...Comparison Essay 1 Thesis: The literary works The Welcome Table by Alice Walker / what it's like to be a black girl by Patricia Smith represent African American women who have faced challenges of sexism, racism and stereotypes in American life. Racism and Sexism are questions that I will discuss and examine. I will compare tand contrast similarities of both poems. I will explain and give examples to show how these two poems exhibit different scenarios but similar views about how race and ethnicity can affect women of color based on prejudice and stereotypes. The main character is a nearly blind, old black woman with a lean build and a grayish tone to her skin. She wears a mildewed black dress with missing buttons and a grease-stained head rag covering her pigtails. She has blue-brown eyes, is ashen in appearance and much wrinkled. She is perspiring from her walk and is shivering from the cold. She enters the white Church and sits, singing in her head. She is physically thrown out of the church. After the woman is turned away she begins to feel a sense of loneliness, and an outcast. “She sees Jesus walking down the highway and is giddy with joy. Jesus tells her to follow him and she does, walking alongside him. He looks just like she thought he would, and he listens to her sing and talk to him. She feels great beside him and can walk as long as he wants. (Smith,).The women in my opinion feel that God...
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...curl up on the couch, turn on the tv and begin to watch one of my favourite tv shows, "The Golden Girls."The show revolves around the lives of four elderly women living in Miami during the 1980s. As I am watching, I for the first time notice the four "elderly" women depicted in the show all defy the general concepts of ageing as well as ageing stereotypes. The female characters all are very healthy, fashionable, energetic, social, employed and have active love lives. This portrayal is a great contrast from the depiction of the grumpy, unhealthy, introverted and frail perceptions modern media and society associates with the elderly. This makes me wonder,...
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...Redefining Stereotype in Mormonism Primary sources are the priceless eyes and ears that our future descendants will have when they look to consider our ways, habits, and deeds. When one considers conditions of 19th century or before, one has even fewer primary sources on which to lean. Narrative accounts are often the only source of information for the historian, and so a crucial skill can be the interpretation, and deciphering, of the biases of the original writer. In Female Lives among Mormons, Ward gives the audience a rare insight to the reclusive livelihood and the beginnings of the Mormons Church. The autobiography portrays the culture and values that the Mormons initially practice are against American ideals. From the account of Ward, who lived through the beginnings of Mormonism, the common prejudice and stereotype of Mormonism in modern America is justifiable. One century later, David Brion Davis argued in Some Themes of Counter-Subversion that nativist writing is a common reflection of apparent religious intolerance in nineteenth century America, but he did not take into account that it is an autobiography. He argues that the reason why Mormon is prejudiced because it is “shrouded with secrecy, deemed extraneous forces that are allegedly threatening the heritage of Republican Ideology.” (Davis 209) He also contends that the members themselves are not “individually evil but they were blinded and corrupted by ideology that justified treason and gross immorality.” (Davis...
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...The cap of sharp thistles that the girl places on the bull moose’s head alludes to the mocking of Christ before His crucifixion; the people scorn the suppressed minorities as the Jews scorned Jesus Christ. After all, discrimination often stems from the lack of knowledge. As the bull moose is compared to a “blood god” (9), the simile compares man’s ignorance of those who they discriminate to man’s lack of understanding of higher beings, such as a god. Even a person who seems to be wise and all knowing, such as the old parish man, juxtaposes the bull moose he sees with his biased memory of an enslaved bull moose; recalling the negative and believing that all bull moose are the same enforces false stereotypes and continues to see bull moose as inferior and tamed. This is simply because of the townspeople’s lack of exposure. A woman who asks if the bull moose had escaped from a Fair; a Fair is where unusual, weird, and unknown things can be seen, making it a metaphor about how the prejudiced are not knowledgeable about those who they are biased...
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...men are innocent people with no hope, trapped in lies. He thinks they are like younger brothers to African Americans and therefore they shall force them to see themselves as they are. I am amazed of the way of thinking of this man. Instead of inciting fighting or protesting, which are in their every right after all African American people had been through, he rather put himself in the white men position. He has an almost Jesus Christ philosophy of love and acceptance and sees the white men as lost young brothers of the Negros and has the urge to guide them back the right path. He also points that African American are almost as guilty as the white men for following the standards they put them and live the lives that they set them to. Pretty amazing if you ask me. I think I would have never led myself to this ways. It’s easy to blame others especially if they took you by force from your home, enslaved you, and have been hundreds of years demeaning you. But, what have you done? Life is full of these stereotypes and I am not saying it is okay to stereotype, but most of the time they are true. They are true because we made them true. We hate when people judge but every time we get the opportunity we...
