...Analysis: The Plague of Doves Western Governors University Analysis: The Plague of Doves There were many compelling choices for my first Introduction to Humanities analysis. But Louise Erdrich had previously caught my eye while reading the course material, and I remember how much her work had made an impression on me; her dedication to writing about the Native American experience, and how multiculturalism in America had not necessarily been kind to them (MindEdge, Inc., 2015). So I was pleased to see that one of the choices was the first chapter of her novel “The Plague of Doves”. After reading the first chapter my initial thought was; “I want to read more!” It was well written, easy to read, and presented the turn of the 20th century life of the Native American vividly. The author’s use of words and prose transported me back to that time, how the narrator’s great-grandparents met, ran away, and eventually returned to the reservation. Their struggle to survive together amidst racial segregation and violence was well interspersed with stories of the burgeoning love life of the narrator in the 1960’s. This was the one aspect that impressed me the most, how the stories of the two generations were interspersed together in a way that tied them together, each story flowing from one to the other, but in a way that was easy to track and understand. The impression that I got from this style of writing was the apparent contrast and similarities of the generations, and at the...
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...criteria I used in performing my evaluation. I have employed 7 different dimensions of a religion are rituals, Narrative mythic, Experiential and emotional, Social and institutional, ethical and legal, doctrinal and philosophical, and material. (Fisher, 2011) These combined dimensions make up the framework for determining if religions and religious people exist on Earth. To provide the most comprehensive analysis possible I have chosen to take samples at 3 different locations around the globe. At each of these locations I will observe a native species and decide whether they fulfill the necessary criteria to be considered religious or not. The first location I choose was the continent called North America and the people I choose inhabitant various remote locations within the main land mass. These people as a whole were referred to as Native Americans however each group referred to themselves by tribal groupings. When using the criteria set out in the advance this group exhibited all of the 7 dimensions of a religion with the following being just a few examples. They had various public and private ceremonies with extensive storytelling relating to a shared beliefs and their devotion to ancestors and earthly gods. Their tales were organized and structured around moral beliefs and ideas and incorporated various locations and objects in each of their narratives. (http://web.archive.org) The second location I choose to study was a region of islands in what was called...
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...Changing the Narrative * An Analysis and discussion of “My Happy Detroit” Ruined streets, echoing car alarms and dilapidated buildings all combine to provide the perfect scenery for a post-apocalyptic film. However, there is nothing dramatized about this image - It is the concerning reality of modern day Detroit. At least, that has been the narrative in the media since the latter part of the sixties. Carolyn Edgar, who spent her childhood in Detroit, tells another story. Carolyn Edgar graduated with a bachelor degree in English with high distinction, giving her opinion academic reliability. Her work consists mostly of writing for internet blogs. She has worked consistently for the progressive, liberal magazine Salon for the last three years. She was raised in Detroit, and she mostly has fond memories of the city. This is why she wants to dismantle the message in the media. Edgar appeals to pathos by telling anecdotes of her childhood, in order to rebut the common narrative of the media. She begins by painting an idyllic scene: Children playing at a barbecue. “While the ribs were on the grill, we would play Motown hits on the record player another cousin brought over for the occasion”(ll. 7-8). This image immediately creates empathy and identification with the reader, and dismantles the image that the common person has of Detroit as a dilapidated city. By anchoring the reader with an emotional standpoint right from the beginning, Carolyn establishes a bond of trust...
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...of the United States. Specifically, Jacoby focuses on the changes from the sixties on. Therefore, nostalgia plays a large part in the arguments Jacoby articulates against the world today. For this reason, her reliance on nostalgia makes her arguments weak as they rely heavily on an emotional appeal while simultaneously advocating for the use of more intellectual thought through evidence and reasoning. However, Jacoby presents strong arguments for limiting screen time and a thorough analysis of the impacts of America’s heavily religious population, but lacks a strong argument...
