Carriage

She and Death travel past “...the School / where Children strove” (9). The children represent energy and life to come in the future at the same time the speaker is ironically inactive while in the carriage. As they pass the “Fields of Gazing Grain” (11) the speaker is reminded of parts of life, the cultivation by the farmers, and civilization. Finally, she and Death pass “the Setting Sun” (12). The setting sun indicates the end of the day and is a…

Napoleon’s most upsetting defeat came at Waterloo. Or it may have occurred eight years earlier, after the French emperor was attacked by a bunch of rabbits. There are a couple versions of this story. In July 1807, Napoleon signed the Treaties of Tilsit which ended the war between the French and Russia Looking to celebrate, the French proposed a rabbit hunt, asking Chief of Staff Alexandre Berthier to make it happen. Berthier arranged an outdoor rabbit hunt and invited some of the…

Marquis’s carriage. At the start of the board is the guillotine symbolizing what is happening when the group is leaving. Near the guillotine is a Stickman symbolizes the character Sydney Carton. Dickens writes, “It is a far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. (P.386) We included this in the beginning to highlight the purpose of the game. Consequently, it…

metaphor as the journey to death with “Death”, is symbolised by her journey in the carriage. Because carriages are usually connected with royalty, this also shows us that Death is of a high status, and is ultimately the one who decides when it is time for someone’s life to end. Near the end of the poem, the narrator remembers the first time she “surmised the Horses Heads”. This ties in with the idea of the literal carriage, that is bringing her on this journey. Also, “Horses Heads” is…

(Burgan 9). When Henry left the Drydock Company in 1882, he was an expert in steam engines (Burgan 10) “In 1893,his natural talents earned him a promotion to chief engineer (Henry Ford 1). All the while, Ford developed his plans for a horseless carriage, and in 1896, he constructed his first model, the Ford Quadricycle”(Henry Ford 1). When Ford was 13 years old, his father gifted him a pocket watch, which the young boy promptly took apart and…

them and also guards riding up ahead, just as a precaution. They also required a carriage to follow behind them just for an emergency. The Royal Cook made their breakfasts, lunches and dinners for the next few weeks, because it would take at least three weeks to get to the distant side of the kingdom. The servants packed clothes, tents and blankets for the prince and princesses, all the supplies were put inside the carriage, including the food. While the servants were doing that, the princesses…

Society today demands more out of a person. To get a job you basically need a college degree. Society today only wants the best. This concerns women too. Women today need to be smart, skinny, and sexy. These reasons are why I think women face many challenges in today’s society. There are four articles that I have found that talk about some of the struggles women face in society. One of the articles I read is titled “The Empire of Images in Our World of Bodies”, written by Susan Bordo. Of the…

In the novel Northanger Abbey, there is an imbalance of power between the men and the women; men have all the power and women have none. Both John Thorpe and General Tilney use this power to their advantage. During the carriage scene, Catherine was pressured into the carriage and upon seeing her friends, couldn’t get off because she had ‘no power of getting away’. (88) This demonstrates Catherine having zero power and John having all of it, which he holds over her head to get what he wants from…

The short story that we focused on this week in class was The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. In this story, it explains an annual community wide tradition where every citizen collect rocks and come together in the city square. The irony of the the title, The Lottery, comes alive when the tradition of selecting a name out of a black box results in some person being selected to be stoned to death rather than winning money or a raffle. This is ironic based on the fact when people hear the phrase “The…

achieved equality over the past 150 years? The first poetic speech is ‘Aint I A Woman” by Sojourner Truth in 1851. In paragraph 2 it says “The man over there says women need to be helped into carriages. Nobody helps me into carriages.” She is saying that men don’t have the respect for women to help them into carriages or even help them over puddles. In paragraph 2,3, and 4 it says the quote “And ain’t I A woman?” In the paragraphs it says this she talks about life problems she is facing and at…