...distorted perspective society has already formulated for them. Since the time of slavery, African American women have been seen as hyper sexualized beings and their body shapes and physical features have continually been contrasted to white women. The idea of sex craving women with voluptuous bodies has carried on through out generations. What is shocking is that these stereotypes live and breathe within the black community, and the film, television, and music industry are persistent to keep it alive and thriving. Bad enough men take advantage and abuse the appreciation of women’s bodies through the media, but it is absolutely sickening to see a multi-million dollar icon like Minaj do it to herself and the people around her. She tries to play off this role as a powerful woman competing with some of the biggest music names out there, but she isn’t using her natural talent or business skills. Minaj excessively personifies the power of her plump backside before the power of her words., which is what she is known for. But then again how powerful can her words really be when she has a song, entitled “Stupid Hoe.” The chorus of the song is very simple and straight forward with the repetition of the phrase, “you a stupid hoe.” Not that these words from a man’s mouth should ever be acceptable, but in the line of Nicki Minaj’s work, they are almost expected from a male artist. I hate to create a double standard, but why would a woman herself want to degrade someone of her own kind but referring...
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...Ethnic Notions can be defined as, a conception or belief of a particular race of people. In a more in-depth manner, the tile can be defined as, a conception or belief of what white America thought about African Americans. Ethnic Notion’s definition provides a general summary of what this documentary is about. I believe the significance of the title upholds the belief that everyone does not look at African Americans the way some white Americans have perceived them to be. This movie gives me the impression as if white American thought of African Americans as fools or even just...
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...Victoria Braden Jasmine Sullivan AAAS 2000 23 April 14 1.) In chapter 1, Black women slaves were defined as either a “jezebel” or “mammy”. In detail define the characteristics of a “jezebel” and “mammy”. Why were black women defined in these two extreme ways? By contrast, how were Southern white women characterized? * One of the most standout images of black women in white slavery America was of a woman who ran entirely off of her sex drive, a Jezebel. A jezebel was considered to be the complete opposite of a proper white woman. She was thought to have little to none religious affiliation. A jezebel took no instances to cover her body, and showed no signs of prudery. The idea that black women were over-sexualized first gained credence when Englishmen went to Africa to buy slaves. Not being accustomed to the traditional wear, Europeans mistook semi-nudity for lewdness. They also misinterpreted African cultural tradition of polygamy and claimed to be the Africans' uncontrolled lust, tribal dances were considered to be an orgy. The travel accounts of Europeans spurred inaccurate analysis of black women livelihood. Perhaps it was the warm climate of Africa that prompted William Bosman to describe the women he saw on the coast of Guinea as "fiery" and "warm" and "so much hotter than the men."' William Smith must have fallen under the same influence, since he wrote of "hot constitution'd Ladies" who "are continually contriving stratagems how to gain a lover."' The conditions...
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...about being home with her father and sister, drink hot cocoa and eat syrup sandwiches. That night in her bed she feels that someone sat in her bed which made her very scared but in the end nobody was there. The story is set in a house called Mount Pleasant and the area around the house where the main character lives. The narrator is the main character who isn't described in the story but we're told that she's about 6 or 7 years old which is shown in this quote: “He's maybe nine or ten, not that much older than I am.” The narrator describes the hole story through her thoughts and what she sees which is very childish e.g. when she speaks of her mother and father she calls them Mammy and Daddy. The narrator's named Elizabeth which we are told at the first page when her mother calls her. She's a first person narrator because of the use of 'I' through the hole story even though she never speaks to the other characters. She only thinks and tells the reader about some events she has been experiencing last week and the present. It is a non-omniscient narrator because she only knows her own thoughts. The language is informal because the narrator invents her own words all the time for example “babby” which means 'baby'...
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...survival; wanting what you cannot have; and the change of a culture (Mitchell, 1936). Scarlett’s life revolved around the parties she would attend at neighboring plantations, flirting with the young men of the county and pursuing her childhood crush, Ashley Wilkes. Scarlett was a spoiled. In 1860 sixteen year old Scarlett O’Hara lived on Tara, her father’s plantation in Georgia. She is self-centered girl who seemed to care little for the feelings of others and who was used to getting everything she wanted. Her father, Gerald was an Irish immigrant who had prospered in his new land. Her mother, Ellen was from an aristocratic French family. Scarlett had two sisters, Suellen and Careen to whom she paid little mind. Mammy was Ellen’s house servant and the girl’s nanny. Mammy was always concerned that the girls be proper ladies like their mother. The O’Hara plantation had many slaves and was prosperous (Mitchell, 1936). In the spring of 1860 Scarlett was looking forward to the barbeque the Wilkes’s family would be having at Twin Oaks, when the Tarleton twins Brent and Stuart stopped by. It was from the Tarleton twins that Scarlett found out that Ashley Wilkes’s engagement to his saintly cousin; Melanie Hamilton would be announced at the barbeque. When Gerald rides up on his horse, Scarlett runs to him to find out if it is true that Ashley will be announcing his engagement. Gerald tries to convince Scarlett that she should not pursue Ashley and says “Have you running...
