...inequality and working towards solutions. Intersectionality is the way in which different identities, and therefore discriminatory systems, are intertwined and cannot be disconnected from each other. This is why it is so important to use intersectionality when employing the feminist perspective. From our class readings, most of the authors use many examples of intersectionality in their analyses. The books Lucky and Conquest, as well as the excerpt from Half the Sky, all include these examples. The author of Lucky makes very careful descriptive choices in her novel that utilize intersectionality. In the section “Prohibition and Prostitution” from Half the Sky, the authors devote their writing to another form of...
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...Mher Torjyan The film, Half the Sky, written by Michelle Ferrari was a documentary about the oppression of women throughout the world. The man reporting named Nicholas Kristof visited a wide array of countries and regions ranging from Africa to the Pacific Islands. In addition, the film had a serious tone which was enhanced with the camera work and sound production that lead to the setting of the film. The emotions of these women were captured through close up shots. As their faces overflow with emotions without any sound you can visualize the suffering these women. To solidify the feelings, the questions asked during the interviews were forthright and to the point. Kristof does not beat around the bush when inquiring about their griefs...
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...The Distance to Andromeda by Gregorio C. Brillantes The Boy Ben, thirteen years old, sits there and wide-eyed before the screen of the theater, in the town of Tarlac, his heart thumps in awe and excitement, and his hands are balled into unconscious fists, as the spaceship burns its blue-flamed journey through the night of the universe that is forever silent with a high metallic hum. Enclosed in time within the rocket, the ship itself surrounded by timelessness, which is in turn framed by the boundaries of the cinema screen, the last men and women and children of Earth watch the asteroids, the stream of cosmic dust, the barren planets drift past the portholes like luminous flowers at once beautiful and monstrous, floating in the ocean of space. The traveler search the night for another world of air and greenness, remembering the end of the Earth, the Final War, the flickering radioactive fires upon the lifeless continents. Beyond the dead seas of Mars, and beyond the ice-bound tomb of Neptune, past the orbit of Pluto and out into the black immeasurable depths, the rocket flashes onward, through years of space and time: a moving speck among the twinkling stars, propelled by the flame of its engine and a certain destiny. A sun looms up from the blackness, more golden and more gentle than the star they have always known; and as a globe of shining water and green-shadowed land appears through the viewports; they break out into jubilant cries and dazed whispers of thanks to God. Cradled...
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...back alive, so they stopped writing to him, and didn’t even meet him in the airport when he got back home. He thought they were just overreacting and that they didn’t mean what they wrote in the letter, but they meant it quite seriously. He knew he hadn’t been the best son, and got into a lot of fights with his mom and dad, but he became very sad that they could do something like that to him, made Ben very sad, and by the time he got home, he was too afraid to call his family or drop by their house to say that he was okay. So he sat there in his chair reading a book, all by himself and he thought about his family and his girlfriend. Thinking about all that made Ben very sad and tears began to roll down his cheeks. He sat there for a good half an hour crying, when suddenly he heard a loud thump outside the house. He wiped the tears of his face with the back of his hand, and layed the book on his chair and stood up to check what caused the sound. He stood in front of the window looking out, but it was too dark to see anything, so he went over to the front door and looked outside, and what he saw made him forget everything about his girlfriend and family. Ben got on his shoes and coat in a hurry, there was a reindeer on his front lawn! He walked up to the reindeer, which surprisingly enough, didn’t run off, it seemed quite used to humans, it even let Ben pet it on its side. But something about the reindeer was very strange; it had a harness on that was...
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...defiantely at the sea ( waves, ships , jumping dolphins , birds) * Colour and background : our colour and background will change at the certain time. For instance, the place will change to sunset view at around 6 PM while the place will be bright at around 2 PM . * Sound : Sounds from sea will be played. (eg. Waves, wind, animals) – This will help people to relax and calm. 2. Sky (NEX shopping mall – Serangoon) * Tables & chairs: Simple sky blue oval shape table which can accommodate up to 6 people and cloud shaped chairs with white color will be set up. Besides normal chair, there will be a comfortable white sofa to rest or have a meal- cloud shape gives comfortable feeling to people. Therefore, it helps them having meal in good vibe . * Ceiling: The ceiling will be covered with cloud wallpaper. The lights will be a mixture of blue and white. – This type of ceiling enchance the feeling of mood that they are having a meal at the sky. * Ambience: The wall will be painted in white and grey stripes. Half of the entire area will be facing through a transparent glass facing outside the...
