more than yesterday, less than tomorrow

(ok so i tried to rewrite the first paragraph of my essay with these guides bc i didn't feel like writing a Whole New Thought Process but it's lowkey a mess and i think the  online formatting may be messed up but uhhh thx for coming) Eminent domain systematically works to further oppress minorities of low income backgrounds with one goal in mind: the betterment of a corporation or government.  While, once upon a  time, the people of upper and middle classes flew to inhabit all  "available" (read: stolen) land in an  area,  today they look back to the groups of people  they forced out  to take over their  property-- again.  Not only do they destroy their homes, but they choose to  implement eminent  domain  disproportionately against  people of racial and economic minority backgrounds, with the full knowledge that  they  do not have the means to legally defend themselves the way a corpo...

(okay so i was at glimun the last week and my brain is broken; therefore this post is boring and i'm just tryna get that 10/10) Beneatha is arguably the best character in the story. She actually stands up to Walter, and may I say that he SUCKS, has her own personal passions and interests in things that she's not supposed to, wants to discover more about her lost culture, and knows that she's worth more than some bums who don't like her haircut!!!!! When Beneatha goes out with Asagai and then he reveals his True Clown Nature, roasting her for caring about civil rights and such, I really Vibed, because it just shows how misogyny is literally everywhere :)  At first, I tried to keep an open mind about Walter. It is understandable for a person to want the best for the lives of their family. While the liquor store investment idea was pretty stupid, he was still actively trying to improve their quality of life. I think Walter makes rash decisions and has such a quick ...

Around this time last year, I went to an Aminé  concert with my cousins. For reader information,  Aminé  is a hella banging rapper from Portland, and his parents are Ethiopian immigrants. During his set he had this part where he would bring someone up on stage to sign his "tour pants". When he prompted the crowd for this bit, he selected a white girl to come up on stage and sign the pants. Logically, when artists bring people in the crowd on stage they are either selected beforehand or chosen from whoever is closest to the barricade for safety and efficiency reasons. I remember when the girl got up on stage, a group of guys behind me got mad, and I heart one of them shout, "She's not even from Detroit! She probably lives in Royal Oak!". Now considering that me and my cousins are all kids too scared to push to the front at concerts because we don't wanna get stomped out, it was ob vious that  Aminé  wasn't going to select anybody far back in the crowd l...

When you think of the 1920s, you may think of Modernism, and the topics stemming from it such as freedom, alcohol, wealth, material, fashion, etc. But when I think of the 1920s, I think,  what about the rest of the world?  Maybe you know more about world history than I do, but today's post will serve as a mini history lesson for myself and those interested about the happenings of the 1920s not only in the US of A, but throughout the whole world :) Hopefully this counts as a topic related to class lol With the rise of the 1920s not only came prosperity but also birth of radical political movements (Mussolini hot 100 chart debut), the American occupation of Nicaragua, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. On the other hand, woman's suffrage spread throughout the West, going hand in hand with absolutely radical fashions such as skirts hemmed below the knee and the prosperity of "the bob" hairdo (which in my humble opinion is an absolute nightmare). America became even w...

this is some fine literature right here. heres my au in which hagar is a 2019 beauty vlogger Hey Hay-GANG welcome back to my channel! Mwah! Today we're going to be doing a look called "Evening Vibes When Your Boyfriend of Many Decades Is Suddenly No Longer Interested In You and You're Questioning Your Entire Self Worth!". It's gonna be really cute and fresh, your skin is going to be looking SO youthful and glowy that you're guaranteed to get your man back! So first we're gonna be taking charcoal gray eyeliner and just fill our eyebrows with it anyway even though that's not the intended use of eyeliner anyway because who's gonna notice? Your boyfriend? He doesn't notice you anyway! Even when you break into his house with a weapon! He literally does not care! Next I'm taking this beautiful mango tango color and just smearing it all over my cheeks, much like the way it feels Milkm-- your boyfriend took your heart from your chest, and cr...

Welcome, dedicated readers. Today I am quitting my job. And also I think I have food poisoning. So you may say that the vibes are severely off on this fine Saturday afternoon. I am just not feeling it. Therefore, please excuse the absolute nightmare that is about to be today's blog post. Toni Morrison has been making someone (me) feel very heightened emotions this week (confusion, anger, despair, etc). Do you ever read or hear something really freaking smart and important and you're like, wow this is amazing. How would one come up with such an abstract yet aligned idea? Then the more you think about it, the more heated you get, and then you're just having a mild breakdown over the complexities of literature? Very common human experience. I just want to know how someone can come up with a way to equate an EGG. AN EGG. As a symbol for something so rooted such as (deep breath) race relations...????? Not even in a way in which you may think, she's reaching, your honor...

I'm sleeping peacefully, dreaming about the wonders of literary analysis, until my rest is rudely awakened by the howls of a Dyson vacuum accompanied by the high hitting notes of Umm Kulthum ("The original diva of Egypt" - My brother). My mother, Umm, and the vacuum all make their entrance into my room, where I am yelled at to get out of my warm and comfortable cocoon and down to the kitchen, because dad made ful for breakfast. For me, that is where I find my own culture: in the disarray of the supposedly peaceful early hours of the morning.    ur arab mom coming to wake u up at 8am on a saturday moodboard In general, culture is found wherever you may peek into. It can be found in the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the way you speak or present yourself. Culture appears in our lives like this because our ancestors planted those seeds which manifested over years of growth and division of life, and were passed down to each person. Some people may not feel the...