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In this book, Jeffrey Ogbar talks about the beginning of rap, where it started, some of the artists of this genre and some of the controversial topics the artists rap about. He also talks about the usage of the N word as well as men calling women the B word. In the first chapter of the book, Ogbar contextualizes the debate by talking about the history of the minstrel figure in American popular culture, relying mainly on the work of W. T. Lhamon and Patricia Hill Collins. He talks about how the earliest manifestations of hip-hop music in the 1970s came from the Black Power movement and often included direct rejections of minstrel tropes for example in the artist KRS-One’s song “My Philosophy”. Before going on a chronological study of the internal debates that many rappers have over their relationships with the minstrel trope, Ogbar finds the source of the debate in early twentieth-century black writers’, mainly W.E.B Du Bois, interest in elevating many portrayals of African Americans in the arts, versus Harlem Renaissance writers’ rejection of the emphasis on

In Matt Taibbi’s book The Divide, the criminal justice system is revealed to have become a form of social control over the poor. Taibbi refers to this divide between rich and poor as “two systems in a vacuum,” where there are two separate systems depending on whether you’re rich or poor that people seem to accept. When looking at both systems in comparison, however, the system makes no sense. An example Taibbi uses throughout his book is the legal process of petty crimes, such as drug dealing or just sleeping on a park bench overnight, where, due to minimum sentencing laws, people have had to serve a minimum 20-year prison sentences. These are people that are poor and desperate enough to sleep on a cold park bench, but instead of giving them

Mr. Gawande starts his literature on washing hands. He introduces two friends a microbiologist and an infectious disease specialist. Both work hard and diligently against the spread of diseases just like Semmelweis who is mentioned in the chapter. Something I learned, that not many realize, is that each year two million people acquire an infection while they are in the hospital. Mainly because the clinicians only wash their hands one-third to one-half as many times as they should. Semmelweis, mentioned earlier, concluded in 1847 that doctors themselves were to blame for childbed fever, which was the leading cause of

Julia Alvarez’s novel, In the Time of the Butterflies (1994) centers around the lives of the four Mirabal Sisters who courageously brought acknowledgement to the inhumane and brutal actions of Dictator Rafael Trujillo and the treatment of women in a society where they were seen as property. In the 2001 film adaptation directed by Mariano Barroso, the film mainly centers on Minerva Mirabal, the outspoken and rebellious sister. Despite bearing some minor similarities, there are more differences between Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies and Mariano Barroso’s film – both author/director start the story of the sisters in different ways, in the novel the reader is able to see all of the perspective of the sisters instead of only Minerva’s,

Julia Alvarez’s novel In the Time of the Butterflies shows the lack of fairness in society and the importance of maintaining a strong family bond. Trujillo was not fair between men and women and granting men the rights to do whatever they want. The Mirabal sisters’ revolutionary against president Trujillo and fighting for freedom of the country and its people. In Saudi Arabia women are now granted to drive, but there some other things that men can do but women cannot. The Mirabal family has a strong maintain of a family bond. Minerva is one of the four sisters who is brave and had the courage to stand for others and started the revolution against the president.

In this chapter we start seeing a flow threw the book Etta Mae is getting back from another one of her trips and is coming to her home which she shares with her good friend Mattie Michaels. As she arrives in a new car , with a new outfit and carrying records. This chapter the author , Gloria Naylor adds in song lyrics to give us the reader some additional information on the evens happing . “I love my man I’m a liar if I say I don’tI love my man I’m a liar if I say I don’t But I’ll quit my man I’m a liar if I say I won’t I’ve been your slave, baby Ever since I’ve been your babe I’ve been your slave Ever since I’ve been your babe But before I’ll be your dogI’ll see you in your grave My man wouldn’t give me no breakfast Wouldn’t give me no dinner Squawked about me supper then he put me outdoors Had the nerve to lay a matchbox on my clothes I didn’t have so many But I had a long, long way to go”

I read the chapter “The Newcomers”, the book first starts off by stating how France started sending explorers to find new lands. When Francis I, (The king of France) sent Jacque Cartier, his job was to find a shipping route and precious gems and metals. Jacque Cartier arrived at Newfoundland and from there journeyed down to Prince Edward Island. Chief Donnacona went with his brother and two sons protest the cross, but the French convinced Donnacona to allow Jacque Cartier to take his two sons Domagaya and Taignoagny. Donnacona told stories to ward off Cartier from going past Quebec City, but soon Cartier went against Donnaconas wishes and past Quebec City and went as far as Montreal. Cartier’s crew got sick with scurvy and died off but he was still alive so he set sail back to France.

