The bar was as loud and boisterous as any in Keldabe. Kilmanoda Mano could hear the sounds of revelry and the smell of Mandalorian liquor from a block away. Upon arriving at the bar, he began surveying the booths for his brother, Mirshko Mano, who had told him to meet him there. Passing a table of Mandos who were celebrating a successful bounty, as evidenced by some unfortunate Rodian’s hands that were now on a string about the neck of the hunter, Kil found Mir in the corner booth pouring over a rather large map and with an odd assortment of gear on the table.
“Su cuy'gar ner vod” Kil said warmly as he slid down into the seat across from Mir. Mir, startled at the sudden arrival of his brother jumped nearly spilling his drink over the map he had been engrossed in.
“Wayii!” Mir yelled, “You surprised me ner vod, I didn’t think you would arrive for at least another half an hour.” Mir grinned “I’ve been doing a bit of searching through some archives here in town and I came across the records of an old communiqué between the ancient Sith and the Mand’alor of the time regarding an alliance between the two. Included in the records are the coordinates to the Sith stronghold where Mand’alor was to meet the Sith, an ancient stronghold on the planet Ziost.”
“So I assume that you want to give this fortress a look then, hmm?” Kil replied “I would have thought that most of the ruins there would have been picked clean by this point.”
“That’s what makes this find so special,” said Mir pointing to the map, “this fortress appears in no other records as far as I can tell and it’s build out of a hollowed out mountain allowing it to blend in easily with its surroundings, there’s a good chance that this fortress has not been touched in over f...
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...ng up the new shielding yet?” he asked the droid looking up. R3 chirped again in affirmation. “Good job R3, with those and the new weapons systems we installed last week, we should be well equipped for these new Imperials, locking down every damn planet I’ve had an interest in this shabla galaxy….”
Mir laid down on his bed and looked about his room at all of the numerous trophies and artifacts from his many travels on the walls and strewn about the room, he could remember where, when, how each of them had come into his possession. There were some mundane objects like old coins and ancient droid parts, some fascinating ones like his ancient lightsaber collection. He even had a holocron at one point, however, the Sith spirit inside found great joy in terrifying Mir in the middle of the night so Mir offloaded it at the Galactic Museum at his earliest opportunity.
Unlike The Odyssey or any other epic tales, Their Eyes Were Watching God has a different perspective of what a hero is. In this novel, Hurston writes a story about an African-American woman named Janie Crawford whose quest is to find her identity and desire as a human being to be loved and appreciated for who she is. Her quest to fulfill those desires is not easy since she has to overcome so many obstacles and challenges in her life. A superiority that her Nanny posses over her to determine Janie's own life when she was a teenager and being a beautiful accessory to the glory of Joe Starks' are some of the experience that she encounters. She also has to make some sacrifices. And yet, just like any other heroes, at the end, she returns to her home with a victory on her hands.
Their Eyes Were Watching God provides an enlightening look at the journey of a "complete, complex, undiminished human being", Janie Crawford. Her story, based on self-exploration, self-empowerment, and self-liberation, details her loss and attainment of her innocence and freedom as she constantly learns and grows from her experiences with gender issues, racism, and life. The story centers around an important theme; that personal discoveries and life experiences help a person find themselves.
This book touches on many different aspects of racial inequality by bringing together the works of many different African American authors, and discusses all of the major themes of “whiteness studies”. The author speaks of how whites attempt to maintain a neutral ground by focusing on extreme acts of white supremacy, which blinds the main steam to the problem of white dominance as a whole. They also discuss how there are differences in the wages between whites and blacks. One of the chapters discusses how there are whites who are committed to the equality of the races, and yet cannot empathize with the races they are trying to help. In another chapter they discuss how Pecola Breedlove undergoes racial deformation through biopower mechanisms occurring throughout the characters life. In another chapter an author discusses how racial excoriation cannot be the focus any longer if we wish to make progress in the realm of race. Instead he suggests we need to focus on the rehabilitation of racial whiteness. He argues that in order to accomplish this we must address the fears and greediness of whites.
There is not a specific tome period for this book but it must take place back when there was kings ruling a city or town, so around the 1300's. The kingdom was called Delain and in the beginning of the story it was ruled by Roland the Good. Most of the story takes place inside this kingdom; there is only a small part of the story told outside of it.
