Love
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Discussion of Henry David Thoreau’s Life Without Principle
“An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not (Thoreau, 380)” What if one day the only jobs left were those that did not get any pay? What if the most important jobs were those that never got any pay? Mothers do not get paid but… Read more
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Discussion of Wild Seed By Octavia Butler
Doro searches for Anyanwu. He needs someone immortal. He gives her to his son Isaac, but she loves him. Anyanwu marries Isaac, but she hates Doro for it. Later Doro takes Anyanwu as his wife. She wants to die because Doro is a killer. Love is out there looking for us while we look for… Read more
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Discussion of Jonah’s Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston
Jonah has a gift to preach, with that gift comes idolizing. Women are falling at his feet and Jonah picks them up even though his wife Lucy is at home. Lucy dies from heartbreak at 47. Before she dies she tells her daughter “Don’t you love nobody better ‘n you do yo’self. Do you’ll be… Read more