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After much internal debate about what my blog post was going to be about, I have finally decided to do a tier list on the characters in A Raisin In The Sun. Now, you might be thinking, what characters could there be? There are like five important characters- Walter, Beneatha, Ruth, Mama- in the entire novel so what is there to rank? Well, I sure am glad you asked! Today, I’m going to be ranking my top five most useless characters.  Number five on my list, unfortunately, has to be Bobo. Sorry man but it’s gotta be you. He really is just so useless and offers nothing of substance whatsoever. His only directive in the play is to cry with Walter. It seems like Hansberry kinda took the phrase three’s a crowd to heart and made three business partners instead of just two. Bobo really just didn’t do anything at all; he didn’t sound genuine at all whatsoever and the entire time I saw his name I compared him to one of those gorillas in the circuses that everyone laughs at.  Next ...

Reading Benetha’s confident proclamation about assimilation really reminded me of how I have been assimilated. I can speak and understand some Chinese, but I cannot read it at all. I am not up to date on any Chinese news and I barely have any knowledge of Chinese history or culture. My parents did their best; we only speak Chinese at home, but that’s not enough for me to be fluent in Chinese. I don’t know any Chinese traditions except to eat noodles on a birthday, and I never know the dates of Chinese holidays. When I get married and have kids, they won’t be able to speak Chinese. They won’t know of the Mid-Autumn Festival or the Spring Festival. They’ll simply have a vague recollection of Chinese New Year, and even that isn’t certain. I would have to search for the dates every year. I can’t make any Chinese food. I don’t know how to make zongzi or baoji or jiazi at all, and even if I learned, it wouldn’t be authentic like my parents’. Thinking of the future, I can only see myself lo...

 I really feel like doing another Gatsby post is like beating a dead horse but here we go! The passage in question is at the end of chapter 7 and I was PLANNING on analyzing it in in-class essay but it was a contrast essay this so sad. Anyways, I thought this passage as interesting because about a chapter or two ago we discussed how Gatsby caught the broken clock and tried to save the disconnected relationship. In that chapter, Gatsby remains at Daisy’s house, keeping watch and making sure that Tom doesn’t do anything to her. However, there’s a little bit of dramatic irony because when Nick is in the house with Daisy and Tom, it’s clear that they were getting along perfectly well. So Gatsby, who represents the American dream, is trying to protect something that he didn’t need to; he is trying to save the unsavable. This mirrors the first time we see Gatsby, when he is striving to reach for the unreachable. Gatsby is a tragic hero, someone who constantly strives to catch his dream (...

More often than not, the American Dream is usually bashed on in greatly influential books such as The Great Gatsby. Why is the notion of the American Dream so criticized? America was basically built from settlers in Europe seeking religious freedom, and it has often been a refuge for citizens of other countries. America is the Great Melting Pot and often called the Land of Opportunity in other countries. It’s the land where hard work pays off and allows anyone who puts in the time and effort to rise to the top. But that’s not the case at all in real life. American runs off capitalism, and no matter how hard you work, if you don’t have the connections you might never get anywhere. Successful companies are passed down from fathers to sons, giving little chance for immigrants to make it to the top. Old money’s influence is not as prominent as it was in the 1920s, but the passing years have led to the creation of a whole new social status of influencers. For all you boomers out there, in...

After taking the quiz and barely remembering that Meyer Wolfsheim had human molar cufflinks, I was confused because I didn’t really know what cufflinks were. When I searched them up, I found that they were like little buttons men put on their cuffs to hold them in place. I thought it was weird that Wolfsheim had cufflinks made out of molars, the teeth would probably rot. So, I decided to search and see if human molar cufflinks were really possible. After a little research, I found out that to make teeth jewelry, you need adult teeth. Baby teeth aren’t big enough to work with, and it will often make the teeth too fragile and fractured to work with. Next, you need to bleach and clean the teeth of any bacteria that may still be living on the teeth. In fact, bleaching the teeth makes it appear smooth and glossy, almost like pearls. Next, after bleaching, you need to boil your teeth so it’s softer and easier to mold with. Once you boiled the teeth, you take it out and let it cool a little...

When you make wine, the first thing you want to do is to make sure the grape is large and firm. It won’t make no good wine if you squish them when they’re already squishy. You can’t get no good substance out of those squishy grapes. If they squishy, there ain’t nothing you can do to change their shape, you can only take em out and maybe eat em or feed em to some animal. They don’t make good juice. After picking these firm grapes you wanna squish em. Squish em real fine and make sure that all the juice is squished out. Them white folks, they squished the grapes with their feet but we ain’t got the space for all them grapes. Squish em any way you want, with ur hands, with a spoon, with a bowl it’s all good. You might think all these different grapes’ll give lots of contrasting flavors to the wine, but actually, the mixed juice makes the wine better to drink. It tastes more complete and it’s especially enjoyed by the white people. Men who you think wouldn't enjoy my bootlegged wine...

Watchmen, a new show based on Alan Moore’s famous comic book series Watchmen, opens its pilot episode with the Tulsa Race Massacre. As I have not taken a single history class in my life, I didn’t find it strange that I had no idea what or when in history these riots were, but as I researched them, they revealed the ugly history of racism in America. The Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riots, occurred in 1921 when mobs of white citizens attacked an area called the “Black Wall Street” in Tulsa, Oklahoma. While this event has been called “one of the worst outbreaks of racial violence in American history”, it rarely occurs in any history textbook. Most people have no idea about this critical point in America’s history, where the first bombings from airplanes took place to run the African Americans out of Tulsa. So why isn’t this event covered much in history books? Well for one, there was a deliberate attempt to cover up this event. Newspapers removed stories talking abo...