Have you ever faced life-changing experiences that hugely impacted you, your family, and your country? This same event happened in the selections, Warriors Don’t Cry, by Melba Patillo Beals, I Never Had It Made, by Jackie Robinson, and “The Father of Chinese Aviation,” by Rebecca Maskel, which highlights Feng Ru. Melba Patillo Beals, Jackie Robinson, and Feng Ru all experienced life-changing events that led them in changing themselves and their countries. Melba Patillo Beals helped integrate Central High School and was one of the first African Americans to attend school.
Maya Clement Professor Clemens Making of America 21 March 2023 Warriors Don’t Cry Response Melba Patillo Beal’s experiences as a child and in high school were influenced by various events that affected how she answered to the integration crisis at Little Rock Central High and how she lived her life going forth. Melba lives with her grandmother, India, her mother Loiws, her father Howell, and her little brother Conrad. She was raised in a household that valued the importance of education, and her family taught her to value herself and believe that she is capable of anything with perseverance and hard effort. Melba Beals, however, was regularly exposed to prejudice and segregation, which made her aware of the injustices that existed in the world.
“The Undercurrent” by Kellie Young is a story of a mother and daughter’s relationship that takes place in Hawaii throughout Young’s childhood. It describes to readers how her mother has influenced her life by becoming an admonitory voice inside her head. The impact Young’s mother has on her is widely due to the amount of admiration Young has for her. A crucial element to “The Undercurrent” is the short stories found throughout her narrative that exemplifies the greater concept of how her mother has shaped her life.
Have you ever faced a life-changing experience that changed your life and country? If so, you are similar to Melba Pattillo Beals in Warriors Don’t Cry, Jackie Robinson in I Never Had it Made, and Feng Ru in “The Father of Chinese Aviation.” They all took a risk and faced life-changing experiences that changed their lives and their countries in some way. Melba Pattillo Beals faced life-changing experiences that helped improve education for African Americans. She endured challenges like facing threats from white people and coming across discrimination.
Comparison/Contrast Essay The poems “Forgotten” and “Hanging Fire” by Audre Lorde create many ideas of the differences and resemblances they have. The poem “Forgotten” tells the story of a thirteen-year-old girl who had just lost their dad. It talks about the characteristics the dad had that made him more important from everyone else’s dad. Yet, the poem “Hanging Fire” by Audre Lorde, mentions the troubles of having insecurities and an uncaring mother while she is going through hard times.
In The First Part Last Angela Johnson uses symbols to tell weather or not bobby is coming of age. I think that bobby did come of age and became a man. Some symbols are when he decided to keep feather and he came back for her when he left her when he left her at home when he was on his way to the basketball courts. So here is the story of bobby. Basketball represents childhood rolling away.
2) This extract is found in “The White Album” written by Joan Didion, who is the creator of many significant different literature pieces, both novels and essays. “The White Album” was published in 1979, and is the first and longest essay in the book. In this essay Joan Didion essentially uses a women as a connecting thread to describe what was happening in America at that time. I believe that the woman may even be herself to a certain extent, trying to externalize all her thoughts. What is perceived from the essay is that Didion was submerged into the focus of some big events that were happening in that year, not only as a journalist but also as a bystander and a normal Californian.
The hippie movement is arguably one of the most famous culture movements from the twentieth century, made widely famous in pop-culture involving romanticized images of overly friendly people clothed in bell-bottom pants and flower-print button down shirts. The romanticization of this movement allowed for a widely accepted and skewed view of the true events that happened during this time. The reality is much darker than publicized to the ignorant generations that followed. It can be maintained by many that personal experience and firsthand knowledge provides the most accurate depiction of the true happenings of the time period. Through vivid imagery and impersonal diction, Joan Didion offers a critical unveiling the mayhem that she witnessed during her various firsthand immersions in the developing culture of the 1960s.
Little Richard first released “Tutti Frutti” in 1955, and Elvis Presley released his version in 1956. Both versions of the songs sound similar in that they invoke a feeling of happiness and a desire to get up and dance. However, these songs are not identical. The lyrics for both versions are almost identical except for a few extra non-word sounds at the end of some lines.
Well-known writer and essayist Joan Didion, in her essay, The White Album, shatters every preconceived notion of the late nineteen sixties. Set primarily in Los Angeles, California Didion blends reportage and personal essay to recount cultural tensions that arose during the period- protests, murder, apathy-with her own psychosis. Incorporating fragmented narrative and film technique Didion offers snapshots of the events with language that is curt yet symbolic of her unique style. “The White Album,” demonstrates that everything in life is meant to teach us something. Through Didion’s experiences behind the pen, as a news reporter, her narration attempts to understand the lesson and discovers "We Tell OURSELVES STORIES in order to live" (Didion
They are different as Cash’s version is more of a feeling of regret while Reznor’s version is sadness. Both songs are similar as they actually express the singers’ feelings and that they are both hurt by something. Both songs are actually conveying their life experiences to listener. My interpretation for Reznor’s version is that he is singing the song based on one of his sad experiences in life be it his heartbreak or drug addiction while Cash is singing his whole life experiences- the sadness, the regret and the happiness that he had lost. When I listened to reznor’s version, images of people sitting alone in the darkness crying while Cash’s version makes me think of elderly sitting on a rocking chair staring at the door, waiting for their
Strong Born in San Francisco, Jana Harris is the author of “Don’t Cheapen Yourself”, a poem empowering woman. This poem was created at a time when women were fighting for equal rights. In the poem the subject, who appears to be a young woman, is confronted by her mother who calls her “sleazy” (line1). This would suggest her mother does not agree with the selections of clothing of her daughter, since she is accustomed to more conservative ways for a woman to dress and present herself in public.
Starr Carter, the protagonist of Angie Thomas’s young adult novel, The Hate U Give, epitomizes the subversion of cultural racial oppression through the development of an identity that encompasses multiple consciousnesses. As an African American teenage girl raised in a middle-class family attending a high school with primarily White upper-class students, Starr finds the need to prove her belongingness to both communities in Garden Heights and at Williamson Prep. Unlike her White upper-class counterparts at Williamson and African American middle-to-low-class counterparts in Garden Heights, Starr’s identity is multifaceted. She must act and interact with her peers with respect to her location, in other words, utilize double consciousness. However,
Both songs had different words and were not close to being the same but both had roots to the poem “Ten Little Injuns.” Even if the original version was not s ung in the 20th century many most people had known the poem without even knowing it was a thing real piece of poetry thanks to
Lady Gaga's Til it Happens to You, a song about the battle and survival of sexual assault, can be considered relatable to relationships. The music video portrays scenes in which young college students become the victims of sexual assault. We can see the victims being unable to connect with their peers leaving them feelings isolated and alone, unable to connect with anyone in the outside world. The effects of rape can be long lasting and victims may suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder, "an anxiety disorder resulting from a traumatic event that can have a debilitating effect on a person's quality of life" (Welch 365). This kind of trauma could produce strain on future relationships between significant others, friends, family and peers.
