The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye tells the sad story of Pecola Breedlove, a poor prepubescent black girl, who wants to be loved and cared for by her family and society. ... She idolizes images of blond haired, blue-eyed white girls like Shirley Temple. ... Her mother, Pauline, reinforces this belief by dedicating her life to this rich white family and doting over their blond, blue-eyed little girl, while at the same time completely ignoring her own little girl. ... The first example would be to compare and contrast the treatment of beautiful light-skinned, light-eye...

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In the Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison uses abuse and hardship to show the tragic consequences that come from racism. ... The Bluest Eye shows ways in which white beauty standards hurt the lives of black girls and women. ... The characters in the Bluest Eye are faced both directly and indirectly by racism. ... Pauline is full of self hatred and takes all her anger out on her family instead of loving them. Toni Morrison shows us what racism produces in the Bluest Eye. ...

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All three of Francis" children were raised in a home full of faith and love. ... She desired to be in a cloistered order, but once when she visited the Pope to request missionaries, he suggested that she, herself become a missionary, and encouraged that she start an institution to further her mission. She consulted with now Bishop O"Conner, who supported the idea, and on November 7, 1889, she received a habit and took the name Sister Mary Katharine. ... She moved her order to St. ... Everyone is equal under God's eye, and as she wrote once to the Sisters, you should "get up after recei...

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It is very eye opening to read of Brown's harsh condemnation of the religious basis and justification of slavery in the south when he (on more than one occasion) highlights the irony of the mistreatment of blacks by their white masters. ... This really brings to light the fact that individuals can corrupt institutions that should be full of freedom, equality and goodwill in order to interpret these institutions in ways that advance their greedy and hateful desires. ... You can feel his agony as he runs to his window in the middle of the night, to hearing the cries of his mother as she...

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One is in a room full of people and still not make human contact. For the sake of self-reflection, I feel compelled to exercise full disclosure in that I can easily fall prey to this dynamic. ... I turned around and let her know she keeps bumping me with her cart. ... She angrily stated, "That's all you had to ask!" She then started speaking to the person with her about my ignorance. ...

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The audience is smiling, but she does not share that emotion with them because she is "not herself in that strange place." ... Towards the middle of the poem, the narrator describes the dancer as "swaying", implying that she can change with things around her if she wants to be sucessful. ... McKay explains that the males were "wine-flushed, bold-eyed boys," which means that they are under the influence of alcohol, causing them to be bold beyond their years. ... She does not like this "flattery" and does not enjoy the fact that she feels very out of place in this "strange environme...

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The audience is smiling, but she does not share that emotion with them because she is "not herself in that strange place." ... Towards the middle of the poem, the narrator describes the dancer as 3 "swaying", implying that she can change with things around her if she wants to be sucessful. ... McKay explains that the males were "wine-flushed, bold-eyed boys," which means that they are under the influence of alcohol, causing them to be bold beyond their years. ... She does not like this "flattery" and does not enjoy the fact that she feels very out of place in this "strange enviro...

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She had full rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up. ... "She's purty," said Lennie, "Yeah and she's sure hidin it." ... Now she is trapped on this ranch with no one to speak to apart from Curley v/s who is not much comfort although he does try with his "glove full of Vaseline". ... When she dies P98. ... When she is alive she is troubled and her face is always full of emotions but when she dies all that goes away from her. ...

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She lives in a big studio apartment that she maintains with a career as a graphic artist. ... By today's standards, Nola's personal life isn't anything to bat an eye at. ... They treat her as if she is abnormal because she doesn't want to have a monogamous relationship. ... Lee can't give Nola the full depth and breadth that a female would be able to, in large part because his experiences are limited to the male perspective. ... Afterwards, she believes that she was deserving of the rape and can actually benefit from it by deciding to be with Jamie. ...

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He put the binoculars down and put his right eye on the scope, he closed his left eye. ... When she refused, she was arrested and taken to jail. ... He wanted people in the future to feel pain to sense pleasure, he wanted the people in the future to feel thirsty to sense the bliss of life, he wanted people in the future to feel to sense the delight of being full, he wanted the people to feel tired to sense the enjoyment of sleeping, he wanted the people in the future to feel sad to sense life's great pleasures. ...

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She seems more like a means to an end. ... If she was going to use him for her pleasure then he would use her for his own gain. ... Malcolm is imprisoned after living a life full of pleasure, a life with few rules, and one opposed to the strict laws of white society. ... Where before Elijah told him that all white's were devils, he sees fair-skinned white's who don't oppress him because of his color, "I saw all races, all colors, blue eyed blonds to black skinned Africans in true brotherhood! ...

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The United States of America has a relatively short-lived history in comparison to the majority of the vast societies of the world. As Americans, we pride ourselves on the concept that our ancestors fought tooth and nail for our freedom and we should never forget that concept. We pride ourselves on looking back through our history books and reading about how our forefathers have continuously stood up to the most powerful, unjust, and tyrannical nations so that the world may be able to experience the fore granted notion of freedom. When the grip on the throat of the new Americans became too muc...

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