Reading Response Two In the village of My Lia in Vietnam on March 16th 1968 roughly five hundred innocent Vietnamese villagers were executed by, an enraged United State army called Charlie Company which, after decades of being covered up and buried to keep the United States Armed forces images polished will go down in the annals of war history as the My Lia Massacre. Sgt. Ron Haeberle a photographer with Charlie company snapped pictures of burned homes littered with charred villagers and corpses strewn through the dirt paths along with other war photos, which Haeberle published to Life and Time magazines in November of 1969 catapulting the crimes committed to national as well as international spotlight.
In the 1950’s through the 1960’s if one was an African-American one would have to walk three to four miles in the scorching heat to go to their all black school. Jim Crow laws were designed to segregate African-Americans and whites. Before, May 17.1954, the court would use the phrase “separate but equal” to justify excluding blacks from white facilities and services. In one Supreme Court case called Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, the Chief Justice and the other eight Associate Justices on the Supreme Court ruled that all U.S. schools had to integrate. Some schools integrated while other schools did not.
In Warriors Don’t Cry the changes Melba makes as the story progress are her attitude the way she approaches and she learns patience. At the beginning Melba is excited about going to Central High. Melba experiences differences she starts to see how scary and hard it is. Melba decides to give up, but Grandma India gives her advice. Towards the end she starts to realize why it is important for her not to give up and integrate.
When reading Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals, the readers will be shown the discrimination that the author faces, along with the eight other black students who accompany her to the Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in the year of 1957. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) registered these nine students due to their excellent grades. Melba accounts for the violence and racial slurs that she endured during her only year at Central High. Despite the discrimination she suffered, she continued to work hard and excel in school. The Little Rock Nine were heroes for their sacrifice of breaking the racial barrier between white and black students, making this an important event in the African American Civil
Lulu Lamartine, a woman who shows remarkable progression and potential throughout this novel, is nothing less than a strong, independent woman who people should strive to be for themselves. Readers may look at her and see a woman who lacks confidence and turns to men to fulfill that lack, but she has so much more integrity and strength hidden behind those few negative features that people do not tend to see. Lulu is not a woman who deserves judgement or negativity because she has an abundant amount of confidence driven within her, she is a devoted mother and adores her kids profusely, and she loves very hard for the people in her life which is exactly why she is an example to follow. Confidence is not something Lulu Lamartine should lack,
Rasim Zekiri Katherine Welch Hon. Literary Genres 26 Jan 2023 “A Litany for Survival” By Audrey Lorde is a poem that is meant to convey the difficulty for those who are marginalized in society to thrive. Especially when all the bets are stacked against them. This poem which was featured in the novel “The Patron Saints of Nothing” was found as a remnant of Jun, the cousin of the main protagonist of the story, at their aunt's home.
Like in all great stories, the climax is one of the best parts in the story. The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, is no exception to this with its great fantasy action and plot. The main conflict is Man vs Man, as Mare joins the “Scarlet Guard in hopes of”(pg 115) helping “her family”(pg 17) as she is a Red, “the lower class slaves to the Silvers” (pg 4), against the Silvers, “the ruling class”(pg 5). Although Man vs Man is the main conflict, Man vs Himself is the underlying conflict as Mare tries to identify “who she can trust” (pg 186) during her time at the “summer castle” (pg 59).
Kyla, “I think that the Japanese-Americans handled themselves very positively. Although we kept them behind fences and locked them up like they were criminals they still fought for us, they fought for our country and I think that takes someone who really loves America to do that. ”-Kyla . I agree whole heartedly with you that these people have poise that goes beyond the norm, Christ like. The way they turned the cheek and endured for what they believed in was truly amazing.
Mother-daughter relationships can have a roller coaster of emotions. These relationships are sometimes peaceful, and other times warlike as written in Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom and Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club. Amy Chua’s excerpt has a tone much less belligerent than Amy Tan’s passage, but each excerpt’s tone imply tension within their mother-daughter relationships and even hatred. “ ‘RELAX!
You were all our worries, all our hopes.” (Chen, 23). This phrase shows how Lulu’s parents emotionally blackmailed her and rejected her passion which is to expose the government. It also highlights the societal pressure Lulu’s parents put on her to fulfill their expectations and hopes to be the ideal child by rejecting her passion, and emotionally blackmailing her. This pressure to adapt to her parents' expectations to be the ideal child can make her feel that she doesn’t have a choice for herself, and doesn’t have control over her life, which further leads to a sense of discomfort.
Zauner’s mother truly wanted the best for her, dedicating her life to trying to make her perfect. Yet, perfection will always be unattainable, and that is something Chongmi could have better understood. There is nothing wrong with wanting the best from someone, yet it can become damaging when those standards are not met, just as we observed in Crying at H Mart. In the end, our parents shape us into who we are, and we appreciate all the support and affection they attempt to give
Selected Product/Service Mercy by Tricey Crouch t-shirt line is reawakening church people who have gone astray in life, but who are having a hard time coming back to the church, due to church members thinking of what they have done in the world. Mercy brand is to influence people who are having a hard time of how to come back to the church and stay apart of the church no matter what they have done in the world. Mercy is focused on we are all a bunch of used too, now we all need some mercy no matter what. Product/Service Mercy by Tricey Crouch is a t-shirt line that is focusing on God having mercy on them no matter what they have done in the world. Everybody is not a speaker for God, but all of us have a gift to get God’s message across
Though it may be difficult to accept one’s identity, one must learn to accept themselves in order to heal. Lee Maracle’s poem “War” illustrates the internal conflict between her opposing cultures and her journey of healing her intergenerational scars. In this tercet poem, the battles of her Salish/Cree heritage and colonial standing are portrayed through varied poetic devices. In stanzas one to four, Maracle personifies her body as the Salish and Cree territories, along with the invasion of the colonizers.
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Critique Amy Chua, a professor at Yale Law School, has created an article called Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother that intensively describes differences in the usage of parenting methods in Chinese and Westerners culture. The author has personally raised her children in a highly strict manner so her children succeed in life and academics. Chua often refers to the term “Chinese mother” that describes her parenting style apart from Western parents. The main purpose of this article is to show the two parenting techniques and how they affect the child 's success.
The mere fact that her parents, who are also child psychologists, would use Amy’s childhood as a template for a book and to project their expectations of her through the book. This is shown by Amy’s commentary “My parents have always worried that I’d take Amy too personally – they always tell me not to read too much into her. And yet I can’t fail to notice that whenever I screw something up, Amy does it right: When I finally quit violin at age twelve, Amy was revealed as a prodigy in the next book. (‘Sheesh, violin can be hard work, but hard work is the only way to get better!’) When I blew off the junior tennis championship at age sixteen to do a beach weekend with friends, Amy recommitted to the game.
