...Compare and Contrast the Literary Work “The Welcome Table” VS “ Country Lovers” “The Racial Conflicts And Discrimination In The Welcome Table And Country Lovers” Katie McWilliams Instructor: Heather Peerboom 10/30/2014 Introduction I chosen to compare and contrast the literary works, “country Lovers” by Nadine Gordimer and “The Welcome Table” by Alice Walker, the theme being race / ethnicity. Theme: “The Racial Conflict and Discrimination In The Welcome Table And Country Lovers.” I want to explore the difference lives’ of these two woman was face with, and the way the narrator made me feel while I was reading the story of two black woman. Two strong black women that face all types of problems life had to offer them. These two stories shows feeling, pain, hate, and disappointments in Country Lovers and The Welcome Table. Both of these women had to struggled with their emotions and all they had to go through. Both stories are told in third person omniscient point of view, you can tell by the way the narrator describe the characters and how they’re feeling in both story. “The Welcome Table,” the old woman had her faith to guide her. To carrier her through the hard times. All she wanted was just to attend church. There is a rascal tension centered on both of these stories, in “Country Lovers” the black woman in this story was a pretty black woman fell in love with someone she grow up with a white man, she had a baby for him...
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...Discrimination and Racism in Country Lovers and the Welcome Table Donna Robertson ENG 125: Introduction to Literature Lyndsey Lefebvre November 18, 2012 Discrimination and Racism in Country Lovers and the Welcome Table Racial discrimination has affected black people in the United States and Africa for many years. Although racial discrimination is against the law in both countries many people believe that racism still exists and there is significant evidence to support many racial discrimination claims. While many racist people has believe throughout time that their behavior is appropriate; two short stories which are Country Lovers and The Welcome Table illustrate these behaviors and allow the reader to interpret, understand and feel the suffering of two black women caused by painful racism. Both stories enlighten the reader on how one ethnicity believe that they are superior to the other and proves that racism is practiced through ignorance and hatred. This essay will compare and contrast the racial theme of the short stories “Country Lovers” written by Nadine Gordimer and “The Welcome Table” written by Alice Walker. Both of these short stories share the same theme, which is centered on racism, but the theme is not limited to racism it also includes love, hardship, rejection, and death. Both stories share racial tension between two ethnic groups, as well as pain suffered as a result of racism. Both of these literary pieces give the reader awareness...
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...masks representing their relatives and serve as judges in determining the outcome of a 'case.' They represent the spirit of the clan. The egwugwu are a force. When the egwugwu lose power in the community, the clan's independence is lost. “And then the egwugwu appeared. The women and children sent up a great shout and took to their heels. It was instinctive” (Achebe 89). Christianity provides hope for Nwoye because his father does not treat him like family, and so he looked to Christianity. Mr. Brown gives him a new life by giving him: a new name, new school, and new religion. “More people came to learn in his school, and he encouraged them gifts of singlets and towels. [...]. As soon as he had learned of Okonkwo’s return five months earlier, the missionary immediately paid him a visit. He had just sent Okonkwo’s son, Nwoye, who was now called Issac, to the new training college for teachers in Umuru” (Achebe 181-182). The missionary believes that Okonkwo would be ecstatic, but that was not the case. “Okonkwo had driven him away with the threat that if he came into his compound again, he would be carried out of it” (Achebe 182). The idea of Christianity does not fit with who the Ibo are or how they lived their...
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...Introduction……………………………………………………………………..4 1.1 Purpose………………………………………………………………….. 1.2 Scope……………………………………………………………………. 1.3 Definitions, Acronyms and Abbreviations……………………………… 1.4 References………………………………………………………………………… …………………. 1.5 Overview…………………………………………………………………………… ………………… 2 Overall Description………………………………………………………………………… ………. 2.1 Product Perspective……………………………………………………… 2.2 System Environment 2.3 Functional Requirements Definitions……………………………………………………… 2.4 Use Cases………………………………………………………………………………… ………… 2.4.1 Use Case: Access Welcome Page 2.4.2 Use Case: User chooses Login 2 2.4.3 Use Case: Use chooses Register 2.4.4 Use Case: View Profile 2.4.5 Use Case: Editing the Profile 2.4.6 Use Case: View Schedule 2.4.7 Use Case: Registering Appointment 2.4.8 Use Case: Registering Leave 2.4.9 Use Case: Registering a Meeting 2.5 Non-Functional Requirements 3. Requirement Specifications 3.1 External Interface Specification 3.2 Functional Requirements 3.2.1 Access Welcome Page 3.2.2 User Chooses Login 3.2.3 Use chooses Register 3.2.4 View Profile 3.2.5 Editing the Profile 3.2.6 Editing the Profile 3.2.7 Registering Appointment 3.2.8 Registering Leave 3.2.9 Registering a Meeting 3.3 Detailed Non-functional Requirements 3 1. Introduction 1.1. Purpose The main purpose of this SRS is to describe the software requirements of time management software. It includes the functions and features of the software. Moreover it gives an overview of the design implementation of the software. The main...
