Headscarf Narrative

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao writer by Junot Diaz. This book was published in 2007, a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and recognized for one of the best books of 2007. The story is about Oscar Wao personal life, including his sister Lola, mother Hypatia Belicia Cabral, Yunior de Las Casas and Abelard. A story about Oscar a Dominican boy growing up the New Jersey.

Dave Eggers’ nonfiction publication, Zeitoun, narrates the experiences of Hurricane Katrina through the eyes of Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun. Hurricane Katrina takes on a political aftermath, as Zeitoun, a well known Muslim painter in New Orleans, experiences prejudice from law enforcements after the events of 9/11. Zeitoun and his wife, Kathy, become victims of prejudice when their family is ripped apart due to Zeitoun’s jailment from the law enforcements. Zeitoun is perceived as a man who lives below his means, but yet taken advantage of due to his Muslim religion, Eggers demonstrates this through a sympathetic point of view. Eggers also uses an objective tone in the beginning of the book, later on escalating into an outraged tone after

Caycee Cunningham is a typical 8th grade student in Pleasant Grove, Utah. She grew dreadlocks as a part of, as she explains, her spiritual journey in her Hindu beliefs (Kelley, 2015). She says that it is representative of her turning over a new leave and chapter in her life. Her mother received a call one day from the principle of the middle school saying that her daughter’s hair is against the schools dress code. Her mother believes that it is a racial problem, because there are other students at the school of other races, with the same hair style. The principle says that there is a rule stating that any unnatural hair color or uncombed hair is forbidden. Cacyee Cunningham has not received any punishment as of now, but the principle would

Lianne George was a writer for New York magazine and Metro TV, and a reporter on the arts for the National Post. Currently, she is a senior editor for Maclean’s, in which the article, “Why Are We Dressing Our Daughters Like This” was published. Maclean’s is a popular magazine which covers national and worldwide political and social issues concerning families in the United States and Canada. The targeted audience is educated, in the higher middle class, and around forty years old with an equal men and women reader ratio. In the article, George clearly shows how in society younger girls are shifting towards dressing more provocatively from marketers introducing them to sexual trends. Although George uses generalized ideas and doesn’t seem to have a strong voice on the topic of girls being dressed more sexually, her goal to raise awareness is effectively presented by constructing a common ground with the readers, and allowing the readers to critically think about the problem by providing contradictions.

Children in the age range thirteen to fifteen are often transitioning through a critical time of their lives. They frequently look to others as a cicerone on how they themselves should act. In the novel, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino calls the cops on an end-of-summer party at which she was raped. The novel depicts Melinda’s excursion as to how she copes with the heart-wrenching events that have affected her momentously as well as creating “[a] frightening and sobering look at the cruelty and viciousness that pervade much of contemporary high school life.” (Kirkus Reviews, Pointer Review). The tragic event along with the rejection of her friends took a rather large toll on Melinda Sordino, in which, at one point, she stops

Students in school aren’t allowed to wear hats, hoodies, or beanies on their heads because administration believes that kids might be concealing their identity. Students should be allowed to wear hats in school because they don 't cause any harm or any problems, and some kids may need a hat for many reasons.

When it comes to determining the identity of an individual, there are a few simple things that typically influence that assumption. The way one may speak or where they’re from, the types of things they like to do or hear or eat. While grander choices and decisions play into this identity, it is truly who one chooses to be on an average day that forms this mold. Gertrude Bonnin’s memoir The School Days of an Indian Girl focuses on her changing sense of self after being placed in a boarding school. No longer was she allowed to keep all of the little things that created her identity, the simple day-to-day habits that made her who she was up to that point. The schools fundamentally changed many Native American youths and anything that would have

Imagine if love was illegal, if you weren't allowed to get married or show any kind of public affection to who you fall in love with. Imagine even being killed for loving who you love. Imagine being denied service at a restaurant for you and who you love. This is what it is like to be gay and be in love.

Everybody has unconscious bias. But what role does it play in our daily lives? And how does it affect us? In the TED talk “What Does My Headscarf Mean to You”, speaker Yassmin Abdel-Magied aims to encourage the audience to acknowledge that everyone has unconscious bias, and to look past their own bias in order to promote equal opportunity, particularly when it comes to the workplace. “We all have our own biases. They’re the filters through which we see the world around us.” (Abdel-Magied, 2:06) Everyone has their own way of looking at the world. Abdel-Magied does not argue that having bias is bad. Instead, she wants her audience to acknowledge their own biases, and learn to look past them (Abdel-Magied, 2:16). Unconscious bias, she says, is

My eyes flew to the paper, and then I scanned my surroundings. In the far corner of the room was the smiling, dark-makeup face of Celeste Distoria. Quickly, I opened the note.

Melinda Sordino started ninth grade just as afraid and alone as I did. At an End-of-the-Summer party, Melinda was raped by a football player from Merryweather, her new high school. She immediately called the cops to report the crime, however the kneejerk reaction of the underage drinkers occupying the houseparty silenced her and chased her away. Consequently, Melinda’s best friends from middle school abandoned her; no one wanted to be associated with the squealer. Her parents were distant and never took the time to understand the sudden change in Melinda’s demeanor. She fought hard to keep the darkness in: bloodying her lips with her teeth and nails to stay quiet. In the midst of Melinda’s battle to come to terms with her assault, she found

While strange shapes would show, and so would colors, I began to get dizzy, trying to avoid the terrifying spiders and what was said to be vicious scorpions and snakes, I became hopeless not able to hold my imagination and not knowing what was reality, I became hungry. I became so hungry that I began to eat the baby spiders crawling up my throbbing leg and as the day became longer the more I became lonelier not knowing what the future would hold for me. As the night grew darker so did the noise and creaking I heard, not knowing where the mysterious noise had come from I became severally frightened. While wishing my peers were here to comfort me, I began to think about how enraged they must be with me for shattering the majestic carpet. Soon I began to doubt the forgiveness of my peers. Instantly I began to feel ashamed, assuming they had forgotten about me, I began to feel

In Autobiography of a face, by Lucy Grealy. The author gives an account of her problem of having a third jaw removed and the persecution of reality that followed. At the age of nine, Lucy is diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer and later had a surgery to remove her jaw with years of continuous treatment which always make her sick. When she returns to school after her surgery with a third of a jaw removed, she faces the harsh insult and mockery from her peers and others. Her recollection of not fitting in among her schoolmates due their constant taunting was unendurable painful to her. She has to endure of being alone

Here is my story: I’m a 20-year-old Muslim woman who wears a headscarf and I love trying different haircuts, styles, and colors even though nobody ever gets to see it. Whenever I tell people that I’ve dyed my hair blue or done something new with my hair I often get surprised reactions along the lines of “why would you do that if no one can see it?” or “what’s the point?”. The point for me is that I love it and that it boosts my self confidence, because even though no one else can see it, I know it. I actually like the fact that nobody gets to see my hair, so that when I take a big risk with it, nobody can see how I messed it up either. Therefore, I’m more confident in experimenting with new styles. Beauty doesn’t just have to be what people

“Sorry, you’re not allowed to wear that.” “Sorry, those shorts are too short.” “Sorry, the straps on that tank top are too thin.” “Sorry, those pants have too many holes in them.” These are just a few typical statements said to average high school students every day in a school’s attempt to maintain their dress code policies. But by limiting what a student can wear, are schools limiting their creativity and self-expression? By implementing dress code policies or requiring students to wear uniforms are schools creating gender inequalities? Are they creating socioeconomic inequalities? Do uniform policies decrease behavioral problems in a school? Do they create a safer environment that can then be used to create higher academic achievement? There