Summary Of Your Buildings By Rita Joe

154 Words1 Page

The poetry “Your buildings” was written by Rita Joe who is aboriginal author. She has been describing her feeling about aboriginal people and history. Rita Joe wrote your buildings reflects on the changed landscape of her people, and her homeland area to the most modern building have replaced the natural landscape and destroyed the beauty of her homeland. Now only a memory in her hearts of people. The author tone in to the poetry was sad, hurt and sarcastic by saying “Your Buildings” she was talking to the white man what have you done to her homeland. Also when the author mentioned in her poetry “while skyscrapers hide the heavens, they can fall” Rita joe mean all of those buildings you build high, they hide the beauty of her homeland, and

Show More
Related

  • My Home My World By Stephanie Coontz Summary

    358 Words  | 1 Pages

    Both Stephanie Coontz in “Great expectations” and Archena Bhalla in “My home, my world” address the issue about marriage and arranged marriages. While Stephanie mostly speaks on couples don’t make marriage their top priority and don’t last for a long time. And she gives an example by saying that “People nowadays don’t respect the marriage vowels.” She also believes that in the 18th and 19th centuries, conventional wisdom among middle-class men was the kind of woman you’d want for a wife was incapable of sexual passion which has changed in the 20th century. Also that marriage was viewed in the prospective that work relationship in which passion took second place to practicality and intimacy never was important with male. Bhalla speaks

    Read More

  • Book Review of The Classic Slum

    1624 Words  | 4 Pages

    The book The Classic Slum: Salford Life in the First Quarter of the Century by Robert Roberts gives an honest account of a village in Manchester in the first 25 years of the 20th century. The title is a reference to a description used by Friedrich Engels to describe the area in his book Conditions of the Working Class. The University of Manchester Press first published Roberts' book in the year 1971. The more recent publication by Penguin Books contains 254 pages, including the appendices. The author gives a firsthand description of the extreme poverty that gripped the area in which he grew up. His unique perspective allows him to accurately describe the self-imposed caste system, the causes and effects of widespread poverty, and the impact of World War I as someone who is truly a member of a proletarian family. His main contention is that prior to the War, the working class inhabiting the industrial slums in England "lay outside the mainstream of that society and possessed within their own ranks a system of social stratification that enclosed them in their own provincial social world and gave them little hope of going beyond it. " After the War, the working class found new economic prosperity and a better way of life, never returning to the lifestyle prevalent prior to the War.

    Read More

  • The Displaced Person by Flannery O'Connor

    1197 Words  | 3 Pages

    Flannery O'Conner has again provided her audience a carefully woven tale with fascinating and intricate characters. "The Displaced Person" introduces the reader to some interesting characters who experience major life changes in front of the reader's eyes. The reader ventures into the minds of two of the more complex characters in "The Displaced Person," Mrs. McIntyre and Mrs. Shortley, and discovers an unwillingness to adapt to change. Furthermore, the intricate details of their characters are revealed throughout the story. Through these details, the reader can see that both Mrs. McIntyre and Mrs. Shortley suffer from a lack of spiritual dimension that hinders them as they face some of life's harsher realities. Mrs. McIntyre struggles throughout the story, most notably during the tragic conclusion. Her lack of spiritual dimension is revealed slowly until we ultimately see how her life is devastated because of it. Mrs. Shortley, on the other hand, seems to have it all figured out spiritually -- or at least she believes that she does. It is only in the last few minutes of her life that she realizes all she has convinced herself of is wrong.

    Read More

  • The House Behind the Cedars by Charles W. Chesnutt

    991 Words  | 2 Pages

    Neither white nor black people want to be poor, hungry, or unfair judgment put on them. However, being born with the blood of their parents, they have to live under different circumstances. Their lives are comfortable or struggled that depends on the kind of blood their parents give them. Especially, the mulattos who have mixed blood of white and black have more difficulties in life because of having multiple cultures. Indeed, the novel “the House Behind the Cedars” of Charles W. Chesnutt main message about race relation is that mulattos struggle dramatically in racial society of white, black, and mulatto their own kind people.

    Read More

  • Summary Of Behind Grandma's House By Gary Soto

    521 Words  | 2 Pages

    In “Behind Grandma's House” by Gary Soto it tells a story of a young ten year old kid, who wanted to be known and famous. From what I understand the tone in this poem that is being exhibited is that the kid in the poem is trying to act tough and had a unexpected plot twist. To prove that he was trying to portray that he was tough, he would kick over trash cans, threw light bulbs around and threw rocks at stray cats. Other than what was stated there was more bad things that he has done around his neighborhood. This was just a ordinary bad boy trying to attract attention.

    Read More

  • Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl Of The Streets

    1318 Words  | 3 Pages

    Stephen Crane’s novella, “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets” deals with many difficult concepts and situations. However, the most prevalent seems to be the people that find themselves caught in a vicious cycle of violence. Although some claim that a literary label cannot possibly contain Crane’s work, his ideas certainly have much in common with other naturalistic writers of his time. He portrays poor Irish immigrants, the dregs of humanity, struggling for survival during the Industrial Revolution. Even while relating terrible events, Crane remains detached in the typical naturalistic style, seeming to view the world as a broad social experiment. As the story opens, we are instantly drawn into a heart-wrenching arena where people behave like animals, tearing each other apart if it will help them to reach the zenith of the food chain. Yet in this cycle of violence, Crane definitively incriminates the environment over every other malevolent influence acting upon his victims; using a theme of violence, a tone lacking in emotion, rich imagery, and strong personification of the environment, Crane fashions a wild Darwinian view of society that leaves all of the blame resting on a person’s surroundings rather than his choices.

