The Struggles for Success: Raised by a Single Parent Being a single parent is a problem in our society that is heavily overlooked. Growing up in a single-parent household I witnessed my mother often financially struggle to make ends meet, give her children grown u responsibilities, and emotionally fail to be there for her children. Although she did a great job at keeping a roof over our heads I grew up feeling abandoned, lacking self-confidence and making reckless decisions. This...
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Critical Analysis Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. HarperCollins, 2002, 288 pages We all love fast food. It is a guilty pleasure. Almost forty percent of Americans consume fast food on any given day. Most of them know that junk food is bad for them, and in that same way, some of them do not care. Eric Schlosser in the book Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal exposes the inconvenient...
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C.S. Lewis tells the story of each character with a deeper meaning to them. They all go through a certain struggle that leads them to where they are meant to be. In ‘The Great Divorce’, C.S. Lewis portrays Pam’s struggle demonstrating how stubbornness, selfishness, and lack of love for God can make us lose perspective regarding our loved ones and others. Pam is a very prominent character in this story. She is one of the most stubborn and impatient characters...
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My full name is Arinda Febritasari, in the environment around my house, I am often called arin. .but different in the environment where I seek knowledge, sometimes by my friends, I am called arin or rinda or even arinda or arindut, who knows where the name arindut came from, maybe because my body is quite contained but not fat.actually there is no specific meaning of my name, but the philosophy is Arinda’s name is taken from the names of both...
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Family and culture should be the two most important things in our lives. In the short story, ‘A Pair of Tickets’ by Amy Tan, the main character (Jing-Mei) evolves over the course of the story by struggling with her identity as a Chinese to being able to accept her Chinese heritage. ‘My mother said when I was fifteen and had vigorously denied that I had any Chinese whatsoever below my skin’ (150). As Jing-Mei was growing up, she was influenced...
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America is often known as the land of opportunity, a place where you can be free. Many abundant number immigrants’ women traveled from all over the world to the United States in aspiration to seek job opportunities or to have a better life and better lives than the ones they left behind. Coming to the United States is a very difficult time for immigrant, especially when English is not their first language. Their goals of advancing and becoming successful at...
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Some adolescents have trouble coping with struggles they have faced because they are more vulnerable to being traumatized than adults. In the novel, The Catcher in the Rye written by J.D Salinger, at just eleven years old, Holden Caulfield endured the loss of his brother. This devastating event unknowingly sent him down a path of turmoil. Holden struggled to connect with both adults and peers because he believed them to be all “phonies”. This internal battle left Holden unable to...
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People use struggles or problems they face to find and accomplish their purpose or reason to live. One reason why is because the knowledge and experience of struggles makes you want to find a purpose that fixes those problems and acts as a way of inspiration. Also, struggles help make way for enjoyment and dreams can come true that way. In A Long Walk to Water, there are two characters named Salva and Nya. Nya is living in 2008 and...
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The Americans go through a difficult time even after they have freed themselves from the awful slavery trade. The four documents all revolve around the life of Americans past the slavery era. They all point out the challenges that Americans are facing after their freedom. Unfortunately, they walk past one straggle, the slavery, to a new straggle of their contemporary living. The struggle is evident from family levels, political levels, and even economic levels. Generally, Americans are not happy. Slavery...
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The image and portrayal of Muslims through the media and the current president of the United States, Donald Trump, has dramatically affected the Muslim community. Subsequent to the terrorist attack of September 11th, the Muslim community became victimized by the media and portrayed as terrorists. As a result, Muslims are victims of bullying in schools, hate crimes, and prejudice in the everyday world. The negative image that the media paints of Muslims have led to a dramatic increase in the...
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This study focuses on the victimization of men and women of lower class who are exploited by the powerful based on their wealth and ‘material production’ which leads the ‘subordinate classes to engage in a struggle for economic, political, and social advantage’. It can be said that Marxist theory in some way or the other is associated with the workers movement as some critics of Marxism have mentioned this association. The main prospect of Marxism is made the targets of...
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By the time I was 16 years old, I had no idea what I wanted to do for a living. I disliked reading and writing, but I had no problem verbally communicating with others. Never realizing how oblivious I was toward the way I would speak, read, and write when communicating in the past. I was setting myself up for failure and embarrassment. I thought my literacy levels were overall good. After a while, I started to notice, I was...
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The struggle for women to acquire sports equality has been a long and incomplete battle. The first time women participated in high-performance sports was in 1900 during the Olympic Games in Paris, France. Even then they were limited to sports that were considered to be less physically demanding such as golf and tennis. (1) The idea that sports are exclusive to men emerged as a result of society’s view of what the ideal woman should be. During the Victorian time,...
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Faith can be influenced by the people we surround ourselves with, the religions we grew up with, particular things we believe in, and all of them define us based on the degree of our confidence in faith. Founded on all these fragments of our life are the countless diverse forms and ways to make us believe in faith. Every faith involves a decision. It is not about what we claim to believe, but what we actually do believe based on...
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In the United States and many other countries, individuals that come from foreign countries, different religions, different genders, and different races experience struggles. These struggles that these individuals face can be racism, oppression, and discrimination due to their gender, race, religion, etc. One large minority group in the United States who have struggled to be treated equally for centuries are the African Americans. They have dealt with inequality in suffrage, education, and employment. The issue with inequality for African Americans...
