A common complaint with Kathy Acker's work, particularly with Blood and Guts in High School, is that it is anti-male. This criticism, while valid, neglects to understand the methodology used in order to create a text in which patriarchal norms are no longer rampant. Despite its purpose of removing a gendered voice, postmodern fiction still contains elements of an authority which is predominately white and male. Acker changes this connotation by creating a “female text” in which women's bodies and
Blood and Guts in High School is a combination of graphic sexual imagery, disjointed narrative, cut-ups and savage condemnations regarding the political and social order. Acker repeats various pages of texts throughout the novel; she also fuses many literary forms in the same page, all the while breaking up the text using illustrations. The novel uses a blend of autobiographical, historical, as well as literary allusion in portraying various themes like identity, gender, myth, sexuality and corruption
Female subjectivity is a prominent theme throughout Acker’s novel Blood and Guts in High School. The subjectivity that Janey, the protagonist, observes and experiences, consciously and subconsciously, plays an important role on how she identifies herself and characterizes others around her. Janey is introduced in the novel as a 10 year old girl and the reader is allowed to follow her up until her death at age 14. Thus the reader sees how her young, impressionable mind is corrupted over time and
The Lover by Marguerite Duras and Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker are both transgressive novels and post modernist fiction. Both novels tell a story of a young girl in which is experimenting with her sexuality at a young age. In The Lover the narrator is in love with a man who is giving her money. Blood and Guts in High School is a fictional novel about the main character’s love for her father amongst other men. The goal of this essay is to explore the desires in which drive both of
Counselor. The health care industry has broken up the body into separate parts treating each part like its own entity when really a problem in one area has an effect upon the rest of the body. According to Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride the author of “Gut and Psychology Syndrome” “One area of medicine is particularly prone to look at its organ separately from the rest of the body. That area is psychiatry.(50)” The mental health field has successfully found medications to suppress the symptoms of mental
Analysis of I Know What You Did Last Summer 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' directed by Jim Gillespie. The film; based on four high school graduates. A crazy night of fun turns to fright as the fearful four knock down a passing figure. In a moment of despair the group decide to dump the body in a near by lake. The four then head off on their travels to collage work, when a year later is reunited back home for summer break. The four all begin receiving threats stating "I Know What You
role in making me the person I am today. Leadership has taught me how to communicate. I have also learned how to be a team player. I am a strong believer that high school sports and activities teach many life lessons that will make an individual successful in the future. I have also demonstrated much community involvement throughout high school. Every Sunday, I volunteer in the children’s nursery at church. Annually, I sing at our sponsored Women’s Club Christmas Pageant. During the summer, I work as
The story, in Cold Blood, which is based off true events in Holcomb, Kansas is a murder mystery that is based before, during, and after a horrific and violent shotgun murder of a typical Kansas family. Originally published in 1966 and banned in two separate occasions, in 2001, and more recently in 2012 fort rather convincing and various reasons including yet not limited to the exposure of a young audience to raw uncensored violence, sex, and profane language. Along the lines of literature in a classroom
The Effect of Food on Humans ''You are what you eat.''[1] The food we consume determines our physical and psychological health. The muscles in the body, and the blood flowing through the veins, are all supplied by the food that we consume. These foods also have an effect on the way the brain functions, and an effect on the body's performance. People might say they are hungry and genuinely believe it when in fact they are feeling sad. This is due to the lack of neuro- chemicals in the brain
first book in the House of Night series and was published May 1, 2007. It was written by P.C. Cast and Kirsten Cast together. The book is about a high school sophomore named Zoey Heffner who is marked by a tracker to become a fledgling vampyre. Once someone is marked and becomes a fledgling they have to give up their old life and move to a boarding school where they can learn all about the history, and what it takes to be a vampyre. However, not all of the fledglings make it through the change. Once
