G. H. Hardy

Have you ever wondered what would happen if cloning existed? The House of the Scorpion is about cloning and the many moral problems it would cause. In The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer throughout the story with the help of others, Matt changes greatly. Tam Lin changes Matt, Maria changes Matt, and El Patron changes Matt. Maria makes matt kinder. It is after El Viejo’s funeral and maria and matt are in the computer room. “‘So you have to promise to be good’ ‘okay,’ said Matt, who would…

In the novel Tess of the d 'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Thomas Hardy presents a radical story of a young woman named Tess Durbeyfield. Rape, childbirth, loss of love, and death accompany sixteen year old Tess on her journey to maturing. Plagued by society’s influential ideals, she experiences the pain and hardship that surround growing up as a woman during this time. Tess’s misfortune is mainly attributed to society’s views especially the double standard set on women, which is exhibited through…

something that was out of ordinary for women. People had different views on how women should be treated. Many poets used their words to describe how they felt about women’s situation. Many poets such as Emily Dickinson, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Thomas Hardy were some of the main poets who shared their views on women’s oppression. In Dickinson’s” Much Madness is Divinest Sense” the people who go against the social normality are shunned or disapproved…

Changes Essay “Old ways won’t open new doors.” (Unknown) “A Crush,” by Cynthia Rylant, shows the main character, Ernie, experiencing a different variety of events that discovered the need for change. He wasn’t going to open the same old door everyday and decided he needed to open a shiny new door that would lead him to change. The death of Ernie’s mother started the need for change. The text states, “This house was called a group home, because in it lived a group of people who, like…

In her novel, A Medieval Life, Judith Bennett attempts to showcase the daily life of a peasant woman, Cecilia Penifader, as she lives on the English manor Brigstock in the mid-fourteenth century. During this time period Europe was full of thousands of rural communities including Brigstock. Brigstock was located in a very manorialized part of England which was the English midlands near London. Bennett works to redirect focus from the readers’ fairytale view of the middle ages to a more accurate…

Octavia, a heterosexual, African-American woman in her mid-40’s, wants to be able to change her perspective of how she views herself/role in her family as she refers to herself as the black sheep of the family; to establish relationships outside of her family, to maintain permanent employment, to take responsibility of her actions and stop blaming others, and to become self-sufficient – not relying on the assistance of her mother or family. She is a part of the Sanders family, a family of six…

In the novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, sleep is a recurring motif that causes Tess, the main character, great harm throughout the book. In Phase I, Tess and Alec, a young man whom she meets while she is working, develop a friendship and talk frequently as she works long days. One evening they are riding through the woods and realize they have lost track of where they are, therefore Alec suggests he leave Tess by herself and search for a nearby cottage to ask for directions back…

Serial killers are neither born nor are they created; rather they are the product of both elements when put to extremes. A predisposed mental disorder is sure to cause one to have some troubles in life, but does not automatically make one a future serial murderer. Along with that claim, a troubled childhood is also not grounds for future damnation. But when combined in extremes, one begins to become at risk for a very complicated- and sometimes deadly -future. Originating from former FBI…

Throughout Devil in the White City, Larson uses different characteristics and events to give the reader a wider, better idea of who Holmes really is, as well as letting the reader draw their own conclusions about characters that may not be as foregrounded as others. We are given hints on how other people view Holmes, including females. While he was described as rich and good looking, at the same time, he gives a look and feel, a sort of devilish impression. Larson writes of Holmes (in terms of…

“I was born with the devil in me. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing” (Larson 109.) In the book, The Devil in the White City, Burnham, an architect, is having many different struggles in building the World’s Fair by opening day, but after the many struggles he ends up making the fair a dreamland. At the same time, Holmes, the first serial killer, is luring young women into his hotel and killing them without getting caught;…