Like most other second class citizens there is little recorded of Esther Hart’s life before the titanic. She was born May 13 1863 and she lived in Ilford Essex England with her seven year old daughter, Eva and her husband Benjamin. (Titanica ) Her husband was a carpenter and they wanted to move to Canada to begin a new life. () Esther always had a deep feeling of dread regarding the journey, she would always say that calling a ship unsinkable was “flying in the face of God”.…
Incidents In The Life Of a Slave Girl This book was written by Harriet Jacobs as in autobiography of her life. She takes an audience roll in the book and names the main character Linda Brent. Harriet writes it this way so that if someone were to read it they won’t know it is her. The book was written before the civil war and since she was a slave, she was often fearful for her life. When reading this book there were several things that stood out as to why Harriet Jacobs wrote this book.…
Wild animals are no different than civilized humans in that we live by one simple rule: eat or be eaten. We find the will to survive by any means. Insects use their camouflage abilities, lions their speed, and men their strength. Women, however, use their cunningness to survive. Whether flaunting accentuated features, beaming a beguiling smile, or toying with emotions, a woman 's survival comes down to her ability to physically or mentally deceive her opponent by any means possible.…
Literary critic Gurleen Grewal notes that Song of Solomon reverberates alongside novels that have documented and refashioned cultural and ethical identities in America since the 1970s: Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine, Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men, Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, and Peter Najerian’s Voyages. In such novels, “characters’ self-hatred and angry confusion are related to a historic dispossession and to a psyche cut off from ancestral or communal wellsprings; their narratives chart a moving and powerful repossession of selfhood, articulating personal well-being in terms of the collective” (63).This is one of the distractive novels in which the pastoral is represented both in its pristine and transformed racialized version. It…
It is a cold autumn night, nothing but darkness is all the eye could see. However, like a flame-lit torch, a young Negro female slave navigates through the thick woods of Georgia. She isn 't alone. In her arms, she carries a 3-week old baby girl. The runaway slave 's name is Esther Johnson, a field slave from a nearby cotton plantation.…
In this excerpt, Stratton uses motif and repetition to develop Chanda’s character and show the reader that she does not know how to react towards shocking situations that occur, or what to do about it. Chanda thinks by reciting the alphabet when she’s overwhelmed can get her out of reality. The reader knows that whether Chanda recites the alphabets or not, this won’t help change Esther’s situation. Due to the several times where this has happened, and her reactions has remained the same, and Esther’s tragedy did not change. This extends further more on Stratton…
In the first 18 chapters of Exodus, the role of women in Hebrew society is implied throughout Moses’ narrative. However, in the Ten Commandments and the Book of the Covenant, Israelite women’s role is formally established. The narrative portion of Exodus, though it focuses almost exclusively on the Israelites escape from Egypt, establishes Hebrew women’s social and economic…
In the Metropolitan Museum of Art there is a painting by the name of Esther before Ahasuerus. An artist named Artemisia Gentilesc created the painting on a canvas using oils in Naples, Italy around the 1630s. Esther before Ahasuerus is an image that expresses the amount separation between men in the realm of equality. Although heroes small and large are supposed fight for their cause with a large amount of energy and strength the image displayed by the painter is one completely different. Men and women alike can and should be heroes but that doesn’t mean that they should act the same way in order to fight for their cause.…
She has lost her husband and her only sons within a short time. Yet, she keeps her Hebrew ways, not in resentment but in gentle loyalty. Loving her native place, she so speaks of it in a way to make her daughters-in-law contemplate settling there with her. The influence of her religion is upon them both, and one at least is inspired with faith and tenderness equal to her own. 1.2.…
Esther’s psychological crisis in The Bell Jar is likely a matter of stressful events triggering an episode of a disorder she’d always had. It seems likely that Esther suffered from schizotypal personality disorder (STPD), based on the symptoms she displayed. STPD is a mental illness that involves symptoms of anxiety, depression, and warped perception of reality. Esther was unable to read or write because letters “associated themselves in fantastic, untranslatable shapes, like Arabic or Chinese” (65).…
Displaying the qualities of a servant leader as described in Ken Blanchard’s book, The Serving Leader, Esther not only saves the Jewish people, but also reestablishes Jewish community and raises their status among the Persians. “Serving leaders, run to great purpose, raise the bar, blaze the trail, build on strength and upend the pyramid” (Jennings & Stahl-Wert, 2004, p. 100-102). Facing impossible challenges, Esther ascends to reach her goals. Actions of a serving leader are visible in her approach to handling conflicts. Finding her purpose, Esther realizes that she has been placed in a unique position to carry out the will of God and deliver the Jews from death.…
After deposing the queen for disobeying his command, the King of Persia sets about finding a woman to take her place. A beautiful Jewish girl, going by the name of Esther to conceal her heritage, was chosen to be the new queen. An orphan raised by her uncle, she was humble, obedient, and followed the law. Once queen, she continued to be guided by her uncle, who reveals a plot to exterminate her people. Finding her voice and the strength to disobey the law of her king would take great faith.…
People often forget how much God is in control of. Many come to believe that the events in their life happened by chance and thus, are in need of constant reminders of His sovereignty and His power over all of their situations. Although in the book of Esther, God’s name was never directly mentioned, His presence was clearly demonstrated. Though it might seemed as if her beauty was what made King Ahasuerus choose her, God had purposely meant for Esther to earn the king’s affection and become his new queen.…
What is biblical leadership? What should a biblical leader be like? These are questions any student of God’s Word should ask if they want to discover what the Bible has to say about biblical leadership. This paper will attempt to show from the Bible what biblical leadership ought to look like primarily in a church atmosphere. While doing, so the terms “good shepherd” and “biblical leader” will be used synonymously.…
In the Old Testament, a theme that is widely reflected between people and God is obedience. The relationships found throughout Old Testament were based on people’s obedience towards God’s instruction; probably making it one of the most important relational aspect. According to International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, obedience is defined as, “the supreme test of faith in God and reverence for him” (Obedience). God uses many prominent people in the Old Testament who obey and listen to what he calls them to do. For this paper, I’ll be using the story of Abraham as an example of obedience and go more in details about how God used Abraham’s life because he was obedient.…