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The author of the story Nobody's Princess is Esther Friesner. Friesner was born in New York, on July 16th 19, 1915. To receive her degrees she attended Vassar College to earn her Bachelors degree in drama and Spanish. She also went to Yale University to earn her Masters degree and her Ph.D. in Spanish. When she finished college she taught at Yale University as a Spanish instructor in the years 1977-1979 and in 1983. The author is best know for her humor writing style and her humorous books. The author has won the Nebula Award many times in the years 1995 and 1996. Four series that the author has written are Twelve Kingdoms, Demons, Princess of Myth, and Myjak. Other Novels she has written consists of The Silver Mountains (1986) and The Sword

Andrea Smith’s book Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide read passionately about Native American Indians experiences relative to violence and related topics. Part of Smith’s goal is to aid understanding of Native women’s plight and spotlight how treating their sufferings separately was limiting the pain they lived through to this day. Smith pointed out that though other writers have keen interest in bringing native women’s plight mainstream, these writers fell short of taking an intersectional look at how sexual violence, race, and gender connected equally to the Native women’s history. She believed separating these issues was wrong. Smith cited theorist Kimberlee Crenshaw, (Smith 7) a woman of color, for pointing this issue out.

is the animated musical sequel to its originator in 1940, Fantasia. It was released in December of 1999 and was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and Walt Disney Pictures. Walt Disney’s brother, Roy E. Disney was the helm of producing it and so was Donald W. Ernst, who co-produced it. The movie includes many celebrities that introduced the live action parts with the classical music counterpart. It took many, many years to get the approval to make the sequel and it did really well in the box office. But the more important part from this movie is the music behind it, the music really goes along with all seven of the segments shown and they all have an art style behind it.

In “Cinderella and Princess Culture,” Peggy Orenstein compares girls lives to princesses. Society is stereotyping girls as princesses negatively impacting girls well being. As a result, Orenstein claims society should stop stereotyping girls as princesses and have parents limit the girl's exposure to them. Orenstein proves her claim by stating playing with princesses lowers girls self-esteem and can harm their mental and physical health. Orenstein also states the word princess is such a broad meaning, that it is very misunderstood. For example, when one hears the word princess they can think of a girl wearing a fancy dress, or all the princess products. A lot of girls are being stereotyped as being a princess,

Jealousy is the key factor that pushes us to do better or it can overpower our thinking abilities because we want to be the best, so we don’t think about how it can affect the people around us. This is exactly what happens in the story, “MVP,” by Clare Mishica. Derek wants to be the most valuable player on his basketball team instead of Cole so much that he forgets to be a team player. When Cole gets hurt, Derek realizes how much more important the trophy and being a part of the team is than getting MVP. Teamwork is always more efficient than trying to achieve something individually because a person can do very little alone, but together we can accomplish a lot. The saying, “Two heads are better than one,” goes along with this perfectly.

All, of the dancers in this music video are African-American, and it is very clear. None of their hair is straightened, they are all in Black Panther-esque outfits, and they are “unapologetically black.” The concept of this video is head-on addressing systemic racism. An obvious example is the dancers but there are also many more. For one, the opening scene, as referenced earlier, includes Beyoncé herself standing on a police car flooded in water while a clip saying “What happened in the New Orleans?” plays in the background. This artist is using her platform to bring attention to the hurricane in New Orleans and how there was little to nothing done by police there. She is calling out the system in this video.

Within the essays, “Our Cell Phones, Our Selves,” by Christine Rosen and “Disconnected Urbaism” by Paul Golderger, both authors expressed concern about the usages and the path our society is heading down. It is remarkable that within 30 years the cell phone went from a large mobile phone called the brick to what it is today. If we are not careful with the cell phone and our dependence on it, our social communication skills will be permanently damaged. Cell phones have inhibited the way we interact with each other and the way we communicate.

While Kylie Jenner’s faux dreadlocks for her ‘rebel-themed’ Teen Vogue photoshoot were described as beautiful, edgy, and raw by various style magazines, Zendaya Coleman’s dreadlocks she wore on the Oscars red carpet were described as making her look like she “smells like patchouli oil. Or, weed," by Fashion Police host Giuliana Rancic. America loves to appropriate black culture, even when black people themselves, don’t receive the same amount of love from America. From box braids to dashikis, black culture has been stolen by America and used for their own personal gain, disregarding the historical context and meaning of these traditions or blatantly perpetuating stereotypes.