    Read More

  • The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

    1469 Words  | 3 Pages

    Social discrimination is the prejudicial and distinguishing treatment of an individual on the basis of their social class. It includes individual attitudes and behaviors, and systems of policies and practices that are set up to benefit the upper classes at the expense of the lower class. Isabel Allende uses the rigid class structure and the degree of social mobility in the country described in The House of the Spirits as a literary representation of the social discrimination that occurred in Latin American cultures during the 20th century. This period witnessed the growth of two classes—the landowning, upper class criollos represented by the del Valle and Trueba families (a person born and raised in South America but is a direct descendant of Spaniards) who control the land, housing, and the infrastructure and the peasants represented by the Garcia family who are tenants that till the land. Allende establishes the social discrimination of the poor workers who have little access to education or political enfranchisement by the educated elite. That control businesses and politics through the depiction of the absolute power, and control Esteban Trueba has over the peasant’s living in Tres Marias. His tyrannical rule over the hacienda is a microcosm of the social discrimination in larger society. The economic, educational, and physical subjugations of the peasants by the upper class undermine their social mobility due to their lack of access to money, education, and political influence. This deliberate preservation of social inequality through discriminatory practices against the lower class not only creates a permanent underclass whose opportunities in life are dictated far more by circumstance of birth, but culminates in the dehuman...

    Read More

  • Eilis’ attitude of Home by Eve Walsh Stoddard

    1712 Words  | 4 Pages

    Throughout our lives people share commonalities on the idea of home and what it is. Some people think of home as a house they have lived in throughout their life or a city/country they reside in. Although true for some, some people are at a loss for a distinct place to call home. People may think of home as “feeling comfortable in diverse settings and intermingling with people of different cultures” (150), which Stoddard describes as the ordinary description of cosmopolitism. (150) In contrast, people may think of home in the sense that Stoddard mentions; Freud’s idea of the uncanny, “That species of the frightening that goes back to what was once well known and has long been familiar” (Stoddard 150,). What Freud means is that the feeling of uncanny in relation to home is the frightening thought of returning ‘home’ after a long time, when you have become comfortable in another setting. It is uncanny because it becomes a struggle to fit into the place one currently resides in and the place they originally resided in. In Brooklyn the idea of the uncanny is represented in relationship to Ellis’ attitude of home. Through Eilis’ internal debates with herself, the concrete personal relations she shares in both Enniscorthy and Brooklyn, and her career opportunities in both cities, one can see her sense of home is shown to be uncanny. Ultimately, Eilis’ feeling of home is not static and fixed, instead fluid, bringing into focus the uncanny sense of a cosmopolitan view of home.

    Read More

  • The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    1250 Words  | 3 Pages

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” depicts a young woman suffering from depression after the birth of her child. This woman is sheltered away by her husband to a mansion in the country, where she persists to retreat into her mind from lack of other stimuli. Through the narrator’s drastic plunge to insanity, Gilman accurately depicts the limited roles available to women of the nineteenth century and the domineering and oppressing actions men took toward them.

    Read More

  • The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    454 Words  | 1 Pages

    A house with a roof so darkly low The heavy rafters shut the sunlight out. One cannot stand erect without a blow. Until the soul inside Cries for a grave more wide.(318). Just as in “The Yellow Wallpaper”, this poem gives insight to the urgency and hopelessness of women who feel the duty to be submissive.

    Read More

  • The Use Of Sidewalks By Jane Jacobs

    897 Words  | 2 Pages

    How sidewalks are the most public and important parts of the city, and how we as citizens/neighbors watching it (eyes on the streets) constitute a vital component of urban and suburban street’s security and comfort.

    Read More

  • Educating Rita by Willy Russell

    2120 Words  | 5 Pages

    study on the phone to his girlfriend to whom we can see he does not

    Read More

  • Catherine Steiner Adair's The Revolution In The Living Room

    198 Words  | 1 Pages

    In Catherine Steiner Adair's," The Revolution in the Living Room," i think the examples she chose are representative, even though their are some examples she gave that contradict her perspective. Her main point was developed using true stories and examples. She gave an example using the fathers point of view of how technology is effecting his children and related it to the mother and her view point. In another example we can clearly see that the parents both agree on the same opinion. The author states at the end, "Families thrive when parents have strong, healthy relationships with their children..." The way the author wrote this example makes it seem like it is the parents are at fault, when in reality, the kids are the ones who

    Read More

  • Social And Cultural Challenges: Conserving Modern Architecture Heritage?

    836 Words  | 2 Pages

    Our societies have not yet developed the idea that modern architecture is a cultural product and it should be protected for future generations. Recognition of a building as a cultural asset of a community takes time. Many modern buildings are at risk of adulteration or demolition, but many of them still did not have their values recognized by the society. There is a need to take an effective action to safeguard preventively buildings that can become social and cultural

    Read More

  • Bjarke Ingels

    482 Words  | 1 Pages

    The film argues that architecture is a world changing element where you are able to take something that is deemed to be a wild idea (Ingels, 2014) and turn into an actual physical projection, challenging what other people may have convinced you into believing that it was impossible to do.

    Read More

More about Summary Of Your Buildings By Rita Joe

Open Document