Essays on Maggie

Maggie Walker

Maggie Lena Walker, born Maggie Mitchel, became an inspiration to many African American women striving to be more than they were expected to be in the south during the 1800s and 1900s. She came from a line of individuals attempting to change America, as her mother was a spy for the Union during the Civil War. As a child, Maggie’s family lived near the first black Baptist Church, which became a pinnacle for social, economic, and political discussion throughout the community. She watched as her mother supported their family after her mother died, which may have played a ...

Introduction

The story that had impressed me in my recent readings is ‘Heal,’ written by Ankit Raj Bachchan on a short story website, because of its simple, concise, direct and clear narrative. The story was selected as story of the month in July 2012 and had been listed as the Editor’s pick. The theme as the name suggests is about healing. The story is about the narrator, a lady, whose name is not specified, bereaving the loss of Adi, her husband. The story opens with her standing at a seaside home, with coffee in her hand. It is then ...

Antibiotics and Animals

In an article, Maggie Fox tells that when cattle are fed with tetracycline, a commonly used broad-spectrum antibiotic, their manure starts producing more methane than normal, thereby resulting in global warming. A study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows that antibiotics kill those bacteria that can compete with methane-producing microbes. Farmers have been warned to stop feeding their cattle with antibiotics, which can also help the animals to grow faster, but can also increase the production of antibiotic resistant “superbugs”. Fox tells that the guts of all animals including human beings are filled with microbes ...

Financial desperation is among the main factors that drive individuals, mostly women, to venture into prostitution as a way of making ends meet. The moral dilemma depicted by the woman who is deserted by her husband, friends, and relatives and has a little kid to feed generates the need for research into the moral and ethical issues involved in such scenario under different frameworks. There exist various groups that have called for tougher legislations focused on protecting cash trapped women who are going out there to support their families. However, there is a need to provide such women with ...

Introduction

This paper summarizes the two movies; A Million Dollar Baby and the Legally Blonde 2001. The paper also proceeds to compare the protagonists giving their personal traits, physical characteristics and other behaviours unique to them. In making a comparison, the paper also provides specific actions performed by actors from both movies and how they assist in building the plot of the story. In its furthest, the paper is biased as it considers the protagonist from either of the stories, gives the challenges that he goes through, conflicts generated and how they assist escalate and develop the story. It finally ...

The short story, “Everyday Use,” written by Alice Walker and first published in 1973, deals with the inherent conflict between racial heritage and modernism. This conflict is best observed in the characters of Maggie and her mother, and Dee or Wangero. In this respect, the plot revolves around the Johnson family in the rural South where Dee pays a visit after spending a number of years in urban America. Here, differences are expressed whereby Maggie and her mother are shocked by the changes that Dee has undergone, both physical and attitude, while away from home. Hence, the said story ...

The Lake Ladies was written by Paul Gullen and it is a fiction novel which deals with mystery and crime. It is a detective story involving two main characters, Bates and O’Rourke who belong to different generations of detectives. Captain O’Rourke and Bates team up and to solve crimes, but their personal stories are equally as interesting as their professional life. O’Rourke and Bates meet during a case which could not be solved which happened in Chicago and involved the murder of a female violinist. Bates solves the case because he is a genius as well ...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is the movie adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play. It was a box office hit in 1958. The movie stars Paul Newman as Brick Pollitt. Brick is married to Maggie, portrayed by Elizabeth Taylor. Brick and Maggie take a trip to visit Brick’s family’s plantation in Mississippi, where Big Daddy has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, a truth that is unbeknownst to him. He has been given a year to live. This movie chronicles the events of a Southern family whose wealth drives a wedge between their relationships. Brick’s brother, ...

Investments in IT create value to businesses by giving them capabilities to shorten and deploy new business processes quickly compared to their rivals. This creates a competitive advantage which when implemented well will ensure a high return on investments. Maggie gives Barton an example of a clothing retail from Spain, Zara, which made an investment in IT. Using IT, Zara was able to predict demands for certain products and stock them according to market demands. This capability to foresee market demands, which competitors lacked, led to higher profits. However, the competitive advantages to be realized from IT are determined ...

Alice Walker’s short story ‘Everyday Use’ is about Dee seeing her heritage and the legacy of her ancestors as something that has already passed and gone, so that there is a danger of her true heritage being abandoned and lost. However, Mama’s understanding demonstrates that she and Maggie are are still linked through the way they live in rural poverty in the South to their ancestors (by the everyday use of items like the quilts).

Dee’s name change is symptomatic of the person she has become. As Christian (14) writes:

Dee/Wangero in ‘Everyday Use’ is embarrassed by ...

In Sonny’s Blues, readers see that African Americans can become professionals. Sonny’s brother is a teacher. Sonny and his brother both grew up in Harlem. Even though Sonny’s brother is the one who has become successful in the eyes of society by graduating college, getting married, having children, and having a career, he is not given a name. It is ironic that even though Sonny’s brother would be considered successful in conventional society, that he does not have a name. Perhaps that indicates that Sonny’s brother is just another nameless, faceless worker where race and name do not ...

Alice Walker is an influential writer who expressed her passion for tradition and heritage in the compelling short story, Everyday Use. This critically acclaimed tale is set in the rural South of the 1960s, a backdrop against which Mrs. Johnson and her daughters, Dee and Maggie, play out a parable about the struggle for cultural integrity and of remaining true to one’s nature. In Everyday Use, Walker would have us understand that keeping faith with oneself is the best way to maintain a link to the past.

Background

For Walker, that past can be traced to her native Georgia. One of eight ...

In both these stories human greed is placed firmly at the center of the story. Both Maupassant and Walker make use of irony, but the effects on the reader of each story is different, because the setting s are very different, but also because the narrative viewpoint in each story creates a very different effect on the reader. This essay will explore greed and irony, but it will also examine the narrative viewpoint because that alters the reader’s attitude to the representation of greed: Maupassant uses a third person omniscient narrator, but Walker chooses to tell the story through the ...