Elopement

‘Sea of Poppies’ is Amitav Ghosh’s first book in the Ibis Trilogy which was nominated for Man Booker Prize of 2008. Set in 1838 amidst the valuable and potent poppy fields, it brings together a truly diverse and international cast of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts, who, each for his or her own reason, board the Ibis, an old slaving-ship, which sails into the Indian Ocean at the end of the book. The book is a story of people brought together in spite of their differences, starting…

Q: Tell me about your organization. Blair Wagner: Medicalodges is a skilled nursing facility. In 1998 Medicalodges employees acquired the company making it the first long-term care facility to be 100% employee owned in the U.S. Medicalodges owns and operates over 30 facilities in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma and we continue to be in acquisition mode. Medicalodges is located in Holton, Kansas and is a 70 bed facility. Approximately 60 -70 % of Medicalodges residents comes to us from a…

Among the many interesting aspects to be examined in Jane Austen’s novels is the way she portrays parents. Austen usually has at least one flawed or less than ideal parental figure in each of her novels and the flaws in question range from the parent being generally annoying, as in the case of Mrs. Bennett in Pride in Prejudice, to the parent being outright abusive. Two such abusive parents are Mrs. Ferrars in Sense and Sensibility, and General Tilney in Northanger Abbey. These two make for an…

It is was not right for the daughter to choose whomever she liked for her husband and any woman who wanted a happy marriage would not have done this. In the case of the elopement of Wickham and Lydia, this is very much looked down upon and as something rather radical and misfortunate for the family. Austen represents the high-society of her time from an observational point of view, ironically describing human behaviour. She describes…

Strength of a Woman “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within” (Maya Angelou). This powerful quote proves true in William Shakespeare’s Othello. Othello is a play set in Venice, at a time where gender is dictated by society through expectations of their perceived roles. The play revolves around Othello, a noble African moor and his attempt at love with the pure, virtuous Venetian lady Desdemona. This marriage, however, is condemned to disastrous ends and violent deaths. As a powerful…

In Mark Twain’s fictional novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn he portrays the theme of good vs. evil. He does this by using characters that bring out both sides of the main character, Huck. Throughout the entire novel Twain presents many characters that have many qualities of being evil and/or villainous. Huckleberry Finn is a young man that lives in Missouri who has a father that is an abusive alcoholic father named Pap that makes his life a living hell when he is around. However, one…

Introduction Set in the English countryside in a county roughly thirty miles from London, the novel opens with the Bennet family in Longbourn and their five unmarried daughters, but the Novel centres on Elizabeth Bennet, the second daughter of the five daughters of Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Bennet is desperate to see them married as she was their mother. The family itself is not as rich as those they interact with because they have no son, five daughters. Mrs. Bennet, she is concerned with finding…

crashes down and both are separated unfortunately the next night. Huckleberry Finn is at the home of the kindly Grangerfords, a family of Southern aristocrats locked in a harsh and childish dispute with a neighboring clan, the Shepherdsons. The elopement of a Grangerford daughter with a Shepherdson son results in a gun fight in which a lot of people in the families are slaughtered hardheartedly. While Huck is caught up in the dispute, Jim comes again with the repaired raft. Huckleberry Finn…

Today I have the pleasure of presenting my proposal for arts funding in 2016. As the director of the Queensland Theatre Company, I want to bring something new to the Minister of Arts in Queensland. I want to bring a remarkable play by William Shakespeare, which involves a storyline drenched with love and jealousy. It is, Othello, one of Shakespeare’s most tragic plays, featuring two loving characters that audiences will instantly connect with. The lead protagonist, Othello, is a young man who is…

Analyze How the Selected Disease Process Affects Patients, Families, and Populations in Your Community By this point, everyone knows obesity increases medical costs for everyone through higher risk of comorbidities. This in itself is unable to provide motivation for change. Even with increased accessibility to healthy options, many people still choose to continue their current lifestyle despite innovative education. Figuring out personal triggers can make the difference towards change. Loved…