It is undeniably right that numerous challenges arise in measuring behaviors about the aspect of normal. Scientists come across contradicting issues when it comes to a proper definition of normality. In fact, one complexity which emerges is if the term’ normality’ is exploited in day-to-day language. However, there are still guidelines that on what normality and abnormality entail. Often, normal behavior is contrasted to abnormality. According to the recent studies, normality encompasses consistent individual behavior that conforms with the social behavior in the community. For example, being obese is considered abnormal and this brought a lot of issues with the former first lady of the United State which made a memo to be written to her …show more content…
The African American lady was born on 16th February 1965. At the age of 18, she moved overseas for further studies. To Emma, perhaps not as her parents anticipated but her childhood an encounter has certainly molded her. She was 4-years-old when her parents split up. To her, it was the most vital part her life as it has shaped her as a minor and later on, as an adult. With time, probably not as her parents expected, they noted she was too much withdrawn as anger, pain, and distress was taking the better part of her. Eventually, after five years of the divorce, her reunited for the sake of developing her delicate inner-self as a child with no damage since then. However, much it was for her sake, her heart melts with joy for they have been the happiest since then. She was married at the age 32 and currently has two children. One at the age of 15 and the other is 18years …show more content…
To my surprise, Carter seemed conveniently aware of the subject concerning social media. She named a few such as Pin interest, twitter, Facebook, linked-in and shockingly enough several dating sites. She owns several electronic gadgets which she admits to having login details in almost all. She owns two android phones one that she claims it's for business transactions as the other for personal interactions. She owns that a lot she mostly utilizes for companies like financial analysis with soft wares and her company’s website. To her, she’s primarily grateful to her children for their support and encouragement. Particularly her son who is 18years old is well versed with the concept of social media and not to leave technology. Moreover, she ought to be in the loop of what’s trending as she’s in the field of
In the young life of Essie Mae, she had a rough childhood. She went through beatings from her cousin, George Lee, and was blamed for burning down her house. Finally Essie Mae got the nerve to stand up for herself and her baby sister, Adline as her parents were coming in from their work. Her dad put a stop to the mistreatment by having her and her sister watched by their Uncle Ed. One day while Essie Mae's parents were having an argument, she noticed that her mothers belly was getting bigger and bigger and her mom kept crying more and more. Then her mother had a baby, Junior, while the kids were out with their Uncle Ed. Her uncle took her to meet her other two uncles and she was stunned to learn that they were white. She was confused by this but when she asked her mom, Toosweet, about it her mom would not give her an answer one way or the other. Once her mom had the baby, her father started staying out late more often. Toosweet found out that her dad was seeing a woman named Florence. Not long after this, her mother was left to support her and her siblings when her father left. Her mother ended up having to move in with family until she could obtain a better paying job in the city. As her childhood went on she started school and was very good at her studies. When she was in the fourth grade, her mom started seeing a soldier named Raymond. Not too long after this, her mother got pregnant and had James. Her mother and Raymond had a rocky relationship. When James was born, Raymond's mother came and took the baby to raise because she said that raising four children was too much of a burden for a single parent to handle. Raymond went back to the service for a while but then when he came back he and Toosweet had another baby. Raymond's brothers helped him build a new house for them to live in and they brought James back to live with them. During this time Essie Mae was working for the Claiborne family and she was starting to see a different point of view on a lot of things in life. The Claiborne's treated her almost as an equal and encouraged her to better herself.
Previously, the narrator has intimated, “She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves. They had never taken the form of struggles. They belonged to her and were her own.” Her thoughts and emotions engulf her, but she does not “struggle” with them. They “belonged to her and were her own.” She does not have to share them with anyone; conversely, she must share her life and her money with her husband and children and with the many social organizations and functions her role demands.
This piece of autobiographical works is one of the greatest pieces of literature and will continue to inspire young and old black Americans to this day be cause of her hard and racially tense background is what produced an eloquent piece of work that feels at times more fiction than non fiction
The Author of this book (On our own terms: race, class, and gender in the lives of African American Women) Leith Mullings seeks to explore the modern and historical lives of African American women on the issues of race, class and gender. Mullings does this in a very analytical way using a collection of essays written and collected over a twenty five year period. The author’s systematic format best explains her point of view. The book explores issues such as family, work and health comparing and contrasting between white and black women as well as between men and women of both races.
The novel Brown Girl, Brownstones is a fiction story that is about an immigrant family from the Caribbean country of Barbados and their struggles in America. The story is set in New York during the time between The Great Depression and also World War II and is told in a third person point of view so that the reader, being us, understands different components of the story. The story’s main character is a girl named Selina Boyce and the story is told through the stages of her life from when she was around ten years old up to when she was around her early twenties. Immigration, specifically race, played a large factor in the story, with race hindering opportunity, and different characters coping with race in different ways. (Thesis statement)
Walker delves into the subconscious and ever-present spirituality that is found in African-American women and she believes that it is important to identify with this.
