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As we see further in the novel, it helps Dana to understand how slaves were treated during this period, allowing her to experience indirect kinship with the Weylins’ slaves in later parts of the novel and embrace her African American lineage. To sum it up, Butler uses a lot of contrasts to set the foundation for Dana and Rufus’ kinship by explaining that even though they are different in racial and cultural aspects, their blood relationship will always serve as a connection between the two, as Rufus exists to ensure Dana’s existence and Dana exists to ensure both their existences. However, relationships this unique are bound to deteriorate at some point, something we see happen later in the novel.
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Dana and Rufus’ kinship starts to dwindle we progress throughout the story, and it hits its low point when Rufus tries to exert absolute control over Dana. When he sells a slave out of jealousy for simply having a conversation with Dana, it shows that Rufus wishes to enforce his growing love for Dana on her and their relationship shifts from one belonging of a parent and child as mentioned before to one formed over Rufus’ lust for power and dominance. Alice, Rufus’ mistress and the mother to his child Hagar, confirms his love for Dana when she notes that he likes “her in bed, Dana out of bed, and people say that they look alike…guess that means they’re two halves of the same woman, in his crazy head” (206).
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When Dana confronts Rufus in the next scene on page 208, he hits her across the face when she refuses to go back inside the Weylin home, which is illustrated with lines portraying Rufus’ arm motion and with yellow streaks to signify the impact of his hand hitting her face. Consequently, this artwork helps to realistically show how forceful and violent Rufus was when he hit Dana, and I think it also metaphorically shows the turning point in their relationship, as Dana notes that “He’d never hit her before” (208), and it was “so surprising, she stumbled and fell” (208). In the next panel, Rufus yells at Dana and the background is completely shaded red, which represents his anger towards Dana. Also, Rufus’ speech balloon in this panel is jagged instead of round, implying that he is screaming at her instead of normally speaking to her. Similarly, black lines surround his head, emphasizing how loud he was screaming at her to go back to the house.
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These elements exemplify Rufus’ profuse anger shown towards Dana in this panel as it conveys the decline of their kinship and purely demonstrates that he believes himself to have total control over her as if she were his slave. Immediately afterward, Dana is seen wiping her mouth with a very annoyed expression on her face, with her features being drawn in a more realistic style than in previous panels to accurately show that she believed that Rufus had crossed the line and was now willing to do whatever it took to escape from him. Thus, Dana later slits her wrists to return home, and that image alone is gruesome enough as it conveys a mood of desperation and misery for Dana.
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The knife that Dana uses also is symbolic in that it represents the severing of her and Rufus’ kinship, as a knife’s main use is to obviously cut and slice other objects. All in all, the paradox is further developed because its forced to change directions due to their now broken kinship. Dana knows that since her great-grandmother Hagar has been born, she has ensured her survival and is no longer obligated to protect Rufus. With Rufus having grown up to be a cruel man with no regard for his slaves or his own family as evidenced in this interaction, she doesn’t have to keep him alive the next time she is teleported back in time. Even though their blood kinship still ties them together as they will meet again at the end of the novel, Dana has all of the control now instead of Rufus in that regard to their relationship, and as we’ll come to find out, she isn’t afraid to act upon it during the conclusion of the novel.
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Faced with no other alternatives to ensure her safety, Dana takes it upon herself to kill Rufus, thereby terminating their kinship and causing the paradox to reach its culmination. After Dana takes shelter in the attic, Rufus finds her and tries to rape her, as seen when he implies to her that he wants her to take Alice’s place as the woman he loves. Of course, Dana wants no part of this, as she tells Rufus that she’s done protecting him and “keeping him alive has been up to her for too long” (231).
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Right off the bat, the backgrounds of each panel are darkly colored and shaded, illustrated to portray the darkness of the attic while also serving as a warning that something bad is about to happen. In addition, it also helps establish a suspenseful mood, as readers will want to know what happens next as Dana tries to hide from Rufus. When Rufus jumps on Dana, this panel is the biggest on the page, which is done on purpose to highlight that Rufus was going to rape her, serving as the climax of the events that took place beforehand.
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White motion lines are drawn to demonstrate Rufus jumping on Dana, and white jagged lines are also present above Dana’s hand to show her head hitting the floor from the impact of Rufus jumping on her. Throughout this scene, the art is drawn to take on a more cartoon-like appearance, as I think this was done to represent the universality of rape and the huge problem it is in the real world. It’s something that horrifyingly is all too common, and people back in the 1800s were no exception to it either sadly. Additionally, it’s also done to show how Rufus believes that he still has power over Dana, even though he doesn’t yet realize that that’s not the case anymore. In my opinion, I believe that it also serves as a microcosm of the relationship between white people and black people in the 1800s, as white people believed that they had total control over black people through their enslavement. On page 232, Dana forces Rufus off her and pulls out a knife to defend herself.
