Alicia Ostriker Essays

  • Cages and Escape: Delving into Margaret Atwood’s “Siren Song”

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    A stereotype is a trap, a cage, which restricts individuals to one identity. Once a stereotype is created, it is hard to overcome and leaves traces of prejudice. In agreement with Alicia Ostriker’s The Thieves of Language: Women Poets and Revisionist Mythmaking, Margaret Atwood’s poem “Siren Song” is a reach out for women to express feelings on gender discrimination without coming across in a way that would engender negative support. “Siren Song”, is written from the perspective of a siren, in a

  • Borders and Dreams by Chris Carger

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    least three ways that educators characterize their students' abilities and needs? The first way teachers characterize their students abilities is by labeling them. Throughout Carger's book we see this, both in Alejandro and in Alejandro's sister Alicia who was called "At risk," limited English proficient," "learning disabled," and Linguistically delayed"(p. 54) Labeling is something we in American have to do, it's just our nature. However, labeling can be dangerous because it can be a stigma that

  • Alicia Moore (Pink)

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    Alicia Moore (Pink) Alicia Moore, or Pink as she is better known, has become a music sensation around the United States. My reason for choosing her as a topic is the fact that she was born and raised in Doylestown, Pennsylvania my hometown. Doylestown is about an hour northeast of Philadelphia, and it’s easy to take note of anyone famous who comes out of D-Town, as it is called, because it is not the largest of areas. Pink went to the rival high school of mine, Central Bucks High School West

  • A shot by shot analysis of a major scene in Hitchcocks Notorious

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    question about what Devlin says. Devlin then answers her question about the ice when the shot is still on Alicia. 4.     Now the shot reverses again to a tight shot of Devlin’s face over Alicia’s shoulder. He then asks Alicia a question: “Why do you like that song?” 5.     Then the shot reveres again to an over Devlin’s shoulder shot tight on Alicia’s face. She begins to smile and laugh. Then Alicia gets suddenly serious and says: “There’s nothing like a good love song to give you a good laugh.” 6

  • A Beautiful Mind

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    exhibits many of the key symptoms of the disease. An inability to communicate is one of the main symptoms of schizophrenia, one which takes its toll on interpersonal relationships and intimacy. The movie does an excellent job showing the problems that Alicia had as she tries to help her husband seek treatment and recover from the disease. A Beautiful Mind directly shows a medical definition of schizophrenia. Nash exhibits many of the key symptoms of the disease: hallucinations (he has a roommates but

  • Character and Setting in Popular Music

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    speaker talks. For example, Alicia Keys’s song “Diary.” This song is the voice of a woman speaking to her lover. “Lay your head down on my pillow,” she sings. “Here you can be yourself.” So from the beginning we are invited to witness the sweet whispers of lovers in a room. The bed, inviting and comfortable, sits in center stage. We listen to the woman tell of her love and the security her man can find in her and she in him. “I am the pages of your diary,” she sings. Again, Alicia does not tell us all the

  • Alicia Zakon’s Poem, Remote Control

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    Two of the main elements in any poem are theme and symbolism. This holds true in Alicia Zakon’s poem titled “Remote Control”. It essentially tells about the relationship between a man and a woman, and how the man has the remote control to the woman's life. The symbols used are very meaningful to the overall theme. The theme of "Remote Control" is also very important, and not just a topic for a good poem but a real problem in society too. The writing would be much less effective if not for the symbols

  • Pedro Almodovar's Talk to Her (Hable con Ella) and Live Flesh (Carne Trémula)

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    increases the impact for the viewers as the music is in contrast with Elena and David's joy. (b) in Talk to Her the same tense, measured music is used during several scenes to denote their importance in the narrative (when Benigno is about to speak to Alicia for the first time, at the beginning of Lydia's last fight and when Marco is rushing to the prison in an attempt to stop Benigno from taking drastic measures in prison.) The use of intertextuality in these films is also apparent. The newsreel

  • British-Chinese Relations in the Nineteenth Century and Alicia Bewicke Little's Novel, A Marriage in China

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    British-Chinese Relations in the Nineteenth Century and Alicia Bewicke Little's Novel, A Marriage in China The year was 1842, and Britain had just finished a successful military campaign in China, a campaign that also signified a rather humiliating defeat for the Chinese army. The first Opium War reestablished Britain's profitable opium trade routes from India to China, and also established a new mode of British-Chinese relations, one that resulted in British control of the new colony of Hong

  • Analysis Of The Final Scenes Of Alfred Hitchcocks Notorious

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    help explain the relationships between Alicia, Devlin, Sebastian and Mrs. Sebastian, and an overall theme of being trapped. An analysis of the film from the first poisoning scene to the final scene in the film shows how the above tools lead to a better understanding of the character's motivations. The most obvious recurring object in the final scenes is the poisoned coffee cup. In the first scene of the portion being analyzed, Sebastian suggests to Alicia that she drink her coffee, and Hitchcock

