Audre Lorde: Article Analysis

In Arlie Russell Hochschild’s, “Love and Gold,” she depicts the economic influences that turn choices of mothers in Third World countries into a precondition. Similarly, in Toni Morrison’s, Sula, a recurring theme of the struggle between independence, the ability to choose, and doing what’s best for others, or coerced decisions, is imminent throughout the entire novel and revolved around the main character, Sula. Often times the factor that weighs down choice is responsibility. Choices are seemingly infinite until you factor in what choices will affect which people and why. Both mothers and caregivers have to put their dependent before themselves, therefore limiting their

The irony in the challenges of life is that it helps us build character. But the irony in truth is that often times its right in front of us. Can we all subconsciously be capable of carrying ourselves within a barrier of “truths”? As a poet, writer, and political activist, Audre Lorde’s “The Fourth of July” describes an image of how much her mother rationalizes with certain truths: “As usual, whatever my mother did not like and could not change, she ignored” (222). Growing up in an era of segregation, and coming to terms with the realities of how cruel the world could be; as a result, sharing less than the truth was used as a barrier of protection. Nonetheless, in times of social injustice and racism, some truths come to light surrounded with

For this journal entry, I chose to compare Audre Lorde's Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference to the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards. In Lorde's piece, she talks about how oppressed people are often taught to ignore the fact that they are oppressed. We are taught to handle the difference we face by either ignoring them, copying them or destroying them. Lorde says that society as a whole has failed to see differences as a "springboard for creative change." Her article focuses on the fact that refusing to see creative differences makes it impossible to see the different problems and pitfalls women face. Some problems all women share and other problems all women do not share. For example, the experience of a white woman is different

Smith and Bradford use religion as a literary tool to persuade the reader towards their own interests. There are similarities and differences in the motivation to use religion by these two authors, yet the use is still prevalent in their writings. The reasons for these similarities and differences are found in the greater interest of each individual author.

Because Smith never offers up any backing for his word, the reader is left to speculate how he came up with all his information and why they should believe anything he has to say. Smith goes on and on, mentioning example after good example while never once backing up what he has to say.

Smith was talking about capitalism and the necessity of competition; however this also applies to society’s political agenda. Different groups need to be able to compete for power without limitations on their language, action, and literature because such restrictions resemble censorship laws that oppress people’s ability to inform themselves as well as others.

Say What? Is an article that Cathleen Terhune Alty wrote. In this article, Cathleen talks about patients opening up to their hygienists. She explains, that most patients share their personal details because we are good listeners. Some patients feel safe around us because they see us more often than their regular doctor. The key to all this, is to not offer any advice, but instead, listen to the patient. Cathleen goes on by explaining how as dental professionals we are required by law to report cases of abuse or neglect even if the patient told you not to say anything. Also, Cathleen talks about discussing politics with patients. She says that we should avoid that type of conversation because everyone has his or her own opinion about politics.

The short essay by Audre Lorde,” the transformation of silence into language and action” serves as an inspiration to every women to keep aspiring to their dreams. Lorde argues that too many women hesitate to speak up for themselves in times of injustice much like the author admitted to encountering in the beginning of the passage. Lorde views silence as the enemy that prevails in all women, especially to African American women. Fear being one of the many consequences that may result from voiced opinions. Lorde explains that speaking up allows one to discover just how truly powerful an individual is.

In her essay “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”, Audre Lorde details multiple groups of people and their actions and attitudes. She focuses on and criticizes different demographics’ actions and how they impede the achievement of equality for people like herself. She portrays the disenfranchisement and underappreciation she receives multilaterally because of her race, social class, sexual orientation, age, gender. Lorde’s prevailing goal of the essay is to demonstrate that the marginalized should not nullify, ignore, suppress, or attack the expression of differences between themselves. Rather, she asserts that they should recognize and celebrate those differences to unite across demographic boundaries so they may together

In our class discussions and reading, I learned that women were once in charge of the human race, women were a part of a community, no race was inferior or superior, there was peace and harmony in the world until the patriarchal era came, planning to embed itself in the ground for a long time. Women were raped of their identity, their race and their status in society. Men ruled the biblical stories, leaving Mary out. Hence, the war started between the races, women fought to gain their identity back and to do so, they started with writing. One of those women was Audre Lorde. Audre Lorde was raised in a very sheltered family. She was protected by her mother who believed that white people should not be trusted. Seeing her mother

The geographical location of a place influences the queer culture that forms there. Culture is defined as the sum of the attitudes, customs and beliefs that distinguish one group of people from another (Dictionary.com). Sheri Inness, author of “Lost in Space: Queer Geography and the Politics of Location,” argues that “our relationship to a place and culture become elements in the construction of our individual and collective identities” whether queer or straight (148). In Zami, a biomythography by Audre Lorde, the author describes many occurrences wherein her identity and behaviour was shaped by her geographical location.

In the article "The Fourth of July" Audre Lorde conveys to us her experiences in childhood when she faced the racism and discrimination in a trip Washington, DC, and how she angr from. Lorde started the article with explain to us the reason why the family have that summer trip as a presents for her and her sister for there graduated. And how they used a train at night to transportation because it's less price. It's was the first trip to Washington for the family and the mother of Lorde’s family prepare many different kind of food as soon as they set in their seats they started to eat a until a long time. Then Lorde started tell us about the first discrimination that she known about it how her mother prepare the food for them and tell them that the food at dining car food experience but the truth was that black people were not allowed into railroad dining cars and her mother skip the situation because she can't do anything.

The most important cultural value in Janelle Monae’s Q.U.E.E.N. is they want to act in their own culture way without others judgement. For example “They call us dirty 'cause we break all your rules down”. In this part the video shows two men colored in white and played guitar. This sentence means they didn’t act what others want. “Rules” represents the action that others feel normal about. When they do something not normal but in their own culture, others will judge them and scold at them. “Dirty” stands for what other thought about them. This is not because what they did wrong, this only because they act different from other. This also because they were being racism. They have to follow the world others made no matter they want or not. The

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde is a book that uses a lot of descriptive words in unconventional ways. These words stick out when read and allow for visualization of things in the way that Audre saw them. Her choices of nouns and adjectives evoke feelings and imagery that involves all of the senses. This is what made the book most encapsulating. An example of an unusual instance of imagery lies in this quote: “Her crispy hair twinkled in the summer sun as her big proud stomach moved her on down the block while I watched, not caring whether or not she was a poem” (Lorde 4). The way Lorde describes the woman’s hair as crispy and twinkling is very unconventional. Those are not words that one would typically use to describe hair,

Both Hunt and Lease talk about how the Humanities are important to everyday education, but they go about it in a different manner. I would have to say that I agree more so with Hunt on the fact that one problem with Humanities is that they do present some sort of dogma, which is the opposite of what Lease wrote about. However, I agree with Lease on the fact that the humanities are central to understanding the framework of social and cultural worlds. One part that struck me in particular was when Lease told the joke about how someone with a Liberal Arts degree says “Do you want fries with that?”. I found this incredibly frustrating simply for the fact that someone who is working at a college (especially the president of that said college) is