Angelic Pretty

Douglass and Jefferson “In Discussion: Which Writer Would Fredrick Douglass Find Most Important” If you had to pick one writer between Lao-Tzu, Machiavelli, Rousseau, or Jefferson that represented your view on government who would you choose? Fredrick Douglass was an American slave. He wrote a narrative on his life and how he learned to read and write. Mason Lowance writes, “Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who became an abolitionist orator, newspaper editor, writer, and adviser to…

A popular island, always filled with familiar faces wherever you go, picturesque towns and fashionable boutiques. That was my home called Staten Island. I grew up in Eltingville, a town located in the middle of the island which was very convenient for me who had friends from all towns. I grew up in a modern house with walls of neutral colors and a stoned fireplace, in the middle of my living room was my mother’s favorite orange couches. I am the only girl among three crazy brothers, one older…

East of Eden, often quoted, discussed, and written about, serves as a cultural icon, and a landmark for American literature. The world Steinbeck builds is most often the center of discussion, with it’s realistic, depthful, characters that tell stories applicable to people from all walks of life from any generation. Often, however, Steinbeck’s underlying narrative seems to go unnoticed. What, at first glance, seems to be a novel full of characters that represent expectations of people in those…

“Unforgettable” Priya Kanuru There are some moments you never forget. Like when you go to Disney Land, or when you first bring home a puppy. Some memories are more serious, like your first funeral, or when you have to put your dog down. For me, it was September 11, 2001, Tuesday, 8:45 a.m. I was in junior high. Everyday, I walked to school with my best friend, Muhammed Abboud. Muhammed’s family immigrated here to New York when he was only one. We’ve been friends since pre-school. “How’s the…

The strong civil rights revolutionary Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in a Maryland in February 1818. Douglass was separated from his mother in childhood and raised by his grandmother in a home of his master, Captain Aaron Anthony. His childhood was quite happy until he was transported to the plantation of Anthony’s employer, Colonel Edward Lloyd. In 1825, Douglass was again transported, this time to the Baltimore home of Hugh Auld. Mr. Auld wife Sophia was from the Northern side, so…

Fredrick Douglass is very dissimilar to the writers of his generation. Douglass, born in 1817, started his journey through life in slavery and had a very unusual beginning of his reading and writing experiences. In his autobiography, “Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave,” he mentions that it was through the mistake of his slave owner’s wife that he began to learn the concept of reading and writing, however, he basically taught himself through many obstacles to…

“Why does any man do anything in the whole damn world? ‘Cause there 's a girl.” These words pretty well sum up men’s actions since the creation of woman. Odysseus, the hero from Homer’s Odyssey is no exception to this. While the Odyssey is no doubt a great adventure story, full of great battles and severing of limbs, it is also at its core, a love story. It is the tale of Odysseus facing innumerable trials to return to his ever faithful Penelope. For him, returning to his wife his final cause,…

She is strong-minded, serious, sweet, nurturing, resourceful and willing to do hard work. Mina is a hero and what most women even today strive to be. Lucy Westenra is the best friend of Mina. She is described in words as being beautiful, stunning, pretty, and sexy. She is playful, pure, sensitive, a bit ditzy, a sleepwalker and young. She is Dracula's first victim. Dracula's three sisters are hidden away in a room that Johnathon was forbidden to go into but snuck in while exploring the castle.…

SOME LOVE WE CAN NEVER HAVE We live in a world where there had been an old debate of whether love listens to mind or heart. It depends on the person, the motive, the truth in the love. But still sometimes we wonder our minds around every possibility how we can win in love and every time we fall for some angel and act dumb. We are one among the sea of people in this world waiting for their love story to be drafted, edited and get applied in life. Then we spot someone in the crowd and our mind…

History because Charles Perrault was inspired by something angelic so he could only mean positive things. Purpose because of the helpful moral at the end. Modern telling because it gives a hopeful emotion to how stories usually end, and impact because a lot of what happened in “Little Red Riding Hood” happens now…