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...DISCRIMINATION SPEECH Discrimination, it is as old as human kind. Some people would say that discrimination is a type of abuse, falling into both the physiological and physical molds. The Homosapians committed this abuse against the Neanderthals, and I think we can all agree that it is one of the sources of most societal ills. Prejudice, bullying, racism are all types of discrimination. Machismo, Homophobia & stereotypes are also products of this abuse. Maybe there is a physiological explanation to all of this, maybe you were raised to discriminate against Jews or Asians, or maybe you had a bad experience with a black man and so you associate black people with that experience. Let's start of with Machismo. It has been around even before the bible, for it features strongly there. It says that women are "unclean" because they get their periods, and that if a mother bears a male child, it's better than if it had been born a girl. This holy book says that women are to blame for the fact that Adam & Eve were kicked out of paradise. Before, if a man could find a stick thinner than his thumb he could LEGALY BEAT HS WIFE & CHILDREN WITH IT! And even now, in places like India and Saudi Arabia, a woman can be RAPED and if she takes the man who raped her to court & doesn’t have 4 male witnesses SHE, THE VICTIM WILL AUTOMATICLY LOSE & be STONED TO DEATH!! And plus, in the Quran, the Islamic version of the Bible, it says that if a woman is raped by a man, she must legally take him...
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...Stephen King’s novel Carrie is about a young girl who is abused not only by her peers but by her Jesus obsessed mother. The book follows Carrie and her rise to power over those who have depraved her of a normal life. The book uses Carrie’s point of view as well as many of her peers and news articles. The book is a tragic story of abuse and the internal struggles of a young teenage girl, Carrie, and her peers. The story in this book will manage to stay with you because many of the things that happen within the pages are things that people have to go through everyday. Many of the themes in this book are a reality for many children and it’s like taking a oeak into their world, it makes the story stand out and stick with the readers. King takes...
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...the small fisherman to the King himself; “What with the selling and exchange of slaves, the arranged marriage of unwilling princesses, the nasty princes and the general willingness to invade other countries with only the flimsiest of causes the Calormenes certainly do not look good”(“Medieval Girl”) In contrast the Caucasian Narnian people representing Christians are shown to be...
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...believed that the Black Church is a powerful force [in his life] and did not do enough in regard to racism among African Americans. Cone exploited scriptures, slave spirituals, blues, and other prominent African American thinkers such as David Walker, Henry McNeal Turner, and W.E.B. DuBois to help shape his theology. Malcolm X and the Black Power Movement and Dr. Martin Luther King also influenced his theology. Cone formulates a theology of liberation from within the context of the Black experience of oppression, interpreting the central kernel of the Gospels as Jesus' identification with the poor, oppressed, and the resurrection as the ultimate act of liberation. This theology cited as attempts to understand the meaning of faith, the meaning of God, in a world that is broken. Cone devoted his professional life to the study of religion from an African perspective. This groundbreaking influential work links the study of Jesus Christ life with the African American experience. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther...
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...Alisha Badwal |Bent-Thomas |HSP3U0-D | February 26, 2015 Alisha Badwal |Bent-Thomas |HSP3U0-D | February 26, 2015 EXPLORING CULTURE REPORT INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES EXPLORING CULTURE REPORT INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES Part One: Analyzing Your Own Culture: Carefully outlined by O’Neil’s investigation were the many potential environmental influences and geological cultures that help to shape the personality of individuals. One of the details examined were the child rearing practices which are especially critical in the development of one’s morals and beliefs (2006). But what plays the biggest hand in orienting someone’s identity is their main cultural group that they distinguish themselves with, and for me that is my religion Sikhism. Although my main cultural group does not completely align with the particular dominant group of the society in which I happen to live in, I believe that Sikhism is seen as a subculture in this society. As explained by Gordon Marshall, a dominant culture is one that is able, through economic or political power, impose its values, language, and ways of behaving on a subordinate culture or cultures (1998). Since the European influence on this territory Canada has been more influenced by Christianity, and as immigration loosened its hold on racial barriers we saw multiculturalism. These new religions then form what we call subcultures. Sikhism would be a dominant religion where I originate from, but in Canada and this society...
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...This novel is a thrilling read, eluding the characters in the novel to the characters in the Holy Bible. One of which, Huckleberry Finn alludes to characteristics and adventures of Moses in the old testament of the bible. Moses preforms an act that was morally right despite society’s teachings, which was helping the Hebrews escape to freedom from the Pharisees. Huckleberry Finn helps Jim, a runaway slave, escape to freedom despite his just like Moses. In addition, Huckleberry Finn preforms an act of service for Jim even though he does not have to and befriends Jim when it is against everyone’s approval. Jesus Christ also preforms many acts of service for others throughout the bible. He also befriends many unlikely people society did not approve of, like the Samaritan woman at the well. Lastly, the Pharisees throughout the bible are hypocritical and do not “practice what they preach.” They also chased down Moses and the escaped Hebrews to keep them enslaved. Christians in the south chase down escaped slaves, and show to be hypocrites by not “practicing what they preach” as...
