Where the Streets Have No Name

House on Mango Street”, the author Sandra Cisneros uses sentences full of imagery, metaphors, and word games, to show how self definition is a result of the people and places surrounding you. This is represented throughout the book when Esperanza wants to change her name, living in a male dominated society, and when she wishes for a new home. Esperanza always wanted to change her name, she felt it didn’t define the real her. “I would like to baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the

The Validity of Street Art as a Catalyst for Political and Social Change Introduction Street art and graffiti are two different styles of urban art, and yet they still hold some of the same characteristics. After all, street art was born out of graffiti, and an article in Huffington Post described their relationship in the clearest way: “Graffiti was the template, the means, the method. Street art adopted all of this and pushed the boundaries of what outside art can be, going beyond anything achieved

Exit through the gift shop is a 2010 documentary based on street art. The film was released on April 16th 2010. Directed by a notable street artist by the name of Banksy. The film tracks film maker turned street artist by the name of Thierry on his quest to success. The opening begins with many images of street artist displaying their work then; it cuts to an interview of Bansky who discusses what the film will be on. Thierry Guetta a French man was clothing store owner who picks up a camera and

Esperanza’s dreams offer her both hope and torment because she does not know whether or not she will have a chance to achieve them at all. Esperanza is a young girl who is a Mexican-American. She lives on Mango Street with her family in their first real house. In this vignette Esperanza is reflecting on her name and how she got it. She talks about how it was her great-grandmother's name and how she was kept from her dreams by marriage: “She looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women

Today we have so many rules, rules on how we are supposed to act, rules on how we are supposed to dress and look. We can't be ourselves, we are shamed into being unique. In the house on mango street, Esperanza goes through the difficulties of life and self-definitions. Esperanza struggles with self-definition, she lives in a small neighborhood, and she is mexican. Throughout the book she talks about her everyday problems, such as her problem with her race. The house on mango street makes us think

Relations Between Street Art, Graffiti, and Culture Street art, also known as “guerilla art” and “neo-graffiti” is a literate and self-conscious form of visual art, created and displayed in public locations, as a way for artists to communicate directly with an audience. Popular in cities and densely populated urban areas, street art is often commonly confused with graffiti. However, the two mediums have their differences. Graffiti takes the form of written words, usually a name or a tag, scrawled

of Greek culture that have impacted the different traditions we have today, such as architecture, city elements, and Mardi Gras. Greek influenced New Orleans street names as well as Mardi Gras. New Orleans architecture was affected by Greeks and we also have many sites in New Orleans that we're affected by greek culture. New Orleans' architecture was greatly influenced by Greek culture. James Gallier developed Greek architecture known as the "Three Sisters" on Rampart Street in New Orleans. ("New

The Importance of Names in Song of Solomon      Abstract:  In Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, names have great implication.  Language is extremely personal and deeply rooted in culture.  Names are an integral part of language, and they help to establish identity, define personality, and show ownership through formal and informal usage.   " 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; / Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. / What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, / Nor arm, nor face

Song of Solomon: The Names of a Society   Think of a time when the black society was still getting used to the word freedom and the white society hated the thought of it. The book Song of Solomon, written by Toni Morrison in 1977, takes place in Michigan on the shores of Lake Superior. The book emphasizes the racial and social tensions between blacks and whites between the 1930s and the 1960s. The Dead family goes through many phases of self-discovery throughout the story. In an effort to hide

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