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Prejudices borne by persecuted individuals, and born out of stereotypes, corrupt an individual’s relationship with self and society. The exploration of prejudice, as a human experience in texts, highlights the collective struggle humans inhabit as a result of institutionalised notions within society. William Shakespeare’s classic play, ‘The Merchant of Venice’, and Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ illustrate this innate struggle humans endure, through careful characterisation. The human condition desires to find acceptance in society without the compromise of self-expression...
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Introduction The conflict between pursuit of personal desire and choosing to conform is a common human experience that is explored in both Stephen Daldry’s film “Billy Elliot” and Margaret Atwood’s best-selling novel “A Handmaids Tale”. Both composers present the protagonists with situations of heightened adversity to test character, perseverance and resilience. Adversity is defined as “a difficult or unpleasant situation” therefor depending on the individual, adversity may be feeling restricted in the environment they currently find themselves in. This statement...
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In the book The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, there are many themes that are covered. The theme I will be talking about is the struggle for survival. The reason that I believe this is a good theme is because in the book there are many parts where the characters are struggling with life and trying to overcome it. This is a theme that is important in today’s society because we all struggle in different ways that we may...
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Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without thunder and lightning”. This quote summarizes Frederick Douglass’s trials and tribulations throughout his life. Frederick Douglass impacted American Literature tremendously throughout his life with powerful writings and speeches. He’d change many views of slavery throughout America about slavery in the 1800s. Abolitionist Frederick Douglass’s life didn’t start like many other popular authors. His most popular work, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,...
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From preschool up to my last year of high school, I have gone through struggles to reach the top percentage of my graduating class as well as come to terms with who I am as a person. My experiences with inspirational figures have engraved in my mind a philosophy that if I just go that extra mile, I will obtain a victory within myself and so much more. As many others have experienced my situation of the hardships involved in...
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Quality poetry possesses an extensive ability to illuminate the complexities of human existence, through the representation of the flawed aspects evident within humanity. T.S Eliot’s poetry is a powerful portrayal of the existential crisis faced by humanity in a post-war society, which leads to paralysis and confusion of individual thoughts and actions. Eliot’s fragmented imagery in both “The Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock” and “The Journey of the Magi” conveys the vulnerability of human existence through the depiction of individuals who...
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“Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met- obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.” -John F. Kennedy. The historical non-fiction novel, Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard describes Kennedy’s journey as the 35th president of the United States. The novel specifically focused on the life of John F. Kennedy from his early years all the way to his role as a leader. To discover some...
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There are many different types of PTSD cases and how people get this mental disorder, from traumatic events that have occurred in one’s life, to a situation that makes them remember the trauma. Millions of people around the world have suffered or are suffering from PTSD. In this paper I would like to highlight veterans throughout history that have suffered greatly from this disorder, but, unfortunately have never had the means to get treated. They had to hide their pain...
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Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes once said, “Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me” (www.goodreads.com). Being an immigrant himself, Fuentes understands the difficulties and challenges that an immigrant may face as a result of coming from a different culture. However, he implies that they are just like everyone else; suffering from personal problems and trying to adapt to what life throws at them. This idea of immigrant struggle is commonly found throughout literature, as portrayed...
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Struggles became a part of our journey as human being in our day-to-day life. With this, I know that each struggle that we’ve been encountering for a long period of time really matters. You as a youth? As a student? Or as a human being? Do you experience being genuinely happy for achieving something that you’ve been wishing for? Or are there instances that you acquire successfully on something that you couldn’t do before? If yes, well I guess, struggles...
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All through the novel, ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ Holden Caulfield estranges himself from everybody and the world since he can’t fit in with the desires for his companions and his general surroundings. Holden is looked with disavowal and dismissal from all quarters. Holden sees his dejection and segregation and needs to break the limits of his distance by making some type of human association. Estrangement both secures and damages Holden. It secures him by guaranteeing that he won’t need...
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We will be talking about how women in surfing is on the path to a really bright future, with gender equality and stereotype destruction occurring on the daily. I am here to tell you about how female surfers are dominating the surfing world. Women in surfing are notoriously known for their tan skin, perfect bodies and bleach blonde hair. This may be true however media is not representing them because of this. As a test, female surfers was googled to...
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Over the course of time, life as a teenager has changed abundantly. How teenagers lived back then is incomparable to how they live now. In today’s generation, being a teenager is anything but easy. Or at least that’s how I feel. The growth from childhood to adulthood is effortless for some, but difficult for others. There’s many challenges to face, decisions to make, and roads to take set out for all of us. Based on our preparation for these moments,...
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Many schools have policies on transgender athletes being able and not being able to play. If you were on a high school athletics team with a transgender athlete, what would you do? According to an article by Micheal Lenzi on American University Law Review, committees have developed many policies and rules to make a transgender-athletes eligible to play the sports they love. In Georgia, a student’s gender is determined by what is on their birth certificate (846). In high school...
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In the United States, women oftentimes have to deal with the struggles that come along with maternity. No matter a woman’s race or ethnic background, almost every woman is bound to face a disadvantage at one point, however, African American women tend to deal with greater obstacles that affect them on a larger scale. Due to the less opportunity African American women receive with economic struggles, it is unfortunate that these women do not have equal advantage in accessing higher...
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