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Rufus grabs her arm, as illustrated by the yellow-shaded jagged shape on Dana’s arm to represent the force from him grabbing her arm. White lines again are also shown to depict Dana trying to free herself from Rufus’ clutches. The next two panels are particularly interesting, as one displays one half of Dana’s face as she cries, and the other one exhibits one half of Rufus’ face displaying a smirk, as to form one face out of both the halves of their faces. It’s a creative way of acknowledging one last time Dana and Rufus belong to the same family and that they share that blood connection that will always bind them together, while also foreshadowing that Dana will have to kill him.
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Deciding to finally act, Dana stabs Rufus on page 233, with motion lines depicting her swinging the knife at him and darkly colored blood splattering out of Rufus’ chest. Rufus’ face in the next panel is colored a vibrant yellow and his eyes are red, to indicate that he is dying and is shocked to discover that Dana is doing this to him. This embodies the very moment of the shift in the balance of power in the relationship, as Dana is forced to put their kinship aside to keep herself safe.
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The paradox develops by reaching its end since Dana is now free from her time traveling abilities because of Rufus’ death. Their lack of kinship at this juncture of the novel proves the evolution of their relationship as to how it relates to developing the paradox, as being blood relatives didn’t stop Dana from doing what was necessary to keep herself from becoming Rufus’ slave even after the close bond that they had shared for most of the novel. In the end, Dana had to kill her own ancestor, who she exists to protect as a means of guaranteeing her own existence in the present, to save her life in that one moment. I find that ironic and representative of how Dana and Rufus’ kinship changed, given that it proves that just because you are related to someone doesn’t mean that they should be able to hold any power over you and allow you to conform to their standards and beliefs.
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In conclusion, the progression of the kinship between Dana and Rufus helps to develop the superimposing paradox of Dana, a black woman, going back in time to safeguard her existence by caring for Rufus, her white great-grandfather, during the time of slavery. As seen in the text, power and control will always find itself intertwined with the facets of race and gender, a problem that has existed for a very long time. The institution of slavery, as also illustrated in the novel, still has a significant impact on our society today, as some still share the controlling, racist viewpoints as those in the 1800s did two centuries ago.
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These beliefs have no place in the world today and even though not everyone is directly blood-related, we all share a degree of kinship in the forms of being Americans, perhaps coming from the same hometowns, and sharing the same interests and hobbies just to name a few. The world would be a much better place if people could focus on instances where we are similar as a way of uniting instead of putting our greed and hatred for others who are different first. Although we still have a long way to go, it is important to learn from our mistakes in the past, such as slavery, to truly progress and reach our full potential as upstanding citizens and people of great character.
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Female ties take many forms, but the bond Celie, Nettie, Shug, and other females in the novel build and share is what helps Celie the most in finding herself and resist oppression. The Color Purple approximately takes place 1916 and 1942 in the South where blacks still were being treated so wrong (Bloom 55). Religion is a big part of the novel considering that Celie address all the letters, ‘ Dear God.” She writes, ‘ You better not never tell nobody but God It’d kill your mammy ‘ (Walker 1), and ending the novel by addressing her last letter to God also ‘Dear God.
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Trying to believe his story kilt her” (Walker 5). Celie confesses to being scared of men, and Celie may not be at all interested in them , and that’s where the theme for sexuality and sexual identity comes in. As Dinitia Smith notes: “ The Color Purple is about the struggle between redemption and revenge. And the chief agency of redemption, Walker is saying, is the strength of the relationships between women: their friendships, their love, their shared oppression.” Celie’s life is never easy. Her mother is sick and she is getting abused. Celie starts writing letters to God because her stepfather, Alphonso, repeatedly beats and rapes her. We learn from Nettie’s letters that Pa is not Nettie and Celie’s real father.
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Pa also known as Alphonso, impregnates Celie twice, and both times he takes the baby away after birth basically getting rid of the evidence that he has been abusing her. Pa starts eyeing Nettie and refuses to let her marry; instead the abuse continues for Celie when Pa marries Celie off to Mr. ____ and is forced into a difficult and joyless marriage. After Celie’s mama dies, Pa marries one of many young wives that he will mistreat and make have kids. For the majority of the novel, He see not only Celie but all women as stupid, in need of abuse, constant direction from men, and only useful as sexual objects and laborers. By beating Celie repeatedly,
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makes her submissive. Nettie comes to stay with Celie to get away from Pa and the two sisters are as close as ever. Nettie and Celie are the only ones that treat each other like blood family. The sisters are happy until kicks Nettie out and tells her that she will never hear from Celie again because she refuses to sleep with him or give him any kind of attention. “ Celie is banished to the deep inferno embodied in who is just another avatar of patriarchal orders and its power over the subversive feelings of sisters” (Weisenburger). is a black male obsessed with domination and he is trying to control Celie and her sister Nettie. Life with quickly becomes unbearable, and Celie is left alone in a house and marriage where no one loves her and she loves no one. All Celie can do is survive. Celie’s life gets a little better when brings his mistress home and insists on Celie to nurse her back to health. Celie becomes fascinated with Shug and eventually they is friends and Celie fall in love with her.
