In 2009, Barack Obama made history by becoming the first African American President of the United States. Then, in 2020, Kamala Harris became the first woman in office. Both of these people are well known for making history and guiding paths for future leaders. They’ve continued the growth of equality, in our country, and the world. Obama’s Inaugural Address’s main theme is unity. How united as a country we can begin the work to come back from past mistakes and troubles, for example, the Great Recession. Context of Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address 2009 Barack Obama was born in 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His parents, Barack H. Obama, Sr., and Stanley Ann Dunham, divorced when he was two years old. He was raised by his mother and grandparents. …show more content…
Her mother was born in India and her father was born in Jamaica, so she grew up immersed in both cultures with her sister, Maya. Her parents divorced when she was seven years old, and she was raised primarily by her mother. She would go to marches, and Kamala said she “had a stroller-eye view of the Civil Rights movement”. Attending the marches at such a young age inspired her to become the leader she is today, fighting against injustice. During summers, Harris would spend time in India with her grandparents, while still staying connected to her African American roots, as her mother was very determined to make sure her two daughters grew up to be confident and proud black women. (Rothberg, Emma) After graduating high school in California, Harris moved to Washington D.C and attended Howard College with a political science and economics degree. After graduating in 1986, she moved back to California to study law at the University of California. She then began her political career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office. Throughout her career Kamala has been known to break the status quo, in 2010 she was the first African American, and the first woman to serve as California's District Attorney. Only 6 years later, in 2016 she was elected as Senator of California, where she became a leader others should aspire to be like. She was known as “a sharp, aggressive questioner who could unnerve opposing witnesses.” (Rothberg, Emma) Now the first woman in office, Kamala has created great success and opened doors for future women. As Vice President to Biden, she pushes the “bubble” that Biden thinks about. She creates new ideas and strategies to allow for growth and change in their Presidency and America. They both fight very hard for what they believe in and work hard to try and get things accomplished. They’ve faced many
Dynamic palates of life present themselves in experience and endeavor. Furthermore, they elicit an array of complexions; those concerning the emotion in association with each iridescent shade. One witnesses colorful purpose for the characters in Nectar in a Sieve. Though conveyed simplistically, the depth and implication of each feeling exemplifies itself through these individuals. Fear is a primitive influence on the characters, and it is evident in Rukmani and Kenny. Both express nearly contradicting
Analyzing Nectar in a Sieve Change: can it always be good or is it sometimes negative? In the novel Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya, a big change comes to a little Indian village. In Markandaya’s story, the narrator Rukmani reflects on her turbulent life in the village from being married at age twelve to when her husband Nathan passes away. The pair encounters many struggles and survives several natural disasters. Their normal lifestyle is disrupted by a rapid growth that turns the small village
still be taking the time to write about his life and accomplishments, he probably would have wittily declared it impossible for anyone to try to admire him as much as he admired himself. However, two of his biographers, Frank Harris and Barbara Belford, have done just that. Harris, in 1916, sixteen years after Wilde's death, published his biography, Oscar Wilde, as a memoir of his own cherished relationship with Wilde, for whom he had served as literary editor and friend. Just this past year in 2000
Counterfactualism in History A point made in the third of these essays, on the value of history, was the widespread human enjoyment of a good story. It was suggested that history played a part in satisfying this need. The consistent success of fiction based on a simple form of counterfactual history — Robert Harris's "Fatherland" is a good recent example — seems to indicate that this type of history is equally appealing. Sometimes known as "what if", or "alternative" history, or, in the title
Politics and the media have long been intimately involved with each other, with media strongly setting an agenda in which politics is very important. (Harris 1999,p.167) “Our perceived reality of the real world is largely a product of the media.” (Harris 1999,p.186) It is not known which influences more but there are definitely two sides to the story. Many studies have been done to decide but each comes out with different answers. Many say that the media has more of an impact on politics than does
“There must always come times of hardship.” There are times of hardship, but there must be a decision: accept the change, or cry for help? This was a quote by Kamala Markandaya. She wrote the novel the Nectar in the Sieve. In the novel, Rukmani and Nathan married very young. They had seven kids: Ira, Arjun, Thambi, Murugan, Raja, Selvam, and Kuti. A white man, Kenny, helps her get pregnant with her first child. He comes back every so often with the idea of buildings. those are the important characters
Life choices are always hard to make. In fact, some of them are impossible to make. Kamala Markandaya demonstrates some hard life choices in the book Nectar in a Sieve. The story is about Nathan and Rukmani, A poor rural India family living in the 1950s; with their children,a friend named Kenny,and their adopted son Puli.In the novel, it proves that in life that an individual has to make hard decisions to get through life. To begin, Nathan and Rukmani have to choose to sell all their belongings
accomplished in their fiction is the narration of the nation in all its colours and social contours. As Mitra has stated, “…relation between the nation and the novel is more acute in the case of women’s writings” (185). Several talented women novelists like Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal, Anita Desai, Geetha Hariharan, Shashi Deshpande, Kiran Desai and Manju Kapur and many more have left an indelible imprint on the readers of Indian fiction in English and are popularly known as the Goddess of Eros!. Now-a-days
The power of the human spirit consists of a powerful concept that deals with resilience and the ability to continue moving on regardless of the odds that one encounters. Nectar in a Sieve, a novel by Kamala Markandaya, takes place in an unknown town in rural India. The story follows the life of Rukmani who is the narrator and main protagonist of the story. Nectar in a Sieve was published in 1954, a couple years after India gained independence from Britain. Nectar in a Sieve very well portrays the
conduct as well as physical conduct. However, many authorities do not take this definition into account when a harassment case has been reported. Because a person was not physically, violated authorities do not considered it serious. As with the Teresa Harris case, because there was no physical harm her case did not stand in court. Jokes are not considered to be harassing maybe just offensive. When sexual jokes about women are repeatedly told, especially if the person has told the offender once that they
his own experiences” (Gunton and Harris 358). Thomas would then incorporate these experiences into his poetry. For example, the poem “The Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait” is about a fisherman he probably saw around growing up in Swansea. In 1934 Thomas began moving between London and several villages where he started drinking a lot and “epitomized the raucous image of an artist” After WW II, Thomas began writing more short stories rather than poetry (Gunton and Harris 358). Much earlier stories focus
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris The novel The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris is said to fall under the genre of psychological horror. The stories that fall under the genre of horror include a few essential elements: a villain or one seen as evil to create an initial story line. The foil is the next element; a foil is a person who tries to stop the villain from going through with the evil plan or plot. These two elements naturally lead to conflict between the two persons or groups
Computers The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. This quote, relayed by Sydney G. Harris, has many meanings to it. The basic meaning that Harris is trying to convey is that one should “open up his/her minds” and realize what is really occurring, not what is being covered up. These days, the tendency is generally for one to think about how one day, computers might be able to think like humans, and the problems that that
present or from past generations (Harris). The unexplained event in the novel is a result of ancient prophecy in connection with the history of the mansion, or the earlier generations, and explains the negative vicissitude in future present generations. The ancient prophecy sometimes only provides the reader with "partial or confusing" information or only provides one side of the story, thus presenting and even stronger feeling of mystery in the novel (Harris). Bad omens and visions of death
another coinciding hallucination. Nash’s other hallucination is Ed Harris, who plays a government agent that seeks out Nash’s intelligence in the field of code- breaking. This hallucination of Ed Harris is the key factor in Nash’s delusional thinking. He has delusions of being a secret government aide that is helping the U.S. find bombs throughout the country that were placed here by the Russians. Nash hallucinates that Ed Harris places a device inside his arm that allows him to see a code under