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...Hamitic Myth separated a nation by dividing them into two very polar groups. In their separation, they created corresponding stereotypes that labeled one a heroic god and the other a cockroach. When the social roles ended up reversed, the dichotomous separation remained. These people were dehumanized to be either gods or roaches instead of a unified people. Within the novel, the girls of the Catholic School were separated and very eligible girls were unable to focus on their attention to the academics. In the schooling system, young women are learning to be educated women of powerful men. Slowly it is becoming apparent to them that women can be more than just wives with their education that empowers them. Yet due to the dehumanized expectations of them, these women are contained in this idea that they can only be a hero or a cockroach and nothing more. When posing for a white artist, Virginia learned that, “Tutsi aren’t humans; here, we’re inyenzi, cockroaches, snakes, rodents; to whites, we’re the heroes of their legends” (Mukasonga, 165). This dehumanization of the two races affected the education and possibly affected the women’s possibility for equality with men. At the end of the novel the school is demolished in their search to find the Tutsi cockroaches because they are cockroaches, not intelligent women of the elite. The dehumanization of these girls force them not to be relatable to each other; dividing a house that cannot stand. Without the european influence dehumanizing...
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...Flipper and Angie begun to get to know each other and took off from there. However, due to racial differences building a relationship was quite impossible because it was just something out of trend. “There is no doubt that the racial bitterness that exploded on the big screen against this particular black-white relationship also explodes in real life. Such were the roots of the racial conflict two years ago in Brooklyn`s Bensonhurst section, which began with rumors that a white girl was dating someone black. What began as a rumor of a taboo relationship in the close-knit Italian-American neighborhood ended with the killing of a young black man” (Martin). This quote emphasizes the message Spike Lee tend to develop throughout his film. Lee’s goal was to show that people from different races would face many criticisms from people around them if they would try to build a relationship. The above quote also shows that a variety of conflicts can built and can be very dangerous for a black man to interfere with a white woman or vice-versa. Flipper building a relationship with Angie was a serious conflict because when her father found he abused her domestically and kicked her out the house while Flipper’s wife kicked him out...
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...interpretations on the bible like a pastor, they guide others on how to read the bible. Women are also allowed to be Evangelist, they travel and preach. Male preachers travel because there is such a high demand for them but female preachers are forced to travel and be eveangelisy because of the limited opportunities. According to Post and Courier in 1990 2.8 percent of women were enrolled in Masters of Divinity programs in the US. In 2000 it was 6. 2 percent and in 2010 it was 7.6 percent. It’s interesting how Black women fill most of the congregation meaning when it is time to pay ties they contribute the most. They are basically funding the church yet they don’t have much say in what happiness in the church “In the bible Luke 8: 1-3 Jesus’ ministry was funded by a group of women. The twelve male disciples are discussed even among non-believers, yet the contributions of women is barely mentioned. When typing in YouTube videos of a Black female or woman preacher, they viewer is meet with negative results. For example a video about Black female preacher who preaches with her body exposed. Another video where an old Black women is labelled as crazy. Yet she is simply praying for every dieses on earth. These videos show how Black women are seen as over sexual and crazy. There are some women preachers that aren’t truly about their Gospel, but why is the negative displayed more than the positive. Denominations ran by Black men with scandals are hidden so well yet, denominations...
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...Born This Way - A Research Paper on Transgender Everyone has a gender; it is a thing affects everything in our lives. It affects how we act like and look like every day. However, have you ever thought about what is gender? Gender is the thing that describes the characteristics that a society or culture delineates as masculine or feminine (Nobelius). Today, most of the countries define gender base on the physical and genetic sexuality at birth. There is at least one transgender person, whose self-gender identity is different from the assigned gender sex at birth, in each 100 people (NCTE). Under the rules of our society, there are at least 70 million people living in the world without their identity. Loss of identity also comes with life-threatening discriminations and inequities to them. To solve this serious problem and to improve the harmony of the society, gender’s definition should be redefined to include transgender and not only base on the physical sexuality at birth. Before everything else, the most important question is: what is transgender? From the definition of Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, transgender is the state of one's self gender identity not matching one's assigned sex which based on physical sexuality at birth (GLAAD). To be easier to imagine, I would use a simple example. Imagine that your name is Tom. One day, while you are sleeping, someone assigns “Peter” as your name. After that, everyone starts calling you “Peter” while you can never...
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