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...The Great Debaters Based on a true story set in Marshall, Texas, in 1935, The movie captures the degradation of racial segregation. Using the example of segregated Wiley College's debate team, the script shows how African-Americans had to claw their way inch by inch toward social inclusion. The team struggled for the opportunity to debate white schools and, finally, based on their incredible string of victories, to debate and to defeat Harvard while a national radio audience listened in. “The Great Debaters” is also a morality tale (an archetypal narrative that is fundamentally didactic or prescriptive and relies heavily on both a morality (a conception of what is good or right), which is usually implicit, and a didactic moral, which is usually explicit.), Yet it is very different. Its message is that there is another way; that hard work, enterprise, preparation and perseverance pays off. It shows how “the system” can be changed without resorting to Mafia methods. The inspiration of Mahatma Gandhi is cited. The film’s script speaks eloquently against violence in the scene where the motoring Wiley College debaters accidently come upon a lynching and are lucky to escape from the mob with their lives. The movie portrays the poverty and ignorance of many dirt poor white folk that had nothing of their own except the mistaken belief the color of their skin elevated them to superior status. There’s an electric scene in which James Farmer Sr. runs over a white farmer’s pig and...
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...STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE’S HALF OF A YELLOW SUN BY OHANEDOZI LILIAN C. ENG/ 2009/ 126 FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES CARITAS UNIVERSITY AMORJI- NIKE ENUGU STATE AUGUST 2013 e i TITLE PAGE STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE’S HALF OF A YELLOW SUN BY OHANEDOZI LILIAN C. ENG/ 2009/ 126 A RESEARCH WORK PRESENTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF BACHELOR OF ARTS (B.A) DEGREE IN ENGLISH FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES CARITAS UNIVERSITY AMORJI- NIKE ENUGU STATE AUGUST 2013 e ii CERTIFICATION This is to certify that this research work is carried out by me. __________________ OHANEDOZI LILIAN C. ENG/ 2009/ 126 e iii APPROVAL We, the undersigned certify that we approve this research project carried out by Ohanedozi Lilian ENG/ 2009/ 126 as adequate in scope and quality for partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Bachelor of Arts (B.A) in English. ____________________ Mrs. Nwanne, V.N (project Supervisor) ______________________ Date ____________________ Prof. Amadihe Ezugu (Head, Department of English) ______________________ Date ____________________ External Examiner ______________________ Date e iv DEDICATION I dedicate this work to the supreme and infinite being for his incomprehensible mercies. e v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My profound gratitude goes to my able, tireless and loving supervisor Mrs Nwanne V.N for her motherly love and...
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...guesses, sourcing the land as a cultural artifact. Kinzer uses scientific analysis of the area as well as more specific examinations of tree cores, ……… One facet that Kinzer sources heavily is the Lumber industry. This seems to elude to the fact that Kinzer’s Nature’s Return in the end becomes more of a history of land use in the Congaree floodplain. This is reinforced by the lack of wildlife in the narrative as well as people groups that might have been effected by progress. Brown’s interpretation of the Great Smoky’s offers more of a glimpse about how the lumber industry brought about a succession of industrial development. Brown illustrates that the lumber industry not only impaired native wildlife and vegetation in the area but displaced communities. In fact, the Industrial age led to a sixty percent clearance of these remote locales (Brown, ). This leaves the mountain peoples and Cherokee’s marginalized and helpless to the fact that their environment was devastated and they had little to no economic role in the matter. The Wild East: A Biography of the Great Smoky Mountains offers a complex compendium of interrelations between varied people groups that make up the region as well as their interactions with native flora and fauna. Margaret Lynn Brown points defines her thesis as “The history of the Great Smoky Mountains is not the simple story of preserving wilderness, but rather the complex narrative of restoring and even creating one. (Brown, ) Brown successfully illustrates...
