Two part reading response " Incident in the life of a slave girl".

Harriet Jacobs describes in her story her experiences as a female slave and the terror of  women rights at the hands of a men. Her story is painful and this is obvious since at the beginning whrn she says " I was born to be a slave". The reasons why she was writing was not only to reveal the suffering of slaves but also the extreme gender inequality. Although there is treated the difference between white and black people. Harriet provides how difficult is to be a slave and motivate awaken the female rights in the period of time. An women whose destiny is to be a slave have a different point of view,  education and humanity. As we read, we see that there are men who try to abused women sexually. Harriet provides that she's strong for her children and she won't give up. She was so brave as she break the glass ceiling through the gender and race. Harriet fights for her right as an women, as a human being and set up the stepping stone for ending the slavery disappearance.

Two part reading response "The bluest eye"

"The bluest eye" novel written by Toni Morrison tells the life of a young African-American girl named Pecola who grows up with great depression. She is regarded as 'ugly' because of her skin and she believes that whitenes is beautiful. Her parents have both had difficult lives. Her father, Cholly, drinks and her mother, Pauline, has always felt isolated. All what Pecola requires to God are a pair of new blue eyes,like she was buying shoes ,thinking she would become beautiful. What I think is that children learn behaviours from their parents and the story treats lot of social problems such as: racism,incest,child attitude and parents inferiority towards their childrens. Beauty is an obsession that has been present and it is even nowadays. We should understand that it isn't beauty who makes a person, is the inner side who really matters.

https://youtu.be/LIF5BnugxYM

Live Every Moment speech: Munida Mazari, lovingly referred to as the Iron Lady of Pakistan,openly talks about how her life changed after a car accident left her without the use of her legs and how this has changed her perspective on life. In her poewerful speech, she expresses how important it is to accept yourself in order for the rest of the world to recognize you

Gender and race: Intersectionality

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 

https://ia801308.us.archive.org/33/items/IKnowWhyTheCagedBirdSings/I%20Know%20Why%20the%20Caged%20Bird%20Sings.pdf

In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens by Alice Walker

https://miletic-litwiki.wikispaces.com/file/view/Mothers+Gardens+Text.pdf 

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

http://memberfiles.freewebs.com/36/26/43092636/documents/Bluest%20Eye,%20The%20-%20Toni%20Morrison.pdf

Beloved   by Toni Morrison 

http://publish.uwo.ca/~hamendt/WD%20final%20Project/litertaure/Beloved.pdf

    Women Equality


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Fame is a fickle food

Since the start of the poem we can see that the author has compared fame with a kind of food that is in constant change due to several factors. That's her way to tell that the same happens with fame. At first it brings everything you wish but then it can end up ruining your life. You're always in the public eye and people, especially the envious ones will always have something negative to say, just to ruin your fame and career. Practically, the crows represent these people in Dickinson's poem and these people are so caught up on a person's fame that spend their lives looking up to him and symbolically "die". 

Inspirational speech!!

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My opinion about: AIN'T I A’WOMEN? Poem by Sojourner Truth

AIN'T I A WOMEN?

  My opinion about: AIN'T I A’WOMEN? Poem by Sojourner Truth

I like this poem because it shows the story of how women have been discriminated. This story was born that with EVA who has eat the wrong apple and for this reason it was trimmed that women have no logic. Then when she spoke about Maria who had born Jesus, but she was virgin, so women should be virgin. This poem includes many other elements which describe how women and slave has no rights. She had brought the painful story that a woman had 13 children and 13 children were taken as slaves.

Without women the world would not have existed because women have a very important role in this world, we cannot live without: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7...

 

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AIN'T I A WOMAN?

Poem by Sojourner Truth (1797-1883)
http://www.crmvet.org/poetry/ftruth.htm

Emily Dickinson selected poems. 

http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/emily-dickinson?gclid=CO_3t7m3q9ECFRVmGwodZ3cM2Q
 

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs 

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=11030