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The paper examines how Lartey lays out his position from the start, provides a well-considered overview of the history and evolution of pastoral care, and forcefully advances his support of a diverse, cosmopolitan approach to cross-cultural pastoral care. The paper asserts that unfortunately, the ministering and social activity functions he sees for such cross-cultural communication is compromised by his fairly relativistic approach - you could also call it diffidence - to asserting that Christianity has something compelling to say that cannot be found anywhere else.

From the Paper
"The next several pages will offer a critical review of Emmanuel Lartey's, "In Living Color: An Intercultural Approach to Pastoral Care and Counselling". In so doing, the paper will examine how Lartey lays out his position from the start, provides a well-considered overview of the history and evolution of pastoral care, and forcefully advances his support of a diverse, cosmopolitan approach to cross-cultural pastoral care. Unfortunately, the ministering and social activity functions he sees for such cross-cultural communication is compromised by his fairly..."

Tags:care, pastoral, emmanuel

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This paper examines James McBride's book "The Color of Water" and how the leaving of home by both Ruth (the author's mother) and James (the author) is an event full of mixed causes, motivations and effects. It analyzes how both are leaving unpleasant home and family environments and how both are frightened and hopeful about finding a new and better life. It evaluates how Ruth's own leaving home and her forcing her children to leave the nest, were vital parts of their success later in life and how the life lessons learned by James were difficult since he easily could have succumbed to a life of crime, but he and her other children proved her right by living independent and successful lives.

From the Paper
"In fact, it was one of Ruth's habits to push her children out of the nest as soon as possible, to allow them and/or force them to learn to live independent and self-sufficient lives. Ruth herself had experienced the repression and oppression of a dysfunctional family, and she had fled that family despite the fact that her mother needed her. She had seen for herself that one can be trapped by family obligations and that one can lose one's own life by trying to fulfill those obligations. In addition, she must have sensed in some way that she would not be able to save her mother from her father, and that she would likely lose her own self in the process of trying. She saw that one must save oneself and that the way to save oneself is to get away from the family life which would otherwise drain one's spirit sooner or later."

Tags:children, nest, home, poverty, life

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This paper examines how George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) is not only the single-most influential zombie movie of all time, it is also reputed to be one of the first movies to employee color-blind casting. In particular, it looks at how, though the entire movie was revolutionary for its time and genre, the final sequence in which the final main character (the black lead, Ben) is mistaken for a zombie and killed by his long-awaited rescuers is shocking and challenging even to modern film-goers. The sequence analyzed for five characteristics, including the plot significance of this segment, the implications of the sequence for the genre, the use of film technique to build and guide the horror, the use of coloration and lighting for narrative purposes, and the various additional methods of manipulating audience sympathies and responses.

From the Paper
"The plot of Night of the Living Dead is relatively straightforward. For some unknown reason, perhaps due to radiation from space, the dead are coming back to life animated by the desire to devour flesh. There are six significant living characters trapped in a single house, which belongs to none of them. The lead female Barbara, has come there fleeing from the zombies who ate her brother in a cemetery -- in the end her brother is the one who eats her, as she hesitates to run from him. Ben, the lead male who survives to the end, has come there after a series of misadventures on the road, and has learned a great deal about dealing with the zombies."

Tags:zombies, ben, barbara

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This paper discusses how in "The Color Purple", Walker follows one woman's journey to become a womanist. The novel dictates the letters written by a poor black woman, Celie, living in rural Georgia in the early 1900s. The paper looks at how, abused and belittled by her father and husband, Celie does not have an identity of her own. Instead, Celie behaves according to the stereotypical gender roles of the time and how the latter men define her. Although many readers assume Celie transforms simply as she ages, it is not until Celie befriends other women, that she begins to find her own voice. In particular, the paper looks at how Celie's relationships with her daughter-in-law, Sofia, and her lover, Shug Avery, allow her to develop her own identity and resist the passivity and self-doubt caused by the male subordination of women.

From the Paper
"One can better understand Celie's behavior throughout the novel when it is examined according to B.F. Skinner's operant behavior philosophy. Skinner argues that, "behavior is affected by its consequences," and, thus, that, "the punished person henceforth acts in ways which reduce the threat of punishment and which are incompatible with, and hence take the place of, the behavior punished"(1). Celie learned from infancy that by defying a man, she would be beaten or possibly killed. Therefore, in order to survive, Celie assumes she must be submissive to all men. After Albert's sister tells Celie that she should stand up for herself, Celie says, "I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive"(Walker Color Purple 21). Celie sees how her sister's rebellion seems to have caused her death, and, thus remains passive in order to survive. Skinner's analysis of human behavior not only explains Celie's submission, but also her eventually triumph over her oppressors. "

Tags:celie, Sofia, Shug, Avery

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The author states that initially the reader could overlook the allusions to color in "Gatsby." However, it is clear that color plays a crucial role in developing the theme and core of the book. Just as the characters' lives revolve around their money and their "playthings," "The Great Gatsby" revolves around the subtle use of color and its not so hidden meanings.

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"Fitzgerald uses color elaborately in "The Great Gatsby," and it usually has some ulterior meaning, like the "green light" that appears throughout the novel. Many critics say the green light symbolizes Daisy, but it is more than that."

