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This paper discusses how Marie Clements' two plays, "Burning Vision" and "The Unnatural and Accidental Women", both feature primarily Aboriginal characters, and foreground Aboriginal issues. The paper examines how the two plays approach these subject matters in very different ways and how Clements situates Aboriginals as people who have been oppressed by colonizers from over the seas. The paper also looks at how Clements depicts urban Aboriginals as living in poor socio-economic conditions, vulnerable to white psychopaths, and how she seems to imply that Aboriginal people belong where they were before the colonizers came - if not physically, then at least psychically.

From the Paper
"Burning Vision is set in many different locations, as it is about colonialism and the atomic bomb. However, with regard to Aboriginals, it features the Dene people who mined pitchblende near Great Bear Lake in the North West Territory in the 1930s. The Unnatural and Accidental Women focuses on an entirely different group of Aboriginals, i.e. poor women living in Vancouver's Eastside in the 1980s. The two plays thus feature geographically and chronologically different people. However, certain commonalities can be detected, primarily related to the fact that both groups are the victims of colonization in one way or another."

Tags:vancouver, colonialism

Abstract
This paper takes an in-depth look at Marie Clements' two plays, "Burning Vision" and "The Unnatural and Accidental Women" which both feature primarily Aboriginal characters, and foreground Aboriginal issues.According to the paper, however, the two plays approach this subject matter in very different ways. This essay further examines what Clements seems to be saying about Aboriginals in these two plays.

From the Paper
" Marie Clements' two plays, Burning Vision and The Unnatural and Accidental Women, both feature primarily Aboriginal characters, and foreground Aboriginal issues. However, the two plays approach this subject matter in very different ways. This essay will examine what Clements seems to be saying about Aboriginals in these two plays. Burning Vision is set in many different locations, as it is about colonialism and the atomic bomb. However, with regard to Aboriginals, it features the Dene people who mined pitchblende near Great Bear Lake in the..."

Tags:clements, aborginals, vancouver

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This paper discusses of some of the ways in which First Nations literature makes a criticism of North American society and culture. the paper explains that in "Burning Vision", Clements makes it clear that the First World is pathologically sick in terms of its attitude to the world and its people and resources. The paper then examines the theme of resistance and struggle and decolonization in three of the texts. The writer believes that if First Nations' existence is defined by their status as having been colonized by people of a different race, then their salvation lies in resistance and struggle. The writer concludes that if First Nations cannot decolonize their countries, they can at least decolonize their minds, and that is what many of the best First Nations writers strive to do, which accounts for the central importance of this theme in much of their literature.

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"Clements also seems to imply that the ultimate expression of this rape is nuclear destruction - the ultimate assertion of power, delivered in phallic-shaped bombs by phallic-shaped jets. In this regard, it is important to remember that FAT MAN was the name of one of the atomic bombs. Moreover, the other atomic bomb was code named LITTLE BOY. This was unintentional irony, given that it is Western male aggression that propelled colonization, as well as the kind of destruction meted out by the atomic bombs. In The Unnatural and Accidental Women, Clements seems to be on a totally different track, focusing on poor women living in Vancouver's Eastside in the 1980s."

Tags:atomic, bomb, colonization, race, struggle

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In this article, the writer discusses that the play 'Burning Vision' raises questions about race, nation, identity and belonging, particularly through the metaphor of mixing. The writer notes that "Burning Vision" is a complex play, in which many story-lines mix together simultaneously. This reflects the complexity of the subject matter, as the play deals with profoundly important issues, such as war, death, colonialism, grieving, loss, hope, racism and exploitation, etc. The writer maintains that the play highlights the interconnectedness of all of these geographically, racially and nationally divided people, in a huge cycle of death of destruction. In so doing, it highlights Canada's limited ability to be inclusive, and finally offers a possibility for overcoming those limitations. This essay examines what the play has to suggest about the nation's ability to be inclusive, and what it offers as a possibility for overcoming those limitations. The writer concludes that the play ends on an upbeat note of mixing in a positive sense.

