She presumes that her word choice, cripple, would offend many, but she doesn’t care. In the sense of pathos, she takes the word, uses it comfortably, and informs her audience that it is perfectly okay to label her as one. Mairs is a straightforward person, and despite her disease, she is determined to find self-confidence. I believe that she wrote this essay as an attempt to help other disabled people find theirs. She uses her imagery to describe her everyday struggles and show relativity.
The Power of Lara Croft: Feminist Figure or Sex Object? “Lara is everything that is bad about representations of women in culture, and everything good…” (182). This is ultimately the response that Maja Mikula gives in her essay Gender and Videogames: the Political Valency of Lara Croft to the question pertaining Lara Croft being either a feminist icon or sexist fantasy in the video game Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. An answer similar to what her creator, Toby Gard, held in his interview with The Face magazine: “Neither and a bit of both.” For the feminists, Lara has potential to project a positive image and a role model aura; yet she is limited to being a sex symbol. It is a question that is often reduced to trying to decide whether she is a positive role model for young girls or just a perfect and artificial embodiment of a male sexual fantasy for the boys.
Conformity and Rebellion Although Shirley Jackson and Amy Tan are two different writers with diverse backgrounds, their stories have some similar plots. “The Lottery” and “Two Kinds” equally share the themes of conformity and rebellion. In “The Lottery,” the villagers blindly sacrifice one of their own, which we are led to believe will bring a good crop next year. In “Two Kinds,” the mother attempts to control her daughter’s rebellion against becoming a pianist. In “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, people robotically follow a tradition simply because it has always been done.
Kingston’s story “A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe” employs numerous fantasy elements in depicting her separation from the restrictiveness of China and further, her discovery of harmony between her ancient family’s culture and her new American one. Navigating through confusion and anger, Kingston is ultimately able to remove herself her Chinese bindings and find a sense of accord between her past and her future. Kingston’s rhetoric conveys her struggle with the complexities of her Chinese culture and her inability to come to a core truth. Furthermore, she gravitates toward American culture for its simplicity. Kingston is having difficulties sorting fact from fiction in her mother’s story about Moon Orchid’s encounter with her husband.
(23.86-87) Aunty sees the Finch name like an exclusive brand – it’s valuable when you can only find it at Bloomingdale’s, but make it available at Wal-Mart and it’ll seem cheap. Aunt Alexandra’s obsession with “What Is Best For the Family” (13.22) – in Scout’s ears, Aunty often speaks in Capital Letters Of Doom – is part of her more general way of classifying people by family heritage. Aunt Alexandra, in underlining the moral of young Sam Merriweather's suicide, said it was caused by a morbid streak in the family. Let a sixteen-year-old girl giggle in the choir and Aunty would say, "It just goes to show you, all the Penfield women are flighty." Everybody in Maycomb, it seemed, had a Streak: a Drinking Streak, a Gambling Streak, a Mean Streak, a Funny Streak.
In the essay, "In a Land of Forks and Spoons," the author tells readers of her first-hand experience of being culturally different from the people around her. The writer uses vivid and detailed descriptions to help readers better envision her anecdote of being a kindergartener. By explaining that, "pointing at a person with my middle finger was considered inappropriate and rude," and, "that I had never once in my life ordered pizza over the phone," she compares the differences in the Chinese and American culture. She also states, "I sought after the clear blue eyes, the bouncy golden locks, and the pink frilly dresses," instead of possessing, "straight black hair, my slanted, dull brown eyes, and my summer outfit."
In the book she tries and implies that to herself by speaking for herself more. From the cuts and scabs on Melinda’s mouth to the cool things about plants she learned in biology Laurie shows a lot of symbolism in the book. Through each symbol she portrays Melinda’s growth. Leaving the best for last when Melinda opens up to Mr. Freeman and tells him her story on what happened. She went from refusing to say anything to telling someone her life
This causes the animals to flee from him being that he know been exposed to humankind. There is also Ishtar the goddess of love and fertility also the goddess of war. Ishtar tries to influence Gilgamesh to take her hand in marriage but he replies “I would gladly give you bread and all sorts of food fit for a god. I would give you wine to drink fit for a queen. I would pour out barley to stuff your granary; but as for making you my wife – that I will not.” Ishtar acts arrogant going to her father Anu for the bull of heaven and tells him that if he doesn’t give her the bull she will make the dead rise and have more of the undead than the living.
For example, in Europe the drinking age ranges from 14 to 18, and other countries have no drinking age at all. In Jeff Frantz’s article “Europeans Learn Responsible Drinking” he states, “You’re allowed to drink earlier in Europe so you get used to experiences with alcohol earlier, so when you’re 18, you’re more responsible about it and can take care of yourself and your friends.” Alcohol is easier to buy and consume in Europe, unlike in America where it is harder to purchase, so young Americans have a hard time handling
If the age limit was lowered the alcohol would no longer be a forbidden, therefore it would not be as appealing as it would normally. When it is forbidden, such as right now, it makes teens desire it even more and gives them a sort of satisfaction, either because the person actually sold it to them using a fake ID, or because they are doing something against the law and being disobedient. Either way, being forbidden from something makes it that much more exciting. For example, you are underage but you have acquired a fake id stating you are 18 or 21 when in reality you are 16 or so, when you go to a club you will definitely be more excited that you got in when you really shouldn't have been