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...occurs is when Rufus becomes jealous of Dana’s relationship with Sam. Sam, a slave, asks Dana if she can teach him and his family how to read, but Rufus does not know that; therefore, he assumes that Sam being so flirtatious with Dana is something more than it actually is. A couple days later, Rufus sells Sam because he does not like Sam and Dana flirting, and it upsets Dana. Dana tries to explain why, but Rufus ends up using violence and power to solve Dana’s confusion and anger. "[H]e hit me"(Butler 238). As Dana watches Rufus grow up, she only hopes that he will not turn into his dad, and this was Rufus's turning point in his life where he was turning into exactly what Dana hoped he would not. It was hard for the slaves to get through their lives with having this huge amount of power over...
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...Kara Walker has achieved both notoriety and acclaim in the art world while still in her twenties. “It is hard to think of another artist in the last three or four years who has emerged as rapidly,” commented Alexis Worth on Walker in a 1996 issue of Art in New England. In a way, Walker’s goal with her art is to make the viewer gasp and laugh at the same time. “I want to provoke the audience in the most enjoyable way possible,” Walker told Artnews “I think of my art as a kind of melodrama, producing a certain giddiness that entertains but also empowers.” A blend of social commentary and humor is clearly in evidence in works such as Before the Battle: Chickin’ Dumplin’, which shows a Confederate solider kneeling to kiss a topless black woman on the breast as she drops a chicken leg in surprise. Walker employs a nineteenth-century style of art combined with an uncensored modern perspective to highlight the full range of physical and sexual exploitation during the ante-bellum era. Her art installations evolve from drawings or smaller watercolor sketches she renders that help her determine her themes, and some of her shows have included these preliminary studies in juxtaposition with the final artworks. Sometimes she cuts her images right into the wall of the gallery. Many of them life-size in scale and covering entire walls, her works depict blacks in scenes that initially seem straightforward or innocent, but then assault the viewer with their violence and perversity. A case in point...
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...slaves are then freed, leaving the plantation empty, and Scarlett to do all the work. When the taxes rise 300 dollars, Scarlett is desperate to find a way to pay them. She promises herself that there’s only one way to make money; she must lie, cheat, steal, or kill to make sure no one goes hungry again There is talk of a Barbecue at Twelve Oaks, the Wilkes’ plantation, down the road from Tara. Scarlett meets Gerald O’hara on the road to ask if the rumor Mammy, her slave, had told her is true. That Ashley Wilkes is going to ask his cousin Melanie to marry him. Scarlett is heartbroken that the man of her dreams is marrying someone else. When she arrives at Twelve Oaks, Scarlett is the center of attention, all of the men, even those who have girlfriends, talk to Scarlett. She is the most popular girl there. Melanie and Ashley talk of their marriage as they overlook the garden. Scarlett is sitting beneath a tree with all the men surrounding her, enjoying her time until she spies Ashley and Melanie together. The girls all have to go take a nap, but once they are all asleep Scarlett sneaks out and listens in on the conversation the men are having about the upcoming war. Everyone is sure the war will be short and glorious. After all, "southern gentlemen are worth any ten Yankees. Everyone knows that." Everyone, that is, except Rhett Butler, he thinks the war will be hard to...
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...working outside of the homes and are not able to take care of the children on a full time bases. When the parents are unable to tend to their children, they have to seek help from an outside source. Years ago, it was natural for the mother of the children to stay at home and care for them while the father goes to work. But time has changed and there is a major increase in single parenting than before. Even in two parent homes, the mother has to work in order to maintain the house hold and this is why non parental child care comes in. Before I can address the different types of non parental child care, I must first explain what non parental child care is. As stated in chapter five of Child, Family, School, Community it states that non parental child care is also known as day care is care given to children by persons other than parents during the parts of the day when parents are absent. This process can start as early as the child being an infant and extend into school years. It also states in the chapter that 70% of children ages 0 to 6, not yet in kindergarten are in child care for all or part of the day. There are three types of non parental child care that I will discuss, and the influences it can have on a child. One type of non parental child care that is most familiar to families is day care centers. Many families have to rely on non family members to care for their children and they send them to day care centers. Daycare is an environment where children are set in assigned...
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...Gone With the Wind ENG 225 Gone With the Wind Gone with the Wind is a movie its own rarity. It is one of the few movies that has stood the test of time and remains a classic that cannot be compared to some of today’s movies. I doubt the screenplay writer, Sidney Howard, producer, David O. Selznick, and director, Victor Fleming knew what timeless piece of history they were creating when this movie completed. This masterpiece of film has had an impact on viewers ever since it was created and will have for many more. The movie was nominated for numerous awards at the 1939 Academy Awards even though it wasn’t released until January 1940. The movie ran away with eight of those nominations, winning Supporting Actress, Actress, Director, Screenplay, Color Cinematography, Art Direction, Editing, and Best Picture (Ten Films that Shook the World). It has been said that if the income for the movie was adjusted for inflation, it would be the most successful movie of all time. The films begins with the chronicling of the splendor of the Old South. We watch how it is reduced to crumbs by the Civil War and the how the New South rebuilds itself during the reconstruction. The final results makes one wonder if the Auteur Theory applies to this film which says that the director is the one with the overall films artistic merit. The characters are living their lives in a very simple way until everything is shattered by the Civil War. None of the characters expected the devastation...