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I will use my online relationship with someone who goes by the alias ‘Jackal’ as an example. I started following her on twitter because I liked her art. She then followed me back and expressed appreciation for my art. Soon we were texting eachother daily and thus our online relationship began. I would share her artwork posts with my online followers and even recommend collaborative work between her and the anime voice actors I met at Sac Anime, a bi-annual convention of anime artists and fans.
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Successful communication: every living thing communicates but successful communication only happens when there is understanding between the communicators. Unfortunately communication broke down between Jackal and I and that is what led to the end of our friendship. I had been messaging Jackal per our usual routine which was daily. She was not responding and left me on ‘read’ which means she was recieving my messages but chose not to respond. During this time, Jackal quoted a tweet that stated: ‘Just because an artist is friendly with you online, that doesn’t mean they want to be friends’. I interpreted this tweet and her silence to my texts as her indirectly telling me she didn’t want me messaging her and that we were not friends.
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In reaction to this I blocked Jackal on my social media platforms. Soon after, Jackal sent one of her followers to message me that Jackal had been very busy and stressed out and that was why she had not responded to me. When Jackal and I reconnected, I apologized for blocking her. I explained that I had blocked her because I was upset because I assumed she was expressing that she didn’t want to be friends anymore. I also told her I was feeling suicidal because of this in combination with other things happening in my life, so I wanted to disconnect from everything and everyone. Instead of understanding me, Jackal accused me of manipulating her into being friends with me by threatenting suicide.
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Relationships are not easy. Strong friendships take hard work. It isn’t enough to simply listen and reciprocate niceties. It takes patience, self-control and self-reflection. Successful communication isn’t just receiving a message, but it entails filtering it through your own lens and then sharing your interpretation. I messed up this friendship by assuming I knew the thoughts and intentions of someone without trying to confirm them. Further breakdown of the friendship resulted as a consequence of Jackal assuming I was trying to manipulate her. It has been painful to learn this lesson and it still bothers me. We are not speaking to eachother and I feel completely misunderstood. I am trying not to dwell on this as a negative depressing episode, but rather as a learning experience.
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A female artist named P!NK once sang“In our family portrait we look pretty happy, We look pretty normal, let’s go back to that. In our family portrait we look pretty happy, Let’s play pretend, act like it goes naturally.” In Henrik Ibsen A Doll’s House , Nora, the main protagonist is normally shy, possesses many doll-like qualities that adapt to her situation and ultimately come out on top just to maintain her family as a model to follow in front of society.
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On the other hand in Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Kafka develops an attitude towards this situation through the use of his protagonist Gregor Samsa and his opinion and feeling towards the topic of family. Gregor’s character shows an individual that will grasps to their ideals and fail to adapt to circumstance in order to please their family. Ibsen, Kafka, and author of “On Translating Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis” Susan Bernofsky, saw in humanity the plain fact that the character Nora from A Doll’s House and Gregor from The Metamorphosis are the ones that adapt to their surroundings to please there family, are those are willing to keep a deep secret and those willing to go through difficulties for their family.
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“He felt very proud that he had been able to provide such a life in so nice an apartment for his parents and his sister. But what now if all the peace, the comfort, the contentment were to come to a horrible end?”( Kafka 5). In this passage, Gregor reflects on life as it was before his transformation when he was the outcaet income producer for the family. Now that he’s a bug, his family automatoically lose their financial and emotional security associated with his earnings. The importance of having a family is beyond explainable, no matter how serious or criminous something could be ones family must always come first.
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Many individuals are willing to do anything for their family including keeping a dark secret inorder for thier families status upon society to stay the same. “He would have to lie low and, by being patient and showing his family every possible consideration, help them bear the inconvenience which he simply had to cause them in his present condition” (Kafka 6). Here the readers are witnesses of one of the first instances of the Gregors ‘consideration,’ which seems to stand for whatever is the right or the most appropriate way of dealing with the situation.
