Theory of Fernanda

Martin Luther King's speech 'I have a dream' addresses oppressed African American communities during the Civil Right's movement in the United States in the 1960's, and through the criticizing of those that advocate racial violence and segregation, a call for action for equality ensues. The audience is recognized through the historical references to the Emancipation Proclamation and slavery, yet more importantly, the audience is referenced as "The Negro [who] still is not free" as "[he] is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination". The metaphor of the shackles establishes the idea that the African American community have been enduring social injustice that goes back to their slavery history, and that even though the Emancipation Proclamation was signed nearly a hundred years ago, they are still slaves to society in a way. Furthermore, the transitioning of referral of the African American community from ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/arts/design/emmett-till-whitney-biennial-schutz.html The article delves into the debate surrounding Dana Schutz's painting "Open Casket", displayed at the White Biennial. Controversially, the painting is about Emmet Till, an African American 14 year old who was mutilated by two white men for flirting with a white store clerk. In the painting, he is painted in his coffin, the focal point being his mutilated face. However, the reason why this painting is being protested to be taken down is that it was painted by Schutz, who is ethnically white. The African-American community believes that he has no ethnic ownership of the genre, and that therefore, he is appropriating it to an extent that the deeper meaning of Till's event is being completely overlooked. The following questions ensue: -To what extent should intent influence interpretation? Which interpretation should be deemed correct? -To what extent should a social group have...

Art, being a form of self-expression, is substantially subjective and therefore can incarnate itself in endless subject matters and mediums. However, it is precisely because of the freedom that this subjectivity can offer that ethics and morals can sometimes be surpassed through art. Looking at this argument from one perspective, it could be argued that ethical barriers should be imposed on art because artists may venture into subjects that are taboo. Touching upon these taboos, societal norms may be completely overlooked and therefore, go against public morals. To go further,  those morals and societal norms exist and were put in place for a reason— no special treatment should be given to art just based on the arguments that it is subjective and that art does not limit itself to the preferences of public opinion. Furthermore, when art portrays a taboo (particularly anything related to sexuality and self-harm), those topics might encourage the audience to think similarly to t...

Teachers, shaking in their seats, are pointing their fingers at the hairy, uncontrollable, toxic monster that is our smart phones. Those machines of evil that are threatening conventional spelling and grammar rules with a nuclear bomb whose codes are comprised of neologisms and abbreviations. After reading “Twtr? It’s majorly bad! Leading headteacher condemns ‘text speak’ for eroding schoolchildren’s language skills”, I do believe that our teachers and educational system are majorly bad as well! Teachers push us to think critically and to be open-minded yet they themselves are rebels against their own cause– they refuse to accept that texting and the development of bidilectal teens is in fact a miracle and not an apocalypse of language. All the new terminology and methodologies of communication are in fact, evolving and not eroding our language. It is true evidence that English is constantly morphing and is fluid, not fixed in a grammar textbook. It baffles me that they as teachers,...