411 BC. He is known as the father of political realism. I like this quote in particular, because it gives a simple explanation of freedom. Many brave people have risked their lives for our freedom and continue to do so today. Deborah Sampson was a woman who dressed as a man to fight in the Revolutionary War. Thomas Jefferson wrote most of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Paine’s book: Common Sense helped influence many colonists to get on board. All these courageous…
Dylan Madden Word Count: 403 The Church Father’s Response 18 October 2017 The reading for this week takes into the minds of a number of church fathers and their views of women. The first church father being discussed was Tertullian, and his view on women suggested that they were nothing but creatures that would considered sexually dangerous and could taint men of church; they would use their beauty in an attempt to “minimize the spiritual damage it wrought in men” (50). Basically, I…
In Deborah Ellis’s The Breadwinner, Parvana is the main character who turns into a boy to help her family while her father is in prison. She worked for a great amount of time for money and never gave up. The Taliban have taken over her country, and are forbidding girls from going to school. Malala is a young girl who stood up for girls rights. She is a role model to many girls worldwide. Parvana is a brave courageous girl, just like Malala. They both have many similarities, but they also have…
Jonathan Konzol, in his article of “From Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid” failed to talked about schools that have equal amount of students of mixed racial schools. He also failed to give examples of schools that have majority of its students are White and any other race other than Hispanics and Blacks. He only talked about public schools, and forgot to mention any private schools. Another one that Konzol failed to talked about in his article is the problems and…
The Women Of Lockerbie by Deborah Brevoort. This play is about a mother from New Jersey roams the hills of Lockerbie Scotland, looking for her son’s remains that were lost in the crash of Pan Am 103. She meets the women of Lockerbie who are determined to convert an act of hatred into an act of love. In this essay, I will discuss about two characters, if I were to play the roles and what genre is the play. The character George Jones played by A.J. El-Gammal portrayed the character as frustrated…
Deborah Dietrich argues that Mary Rowlandson’s life in captivity causes a great transformation in Rowlandson’s life from a confined, dependent woman to a self-reliant one. Dietrich states there are textual places and narrative moments in Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narratives that proves how Rowlandson begins to question the Puritan’s ideology against her own self-definition. Rowlandson’s captivity narrative not only serves a testimony of her strength to survive as a woman, but also serves as…
Both cases of Lizzie Borden and Stacey Lannert, were both considered during their time respectively as what was considered one of the most controversial murder cases in the United States. In contrast, the investigations of Lizzie Borden and Stacey Lannert were examples of individuals committing first degree murders against their family members. Both investigations caused widespread controversy amongst the country, amid various false accusations, and lack of sufficient evidence. To begin, in the…
salary could possibly make up for the college debt if I would move to the right city. The top ten percent of designers earned an average of $89,060 in the year 2013 (“Interior Design”). The job can have flexible hours by you setting your own hours (Deborah). Just as Interior design some clients are hard to please and get their understanding. “Budgeting can be hard to try to get the homeowners or office manager to be realistic, so they don't make impulse purchases”…
Here’s what a usual day looks like for a phlebotomy technician, according to Porterfield. First, you need materials to collect blood from patients, like needles. You won’t need to use a blade like barbers did centuries ago. Second, you would talk to the patient. Unless they’re cool with having needles inside their body, they would be nervous. Interact with them, calm them down, and once they’re comfortable, stick the needle, and easily draw the blood. It’s only from their arms, so relax, don’t…
Evidence of his grasp of language is apparent, regardless of the genre, and there are mysteries to uncover in all that he wrote. Deborah Clark says of his novel Light in August, "Faulkner's manipulation of sexual dynamics and gender roles . . . illustrates the full complexity of his . . . power and authority"(398). However, it is in the short story that the full force of his authority…