This person was born on March 18, 1837 in Caldwell, New Jersey. He was the fifth of nine children, and his father was a Presbyterian minister. Because the church regularly transferred their ministers, the family moved many times, primarily around central and western New York. The death of his father in 1853 forced him to abandon school in order to support his family. He worked as a teacher in a school for the blind in New York City and then worked as a clerk in a law firm in Buffalo, New York.…
Dianna Hardy wrote, “It only takes one voice, at the right pitch, to start an avalanche.” Meaning when one person stands up for what they believe in and say it loud enough for all to hear people will join their cause like an avalanche. One example of this would be slavery in America. Slavery went on for years but no one ever spoke out against the cruelties in it. Until one man spoke out with the right pitch, this man was Abraham Lincoln.…
Simon M-Rock: The hangman’s garden By Letesha Stephens Ballarat Art Gallery, 30126279 Sat 17 Dec, 2016 – Sun 5 Mar, 2017 M-Rock(ing): The hangman’s garden. Come one, come all. Come children whom are small, teenager whom are bold and those, whom aren’t too old; to digest the sickly neon drawings of Simon M-rock.…
The documentary called “Hanging: the mysterious case of the boy in the barn” written by Julia Prodis Sulek touches base on a unique phenomenon that these parents known as the Klaver are facing with. A catastrophic incident has occurred almost twenty-five years ago, which involved a young child by the name of Joshua Klaver, who was fatally being lynched. Whether the death of Josh was simply a suicide or even a homicide, still remains to be a mystery. In this critical analysis, we will be breaking down layers of Julia’s perspective of the story and also the interviews that she has conducted. Critiques’ will appropriately be made if holes are found in her writing.…
Karl Taro Greenfield’s article published in the October 2013 issue of The Atlantic discusses the potential drawbacks of a heavy workload on middle school American students, specifically his 13 year old daughter, Esmee. Greenfield addresses these drawbacks by choosing to complete his daughter’s homework for an entire week to truly see how the other half lives. My Daughter’s Homework is Killing Me successfully brings to life the hardships that today’s students face concerning the time the spend on homework and the lack of teacher understanding regarding the topic. Greenfield opens the article by criticizing the school system for the number of hours of homework assigned to his daughter each night. He approaches this argument by comparing it to…
Imagine your life turned upside down and you're hanging on a 13th floor window. You are deciding between life and death because you are facing demons in your life. "The Woman hanging from the 13th floor Window" is an Indian woman living in Chicago, who has faced racial supression, poverty and as she is hanging, thinks of all the people she represents. In the end, the woman will climb back up and reclaim…
The Heretic 's Daughter is a heartfelt and riveting tale of a family during the Salem witch trials who faced many perilous battles and had to learn the importance of faith and trust. The story is gripping and powerful and tells the tale from a realistic standpoint, beginning with a letter to Lydia from Sarah Carrier Chapman, telling about the witch trials and struggles she endured from her point of view, and ending with a detailed explanation of what became of her family after they were released. The Heretic 's Daughter goes to show that individuality can be threatening at first, however, it is necessary in society because contradictory personal values and morals make for a balanced society, proven by characters, Sarah, Grandmother, Margaret, and Aunt Mary, examples of women who were shamed for being different, but persevered to the end. Sarah Carrier, daughter of Martha and Thomas Carrier, was accused of being a witch multiple times throughout the story. She was threatened and tormented by other girls simply because she was different.…
Art and literature are the foundation of life. Long before Netflix and social media existed, people used books to entertain themselves. Mason Cooley said “reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are”. Even in 21st century, the age of technology, people use books as a source of entertainment and writing as a form of self-expression. Books and reading in general has many benefits like mental stimulation, gaining knowledge and much more.…
Wanex 5-2 The Downsides of Hate Reading Pamela Paul’s article “Why You Should Read Books You Hate” is an intriguing read that focuses on the importance of reading books that are unappealing to the specific reader. She thoroughly explains that pursuing novels with subjects that do not interest the reader makes them a more skeptical and scrupulous critic. In addition, she details the pleasure that reading brings to all as well as the magnitude of the time commitment that it requires in comparison to other activities that expose people to new content.…
Reading literature invokes the most intellectual recesses of the human mind. At face value, a story is a thread of plot points or events or happenings; anyone with the simple abilities of reading and remembering can follow a story from its first page to its last, but this mere action, to follow a story, draws no merit, for the true labour in reading literature lies in understanding the meaning beneath each word. One skeptical advocate may suppose that there exists no ulterior meaning to the events that unfold in a body of literature; Thomas C. Foster in his book, How to Read Literature like a Professor, argues on the contrary. Writers of literature carefully and intelligently compose their work with the sole purpose to weave layers upon layers…
Final American Literature paper The three works that I chose to write about for my final paper for this class are the “Way to Wealth” (1758) by Benjamin Franklin “The Raven” by Edger Allan Poe and “The legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving. The reason that I chose to write about these three pieces is that they really stuck out to me the most in this class. The Way to Wealth stuck out to me one because I had never read it before so it was nice to read something new and it also made me think about what the word wealth actually means. Then I picked The Raven because it is one of my favorite of Edger Allan Poe’s work I love most of his work but The Raven is definitely my favorite.…
Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? In C. S Lewis 's classic book An Experiment in Criticism comes from the conviction that literature exists for the elation of the reader and that a book shall not be judged by the reading but by whom the reader is. Lewis argues, to distinguish between a good book and a bad, we must therefore not refer to how the book is written but by how it is read. Throughout the book, Lewis discuss’ his theories about why that is true, starting by separating the readers into two groups, one the “literary” and the other the “unliterary”. He processes by outlining a few of the differences between the two types of readers.…
Why is it that we read? We read to learn new things, whether that is a life lesson or simply new vocabulary. We can take two lessons from Hamlet. The first one is that if people let anger and revenge get the best of them, they can cause damage. The second one is in life you will be able to get away with something for long but not forever.…
De’Andria Grantham Daddy’s Little Girl Delta State University Daddy’s Little Girl is about three young girls who live with their grandmother. The grandmother takes sick and demand that the father gets his daughters. The grandmother then died. The single father ,Monty, who lives in a one bedroom apartment in a poor neighborhood struggles to meet needs to raise his daughters on his own.…
The poem by Margret Atwood, “Marrying the Hangman” exemplifies the conception of humiliation, commendably sanctioning the metamorphosing societal values. Effectively perceiving the perception of deception and guilt. Marrying the Hangman is fused by history which in turn invoked the official, written history of a woman who escaped sentence of death by convincing a condemned man to accept the position of hangman and to marry her, and the oral history of a violent encounter, shared among other women: "These things happen and we sit at a table and tell stories about them so we can finally believe." Atwood demonstrates a remarkable determination to confront humiliation in her poetry. The historical poem “Marrying the Hangman” includes a related observation: An example illustrating the humiliation she withholds, “To live in prison is to live without mirrors.…