Runaway Love Analysis

mother died of lung cancer. After these devastating events took place, it was a phone call from her twin sister Becka, and knowing that therapy alone or coupled with AA weren’t enough to break her physical and emotional addiction with alcohol, that

Unfortunately, the loss of housing occurs frequently and takes a psychological toll on the people affected by depression. Desmond displays how Arleen is very troubled when she gets evicted, thrown into the cold, and stranded with nothing. It takes a toll mentally when she realizes she has no home to get away from the cold, but also the eviction will be on her record for the next move. When people get evicted there is so much going against them, that mentally they can’t keep up and become depressed. Desmond describes the depression of a Hispanic woman and her three children during an eviction. At first, she had “borne down on the emergency with focus and energy,” then she started wandering the halls “aimlessly, almost drunkenly, her face had that look, the movers and the deputies knew it well”(125). Desmond adds, “It was the look of someone realizing that her family would be homeless in a matter of hours”(125). With vivid imagery, Desmond truly shows the mindset of a woman who knows she lost everything. Eviction scars people and that it makes a lasting mark on how they mentally feel as if they are worthless.

Chapter 2, “Falling in Love”, shifts the discussion from race to gender. This chapter sheds light on the structure of male-female relationships on the streets. The lack of stability, surrounded by the destructive atmosphere reveals how women learn to use their sexuality as a tool for survival. However, this chapter mainly focuses on Tina, a homeless female heroin addict, and her experiences growing up surrounded by poverty, abuse and addiction.

Love is a game. The object of the game is for men to win the hearts of women. But winning the hearts of women is rare for men to do. The man in the poem “Love In Brooklyn”, is a novice player in the game of love. Because he is unfamiliar with the rules, he does not know how to win the hearts of women. Because of his lack of knowledge in women, he is extremely introverted when he interacts with women. He said, ““I love you, Horowitz”... and he blew his nose””(Line 1). The way he said “I love you” made the meaning of the statement lose its value. He also tried to prove to her that he loved her by comparing his love for her to a tank sliding through the trees (lines 12-14). He compares his love for her to destruction illustrating that he is clueless

Ludacris does a remarkable job of portraying his message about the struggles that some adolescents are faced with. “Runaway Love”, by Ludacris, featuring Mary J. Blige (2007), represents the theme of struggle through hip-hop and rap music. It is about little girls who are “stuck up in the world on their own.” They have to take care of themselves because the people they are around do not care about them. They range from nine to eleven years in age, and their goal in life, at such a young age, is to run away from home. Ludacris is trying to get the listener to realize the struggles that even children have to face because adults are not the only ones who have problems, like most people believe. He is very successful in

Love can be categorized as romantic love, family love, friendship love. Yet, divine love is always indispensable. However, do these religions really promote how to love? In All about love, hook seems to disagree that religion is used effectively to promote how to love in the world. But is this the truth? Are religions as hooks says, “corrupts and violates religion principles”? In this essay, I will discuss how religions play a role in creating and practicing the spiritual love, then I will examine oppositely and comment on how hooks criticize organized religions in promoting other cultures. Lastly, I will examine how spiritual practice and religion beliefs work together to enhance our spiritual life.

In the book There are no Children Here, the author Alex Kotlowitz detailed the lives of two boys living in a Chicago housing project called the Henry Horner Homes. Mr. Kotlowitz describes the lives of the boys Lafeyette and Pharoah, and the lives of their family and friends during the late 1980’s. Their lives, in general, were full of violence and challenges related to poverty. We read about a girl who witnessed her family being murdered, teenagers becoming parents, and gang activity. There are no Children Here is an appropriate title for this book because most children living in the Henry Horner homes did not have a typical childhood and they lived through horrific experiences that made them grow up too fast.

Touring with her father gave her important performing experiences, but it was also a very tough time for her (Moritz 132). Her brother told a Time Magazine interviewer: “Driving eight or ten hours trying to make a gig, and being hungry and passing restaurants all along the road, and having to go off the highway into some little city to find a place to eat because you’re black- that had its effect” (Moritz 132).