Tags:green, daisy, money, american, cream, caramel, white, yellow, tan

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This paper examines Alice Walkers's novel ,"The Color Purple", and reveals how, through the characters of the book, Walker addresses several social issues of the era. In particular, it looks at how, throughout the novel, she is devoted to exploring women's roles within the patriarchal system, emphasizing their desires for freedom, spirituality, and creativity and how she is able to communicate to the reader what it means to be poor, black, and female in the rural South during the first half of the 20th century. It shows how, through the lives of the characters in "The Color Purple", she presents several individual social aspects such as patriarchy, sexuality, and spirituality.

From the Paper
"Walker advocates freedom of expression for women. She also believes that a person who is not free to express his or her love is a slave of themselves, just as anyone who would prohibit expression of love has a "slaveholder's mentality" (Living 91). Celie is beaten by her stepfather because he says she has winked at a boy, she writes: "I don't even look at mens. That's the truth. I look at women, tho, cause I'm not scare of them." (Color 6). Celie is attracted to Shug. "First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery, I thought I had turned into a man" (51). The two women lived together for awhile until Shug meets a young man and falls in love with him. Celie is heartbroken and returns home. During this time of her life, Celie and Mister become friends and he proposes marriage."

Tags:celie, blacks, female, freedom

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The paper discusses Alice Walker's widely-acclaimed novel "The Color Purple", which recounts the lives and struggles of African-American female characters in the early 1900s in Georgia. The paper comments that the book focuses on the important issues pertaining to the lives of blacks in the United States during the early twentieth century. The paper also comments that it is an intricate examination of the role that African-American women played in society, illustrating, the discrimination they faced due to their race and gender. The paper states that the book's most prominent thematic ideas are directly related to the importance of freedom, redemption, and the power of the individual.

From the Paper
"The book is largely feministic in its message, and could even be criticized for portraying black males badly and stereotypically. In general, though, it is the life and journey of an African-American woman in the South in the early twentieth century. Her saga is chronicled through her own letters, and she develops as an immensely poignant, powerful character who commands the attention of the reader throughout the novel. She learns to overcome the submission and the weakness that had come upon her as a result of her constant abuse, and she comes out as a confident and self-assured woman, though it is not until many years later."

Tags:compelling, entertaining, historically, accurate, socially, economically

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This paper discusses the Stephen Spielberg directed film "The Color Purple" based on Alice Walker's award-winning novel of the same name. The discussion focuses on examples of oppression, discrimination, and powerlessness in the film and how these impact the lives of the characters who ultimately triumph over tragedy.

From the Paper
"Michael Thompson writes of the works of Alice Walker, 'Her poetry, novels and essays frequently and boldly examine prejudice against women, racism, abuse and poverty. Many of her writings explore themes of triumph over tragedy. If any of Alice Walker's works most exhibit these elements, it is her award winning story of Celie's ultimate triumph in 'The Color Purple.' Made into a motion picture directed by Stephen Spielberg, in this analysis will explore the film."

Tags:sexual abuse, violence, racism, sexism, gender, Shug, Celie, Sofia, Spielberg

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The paper looks at "Life on the Color Line" by Gregory H. Williams, which is an autobiographical story of a man who found himself trapped between two different racial worlds. The paper describes how Williams, a white man with one-quarter black heritage, decides to consciously attempt to embrace a black racial identity. The paper addresses the question of race construction, how certain people might live the life of one given race or another based upon different influencing factors. Finally, this analysis considers how Williams' life might have been different in sports and education had he been fully accepted as white.

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"Growing up in suburban Virginia in the 1950s, Gregory and his brother Michael find themselves at the mercy of their troubled and abusive father, who despite having achieved a respectable amount of success as a businessman and owner of a roadside cafe, repeatedly sabotages his life and that of his family due to his alcoholism and related dysfunctional behavior. Though taken for a dark-skinned "Italian," by the time their father's businesses fail, Mike and Greg discover to their shock that their father has been deceiving them all their lives, and is in fact half-black: the product of a white Kentucky man and his black mistress. (Their mother, who was also white, obviously was in on the deception, but by the time of the move to Muncie, Indiana, she had already left.)"

Tags:race, construction, black, white, identity, social, pressures

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This paper examines how in Alice Walker's novel, "The Color Purple", the reader experiences an uplifting journey through the lives of two abused southern sisters who attempt to stay in communication despite being separated by the Atlantic Ocean. The story is written in the first person, alternating between Celie in America and Nettie in Africa. In particular, mainly focusing on Celie, the paper looks at how the novel expresses her revitalization through the theme of sexism as with the powerful female bonds that the woman develops throughout the work. The paper also discusses how Celie begins the novel as a weak, emotionless fourteen year old child and how, through the help of her friends Sophia and Shug and with the letters from her sister Nettie, Celie transforms into a self-sufficient, confident woman by the end of the novel.

From the Paper
"Being a feminist novel, The Color Purple provokes readers to look beyond oppression caused by whites to blacks and to see that Celie endures severe beatings from her black husband Mr. as well as being raped and impregnated by her black step-father (Scholl). These men are the source of her emotional numbness because they dehumanize her by treating her as though she is worth nothing to the world despite all of the hard work she does as a housewife. Yvonne Johnson writes, "The powerlessness Walker's women feel is often reaffirmed by the physical abuse they endure in their marriages," (Johnson). Celie does not allow herself to feel as she sinks lower into the feeling of powerlessness because the pain would be extremely excruciating. Thus, the young woman drives herself into a state of numbness as she is forced to live with Mr. and care for his obnoxious, uncouth children."

Tags:Sophia, Shug, Nettie