AADS/ENGL 3328.01
Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly is a modern day masterpiece. The album is archived in the library of congress, taught in college courses around the world, and it is forever engraved in black history. Lamar, commonly known as a rap and hip-hop artist, uses Jazz to root To Pimp a Butterfly and take modern…
In Harriet Jacobs’, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Jacobs utilizes diction in an isolated moment to construct the hostile relationship between a slave and her master. Jacobs frames a longer exchange between Dr. Flint and Linda, actively transitioning from dialogue into the narrative form where the reader is guided towards the diction. …
Shange uses repetition throughout her narration of Indigo in a way that exudes reflection of the reader. Shange consistently takes the reader on the journey through Indigo’s mind and ends each sequence with “the South in her”. She allows the reader to picture themselves in Indigo’s world, learning from her imagination. When presented with, “the…
This scene was painted in the late 1660s by Giuseppe Recco, an Italian painter who specialized in still life art. The painting shows a cat caught in the act of eating and stealing fish. The painting exemplifies skills in lighting, and the detail into the fish scales and cat fur. The still life artistry was…
Remember the Titans was a film based off a true story covering a high school football team divided by race and prejudice. As black head coach Herman Boone was hired in 1971, the team must learn how to come together despite their differences. It’s been one of my favorite movies growing up and it has…