Society, especially western, tends to conceptualize beauty through the use of publicity and cinema. We are under constant bombardment from consumer related magazine ads, billboards, television commercials, and movies about what “beautiful” people look like and how we should imitate them. This standard is overwhelmingly portrayed as a white beauty standard. Starting from a very young age this standard of beauty is created in our minds. We want to look like these actors and models; we want to be thin, fit, youthful looking, a symmetrical face and even have a particular race. We accept this beauty standard; we notice our various faults among ourselves and self-critique. We try to emulate the models as best we can; we forget that these standards are not reality. Publicity models and the most popular actors do not represent the majority of us and it is a foolish and unattainable dream to attempt to change ourselves to their beauty. The pressure society puts on us can cause low self-esteem and diseases such as anorexia. But we must look at the antithesis of society’s conception of this white standard, our minorities. Portraying this beauty standard to the polar opposites is more than racist. It is destructive to the minority community in that it creates resentment, low self-esteem, and a perverse hierarchy where minorities judge themselves and others on their proximity to the white beauty standard. In The Bluest Eye, Morrison critiques the white beauty standard that causes the black minority to feel a destructive self-hatred towards themselves and their fellow blacks because their self-perception is an unrealistic and unattainable beauty seen in publicity and films. This research paper’s aim is to present the influence of ...
“You 're saying that the weapons we 're depending on may not even fire? And they can 't test them here?” She nodded at my question.
Tiani McCarthy Professor Morris April 2014 The Bluest Eye Identity Crisis: The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye describes the lives of three young black girls living in Ohio after the Great Depression in the 1940s. One of which acquires an inferiority complex after years of abuse, not only mental and physical, but also sexual. This constant abuse and criticism leads the main character Pecola Breedlove to long for a happier life where she is loved by all for having beautiful blue eyes like some of the iconic white celebrity children of that time. Morrison believes portraying a “whiter” physical appearance will improve her life.
"Sorry, it's just that we're almost there and I thought that you wouldn't want to missing your grand entrance into the castle."
After reading and unpacking the novel, Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, I do not believe that Richard Wright is correct in his assessments. Considering the historical time period and context of his assessment, one can notice somewhat of an envious tone from Mr. Wright. He proclaims that "Her dialogue manages to catch the psychological movements of the Negro folk-mind in their pure simplicity, but that’s as far as it goes". He then goes on to further confirm his envy by accusing Ms. Hurston of deliberately trying to make the "white folks" laugh by belittling the intellectual integrity of the characters within her novel. Furthermore, he states that "The sensory sweep of her novel carries no theme, no message, no thought".
“I know, but you look so lovely in my castle and your presence is overwhelming.” Pluto said.
"I am aware you know most of the factionless sectors, so that means you can map a few of them for me"
Throughout Toni Morrison’s controversial debut The Bluest Eye, several characters are entangled with the extremes of human cruelty and desire. A once innocent Pecola arguably receives the most appalling treatment, as not only is she exposed to unrelenting racism and severe domestic abuse, she is also raped and impregnated by her own father, Cholly. By all accounts, Cholly should be detestable and unworthy of any kind of sympathy. However, over the course of the novel, as Cholly’s character and life are slowly brought into the light and out of the self-hatred veil, the reader comes to partially understand why Cholly did what he did and what really drives him. By painting this severely flawed yet completely human picture of Cholly, Morrison draws comparison with how Pecola was treated by both of her undesirable parents. According to literary educator Allen Alexander, even though Cholly was cripplingly flawed and often despicable, he was a more “genuine” person to Pecola than Pauline was (301). Alexander went on to claim that while Cholly raped Pecola physically, Pauline and Soaphead Church both raped her mental wellbeing (301). Alexander is saying that the awful way Pecola was treated in a routine matter had an effect just as great if not greater than Cholly’s terrible assault. The abuse that Pecola lived through was the trigger that shattered her mind. In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison uses the characters of Cholly Breedlove and Frieda McTeer to juxtapose sexual violence and mental maltreatment in order to highlight the terrible effects of mental abuse.
Toni Morrison's novel, The Bluest Eye contributes to the study of the American novel by bringing to light an unflattering side of American history. The story of a young black girl named Pecola, growing up in Lorain, Ohio in 1941 clearly illustrates the fact that the "American Dream" was not available to everyone. The world that Pecola inhabits adores blonde haired blue eyed girls and boys. Black children are invisible in this world, not special, less than nothing. The idea that the color of your skin somehow made you lesser was cultivated by both whites and blacks. White skin meant beauty and privilege and that idea was not questioned at this time in history. The idea that the color of your skin somehow made you less of a person contaminated black people's lives in many different ways. The taunts of schoolboys directed at Pecola clearly illustrate this fact; "It was their contempt for their own blackness that gave the first insult its teeth" (65). This self hatred also possessed an undercurrent of anger and injustice that eventually led to the civil rights movement.
“Inform of us of what?” The doctor looked off to the 5 mares and was about to ask them for some privacy when shining armor interrupted him. “Could you give give us a sec girls? Twily will make sure to update you”
The Eye is the organ of sight. Eyes enable people to perform daily tasks and to learn about the world that surrounds them. Sight, or vision, is a rapidly occurring process that involves continuous interaction between the eye, the nervous system, and the brain. When someone looks at an object, what he/she is really seeing is the light that the object reflects, or gives off.