Dominic West

In Kate Chopin’s, The Awakening, the novel highlights Edna’s awakening as she defies the expectations and standards that are held over most women within their Victorian society in the late 1800s. In Mike Newell’s, Mona Lisa Smile, the film introduces an engaged student as Wellesley College named Betty, who’s feels as if her purpose is to be the perfect housewife and future mother. Based on the content within the film and the novel, Chopin’s novel is highly effective. Through protagonist analysis the reader can indicate that both Betty and Edna have different motivations and conflicts, but have a similar resolution. Throughout the novel, The Awakening, and the film, Mona Lisa Smile, a difference can be seen amongst Edna Pontellier and Betty in a sense of motivations and interests. Edna is a newly awakened woman who wishes to remain independent and free within the Victorian society. Edna declares, “I am going to move away from my house on the Esplanade street” (131). This simple quote communicates to the audience that true freedom originates from discovering oneself through their own decisions and choices despite the consequences of harsh judgement and opinions that might come from others who feel and live differently. However, Betty is a character established sixty years later and maintains the roles and visions that women within Edna’s time period contained. Betty is persistent in being the perfect housewife for her husband Spencer and more than willing to bear children to…

There is an eerie, small town that seems to have come straight out of a horror story. This horrific town known as Deadman’s Paradise is always gloomy, sullen in the same way grim. It’s as if this town has never been visited by the sun. The only sources of outside light in the entire town are street lamps that constantly flicker. Most of the town residents stay inside their whole life besides occasional trips to the local grocery store. Any travelers passing by this town are given the impression…

these influential Saints is Saint Dominic of Osma, founder of the Dominican Order, a mendicant religious order founded in 1216. Saint Dominic’s legacy was his order, and from that order grew a new…

“Excavating Jesus” proved to be a unique blend of ground as gospel, as self-claimed in its introduction. However, after the engaging introduction, filled with facts and fun quips from the authors, the reader was pulled away from the goal of excavating Jesus and towards a textual representation of first century history that no longer focused on the historical Jesus but rather the historical Christian. Written by John Dominic Crossan, an Irish-American Catholic religious scholar, and Johnathan…

Sunday, August 13, 1961 the day where Gerta Lowe and her family were separated. Gerta Lowe was an average girl with blonde hair and an average family living on the East side. However, one night is where it all changes. On the night of August 13, 1961 a wall was built dividing Berlin East and West Berlin. Gerta’s Dad and her brother Dominic set off on a trip to west berlin to try to find an apartment they could live in and a job for Gerta’s dad. They would be back in two days at least that’s what…

Caldwell and West Caldwell “Chiefs on three, one….two...three...CHIEFS!” Chiefs are the mascot of Caldwell and West Caldwell’s amazing sports teams. Caldwell and West Caldwell are located in Essex County, New Jersey. The Caldwells settled in the early 18th century by pioneers who moved westward from Newark or through the Passaic Valley. West Caldwell and Caldwell have pools open all summer for people to hang out. Caldwell and West Caldwell both have governments that are open to new ideas, they…

over the border into the West. Using the border between the separate occupation zones to their favour, large numbers of GDR citizens averaging 180,000 per year until 1953 defected to the German Federal Republic. Prompted by the ever increasing oppressive nature of the Soviet Union and the paranoid measures taken by Joseph towards the occupied GDR, the emigration rate grew to a number of 335,000 in the year 1953 alone. Seeing this number as very damaging and unsustainable to the economy of the…

Living Legend? The first time I heard Kanye West rap was with his album 808’s and Heartbreaks. The first song I remember listening to was ‘Heartless’ by Kanye West. I was just a young boy, about 10 years old or so and I was relatively new to the to the music world and did not know much. I only really knew about the young pop stars that teenagers were all crazy about and the older music that my dad always listened to. But people at first told me not to listen to Kanye West because of his music…

The conflict began when Israel started implementing Jewish settlements in ex-Palestinian territory, which were the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem. Critics of the settlements argue that “the continued growth and construction of Israeli settlements assert that under international law, all of Israel 's West Bank settlements are illegal” (“Israeli Settlements”.) Although, Israel claims it is not illegal because Palestine is not a legal state. These settlements created enormous resistance,…

Galileo Galilei once said, “Passion is the genesis of genius”. Passionate people can be found from across the globe; however, the passion of one young man who comes from the Southside of Chicago is unmatchable and unique from anyone else. Kanye Omari West grew up in the “Windy City” of Chicago. Kanye’s mother, Donda West, was an English Professor and the first African American Chair of the English Department at Chicago State University. Kanye’s father, Ray West, who was also a former black…