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In Bell Hooks’ Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance, she first describes “eating the other”. As a history of spiritual beliefs when discussing the film, Heart Condition. “In ancient religious practices among so called ‘primitive’ people. The heart of a person may be ripped out and eaten so that one can embody that person’s spirit…

As readers, we understand the importance of the protagonist to have a sense of identity and distinguishment from other entities present in literature. We expect the main character to set themselves apart from the text and tell a story from their perspective. But what happens when no solid identification can be made about them? What can we deduce…

Claim: Can we have knowledge independent of our culture? Counterclaim: All knowledge is based on our culture, without culture there is no knowledge. Culture is the characteristics of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts. Since we come into the world, we become part of…

As a slave Sojourner Truth went through a lot of masters and all gave her varying degrees of agency. She was born into the employ of the Hardenbergh’s but he died before she every truly had to work. During her stay with her family on the Hardenbergh estate her family suffered great loss in the…

In the midst of the Civil Rights Movement, the United States faced a significant revolution characterized by a “social transformation based on the core belief in a profoundly democratic concept of freedom and justice for all.” This revolution challenged not only racial boundaries, but also questioned gender roles and class exploitation both at home, in…

Human life is full of pursuits that determine the overall level of one’s happiness as well as accomplishment and such is the case for Enrique. Sonia Nazario captures the character’s experience in the text Enrique’s Journey. The writer with a background in research on immigration issues recounts the tribulation of the life of a 17-year-old…

Sojourner Truth, originally known as Isabelle, was a courageous woman who fearlessly expressed her beliefs. Born into slavery around 1797 in Ulster County, New York, Isabella married Thomas and had five children: Diana, Peter, Elizabeth, Sophia, and possibly another child who may have died during infancy. After relocating to New York City in 1843 and…

Although the Harlem Renaissance was a golden era for black culture, the Great Depression that soon followed did not have the same flourish. Racial tensions had followed after the cultural openness of the Harlem Renaissance, and as a result, the social realism movement occurred Causing a shift in attitudes towards art and literature, this movement…

Of the numerous American Problems in today+s society, abortion is, without a doubt, one of the most culturally significant and opinion-forming. it is a topic that has the American public diVided by values and ethics. Some believe it is immoral and murderous to abort a potential human being: others that it a necessity in today+s…

August 16, 2017 at 8:24pm, 17 year-old Kian Loyd Delos Santos was last seen being dragged by two men. Four witnesses later said that he was given a gun and told to run. Delos Santos was later found dead with three gunshot wounds to the back of the head. This incident comes after a drug…