Edith Wharton

school my English teachers would assign us to read a variety of novels and passages with the theme pertaining to distress or love. This made me become more familiar of pieces of literature like Jane Eyre from Charlotte Bronte, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton and poems like What thing is love from George Peele. Each of their styles of writing were different, but despite their prominent differences I also began to realize their similarities the more that I was exposed to them. I noticed that…

societal expectations, leaves him stuck in a loveless marriage, forcing him to choose between his wife and the woman he has feelings for. Wharton uses tone to show Ethan’s dismay about his love life. When viewing the dance scene from outside, Ethan notes how odd it is that Mattie could dance with Denis “without appearing to feel the offence of his look and touch” (Wharton, 13). Ethan’s tone here is one of disgust. He regards Denis Eady disdainfully and wonders why Mattie doesn’t feel the same.…

with college-educated first ladies such as Lucy Hayes and Lucretia Garfield. Unfortunately, either the time’s restriction on women’s involvement in politics or simply illness limited many of these first ladies. By the turn of the century, however, Edith Roosevelt and then Helen Taft functioned as incredibly active first ladies, breaking previous restrictions on the role of first lady in their own respective social and political fields. Looking carefully at these two first ladies, the public…

Physical representations of Edith’s presence in today’s society and examples of how honored she was can be found in the many memorials held around the world. These include Ecolé Edith Cavell nurse training center in Belgium, and Edith Cavell Interregional Hospital Center in Belgium as well as many other paintings and sculptures. Edith Cavell was arrested and killed for her heroic actions and in turn opened the passageway to new developments in the nursing field, laws of equality, leadership, and…

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…

For this week’s assignment, I decided to participate in the study titled, Improving Witness Identification by researchers Mitchell Seymour and Mai Trinh of Edith Cowan University. The “aim of this study is to investigate processes that underlie identification procedures in the criminal justice system” (Scott, 2015). This study is presented in the format of a questionnaire, which is “a valuable way of gathering information about large numbers of people. [T]he results of questionnaires can be…

One Corpse Too Many is a mystery book by Ellis Peters and is the second book in the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael. The book is a murder mystery centered around an extra dead body amongst other dead bodies about to be buried. As there is no specific moral or theme highlighted in the book, I would say it’s not a great book for teaching a lesson. However, with the great characterization and way of immersing the reader into the setting, it is definitely a great book to read just for the sake of…

later became the title of the film. Lee Radziwill, the sister of former First Lady Jackie Kennedy, approached the filmmakers in hopes of capturing the haunts of her childhood (Sutton, 2014), but the lens quickly shifted from Radziwill to her aunt, Edith “Big Edie” Beale, and cousin, “Little Edie.” The film falls within the participatory mode of documentary, which focuses on, “the interaction between the filmmaker and subject” (Nichols 2010, pg. 31). Dialogue between the filmmakers and the women…

This article is a descriptive review because it is focused on the leisure and social participation in children diagnosed with Down syndrome. The purpose of this study was to describe leisure participation for school-aged children with Down syndrome and to investigate how factors, classified by the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, influence their leisure participation (Oates, Bebbington, Bourke, Girdler, & Leonard, 2011, p. 1881).…

Holocaust was a great genocide during World War II where six million Jews and other minority groups were persecuted and massively murdered. Out of the countless people that attempted to escape Nazi oppression, the story of Otto Frank and his wife, Edith Frank along with their two daughters, Anne and Margot has spread awareness of the victims of the Holocaust. The Diary of Anne Frank is a prominent recollection of the experiences that go in depth of how their life was and the interconnections…