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Gregor suggests here that the best thing he can do is to not be a burden and hide himself like a deep secret from society, which might be wise considering that everything he does is interperted as an attack.’It was necessary he should have no idea what a dangerous condition he was in. It was to me that the doctors came and said that his life was in danger’ ( Ibsen 193). Nora’s main concentration is keeping her lies from Torvald Helmer as an act of love. She is willing to keep her dark secret in order for Helmet to be happy and satisfied. Many believe friends and relationships might come and go but the idea of family is that they would always be there for you no matter the times of hardship.
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In the article “On Translating Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis’” (2014), Susan Bernofsky claims that there are many interpretations for particular aspects of the novella, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. She develops her claim by including different translations for certain words in the original novella such as the title, “metamorphosis”, has a different meaning from the German word, “Verwandlung”, which is used in fairy tales to describe transformation; she then compares the death of Gregor Samsa to how Arthur Miller describes Willy Loman’ in Death of a Salesman (1949) as a “suicide” and a “benefit for their family.” This relate to how Gregor was willing to give up his life so he won’t be a burden to his family. Towards the end, she includes that most of the time it is seen as a “tragicomic tale” because Samsa’s “naivete” and of certain details such as claiming the family is poor yet they have enough for at least “one domestic servant.” This shows how Gregor wanted to make sure that his family instability would be secured when the hard times come alone as he stays hidden at home and once he passes away.
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Overall, Ibsen, Kafka, and author of “On Translating Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis” Susan Bernofsky, saw in humanity the plain fact that the character Nora from A Doll’s House and Gregor from The Metamorphosis are the ones that adapt to their surroundings to please there family, are those are willing to keep a deep secret and those willing to go through difficulties for their family. They help the reader have an understanding of what family meant in A Doll’s House and The Metamorphosis.And how the Helmers and the Samsas would do anything possible to keep their family safe and viewed as a perfect family one similar like the Holy family.
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In Cold Blood contains many examples of families with different situations and provides that not everyone in your family is blood, it could be a close relative. Families in this book are seen as something that protects you. Capote makes it very clear that a lack of family ties is what makes Perry such a person who stands out from the rest of society. Isolated people like Perry, who have no close family ties, are at high risk for social disturbance and violence.
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His father retrieved him and they lived together for awhile, always moving on so that Perry never had a chance to go to school. ‘I finished the third grade,’ Perry recalled, ‘which was the finish.’ (Chapter 2)There is also an assumption that Perry killed the Clutters because of what his father told him. Dad snatched a biscuit out of my hand, and said I ate too much, what a selfish, greedy bastard I was, and why didn’t I get out, he don’t want me there no more. He carried on like that till I couldn’t stand it. My hands got hold of his throat.
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My hands, but I couldn’t control them. They wanted to choke him to death. (Chapter 2) Two of his siblings committed suicide and his remaining sister is afraid of him. His only lasting relationships, except from a friendship with an Indian logger, have been with fellow convicts, and it’s one of these relationships that ultimately gets him involved in a brutal murder and a trip to the gallows. His childhood traumas have left him with some childlike behaviors—he still wets the bed and sucks his thumb when he cries in his sleep. ‘After all, it was ‘painful’ to imagine that one might be ‘not just right’ – particularly if whatever was wrong was not your own fault but ‘maybe a thing you were born with.” (110) Perry, on reflecting upon his act of murder, wonders whether he was fated to live a doomed life since practically his entire family had befallen endings.
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With his unhappy childhood behind him, he wonders as to whether it wasn’t his fault but the way things just as it is. Perry’s a complicated guy, full of contradictions and quick changes. Due to his horrifically abusive past, the characters also wonder at this as Perry’s unhappy childhood had shaped his future. He finds that he just can’t condemn Perry even though he had performed such brutal act of murder. And Nnot just Dewey, but others such as Mrs. Meier seems to hold sympathy for Perry. Perry’s act of murder came not because he wanted them dead, but because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. His anger came from his past. Due to his abusive past, he took out all his anger from the abuse he had on the Clutters’.