In Chapter 1, the author assesses the unique and eternal achievements of 5th century BCE Athenian culture. She introduces several basic dichotomies that define her understanding of the writers and events of the period in the later chapters.

As you discuss the key issues brought up in the first half of the Ehrenreich book, the fact that millions of Americans work full-time for poverty-caliber wages is inhumane as well as insulting to them as well as our nation: "land of the free." It is hypocritical to think that we are empowering people in our land of the American Dream when such blatant socioeconomic gaps exist. As a woman, I appreciate how she also demonstrates the demeaning and sexist ways in which lower wage working women are treated.She also exposes the true realities about the job hunt, as she suggests in Chapter I, "the want ads are not a reliable measure of the actual jobs available at any particular time."

The two unknown people start up this chapter, one talking about how he would isolate Ender at the school so he wouldn’t lose him. Right away, Ender feels separated from the rest of the boys at the Battle School, since he doesn’t feel like speaking to the other boys as they laugh and joke around. He imagined himself starring in an interview as the spokesman for the rest of the boys. He wanted to say how much he missed Valentine, not knowing about the censorship.

In the poem “Written in Pencil in a Sealed Freightcar” by Dan Pagis, there is much information that is left unsaid. Pagis writes that “I am Eve, With my son Abel.” I know that references the bible, since Pagis often refers to biblical or mythical stories. He also writes “If you see my older boy, Cain son of Adam, Tell him that I...” I believe that this also refers to the bible, but leaves readers wondering what happened, and why it ended. There are many things the author doesn’t tell us, but some things are easier to find than others.

Kate Chopin’s “Désirée 's Baby” was set in the days before the abolition of slavery, at a time when the ownership of another person was not only acceptable, but also economically impactful in the south. It was normal to see big plantations owned by whites and tendered by black slaves. We see all of this and more in “Désirée’s Baby”. One of the characters, Monsieur Valmonde finds an abandoned baby one day while out riding. His wife, Madam Valmonde, does not have a child of her own so she takes the baby in and names her Désirée. Madam Valmonde and her husband, Monsieur Valmonde raises the child, until she is old enough to become married. Her attractiveness and especially white skin attract Monsieur Armand Aubigny, a plantation owner, and they immediately become married and have a child. Désirée and Armand both originally associate themselves with the white class, but once the plot unveils their black heritage they are faced with uncertainty, and ultimately their lives become meaningless and not worth living. Throughout the story, Kate Chopin uses symbolism to convey her themes of racial biasness and social ladder in a society. The characters and the setting in this short story help provide the readers with more understanding of how racially charged our society was at that time.

The Butterfly and How It Relates To Patriarchy and Colonialism Gender roles differ from culture to culture, and have not only been criticized for stereotyping individuals, but also for inhibiting the viewing of other cultures as acceptable simply because their roles do not necessarily conform to those of one’s own society. For a long time, Asian society was judged and underestimated by Western powers for being different and “effeminate”. John Luther Long’s Madame Butterfly provides a stereotypical dualistic dynamic between the Western and the Oriental world by closely relating the former society to the stereotypical male gender role, and the latter to the female one, proving the similarities between colonialism and patriarchy, and while

Reshmi Takeuchi like many other Japanese silk moth people was born in a large family of siblings. This only made her more loving and caring than other types of insect human’s but it did help that her father loved to spoil his girls. Plus since all the sisters could make silk it was easy to buy them the things that they could ever wanted. Plus having four sisters three of them younger than her and one older than her meant that she did not have to take all the burden of taking care of child by herself. Plus her three brothers made sure that no harm would happen to the family with the help of their father. But no moth family stays together forever and live her older sister she chose to move out on her own to find her own place in the world.

Giacomo Puccini’s opera, Madame Butterfly, is based around Romantic heroine, Cio-Cio-San or Madama Butterfly—as she is, also, called. The story begins when Lieutenant of the US Navy, Benjamin Pinkerton, who is in Japan looking for a wife, is leased a house from match-maker, Goro. The house comes with servants and a fifteen year old geisha, Cio-Cio-San, who is to be his Japanese wife. Sharpless, the American consul, does not know whether Pinkerton truly loves his Cio-Cio-San; thus, he warns Pinkerton that his wife may see the marriage differently. However, Pinkerton disregards Sharpless’s warning and proclaims that he will one day find himself an American wife.