Edith Cavell

Edith Cavell was born on December 4th, 1865. Her father, Fredrick Cavell was a minister, and her mother was his housekeeper’s daughter. She obtained extra education before marrying Fredrick in order to become accepted as a minister’s wife. Edith and her siblings grew up in a house built next to the Swardeston Church her father worked at. They grew up with little money, but plenty of maids. As Edith was growing up she became a wonderful painter. She loved the outdoors and would draw and paint many flowers. There are still drawings of hers lingered about. Edith used her talented art skills to help raise money for her father to build an attached church room to their house. This attached room became the Sunday School for the local children. Edith…

Most states have participated in enabling a Nurse Practice Act or NPA provided by the state legislature and regulated by the government (NPA rules and regulations 1). These are basic but authoritative rules that set safe guidelines for both the nurses and their patients or authoritative figures. This ensures that there is no miscommunication or unfair treatment and accusations of those on either side of the spectrum. There are many other ways Cavell has left a legacy from inspiring those in the…

Edith Cavell was a nurse and a spy( to her country). She had nursed over 200 Allied soldiers and helped them escape the German- covered Belgium to the front lines. She was killed by a firing squad due to this on October 12, 1915. Edith Cavell was born on December 4, 1865 in Swardeston, a small village that is located near Norwich located in England. She had three younger siblings: Florence, Lilian and John. Her father was The Reverend Frederick Cavell and her mother was Louisa Sophia. She never…

Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton is a tragic novella following Ethan Frome as he attempts to express his feelings for the one he truly loves, Mattie Silver. Ethan, however, is already married and feels obligated to care for his wife, Zeena. Over their 7 year marriage, Zeena has fallen perpetually ill and requires more aid than Ethan can give. In order to provide her the help she needs, they hire Mattie Silver, Zeena’s cousin. Zeena’s illness harks back to Ethan’s mother’s illness, from which Zeena…

In the case of Ethan Frome, the fictional protagonist highlighted in the novel Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, life had never been able to live up to his expectations. Frome aspired to escape his dreary hometown of Starkfield, Massachusetts and distinguish himself in a big city as an engineer, but these dreams were put on hold when his mother fell ill and Frome was left to care for her. When Frome met Zeena, a fellow caregiver of his mother and his future wife, he saw that she could be the perfect…

An Analysis of Ethan Frome 's Predisposition to Defeat In Edith Wharton 's novel Ethan Frome, a crippling "smash up" coasting "accident" traps Ethan Frome and his wife Zenobia as well as his housemaid Mattie Silver in their bleak farmhouse for 24 years. Starkfield, a small city that has devastating winters, is where the story takes place. A city where anybody who lives there, does not have many opportunities. This can be seen in the book when Harmon Gow, an onlooker, says, "Guess he 's been in…

snow storm came which causes the reader to stay at Ethan’s house till it passed. When you first get to the house you see a black scarf hanging outside which cause you to since “The hopelessness, endless gray, blank despair” (Stevenson, Pascha Antrence411) at the house before you enter. When you finally get inside you can hear someone coughing in the back of the house. When you stop here in a book it leaves you wondering who this person is in the room coughing. Then when you get further in the…

Though they lived centuries apart from one another, Christopher McCandless and Henry David Thoreau both uncovered the importance of living simplistically by retreating to the woods. When Thoreau first arrived at the house that he was to be staying at by Walden Pond, the first thing he noted was that the house was quite dilapidated. The walls were stained by the weather and had quite a few holes in them, causing the nights to be cold. The house also had no plastering nor a chimney, and the entire…

In pieces of literature, romance is often used in order to create a plot in which one or more characters must follow a path of actions in order to find their true love. A character’s discovery of his or her true love may occur early on or later in their journey. An author may elongate or stress the “journey” in order to create a climax where the tension between two characters reach a peak. An example of such a technique used by an author is the novel Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. Although it…

Edith Wharton, author of “Ethan Frome,” wrote a twisted love story that ends tragically. Mattie Silver moves to Starkfield MA with her cousin, Zeena Frome and her husband Ethan Frome. She moves in with them in after her father dies. After a while, Mattie and Ethan fall in love. They try to commit suicide together and are unsuccessful and are permanently disabled. From the events that have taken place, Mattie Silver changes from taking care of others, to having to be taken care of. Mattie Silver…