Walt Whitman captured how Americans contributed to the rebuilding America after the Civil War during the Industrialization Era using the sounds of music while writing, “I Hear America Singing”. Whitman’s focus writing this poem was to show how Americans worked together to build a culture and lifestyle. Whitman outlined the strength and characteristics about how variety and creativity can build a great nation utilizing the working people. This piece of artwork symbolizes how America works in harmony
evaluation of American culture. He specifically challenges society’s notion that blacks lacked interiority or a soul, as white people often equated blacks to livestock and treated them as such. Du Bois’s authoritative analysis of Reconstruction exposes systematic injustice towards blacks and the emotional repercussions thereof. It is through the use of metaphors, sorrow songs, and narratives that Du Bois pursues the aim of affirming black humanity and spirituality. Du Bois’s metaphor
struggle. Many of defined this problem by the glass-ceiling metaphor. Alice Eagly and Linda L. Carli explain how this metaphor should be abandon. The glass-ceiling metaphor implies there is a rigid barrier that blocks women from the top levels of power. But times have changed and according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 23 percent of American CEOs of organizations are now women. In the article Eagly and Carli describe the correct metaphor for the obstacles that women go through, which is a labyrinth
Our culture is something that we value, a concept that can blind us from the truth, or help us rise when we are oppressed. Jay-Z once said about culture “I have to stay true to whatever I’m feeling at the time, whatever direction I’m heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows.” This quote can directly relate to the poet Maya Angelou a woman who fought for her rights and never gave up in what she believed in. This can be seen in her poem “Still I rise” in which she uses repetition, rhyming, and a
The events in the lifetime of an individual can sometimes be summed up with a simple metaphor. This metaphor can encompass the reality of an individuals experiences, and sometimes it can encompass the reality of an entire community. Throughout a series of short stories presented in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, we see both the an entire community and an individuals life summed up in the metaphor of hurricane. This storm was one that spanned decades and was redefined with different
Module 1 Reflection: What is culture? What is deculturalization? How does culture/deculturalization function historically and in the present? Culture is a term that is not easily defined because it literally has multiple alternate definitions (Kohls, 1996, p.23). I have learned after completing the readings that culture has many distinctive components and aspects that are developed throughout the course of a lifetime. According to Terry and Irving (2010), culture is learned as one “participates
to achieve: “When they speak of 'Southern culture' they are creating a fiction...as The South's defenders claim, it is not easily understood by outsiders; as its critics claim, it is apparently not understood much better by its resident defenders.”1 This might be the case, however, it is the experiences, although they might differ from one another, that contribute to an understanding of the South. When focusing on the racial aspects in Southern culture, it is an essential aspect in understanding
Melting Pot”, and “The American Dream”. Each of these books provided much detail and provided much knowledge about these themes. These books, written by J.D. Salinger, and Sylvia Plath, each provide many examples and quotes and explains each theme to its fullest ability and allow readers to comprehend the lessons. Each book explains thoroughly how the protagonists from The Catcher in the Rye and The Bell Jar both have trouble looking for and finding out their
stories that give a glimpse into the struggles and hardships that Haitians face. The collections seek to offer a deeper view into Haitian society and covers an array of themes such as the politics of survival, assimilation, resiliency, and feminist culture in Haiti. [In particular, both collections explore the Haitian immigrant experience and illustrate the notions of cultural identity, home, and family relationships. Krik? Krak? studies the experiences of the Haitian immigrant experience
Achieving this level of economic success was a huge part of American culture. It is very close with a false ideal of the “American Dream”: coming from nothing and making it to the top in monetary and materialistic ways, devoid of other social and cultural values. However, this narrow version of the American Dream was not appreciated by all Americans. Famous author Francis Scott Fitzgerald was a detractor to the materialistic values of American society during the 1920s. Through his writings such as, Winter