A Room of One's Own

As a future teacher I had my mindset of changing the lives of countless students. As students pass through my classroom they will learn to use language in many ways and apply this knowledge in many areas of life. The manipulation of language is a skill that has to be developed over time. Students write in every subject, with that said, writing should be the skill they constantly develop. Writing is a powerful instrument in which a writer imagines the audience, sets goals, call upon others to…

Notwithstanding Swift’s intentions in “The Lady’s Dressing Room,” Lady Mary Wortley Montagu two years later penned “The Reasons that Induced Dr. S to Write a Poem Called the Lady’s Dressing Room,” which is a cutting and self-aggrandizing poem detailing a doctor’s encounter with a prostitute, and his failure to perform sexually: “The Reverend Lover with surprise/ Peeps in her bubbies, and her eyes,/ And kisses both, and tries–and tries./ The Evening in this hellish play,/ Beside his guineas…

exposed to it. Because of this, unfortunately, a child has to suffer. The song “Luka” forces the listener to stop for a moment and empathize with the subject of the song (Luka). In other words, Suzanne Vega challenges us to imagine if it were us or our own children in the same situation. It allows us to essentially see the situation through the eyes of Luka. Early in the video, a scene showed three boys running down the street (one of…

small diverse country town where, for the most part, everyone got along. Not to say that there was no racism; it just was not seen very often. Some would call me lucky to have been so naïve in my microcosm. Innocent to what was going on outside of my own little world. Because everyone knows, the world revolves solely around every high school teenager. I first experienced racism in 2009 when I was 17 years old. I was dating a girl I went to high school with named Callie Thrower; she of course…

perhaps influenced her in writing “The Yellow Wallpaper”. One could say that Charlotte’s alienation in her early years gave her less attachment to others, as when she divorced Stetson, she sent her daughter to live and be raised by him while she went her own way. In 1932, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, and in 1934 her remarried husband George Gilman had suddenly passed away. In 1935 Charlotte committed suicide rather than dealing with the cancer and her inevitable fate. Gilman’s hardships…

Through this it is easy to derive another thought: Happiness is as selective as memory and any other process that requires one to actively contemplate a situation. It is easy to identify this in hindsight, which is what makes it simple to realize one’s own realizations. In “Gooseberries”, Ivan is the character who reflects this concept of hindsight and revelation. With his knowledge, Ivan attempts to explain his epiphany on the matter of being happy to his younger companions Burkin and Alehin.…

Why Americans Should Be Allowed to Own Firearms The first firearms were invented in early 13th century China, when the portable, one person fire lance was combined with an explosive of some type, and projectiles. This new technology spread throughout the rest of Asia, the Middle East and then into Europe. Typically, in older firearms, the propellant was black powder, which is the earliest known stable chemically explosive. Modern firearms usually use a smokeless powder. Today firearms are not…

many individuals are struggling with. Addiction can be defined as dependency on something such as alcohol and drugs. Drugs and alcohol are harmful because they affect people’s behavior resulting in antisocial habits, lowering self- esteem and ruining one’s motivation towards achieving life goals. People suffering from alcohol and drug addiction can have an appropriate response if only they go through the diagnosis and the recovery process. However, if the person’s engagement in recovery…

videos, has taken me to a cohesive theme of stripping ones independence, and identity to assimilate in order to educate, and vise verse, one needs to be stricken of all identity within ones differences to what the majority looks like to be worthy of one’s education. The dictating what needs to be of interest, the need to fill a box and conform. Once again, the use of power of education, and that education is power. In my last blog I was already thinking along this line, with my focus on…

choices and actions. In Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield is a young man learning to express his own beliefs, but lacks the confidence in himself to do so. Throughout interactions with others it is made overt that though one may have their beliefs and values, without the confidence to express them, one may be left feeling oppressed and forced to go along with society. One’s inner thoughts can be portrayed though minor characters in a novel to enhance the reader’s knowledge of…