Although, African Americans are considered minorities in the United States, not all of them live in poverty. Many African Americans live in a middle class society along with the dominant culture. However, many African Americans do not live in a middle class society, but rather live in poverty and have to suffer along with this poverty. For instance, Donald Goines’s Black Girl Lost and Tina McElroy Ansa’s Baby of the Family, two narrative novels, that illustrate the difference in two young African American girls lives and the society in which they inhabit. Not only do these young African American girls represent the two sides of poverty, they also represent how children can also qualify in the minority category. For example, Sandra lives in a run down apartment with a drunk mother who could care less about her daughter. In addition, Sandra remains all on her own and has to find ways in which to survive each day. But on the other hand, Lena lives in a nice size home with her two parents, her two brothers, and her grandmother, all who love her very much. Moreover, Lena has many family members who look after her and take extra special care for her because she is the baby of the family. Although, both Sandra and Lena lead very different lives, both are faced with challenges as a minority and as a child which questions their view on life.
Coming of Age in Mississippi, an autobiography written by Anne Moody, tells the perspective of growing up black in the rural south. The book follows the story of Essie Mae, a three-year-old living in a rotten shack on a plantation. Throughout the book, Essie goes from a naive child to a more informed adult, taking place in the Civil Rights movement. First, I will start off by analyzing the events in her early childhood and the event that shaped her as a person. Then, I will point out the one significant event that led her to become an activist in the movement. Finally, I will connect the events from her early childhood through her college years and how those affected her involvement during the Civil Rights movement.
Porcha Petteway was an African American female and devoted Christian with many accomplishments in her lifetime. An autobiography has been written detailing what life was like for her with an emphasis in her senior years. It is the year 2084 and Porcha Petteway has passed away at the age of 100. Up until the day she passed Porcha was married to her husband for 73 years. They had two children together both girls. The life event of marriage allowed her to obtain many financial resources than those of the single population. Being married allowed Porcha to participate in private pension plans due to their lifetime income being combined and much higher than usual. She was able to live a life full of greater satisfaction as an advantage of being married. As Porcha entered old age her family structure remained rich, certain, close and tight knit. She had an unp...
Additionally, she stresses that the values of her childhood helped her to develop respect for different people. Her father influenced her a lot to feel comfortable just the way she is around her hometown; ...
Margaret Walker was born on July 7, 1915 in Birmingham, Alabama to Reverend Sigismund C. Walker and Marion Dozier Walker (Gates and McKay 1619). Her father, a scholarly Methodist minister, passed onto her his passion for literature. Her mother, a music teacher, gifted her with an innate sense of rhythm through music and storytelling. Her parents not only provided a supportive environment throughout her childhood but also emphasized the values of education, religion, and black culture. Much of Walker’s ability to realistically write about African American life can be traced back to her early exposure to her black heritage. Born in Alabama, she was deeply influenced by the Harlem Renaissance and received personal encouragement from Langston Hughes. During the Depression, she worked for the WPA Federal Writers Project and assists Richard Wright, becoming his close friend and later, biographer. In 1942, she was the first African American to win the Yale Younger Poets award for her poem For My People (Gates and McKay 1619). Her publishing career halted for...
...ogical age usually garners respect, but premature aging springing from physical and emotional stresses make way for increased torment and alienation. In the end, though, it is the different nationalities of the women that effectively separate them. The women who do not fit into the traditional Jamaican society are outcasts, but the “black” women also resent the hierarchal superiority of the other women. Turning a blind eye to the other’s plights that are in reality similar to their own, the women are unforgiving of the perceived “differences” between them. As a man remarks to a “black” woman during the Coulibri fire: “You cry for her – when she ever cry for you? Tell me that”(37). Holding back their tears for one another, the women continue to widen the sea of misunderstanding between them.
Dickerson, Bette J. 1995. African American Single Mothers: Understanding their lives and Families. Sage Publications. Thousand Oaks.
Through the story in Brown Girl, Brownstones, Paule Marshall depicts the conflicting societal perceptions within a Barbadian and Barbadian-American community in a time of war, economic crisis and immigration issues. As the book revolves around the lives of the Boyce family, it is apparent that the family does not only have interpersonal discourse with the community but intrapersonal issues as they are at odds with one another. Paule Marshall successfully constructs a bildungsroman around the youngest daughter, Selina to showcase her transformation into womanhood, as these disparate experiences with her family and community shapes her mind and being. This paper argues that Selina has a liberation of body and mind as she matures and realizes
The narrator went through so much violence, pain, loss and trauma in Nigeria that it was safer for her to leave. The process was humiliating since she has to beg someone else to believe her story; a white foreigner who does not understand her way of life in Nigeria. However, guilt eats her up when she recognizes that the only way to prove her anguish is to use her child’s loss to earn a visa. The mother built her identity by being “Ugonna’s mother,” (Adichie 140), and wants to keep this identity even after his death. The mother, unlike the father, puts family and love first, rather than losing a crucial part of herself in a hunt for the American