1: Where Time Resides and The Tree of LifeIn Malicks The Tree of Life, life and eternity flow into and out of one another. Time is sensed in moments, fragments, memories, dreams. What does the film say about where time resides? Is it something that e Continue Reading...
Preserving Family Traditions and Cultural Legacies:
Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” and Individual Identity
In Alice Walker’s short story “Everyday Use,” the conflict between a desire for personal fulfillment and the Continue Reading...
Down These Mean Streets believe that every child is born a poet, and every poet is a child. Poetry to me was always a very sacred form of expression. (qtd. In Fisher 2003)
Introduction / Background History
Born Juan Pedro Tomas, of Puerto Rican and Continue Reading...