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...scholarship to St. Columb's College, a Catholic boarding school situated in Derry. In 1957, Heaney travelled to Belfast to study English Language and Literature at the Queen's University of Belfast. During his time in Belfast he found a copy of Ted Hughes' Lupercal, which spurred him to write poetry. Heaney's work often deals with the local surroundings: that is, his surroundings in Ireland, particularly in Northern Ireland, where he was born. Allusions to sectarian difference, widespread in Northern Ireland, can be found in his poems, but these are never predominant or strident. His poetry is not often overtly political or militant, and is far more concerned with profound observations of the small details of the everyday, far beyond contingent political concerns. Some of his work is concerned with the lessons of history, and indeed prehistory and the very ancient. Other works concern his personal family history, focusing on characters in his family and as he has acknowledged, these poems can be read as elegies for those family members. Liz Lochhead (born December 26, 1947) is a Scottish poet and dramatist, originally from Newarthill in North Lanarkshire. After attending Glasgow School of Art, she lectured in fine art for eight years before becoming a professional writer. She is one of Scotland's most popular dramatists. Her plays include Blood and Ice, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off (1987).Her adaptation of Euripides' Medea won the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year...
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...ICT and Legislations In this essay, I am going to analyse current issues and developments in communication and information technology, to include digital and mobile technology and the internet. Where would we be today without technology? Personally, I would be lost, from using my I-phone or setting my alarm to using my docking station for my music. My TV in my bedroom has chrome cast, which keeps my little man safe and occupied whilst mummy is getting ready. It transforms any television in to a smart television that means you can access net flicks or you tube. My son watches Blippi, which provides educational videos for toddlers. It also helps me keep my life simple, for example using my Bank of Ireland app. I can check my balance and my direct debits without having to request a statement or going to the bank. In the past, I used the weather app to scrutinize the weather forecast, pick the best beach to go windsurfing based on the conditions. Now because I am an Irish mammy I use it for reasons that are more important i.e. when is it a good time to hang out the washing. The developments in communication technology also mean we can broadcast information to a wide audience all over the world in a short period. This is very useful for advertisements, conveying important messages and updating citizens on important news. Communications technology has helped us in many ways in our public and private lives. Businesses now use social media for advertising and marketing rather...
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...soon became apparent that to understand what drag is now I needed to research its past. With further historical research came the need to shift the direction of my project. I found that gender performance has always been political in some way. From the very beginning of theatre in ancient Greece to Rupaul’s Drag Race, using crossdressing in performance has always had an effect on realms of...
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...pelts animals with thrown objects to torment them. He kills animals for pleasure. To Tarzan all blacks are lower. Besides, in the movie, the Africans of the Mbongan tribe are cannibalism, superstitious, contemptible and debased. Here it come the love of Tarzan, Jane a “white” woman is defined as beautiful, and apparently resourceful and intelligent. However, Esmeralda is presented as a black nanny stereotype. Her character old dialogue is an affront to all women and to all black. The positive attributes of the 'whiteness “and the negative attributes of the 'black” in this movie represent an interpretation of discrimination by that time. It’s mentioned in Black Feminist Thought, the author expressed that such stereotypical images have included mammies,...
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...then-staunchly segregated Mississippi, challenged viewers to walk their journey—to see, as lead protagonist, Abileen Clark, said, “what it felt like to be me.” To me, ‘The Help’ is this year’s most outstanding and socially relevant motion picture; Viola Davis’ quiet but powerful portrayal of Abileen made us all take notice of a historically invisible class of women and Abileen’s story, along with those of the other maids who rallied with her to tell it, remind us that when we speak, if only in a whisper, momentous things can happen. Of course, the movie, does not come without its controversy: while so many, myself included, questioned then embraced Stockett’s story and actresses Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer earned Academy Award nominations for their roles as the maids who conspired with a young white woman to canonize their life stories, others question why, 70 years after Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for her portrayal as the affable, sassy slave maid Mammy in Gone With the Wind, Hollywood ushered to the screen a movie feting the Jim Crow subjugation of black women. What is lost in the debate is that the movie tells a story that needed to be told in a grand way—the story of ordinary women who, even in their housemaid uniforms, were everyday heroes. This isn’t about Hollywood. This isn’t about “Black” stories and who tells them. This is about our mothers and grandmothers. And the countless other women who were “the help”—the women who climbed off the bus Saturday...
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