In America, women are members of the immigrant society or minority society but they also are considered a double minority because they are women. Women of this country, made up of multi-cultures, have had to deal with the discrimination brought over from their country of origin as well as those established in the early year of this country's history. They have used literature as a vehicle to teach their fellowman, of the injustice of discrimination. Through their writings they have explored their countries of origins as well as, learn to understand what their lives mean. I am going to use the lives of Aniza Yeziebska the America immigrant writer of the Bread Givers and Louise Erdrich Native American writer of the American Horse . Through these women I am going to show how they have used their writings to inform the world of the great injustice done to women in a world that discriminates against women as well as people that are different from the dominant culture. I am going to show a world where if you were different you were made to feel less than. In a struggle to assimilate these women found who they were, strong incredible members of the human race. .
Yeziebska was a Jewish American immigrant, there is a conflict about some of the early details of her life. In the revised introduction to Bread Givers by Alice Kessler Harris, Harris say that Yerzieska was born in Plotsk, Poland in the late eighteen hundreds, and in 1890 when she was about eight years old she immigrated to America with her mother and father and eight sisters and brothers through Ellis Island. Yezierska"s daughter, Louise Levitas Henriksen writes in her biography, that Yezierska came from Plotsk and her family came through the earlier immigrant processing station called Castle Gardens ( ) . The critic Diane Levenberg, says that the facts are "murky", but that she knows for sure the arrival date is 1901 and Levenbergs fact are different still.
Fairy Tale Love What is love? ... I was taught by fairy tale's that love was a completely different world. ... Love in today's world has been strongly affected by fairy tales. ... There is so much more to love than taught to us as children by these tales. ... I have realized how unrealistic and nave I have been to believe and expect the "love- described to me by these fantasy tales. ...
This love halt togidres peples joined with a holy boond, and kyntteth sacrament of marryges of chaste loves: and love enditeth lawest treuth felawes'- Boethus II. ... Marriage as a topic can be seen as contributing to what we perceive to be the unique identity of each tale primarily because it is alluded to, in one way or another, in every tale of fragment A. ... Superficially, as already stated, the tales contain similar plot concerns, most notably between the Knights Tale and the Millers, then, via the Millers Tale, the Reeves response which takes in those concerns of wooing' its ...
Mississippi Burning Essay In the movie "Mississippi Burning" many aspects of our civil rights unit were key points in teh movie. ... In conclussion, "Mississippi Burning" was a good example of how our civil rights unit ties in with what really happened in 1964. ...
These tales, passed down by verbal recount only, carried fact, faith, hope, and love through the generations that followed. ... Some of these new tales still use the old tales for reference and are simply digitally re-mastered. ... The magic of Fairy Tales never dies. We loved them when our parents told them to us and our children will be awe-struck when we read them the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk or Cinderella. ... So, who believes in Fairy Tales? ...
While the teller most certainly shapes the tale, the tale can tell us just as much about the teller. ... When it comes to "The Pardoner's Tale," the dynamic between the teller and the tale is unlike any other tale in "The Canterbury Tales." ... What makes the Pardoner telling a tale with this moral even more strange is the fact that he fully understands his hypocrisy, he says "My theme is always the same, and ever was - the love of money is the root of all evil" "(507). ... Because the moral of the Pardoner's story is "the love of money is the root of all evil he creates a very stran...
Actors were now seen as simply the "body that held the characters place on screen"(OGFS), and that the actual performance mattered little to what was important: the narrative. ... His work suggests that the viewer should see stars as "clusters of sign, as signifiers or texts that communicate meanings to a spectator"(OGFS). ... According to Dyer it is not important to study this but instead what the assumed identity represents within "larger discursive structures"(OGFS) Thus one should not be concerned with the actual motivations of the person as the fabricated persona is of more relevance to t...
Discuss the purpose of fairy tales for a contemporary audience. ... Marcia Lane, a student of fairy tales and the author of Picturing a Rose: A Way of Looking at Fairy Tales, believes a fairy tale to be, a story - literary or folk - that has a sense of the numinous, the feeling or sensation of the supernatural or the mysterious. ... Fairy tales are sometimes spiritual but never religious. ... messages of classic fairy tales, as her reason for writing. ... He looked to create truly modern versions of fairy tales. ...
"Mississippi Burning": Fact versus Fiction In the movie "Mississippi Burning" we see a dramatized version of a non-fiction event that occurred in Mississippi in 1964. ... There was little played out in the movie "Mississippi Burning" about the activists, but through out you hear a little more about them. ... After reading information about the Mississippi Burning trail that took place after the bodies were found and people were arrested, the real heroes, besides the activists, were the lawyers who won the case for them. ... After dramatizing certain events like the rapes and burning down ...
It is the "Fairy Tale" Romance Courtly love is a fairy tale idea displayed during the medieval times. ... The movie, "The Knight's Tale" is a strong example of courtly love. ... In Geoffrey Chaucer's, The Canterbury Tales the "Wife of Bath's" tale exhibits courtly love in more of a female's perspective. ... Many rules of courtly love are present in the fictional tales of Medieval England and even in true love today. ... Every lady dreams of this fairy tale love that makes her sigh. ...
