Contemporary female artists: Cindy Sherman and Lorna Simpson Living in contemporary world‚ there are some issues that we have in the daily life such as postmodernism‚ post structuralism‚ feminism or post colonialism. Today‚ there are various contemporary artists who expose these contemporary issues. What is mostly concerned in contemporary artist is "postmodernity". The term “post-modernity” can be identified in many different ways that refers to the cultural style of movement in art‚ architecture
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“On the Amtrak from Boston to New York” was a remarkable play written by Sherman Alexie. He portrays the resentful man on the train as the one who doesn’t love his country‚ however‚ he seems to believe that there is more to American history than others see. What about the history of the land before Columbus discovered the New World? The speakers attitude toward the history of his land and toward the Indians was apathetic‚ bitter‚ and very opinionated. Sherman’s apathetic attitude became very
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Two artists whose practice has centered on the expression of identity though self- portraiture are Cindy Sherman and Ana Mendieta. Due to variations in their context‚ however‚ each artist has approached this genre in different ways and has utilized it to focus on contrasting aspects of their identity through diverse media techniques‚ symbolism‚ experiences‚
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public speakers and writers did not achieve it through the way most people did. This is illustrated in the literary work of Malcolm X‚ Sherman Alexie and Anne Lamott. According to these people‚ literacy isn’t achieved by simply going to school. It’s achieved through great determination and through great persistence. In the essay “Superman and Me‚” the author Sherman Alexie details how he learned to read despite having limited resources on the Native American reservation where he grew up. Alexie
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Chi Hoang Mr. Varbel English 1B 15 January 2008 The issue of racial discrimination has become societal norm in America. Poets like Sherman Alexie show that the injustice still exists. Born in 1966 to the tribe of Spokane/Coeur d’Alene‚ he suffered a great deal of discrimination against him throughout his childhood because of his Native American culture and an illness of hydrocephalus. He has seen the ugly face of racism and often speaks about it through his works about the prejudice that is
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As the two young men drive through the desert‚ Alexie applies significant imagery to show the isolation and importance of the situation. There is a certain tension in the air when the two old friends reconnect after their falling out. They are alone in the middle of nowhere: “Victor looked around the desert‚ sniffed the air‚ felt the emptiness and loneliness” (159). Alexie uses imagery to encapsulate the situation that the two young men are in. To help the reader feel the tension of the isolated
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Ever “Every Little Hurricane” From Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (Harper Perennial‚ 1994) Although it was winter‚ the nearest ocean four hundred miles away‚ and the Tribal Weatherman asleep because of boredom‚ a hurricane dropped from the sky in 1976 and fell so hard on the Spokane Indian Reservation that it knocked Victor from bed and his latest nightmare. It was January and Victor was nine years old. He was sleeping in his bedroom in the basement
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does not matter how hard you try to be a better person‚ to be a professional‚ to have a decent job‚ to be acknowledged for what you are and not how you look‚ people still first see what is in the outside. In the short story “Flight Patterns” by Sherman Alexie gives a very good example of how society stereotypes a person. Alexie used stereotypes to show readers that instead of judging of appearances we should get to know a person first. In the short story by Alexie‚ we see how stereotyping
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Jackson is the hero that comes along and redeems Native Americans when he reclaims his family heirloom and regains his identity‚ he is no longer the man that once said‚ “Piece by piece‚ I disappeared. I’ve been disappearing ever since” (Alexie). In Sherman Alexie’s “What You Pawn I Will Redeem”‚ protagonist Jackson Jackson is not the typical hero but he is a hero nonetheless as a result of the Hero’s Journey‚ as explicated by Joseph Campbell‚ that he goes on to reclaim a family heirloom‚ his grandmother’s
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Barack Hussein Obama‚ Jr. (pronounced /bəˈrɑːk hʊˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4‚ 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2008 presidential election. He is the first African American to be the presumptive presidential nominee of any major American political party. A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School‚ Obama worked as a community organizer‚ served as a law school professor‚ and also worked as a political
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