Dominic West

In Kate Chopin’s, The Awakening, the novel highlights Edna’s awakening as she defies the expectations and standards that are held over most women within their Victorian society in the late 1800s. In Mike Newell’s, Mona Lisa Smile, the film introduces an engaged student as Wellesley College named Betty, who’s feels as if her purpose is to be the perfect housewife and future mother. Based on the content within the film and the novel, Chopin’s novel is highly effective. Through protagonist analysis the reader can indicate that both Betty and Edna have different motivations and conflicts, but have a similar resolution. Throughout the novel, The Awakening, and the film, Mona Lisa Smile, a difference can be seen amongst Edna Pontellier and Betty in a sense of motivations and interests. Edna is a newly awakened woman who wishes to remain independent and free within the Victorian society. Edna declares, “I am going to move away from my house on the Esplanade street” (131). This simple quote communicates to the audience that true freedom originates from discovering oneself through their own decisions and choices despite the consequences of harsh judgement and opinions that might come from others who feel and live differently. However, Betty is a character established sixty years later and maintains the roles and visions that women within Edna’s time period contained. Betty is persistent in being the perfect housewife for her husband Spencer and more than willing to bear children to…

There is an eerie, small town that seems to have come straight out of a horror story. This horrific town known as Deadman’s Paradise is always gloomy, sullen in the same way grim. It’s as if this town has never been visited by the sun. The only sources of outside light in the entire town are street lamps that constantly flicker. Most of the town residents stay inside their whole life besides occasional trips to the local grocery store. Any travelers passing by this town are given the impression…

these influential Saints is Saint Dominic of Osma, founder of the Dominican Order, a mendicant religious order founded in 1216. Saint Dominic’s legacy was his order, and from that order grew a new…

“Excavating Jesus” proved to be a unique blend of ground as gospel, as self-claimed in its introduction. However, after the engaging introduction, filled with facts and fun quips from the authors, the reader was pulled away from the goal of excavating Jesus and towards a textual representation of first century history that no longer focused on the historical Jesus but rather the historical Christian. Written by John Dominic Crossan, an Irish-American Catholic religious scholar, and Johnathan…

Sunday, August 13, 1961 the day where Gerta Lowe and her family were separated. Gerta Lowe was an average girl with blonde hair and an average family living on the East side. However, one night is where it all changes. On the night of August 13, 1961 a wall was built dividing Berlin East and West Berlin. Gerta’s Dad and her brother Dominic set off on a trip to west berlin to try to find an apartment they could live in and a job for Gerta’s dad. They would be back in two days at least that’s what…

Caldwell and West Caldwell “Chiefs on three, one….two...three...CHIEFS!” Chiefs are the mascot of Caldwell and West Caldwell’s amazing sports teams. Caldwell and West Caldwell are located in Essex County, New Jersey. The Caldwells settled in the early 18th century by pioneers who moved westward from Newark or through the Passaic Valley. West Caldwell and Caldwell have pools open all summer for people to hang out. Caldwell and West Caldwell both have governments that are open to new ideas, they…

The reason for this would have been the same as those in migratory societies, practicality. Although the women were no longer restrained by the need to carry infants long distances, and the presence of a crying child would not have had the same effect on domesticated animals as on the hunted prey, they still had to be concerned about the safety of the toddler. Any task taking place while caring for children also had to be interruptible. Men and women had to spend the majority of their time…

around one of the major events of the twentieth century: The fall of the Berlin Wall which marked the end of the Cold War and hastened the downfall of communism in Eastern Europe. The year is 1990. Forty years of the German Democratic Republic have inevitably come to an end. Capitalist West Germany and socialist East Germany have been reunified. Our setting is the post-socialist East Germany. “The winds of change blew on the ruins of our republic”, Alex recounts. The separation between the…

The Gullahs, also referred to as the Geechee in some parts of the south, are West African slaves that were brought to the New World to work on the plantations in the lowcountry along the southeastern coast of the United States, from the Cape Fear River in North Carolina to the St. John 's River in Florida. This coastal region with its many barrier islands is separated from the mainland by creeks, rivers, and marshes. The islands were accessible only by boat until the first bridges were built…

high school. They also have higher risk of teenage delinquency and pregnancy. This is due to the fact that both parents are not there to guide them the right way. Less than half (46%) of U.S. kids younger than 18 years of age are living in a home with two married heterosexual parents in their first marriage (Pew Research). If the child is raised by a single parent that happens to be more lenient and laidback, these children tend to take advantage and this leads to troublemaking children. They…