This story is the biography of Alice Walker called “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self”. In this story‚ she is expected to be a pretty little girl who’s life depends on her beauty‚ so much so that when she is shot in the eye‚ her school work is heavily affected. She is treated differently than her brothers‚ who are given more freedom and bully her. I know that in my personal life I have been shunned for not being masculine enough. Societies today see femininity as a female trait. When she
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journeys from the novel “The Color Purple” and the song “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” portray the protagonists making certain choices when they encounter hardships in their journey through life. “The Color Purple” is an epistolary novel by Alice Walker exploring the life of Celie through letters to God and her sister Nettie. Celie’s first challenge in the story is enduring a very tough childhood in the form of rape and abuse from her stepfather‚ Pa. She writes to God that “He never had a kine
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this self-discovery of existence‚ she becomes very similar to an existentialist; despite obvious outside differences‚ where existentialists beforehand usually would be male‚ white‚ and European‚ Celie is female‚ black‚ and American‚ just like Alice Walker‚ the author of the novel. Each beginning letter is a very private account of Celie’s personal thoughts‚ at age fourteen we hear her asking God for guidance because she doesn’t understand what’s happening to her‚ already pregnant with a second child
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Character Relationships with Celie-from “The Color Purple” Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple” is a riveting‚ controversial novel about a woman named Celie‚ other African-Americans and the relationships between them that are either tested or brought closer together. Celie‚ a former slave‚ narrates this novel through her writing of letters to a person she loves and trusts the most‚ God. In these letters: Nettie‚ Albert and Shug are three dominant characters that surround and transform Celie’s life
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looked down upon by men. In books and movies women are treated like children and work animals. In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston‚ and in the movie The Color Purple directed by Steven Spielberg‚ originally written by Alice Walker‚ women are not treated like equals but as an inferior being. These stories present stereotypical women that stay at home and are mindless compared to men. Janie Crawford and Celie Harris are women who are dictated by the men in their lives and told
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The book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is about the pursuance of a social good by science‚ but at the expense of a family’s very own social good. Henrietta Lacks was a member of this African American family‚ and it was the HeLa cells that were taken from Henrietta Lacks that proved to be an improvement in science‚ more specifically and importantly‚ medical treatment of patients with cancer. These cells have also generated a great amount of money for the main company that sells them for use
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Spencer Knight Summer Reading 8-15-14 Religious Faith I am Catholic so I believe in a just and fair world. In this story‚ it sounds far from just that. In this story‚ racism is still a big thing around the time this story takes place. Henrietta is a poor black woman who is treated unfairly in the Hopkins hospital due to that fact she is black. She could have possibly been saved and probably would have if she was white. Her cells were stolen and the Lacks family did not even know about until
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Unlike something ever seen before‚ Henrietta’s cells were placed into a petri dish to see if they would grow‚ and they did. As a matter of fact they have yet to stop growing. Some would call it a medical miracle‚ and those that discovered it “Heroes of Modern Medicine”. Many would argue that scientists had the right to take Henrietta’s samples‚ after all Henrietta signed “a form”. Many would justify the doctor’s actions and overlook misconduct or abuse of power as they neglected to inform Henrietta
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Part two of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks discusses the fate of Henrietta’s cells after she passes away. George Gey‚ the doctor that originally received Henrietta’s cells without her permission‚ asks her husband if he can perform an autopsy on Henrietta so that he can gain more knowledge on her cells. He wanted as many of her organs as possible to see if they would grow like the HeLa cells. Day refused at first because he planned on having a funeral‚ but Dr. Gey insisted that he perform
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Love in the Time of AIDS At the dawn of the AIDS epidemic‚ Maggie Kneip’s husband‚ John Andrew‚ was diagnosed with the highly stigmatized disease. In the aftermath of his death in 1991‚ Maggie lived with secrecy and shame. Neither her husband’s eulogy nor his obituary made mention of AIDS. But the coverup robbed Maggie of the right to properly mourn the loss of a man she loved. Now‚ more than 25 years later‚ Maggie is taking back that right‚ telling the truth‚ and reckoning with all that was left
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