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The main character, a challenging adolescent boy named Paul, has an almost inexplicable ability at irritating every person he comes in contact with. He finds his education trivial, a sense of superiority towards his peers, and a general distaste for everything in his suburban neighborhood on Cordelia Street. At first glance, Paul appears to be suffering from the typical adolescent angst. However, his actions and frame of mind are better defined by Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPR). Paul demonstrates several symptoms of this mental illness such as, “preoccupation with fantasies that focus on unlimited success, power, intelligence, beauty or love, the belief

This again gives some idea of what the whole issue of slavery would be because it is not easy for a human being to prefer death over anything. The idea of runaways also emerges in the documentary as one of the most critical aspect of the slavery in the United States. Blacks as well as whites who sympathized with the black slaves, decided to help slaves escape to freedom. This again, shows that not every white in the United States supported the issue of slavery.

There are images and video in the exhibit of viola Desmond sitting in the theatre and jail. Gender and race are represented in the exhibit as she faces discrimination and is treated like she is not a person. There is a part in the video where the employee say “ we do not sell to you

An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina takes the audience through a journey of expression and of events that occurred during the Rwandan genocide. In the autobiography, Paul shows many emotions and several tones. The most frequent one was emotional. three direct quotes that demonstrate this tone are, “the person's throat whose you don't cut will be the one who cuts yours”(), “ I was a hotel manager doing his job”(190), and ¨their uniqueness was gone..loved ones erased with a few swings of a cheap machete¨

In his novel Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul, David Adams Richards tells the mystery of the death of Hector Penniac, a young Micmac boy, whom is killed on his first day of work on a cargo ship. A white man, Roger Savage, is suspected of accidentally killing Hector, but soon he is thought to have intentionally killed on the work-site him in anger that Hector, “an Indian” (Richards 6), took his job. From the assigned reading, it is established that the book is told in a flashback style. The short sections seem to be really choppy and disjointed, with the death of Hector in 1985, and the actions after, then 2006 and 1985 returns again. There are also several different perspectives in the story revealing that Markus Paul isn't the only narrator

Central to the experience to slavery is the body. Every tale, every Movie, and every story you have ever heard has concentrated on the slave and their body either with detail of how scared it is or what color and features it represents. And this is one mode of stripping a human being of their humanity, to reduce their existence to only their body and give them nothing else to look at or look forward to. Only having your body to look forward to, or only knowing that you are you because of your body makes you nothing less than an animal some might say. And this consequently has brought tensions that emerge between the literal and symbolic experience and

By sculpting Forever Free, Edmonia Lewis created a piece that, although popular with a white audience, spoke directly to joy and relief black families would experience in their freedom from terrible side effects slavery had on family life such as sexual assault, abuse, and separation caused by being sold individually (Bjelajac 251). While thematically keeping with the effects of slavery on a family in painting the Price of Blood, Noble chose to directly address the causation of familial division by showing a white man callously selling his mixed-race son into slavery in front of a symbolic painting showing the biblical sacrifice of Isaac by his father Abraham (Permanent Collection). Professor David Bjelajac notes the implications of a white man selling his mixed-race son, absent the presence of a mother in American Art A Cultural History: “His African mother, also the father’s slave, is absent from this cruel scene, but she is implicitly present as viewers are left to imagine the coercive and illegitimate sexual relationship between master and slave,” which echo the same issues such as sexual exploitation, Forever Free rejoices in ending (Bjelajac

This fits the whole thesis of the book, which shows what is essentially the first international series of crimes of murder, slavery, and slave trade, but also, not having it all go unnoticed. We remember the Holocaust, we learn about it in high school, but in 6 years of history classes, this is the first-time hearing about this, which is not what all the Africans who lost their lives fighting for freedom

“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. ”- Christopher Reeve. The character of Paul Rusesabagina accurately fits this description in the movie Hotel Rwanda. Paul exhibits bravery, determination and intelligence.

Paul Case is a short story from the late author Willa Cather, and the critical article "A Losing Game in the End: Aestheticism and Homosexuality in Cather Paul Case" by Claude Summers is about the hardships of people who were LGBTQIA oriented. In terms of "Paul's Case," Paul was struggling with his sexuality and desire for the final things in life. People during this time could not come out with their sexuality due to social norms. Paul's case reflects the time of the late 1800s and early 1900s. The critical article about Paul's case demonstrates the author's sexuality because Willa Cather was secretly a lesbian.

Although Prevalence of Ritual shows ritual and religious histories of African Americans, its similarity to She felt the sting of slavery cannot be overemphasized. Both artworks (30years apart) shows the struggles of African Americans through slavery, instability, inequality, fear, pain, dejection, rejection poverty and

Taylor Smith Lisa Grundy ENG 112- 869B April 28, 2024 Paul’s Case Literature Review "Paul's Case" profoundly spoke to me. The details provided by the author gave an insight into his difficult life. The author included great detail that showcased Paul's life. The theme of "Paul's Case" is Paul's increasing desire and demand for money to better his life for himself.

Willa Cather's "Paul's Case" is a story about a young 16 year-old man, Paul, who is motherless and alienated. Paul's lack of maternal care has led to his alienation. He searches for the aesthetics in life that that he doesn't get from his yellow wallpaper in his house and his detached, overpowering father figure in his life. Paul doesn't have any interests in school and his only happiness is in working at Carnegie Hall and dreams of one-day living the luxurious life in New York City. Paul surrounds himself with the aesthetics of music and the rich and wealthy, as a means to escape his true reality.

Prematurely Knowing of Evil Things: The Sexual Abuse of African American Girls and Young Women in Slavery and Freedom and Robin Bernstein’s Tender Angles, Insensate Pickaninnies. The ideas of these times trickled down from slavery to the post slavery era, but the only thing that changed was that black girls werent property or “enslaved” anymore. I quote enslaved because black girls were still chained and restricted by a system that a man or multiple men can rape a little black girl but there will rarely be a time that these men will be held accountable for their actions. Thus, black girls had to keep these brutal experiences to themselves or else they would be looked at as not

Interactions are deemed as “theatrical” when they involve a cultural interaction between the performers and the audience. Levack utilizes the analysis of possession “as a theatrical performance that reflected the religious cultures of the demoniac, the community, and the exorcist” (Levack, 139). His essay focuses on how people “made sense of” (139, Levack) strange occurrences within their own world view. While Levack presents “cultural theater” in connection with possession, the idea is applicable through all aspects of life--religious, cultural, social, and intellectual.