana/o narrative‚ fictional or autobiographical work‚ serves as an act of healing and resistance‚ in which the themes of the gender roles‚ family‚ feminism and immigration are predominant. These four themes serve to deconstruct and challenge
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How important is gender in the construction of life stories? Refer to specific life stories or films in your answer. “There is no ungendered reality or perspective‚ but rather the power to declare one universal and the other partial.” (Catharine MacKinnon 1989) My auntie was born in 1925. Since I was a child she always insisted on teaching me‚ recalling and using her personal life story as a respectable and orthodox example to follow. How a proper woman supposed to behave within the domestic
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"We ’re here‚ we ’re queer‚ get used to it!". A recognized anthem outspoken at marches‚ demonstrations‚ parades‚ and advertising within most homosexual communities. "Queer" is just one‚ amongst many nomens used to describe a homosexual person or group. The remote past of homosexual people is a vast and captivating road that has brought us to where we are today concerning the ethics: the system of determining right from wrong‚ of homosexual people including rights and freedoms concerning them. Ever
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Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely‚ dark and deep. But I have promises to keep‚ And miles
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Harry Potter and the Closet Under the Stairs: Coming Out in the Wizarding World Lauren Marie Capaccio‚ University of California‚ Santa Barbara The following abbreviations will be upheld throughout the paper: HP Harry Potter‚ the complete series (but not the character) SS Book 1‚ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone CoS Book 2‚ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets PoA Book 3‚ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban GoF Book 4‚ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire OotP Book 5‚ Harry
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self-esteem‚ anxiety‚ depression‚ avoidance of school‚ and suicide (Hawker & Boulton‚ 2000). Unfortunately‚ one of the most victimized groups of students subjected to bullying and harassment is the lesbian‚ gay‚ bisexual‚ transgendered and queer youth. According to the National Youth Association‚ 9 out of 10 LGBT students have experienced harassment while at school. It also states that LGBT teens are bullied two to three times as much as straight teens. These high rates of bullying may explain
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was produced by the government-run Cuban film industry (which can only afford to produce three or four films a year). In 1995‚ Cuban drag queens led the annual May Day procession‚ joined by two queer delegations from the US‚ one from the New York Center for Cuban Studies and the other from the Bay Area Queers for Cuba. The US activists joined with members of Cuba’s Action Group for the Liberation of Sexual Choice and Expression to carry a 10-metre piece of the rainbow flag from the June 1994 Stonewall
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Politically Correct/Vicious Cycle The Bill of Rights‚ Amendment I states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion‚ or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech‚ or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble‚ and to petition the government for a redress of grievances” (Bill of Rights). These rights were basically protecting what people say‚ and write‚ however‚ we are slowly loosing those rights. We have to worry now
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Wilfred Owen‚ a Soldier Poet who spent time in several military hospitals after being diagnosed with neurasthenia‚ wrote the poem "Disabled" while at Craiglockhart Hospital‚ after meeting Seigfried "Mad Jack" Sassoon. A look at Owen’s work shows that all of his famed war poems came after the meeting with Sassoon in August 1917 (Childs 49). In a statement on the effect the Sassoon meeting had on Owen’s poetry‚ Professor Peter Childs explains it was after the late-summer meeting that Owen began to
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Whether it was a wonderful experience or a terrible one‚ if you went to your high school senior prom‚ I am sure that it was a night to remember. For so many teenagers the prom is the highlight of high school. It is the one thing so many students look forward to. Many see it as a rite of passage into adulthood. For Amy L. Best‚ the author of "Prom Night: Youth‚ Schools‚ and Popular Culture"‚ the prom is a perfect opportunity to explore teen identity and individuality. It is also a place to look at
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