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Choose one of the main lwa discussed by Karen McCarthy Brown and discuss its Vodou theology – that is, its sacred persona, mythic biography, special powers, specific characteristics, ritual practice, and so forth. Situate this lwa in relation to his or her Black Atlantic history in Haiti and beyond. In what ways does the imagery associated with this lwa reflect the confluence of both history and mythology – in other words, what is this law’s mythistory? Then examine the place of this lwa within Mama Lola’s religious practice: what role does it play in her life? How does she relate to and serve this lwa? Has the role of the lwa changed in her experience over time, and if so, how?

The last thing I have in common with Melba is my family is just as supportive as her family. I know for a fact that if I were to change schools to make the country a better place, my family would have my back the whole entire time. At the beginning, Melba’s family was skeptical about her going to this new school. They feared for her safety and her school career. My family would be the same way. Towards the middle of the book, Mother Lois was getting very frustrated with Melba going to a school full of people that hated her. My mother would’ve been the same way. In the end, her family did not regret their decision in sending Melba to Central High School.

Many times people are asked to think about what is important to them. A person may say their home, car, children, material items and some may even say family. In the book Little Women (1868-1869) written by Louisa May Alcott illustrates several family values. The story of the March family starts out during the civil war in New England. The family is left to survive on their own because their father went to protect his country. During the years of life the March children, Margaret (Meg), Josephine (Jo), Beth and Amy, had to face the fact that they were very poor, and couldn't have everything that they fancied. As the family stayed home and awaited the return of their father they received "fatherly" support from an old neighbor Mr.

No matter how ugly, mean, pitiful one can be, the family is always meant to support, raise, guide, nurture and be a means of inspiration in anyone’s life. In the novel, this isn’t the case for Pecola, which is why she gets mentally unstable as she couldn’t bear the torture of ugliness of not having blue eyes. Blue eyes are the one and only reason she could blame as per to her ability and thought process. In fact, she doesn’t get the real ugliness of how her father rapes her, the ugliness of how the mother choose the white girl over her, the ugliness of the fights between her parents is coming from their unpleasant past. After all, she doesn’t have that mentor in her life to explain what was happening. Everybody in her family is occupied with their own mindset. She is very young to understand and analyze on her own. The narrator Claudia even gets to compare between her and Pecola and starts accepting life and feel blessed for having a supportive family, which she doesn’t feel until Pecola enters in her life. So, this shows how young kids psychology is totally built upon the type of family environment she/he gets. There is a saying that young kids are like a raw clay ready to be shaped into the different form of objects by the potter. Undoubtedly, it stands so true. Indeed, kids shape themselves according to the type of environment they grow up with. By all means, Pecola’s family is the

The poem "Where Children Live" by Naomi Shihab Nye contrasts the effects and interests of adults to children by using visual imagery. Children have positive effects on a home because they have a “pleasant rumpledness” (line 1). The imperfections that result from children are endearing. In adulthood, there are no "lost shoes blooming under bushes" or "chipped trucks in the drive" (lines 8-9). The house is described as taking on a new face that is serious and "dignified" (line 7). The freedoms of childhood are lost when one matures; adults prefer routines, relaxation, and “slow-motion back and forth” instead of constant rushing like children (line 10). Children’s hearts are “dressed in the coat with a hood” while adults’ hearts take on “gloves

This paper reflects Dorothy Dandridge the first African American actress to achieve a leading-role status. Mrs. Dandridge also had a deeply troubled life, marked by the scars of a miserable childhood, a string of failed personal relationships, numerous career setbacks, and ongoing struggles with drug and alcohol abuse. Racism was also one of the demons with which she had to deal with.

Florence Kelley is considered one of the great contributors to the social rights of workers, particularly women and children. She is best known as a prominent Progressive social reformer known for her role in helping to improve social conditions of the twentieth century. She has been described as a woman of fierce fidelity (Goldmark, 1953). Kelley was a leading voice in the labor, suffragette, children’s and civil rights movements. She was also a well-educated and successful woman, a rare combination during the turn of the twentieth century.

