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Alice Walker tells about how after the “accident” of losing sight in one eye she was never the same. At the young age of eight she was above all others in wit, looks, and talents. I think that the loss of her sight is not what blinded her most, but…

tough their way through them. In literature authors create characters with problems and lives that can be very difficult at times. It is up to the author to decide how the character will turn out in the end. In Alice Walker’s works, the female…

Is Not A Potted Plant” by Alice Walker and “I Knew A Woman” by Theodore Roethke both speak about women having an aura about them of beauty and magnificence. In “A Woman Is Not A Potted Plant” Walker uses the metaphor of a plant to explain the nature…

New Jeresy. Louis Ginsberg, Allen’s dad, was a published poet, a high school teacher and a Jewish Socialist. His wife, Naomi, was a radical Communist and nudist who went tragically insane in early adulthood. A shy and complicated child growing…

He was born in 1928 on the Red Pheasant Reserve near Battleford, Saskatchewan. He was raised and cared for by his grandmother, Maggie Soonias because his mother died of tuberculosis. He was a sickly child who was often picked on by other children.…

there are many cultural differences. She feels alienated from the rest of the people in New York or the United States, for that matter. When Esmeralda was thirteen she moved to New York with her family from Puerto Rico. She did not know a…

at Ivancice in Southern Moravia, Czechoslovakia. He lived in Paris from 1887 on, that is where most of his work was recognized as an illustrator. Mucha’s major breakthrough in the world of art and international fame was in 1984 with his poster of the…

that is, a work which expresses something about the artistic direction and the spirit of the company. For the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater that piece is Revelations. Choreographed and set to traditional music, Revelations was first performed at…

is disappointed in the “Country”. He sees the country as being wicked and asks, “ When will you be angelic ”. To him, the country is not being honest with itself, and is hiding behind a mask. He is disillusioned by the crime rate and poverty…

at odds in their vision on how America was to develop. Hamilton wanted to concentrate power in a centralized federal government with limited access and Jefferson wished to diffuse it among all the eligible freemen of the time. Alexander Hamilton…