Every culture has events unique to its people, which are then passed down through each generation. In the Spanish culture, there is a distinct coming of age celebration for young women. This festivity, a Quinceañera, is not only a religious event but a rite of…
What I believe the film Moonlight is attempting to communicate to us watching is not simply the acknowledgment of homosexuality inside African American neighborhoods, yet additionally grasping young men who exist outside of that solidified world, and how manliness has a wide range of articulations….
Very often children argue and demand about what they want to be when they grow up; while parents require them to be what they want them to be. The short story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan shows the life of a Chinese girl who is…
Around the world today, there are hundreds of people desperately wanting to leave their homelands and travel to the United States for a variety of reasons such as, to escape war, poverty and famine, believing that they could find relief on American soil. In Two…
“Two Kinds” is a short story, which is a part of the book “The Joy Luck Club” written by Amy Tan. “The Joy Luck Club” was published in 1989. The mother-daughter relationship displayed in the short story, has received criticism for perpetuating racist stereotypes about…
In 1830, slavery was an indispensable choice for white riches. African-Americans no longer wanted to be part of this slavery. So, they constantly tried to stop white people from working for them, for nothing. Two of the African-Americans were Nat Turner and David Walker who…
American Born Chinese, written by Gene Luen Yang, is a fictional graphic novel. It is a mix of realistic fiction and fantasy, where some parts of the story are more realistic and others more imaginative and fictional. I first read the book for my Language…
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang is a phenomenal graphic novel addressing self-acceptance, racial stereotyping, and identity. Not to mention, Gene Luen Yang blew my socks off with a brilliant intertwining of three seemingly unconnectable storylines. Yang tackles the negative stereotypes of a Chinese-…
Growing up as a kid in foster care, I was surrounded by many other cultures and races other than my own, of which each brought their own traditions and cultural rituals to my life. One cultural rite I have partaken in for many years and…
Today, The Day of the Dead in Aztlan, has become one of the most widely celebrated Mexican cultural traditions in the Southwest, United States. It strengthens the cultural cohesiveness of the Chicano community and is an unparallel example of how Chicano movement politics and Neo-Indigenous…
Emmett was a huge cultural influence on the Civil Rights Movement and for the history of African American freedom too. Emmitt Louis Till was a 14 year old African American boy born on July 25, 1941. He was born in Chicago, IL at Cook County…
There are few dramas that continue to resonate across the ages as ‘Death of a Salesman’. So multifaceted and subtle are the elements of the story as it unfolds, the best advice is to read the play at your leisure prior to attending a stage…
Sometimes you have to let go of what you thought life would be like and learn to find joy in the story you’re living (Rachel Marie Martin). Identity is how the world perceives an individual through their morals, values, and beliefs. But what if this…
The American Dream has often been linked with the long-lasting belief and philosophy of “Manifest Destiny”, which, while originally the process of civilizing the untamed West U.S. at the time, translated to an overarching ideal of seizing the opportunity for a better life than one…
The play Death of a Salesman can be considered one of the many examples of the ‘American Dream’ and the hard work to success in American literature. In the play, readers read of the Loman family and the hardships they experience and discuss. Along with…
The American dream is the belief that with hard work, a person will become successful. The American Dream is something every American family makes great efforts to achieve. Some families push themselves too hard to get where they feel they’ve achieved the American Dream; this…
How does one grow healthy in an era of size zero, corsets, slimming oils and anonymity on social media? For girls the most significant social pressure they face today is to conform to conventional notions of beauty. Eshaa, a second year student at Delhi University,…
The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (2015) found that people with diverse histories, cultures, beliefs and languages have settled in Britain experience an ongoing challenge which is faced within mental health services is that research shows that minority ethnic groups are least likely to…
Regina sits in her room, gazing off at her bookshelf thinking about Cady Heron. Her eyes widen as if a brilliant idea came up. She darts toward the burn book – a book with girls’ yearbook pictures with negative comments and furiously flips through the…
