The "Space Traders" Commentary on Racism "Space Traders" is a short story written by Derrick Bell‚ a current professor of law at NYU. Bell is not a science fiction writer‚ nor does he claim to be‚ but he uses science fiction to portray a story of racism that sounds ludicrous upon first reading. However it does in fact tell a story that is relevant to the issues America faces on racism today. Being a lawyer‚ Bell approaches this story from a political standpoint‚ giving symbolic meaning to even
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“Punishment” “Punishment‚” a poem written by Irish author Seamus Heaney‚ speaks of the discovery of the body of a young bog girl‚ who as realized later in the poem‚ was punished for being an “adulteress.” (23) On closer inspection and as the poem shifts from past to present the faith of the bog girl is compared with the faith of another woman in more recent violent times‚ namely The Troubles in Northern Ireland. In this poem Heaney thus comments‚ through the use of literary devices such as enjambment
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Commentary on Soylent Green Soylent Green Soylent Green started out with a montage of America in the early 1980’s and ended with New York City in 2022. The movie was based on what the future could look like for the world if we continue to become over populated. It looked beautiful in the country with plenty of hay for the cattle and food for people‚ taking a ride in the afternoon in the country side was a beautiful luxury‚ people were trying different experiments like the Wright Brothers in
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The Great Gatsby cover Commentary The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a detailed account of a summer that Nick Carraway‚ the narrator spent in West Egg‚ long island‚ living in a house next to a colossal mansion owned by a man named Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby was known to throw many “little parties” which were anything but “little”. The story includes many influential characters such as Daisy Buchanan‚ who is Nick Carraways cousin‚ Tom Buchanan‚ who is Daisy’s husband‚ Jordan Baker‚ Daisy’s
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circumstances‚ but their circumstances condition their choices and propel them toward their destiny’.[1] Middleton‚ as other Jacobean playwrights before him‚ has managed to point out that ‘aristocratic life is brutal and corrupt’.[2] The focus of this commentary will be concentrated on marriage and to what can lead one to fall apart. The first scene (Act I)‚ deals with the characters of the play’s main plot: Leantio‚ Bianca and the Mother. In this scene‚ the readers come across with the insulting
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Reflective Commentary on Working With Actors By Andrey Levchenko One of my favorite courses for today is “Working with actors”. We learned a lot on these sessions. I am not a really talkative person and I prefer to listen‚ either than to talk. Also I am really shy with a new people and do not really like to talk to them in the beginning of our friendship. That is why it was difficult for me in the beginning to contact with actors‚ but with time a got used to it‚ and now I know how to do it easily
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legally freed‚ but not exactly in practice‚ from the atrocity of slavery. Twain shows that many of those stereotypes that the whites believed about slaves had not been broken. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ Mark Twain utilizes Jim to make social commentary on the oppression of colored people in the nation. Mark Twain comments on the racism in the country by exposing the language used by Jim differently‚ the racist words used towards Jim‚ and challenging America’s societal norms by making Huck and
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Running head: EFFECTIVE SOCIAL COMMENTARY South Park: Effective Social Commentary Abstract This paper will explore whether the animated show South Park is an effective use of social commentary. We will explore the controversial topics covered by the show and the reactions to those shows from both a liberal and conservative viewpoint. In addition‚ we will look at how topics covered in a humorous‚ cartoon format may be able to more effectively discuss taboo subjects
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Analyze the way in which Flannery O’Connor fuses social commentary with a religious vision in at least two of her short stories Social Commentary and religious vision are two of the most common and striking features of the work of Flannery O’Connor. I found both themes to be particularly evident in her short stories “The Artificial nigger” and “Revelation”. what I found particularly interesting about these stories with regard to the subject was how O’Connor had the two ideas intersect and relate
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The Cherry Orchard is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov ’s last play. It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Chekhov intended this play as a comedy and it does contain some elements of farce; however‚ Stanislavski insisted on directing the play as a tragedy. Since this initial production‚ directors have had to contend with the dual nature of this play. The play concerns an aristocratic Russian woman and her family as they return
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