W.E.B. Du Bois‚ author of The Souls of Black Folks‚ wrote the enlightening text that many progressives (and non-progressives) of his time and of today study. Du Bois writes this novel in a lyrical and poetic style to tap in to the consciousness of African-Americans to inform them on the ways of gaining success in the American system that racially undervalues them. He also makes points to non-black Americans‚ but specifically white Americans‚ to inform them on how they can use their white privilege
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of details about inner body studies such as the soul‚ madness and lovers. Within the text‚ Plato refers to the platonic soul‚ this concept that Plato discusses had a lasting impression throughout my reading‚ this is because if one is trying to move souls‚ one must understand the souls first‚ meaning a person needs to be aware of their audience. The platonic soul is an analogy to two horses pulling a chariot‚ "First the charioteer of the human soul drives a pair‚ and secondly one of the horses
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In “Shakespeare in the Bush‚” by Laura Bohannan‚ the narrator of the story has an argument with a colleague on whether or not that the interpretation of Shakespeare could be understood the same way everywhere in the world because “human nature is more or less the same universally”. Her statement would then be proven invalid‚ because a person’s perception will always differ from someone else’s due to their cultural upbringing. While preparing to travel to Africa to study a tribe by the name‚ Tiv
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This extract is taken from ‘The Souls of Black Folk’ (1903) by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois‚ an American sociologist‚ historian and civil rights activist. Du Bois was the first African American to ever receive a PHD from Harvard‚ and is considered one of the most profound scholars of his generation for his active protest against Black discrimination in the US. The Souls of Black Folk explores the effect of being ‘identified as a problem’ by American society for the African American people who
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Guest explains how hardships display the true nature of a person. Similarly‚ Patrick Kohan highlights in his article‚ “The Importance of Adversity in Growth and Development‚” how obstacles should not be removed to help a child succeed. Furthermore‚ Laura Hillenbrand’s novel‚ Unbroken‚ showcases the worst challenges elicit of one’s character. Ultimately‚ one should use adversity to discover hidden talents that once never existed‚ as well as change the perspective of a convoluted idea. Challenges can
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The house for the lost soul. Absent-mindedly‚ 17-year-old Trey Fierce read the line of words carved on the wood plank on the wall which were a subtle depiction of everyone whose life thrown into this place; the facility for the mentally incompetent‚ the unbalanced person‚ the deranged - those were just a few of the names. Whoever had said that madness was always in the form of frenzy and hysteria‚ must have never dealt with madness itself. It was often soundless and discreet‚ appeared in many tender
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This reading relates thematically to the reading “Landscapes of Racial Violence‚” authored by Laura Pulido‚ through its discussion on the racially motivated violence that has been a major aspect of California’s history. Pulido briefly discussed the systematic racism and discrimination that Mexicans and Latinos faced in California during the twentieth
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resisting arrest (Laura Jane Grace). Three years later this same boy begins writing songs under the title Against Me! where he voices his political opinions. Later in his writing he begins to express his inner feelings conveying that this boy is not
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The Things They Carried Ben Cornelius The story “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien is an enormously detailed fictional account of a wartime scenario in which jimmy Cross (the story’s main character) grows as a person‚ and the emotional and physical baggage of wartime are brought to light. The most obvious and prominent feature of O’Brien’s writing is a repetition of detail. O’brien also passively analyzes the effects of wartime on the underdeveloped psyche
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At this point in the school year I feel nervous for the rest of the school year. In the first half I didn’t exactly do my best and I struggled to get by in the first two quarters. I am taking precautions to make sure that I don’t repeat the past and have a better last half of the year. I am still feeling very stressed and pressured by many things in life right now in the school year but I have found different ways to cope with it like reading and painting. I used to use these to cope with stress
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