The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History

Changing is inevitable when traveling through life. Usually people, countries, or societies will evolve to become better than they once were. The 2000’s has seen a decrease in racism and more fighting against racism, than in the 1800s or the 1900s. In James Baldwin’s “The Fire Next Time”, Baldwin writes, “We can make America what America must become” (10) to his nephew, the future generation. Baldwin means that America must become more accepting, “For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it” (10).

Youth? That is long ago. We are old folk” (Remarque 18). The paradox is that in terms of age, Kantorek should be wiser; however, since he is the one who sent them to war, his students have become smarter than him. As soldiers, they learned how to be pragmatic in their approach to life.

However, it has become a widespread connotation that either the same path can be taken or the same goal is present for most people. This is not entirely true; “The American Dream” doesn’t exist; rather “American Dreams.” Literature is a great platform to express and display strong, compelling, and direct messages. Both The Great Gatsby and My Ántonia demonstrate a theme

Jefferson must be a man for Miss Emma's sake. He must do this because she is old and does not have much time left. Thus, Grant wants to help Jefferson become a man before he is killed so it is less

„Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself” (“goodreads”). This quote by Harvey Fierstein emphasises the importance of having the freedom to define one’s own identity. A fundamental right in our society nowadays and since we are moving towards a more and more individualistic culture very crucial.

Arab culture is the commonality between Lewis, Barakat, and Hassib. Lewis talks about culture as a singular concept, stable and definable across an entire group. Barakat identifies culture as a defining factor in the perspectives of all Arab individuals. While each of these perspectives has a veracity, they also neglect to acknowledge the multiplicity of Arab identities and result in blindness to individuality that we can see in Rajia Hassib’s In the Language of Miracles.

The American Dream has been misinterpreted for many years. Many people believe it is dead and it can’t be achieved by anyone. But is the American Dream really unobtainable? Many people associate the American Dream with making a ton of money, a stable and enjoyable job, having a nice house, car, family, etc. But many people believe the American Dream is no longer obtainable.

Those are indeed vague definitions and they give the impression that every individual has to define them themselves. What if we lived in a country where our rights are restricted to an extent where the individual does not matter and the government

Francis expected to be a leader of his family by providing necessity and protection. Carl as an old man is expected to not live in big cities but a retirement communities or nursing house. The transformation of both character is, Francis who is a coward at the beginning becomes a real brave man and Carl who is an old obstinate lonely man becomes a cheerful satisfied lively

The settlers and the native people of America have contributed a good collection of books which constitute the body of American Literature. Any book written will register the life style of people, their food habits, culture, beliefs, system of education followed, the nature of children and their history. The books written by the writers from the United States of America have registered the expectations, hopes, future predictions along with warnings their fear for degeneration of moralities and the impacts of Industrial revolutions. American Literature was acutely carved by the history of the United Nations of America. In the beginning after a great revolution for more than a century and half America became the United States.

Cal Thomas’s paper is not totally against the idea of the American dream dying but, works to explain why it is dying while Brandon King’s essay stresses that the American dream is more alive than ever and goes on to prove why. When comparing Cal Thomas’s writing to Brandon King’s writing three main points were used which were discussing the American dream in regards to each writer, the second point covered texts or outside writing used in each author’s paper, finally the third point went over each author’s views on the American dream today and what in their paper proved their

As Landgrave and Nowrasteh (2017) illustrate, “Incarceration rates by race and ethnicity paint a more nuanced picture.” (pg. 2). The rhetorical strategy of imagery works in this specific example because it paints a problem with many different perspectives and meanings. In other words, the legalization of DREAMers should be considered because the beneficiaries are less crime-prone than either DREAMers or natives. Landgrave and Nowrasteh (2017) implement imagery into their argument in order to persuade their audience by letting them visualize the amazing and safe future with new members of our country being less crime-prone and previous legal citizens.

In the article Kuleana: Toward a Histography of Hawaiian National Consciousness, 1780-2001 by Kanalu Young, she synthetized a historgraphy regarding Hawaiian national consciousness. She does this by gathering historical transformations that were evident in Hawaii. Some of these were significant transformations that directly affected people, places and ideas in Hawaii. Young empathizes that a Hawaiian histography is the first step towards the revitalization of Hawaiian intellectualism. Further, for Hawaiian cultural sovereignty to be restored, Young said, intellectual and institutional reshaping should be achieved first.

In addition, Old Man Warner’s age is influential on making the ritual hold up to the test of time as he is the oldest member of the town and warns, “‘Nothing but trouble in that [discarding the lottery],’... (Jackson 130). His credibility of being the oldest member of the city adds greater gravity to his warning of getting rid of the lottery as the rest look to him as the one with most understanding of the custom. However, reasons for Old Man Warner to protect the tradition is because of its age old existence and his desire to continue it out of selfishness. While this proposal moves towards an abstract understanding of the work, Old Man Warner most likely wishes for others to suffer the same way he has.

He learned that beautiful things do not ask for attention, moments do not always have to be captured and that the journey is more important than the destinations. Throughout the journey, Walter managed to find his strengths, weakness and his qualities that portray his as a unique individual. During the closure of the movie, Walter reinvents himself through his persistence to find himself