while contemplating on the power of resisting with joy and the “aesthetics of possibility” in his thought provoking essay “Do It For the Vine”. Crawley deftly navigates through the pangs of denial and the potential of social refusal, intertwining both with Vines – Vines that allow us to escape cycles of violence by thwarting the hegemonic structures that seek to chain us down. This essay is about the nature of resistance and the reinterpretation of subjugation in creative ways that celebrate our ability
In her autobiographical, narrative/essay “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self,” Alice Walker uses a childhood accident that left her disfigured and blind in one eye to take the readers on, a profound journey of her physical and psychological ups and downs. Walker is a well-known Pulitzer Prize winning African-American novelist and poet, although her accomplishments came with many struggles. Walker lets the readers in on her struggles she faced growing up, “Something inside me cringes, and gets
the sport of dance until Grade 10. This therefore hindered me in participating in the sport of dance because of me not needing to and not wanting to. A solution that addresses this issue in the institutional level, is to implement Dance into the curriculum of schools from Kindergarten through to Grade 12 all across Australia. This would then make it so children are being exposed to Dance at a young age and they will most likely be able to form their own opinions and beliefs towards dance. A sport that
simple reply to this difficult question is that the understanding of doing gender is engraved in the routine of our everyday lives. Every moment we spend interacting with other social agents of society, we are doing gender. For the purpose of this essay, when using the term gender it shall be understood not as what a person is, but something that a person does when interacting with others in their society. When looking at gender from this perspective it becomes a product of social interaction. The
On the basis of Minimalism, this essay analyses the significance, language, and style in Raymond Carver’s short story Why Don't You Dance? In the story, Carver uses everyday dialogue to describe the problems of ordinary people in a mundane way. The characters are probably from working class, they drink, feel desperate about their failure of life and are socially marginalized. Carver wants to “return the reader back to the real world” (Scofield 2006, p. 226). Although Carver’s style is labelled
“HIT! HIT! HIT! PULL!” “SQUEEZE! STAY TIGHT!” “THROW IT!” There is a high guarantee that the person reading this essay does not understand what the above phrases are asking for. These are just a few examples of things that are yelled at cheer practice. Cheerleading… competitive or high school… cheering at games for football or basketball… it’s a sport whether society agrees or not. Since the time I took my step towards the competitive cheer world in 2009, New York State has been debating the
purpose of this investigation is to analyze the extent to which foot binding reflected the roles of women in Neo-Confucianism China. Foot binding is a centuries old Chinese tradition that first began during the Neo-Confucianism era of China. Young girls had their feet tightly bound to prevent any growth. It was first popular with the upper social classes to show that the women were privileged enough that they didn’t have to work but the practice soon spread down to lower social classes as well. The
Artistic visionary Sergei Diaghilev from Perm, Russia who was mainly known for being the founder of Ballets Russes, which extremely shaped the world of performance and dance. Diaghilev invested in development of Nijinsky’s talent and made him one of the most respected dancers of all time and in 1909 Sergei Diaghilev made Nijinsky the premier dancer with Ballet Russes. As he was someone who was very familiar through experience and had a huge interest during his upbringing, eventually went on to study
need to consider in music how it makes you feel and how it would build you as a person and these are the following reasons why music plays an important role in the development of character in a teenager. Some music I would be expending more on my essay as to how it develops the image of teenagers and not the character of them. Teenagers are known as very complicated molecules and that could be right and I myself was once a teenager and it was there most difficult times of my time but music build
which operate in order to control our interpretations of the world. Since we can’t predict or control what these power structures produce, the only thing left, is to analyze and understand in order to make informative decisions about a text. In this essay, I will be analyzing the music video “Work” by Iggy Azalea. I will demonstrate the way Iggy promotes normative discourses, how she uses the gender threat in terms of gender and race, and finally, how Iggy reinforces power masked by “struggle” within