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One of the themes or ideas that Patel explores in his “My Neighbor’s Faith: The Heroes I Was Looking For” is an idea of finding ones place with faith or their “home.” He first introduces this theme when going over a conversation he had with a leader at a Catholic worker house in Atlanta. The […]
One of the key themes found in Ginsberg’s poem Howl was a theme of dark spirituality. In his part II of the poem, he exclaims the work “Moloch” quit a bit. Moloch by definition refers to a deity whose worship is displayed by an appalling sacrifice. One of the student annotations states that Ginsberg is referring to capitalism, […]
Some of the first annotations shared by our peers revealed a trend in Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl, through the excessive drug use and abuse references he makes. Throughout his entire poem Ginsberg commonly explores the mindset of a drug user, and the effects the drugs are having on societies outcasts or drug abusers. Bnawoichik poignantly […]
In chapter 3 of an Interesting Narrative Life of Olaudah Equiano, the reader really begins to see equiano’s character take form. By reading of the events that proved life changing, there are certain events that take place in chapter three that really stand out as moments that alter him as an individual. Of those events […]
In the passage of “The Cutting of My Long Hair”, Zitkala-Sa discusses identities such as assimilation that many Indians of her time faced. At this point in American history, American Indians were forced to assimilate to American farm life of harvesting instead of hunting and gathering. In this piece of “The Cutting of My Long […]
Whilst writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe brings up many controversial topics of slavery, but she also shows this theme of opposing views amongst genders. One Section that I find this present is the moment that Mrs. Shelby confronts her husband on the allegations of him selling Uncle Tom and Eliza’s son Harry. ” ‘Well, since you must […]
One of the Ideal qualities Ben Franklin discusses in his autobiography, that he attempts to perfect, is the virtue of Industry. As stated in his Autobiography, Franklin claims Industry to be the act of “[Losing] no time; [always being] employ’d in something useful; [cutting] off all unnecessary actions.” To me, the virtue of industry today […]
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