Exceptional Violence by Deborah Thomas

Jamaica's lush landscape and sky blue waters is what some would call heaven, however, what lies in the foundation of the country's government is something much more displeasing. Stephanie Black’s powerful documentary “Life and Debt” shows the negative effects of globalization. The film illustrates how Jamaica’s welfare is dependent on the United States and other foreign policies.

Colonialism is the action of taking away a country’s people, political and economical power. In Jamaica Kincaid’s essay “On Seeing England for the First Time”, she uses numbers of rhetorical strategies to show her bitterness towards England, whose oppressive, pervasive influence took over her country’s identity, culture, and minds of nature. Kincaid uses repetition, symbols, and her tone to convey her attitude towards England.

Townie, written by Andre Dubus III, is a memoir that portrays the detailed events, good or bad, of Andre Dubus III’s life as an adolescent until maturity. Dubus describes himself gaudily, explaining his battles as a boy growing up in the Boston area. Growing up without a cookie cutter father, Andre never had a strong and omniscient figure to help him throughout childhood. The only thing that became a common theme in his life was violence. Violence is present in his lifetime through many forms, starting as him getting beaten up by bullies and ending with him getting in fights as an adult with little to no motive. This continual violence brings out a fury and terror that Andre has to fight against his entire life. While he does eventually become content with his life without fighting, he initially has to fight through many obstructions to get to this point. These hindrances, though from an outsider’s perspective are tragic, shape him into the person he is today.

In “The Victims” by Sharon Olds it describes a divorce through the eyes of the parents’ children. The first section is shown through past tense as the speaker is a child and the last section is shown in present tense with the speaker already being an adult trying to make sense of past events. The word “it” in the first two lines carries a tremendous weight, hinting at the ever so present abuse and mistreatment, but remaining non-specific. The first part generates a negative tone toward the father who is referred to as malicious by the mother who “took it” from him “in silence” until she eventually “kicked him out.” Through the entirety of the poem the children are taught to hate their father. Who taught them? Their mother showed them that their father was a villain and were taught to have no sympathy for him but “to hate you and take it” and so they did so. Although the poem never directly states what the father did to receive the family’s hated, the speaker gives examples as to why he is hated.

In Killing the Black Body, Dorothy Roberts describes the history of African-American women and the dehumanizing attempts to control their reproductive lives. Beginning with slavery, to the early beginning of birth control policy, to the sterilization abuse of Black women during the 1960s and 1970s, continuing with the current campaign to inject Norplant and Depo-Provera along with welfare mothers, Roberts argues that the systematic, institutionalized denial of reproductive freedom has uniquely marked Black women’s history in America.

In “The Revolver” by Emilia Pardo Bazan, the ill woman was abused by her husband Reinaldo and Frederick Douglass describes his abuse in his autobiography by slave-owners. Reinaldo and the slave-owners psychologically and emotionally kept control of others through a variety of tactics of manipulation and threats.

In the article, “Violent Media Is Good for Kids”, the author, Gerard Jones, begins by providing background information about himself. As a child, Jones was taught that violence was wrong, and as he grew up, he learned that violent comics and stories aided him to become an action movies and comic book writer. In his article, the author addresses why violent media are good for children. He points out that it helps them transform better socially, explore and conquer their feelings, and improves self-knowledge. Jones purpose is to inform readers about the positive use of violent media on children. The author uses rhetorical appeals of pathos and ethos, and stylistic techniques such as allusions and repetitions to create his argument.

The two kinds of violence that are presented in literature are those that are caused by the characters themselves, and those that are out of the character’s hands and are caused by the author. An example of a character death by another character is in The Naturals by Jennifer Lynne Barnes. In The Naturals, Cassie, a teenager gifted with the ability to profile killers, joins an elite team of other kids who have the same abilities as her. Throughout her course of working with them, she discovers the secret to her mother’s murder and also who is behind it. Upon being lured out into an abandoned warehouse at the end of the novel, Cassie is brought face to face with her mother’s killer, Special Agent Lacey Locke. As Agent Locke is about to kill

Have you ever read a book that physically affected you? Reading Violent Ends did that to me. It left me shaken and exhausted to the core. What's worse in the novel hit a little too close to home for me at times, when you've been directly or indirectly affected by violence, it's not an easy feeling to simply wish away.

