Essays about: "american identity"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 116 essays containing the words american identity.

1. 16. A Black woman's fight against oppression: Celie's transformation in the Color Purple

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Hanna Stark; [2023]
   Keywords : The Color Purple; Celie; feminism; oppression; gender traits; masculine femininity;

   Abstract : In the novel the Color Purple (1982), the author, Alice Walker, highlights the oppression African American women had to endure in the South, during the 1920s. It tells the story of the protagonist Celie's life, from being a sexual abused girl, to becoming an independent woman. READ MORE

3. 17. The Power of Words : How the use of words reflects societal opinion

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : David Brodin; [2023]
   Keywords : Gay; Queer; Corpus Linguistics;

   Abstract : This essay examines the ways that the underlying meaning of the keywords queer and gay had changed between, and during, the periods of 1989-1991, 1999-2001 and 2009-2011 within the medium of written American English as collected by the Corpus of Historical American English across multiple written genres. The examination of the two chosen keywords was conducted by sorting the list-results of respective COHA queries into each period, and then conducted by a systematic sorting of the query results into one out of four categories depending on how the keywords were primed, framed and used. READ MORE

4. 18. The power of appearance : Self-expression through clothing behind bars

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för modevetenskap

   Author : Ellen O'Reilly; [2023]
   Keywords : Identity; Possessions; Self-expression; Incarceration; Individual; Prison-system; Clothing; UCLA; American; Scandinavian; Sweden; Norway; Denmark; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : This paper investigates how the American contra Scandinavian prison system relate to prison clothing. Furthermore, it discusses the history of prison uniform and how prison uniform connects to identity. READ MORE

5. 19. “I’m not a Final Girl” An intersectional character analysis of Jade in Stephen Graham Jones’ My Heart Is a Chainsaw and its pedagogical implications in the EFL classroom

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Jens Nilsson; [2023]
   Keywords : My Heart Is a Chainsaw; Final Girl; Intersectional Framework; identity; marginalization; alienation; empowerment; EFL classroom;

   Abstract : The following essay applies an intersectional lens to the character analysis of Jade, the main character in Stephen Graham Jones’ My Heart Is a Chainsaw (2021), as it aims to introduce EFL students to the principles of the intersectional theory framework. As Jade, as a way of dealing with her reality as an abused and marginalized young part-Native American adolescent, obsessively frames her real-life experiences in a slasher movie context, the novel explores the themes of identity, marginalization, empowerment through the way Jade sees herself in relation to the Final Girl: the archetypal female protagonist featured in slasher movies. READ MORE

6. 20. American national identity at the start and end of the war in Afghanistan: A comparative narrative analysis of presidential speeches

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Tilde Olausson; [2022-08-24]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to investigate the production of American national identity at the start and end of America’s warfare in Afghanistan, and to reach an understanding how the identity-construction legitimatized America’s actions at those moments. Based on a post structural understanding of identity as constructed and reproduced through action and speech, this study examines and compares speeches held by presidents George Bush and Joe Biden in relation to the start and end of the war. READ MORE