The Thing Around Your Neck

When Jeannette begins school in Welch, an African American girl Dinitia Hewitt and her friends harassed and beat up Jeannette for being scrawny and filthy. She is constantly made fun of because it is apparent that she lives in poverty. The other children do not accept other that aren’t like them and Jeannette is no exception. Her worn clothes and grimy hair are like a neon sign shouting about her life in poverty which makes Jeannette an easy target to bullies. Jeannette tries very hard to stand up for herself, however, the bullying only stops once other realize that living in poverty and being different was not Jeannette’s

The book goes through Jeannette’s life exposing the mistakes she, her siblings, and her parents made to become the family they were. As her life grows older, Jeannette finds herself in more responsible positions in the world, with editing school newspapers, to writing columns in a small New York newspaper outlet. Her troubles have raised the issue of stereotyping, a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. Due to her status in her childhood, it was not hard for her to fit in with the other members of the poor community. “Dinitia explained that I was with her and that I was good people. The women looked at one another and shrugged.” (Walls 191) The quote talks about how members of the black community in Welch accepted Jeannette to go swimming with them in the morning hours before the white people went in the afternoon. The people who knew Dinita, Jeannette’s friend, knew that Dinita was trustworthy, and let Jeannette pass. This relates to the thesis because it shows how she was accepted amongst the people who were

The last topic is about the strength of quality. African Americans over the time has become united as one and tried to follow their dreams. Her poem is a prime example of how some egos are bigger than others and how it can also blur someone’s

A cause that is most desperately needed usually comes with a high price to pay through complete devotion. Malala Yousafzai and Martin Luther King jr. are two characters that have contributed their lives through experience in order to spread awareness and bring change to each of their causes that are seemingly is greater than themselves which their speeches show. The “I have a dream” speech by King and the United Nations one given by Yousafzai have very influential thoughts that prove that they are alike. However, with every person, comes different propositions, therefore different writing as well. While similarities are obvious between the two speeches such as the demotion of violence and repetition, the few differences in topic and place have not hidden behind the over glorification in which they are similar.

I done spent too many years without.? Lyans, on the other hand, is part of a new ambitious generation of blacks who believe that they can make something of themselves in an opportunistic world. It is evident that Lyans believes that there is a hope for success for blacks in the world?s society. Lyans deals with the world and its struggles through his music and feels that his music gives him a sense of belonging and a reason for existence. Lyans, in contrast with his father, believes that they are ?...two different people...? and that they just have different methods of handling the world. Troy believes that Lyans is blind to the harshness of society on blacks and reacts in scrutiny to his son?s wanting 10 dollars. This conflict between Troy and Lyans emphasizes Troy?s flaw in his relationships. Troy is so worried that he is going to be taken advantage of and is so bitter because of his past experiences with whites, that he creates a ?fence? or barrier between his relationship with his family. It is evident that Lyans, who quickly pays back the 10 dollars, wants a closer relationship with his father but does not succeed due to his father?s bitter words and naive attitude.

The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie highlights the often challenging lives of Nigerian women living in Africa, but also abroad in the United States. It is however, not the difficulties which Adichie is ultimately focusing on, but the courage and intelligence of women who are able to make ‘small victories’, overcoming various attempts of cultural oppression.

Being apart of the African American community has never been easy. Early on I realized that regardless of how much money I make, how educated I may become, or where I chose to live, I will always be less than. Despite the great deal of hardship that comes with being a black women, it is the group that I am most proud to be apart of.The role given

Terry Tempest Williams and Wangari Maathai are both very powerful women who devoted their lives to improving the world one step at a time. Williams, the author of Refuge, is a naturalist, a feminist, and a writer who brings such power into everything she touches. Her passion for change has brought so much goodness into the world. She has beat many obstacles, including her own struggle with herself, which to her is the same fight we have with nature, and finally accepting the outcome; whatever that may be unnatural, or natural, is the secret to life. While we read about what Terry Tempest Williams writes about her mother’s difficulties while struggling with cancer, we also have Wangari Maathai speaking about all the violence she faces in Kenya.

Conversely, Appiah cannot disregard the fact that, in the particular instance of gender imbalance, motive for an action is just as important as the action itself. While we are in this great debate of gender imbalance, it is also vital to remember that men are very valuable in the global society. In fact, one could argue that men make an even greater impact in the debate of gender imbalance. When a man, who is generally seen as the more superior sex, supports women in this imbalance he tends to make a greater impact. It’s more difficult for a women to make her message known in a world where women are seen as less than they are. We must not undermine a woman’s ability to make great impacts on society as a whole simply because she is female. It is when opposing sides start supporting one another that great changes are made and the gender ratio starts to come into

During the time period that the article was written, violence was beginning to become an issue in many large, urban cities. In Krystal Miller 's article, she begins her first paragraph by going into detail about how a young girl by the name of Melchishaua Person is awarded with expensive clothes by her mother for making good grades. Furthermore into the section, she discusses how many students do not feel that any harm will be done to them, as it will be done to others instead. Towards the end of her first section, Miller states that much abuse and violence is occurring to students due to the clothes and accessories they may own or wear. While she does do a great job discussing the violence brought upon by the dress codes issue, more detail into how the students reacted could have been better. Her next section further discusses how students began to have a tendency to protest the authority of many officials in the more urban cities such as New York and Los Angeles. Miller 's third and final section is mainly based on the consequences that the violators had to face. While doing so, she discusses the many opinions of

The author shows a great example of the power these men had against these women in the village. In the time period this story took place, it was amazing to the author to witness that gender inequality was still a very big issue in some places. The author described how shocked she was when she found out that these women were not allowed to

1. The female factory worker compared her conditions with those of slaves because she felt like they were being treated like slaves by not being allowed to speak for themselves. She felt that they were awed into silence by wealth and power and was under tyranny and cruel oppression

In Gloria Anzaldua’s letter “Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers” she delivers her message of being a third world woman writer and how there is a constant struggle between conforming to gain a voice in the world of writing and staying true to your culture. She pulls pieces from her own life experiences and works from other looked over women writers of color to make her point and connect to her audience letting them know she is part of their plight to be heard. In my rewrite of the essay “A Letter in “tongues”” I changed the delivery from a letter to a free verse poem condense Anzaldua 's message from Writing Women of color to just discriminated women writers just in general. They both focused use of pathos and ethos but mine leans more towards ethos pointing out that the dominant ideology of english writing being the only way to be heard as a writer that it is denying the voice of writing women of color and that is ethically wrong not what has happened to herself to invoke feeling.

When I read your fascinating novel I could not help but feel very curious and inclined to read more. May I ask, what was your inspiration to write your book and what made you want to bring your story to others? Also, how does it feel and what did you go through when writing a classic novel in a time period where women did not have equal rights and were not as highly respected as men? I thought that your writing technique showed how classy and intelligent your story is. Considering that education was not in your reach, you made your story sound educated and significant among other stories. I could tell that you spent a long period of time educating yourself in literature and in language. There are many quotes in your book that i can not seem

4. Did Alexis have an unfair advantage over her high school classmates? Yes, because her classmates, mainly who have the same situation “poorness ”, will not have the same opportunity to achieve what she can achieve, and get a