  • Alicia My Story, Book Summary

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    The main character in this story is a Jewish girl named Alicia. When the book starts she is ten years old, she lives in the Polish town of Buczacz with her four brothers, Moshe, Zachary, Bunio, and Herzl, and her mother and father . The holocaust experience began subtly at first when the Russians began to occupy Buczacz. When her brother Moshe was killed at a “ Boys School” in Russia and her father was gathered up by German authorities, the reality of the whole situation quickly became very real

  • The Killjoy by Anne Fine

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    Fine Main characters: Alicia Anna Davie (19 years old) and professor Ian Laidlaw(49 years old) Summary: In a late afternoon seminar in the department of politics of a Scottish university, a student was talking on about an essay that he wrote, and Professor Laidlaw tried to cut him short twice with one of his most characteristic phrases: 'Quite so. Quite so.' On the second time, Laidlaw heard a tiny noise, and he realized that it was one of the other students. Alicia Anna Davie had got the giggles

  • Sir Anton Dolin

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    Sir Anton Dolin Dancer and choreographer Anton Dolin has been called “one of the most colorful and vital figures in modern ballet.” As a member of internationally known ballet companies or as director of his own troupes, this British-born artist has toured Europe and America for the past twenty years. Anton Dolin, originally Patrick Healey-Kay, was born on July 27, 1904, in Slinfold, Sussex, England. He is one of the three sons of George Henry and Helen Maude (Healey) Kay. When he was ten years of

  • A Summary Of The Larry Bailey Dilemma

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    The facts presented by the Larry Bailey dilemma are concerning, as there are risks to teacher, and student, safety that must be addressed. Mr. Bailey is the father of one of the students in Alicia Breen 's third grade class. It is not clear from the scenario, the state of Mr. Bailey 's marital status, however, he was calling Miss Breen at home, in the evening, to discuss "matters of a personal nature, which have nothing to do with his daughter 's progress at school." (Schuttloffel, 2003, p. 24) Understandably

  • R & B Diva Research Paper

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    Janet Jackson is back on the scene and in control. However, the R&B Diva is the subject of a shocking claim from a plastic surgeon who claims she has a new face: Her nose is collapsing. Janet Damita Jo Jackson recently stepped out on the red carpet to accept an esteemed award last week. The mother of one made the rare appearance to accept the Music Icon Award at Out Magazine's OUT100 Celebration Gala. At the LGBTQ-centric event, Janet brought attention to bullying and discrimination that wrecks

  • Analysis of the Opening Sequence of Clueless

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    Analysis of the Opening Sequence of Clueless The film “Clueless”, written and directed by Amy Heckerling in 1995, is an adaptation of Jane Austen’s early 19th century novel “Emma”. In order to translate the insular world of the provincial English town into a modern scenario, Heckerling hit upon the modern American high school, with its cliques and rituals. Although it appeals to a larger audience, the target audience is the teenage generation and with this in mind, Heckerling entertains

  • A Comparison Between Film Versions of Emma and Clueless

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    A Comparison Between Film Versions of Emma and Clueless The features I will look for in both films for comparison is setting, location, lighting, costumes, props, camera angles, dialogue and weather. Emma is set in the early 20th century and Clueless in the 1990's. The director changed the era to refer to the fact that girls nowadays are more mature than young women in the early 20th century. The diversity between the locations in both films is very minor. In Clueless it is set in Beverly

  • The Importance Of Alicia Keys

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    Alicia Keys' artistic light is so bright it could illuminate a pitch-black room. A true musical prodigy whose multi-dimensional gifts emerged at age five, the beautiful Alicia will soon take modern R&B soul to a whole new level at the tender age of nineteen. Born aware of her old soul yet living in New York's inner city amidst the dominance of Biggie and Jay Z, Alicia's natural talents blossomed into a rare mix of hip-hop flavor and insightful, wise-beyond-her-years songwriting. Coupling this

  • Analysis: A Beautiful Mind

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    The film A Beautiful Mind demonstrates the catastrophic effects schizophrenia can have on a family through depicting the interactions of John Nash, a man who develops this illness, and his wife, Alicia. Since the impact of schizophrenia can be so devastating, nursing interventions should focus on asking interventive questions as well as commending the family’s efforts because these actions can promote strength, enroot positive experiences, and allow for problems to be seen in a new way fostering

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    There are many times when feminism is incorporated into song lyrics to give a sense of women’s empowerment in an audience. Alicia Keys is an American Hip hop and R&B songwriter and singer who wrote the song “Girl on Fire” that was released in her fifth studio album in 2012 (Girl on Fire (song), 2014), and was inspired by her son, Egypt. This song is about a lonely girl who is starting to be comfortable in her own skin. It says how everyone is staring at her as she goes by because everyone can see