One of the sources of stress to students is because of their concerns towards their academic performance. Most new college students experience stress when they realize that their courses are much more demanding and fast paced than were their high school classes. Even some students may experience a great deal of stress when they are too much pressurized to achieve the grade goals that they have set for themselves or that their families may expect them to achieve. Next, stress can also happen due
The day was April 20th, 1999. During an otherwise peaceful day at Columbine High in Columbine, CO, two seniors—Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold—finally committed an atrocious act. That act had been in the planning for a long time, perhaps even since Harris designed a website for popular, controversial, extremely violent video game Doom in 1996. The Columbine High School shooting is known as the deadliest high school shooting ever, with its death toll of twelve students and one teacher, as well as twenty-four
fifth overall (generalpatton.com). Patton kept busy after the Olympics, taking lessons at the French Cavalry School and studying French sword drills. In 1913, Patton received orders to report to the command of the Mounted Service School in Fort Riley, Kansas, where he became the school’s first Master of the Sword. He designed and taught a course in swordsmanship while attending the school as a student (generalpatton.com) Patton’s first battle experience was in 1915. He led cavalry patrols against
Capote’s most well known, criticized novel In Cold Blood has been criticized and even banned from many countries. Born Truman Streckfus Persons, later changed to Truman Capote, was an American writer, playwright and actor, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics. Born on September 30, 1984 to Archulus Persons, a nonprinting
remember. School days were miserable; I was taunted for the way my fat giggled, teased when I ate lunch in the cafeteria, and humiliated during gym classes. Nothing changed in high school, if fact, things got worse. The mocking was nearly unbearable, and in my junior year, I finally succumbed to the harassment and dropped out of school. I did not know how to describe what was happening, but I knew I was an outsider, and I knew it was because of my weight problem. Today, I know that my gut-wrenching
Japanese cuisine. It was also known that meat was a taboo food and ancient Japan customs did not allow people to... ... middle of paper ... .... Toxicology 221 , 95-111. Shimizu, M. (2012). Functional Food in Japan: Current Status and Future of Gut-Modulating Food . Journal of Food and Drug Analysis , 20 (1), 213-216. Taniguchi, A., Yamanaka-Okumura, H., Nishida, Y., Yamamoto, H., Taketani, Y., & Takeda, E. (2008). Natto and viscous vegetables in a Japanese style meal suppress postprandial glucose
My heartbeat quickened as Adams brutal little fists swung at him, he fought back but his resilience was pointless as he was surrounded. I cowered behind the school fence, as they swung at him from all angles each time hitting harder and harder. Their fists fuelled by anger, struck at him without hesitation, they showed him no mercy. “Please, sto…..n.. mor.” The roaring wind impaired my hearing. His sharp eyes met mine and he gave me a look of desperation, like the look of a deer just before its consumed
to research published in the journal BMC Public Health, “sugar is the only cause of tooth decay in children” (Sifferlin). In fact, tooth decay is the most common non-infectious disease in the United States. Even more shocking is that 90 percent of school-age children have experienced tooth decay. If you think that tooth decay is inevitable, think again. Aubrey Sheiham, professor of Dental Public Health at University College London, said “Only 2 percent of people at all ages living in Nigeria had tooth
get a blood sample. I can’t even stand to watch the shows on the Discovery channel where they are operating on any part of the human body and there is blood oozing from the open flesh of a human being. I find it very hard to swallow when I even get a glimpse of it on television. This has always been my feeling ever since I was little, but when I entered high school and took a College Prep Biology course my feelings on things that are gross and slimy changed quite a bit. In high school I took
section. It labels the nutritional facts next to the item you are considering purchasing. Some of these labels give detail about the vitamins and how it impacts your body. For example, next to bananas at a Wholefoods grocery store the label read high in potassium and will give you energy. Chain restaurants such as, The Cheesecake Factory are required to provide nutritional information on most menu items. The FDA is trying to incorporate the same information on prepackaged meals at grocery stores