Bama, the Tamil Dalit woman writer, she wrote Karukku her autobiographical novel published in 1992, presents the text as a double-edged sword before the reader. Hailed as the first Dalit woman writer in India Bama’s Karukku is the first autobiography of its kind in Tamil Dalit Literature. Karukku is the first ever autobiography of a Tamil Christian Dalit woman. It is an eye-opener for those who are unaware of the discriminations that Dalits face, the oppression of religious institutions, and Bama’s painful journey to arrive at solutions for problems that plague her community.
Karukku means sharp edge Palmyra leaves. This is the first Tamil autobiography of a Dalit woman writer, Bama, who goes through a personal crisis which makes her reflect on her life. She tells the story of not just herself but also of thousands of Dalit children who face abuse, discrimination, and neglect because of their caste. After being a part of the Catholic Church order, she starts to realize the oppression within that community. As
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Karukku can be considered as the childhood memoir which voices the joys and sorrows of her people, oppressed by the higher castes in India. The book reflects the various events happened in her life. She was born into a poor Dalit family. Her grandmother and mother toiled in the fields and the homes of the Naicker landlords. Despite the misery, she had a carefree childhood. Her brother, Raj Gauthaman, also a writer, introduced her to the world of books and inspired her to write. In college, she used to write poetry. Later she turned into writing fiction. After education, she became a teacher. Bama portrays the oppression she faced as a student and a teacher. However, she managed to escape from the violent oppression to a certain extent as she was bright. Thus with Karukku, Bama shot into immediate fame and was discussed in higher literary
Growing up in America sport is a vital part of everyday life. From childhood to adulthood some aspect of sport pertains to virtually everyone. As a child one is looking to find a hobby so they play sports. As a parent fathers look forward to coaching their child’s little league team. And as tens and young adults sports are an opportunity to become a “somebody” and do something amazing. The general perception in high school and college is that athletes have it all. If you’re good at sports then you don’t have to worry about schoolwork or popularity and essentially you have but not a care in the world; you are invincible. Although it is great to see some succeed and become professional athletes many others do not have the same fate. The fate of these athletes, which happens to be the majority, is what drives my opinion on college sport.
While college sports play a valuable role on university campuses, it is important for administrators to not lose perspective. That some football coaches earn more than university presidents, for example, is clearly wrong. Essay Task Write a unified, coherent essay in which you evaluate multiple perspectives on college support for sports teams. In your essay, be sure to: • analyze and evaluate the perspectives given • state and develop your own perspective on the issue • explain the relationship between your perspective and those given
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The Southern Methodist University football scandal, also known as Ponygate, was one of the most severe consequences that the NCAA has ever given out to a college or university. In this instance, the Southern Methodist University football program was found to be illegally paying their players after already being in trouble with the NCAA several times. The first time this football program had been caught by the NCAA for not following its rules was in 1985. This was when an incident regarding offensive lineman Sean Stopperich came up. Prior to transferring schools after going through an injury which made him unable to play, he was paid $5,000 by one of the Southern Methodist Universities booster programs to attend the school and play football there. This caused “the NCAA to place SMU on three years of probation in 1985, limit its postseason appearances, ban the boosters involved and strip the football program of 45 scholarships.” This did not show the program or the school a lesson though. Again in 1986 the Southern Methodist University football program was found breaking NCAA rules. This was their seventh time they had broken and been caught breaking NCAA rules. This time it was found that, “an unnamed booster had been found to have paid 13 Mustang players $61,000 from a slush fund with the approval of key members of the SMU athletic staff.” The result of this complication with NCAA rules is what became known as the, “death penalty”. This death penalty declared that there were to be, “no football in '87. only seven games in '88. no television or bowl appearances until 1989 and restrictions on off-campus recruiting and the number of assistant coaches until 1989 SMU which signed no high school players to letters of intent this winter...