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...the lowest of you, I bid you a hearty welcome. LORDS Thanks to your majesty. MACBETH I will walk around and mingle with all of you, playing the humble host. My wife will stay in her royal chair, but at the appropriate time I will have her welcome you all. LADY MACBETH Say welcome to all of our friends for me, sir, for in my heart they are all welcome. The FIRST MURDERER appears at the door. MACBETH And they respond to you with their hearts as well. The table is full on both sides. I will sit here in the middle. Be free and happy. Soon we will toast around the table. (approaching the door and speaking to the MURDERER) There’s blood on your face. FIRST MURDERER Then it must be Banquo’s. MACBETH I’d rather see his blood splattered on your face than flowing through his veins. Did you finish him off? FIRST MURDERER My lord, his throat is cut. I did that to him. MACBETH You are the best of the cutthroats. But whoever did the same to Fleance must also be good. If you cut both their throats, then you are the absolute best. FIRST MURDERER Most royal sir, Fleance has escaped. MACBETH Now I’m scared again. Otherwise I would have been perfect, as solid as a piece of marble, as firm as a rock, as free as the air itself. But now I’m all tangled up with doubts and fears. But Banquo’s been taken care of? FIRST MURDERER Yes, my good lord. He’s lying dead in a ditch, with twenty deep gashes in his head, any one of which would have been...
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...Ganelle Curry Professor Meredyth Puller English 102-12 February 27, 2013 Literary Research Paper This literary research paper is based on the book Welcome to the Monkey House: A Collection of Short Works by Kurt Vonnegut. Welcome to the Monkey House: A Collection of Short Works consists of 25 short stories most of which had previously appeared in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly, Ladies Home Journal, Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, Collier’s Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, The New York Times, Esquire, Venture, and Cosmopolitan. The title story appeared in Playboy magazine the same year the collection was released. Eleven of the stories were reprinted from Vonnegut’s 1961 short story collection Canary in a Cat House (Vonnegut). This paper will focus on four futuristic science fiction stories from the collection. These stories, “Welcome to the Monkey House”, “Harrison Bergeron”, “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”, and “Unready to Wear” all share a dystopian science fiction theme. Science and technology are supposed to make the world a better place, but instead, Vonnegut concludes they only create a new set of problems (Farrell, “Science and Technology in the Works of Kurt Vonnegut”). Television is often a target of satire in much of his fiction from the 1950’s. He describes it as desensitizing and numbing while deceiving the masses (Werlock). Vonnegut uses satire and pessimism throughout these dystopian stories. Satire is a special form of literature...
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...workers were in a hurry to finish the fair before the opening. This conflict shows a person versus society plot line that involves Burnham and his crew As they work for hours ,with some of the world's finest architects, to finish a project that's just as massive as the Eiffel Tower itself. “How is it possible that this fast I'm out of construction greatly exceeding that of the Paris exhibition of 1889 will be ready in two years?” (Larson 119)....
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...all courts in the state. This authority is exercised by the Chief Justice with the assistance of the Administrative Director and staff appointed by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court hears appeals from lower courts and may exercise original jurisdiction in cases relating to revenue, mandamus, prohibition or habeas corpus ("Welcome to Illinois," 2011). The Appellate Court hears appeals from the Circuit Courts. There are five districts of the Appellate Court, and Judges are elected for 10-year terms. Cook County, which comprises the 1st District, has 18 Appellate Judges. The remaining 101 counties are divided into four districts that elect six Judges each. Additional Judges are assigned by the Supreme Court to the Appellate Court, temporarily, on a showing of need. Elgin is the seat of the 2nd District; Ottawa, the 3rd; Springfield, the 4th, and Mount Vernon, the 5th ("Welcome to Illinois," 2011). The Unified Trial Court in Illinois is the Circuit Court comprised of Circuit and Associate Judges. The state is divided in 23 judicial circuits, each having one Chief Judge elected by the Circuit Judges. The Chief Judge has general administrative authority in his or her circuit, subject to the overall administrative authority of the Supreme Court. Circuit Judges may hear any case assigned to them by the Chief Judge. Associate Judges may not preside over criminal cases in which the defendant is charged with an offense punishable by imprisonment for one year or more (felonies), unless...
