Jennifer Whitcroft WMS 487-01 Essay 3‚ Option 2 Pearl Cleage’s novel‚ What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day gives a glimpse into the life of Ava Johnson‚ a recently diagnosed‚ HIV positive‚ middle-aged woman. Ava begins the novel as a single woman in transition from a fast paced‚ close-minded life in Atlanta‚ to a more open-minded‚ life of opportunity in San Francisco. The transition brings her to her hometown of Idlewild‚ Michigan to stay with her sister for the summer. Ava’s transition
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they found a diary that Alex wrote over the whole time. But they have to use flashbacks because Alex died so there is know why he can sit down and tell what happened to him. In a way flashbacks can be bad because in this case it is someone else telling Alex’s stories from his diary and often people will dramatize the story. But over all I really like the book and I am excited to see where Jon will take it next.
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The World’s Most Famous Photograph Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait by journalist Steve McCurry which appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic. The image is of a young woman with green eyes in a red headscarf looking intensely at the camera. It has been likened to Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the Mona Lisa and has been called "the First World’s Third World Mona Lisa". The image became "emblematic" of "refugee girl/woman located in some distant camp" deserving of the compassion
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In the article‚ What Happened to the Girls in Le Roy by Susan Dominus‚ the girls all claimed to not be stressed out‚ yet they had triggers that could be the root cause of their condition. Most of the girls had strained relationships with their father‚ if any relationship at all‚ and worried about their family’s financial stability. Both of those situations could
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Summary The Girl who Drank the Moon is a fantasy story set in an unknown time and world. The primary settings are the woods and a village known as the Protectorate. The villagers believe that there is an evil witch in the woods who will destroy them unless the youngest baby is left for her in the woods each year. There is a witch in the woods‚ but she is not evil. Her name is Xan and all she knows is that every year she finds an infant abandoned in the woods whom she rescues. She feeds the
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Colored Girls Opening: Four women who were prominent in our Black History stood up in opposition to the odds placed against them. Listen as they tell us about their lives‚ pain‚ and struggles on how it was to be colored (as they were labeled) during the years of segregation and the civil rights movement. I hope you get a message from this presentation and please enjoy. Teresa Hi – I’m Rosa Parks and I’m a colored girl--on Dec. 1‚ 1955 in Montgomery Alabama-- I refused to give up my
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A lot of people assume that one’s daughter is a lot like their mother‚ and a lot of times that is true‚ in some aspects. I can tell you that my wisdom and common sense came from my mom. My sense of humor‚ my laugh‚ my eyes‚ and my strength also came from my mom. My mom is the reason I have chosen the career path I have chosen. So‚ I have a lot of traits in resemblance of my mom‚ the only trait I lack is her addiction. Growing up I imagined my life to be perfect‚ as I guess all children usually
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“Dark Girls” The 2012 documentary Dark girls‚ is a fascinating and controversial film by American filmmakers‚ Bill Duke and D. Channsin Berry. It goes underneath the surface to explore the prejudice‚ dark-skinned women face throughout the world. It explores the roots of classism‚ racism and the lack of self-esteem within a segment of cultures. Dark girls shows the many struggles which women of darker skin face. It allows women of all ages to tell their stories of the damage done to their self-esteem
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The new girl Author The story is written by Marc Mitchell (Florence‚ Alabama) in 2001. Title The new girl. The whole story is about this situation that changed the main characters life – the situation where he met this new girl‚ and acted terribly against her‚ which “haunts” him the rest of his life. Narrator The story is told with a 1st person narrator. We only see and hear the story through one set of eyes – we only see it from one perspective. (Examples from text: “I lived…”) Settings
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Like Father‚ Like Son In the preface of his book‚ Like Father‚ Like Son‚ Tom Smail gives us the reason for his writing: "This book is an attempt to discover what it might mean for our humanity that God is Trinity."(p. xi) He goes on to give his readers a general outline of what he’ll be covering‚ beginning with how the view of Trinitarian doctrine has changed in recent times‚ and ending with a discussion on what we say about the triune God has deep implications with how we handle our relationship
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