In Homer’s Odyssey one can see loyalty in many forms; loyalty to family, community, and the gods is very important in the lives of these people. These qualities are demonstrated in The Odyssey through Odysseus, Penelope, and Telemachos. Odysseus, our great hero, showed loyalty to his family and community. He is a persistent man, and […]
The issue of slavery in the 1800’s had the means of being very brutal and carried dehumanizing factors that affected the lives of many men, women, and children who were colored. The autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, highly demonstrated the cruelty slaveowners exhibited towards their slaves, whom they saw as merely […]
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Within the American Yawp Reader, we find an excerpt from Harriet Jacobs’ own autobiography titled “Harriet Jacobs on Rape and Slavery.” The author, Harriet Jacobs, was a black woman who was born into slavery in North Carolina. While she was enslaved, she was not only a victim of slavery, but also a victim of rape […]
Did you know that some researchers have charged that the WPA interviewers edited out parts they found unimportant, but were critical to the enslaved person: religion, cruel plantation owners, lynching’s, runaways, punishment and stories about serving in the Union Army. The formerly enslaved were more open and honest when the interviewer recording their stories was […]
The quote in question appears within Harriet Jacobs’ book, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, the passage it was extracted from embodies her most important influences on the literature of Slavery – her representation of slave women. Jacobs addresses both race and gender issues within her novel, discussing the struggles and sexual abuses […]
In his novel, Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift expertly satirizes conflicts of the western world by creating a war between the fictional, tiny nations of Lilliput and Blefuscu. Though the war is violent and deathly, the conflict arose from a ludicrous disagreement: the citizens of Lilliput believe an egg should be broken from the small end, […]
Should Huckleberry Finn stay in schools? If so, should it be moved to a higher level? Huck Finn is 13 year old boy who had no real family who had the most growing experiences. He traveled far and the longer he traveled the more mature he grew. The controversy between banning this book and not […]
The book “The Killer Angels” is a historic novel wrote by author Michael Shaara back in 1974. It’s about the Battle of Gettysburg that had taken place in the American Civil War which the book takes place about four days during that time. A battle was pursued between the Union and the Confederacy soldiers in […]
In the book “Mindset”, author and psychologist Carol S Dweck, makes an analyze, based on years of research, about the difference of a fixed mindset and a flexible, growth mindset. This mindset being the one highly responsible for people’s success or failures because it is related to how people think about themselves. I wanted to […]
Geoffrey Chaucer’s, The Canterbury Tales, written during the 14th century, explores the stories told by multiple characters for the prize of a free supper and night stay in the Canterbury Inn. One character in particular, the Wife of Bath, tells a story which object against the current status quos of the 14th century. While The […]
Dear dairy, 28 march 1994 1st entry from Sidney after her boyfriend’s been shot – how she feels about it and how she feels about Ms Gruwell’s teaching whilst Sidney’s trying to deal with losing her partner entry based on the end of the film and how she feels after Eva spoke up and told […]
Flowers for Algernon examines the connection between smart and unintelligent individuals, or for the most part, between the superior and inferior, as well as whether or not Charlie recognizes the power and superiority complexes at play. Since Charlie Gordon goes between these two universes—shifting from being intellectually disabled to being brilliant, and eventually reverting back […]
In Daniel Keyes’ novel Flowers for Algernon, Charlie, a 32-year-old intellectually disabled man, undergoes a newly researched surgical procedure that turns him into a genius. Being intellectually disabled means having severe limitations when it comes to mental and cognitive capabilities. Many with this disability have an incredibly troublesome time adjusting to life, and generally, have […]
Charlie Gordon was a very kind and caring man. He was an example of how all humans should live their lives. And no not as a retard. As a happy and motivated being. Charlie started out his life having a very low IQ. He always seemed to see himself as a child because he hadn’t […]
The glass Menageries is a modern play that written by Tennessee Williams this play is called by another name which is “ Memory play “ because Williams uses a special technique that the play about a character’s memory. Right now ‘Williams gets from the mechanism of film.. Especially from silent film, to present the interrupted […]