Marilyn Frye describes oppression as “something pressed is something caught between or among forces and barriers which are so related to each other that jointly they restrain, restrict or prevent the thing’s motion or mobility” (Rothenberg, pg. 149-150). The Cherokee Indians have faced their share of hardship and oppression, from mistreatment to starvation; they have overcome the oppression from the white man to live a full and prosperous life. Within the Cherokee Indians, there exists a subgroup, the Cherokee woman. I am going to talk at length about this group. There exist some similarities and some differences between my perception and upbringing of being a white woman and the Cherokee woman in regards to culture, cultural and social

Bellocq’s Ophelia, by Natasha Trethewey is a collection of poems highlighting the complexities of being a black female sex worker in the early 20th century. The work is inspired by the image of a young prostitute in New Orleans originally taken by photographer E.J. Bellocq. Trethewey 's protagonist is Ophelia, and the poems serve as letters depicting her experience while working in the brothel. Thematically, the poems center largely around objectification .Countess P---’s Advice for New Girls and August 1911 are examples of how Tretheway uses language, tone, and structure to reflect Ophelia’s internal feelings of oppression while being both racially and sexually objectified.

be used to look at sexual and domestic violence, especially when considering colonial relationships, which are “themselves gendered and sexualized” (8). Smith closely examines this specific relationship between the colonists and Native American women. The colonists’ oppression of Native women influences perception of indigenous women’s behavior, beliefs, and views. This oppression acts on racial, gender, and sexual levels and also dictates the treatment of Native women. As Winona LaDuke writes in her foreword to this text, “as a Native woman, you always know that you will be viewed as a woman of color, hence your politics will be race based, you analysis marginalized, and your experience seen as limited” (xvii). Colonial based oppression has taken over the lives of Native people, until it exerts an influence—such as the one mentioned by LaDuke—in all areas of their culture and lives. Racism and oppression have, as Smith argues, become a “part of the social fabric” (8). According to Smith, racism is utilized as a method to eradicate certain enemies of the state; in this case, Native Americans. This erasure can be seen through the seeming “absence” of indigenous people. Smith states that “Native peoples are a permanent ‘present absence’ in the U.S. colonial imagination, an ‘absence’ that reinforces at every turn the conviction that Native people are indeed

As blacks were treated like animals, white masters and the general white population believed their culture and beliefs to be barbaric or blasphemy in the eyes of their God. She goes on to say, “Long before Hollywood showed us images of African, Caribbean and African American wall-eyed shuffling, shrinking, superstition and assorted buffoonery, Christian missionaries and anti-slavery proponents were serving up images of black sorcery and savagery. A fair part of many white abolitionists’ reasoning was that the end of slavery would bring an end to the black pagan rites at the heart of so much rebellion and bloodthirst.” (7) Just like the anti-black imagery and propaganda during the Cuban slave revolution as shown in Ada Ferrer’s Insurgent Cuba, whites had a habit of downplaying anything that opposed their believes, especially if it involved Religion. Religion was directly or indirectly a gate way for power and influence. If Voodoo caught on in multiple plantations, it would make the white’s efforts of transculturalization much more difficult. Osbey continues to speak during her entry that in modern times, these very practices still continue, although they

Authors James Poniewozik and Peggy Orenstein are both concerned with the increase of princess culture among young girls. Poniewozik’s article “The Princess Paradox” and Orenstein's article “Cinderella and Princess Culture” discuss similar aspects of princess culture that could be potentially harmful to it’s audience. Both Poniewozik and Orenstein take on a feminist perspective in their articles. Specifically, both authors discuss feminist themes in princess culture but Orenstein focuses on toddler to pre-teen aged girls while Poniewozik is more concerned with specifically teenagers.

Hurricane Dancers by Margarita Engle is primarily a historical poetic narrative. First off, lots of the pain, emotions, and feelings have been felt in real life. Quebrado may have never walked on planet Earth, but the pain he felt and his desire to be free was experienced by many other people lived the cruel life of a slave:

Social classes exists since the years. Some people born rich and their generation stays rich all the time, while other born poor and all their stays poor all the times. However, there are other people who move from one class to another. Sometimes this mutation depends on the individual effort. In the Diamond Necklace, Guy de Maupassant describe the life of Mathilde who born poor and was not happy with her situation. Since she was unable to switch her social class, she tried for all occasion to appear as rich women. In this short story, Maupassant shows in different ways why Mathilde should recognize and accept her social class and live in the level of her class. Maupassant thinks Mathilde should accept her social class because her honor does not depend to her social class. Also, she should accept her class because happiness does not depend on the materials things. Finally Mathilde should accept her social class to avoid the deterioration of her life.