Gone with the Wind

thing I ever heard of. Why should our people rise! It's just a good excuse of cowards." ( Gone With The Wind). This quote largely defines the mindset of several white Southerners who supported the "Lost Cause" Movement post Civil War (Janney). In Caroline E. Janney's article discussing the "Lost Cause", she explains how the movement sought to rebrand slavery by means of literature, such as Gone with the Wind, that sentimentalized the stereotyped "happy slave, the "Mammy" or "Uncle Tom" role of…

During my childhood, there was always one woman that captivated me; the way she could fix a car in minutes, how she could calm down my mother with a few soft words and touches, the way she seemed to know the answer to questions that didn’t have an answer. “How many stars are in the sky?” I asked her once, after learning the vastness of the universe. I knew I’d get her this time. We were sitting outside, gazing up at the sky, which was the clearest I’d ever seen it. But she just replied,…

small tan houses that frame the asphalt stand in identical lines, each side of the street reflecting the other. Most of the lawns have gone brown with stiff, dead grass, and are oddly free of cheap plastic…

a sandbar. Maybe she was skimming along, moving fast, feeling the cold spray and wind and sunlight, and all of a sudden a quick jolt and the lake was around her. Inside her.”(111) The quote serves as an hypothesis to as why Kathy disappeared. Things like, “If she didn't love me Anymore, why didn't she just say so?” Because the nature of love is so powerful, it would hurt if kathy's love towards John was simply gone. It hurts even more when you don't know the…

sought this separation in order to get rid of the burden, to free himself from an encumbrance which could lessen his own chance to survival” (Wiesel 87). This behavior is unacceptable because no one can abandon their family unless their humanity is gone. Soon, all the Jews were on the train to move to another place again, and this was when their inhumanity developed to the highest level. “Meir. Meir, my boy! Don’t you recognize me? I’m your father...you’re hurting me...you’re killing your…

due to pure hunger, my parents had told me the electricity had gone off. Under normal circumstances this would have been enough to damper my entire day since it meant no tv, heater or hot water. For the rest of that night, the house got continually colder as well as the meals. By nightfall, the only source of heat was a skimpy fire inside the home. That night we all slept downstairs around a fire which was as flimsy as paper in the wind. That night I could not sleep a wink and even though I was…

he trusted his own heart. When Santiago and the Alchemist were caught by a tribe at war, they escaped only by convincing the tribe that Santiago was a magician. Santiago learned, through trusting his heart, how to talk to the desert, the sun, the wind, and to pray to God. Later, at the pyramids, he saw the scarab and trusted his heart to dig at that spot. Santiago’s heart led him to his fate, to meet the thief who had the dream of the treasure in…

going to react as being a Pakistani parents there are conservative they think a lot before sending me alone to any trip, I shared the idea with my parents. As excepted my family reaction were not really good my dad reacted really seriously. ‘Are you gone crazy,’ ‘you’re not strong enough,’ ‘you gona die,said,’ said Dad. I tired to a lot to get the permission but certainly they refuse I always wanted to goo specialy because the mountain was in the region of my birth place I wanted to be in the…

music then returned to a slow pace. By the end of the performance, all the sounds were running together in my head. I could not tell the difference between horns, violins or percussions. All in all, the concert was a great experience. Would I have gone if it were not for an assignment? Probably not. Will I go back on my own enjoyment? Probably not unless it is an opera. I would love to experience that. This was something different which is what I anticipated from the…

will control a person more than an external or earthly authority. These unseen and powerful forces are human values and beliefs. Whether they be theistic or worldly, they have the authority to shape every aspect of human life. In A Voice in the Wind these beliefs greatly impact the story and the main characters: Hadassah, Marcus, Julia, and Atretes.…