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Review of The Year of Silence by Madison Smartt BellCentered on the drug overdose of Marian, a young woman in New York City, Bell uses her point of view, and that of others who knew her to varying extents, to comment on the isolation and disassociation in urban society.
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Hamlet and Tamburlaine: Powerful PerformancesHamlet and Tamburlaine act out the positions of power they hope to attain and it is their abandonment of religious ideals and confidence that determines their fortunes.
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The Widow Ranter and Sexual Non-ConformityAphra Behn attempts to justify sexual non-conformity while concurrently advocating for the restoration of English social norms.
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The Theft of Indian Autonomy at Fort FinneyAlthough the Shawnee were recognized as a nation within America and were prepared to forget past transgressions, they instead discovered that they were viewed as a nation with no autonomy and no place on the land of their ancestors.
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A Feminine Perspective on Puritan TheologyBradstreet offers radical insights on erroneous Puritan beliefs and the flawed resulting social hierarchy through diction, metaphor, and allusion.
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O'Connor's Social Consciousness"Everything That Rises Must Converge" and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor critique the erosion of Christian values in American society.
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Man, I Feel like a Woman: Gender in a Raisin in the SunA Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry traces the struggles of the Youngers, a family living in Chicago's Southside attempting to negotiate their personal identities with socially imposed standards of behavior.
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The Ink DivideTattoos, an increasingly popular "body decoration," can be examined as an expression of social identity, but more importantly reveal a person's perceived social position.
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Metallic BouquetThings aren't always what they seem in families
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Overseas OppressionColumbus lays out the justifications and foundations of slavery in the New World as a result of the natural resources and inferior native peoples he encounters through his use of selection of detail, diction, and tone.
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Bradstreet's Anxiety Over AuthorshipBradstreet attempts to arrive at a resolution in the poem "The Author to her Book," in which she makes her literary parenthood analogous to actual parenthood.
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There's No Crying in RugbyRugby is a sport that defies gender stereotypes.