Mariama Magona

Describe: Albert Bierstadt's The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak (1863) and David P. Bradley's, Indian Country Today (1997) are created by different authors, possible for different reasons, but they have a similar subject matter. They both picture nature. Bierstadt's painting shows the landscape of the Rocky Mountains, hence the name.

Decided to venture into the prostitution business and would bribe the officials with money or “sexual skills”.

Selena Quintanilla, an American singer, songwriter, actress, and fashion designer,was born on April 16, 1971, in Lake Jackson, Texas. She was the youngest child of three. Her father Abraham Quintanilla, Jr., was a former Mexican American musician which helped him notice her musical abilities when she was six years old. He told People magazine, "Her timing, her pitch were perfect, I could see it from day one".[sic] In 1980 Quintanilla, Jr. opened his first Tex-Mex restaurant, where Selena and her siblings Abraham III bassist and Suzette Quintanilla drummer often performed. She later broke away from the band she formed with her siblings and launched her solo career. Many people called her the Queen of Tejano music, a style of folk music with

The writer, Maribel Garcia Ochoa, begins her piece with making the claim that because of Donald Trump being elected, California shaped this “defensive” attitude. Then Ochoa supported her claim with the evidence of the immigration policy issue. In addition, she believes that, “SB 54 would prevent the use of state and local resources to assist federal deportation efforts.” In fact, SB 54 has been recently amended in Senate on March 6, 2017. Another claim that Ochoa made was that California’s immigration policy was not completely for Asians it was also towards Mexicans. Ochoa used statistics, “Early into the ’30s, over 15 million Americans, about one quarter of all wage earners, were unemployed,” to show that once Mexicans entered California the unemployment rate of whites skyrocketed.

In the article, "An embrace that swayed the Mormon Church on gay rights”, the author Maria La Ganga, discusses the political issues between the Mormons and LGBT community. The Mormon officials and LBGT members of the community came together in Salt Lake City to pass a anti-discrimination law for the LGBT community. The policy contains anti-discrimination laws for the LGBT community and exemptions for Mormon doctors who have religious beliefs against homosexuals, to refuse doing artificial procedures for homosexual couples. In addition to anti-discrimination laws, the LGBT members tried to reach an agreement with the Mormon Church officials in passing a law in favor of gay marriage and homosexual couples to have ownership as a biological parent

Gloria Anzaldua’s short essay, Towards a New Consciousness, begins with the description of her mixed culture, a mestiza, and the conflicts she faces in being torn between being Mexican and Native American. Anzaldua expresses her struggle of her torn heritages by describing herself as being caught between two cultures and their values. Instead of being able to love and respect both cultures, Anzaldua feels as if we people feel the need to take up one side of our heritage and end up hating the other part. She paints an image as standing on an opposite side of a riverbank, yelling back and forth answers and questions showing that we eventually end up favoring one side and only getting pieces of the other

Anzaldúa recounts her experience growing up in a community where her Chicana culture wasn’t widely accepted. She would be punished for speaking the language her culture influenced to create a language, which corresponds to a way of life. In Gloria Anzaldúa’s “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” the variety of languages helps her compare, contrast and define her argument of the distinguished languages concerning her Chicana identity.

Louis Hémon creates a story of the rural life in a family of the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, the Chapdelaine’s. He uses the climate and traditional values in a way in which the novel still has an ironic and crucial element. Also, the beginning of the novel on Ite, missa est[1] is (“the mass”) a claim on religious behaviour, a main theme in this novel. Maria Chapdelaine, a novel personifying the spirit of French Canada at its most romantic, was written by

As I examined the bracelet, her choice of colors struck me. I found it interesting that she chose black and white beads. It reminded me of our friendship, she has black skin, I have white, and we both felt so close with each other. Just as the beads on the string were intertwined and touching each other, we had touched one another’s lives.

‘The Necklace’ is a morality tale written by Guy de Maupassant where he portrays the life of a beautiful but dissatisfied girl named Mathilde who desires to live a luxurious life despite being born into a clerk’s family and marrying a clerk too. Mathilde’s discontentment in life instigates her to pretend someone rich that she is not. Moreover, it leads her to severe trouble that caused ten years of hardship to Mathilde and her husband. So, this suffering is a punishment for Mathilde which taught her a lesson and changed her dramatically over the course of the story by making her a person of completely different personality for whom appearances

Gathering up what courage she could, the child removed her blanket and allowed her feet to meet the cold, hard floor. The sobbing grew more distinct with the decreasing distance between the girl and the dark underbelly of the bed. Hesitantly, she stretched her arm out under the bed, for it was too dark to try to take a peek. Shaky fingers met with a wooden object, a box. It had not been there before, she was sure.

The Pillow *** It is a little, with various colours, however, soft, flexible, and comfortable It eases one's grief And distress It hears one's breaths And heartbeats It becomes secrecy companion Touches one's face, head Lips, ears, and back It embraces one's arms And body It absorbs one's tears

The critical analysis of gender probabilities in the African context is not a new venture but a significant discussion to the development of gender, cultural and feminist theorists. This study investigates the limitations to empowerment Africa women face at the hands of patriarchal societies, exacerbated by the oppression and subjugation employed by traditional, cultural and religious norms within two different African countries, that is, Senegal and South Africa. The research analyzes two novels by important women writers in African literature, Mariama Ba and Sindiwe Magona. These two dedicated women writers examine the different ways in which African patriarchy and religion broadly manifests itself regarding the position of women. Mariama Ba`s novel So Long A Letter (1981) expresses the Islamic and African laws which core existed in Senegal. As Layiwola (1998: 153) state, “So Long a Letter narrates, in a personal correspondence to another friend, the woes of a

As a team, the goal of this presentation is to reveal to the class, how the Necklace can relate to modern day society. In order to understand and apply the reading to modern day society, we set the event to take place in court as an exaggeration to a situation that can be solved behind closed doors. By questioning the characters in the story, each will slowly reveal how the reading is applied to our everyday lives (such as modern day mentality, christian beliefs, and moral standards between friends).

The place where I feel the most comfortable, and show my personality, is my bedroom. This is the place where I can really be myself and do what I want; it’s the place I come home to, and wake up every day. My room makes me feel comfortable because it is my own space. My house is always crazy, with my dog barking, and my siblings running around making noise, my room is the only place in the house where I can come and relax without caring about everything else, the only place that I can go to clear my mind.