From the text itself, the author simply gave off a compelling story but transitioned into more of an expository approach to the writing. ... From reading the text, crime has shifted mostly on African Americans in low-income neighborhoods. ...
Year 12 TEE English "Beneath a surface of entertainment, texts can present powerful social commentaries." Intertextuality plays an integral role in the understanding and perception of a text. The attitudes that the viewer's hold on the social commentaries are formed in part by the context that the author creates but also from their own context in the form of past experiences and knowledge of other texts. ... Through readings and viewing of other texts such as the movies Ali and Remember the Titans and the lyrics of the song "When We Were Kings" viewers are able to form or reinfo...
In the text of the speech, we can see many times throughout that Obama relies and imposes his ethos to create his arguments, but the cornerstone of his response lies in his past, which can be observed right after he begins giving details of his life as an American, starting with the phrase: "I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas" (239). ... Both of these phrases stand out in the text because Obama used a rhetorical device known as antithesis, which means that within each phrase they contain ideas that are opposite to each other, seen in black man and wh...
Many text books, and books for that matter, show some pain and struggling from non-European cultures; the books rarely tell a story of the pain they felt daily. ... This, means that Europeans were further looking to locate themselves in a changing world with their relative privilege, and this was achieved many times by the down play of texts and other things from Indigenous cultures. ... When reading from the book The Color Purple, what one gains from the text can be different then what many others may gain from this kind of text. ...
Lee and Satrapi both use a child's first-person perspective in their texts to challenge commonly held values and beliefs of the intolerant public society. ... A contrast between the two texts is that Marji challenges her family's ideals, whereas in To Kill a Mockingbird Scout gradually adopts her father's doctrine throughout the novel. ...
Lee and Satrapi both use a child's first-person perspective in their texts to challenge commonly held values and beliefs of the intolerant public society. ... A contrast between the two texts is that Marji challenges her family's ideals, whereas in To Kill a Mockingbird Scout gradually adopts her father's doctrine throughout the novel. ...
Du Bois indicates later in the text that the alienation Jim experiences results from racism. Thinking of the text holistically, one can deduce that the contrast used above is to emphasize Jim's experience of isolation as a black person in a society in which white people are considered superior. ... Throughout the text, Du Bois successfully uses water to express Jim's loneliness and misery resulting from racial discrimination. ...
The revised version of "Just Walk on By", by Brent Staples, differs significantly from the original text even though it contains many of the same components and basically tells the same story. ... Rather, Staples cites texts in which white men describe the intense anxiety that they feel when encountering a black man on the streets. ...
The intentional combination of words and phrases used to depict a larger picture than just simple writing, is by far one of the best ways to use diction. As Mark Twain composed "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," he implicitly amplified the setting to be more that an average backdrop for the chara...
This is reflected in the text through the representation of individual, social and political relationships, which can be highlighted through further analysis of the morals and values associated with social class, racial inequality and familial bonds within these relationships. ...
James Weldon Johnson's first-person narrator in his fictional interpretation, "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man," a skeptical, point-of-view about skin color. The narrator, decides to pass for white after numerous variations between assuming his status as a black man who wants to stand for...
Through the analysis of various text, it can be discerned that the actions of the United States heavily influenced not only the decisions of the South African government but also the actions of disenfranchised peoples, blacks and coloured alike, living in South Africa who could now emulate the social movement of civil rights in America. ... This assertion within the Moodley and Heribert text gives insight into the delusions of the National Party during this era. ...
Growing up, I only had interest in guys that were African-American. This reason is because I knew I would feel uncomfortable dating someone who had lighter skin, and spoke differently from me, so I wouldn't even bother thinking about dating someone outside of my ethnic circle. It is so much easier d...
Whether the woman in the poem is truly in her old age is unknown, but from the text, the reader gets a sense that she is locked away in her house with nothing more to keep her busy than envying the luxurious and simple life of her cat, since popular to social beliefs, older women have cats as companions. ...
Examining the role that religion played in the African-American community, primarily pre-civil war, can be a difficult task due to the limited amount of evidence available.1 While it is a common notion that slavery life was embedded with Christian ideals, a Christian-like ideology is likely more ac...
Old Racism Old racism originated in the 16th century with the beginning of chattel slavery. When Americans traveled to Africa to buy its people they did so because African's had strong bodies that will provide the labor plantation owners needed to sustain the American economy. In essence, chattel s...
Although Asians and Asian Americans have been present on American television screens for decades, [1] few television series have featured Asian or Asian Americans in starring roles. Kung Fu (Warner Bros, ABC, 1972-1975), starring David Carradine as Kwai-Chang Caine, featured a white American actor as a bi-racial Shaolin priest in the Old West. Originally conceived as a vehicle for martial arts adept Bruce Lee, the series went to an actor with little physical ability, but with a knack for embodying a Hippie pacifism along with a reluctant, but devastating aggression On the lam from the la...