Linda’s account of the incidents she encountered during her 27 years as a slave shows us the harsh, terrible, fearful conditions in which slaves lived. Especially, the life endured by slave girls. In fact, these girls grew up side by side with the children of their masters, but at age fifteen they would become subjects of the morbid attention of their masters. If these girls were blessed with beauty, then they would endured even harder situations due to the attraction that their masters had towards them. Linda recalls how she used to play with her master’s daughter until she turned fifteen.

The policing of women’s bodies and accessibility to self determination is a common theme throughout the readings (but also in the present day). Women have had the unfortunate experiences of being treated like second class citizens, and it is only worse for women of color. In their Blues lyrics, women of color could express how limited their lives were, how they were affected by their circumstances and how they found their strength. For example Clara Smith sang, “Gonna leave this town, cause my man is so unkind” (CITE), is an example of women recognizing their strength and independence. Using lyrics as a means to advocate for the progression of women created a sense of unity, because these singers we not just singing their own experiences, but using them as a way to connect and vocalize common circumstances, “we hear the ‘we’ when they say ‘I’” (CITE). Their work, helped to build communities and to call out what happens within them by pushing the

The artist, Destiny Frasqueri, explores what it means to be young and brown in today’s America through her spoken word poem “Brown Girl Blues.” Frasqueri informs listeners of the hardship and oppression on the black community and the racial divide the government keeps on society. This argument makes sense. With the pandemonium that appears on the news and the riots that happen daily it’s obvious the reasons behind Frasqueri perspective. Though Frasqueri is talking on such deep and demanding material she stills keeps an optimistic disposition on the topic. Destiny Frasqueri has spent her whole artistic career writing about the injustice of minorities. Many of her other pieces have a more dark and isolated tone, but not “Brown Girl Blues”. The jazzy and soulful instrumental integrated with a video of young, black, powerful females gives a unique and hopeful vibe to

A victim, Tina, was 12 when she had left her abusive household, realising the isolating nature of the streets. Tina explained, “When you’re living on the streets, you’re like an alien, you’re toxic. You have this anger and rage because you’re getting discriminated against, you haven’t got the resources and you haven’t got anyone to help you. So you’re angry because you’re saying “why me?”. Such violence eventually relates to homelessness, affecting woman of all ages, cultural, social and economic backgrounds. As a result, the dependence of acute services continues to rise.

Sandra Ciseneros, in “The House on Mango Street,” discusses about the life of a young girl as she tries to come into terms with her identity and culture. One of the chapters mentions Sally, a young beautiful girl who was repetitively abused by her own father, but still chose to stay. Multiple researches done by professionals have discovered that there is much more to the surface of the victim’s choice to stay with their abuser. These researches reveal that domestic violence victims stay with their perpetrators due to conflicting emotions within themselves, pressure from family and friends, fear, low self-esteem, lack of money.

Many people can have a chance to influence outcomes but none has got a chance like Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible. Trying to keep her marriage together from a younger Abigail Williams when her husband John Proctor and Abigail commit Adultery or as it was known back then lechery, Elizabeth moves in the play even when she has done nothing to move in the play from John and Abigail committing adultery leading her to be suspicious, to where she confronts John about the Adultery and finding out to be untrusting, then to firing Abigail from being their servant girl. Arthur Miller’s portrayal of Elizabeth’s love for her husband begins with untrusting and throughout the play moves to more trusting and affectionate.

Ludacris grew up in Atlanta as an only child with a single mother. This song was brought about because having a daughter made him think more about the problems that teen girls face. Once this song was released Ludacris began to work with the National Network for youth and the National Runaway Switchboard. The organizations had seen some increase in calls received after his work. Ludacris song Runaway love ft. Mary J. Blige represents the theme of struggle through hip hop and rap music. Runaway love tells us the story of three little girls that are stuck in this world alone. These girls are not even in their teens yet; they have no one that cares for them. These three girls are trying to leave there home to escape the abuse and troubled parents