Girls Can We Educate We Dads? Diction. “Girls can we educate we dads” is a poem written by James Berry‚ a Jamaican poet in the 1900’s which speaks about a girl who criticizes her dad’s stereotypical views about girls’ behavior and thoughts. The main message or theme that the author is trying to send to the reader is that involving stereotyping‚ generalization‚ and sexism and how these thoughts are present in many men all around the world yet are not true. This poem consists of many factors
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“Only a girl” In Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls” she tells a story about a young girl’s resistance to womanhood in a society infested with gender roles and stereotypes. The story takes place in the 1940s on a fox farm outside of Jubilee‚ Ontario‚ Canada. During this time‚ women were viewed as second class citizens‚ but the narrator was not going to accept this position without a fight. Munro’s invention of an unnamed character symbolized the narrator’s lack of identity‚ compared to her younger
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she was imprisoned. A major part of this film was the use of handheld camera. Filming from a handheld camera really portrayed the chaos in scenes such as the hostage situation in the news building. The tone of the movie is clearly set by means of loud orchestral music and soft frightening tones and sounds. V’s theme song throughout the whole movie is a loud‚ motivating orchestral ensemble that drives home the utter insanity within his mind. While V is leading a revolution against the government
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In the article‚ “Nah‚ We Straight” by Vershawn Ashanti Young‚ debates the importance of code-switching especially in today’s society. Young defines code-switching “as the use of more than one language or languages variety concurrently in conversation” (Young 149). Code-switching is changing your language‚ grammar or style‚ to appeal to a certain social group within society. I agree with Young because this is an issue‚ particularly in America because the code-switching can correlate to one’s race
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The “We Care We Share” service initiative was conceived in the spring of 2012‚ in a youth group meeting between several of my friends and I. We meet once a month to prepare hot food‚ often pasta or chili‚ and travel to homeless shelters in the city to serve the needy. In late November‚ we make winter care packages and distribute them to the homeless‚ providing them with supplies that would help them bear the cold‚ such as scarves and gloves. Being one of the founding members of this initiative‚
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his interest in acquiring the apartment develops. However‚ understanding the societal racism that plagued the peoples‚ he confesses that he is indeed African. For a while the landlady is silent‚ but afterwards she abruptly asks the man if his skin tone is light or very dark. The man is enraged and comprises sarcastic replies. One of his responses includes asking the landlady whether she is referring to plain or milk chocolate. He continues to make such comments to the point that he describes how
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Throughout the story of “The Lottery”‚ author Shirley Jackson uses an ironic tone. From the reader point of view‚ a lottery is special grand prize‚ not a twisted turn of events which involves death. The use of irony prepares the readers for the most dramatic reaction. Shirley Jackson sets the most obvious use of irony from the beginning. From the first impression of the readers‚ the lottery is a cash prize. As the plot ticking’s‚ Jackson played on the belief and turned it to the complete opposite
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change the world‚ that is what people strive to do. Yet‚ up to a certain point‚ the human is unaware of death and how it is out for everyone. The moment where someone realises that may take years or decades to occur‚ but when it hits‚ it hits hard. In the seconds where the realisation first occurs‚ one can see what a person’s true character is. It is even easier to tell in the world of literature. In Joyce Carol Oates’ We Were The Mulvaneys‚ she depicts who Judd Mulvaney is through the use of literary
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emotions from the audience. The emotions that the writer hopes to bring about are sadness and anger‚ to which is directed towards the corrupt governments of the western world. The song begins with a 5-line spoken intro. The softly spoken intro sets the tone of the song. It emphasises the solemnity of the story that is being told‚ which although fictional‚ bares much resemblance to the incredibly tragic story of a young Syrian refugee‚ Alan
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How does O’Neil present the role of women in society in Only Ever Yours? Only Ever Yours is a dystopian novel written by Louise O’neil‚ set in a hyperreality which sees men superior to women. One of the main themes in Only Ever Yours is the roles of women in society. Women are bred in the boarding school and have lessons on pleasing the opposite sex in order to get married. The novel goes out to make a feminist statement. There are many themes to explore in the novel such as the inferiority of women
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