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...Term Paper Psyc 400, Spring, 2015 Title of Paper: Factors Contributing to Literacy Skills in Children from Low-Income Families In American society, education is considered by many to be an equalizing force for people from all walks of life. It allows the nation’s best and brightest to distinguish themselves from their peers through intellectual merit - at least in theory. Unfortunately, the reality of the situation does not live up to the ideal, especially for children from low income families. Children who are already growing up with the disadvantages of poverty are further hindered by underfunded and ineffectual primary schooling, setting them even further behind middle and upper class children. Before beginning a discussion of the factors or strategies contributing to early literacy, it is important to first establish that there is in fact a discrepancy between low-income children and their more affluent peers in the first place. A review of the research literature is required to lay certain inaccurate stereotypes to rest, such as the notion that poor children are simply lazier students, and do not face additional difficulties with the acquisition of literacy skills. A comprehensive empirical study by Babuder et al (2014) explores the relationship between poverty and reading skills in children, with the results being unanimously negative. The study goes beyond assessing the reading skills of the children, and measures the basic phonological and semantic skills needed...
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...by the power of the General Pascal. Pancho Villa returns to his hometown to get his people back together and raise an army of sixty thousand men’s willing to go with him and fight against the General Pascal and his men. Villa take power after he and his army arrive to Mexico City they took control of the situation, and for a short period of time he become president of Mexico, just to restore Madero’s dream of letting the poor people from Mexico to have their own land. In the film of Viva Villa I can say that it is a good movie for the people who don’t know Pancho Villa real life history. But in the other hand like my self I can say it is a bad film in many ways, this movie illustrate the story of Villa as a drunk bandit and a lot of other lies. People that truly knows Pancho Villa as my self, we know he was a true military leader and hero that he fought and was part of the Mexican Revolution. There’s a scene in the film were I can say I see some strength in the movie. For example is the scene after Francisco Madero was murder by the General Pascal, when Villa return to Mexico to get his people back together and raise an army. We can see how Villa army took over the situation against General Pascal; we see good film work, good timing and video transition between scenes, where we can see the army and the horses fighting. Also it maintains a good narrative rhythm, with a long and short shot camera view. In the other hand in the film I see a lot of weaknesses referring to the story...
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...TextTell Me a Good Story: Using Narrative Analysis to Examine Information Requirements Interviews during an ERP Implementation Rosío Alvarez University of Massachusetts, Boston Jacqueline Urla University of Massachusetts, Amherst Abstract This paper reports on a participant-observation study examining how clients use narratives to convey information during ERP requirements analysis interviews. Techniques drawn from narrative analysis are used to analyze the structure and content of different types of narratives clients tell during requirements analysis interviews. First, findings reveal that interviewees organized their experience, sought to persuade listeners, and conveyed information to analysts using “stories,” “habitual,” and “hypothetical” narratives. Client narratives provide a pragmatic view of the information system, offering insight into the ways the system is actually used and the habitual practices of the work environment. Second, narratives function to signal the embeddedness of the information system in its larger organizational and social context. While analysts may be inclined to dismiss narratives as messy or uncodeable data, the insights they provide merit attention. To the degree that narratives give insight into users’ perspectives on organizational issues, they provide knowledge that is essential to any information systems project. This is especially true for ERP projects that, unlike other systems projects, seek to integrate processes spanning the entire...
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...surplus of the campy science fiction shows on the air, some shows have used the science fiction genre to tackle serious social issues as well. This essay will take a look at two shows 54 years apart and will analyze how both use social concerns of the time period and create memorable narratives that speculate about human behavior and interactions. The first show this essay will look at is the generation defining classic The Twilight Zone (1959-1964), and the second show is a modern cult hit from the United Kingdom Utopia (2013-2014). //Through a comparative analysis of the episode “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” from The Twilight Zone (1959-1964) and “Episode 5” of the British cult hit, Utopia (2013-2014) this essay illustrates how the science fiction genre can be and has been used generation after generation to highlight certain social issues. Whereas The Twilight Zone uses America’s anxieties of communism and consumer culture to cause paranoia in the early sixties, Utopia uses big business, government conspiracies, and overpopulation in a plot that stirs up concern for the environment. Ultimately this essay will illustrate how social issues lay the foundation for a compelling science fiction narrative. \\ Shortly after WWII ended US soldiers returned home to a country very different than the one they had left. Jobs and wages were plentiful and young adults were eager to spend. After WWII people were not just buying things out of necessity, they were buying things for material...