The OU men’s basketball team is a monochronic, masculine, collectivistic, and individualistic co-culture. They come together as a team, but each player has their own identity attached to this co-culture in their own way. One of the teammates, Bob, was kind enough to provide answers to a few questions that will bring a little more understanding to how the players view themselves within their co-culture. All of the members of this co-culture are college students at the University of Oklahoma and range from freshmen to seniors. It is a masculine co-culture because it is a men’s team.
She has become an acclaimed author, poet, and director. She has overcome many obstacles in life to achieve her status today. She was a black woman, single mother during a time when neither was expectable. She faced struggles that many of us today could not handle. In her poem "
In this research paper, we focus on the Maya Angelou’s life. The author is being researched for her history, life, best-known works, and their relevance in the classroom. Maya Angelou is a well-known poet, storyteller, activist, and autobiographer.
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At the age of 7, Maya Angelou was raped by her mother’s boyfriend. The boyfriend turned up dead later by hand of her uncle. Traumatized by what had happened, she thought her words had killed her rapist so she became mute so her words couldn’t harm anyone else. "Angelou maintained nearly complete silence for five years,"(Author Study: M. Angelou). She moved to Arkansas where she continued to stay mute. “During these years, she retreated to a sheltered world of writing in which her creative being spawned and flourished” (Gaines 1). She started to dig her head into the books and that is known to be the beginning of her writing. “She read black authors like Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Paul Lawrence Dunbar, as well as canonical works by William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, and Edgar Allan Poe”(Maya Angelou).
Behind every master receiving praise for a successful meal there is a hard working maid. I can recall times after thanksgiving dinner sitting down with my great grandmother her telling me stories of her past. Stories of her master sitting down at a table full of his guests, he smiling and receiving all the accolades. The immaculate dinner and table setting for that evening all done by her. She would speak of the look that was on his face as if all the attention he was receiving was unwarranted. Margarita, the maid, my great grandmother, working there since 8 o'clock in the morning not leaving until late that evening, until everyone had eaten, and most important of all until he had received the appraisal for the pie that he sliced and shared with everyone except her, the maker. The NCAA shares the success and revenue with college presidents and athletic directors while college athletes, the generators do not see the fruits of their labor. The NCAA applies a form of modern day slavery.
Some current trends in Intercollegiate Sports are escalating expenses for big-time spectator sports, struggles over gender equity, athletes in revenue producing sports seeking rights to profit from their skills, students seeking more opportunities to play school sponsored sports, and faculty resisting the use of university resources to subsidize big time sports. Knowing about and understanding these trends are important for students, administrators, and legislators making decisions about the use of student fees and campus sport facilities. As an athletic department budget increases faster than academic budget, faculty is becoming more concerned about these decisions and how they affect higher education, and students increasingly want opportunities
What makes people crave the wonderful season of fall? A few things that immediately come to mind might be hoodies, hot coco, pumpkin patches, and for cornhuskers, football. It is not hard to get excited for Husker football with the several hype videos floating through Facebook and Instagram feeds along with the thousands of Husker fans squirming for the new season.
The topic of college athletics has always been very prominent in the news. Most recently, members of the Northwestern University football team have joined together to start the first college sports union (Novy-Williams & Soshnick, 2014). Their goal is to obtain control over their collegiate athletic career, including what they believe are long overdue financial benefits. This case has reopened the longstanding debate concerning whether or not college athletes should be paid.
Maya Angelou is an award winning American author and poet. Her writing was first published in the 1960’s, a time a racial tension and cry for civil rights. Also, at this time many women did not work outside of the home. However, Angelou’s work revealed the lives of black women who often were sole breadwinners in their households. Much of Maya Angelou’s work was that of autobiography. Many of her poems and books were influenced by her life and addressed the issues of racism, incest, family and identity that many Americans could relate to .
In this story, Rukumani, the protagonist faces a number of external conflicts; the conflict between her and her traditional Ceylonese Tamil family, the conflict between her and her mother, the conflict she has with her younger brother who messes up things for her, to name a few.