E IDENTICALS IS THE LATEST NOVEL RELEASE BY Elin Hilderbrand. It was published by Little, Brown and Company on June 12, 2017. It explores the stories of two identical twins, Tabitha Frost and Harper Frost. In The Identicals, Tabitha and Harper Frost look exactly alike. People often have difficulty telling them apart. Because of this, people often believed that they had the same personality, as well. After their parents’ divorce, Harper and Tabitha each went to live with one parent. They were once close with each other, but after being apart for fourteen years, Harper and Tabitha become bitter towards each other.

The book gives a record of an important journey of the Godwin family in which they recalled the trail of the Aborigines. It dissipates the thought that the colonial masters surveyed the land starting from scratch. Those trails, actually, framed the reason for the first foundation for the road construction in Antigua and Barbuda. It also tells about the efforts of Governor Haynes Smith to enhance the health and education services, the courts and the continuous shutting down of estate prisons as the twentieth century progressed. It talks about the steady replacement of the teachers, English midwives and different laborers in the Civil services and the state of mind of the blacks that displaced

Millions and millions of people in the world are familiar with the name Bob Marley. People all over the world love his songs, such as “Buffalo Soldier” and “Three Little Birds”. “Is This Love” is the ultimate song to sit back and relax to. Many people, however, don’t recognize the political impact that Bob Marley had to Jamaica. Jamaica, in the 1970’s, was a political and economic mess.

Every country in the world has their own issues that they have to deal with. Jamaica is a strong example of this. Their biggest problem that they face is easily the crime issues. There is really nothing in jamaica that brings in wealth. This is a big problem as there is no businesses so everyone is pretty much poor besides a few parts of the island where the rich live. In jamaica it doesn’t matter where you are crimes happens everywhere, as for here in the U.S, usually most crimes happen in the run down places, not in the nice areas of rich people. A big problem is there isn’t enough law and order to stop all of these crimes that are taking place. There is not enough money to pay all of the policemen. So as these criminals are out killing, they are trying to figure out how to fix it. We all need to worry about what is going on here. Crime in Jamaica is terrible, with all of the drug trafficking to robbery or theft, although it is improving , Jamaica still has one of the highest crime rates in the world, and it doesn’t matter where in Jamaica a person is, crime happens everywhere, it doesn’t help that Jamaica is located in the Caribbean where a lot of the drugs in the cartel is dispersed, as people fight and kill for those horribly addictive drugs that are ruining the island of Jamaica.

The “Price of Memory”, Directed by Karen Mafundikwa, is a remarkable film that follows the Rastafari group within Jamaica and their petition for reparations from Queen Elizabeth, and the British Government. Initially when beginning this film, the director envisions taking part of the irony, that Queen Elizabeth was visiting one of her former colonialized nation. However, after taking a further in-depth view of the history regarding the island, the director felt there was indeed a story, still needing to be told. Mafundikwa began by tracing the direct correlation of slavery, and how several nations have capitalized on the backs of slaves. Therefore, it is because of the strong memories of the history of slavery, that still embodies the

Several of these issues arose during the WPA heyday. Among them, the historical and contemporary ‘relevance’ of Marxism to the region; the relationship between democracy and socialism; race and ethnicity in political practice; and the role of the state. Clive Thomas, himself an active member of WPA was a key contributor from the Anglo-Caribbean and dealt very early with the connection between democracy and socialism at a time when dogma ruled the roost and any departure from the canon was greeted with derision. Thomas made this substantial critique in “Rise of the Authoritarian State in Peripheral Societies.” In this piece, Thomas anticipated modern criticism of the left on the problems of socialism in the Caribbean and even further afield. Indeed Thomas and others were branded with ‘pejorative’ labels ranging from ‘social democratic ideologue’ to ‘left deviationist’ and ‘moderate’, among others. Thomas’ focus was grounded in his own practical experience with the socialist development in the Guyana