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Dick- brain damage from a concussion. Dick has loving parents, no poorer than anyone else in the neighborhood. By his parents’ and his own account (we know, we know), he was a good kid, did well in school, lettered in nine sports. But like Perry, he feels life hasn’t given him what he deserves and he feels entitled to get it by whatever means necessary. Plus, he’s got zero insight on his warped perspective on life. While Perry wonders, ‘I think there must be something wrong with us’ (Chapter 2) to do what they did, Dick replies, ‘Deal me out, baby, I’m a normal’ (Chapter 2). Dick doesn’t have a shred of respect for human life. He seems to have no ability to think about the consequence of his actions, and he wants what he wants when he wants it. have concern for the effect of his actions on anyone else. This lets him do what he does without being particularly bothered by it. He was also covered in tattoos dedicated to different moments and people in his life. He also had tattoos dedicated to his first ex-wife and his boys ”I have three boys who I will definitely take care of,”
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,” in the way defense attorneys use that term. For their own victims, they chose the Clutter family–a well-off, middle-class, God-fearing family that, in every respect, lived in an opposite world. “‘Deal me out, baby,’ Dick said. ‘I’m a normal.’ And Dick meant what he said. He thought of himself as balanced, as sane as anyone—maybe a bit smarter than the average fellow, that’s all. But Perry—there was, in Dick’s opinion, ‘something wrong’ with Little Perry.” (Page 108) Dick uses Perry as a foil for his own self-image, often belittling or impugning him for his more eccentric, “childish,” or effeminate qualities, in comparison with which Dick convinces himself that he is “normal.
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” Perry, on the other hand, prides himself on being “exceptional,” sensitive, even “artistic” in comparison to Dick. However, each man looks to the other for affirmation of his own masculinity, Dick latching onto Perry for his “killer instincts,” and Perry yearning for Dick to think him “hard, as much the ‘masculine type’ as he considered Dick to be” (111). Both Perry Smith and Dick Hickock were both ex convicts, and they intended to rob the family. However, they were surprised that no money was barely there. Dick loved his parents, even though he was cruel to others. He is more known as a bad decision maker.
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Yea his parents were poor but they didn’t present mental abuse towards him. A person can also see the difference between Dick and Perry. “Dick was holding the knife. I asked him for it, and he gave it to me, and I said, ‘All right, Dick. Here goes.’ But I didn’t mean it. I meant to call his bluff, make him argue me out of it, make him admit he was a phony and a coward. See, it was something between me and Dick. I knelt down beside Mr. Clutter, and the pain of kneeling—I thought of that goddamn dollar. Silver dollar. The shame. Disgust. And they’d told me never to come back to Kansas. But I didn’t realize what I’d done till I heard the sound. Like somebody drowning. Screaming underwater.” (Pg.244) A reader can also conclude that Perry’s actions were not intentional as he states, “I didn’t want to harm the man. I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.”
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Family life play a vital role in the making of the book. It provides reasoning to why Capote wrote the book,and to drive the actions of the characters based their backgrounds.In this caser, murderer.A assumption made can be whether or not a person commits wrongdoing because of their past, or is it because they are just being ignorant to society because they never went through the struggle to want to do better. In this case A reader can conclude,perry wants to do better with his life because of all the traumas and struggles, and the hardships within his family to earn a better life.
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On the other Dick, because he wasn’t as poor he had a relationship with his parents, which caused him to make ignorant decisions because he didn’t learn as a young age. The clutters, who symbolize the peacefulness and politeness in their community are= shocked of perry’s actions despite his life from a broken home. The Clutters uprightness is related to the strength of their family as Perry’s criminality is connected to his mental abuse and cruelty from his parents.
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The Clutter killings wreak havoc on the security of Holcomb, fragmenting the community and sowing the first seeds of doubt and suspicion. In allegorical terms, the residents of Holcomb experience a kind of fall from grace, and a loss of their former innocence, as for the first time they are forced to confront the unseemly reality of the killers and the world they represent. In spirit Dick is still wedded to his first wife and his dreams of becoming self sufficient are linked to the ability to support her and their three sons. The strength of a person’s family ties had the larger implication of whether that person can live happily well off and in a self determined fashion.
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Families migrating into the U.S. should have the full support of the country because immigrants contribute hugely to economic growth. We have seen the president of the United States attack immigrant families as he has expressed anti-immigrant sentiment fueling fear on his Twitter social media account. It is not only unauthorized immigration is under attack, but legal immigration is being threatened. The amount of misinformation against immigrants has increased during the current administration. We have all heard various false claims about immigrants such as immigrants drain government resources; immigrants take American jobs; immigrants bring crime; immigrants’ children should not be citizens, and the U.
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If we solely rely on native-born workers, our labor force will shrink drastically. Studies have shown that immigrants pay taxes and in actuality, immigrant families help grow our gross domestic product. The GDP is the total value of goods produced and services provided that make the economy grow. Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, George J. Borjas, an immigration skeptic, ends through various studies that low-skilled immigration can harm low-skilled natives but have a positive impact on both medium and high-skilled natives.
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Not all immigrants that come to this country are low-skilled workers. Many immigrants come to the United States, which are highly educated, highly skilled workers that benefit our country by bringing innovation and ingenuity along with them. The U.S. economy thrives from highly skilled doctors, engineers, and scientists because they have different skillsets and knowledge which they have learned in their countries of origin. Many of these high-skilled immigrants come from economically poor countries where the pay is so low, and so they decide to migrate into the United States for a better economic opportunity., we gain a skillful labor pool that is already educated where we don’t have to wait for several years to educate an individual. These migrants will come and contribute to the U.S. economy.
