playing around with things beyond your understanding, as well as a story about responsibility and redemption. It stresses the importance of taking responsibility for your actions and taking ownership of your mistakes, and therein working to correct those. Many of the themes and morals presented in Frankenstein are also portrayed in a much more concise format in William Ernest Henley’s “Invictus”, a poem about perseverance and self-governance in the face of incredible hardship and agony. Both…
education is an ongoing issue that, as teachers, we will need to be constantly aware of. To be aware of the diverse students in the classroom, whether that be their various cultural and religious beliefs or simply their learning styles as well as being welcoming and accepting of these differences and adapting teaching methods to ensure their success in school means that we are, hopefully, getting the most potential out of the students we are teaching. There is a correlation between diversity in…
Hills like White Elephants” was first published in 1927. It was written by Ernest Hemingway an American writer and journalist. Hemmingway uses symbols found in dialogue and setting to demonstrate the importance of communication in decision making for a couple. The station where the drama unfolds is “between two lines of rails in the sun” at a train station surrounded by hills, fields and trees in a valley in Spain. The story involves two main characters, the male protagonist who is referred to…
Superadded to the burden common to all, they have wrongs, and sufferings, and mortifications peculiarly their own.” Through this emotive language Jacobs conveys how being a slave she does not have the freedom to lead her life the way she wants. The emotional anguish portrays how badly she is treated but also how she is trying to fight for her freedom so that she can lead a normal life like everybody else, which may…
Sustainability is the quality of not being harmful to the environment and therefore, trying to preserve the ecological resources in this world for a longer period of time. In Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, Callenbach writes about a sustainable community in the United States of America called Ecotopia. The states of Northern California, Oregon, and Washington have all succeeded from the USA to form this new vision of the future. After twenty years since its independence of the United States,…
Mary Wollstonecraft: Mother of Feminism Mary Wollstonecraft raised the question in A Vindication of the Rights of Women, “If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?” (Chap. III. Para. 34). She notes that women were taught to rely solely upon men for their livelihood, and to submit to their ideas, but she question is where it stops. In the 1700s, the education and social…
Plot Summary: “The Old Man and The Sea,” written by Ernest Hemingway and published in 1952, relates the difficult life of an old Cuban fisherman that struggles in his profession for a long period of time until he catches the biggest fish in his life. The story begins presenting readers the fact that Santiago, the old fisherman, has been eighty-four days without catching a fish. This uncomfortable situation leads Manolin, a teenager who works with Santiago, to leave him under his father’s…
financially dependent of the jobholder man who attains the advantage of being the ultimate income producer. Throughout history, communities of women have gathered together to fight for their economic independence. As a result, women have proved themselves successful in acquiring more gender equality and democracy within the family structure. The impact of conflict theory…
instrument itself was still of high significance for the soldiers,”. Johanna also remarks that, “the desire to protect a musical instrument… appears to have been a common understanding among several soldiers,”. Johanna De Schmidt shares an example when Ernest Mangeret and his friends took time to transport a piano to a basement for further safety. Johanna comments on the account, saying, “the desire to protect a musical instrument in the immediate surroundings of the front line was therefore not…
The short story “Cat In The Rain” written by Ernest Hemingway reveals the destructive relationship between an American couple. The American woman is neglected by her husband, George, and because of this she begins to feel attracted to the Padrone she meets in a hotel. The story reveals the needs of the American “girl” and show what she truly desires. In “The Yellow Wall-Paper” written by Charlotte Perkons Stetson, the story in summary is about how the main girl character whose husband, John,…