Clare

I watched her as she ran through the sprinkler, squealing with delight and amusement. The air was filled with her joyous peals of laughter. Her clothes clung to her thin frame as water dripped from her wild hair and those long, childishly thick eyelashes. Surrounded by a halo of water mist, her celestial beauty was spellbinding. The impression of my love is forever engrained into my heart and soul. In Lolita, written by Vladimir Nabokov, we can observe the main character, Humbert Humbert, and…

Did you know, according to recent studies, most students who get paid for good grades don't graduate on time, or at all! When students get paid for grades, it takes the point out of learning. Paying students for grades replaces learning with money ribes. Paying for grades also causes bullying against students who earn less money. Paying for grades also causes pressure on teachers to inflate grades that don't deserve to be a high grade. Paying students is not good idea because the student will…

between Galileo and his daughter. Galileo’s Daughter reveals many letters written by Maria Celeste to her father, Galileo. Through these passages, we find that Maria Celeste is very smart and innocent. She is involved with the community of Poor Clares, which is very noticeable through her letters. Also revealed in her letters is the image of her father. He is pictured as not only a great scientist, but also a loving father. A story is told describing Galileo’s life and everything it entailed.…

Prejudice NB: Across the Barricades was purchased in book format; not certain about play vs book differences Prejudice (literally, pre-judgment) is a judgment formed of a person, based on a feature which that person has. One example of this was prejudice against African Americans during the nineteenth and twentieth century. White Americans considered African Americans to be inferior to white people. Some considered that the Bible said that African Americans were condemned to be slaves forever.…

resulting in many freedoms in the United States. Maryland, where Harriet Tubman was born, was a major slaveholding state. Slavery in Maryland was different than southern states because there were not a lot of large plantations. “Slavery at Mount Clare was also different because enslaved workers were involved not only in typical agriculture and…

As human beings, each person reaches a point in a lifetime when aspects transform, since evolving is a fragment of each person journey through life. Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allan is a coming of age story following the journey of the psychiatric patient, N, and the protagonist’s progression towards becoming mentally healthy. N’s development in character and mental health is evident through the descriptions, physical appearance and attitude towards being a psychiatric patient throughout the…

Annika Hansteen Izora African American Drama Tuesday, October 14th Topsy: The Perpetual Status of Pickaninny The publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin resulted in the construction of an arsenal of stereotypes against Black humanity. Amongst these renditions is the pickaninny caricature, “grow’d” from Topsy. Since written, the power of Topsy’s depiction has retained, leading to a conglomeration of responses by the African-American community, particularly within the realm of…

She is happy there, making friends with the other milkmaids and falling in love with Angel Clare, whom she agrees to marry after many months. Due to her morals and Angel’s pure ways, she feels obligated to tell him about her previous problems with Alec and the resulting events. She leaves him a note, which slips under his carpet and is never read…

Harriet Beecher Stowe uses two main factors on why slavery should be abolished. Slavery breaks up family ties which causes a slaves performance to be decreased. Slavery also instills a sense of ownership upon a human, making them feel that they can never truly be free. Slavery caused many hardships among African Americans. Stowe surrounds the plot for Uncle Tom’s cabin around Uncle Tom and Eliza. Uncle Tom was set to be sold to a slaver trader a long with Harry, who is Eliza’s son. When Eliza…

Going into my teaching in Clare I already knew a lot about the students because that same classroom is where I do My Pre-Student Teaching. With that said, I tried to be as objective as possible in these observations since I knew that this science placement has different requirements than my Pre-Student Teaching. Being able to objectively observe today and pulling in my observations from other times being in the class, I feel as though I have a greater understanding about the goings on in the…