Clarissa

Clarissa “Clara” Harlowe Barton was born in Oxford, Massachusetts on December 25, 1821. Clara’s father, Captain Steven Barton, was a government official and a captain of the local army. He enjoyed educating Clara on the ways of the military. He taught her about the importance of keeping the troops supplied with weaponry, clothing, food, and medical necessities. He also taught her geography and told her stories about the Indian War in Michigan and Ohio. Clara’s mother, Sarah Stone Barton, was an…

Clarissa Kirsch-Downs Dr. Moreau PHL 303-21 10 December 2015 Emily Dickinson During the 1800s, Emily Dickinson was a poet who never really saw recognition for her work. After she died, Dickinson was seen as one of the great poets of her time. When it comes to American history, Dickinson left a legacy throughout her work because of her crafty words and difficulty for others to analyze her poems, which left people wanting to know the true meaning behind her poems. One specific poem of Dickinson’s…

When they first arrived at the home, Clarissa expressed concern about her sisters’, but over time, that concern became nothing more than pity (Mays 245).The girls’ desire to be accepted into their new society caused them to turn against each other. Instead of helping each other, they began to…

Generally, the reason why the analysis of literary works of the eighteenth century were ignored in literary trauma theory is the absence of advancements in medical discourse of that period. In this dissertation, I will refer to medical case histories and their relation to the early English novel by focusing on Jason Tougaw’s Strange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel (2014) in order to undermine the idea that there were not enough advancements in medical discourse of the…

Virginia Woolf’s The New Dress has many themes and literary devices. The story shows the style of stream of consciousness that Woolf uses. Virginia Woolf’s writing style is creative because many people do not use it in today’s writing. Woolf’s writing style of stream of consciousness uses Mabel’s thoughts and events that happened. Woolf decided to write in a stream of consciousness style, and her choice of writing let her use flashbacks as a literary device. She was able to use flashbacks and…

Today is Christmas Eve and the Wonder Kids are tidying up. The queens were caring for their pups and the minions were sleeping peacefully, for once. The princesses, Paige and Colleen were making treats and pies while the cooks, Emily and Crystal were making tomorrow night’s feast. Even the puppies, Marshall, Michele, and Maddie were helping, to the best of their abilities. They were jumping up and hanging the ornaments on the tree. Queen Chaplin was watching from her command chair while she was…

Throughout the novel “Mrs. Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf, there is a certain understanding of underlying skepticism of the world. A huge part of the story revolves around the premise of being able to see into the thoughts of all of the characters. This allows the reader to make assumptions about each character’s own unique morals and their personalities. Woolf does an exquisite job of giving the reader an omnipresent point of view in which we see all occurrences throughout the span of a single…

People are results. They are shaped by their past; some are stronger than their impulses, not letting them dictate what they become, others are far too inexperienced to know better than to let themselves get shaped by tragedy. Raven is one of those people. From a young age, there were expectation thrust upon her and all of her siblings; generation after generation, there was a lot of history attached to the Faulkner name and Raven and her other four siblings were expected to live up to those…

Metrixing the Matrix: A Linguistic Analysis of Intertextuality on the Basis of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Michael Cunningham’s The Hours Gašper Ilc To all those Mmes Richard Dalloway who have not even been Clarissas 1. Introduction Intertextuality has played a central and controversial role in the development of the postmodernist thought ever since the publication of Kristeva’s seminal works on literary theory. Strongly influenced by structuralist semiotics, Kristeva (1980) extends…

The film version of Ten Little Niggers (1945, US title: And Then There Were None) by the French director René Clair, starring Walter Huston and Barry Fitzgerald, is one of the most faithful Christie adaptations. In addition to these mysteries, Christie wrote her autobiography (1977), and several plays, including THE MOUSETRAP, which run more than 30 years continuously in London, and had 8 862 performances at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. The play was based on the short story 'Three Blind…