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...brown with the same swinging movement starting from the hips and thighs. Overhead, the black night withdrew gradually as the crimson hue of dawn spread out, then, after a while, changed into a glaring orange light. Suddenly, over the edge of the earth a point shone out, grew slowly to become a disc of fire, then climbed up into the sky. But before the light of day had chased away the night, Zakeya had already reached her field, tied the buffalo to the water-wheel beside the stream, removed her black shawl and put it on the ground, rolled up her sleeves, and tied the tail of her galabeya around her waist.” This passage is so simple yet so beautifully written, such a poetic description of a woman making her way to work, at sun rise. The writing is vivid and evocative; it makes me rather feel as if I am reading a fable. I didn’t make it through the entire book this week because I was beset with a bunch of issues, including a recurrence of the hives that I’ve been plagued with since the beginning of the summer semester. It is difficult to concentrate on reading when you are itching and irritable; however having made it through more than half of the book, I can see that GOD Dies is full of fascinating characters such as Metwalli and Fatheya. Saadawi writes so strongly and vividly that I can imagine myself as part of the story. She writes a portrait of cruelty and corruption that is at times difficult to take in, to the point of depressing me, so that I almost don’t want...
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...christophe had always looked at the sky at night with the same hope. He knew that stars were suns like he could emerge. He dreamed of one day achieve, to see these stars, red, green or blue, and that can be known that some hid their clarity planets. Given the number of small fireflies enrolling in the sky, everything could exist. He imagined, trampling these strange worlds, where Mother Nature could book him a thousand and one surprise. The child lives from the first settlers to Mars, but that does only half interested. These arid worlds, the man with all his technology had succeeded in making just livable This is Einstein who discovered the old law, and Mr. Rice, because now called Sir Christopher Rice wanted him respectfully. For a very simple formula he demolished all Christophe...
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...for one another in the darkness to steady ourselves. We make our way along the gentle crescent of the peninsula as fish unseen emerge from the partially frozen water beside us, their sudden splashing making us jump. Occasionally, the glow of headlights from a passing car on the road behind us permeates the darkness. I freeze instinctively each time, startled by the sudden intrusion of the outside world, a reminder that people exist other than the friends at my side. Even while encased in ice, it isn’t hard to imagine this place in other seasons; in spring, the frogs returning to form and the bright green, tentative buds just appearing in the trees and scattered along the shore. Summer would be an interval of blue, green, blue: cloudless sky, leafy maples, the lake dotted with fishermen. And fall, with a slowly spreading blaze of orange and red and yellow surrounding the lake and deer making more appearances than ever, startling and delighting...
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...What if you woke up one morning expecting the luminous sun to blind you, but instead the beautiful blue sky becomes inky and depressing because gray ash covers it like a blanket? You hear ringing in your ears and feel the coldness hugging you everywhere. Subsequently, you remember that the Yellowstone volcano has erupted creating an enduring winter and causing people into dilemmas in order to meet their necessities to survive. One of the people who have to struggle in this unfortunate event is a teenager named Alex Halprin in the novel Ashfall written by Mike Mullin. One friday evening, Alex was home alone playing video games like any typical teenager as his parents and younger sister went to visit his uncle and his family. When the volcano erupts, Alex is forced to temporarily live with his neighbors. At Alex’s stay with his neighbors’, he decides to go on a quest to find his family. This book is apocalyptic, abrupt, and will keep you sitting on the edge of your seat!...
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...He comes at me like he hasn’t eaten for years Making me sweating like it’s raining My clothes are all screaming “no!”… My skin is all red I rub my eyes thinking the blurriness in front of me is because of my vision Oh no! It’s the heat waves Blocking my view with little squiggly lines in the air Making everything distorted… And I trace back to this ancient myth The story begins with this crazy little town With many gods governing the Earth This god, Humacus has a son Who thinks that his life is boring as hell That he needs to play a trick on the people One day he decide to play a not-so-fun trick on the people So he turns himself into a sun Rising with the sun at the same time So there are two suns in the sky that day People are all sweating balls over the deadly weather The humid weather haunts the people like no other They can’t work their ass off for money as they used to (not to mention the partying) They had no food and their stomachs are growling like crazy Can you imagine the life without food and crops That’s not the life worth living So they prayed to their so-called god The gods do not respond They scream and shout everyday on top of their lungs The sun continues to give people bad bad droughts With no food to fill their stomachs God knows how they lived Without water and food But they don’t know what to do Finally The so-called god heard their prayers And sends a man called Ceres Man, this Ceres, He is famous for shooting...