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...From ancient times, in every culture, humans have told stories to explain what goes on in the world around them, to honor people,to celebrate achievements,and to communicate human value ( Chugston, 2014). Both of these short stories achieved this goal. Each story was able to captivate you. The authors made you fall in love with the characters. You wanted to read more. “The Welcome Table” and “Country Lovers” showed sides of racism that took place in completely different parts of the world. Each author used their literary and keen writing skills in order to get the reader to completely understand the point each one of them was trying to make. In the short stories, “The Welcome Table” by Alice Walker and “Country Lovers by Nadine Gordimer, Racism is the theme and highlight of each one. Both stories are discussing racial issues but they are two completely different stories and the authors begin each one in a completely opposite fashion. '”The Welcome Table” was written by Margaret Walker. Walker was published under her maiden name. She was best known for her poem "For My People," published in 1942, and her best-selling novel, Jubilee, based on her what her family went through during slavery and immediately after the Civil War, it was published in 1966. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama., Walker was a resident of Jackson, Miss., and was a professor emeritus at Jackson State College. She taught English and was also a director of the Institute for the Study of History, Life...
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...The book is about a dystopian world where the government has full control of its citizens using brainwashing techniques. The song's title comes from the line in the book “welcome my son to the machine”. The song follows the same theme as the book, with the machine referring to life under an oppressed government where free thought and free will are non-existent. Everyone is part of a “machine” where no one has control and they are simply being used (Edmonds, 1975). The song can also be interpreted in a broader sense. For instance, rather than being limited to the government, it can also be about society. People are told from a young age what to do, how to act, when to talk, and learn to know their place and this often leads to rebellion in some people which is just another phase of the machine. For example, in the...
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...Running Head: LITERARY WORK ENG 125 January 9, 2011 “The Welcome Table” by Alice Walker and “Country Lovers” by Nadine Gordimer are two literary poems that have similarities and differences. They are very different in their style, character and format. I think the most common thing that these two literary poems share is they both have a strong and excellent characterization. “Country Lovers” has events and circumstances of behavior and situations that “The Welcome Table does not have. Emphasizing the similarities in an essay defines its comparison and when you emphasize the differences in an essay you are defining the contrast. As I discuss these essays in my writing, you will note that there are some similarities but they are totally different. The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast two literary stories, “The Welcome Table” by Alice Walker and “Country Lovers” by Nadine Gordimer. These two stories overall message is “engages the reader in inter-racial issues from a sociological and moral perspective” in “The Welcome Table”. When we look at the “Country Lovers” I think the message “engages the reader in the same inter-racial issues from a sociological but the perspective is psychological.” (p.69) These two pieces are similar in that they are both written in third person and they both have an effect of social and racial discrimination involved in them. As the author of both pieces intentions are to show...
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...The Odyssey was written by homer as an ode detailing the adventures that Odysseus went through until he was able to return to his home in Ithaca. The labors and hardships that Odysseus went through were after the Greek had emerged victorious in their battle at Troy. However, there were some gods who were displeased with a proclamation that Odysseus had made and due to that he was made to wonder in the seas for ten years before he returned to Ithaca (Foley, 10). The recollection of those tribulations are written and document by Homer who was a Greek scholar and poet and throughout the years there have been constant questions about whether the story was true or fabricated. However, the story remains one of the best-written documentaries on the...
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...about a group that that only accepts people that match god's description of a perfect human being. The residents of Waknuk are getting further away from perfection because they are not able to welcome people that are different, kids are divided from normal and abnormal and outsiders are not welcomed in the Waknuk community. The residents of Waknuk are getting further away from perfection because they are not able to welcome people that are different in the Waknuk people’s eyes. The statement is proven many times in this book, for example when Sophie and her family had to escape...
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... however much you worry, add one single cubit to your span of life? 28 And why worry about clothing? Think of the flowers growing in the fields; they never have to work or spin; 29 yet I assure you that not even Solomon in all his royal robes was clothed like one of these. 30 Now if that is how God clothes the wild flowers growing in the field which are there today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, will he not much more look after you, you who have so little faith? 31 So do not worry; do not say, "What are we to eat? What are we to drink? What are we to wear?" 32 It is the gentiles who set their hearts on all these things. Your heavenly Father knows you need them all. 33 Set your hearts on his kingdom first, and on God's saving justice, and all these other things will be given you as well. 34 So do not worry about tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.' 33 Set your hearts on his kingdom first, and on God's saving justice, and all these other things will be given you as well. 34 So do not worry about tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.' These lines signify that we should welcome god in our heart. We should look forward to his goodness in his kingdom. Everything happens...
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...In Greek culture, it is considered very impolite to refuse a guest to enter your house. In most cases,xenia is good, when a guest does not overstay his welcome and does not eat too much food, but bad xenia can occur when a guest intrudes a house, stays for too long, does not treat the house with respect, and eats too much food. In the novel, The Odyssey, Homer reveals and illustrates the centrality of xenia in Greek culture by writing countless events of characters that show strong and poor hospitality including the encounters between Eumaeus and Odysseus, Menelaus and Telemachus, and the suitors and Penelope. He stresses the importance and normality for People to treat others this way as it reflects upon their own character as a host. Eumaeus...
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