The Farm: Life Inside Angola Prison Farisha Rafiq Sociology 1301 Mon & Wed 9:30-11:00 am April 8, 2013 Houston Community College - Northwest Katy Campus The Farm: Life Inside Angola Prison was a documentary about the lives of 6 different prisoners and what they have to do to survive eternity in Angola. Angola’s name was derived from a country in Africa. The prison was once known as a salve plantation. Though, after the Civil War they transformed it to become a State Penitentiary. It’s known for the hardest, dangerous and dirtiest prison in America and still spreads panic within the folks of the South.
Red of course bets on Andy but to his dismay, it was another newbie whose time was short lived. The first night at Shawshank this prisoner sobs out saying he does not belong there and he would not shut up, Captain Hadley beats him to death without any repercussions. Therefore how does a prison rehabilitate prisoners if the guards that oversee them are just as much criminals as them or even worse? This is not the only unlawful killing in shawshank during Andy’s
Ellie Wiesel experiences what many people cannot even imagine is possible, at a very young age. In the death camps, the Jews are treated with a terrible lack of respect, as if they weren’t humans anymore. They worked their prisoners to death, and did many difference experiments on them to test the limits of the human body. To the leaders of the death camps, a human life mattered to them no more as a small animals life. In the death camps, the officers change the prisoners names to numbers, taking away the last thing that the prisoners could still use to remember the past, for they stripped them of every possible memory of earlier happiness.
The project of finding a voice, with language as an instrument of injury and salvation, of selfhood and empowerment, suggests many of the themes that Hurston uses as a whole. Zora Neale Hurston draws attention towards her novels because she uses black vernacular speech to express the consciousness of a black woman and to let the reader know exactly how statements are said. This use of the vernacular is particularly effective in Their Eyes Were Watching God. Their Eyes Were Watching God exposes the need of Janie Crawford's first two husbands for ownership of space and mobility with the suppression of self-awareness in their wife. Only with her final lover, Tea Cake, who's interest orbit around the Florida swamps, does Janie at last glow.
Imagery is used to show Plath as an aggressive person, such as through the line “smash it into kindling”. The emotive line “The bloody end of the skein” creates the sense of abandonment and eternal suffering that by no means that one could be aware of. It suggests that Plath’s mind, the labyrinth, was something that Hughes struggled to understand, and propose that her psyche was beyond his control. He also utilises speech in The Minotaur, creating a sense of truth in Hughes’ part. While he is not seen as a saint within the poem (he remarks in a sarcastic matter to Plath in the poem), he positions the reader to empathise with him, painting the image that he is the placid one in the relationship, and the one who encourages her to embark on her creative pursuits “Get that shoulder under your stanzas/ And we’ll be away.”.
Comparison Paper Filip Muller, a Slovakian Jew, was born in Sered, Czechoslovakia, in 1922. In April, 1942 he was forcibly evacuated to Auschwitz I concentration camp with thousands of other Jews. Muller, like many others, was used as forced labor for about a one month period during which his health declined. One day he and his bunkmate, afflicted by thirst, sneaked to a feeding area and illicitly stole several drinks of tea. Caught in the act, the two men were beaten by Nazi guards and then assigned to Auschwitz's Sonderkommando, a group of inmates forced to work at corpse disposal through burial or, much more commonly, cremation.
She claims she has stood for worst and she had no right to speak then and has no right to speak now. Mary declares she is even afraid to be writing down what occurred. This is a crucial thing for Mary to admit. Mary’s writing is very precious to her; It is where she writes what she pleases and where she finds her voice. Yet the horrid act of violence leaves her fearful about recording the event.
In the Scarlet Letter, by Nathanael Hawthorne, on Chapter IV, Hester Prynne and Roger Chillingworth’s behavior towards one another is manifested to reveal that they have a very tense and morbid relationship. The reader can observe what traits and behavior is being conveyed based on the conversations from Hester and Chillingworth of said chapter. We learn through Hawthorne, and the dialogue he set for Chapter IV, is that about Hester’s past, for the most part; is unknown. She is a strong-willed and haughty woman whose actions are done with passion (as seen when she was standing in the scaffold in the beginning of the story). However, she seems to get intimidated by Chillingworth during their conversation.
The elusive maze of Flannery O’Connor In A Good Man is Hard To Find Flannery O’Connor expresses the many ideas and logic which touches many controversial issues through subtle meanings and symbols. Every word said, and action taken is a puzzle piece to the different meanings, theme, and motifs a reader is able to derive from her writing. Although the story begins with a different mood and setting, everything dramatically changes and what emerges is a mystery wrapped in a whole different perspective in the characters. The Misfit who’s later introduced in the story describes the grandmother as, “She would have been a good woman if there had been somebody to shoot her every minute of her life” (O’Connor 413). A good man may be hard to find, but a good woman is also hard to find.
She enters as one does who can no longer bear to be barred from the sight of her beloved, but she is also very frightened because her slave sense has warned her that, as always trouble in this house eventually lands on her back." (8). Most of the information about Tituba is historically true but Arthur Miller adds some ideas like "her slave sense has warned her that, as always trouble in this house eventually lands on her back." which has no real background but help build Miller's play. Arthur Miller creates a story from the plethora court information and next uses the information he has from every individual and adds some information about the individual that he has to use for the story to be accurate and plausible.