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...come to mind upon hearing the word suburbia? Media. Inarguably, media holds the power to alter how people view the world around them, both, present and past; and it is media that has painted this image repeatedly over a six, perhaps longer, decade timespan causing it to become synonymously associated with suburbia. Both, Lívia Szélpál’s “Images of the American Suburbia” (2012) and Timotheus Vermeulen’s “Introduction: Scenes from the Suburbs” (2014) attempt to address and examine the significant role media imparts on the public’s perception of suburbia-- by observing how the suburbs are, both, the underlying components of and portrayed in narratives. Szélpál’s article examines films from the past six decades, whereas, Vermeulen’s book focuses on suburbia in late twentieth and early twenty-first-century films and television shows. Whether six or sixty years old, the films examined all portray the suburbs inaccurately and, in the...
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...How I Met Your Mother Show and the Sexist Ideology The television show, How I Met Your Mother (HIMYM) was first aired on CBS television in the year 2005. Its airing continued until March 2014 with its different episodes eliciting a lot of public attention and curiosity partly because of the unique way in which its core theme was being passed to the audience. Throughout the TV show, Ted Mosby emerges as an unmatched main character. It is through the activities of Ted and his group of close friends that live in Manhattan that Ted manages to articulate to his daughter and son the various issues, activities, and challenges that he addresses as he falls in love with their mother – Ted’s wife. In this paper, I argue that the show has a sexist ideology that emphasizes the fact that women are easy to manipulate and can be used in any way that a man desires (Matterhorn 4-13; Capps 1-3). The sexist or feminist ideology is very dominant in the show. The relationship between Ted Mosby and other characters plays an important role in communicating critical love relationships in a comic way. The use of comedy greatly helps the film writers and actors to incorporate vital messages in a rather jovial manner. Issues that would otherwise be considered sensitive are therefore portrayed in a keen and very peculiar manner that also addresses the challenges and good experiences that people in relationships often experience. Indeed, Ted is a character in the CBS television show that is over focused...
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...Great Gatsby, which are considered classics. These works have been around long enough to gather literary acclaim and this has contributed to their widespread recognition. Charlotte Brontë’s coming of age novel, Jane Eyre, qualifies as a classic because it has been read in Literature classes and libraries around the world for the past one hundred and sixty years, proving it can withstand the test of time. Her classic writing style, unforgettable characters, and literary acclaim have all contributed to the novel’s success. These same characteristics apply to J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, supporting that this novel will also stand the test of time. Each author has a style uniquely their own, with...
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...Alvaro Barsallo Ms. Morrow ENC1102 9/28/2014 A Look at “A Rose for Emily” “A Rose for Emily” is a short story by William Faulkner. It is the story of an old southern woman called Emily who lives only with her servant in an old mansion after her father dies; she never goes out and is rarely seen by the townspeople. Nobody in the town knows that she’s keeping a macabre secret inside her room. I chose this story in particular because I’m a huge fan of The Zombies and music from the sixties in general. In The Zombies’ album Odessey and Oracle, there is a short retelling of the story and that is the only version of the story I have ever heard before reading the actual story in class recently. The story is divided in five parts. In the first part of the story, the narrator recalls the time of Emily’s death and how the whole town attends her funeral in her old dilapidated home. We are told how the previous mayor, a man in his eighties, has retracted Emily’s taxes after her father’s death. When the new younger generation town leaders take over they try to make her pay taxes but she gets her way and successfully gets rid of these officials. In the second part, the narrator describes how thirty years earlier, Emily’s house started to smell horrible. The younger officials sprinkle lime along the foundation to appease the townspeople who are complaining of the odor. The narrator gives us a clue about Emily’s state of mind by telling us the Emily’s great aunt had succumbed to mental...
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