The immigration of the family into America proves to be a period where multiple liminal periods fuse together to complicate their once simple lives. The girls struggle to define themselves in the new world in which the find themselves. They did not have a religious upbringing, but were always being ordered to live life a certain way, without exactly knowing why. Mr. and Mrs. Garcia did the best they could in terms of how they viewed parenting, but their efforts always seemed to be in vain. Of the two parents, it is evident that Mami was the more understanding of the pair, maybe for the sole reason that she was a woman. Even the girls agreed that, “… [Papi] got a heavier dose [of the old world] than Mami” (65). Mami was more actively involved in the lives of her girls and supported them at everything they did, even though she sometimes felt differently about the

In my AMDM class we are learning about black mathematicians for black history month, so for my presentation I chose the famous mathematician Marjorie Lee Brown. She attended Howard University, University of Michigan, and for high school she attended in Lemoyne. She was one of the first African American women to receive a doctorate in mathematics. Her parent names are Mary Taylor Lee and Lawrence Johnson Lee. Majorie was born September 9, 1914 in Memphis, TN and she died on October 19, 1979 in Durham, NC. She served as a member of various educational boards, such as Women’s Research Society, American Mathematical Society, International Congress of Mathematicians, and Mathematical Association of America. The North Carolina Council of Teachers

The authors first cartooning job was for The Griffin, the weekly student newspaper at Canisius College Honor Program. Mr. Zyglis is the Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, his cartoons have appeared in many publications around the world: The Washington Post, USA Today, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. Mr. Zyglis’s work also appeared in 3 different magazines: The Week, The Time, and MAP Magazine. The author’s work was so great at the newspaper, in 2003 he won first place National Award from the Associated Collegiate Press and the Universal Press Syndicate Awards known as “National Headliner Award,” were given to the author in 2007, 2011, and 2015, the author was also awarded The Grambs Aronson Cartooning with a conscience award in 2015. The author was sponsored by the Atlanta City Press Club for the recognition of his cartoons. Every week the Mr. Zyglis releases 5 cartoons images that he made for the newspaper. The author published this image in 2012 and some of his awards were in 2015, it only comes to show the audience how much more credibility is given to Mr.

Society has not always been fair with the treatment towards African Americans. There has been a constant negative impact placed on African Americans self-esteem, where it is hard to maintain a positive identity because they lived in a white society. African Americans have to struggle to either attain or maintain a sense of self-respect. James Baldwin in Blues for Mister Charlie depicts a character that battles with his self-esteem in such ways, stated previously named Richard Henry. Richard Henry was a strong willed young man, who thought highly of himself, and did not allow others to make him feel less. Roy Bannister presents a schematic in which details the choice path of threatened egotism, in the characters case his threatened egotism would lead to aggression or violence.

In what ways does Ms.Gruwell’s classroom become a family for the students? Do you have a “family” outside your actual family?

When reading poetry, it can often be difficult to interpret the exact meaning of the poem the author was trying to transmit. A reader must learn to construe a poem without getting confused on what the author was trying to convey. We must scrutinize the work so that we may understand it better. In Langston Hughes “Harlem,” to analyze what this poem is trying to interpret we must understand line for line. The poem has eleven lines and all but one is asking a question. In each line except line seven, the last syllable stressed. Six of the seven sentences in the poem are questions. All of the sentences except the first and the last contain similes using like. Line three rhymes with line five; line six rhymes with line eight; line ten rhymes with line eleven. Lines four, seven, and eleven begin with or. Lines three, eight, and ten begin with like. The narrator is asking these questions to have the reader envision the lurid analogies to evoke the illusion of a postponed dream. One must also uncover the hidden meanings that stated in this poem. Written in 1951, Harlem addresses one of the most common themes of the time, inadequacies of the American Dreams of African Americans.

The play Blues for Mister Charlie, of James Baldwin was a successful theatrical play. It has been famous because of the plot’s capturing scheme and because of its playwrights clever ways of stating everyday issues in sharp and clever manner. According to Mark Blankenships, “some plays grapple with history; however some feel like history themselves.” Blues for Mister Charlie, a 1964 drama by James Baldwin, is a part of history replayed as clearly and vividly as possible. The play was inspired by the execution of Emmett Till, an African-American boy whose white attackers went free without prosecution; the powerful subject has been motivated by the documentary "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till." Baldwin, however, takes a simple story and

Another situation in the story that splits adulthood and childhood into two separate worlds is when the Burnell children want to show their friends the new doll house, but they are told by their mother that they can set up the doll house in the courtyard but not allow their friends to come inside for tea or wander throughout the house. Usually children are open hearted and when they have a friend over they want to show them around their house, offer them a snack make them feel at home. But in this story the mother of the Burnell children wants the children to stay outside and not expect to be fed or be allowed in the house. The reason that the mother doesn't want children to come inside is because they may mess up the house or break something, and if she gives one child tea, she has to give others as well which may turn out a bit expensive.