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...Two holy messengers look toward the skies, one lifting her cleared out arm and the other her privilege, both grasping a triumph wreath in their raised hand. A fallen firefighter lays on the wing of one holy messenger. A cop, additionally fallen, is conveyed by another. On Wednesday, Dallas Police Department Sr. Cpl. Lorne Ahrens, 48, was that fallen cop delineated on the statue at Restland Park Memorial in Dallas. Ahrens and four different officers were lethally gunned down July 7 as they secured nonconformists amid a police ruthlessness walk impelled by late police shootings. The 40-foot tall bronze model with a stone base is a piece of Restland Public Safety Memorial Gardens held for firefighters and law implementation officers in Dallas County executed in the line of obligation....
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...techniques and differentiate between them just by a glimpse at them. In the first photograph of the “Gradient Sky” she used the techniques of low horizon to showcase the gradient colour of the sky. Secondly, shape is used in a way that the silhouette show shape through the outline of the barn. Finally, there is an element of colour included as well with the sky in a combination of blue and orange and they are complementary colours highlighting each other. I think she was successful achieving colour and low horizon as the colours are easy to point out for example the blending of all the colours in the sky during the sun set or sun rise. Low horizon is also well attained. I think in my opinion 1 technique she can definitely improve a lot more could be on the element of shape. Shape can be improved by slightly moving towards the right side to include the entire picture of the house and the outline of the barn so the shape could be a lot more noticeable. This would also help due to the fact that the windows of the house would be a lot more obvious and easy to consider as the element of shape. The photo’s composition were effective since I think the composition really was played out as much as it could and she was really successful in using them. The only suggestion I would give for improving this photo would be same as what I mentioned above. Instead of just the half of the house, if she would have include the full image of the house it would have defined the element of shape a...
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...industrial world to convey a certain message. In his painting Seascape with Sailing Vessels on the Horizon, Constable contrasts the pollution of the sea with the serene, vast sky to depict the grandeur of nature and its tenacity even in the face of industrialization. Constable noticeably uses color to describe the contaminated and tumultuous waves of the sea in opposition to the glowing and still sky. The viewer’s eyes first jump to the tide hitting the beach and creating a splash of water at the forefront of the painting. The colors used at this location are navy, mustard yellow, brown, grey, and creamy-white. These colors in the sea connote to filthy, muddled water. Furthermore, there are a couple of distinct dashes of deep, dark grey colors at the splash site that add to the effect of making the water seem dirty. The colors in the sea are most intense at this splash site but the viewer also notices specks of burgundy through out the sea that confirm the pollution and impure composition of the sea. In contrast to the sea, the colors of the sky are more uniform and brighter in shade. Constable uses grey and white in the clouds and the value of these colors are much lighter and more consistent than the grey and white used in the sea. The blue shade of the sky, similarly, is consistent through out the top half of the painting and conveys a sense of calmness. The clouds are highlighted with tints of...
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...bygone age where the brutal Westeam Empire spanned the length of the Aerocloud. It was an age of exploration and discovery but so too was it one of unparalleled cruelty and greed. The Westeam dukes ruled with a union held together by alchemists and the power they harnessed from the mysterious Aerogel. It was with this power that they built the first airships and rained death upon the bewildered Arya and the fierce Broncs. Armed with simple weapons and riding only horses, they were no match for Jraxido, the first Skyduke of the Empire. For five hundred years, the land learned to fear shadows in the sky. But just as it gave them control of the skies, Aerogel too brought the Empire into a dark age. With great pains they tried to hide it, but the Skydukes could not delay the inevitable any longer. After five hundred years, the secrets of the Aerogel were known to all. After half a millennium of oppression, the Rebellion was more than an irritating insect to be squashed at leisure. Harvesters were built, blueprints stolen, and the Aerogel War ravaged the land. The alchemists of the Iron Institute were given new liberties. In their dark laboratories, unspeakable experiments were performed without a care for consequences. Terrible weapons were developed with devastating...
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...The bright dancing lights that appear in the sky are called the Aurora Borealis . These lights are made of from collisions of electricity charged particles from the sun entering at earths atmosphere . The lights are seen above the magnetic poles of the northern and southern hemisphere. Auroral displays appear in many colors although pale green and pink, shades of red, yellow, green, blue, and violet have been seen and reported . Some of the lights appear in many different forms of patches or scattered clouds of light to streamers, arcs, rippling curtains, and shooting rays that light up the sky with an mysterious glow. What causes The Northern Lights ? Northern Lights can be seen in the northern or southern hemisphere, in an irregularly shaped oval centred over each magnetic pole. The lights are known as 'Aurora borealis' in the north and 'Aurora australis' in the south. Scientists have learned that in most instances northern and southern auroras are mirror-like images that occur at the same time, with similar shapes and colors....
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