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Those who don’t possess unique job skills or are not educated contribute by doing hard labor jobs. Some work in the agriculture or construction industry. Gardening, housekeeping, caregiving, house building, and agricultural fields have thrived from low-skilled immigrants’ strong work ethic. They are happy to get a job that pays them because most of them didn’t have such opportunities in the countries where they came from. Immigrants don’t just work hard and better their lives. Immigrant families make sure that their children go to school and hope they have a better life. Most immigrants’ kids have taken advantage of the education system we have and are contributing to our economy now as adults. Some children of immigrants have become scientists, innovators, and today’s problem solvers. We don’t lose American jobs because of immigrants, nor does crime rise because we have too many immigrants entering the country. Today, we have a president who has negatively targeted immigrants and their families. We have witnessed families torn apart and tossed into detention centers.
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Along with the president, we have a large population in the United States who believe all the negative myths about immigrants such as that immigrants take American jobs; they drain government resources; immigrants bring crime; and that the U.S. economy does not need immigrants. We should be better-informed citizens not be easily influenced by a politician; we should look at the evidence that shows that our country benefits economically when we welcome new immigrants. Immigrants are struggling to gain acceptance among vast amounts of the U.S. population. Most immigrants came to the U.S.to have a better life and have an opportunity for a better education for their children. Almost all immigrants have experienced discrimination in their lives, and even some are still experiencing it today. Most immigrants don’t have a choice but to deal with it when they get discriminated against because many are unaware that they too have rights.
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Since the beginning of humanity, humans have always moved around earth in search of a better chance of survival. While our early human family migrated for better weather, fertile land, and prosperous sources of freshwater, today’s migrating human-being is in search of thriving economic weather to better themselves in material respects. We must not forget that the first Europeans who got lost at sea and arrived on the coast of what we today call the Americas are the original immigrants to this land. It was the first nation Native American people like the Wampanoag who helped their fellow man to survive in this land by teaching the new arrivals how to cultivate these lands. It is our duty as human beings to be understanding and compassionate for other people.
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Today, there are a few ways we can help support immigrant families. First, we can start by learning more about immigrant communities by reading more about them. Being an informed citizen is our obligation to not be easily fooled by all the misinformation about immigrants and their families. Second, we can speak out against discrimination and family separations that have destroyed our immigrant communities. We as human beings should not allow the physiological abuse that many of the children, that have been separated from their parents, have had to endure. Third, we can give our support and volunteer our time to local organizations who work to give food and shelter, and legal help to immigrant families. Stand with immigrant families because they are human first. As human beings, we all need each other and we will need the immigrant working class to help support us through their tax dollars when we hit old age.
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After watching this show in full again in 2018, I have realized that the show did not age well. A show that I thought was comfortable, simple, and funny as a teenager is now something I see and slightly cringe at. It became obvious to me that within the show, anything that deviated away from a social norm quickly became the next punch line of the episode. Although one could say the show should be cut some slack due to cultural context, it is still no excuse for the toxicity.
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” She continually makes remarks to exclaim her sexuality that are followed up by a comment to reaffirm her unintelligence. For example, we hear her say things like “I may play the fool at times, but I’m a little more than just a pretty blonde girl with an ass that won’t quit” and similar things as such (THE ONE WITH THE RED SWEATER). Within the first few seasons, the show makes a point to reflect back on Monica’s high school years where she was overweight. In doing so, fat-shaming becomes the new punchline throughout the rest of the show.
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The other characters, including Monica herself, continue to obsess over their weight and poke fun at Monica’s overweight phase with retrospect to her love for candy, her attendance in Fat Camp, or the idea that her weight contributes to her virginity. For example, in episode fourteen of the second season we watch as all six characters lounge around and watch a home video of a young Monica and Rachel getting ready for the prom. Within the home video, we see Monica eating a sandwich while waiting for her prom date.
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Then, Joey, one of our prominent male characters in the show, proceeds to yell “Look, someone ate Monica!” fourteen of the second season, the on with the prom as the rest of the gang laughs. There are one-liners thrown towards Monica’s weight throughout the entire show. Whenever a meal needs to be finished, or junk food is present, the jokes about Monica’s “fat phase” start back up. Another example is in the episode The one with all the thanksgivings where the characters have a flashback on Monica’s high school years once again only this time it is Thanksgiving. As the Thanksgiving meal wraps up, Monica’s parents turn to her in assumption that she will finish off all the leftovers. When Monica declines her father yells “She is finally full!” the one with all the thanksgivings and the laugh track shortly follows. Aside from the stereotypes and gender roles thrown at the female characters in this show, there is also a lot of sexist themes within Friends.