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"This is chilling in many ways. First of all, LITTLE BOY is a lost and lonely, pathetic character in the play. Second, LITTLE BOY was also the name of the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, so the character is associated with death and murder. Third, LITTLE BOY implied that identities are stolen when colonialists lay claim to a people - which, as we know, is very much the Canadian reality, with horrors such as the residential schools, which were explicitly designed to steal Aboriginal identity. Thus, the play speaks to the key theme of colonialism - the foundation upon which modern Canada was built - in a very negative way. It speaks not of mixing, but of smothering. It thus shows us the potentially catastrophic implications of people mixing in a way that is not inclusive, but rather divisive, exploitative and repressive."

Tags:nation, complexity, diverse, mix

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The paper examines the unnatural altering of women's images to conform to a patriarchal manipulation of women into sexual objects of desire. The paper discusses how the use of digital graphics arts to improve the image of a woman's body into an unaltered image creates negative and unrealistic ways that women can be harmed-both mentally and physically. The paper explores how these unnatural images are created through a vortex of patriarchal manipulation, which has been proven to influence bulimia and anorexia in all age levels of the female populations.

Tags:media, women, sex

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"Mrs. Warren's Profession" by George Bernard Shaw is a play written in 1894. The roles that women play in this masterpiece show that Shaw was far ahead of his time in his thoughts about what women should do and be. The paper shows that in this work, Shaw presented a new vision of an intellectual, entrepreneurial woman and challenged the conventional roles imposed by society. He also included accounts of women victimized by a capitalist society and defended their rights to take whatever actions they had to in order to changer their circumstances even if that meant prostitution. The paper shows that in fact, Shaw's beliefs are consistent with modern-day feminism with only one exception. Shaw seemed to fear that a woman's independence and choice of a career had to come at the expense of something else, namely love and family. Nonetheless, "Mrs. Warren's Profession" is still revolutionary in comparison to the idealized Victorian version of what a woman should be.

From the Paper
"Shaw's view that women must sacrifice love and relations with family members is the most disappointing aspect of his play. While the majority of his work represents a dramatic leap forward for women in the Victorian time, he hasn't allowed for women to progress in their intellectual growth and entrepreneurship without a consequence. He seems to support their advancement, but is at the same time, afraid of it. This is apparent in Praed's questions to Vivie, "What happens to the world of chivalry, feeling, and beauty in the modern business world? Does practicality not appear more viable than romance in a world where sentiment has been reduced to sentimentality?" Regrettably, these concerns are still present in today's society where it's argued that a woman going to work will negatively impact the unity of the family and the nurturing of their children."

Tags:Reverend, Gardner, Vivie

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The paper looks at how Jennie Livingston's 1991 documentary explores the late-1980s "ball culture" within the transgendered, Latino and African American community of NYC, and helps explore the traditional definitions of masculinity and femininity as gay drag performers compete to be considered "real" women.

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"This paper is a discussion of Jennie Livingston's documentary "Paris Is Burning" which depicts the ball culture of the late ...s in New York City. A seminal exploration of the Ball competitions, this film portrays the transgendered community, many of whom are also members of ethnic minorities. Paris Is Burning provides a powerful portrait of a marginalized social group whose elaborate drag competitions, specialized presentational traditions and heightened vocabulary allowed participants to become close-knit members of a distinct subculture. The film highlights their efforts to redefine their individual identity..."

Tags:Livingston, Burning, ball

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This paper discusses the evolving role of women in literature through the use of several noted works. It considers Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," "The Country Wife" byWilliam Wycherley; Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter": and Anne Tyler's novel "The Accidental Tourist." The paper demonstrates how female characters have evolved over the course of time.

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"It is a tribute to William Shakespeare that while he could not use women on the stage in Elizabethan England, he created some of the most compelling women characters of all time, including the three women of Twelfth Night: Olivia, Maria, and Viola. Viola's role is further complicated by the fact that she assumes the role of a young man throughout much of the play (Shakespeare). These three women are remarkably distinctive. Maria is the critical agent in bringing about the hilarious downfall of the stuffed shirt Malvolio, by authoring the artful letter which lures him to his own undoing by playing

Tags:women, roles, sexual

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This paper reviews a court case involving flag burning and free speech as examined by author Robert Goldstein, who frames the issue of flag burning as a symbolic fight over a symbol. The author points out the positions of Justices William Brennan and Antonin Scalia and Chief Justice William Rehnquist. The paper includes several analyses of the significance and implications of the case.

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In the case of Texas v Johnson, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the state of Texas could not prosecute Gregory Lee Johnson for burning the flag without violating the First Amendment."

Tags:Robert Goldstein, Flag Burning