Charlotte

I reached out to Charlotte- Mecklenburg Police Department(CMPD), police customer service manager and I was told that CMPD did not have a police union. Per the spokesman quote “The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department does not have a Collective Bargaining Agreement with anyone, as there are no police unions in North Carolina and no collective bargaining” (Weaving, CMPD). I continue my research and called a friend, who resides as a captain in the police force. He mentions the Fraternal Order…

clothes at our mama's expense. Now, I'll teach you to rummage my bookshelves: for they are mine; all the house belongs to me, or will do in a few years. Go and stand by the door, out of the way of the mirror and the windows” (Bronte, 1847: 14). Charlotte is expressing her feeling about the unfair dominance of some upper classes. Jane`s relation with…

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, Charlotte Borst’s Catching Babies is about the transition from midwife-attended to physician-attended births. Her findings suggest how gender, culture, ethnicity, and professionalism shape birth practices in the United States. In the book, she has case studies, quantitative analysis, and interpretations of professionalism and specialization for historians who seek to combine qualitative and quantitative methods. In the first few chapters, Borst mentions the…

Edward Rochester, the later romantic interest of Jane and owner of the Thornfield estate, also has dynamic emotional relationships throughout this Bildungsroman novel. Rochester, a powerful, but unusual man uses his authority to assert his position through his relationship with Bertha and Jane Eyre. Bertha his first wife with whom he has an arranged marriage, primarily revolves around preserving economic stability. Due to unfortunate events, Bertha inherits insanity from her mother and during…

Perception Versus Reality The novel, The Outsiders and the play, Sorry, Wrong Number, talks about the misperception of Ponyboy, an orphaned kid who lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Mrs. Stevenson, a woman who lives in a house with her husband and maid. Mrs. Stevenson also thinks she is ill and adored by others. Mrs. Stevenson and Ponyboy both have a misperception of the people in their lives. They also believe differently of, or about, the people they live with. Ponyboy believes Darry, his…

Autobiographic or personal writing’s The narratives by Mary Rowlandson, Sarah Kemble Knight, and Olaudah Equiano are all autobiographic or personal stories that have been the landmarks of the early American literature. Both Rowlandson's Narrative and Knight's Journal track the solitary encounters of real puritan women who move past their familiar place in the pioneer property. Although the fortuitous distinction between Rowlandson's and Knight's goes from which their accounts were created, the…

Charles Dickens once said that “no one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” This theme is present in Orphan Train a novel written by Christina Baker Kline. A beaten, broken, freezing little girl and a warm-hearted, lively individual. This is the relationship between a little girl and her teacher. Miss Larsen noticed a problem with a little girl’s life and did everything she could to help. Throughout this novel there is a progressing relationship between a little girl…

Narrative Nonfiction Michaela DePrince´s complicated, problematic and painful life from war orphan in Sierra Leone to a star ballerina in the United States is a story worth telling. Michealas life in Sierra Leone was devastating. Both of her parents passed away at a very young age, and her cruel uncle took her under his wing but he claimed she was ´unsightly´, so brought her to an orphanage to get rid of her. Things were not any better at the orphanage for Michaela in the beginning, she was…

Feminist is what the character Hester Prynne represents in the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. To be feminist is a woman who is independent, strong and who is self determined. A person who doesn’t count on anybody else but themselves and that moment when they do show hopelessness to somebody that somebody will have a strong connection with the feminist. A woman who even in their darkest moments can pull through to see the bigger outcome of the problem. For example, Hester Prynne…

Toni Cade Bambara’s short story “The Lesson,” illustrates the unequal distribution of wealth in America which causes the protagonist, Sylvia, to lose her innocence and reevaluate the social class spectrum she lives in. Miss Moore, who is the only person with a college degree in the area, wants to teach Sylvia and the other children a life-changing lesson in an outing to a toy store. From the group of children, Sylvia shows she is a naïve and stubborn child who does not value anyone’s opinion.…