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Episode one within season one was one of the first real big sexist themes in Friends that I noticed. In this episode, we see our three male characters discussing women. Ross had just gone through a divorce and is discussing the potential of “what if there is only one woman for everyone” when Joey responds by reassuring him that “there are many kinds of women in the world—like ice cream—and that he just needs to grab a spoon” Season 1 episode 1 the pilot which treats women as objects for men.
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Another example of sexism is in episode nine of season three where the six characters play football. Here the female characters are shown as weak, and incapable of playing a sport with our male characters. Rachel can not even catch a football and when she does, everyone makes a huge deal of it, something that does not occur for the male characters. The males also make sexist jabs at the women throughout the entirety of their game and make fun of their athletic ability. Finally, one of our main female leads, Phoebe, ends up flashing the men just to score some points. However, I did notice that the majority of sexist themes and remarks center around Ross, which leads us into our next critique, homophobia.
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Carol being a lesbian is the center for a lot of sarcastic jokes throughout the show, too. For example, within the very first episode after Ross announces the news of his divorce, he discusses how “Carol always drank beer from the can” and therefore, he should have known she was a lesbian. In another instance, we see that in the homophobic mind of Ross it is okay to question someone’s sexuality while interviewing them. In the episode, Ross and Rachel are looking to hire a nanny. When a male candidate comes into the picture for the position, Ross has a huge issue with it. His masculinity is at risk, he is following the gender stereotype that being a nanny is not a male role, and he is uncomfortable with this man’s sensitivity. Ross also exhibits homosexuality and gender stereotypes in an earlier episode in regards to his son’s behavior.
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Although Ross and Carol split and it becomes known that Carol is a lesbian, she ends up still being pregnant with Ross’ son, Ben. When Ben starts to grow up and pick his toys of choice, he goes for the barbie doll. The rest of the episode circles around Ross trying to steer Ben away from the dolls and more towards more stereotypically masculine toys such as action figures and trucks until finally, someone calls him out on his obsession at the very end of the episode. My final issue with Friends is in regards to transphobia.
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Chandler’s father, Charles, is transgender and a homosexual who works in a drag club where he is the lead performer. Charles is referred to by male pronouns throughout the entirety of the show but is shown as identifying as a woman. This character is merely used to taught. For example, at Chandler and Monica’s wedding, Charles berates Nora, Chandler’s mom, for wearing a revealing dress. Charles says, “Aren’t you a little old to be wearing a dress like that?” , to which Nora responds, “Don’t you have a little too much penis to be wearing a dress like that?” —-
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’ What she lacks in the beginning, she gais throughout her stay in the Annex. ‘Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong, I have my opinions, my own ideas, and principles and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite independent of anyone.’ Anne’s thoughts and actions have changed her personality to an aspiring young woman.
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As once stated by Michael Bassey Johnson, “if you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.” If there are any words from this quote that stand out to me, they would have to be “survive without them.” Surviving without anyone is what I have been doing for the past two and a half years here in college. It’s rough, and some days I want to give up, but I know that that is simply just not an option for me.
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Since I started college, my parents have not given me a single penny. Not because they don’t want to, but because they simply do not have anything to give. My mother lives from paycheck to paycheck, barely even being able to provide for herself. I am only able to continue with my education because Texas A&M University has been generous enough to award me scholarships based on my academic excellence, and also because I have had to personally take out loans to cover my costs for the school.
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Writing these essays every year only gets harder and harder. Not only do I have to worry about doing exceptionally well in my classes every semester in order to continue to be eligible to receive certain scholarships, but I also have to worry every summer about having enough financial aid to cover my next year of school. I am beyond grateful for the scholarships Texas A&M has provided me with, but to say that they don’t come with a price would be complete dishonesty. The scholarships I receive require me to obtain a certain GPA every semester, and the amount of added pressure and stress that puts on me is extremely unbearable most times. Not only do I have to worry about performing well in my classes for the sake of being able to obtain a degree, but also even just to continue being a student at Texas A&M University. My entire future depends on how well I do every semester. Any slight mess up, and everything could be gone in the blink of an eye.
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The amount of money that I am awarded each year is just enough to cover my school fees and basic necessities. This is the only way that I am able to continue going to college. Without these scholarships every semester, there is no way I would be able to continue attending Texas A&M University. To say that these past few years here have been hard is a definite understatement. The people who know me and my family always continue to remind me of how proud they are that I’ve managed to succeed this far without any help from any of them.
