Essays on Toni

Critical thinking is often the main goal of education rather than the simple accrual of knowledge. This is thematically discussed in Toni Cade Bambara’s The Lesson and David Foster Wallace’s Commencement Speech, Kenyon College. Bambara’s story shows an adult leading a group of children in an out-of-town educational trip. Wallace’s speech, on the other hand details the transition of graduates into adult life and of how their college education plays a role in it. Whereas Bambara’s story deals more on the racial themes and differences of inequality, Wallace’s speech focuses on the larger ...

“The Lesson” is a book authored by Toni Cade Bambara. It is set out to depict the contemporary life of the African Americans. It is a narrative of a black girl, Sylvia laments on the inequality of life after Miss. Moore takes her and her friend to the areas dominated by the wealthy. This paper aims to highlight the various valuable lessons that Miss. Moore, an educated and sophisticated black woman, teaches the young adults that they should view life beyond their nose as there is much more to life than they are accustomed. One of the major issues ...

Jane Doe

Autism is a disease that begins to show signs in early childhood and continues throughout the individual’s life. There are wide arrays of signs, symptoms, and behaviors that can be seen among those who are diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), which can make proper diagnosis challenging at times. To better understand the complex nature of ASD, several videos are observed and correlated with the diagnosis criteria from the American Psychological Association’s DSM-V. The following six videos each display a variety of autistic individuals of various ages that show the different symptoms common to ASD.

Video 1: Two Year Old Boy

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Motherhood is a sacred act for each woman. It is the most powerful and spiritual component of a woman’s life. Published in 1987, “Beloved” by Toni Morrison depicts heart-wrenching lives of African slaves and explores the mother-child relationship and the experience of black women in an unjust and prejudiced society. “Beloved” was based on the real story of a slave woman called Margaret Garner who killed her own child. This masterpiece emphasizes the barbaric and cruel effects of slavery and oppression of black women in the circumstances of racial inequality and abusive behaviors. They were not allowed to ...

Thesis

Toni Morrison's novel, Home, is an allegory that uses post-Korean war setting to paint a picture of the never-ending human conflicts like war, racism, trauma and manhood. Despite many years as the world’s superpower, America has not yet found a solution for world conflicts. Despite fighting in Korea, where he lost his homes, Frank Money has not yet learned how to be a man, and he thinks of Lotus, where he was grown, as a place worse than any battlefield. The novel is a reflection of a struggle that never ends, no matter how someone, how a country ...

Creative Writing on Toni Morrison’s Novel Song of Salomon Chapter 1 Pages 41-44

A Fairy tale: “A Brown Piece of Paper”. Once upon a time there lived a man whose name was Macon Dead. He was a very unusual man for he named all his children, except for the first-born male, by thumbing at random in the Bible. His wife died giving birth to their daughter and a poor man was confused and devastated by his loss. But a girl needed a name. So broken-hearted father took a Bible, and, as he could not read, chose a group of letters that seemed to him strong and handsome: he imagined that it was ...

Foremost, to understand the relevance of the identified themes of politics and economics, there is a need to consider the traditions that the authors represent in their works and the how their characters realize the problem with assuming the norms are acceptable. In other words, the following segments of this paper present the turning points of the identified narratives as they highlight the socio-economic divisions through the experiences of the characters. In “The Lesson” racial groups play a significant role in determining the opportunities that the people access. While in “The Necklace,” the social class to which one is ...

There is a great connection between literary text and history. Critics who deal with this issue have provided four answers. Firstly, critics argue that literary texts have no time limitations and they are considered to be the universal history. Secondly, literary texts are produced within historical context but due to their literariness they are separate from this context. Thirdly, different literary texts provide people with the opportunity to understand the time in which these texts are fixed. For instance, realist texts are full of imaginative representations of different historical events and moments. Finally, literary texts are connected with different ...

Final Reflective Portfolio

This paper is a reflection of the skills I have gained in this class. It focuses on four texts and analyses them as indicators of my development as a reader and creator of literary and cultural texts. Three of the analyzed texts were created for this class while the fourth was written for a math class.

Part 1: Texts

The Ultimate Book of Martial Arts Fay Goodman's book entitled The Ultimate Book of Martial Arts is already an entertaining read by itself. However, different parts of the book contain paratextual elements that give it a new meaning and make it a more ...

Toni Morrison uses the literal mode of magical realism in Beloved as a decolonizing agent for the post-colonial context as narrated in the story. Morrison uses both magic and realism to narrate the experiences and life of African Americans during the post-colonial period. It focuses on the experience of ex-slaves trying to rebuild their lives in the United States after being freed from slavery. Morrison also uses the narrative as a way of addressing some of the silent experiences about the African Americans under the slavery of the white man. Sethe, the protagonist in the story is from the ...

Abstract

“Song of Solomon” is the third novel written by Toni Morrison and is a very remarkable and rich piece of fiction. Its power lies not only in the representation of African Americans century but also the author’s insistence on the necessity of healing the alienated and broken protagonist, Milkman Dead. His journey to the recognition of the cultural past can be viewed in the context of the mythic quest, as he follows it, first for gold, and then for knowledge about his ancestry. Significantly, in the novel, the writer employs classical myths, specifically that of Icarus and the ...

Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespeare and The Bluest Eye is a novel written by Toni Morrison. Both Macbeth and The Bluest Eye deal with human nature and its striving to reach the best possible state of existence. The goal of Macbeth and his wife is to gain power at all costs which deprives them of humanity. Pecola also wants to improve her life which is why she wishes to have blue eyes. There is much suffering and fight for power in these texts as well as the age all problem of evil which affects all people. ...

Psychopathologies, also known as psychological disorders have become a growing concern in the society. The more modernized the world becomes, the greater the need of illuminating just how necessary it is to try to understand the roots of mental illness and situations that may cause mental disturbance. The media has played a great role in trying to bring out case studies in form of documentaries, television series, movies and even books and stories. However, there is still much more to be done in terms of creating awareness when it comes to these mental diseases, which by the way can ...

Summary- Tar Baby (Toni Morrison)

The novel Tar Baby, by Toni Morrison, explains the story of the extremely debatable quandary of the racially separated African-Americans in America and the inherent practice of social discrimination inflicted on then due to racial prejudice. The novel uses the character of the Protagonist, Jadine, who faces the communal allegations of betraying her own race because she abandoned her real culture and gave up her racial heritage to pursue her dreams. This reflective summary of the novel focuses on the part (pages 231-275) where Valerian (the white owner of entire household and master of all the blacks) realizes about ...

It is hard to imagine a company operating efficiently, with no external partners, still less employees around. Being an international giant that it is, Ford Motors has important stakeholders in external partners or suppliers, such as Bosh and TRW reported to provide the producer with critical components like brakes, seatbelts and airbags. There are elements vital to the safety of actual or would-be car owners, and the latter use this customer value as a benefit to compare it with the financial sacrifice the purchase implies. The reputation, employment conditions, and reasonable prices suppliers have to offer advantage the product ...

Summary

Tar Baby by Toni Morrison is a novel that talks about the discord among the whites and the blacks, and the learned biases and prejudices that the characters accord each other. The story highlights these biases based on three different levels: race, gender, and class. The Street household was an interesting setting wherein a mixture of the black and the white, of the slaves and the masters, and those in between live under on roof. The story starts with Valerian and Margaret talking about the menu for the coming Christmas Eve. Valerian had invited some people and his, Michael, ...

Literature is the perfect mirror of the world society as the creative artists take resort to their works of art to portray the society and culture. A close scrutiny of the literary works of various authors ranging across time in the history of literature would be helpful in bringing an introspective perspective about the state of women in the society. For the purpose of the scrutiny, one can take into reckoning the short story The Story of an Hour penned by Kate Chopin, the short story, The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck, the seminal article by feminist film critic, Laura ...

“The Lesson” is the short story written by Toni Cade Bambara and its main topic is the social and economic inequality. This inequality can be seen in the position of the children and their families in the society. Miss Moore is also teaching them about social and economic inequality in her private lessons which happen during summer. The children symbolize the innocence and the young who are supposed to be educated about the world and about all of the injustice. The world functions in such a way that there are the privileged and the under-privileged groups of people. In “ ...

The novel by Toni Morrison, Tar Baby, is a tale of the disputable plight of racially segregated African Americans and the underlying discrimination based on the racial prejudice and biases. The conflicts presented in the novel are portrayed in the character shades of the protagonist, Jadine, who is charged with an act of racial sedition as she pursued her dreams by abandoning her true culture and racial heritage. The novel uses the polemic viewpoints present in the character of Jadine to delineate the racial prejudice which exists at a different level of interaction within the society. Morrison’s primary ...

Tar Baby was one of Toni Morrison’s novels that demonstrated how she perceived the African American experience. Right at the start of the novel, the reader is introduced to a yet unnamed man who jumped from the Stor Konigsgaarten, intent on reaching the shore of Queen of France. It was a tough decision for him, as swimming through the current proved to be difficult, such as the instance when he was yanked by the water into an empty tunnel and turned three times when he struggled to rise out of it (Morrison, 4). He found an alternative in ...

This novel deals with the series of puzzling disappearances and murders of black youth in Atlanta in the late 1970s and early 1980s and was published posthumously after being edited by Toni Morrison. Bambara explores “the ways in which government power and politics, communal paranoia, and personal suffering transform the Rawls family” (Greene p.338). Because it centers on one city and one family, and real events and deals with a sensitive series of racial crimes, it has tended to be read as part of the African American tradition of fiction. Indeed at the very end of the novel Zala quotes ...

The only path that a man can really change is the path that comes from his own soul. In Toni Morrison novel diverse themes have been captured to reflect the ironies of life which are in one way been sustained by symbolism of life to produce seamless situational metaphors in more intricate imagery. The ironies of life can be seen where the author illustrates Bottom as gift from a Master to his slave, though it was a trick despite convincing the unknowing slave that the land was close to the heaven for it was hilly. In essence, this demonstrates the symbolism of ...

AQA Business Studies Unit 1

Question 1

(a). What is meant by the term random sample?

A sample is an item chosen from the total population, which is being studied. Therefore, a random sample is the number chosen, and it involves components that are unpredictable. This is selection of a few items to represent the entire population. The sample chosen does not represent the population from which it was drawn. This was an estimate done through survey and information from franchisors, which Tom estimated that it would be about 77000 customers in the first year according to his analysis (Dayananda, et. al. 56).

Random sample can be ...