Sweet Ladies Essay

Sylvia hated her “nappy hair and proper speech”. She despised the way her parents kissed her ass. But most of all, she hated that Miss Moore had a college education, something her parents did not have. That “nappy-head bitch” had seen parts of the world that Sylvia had not, she had experienced things in life that Sylvia may never see. This is part of the reason Sylvia hated her so much. But Sylvia also did not like Miss Moore because she opened her eyes to the reality that her life is not as perfect as she thought. She thought that life was perfect the way it was, a care free life with no education. She continues to say that she would rather have fun than listen to her.

Throughout the short story Sylvia Portrayed as tough hard-shelled individual. As we are first introduced to her we learn that even though she seems like an angry individual, she is in fact very intelligent and observant. For example, Sylvia states, “She was black as hell, cept for her feet, which were fish-white and spooky. And she was always planning these boring-ass things for us to do… Miss Moore always looked like she was going to church, though she never did” (1).

In the beginning of the story Sylvia tried to ignore  any topics that weren’t related to money or sometime to her interest. In the cab Sylvia is supposed to calculate a tip for the driver, but  rather comes up with a new plan for the money Ms. Moore has given her. Sylvia calculates the tip for driver ,and she decides  that she needs the money than the driver does. In this part of the story Sylvia is thinking about anything that would help her get her mind off the trip she says “would much rather snatch sugar and go to the sunset and terrorize the West Indian kids and take their hair ribbons and their money too”(Bambara 2). This shows that Sylvia isn’t focused on trip rather she is focus on ways to make money herself. Sylvia is all about money and taking of herself she wants to better than her friends.

She smoothes over Sofia's betrayal of the family, her running away and fighting with her father, by calling it lucky that she ended up with such a loving husband and a beautiful blonde baby. Her story about the thieves who got caught the night Sofia was born similarly reflects her desire to look on the brighter side of things. She needs this positive attitude to craft positive family stories out of unfortunate events.

The motivation of Sylvia is to get Harry to not move to the south! On page 31 Sylvia is talking to Claudia and says, “If he comes here and likes it, he’ll tell him friends, and they’ll come. Soon our community will be overrun. We’ll have no chance of a clean city government,

The film that I chose to write about is a Paramount Pictures presentation titled Mean Girls, starring Lindsay Lohan and also featuring a handful of Saturday Night Live cast members, including Tina Fey the author of this picture. The reason behind choosing this film is because it has a unique style of introducing characters, transitioning between scenes, and various tools to help spice up the film. Being one of my personal favorites, Mean Girls is a comedy about a home schooled teenage girl who enters high school for the first time. She tries to figure herself out by where she can fit in and who she needs to become friends with.

Lastly, her family betrayed her by not listening to her side of the story after her sister told lies about her, and they betrayed her when they acted as if they did not care if she moved out of the house. In all of these actions, the family itself and certain members of the family are portrayed as uncaring, unsupportive, disrespectful, conniving, deceitful, and hateful to Sister. Through every action of the family, Sister is treated harshly, and she tries to not let this bother her. Yet, anger and bitterness build up inside of her until she cannot take it anymore. Consequently, it built up so much inside of her that it severely affected Sister so profoundly that she moved away from her home to get away from her family.

In the book Beautiful Boy David Sheff the father describes his and his family’s experience dealing with his son Nic who is addicted to the drug crystal meth. In telling his story David takes us down memory lane to the beginning of his life with his first wife who gives birth to his son Nic.

The children in the neighborhood are probably the most influential people in Sylvia’s life, since she is around them most frequently, and they are her peers. They too seem to come from the same kind of background as Sylvia—poor, defensive,

Yet, at this point in the narrative, I still perceive Sylvia as a fearful and timid girl. Mrs. Tilley, Sylvia's grandmother, supports this perception by saying that Sylvia is "Afraid of folks" (133). Additionally, this

Many women have certainly proven that women can be funny by breaking into an entertainment forum that is still today seen as quite the “boys’ club”: women like, Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, Joan Rivers, Lily Tomlin, Whoopi Goldberg and plenty more. These women are comedians, the funny girls, but what does it mean to be a funny girl? Using history and the feminist theory, this paper will provide a perspective of what it really means to be that funny girl. So when did women become “funny”? I mean, I’m sure that they always have been but when exactly did they begin to be recognized for being that way? Female comedians have made large contributions to the feminist movement.

I recall growing up when my mother would lecture me prior entering a store. My mother would say, when we go in the store, do not touch anything because she did not have money to pay for broken items; or do you have the money to pay for it? I grew up poor, on welfare, and lived in the projects, so I can relate to Sylvia. However, my mother instilled in me that being poor do not define me, but that education is vital for survival. Just because one the lack resources for a better education, do not mean one must give up; perseverance and determination make you strong. If you think it, you can achieve it was my mother’s motto.

Some of the most brilliant minds have made many unorthodox suggestions. This is the case with Sidney Mintz’s thesis in Sweetness and Power: The Place of Modern History. Mintz’s suggestions that industrial capitalism originated in the Caribbean sugar plantations may seem to contradict the European version of world history fed to most of the Western world, but is nevertheless supported by substantial evidence. In general, Western education has conditioned students to believe that everything productive originated in Europe.

In the face of adversity, people often lose hope, but sometimes the smallest hint of love can help them be strong. Three alluring stories,“The Lady and Her Five Suitors,” from The Thousand and One Nights, “Bahiyya’s Eyes,” from Distant View of a Minaret by Alifa Rifaat, and Zainab Salbi’s NPR interview, “How Do People Live and Cope in the Midst of Violent Conflict,” all portray the sorrows of Muslim Women. Yet despite their hardships and obstacles, these women find strength in love. With this strength they become motivated to stand up to challenges and bounce back stronger than they were before to overcome their adversities. In this way the three sources suggest that love is the motivation of resilience.

	Sweetness and Power is a historical study of sugar and its affect on society and economy since it was first discovered. Sugar has had a large impact on society and the economy that is not noticeable unless thoroughly studied. The following is an analysis of the work done by Sidney W. Mintz in his attempt to enlighten the "educated layperson".