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I was only 17 when the doctor came in and told me I had the bipolar disease. I asked him what does that mean. He told me its a disorder that deals with episodes of mood swings. I was confused I didn’t know what to think of it. My mother asked in a concerned voice “What can we do to treat it” The doctor said, “I’m sorry mam there is not a cure for this disease, but we can give him some pills to help him control it.
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She was trying to stay strong for me, but it overpowered her she couldn’t take it. She didn’t know how to deal with it. I didn’t want anyone to know. I know my Dad would want me to be strong if he were here. He would want me to take care of our family and make sure everything was alright. But in my mind how can I take care of my family if I can’t take care of myself? My mind didn’t know how to process what was going on.
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When I got to the house I went straight to my room, slammed the door, and began to cry not because I was scared for myself but scared for the ones I love. I Locked myself in my room so no one could come in there and lie to me saying it’s going to be ok even though they don’t think that. I heard a knock on my door it was my brother. He said, “Nathan! Come on man let me in”. My brother was 19 at the time. I yelled for him to leave me alone it must have scared him because it worked. Which made me even sadder because this made me think that everyone would be scared of me for the rest of my life. I stayed in my room for the rest of the night with no food and no sleep.
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I just sat there in complete silence in the pitch dark. I heard knocking on my door I say “it must be morning” I looked over at my alarm it was 3:00 am. I said, “who is it”. No one responded. I went to investigate to see if anyone was awake. There was no one in the kitchen, living room, bathroom, or the den. I went to each room to sneak a peek in to make sure everything was alright. I saw someone standing at the end of my mother’s bed. It was a dark figure I couldn’t get a good few of his face. I began to scream and when that happened I was awakened by my mom. She said “You’re ok, You’re” As she cradled me in her arms she said it over and over again. I felt safe. I felt like nothing could ever hurt me as long as I was in her arms.
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The day went by fast like it wasn’t even 5 hours. No one spoke to me that day. I don’t know if it was fear or sadness. I was scared to go to bed that night I tried my hardest not to go to sleep. But as the night kept going I began to fade off. Then I heard a knock on my door. I looked at the clock it was 3:00 am. I went to see if anyone was up again. No one was in the living room, kitchen, bathroom, or den. I went to everyone’s room. My mother’s room first the figure wasn’t their. I was in relieve until I walked into my brother’s room. The figure had something in his hand. It turned to look my way when I screamed. My mother came to my rescue again as I woke up screaming. I didn’t want to tell her what had happened in the dream so I just went ahead and lied.
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The day went by really fast again. That night I tried to stay awake once again. I kept all the lights on, Headphones blaring in my ears, and the TV full blast. All the things that would keep me awake. I did whatever it took. Until 3:00 am when I heard a knock on my door. My lights went out, my headphones stopped and the TV shut off. No one in the Kitchen. No one in the living room. No one in the bathroom. No one in the den. I went to everyone’s room but no one was there I went to go check on them when I heard a scream. I woke out of some kind of hallucination. I was in shock about my discovery. The figure was me. I was the figure that was standing in front of their beds. But when I woke my damage was already I had stabbed her fives times. I went to check on my brother, but he wasn’t in his room. I saw a flashing light from outside my home. I walked downstairs and outside on the front porch. Dropped on my knees and accepted my fate.
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Plautus’ comedy The Brothers Menaechmus easily brings about laughs. The play is full of comedic motifs that keep the audience entertained. For example, in this comedy there is dirty and sexual humor, mistaken identities, asides, literal wordplay, and running gags all throughout but this paper will focus on a few key parts. This comedy outdoes itself when it comes to dirty and sexual humor . For example, in the play when Menaechmus had just stolen his wife’s night gown he asks Peniculus to smell the skirt with which he replies “I’d rather smell the upper part of a woman’s garment; elsewhere the nose detects a somewhat unwashed odor.
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The entire circumstance is quite hysterical. The next motif that is effectively applied is literal wordplay . In the scene where Erotium and Sosicles first meet and she as well mistakes his identity for Menaechmus literal wordplay is used in a very smart-aleck way. When Sosicles attempts to explain to her that he has never step foot into the country until then and had come on a ship she asks him what he meant by ship. To this he responds with a very literal description of what a boat is.
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This is funny because the audience knows that this wasn’t the intended response Erotium had wanted. Finally, running gags are used throughout this play. When Sosicles realizes that he can use his mistaken identity to profit when he is handed an expensive gown he decides to see what else his luck can get him. This is funny because Erotium was just playing Menaechmus in order for him to buy her expensive things but Sosicles is unknowingly using the identity of his twin brother to get his hands on these nice items.