The Struggle of Apartheid No matter what, there are always two sides to a story. In the short stories “Once Upon a Time” and “A Chip of Glass Ruby” by author Nadine Gordimer it tells how the two different families are impacted by the South African apartheid. One is a wealthy upper class family living […]
In the Puritan’s view, the world is full of sin. Sinners must be punished and Without conformity, people are left as outsiders. Conformity is influenced by the identification with a specific group. In order to be truly accepted as a member of the clergy, people must adapt to the group’s set of rules that govern […]
Cinderella Man is a 2005 film that is set during the great depression and follows struggling professional boxer, James J. Braddock as he attempts to provide for his family amid a looming financial crisis. The plot of financial crisis allows for the application of several themes involving gender differences, feminism, class differences, commodification, class exploitation, […]
Chinese Cinderella, a memoir written by Chinese-American author Adeline Yen Mah, is a story describing her experiences growing up in Chinese culture. After Adeline is born in 1937, her mother dies two weeks later due to complications related to her birth. Since this occurred, her family members believe that she brings the worst luck. A […]
“Hi. My name is Prince Charming. I am going to be telling you the story of how I met my beloved Cinderella. It was all thanks to my nagging father, the King. Here’s how it started. My father wanted me to get married, so he could see his grandchildren before he passed away. Every day, […]
The Cinderella story is a story that is well known around the world. While the Cinderella story has been generalized to be about a mistreated stepdaughter who becomes a princess these stories reflect the culture of each country they are set in. Cinderella is a story that tells us how kindness does not mean weakness, […]
For this writing analysis I will be looking at short passages from the semi-autobiographical short story To Da Duh in Memoriam by Paule Marshall. To Da Duh in Memoriam was published in 1966. The author Paule Marshall has written multiple novels and short stories with To Dah Duh in Memoriam being one of her most […]
The Iroquois historically have been a very powerful Native American Tribal confederation operating within the north east of North America, as with most civilizations around the earth they have their own unique myths and mythology that give cause to the natural event that humans could not have scientifically reason at the time, among those myths […]
The prevailing unanswered questions of humanity are, why are we here and how did we get here? Throughout the existence of humanity, mankind has tried to solve these time old questions. In many ancient societies the way these questions were attempted to be answered was through creation myths. Over centuries, countless creation myths have surfaced […]
The creation myth, or cosmogony (a composite of the Greek words kosmos and genesis – order and birth), is the most important story humans have to tell. That is because it serves as a model for everything we do. Creation myths, like all myths, are universal expressions that aim to explain a culture’s place and […]
“Kuba (also called Bakuba) people are agriculturalist.”(Kwekudee) They live in the southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The Kuba people are a smaller group in the Bantu ethnicity. Speak a language called Bushong, which they adapted from the Bantu ethnicity. (Kwekudee) Kuba people, farm many crops including corn, cassava, millet, peanuts, and beans. Men usually hunt […]
Ayn Rand had a lot of theme words and out of all of the theme’s I picked individual because it goes more with the theme and it explained the theme more than the other ones do.she had a lot of individual things in the book like equality left and created an invention.The author went through […]
In today’s world, individuals in public are placed in categories according to their sex orientation, religion, race, and age from which the vast majority of these categories include social class. This idea is shown differently in the book, Anthem, by Ayn Rand where the author has created a collectivist society. People are placed in a […]
The two novels The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and Anthem by Ayn Rand are both set in extremist societies, inspired by communities under control of controversial governing bodies; the Puritans and the Communists. The Handmaid’s Tale focuses on the oppression of women, whilst Anthem looks at the oppression of an entire community, but nevertheless […]
Controlling One’s Moral Compass Imagine having all freedoms in a person’s life quarantined, people not allowed to have any free thoughts or actions, in the novel, Anthem, by Ayn Rand a collectivist society is portrayed in which people have no individuality in order for society to live in fair community. Personal names have been removed, […]
