Guardian Angels

Neither Tocqueville nor the authors of the Federalist Papers view an enlightened and virtuous citizenry as wholly essential to the Constitutional system, but while the federalists build institutions to defend the government against the self-interested passions of the people, Tocqueville sees the greatest benefits of the American political system where the government and the people meet: in the township and in political associations. The Federalists believe that the core of the Constitution…

from public (often stay home and supervise the nanny or maid). In 1800s middle class women were still expected to supervise the domestic servants, manage household, direct children education. The ideal middle-class woman was an “angel in the house” “the family’s moral guardian.” Women politically were still the same and follow on the continuity of the role that they always have adapted to. The societies in the 1800s to 1900s were still mostly patriarchal. Women didn’t have any voice in the…

The nineteenth century in France was one of the most progressive and transformative eras for literature, science, medicine, architecture, and social and political change. Émile Zola made progressive moves in the second half of the nineteenth century in many ways. Zola was born in 1840, in Paris, he has spend most of his childhood in Aix-en-Provence. Zola lost his father at a young age, just like many of his characters that he would later write about in this novels. He was raised by his mother…

it still put a tremendous toll on my family’s life. Each day it felt like the world was closing in and the sky became gloomier each day. With the support from everybody we all were soon back on our feet. We will always miss him dearly. He is my guardian angel. Our little…

“Men are not indispensable. But Trujillo is irreplaceable. For Trujillo is not a man. His is…a cosmic force…Those who try to compare him to his ordinary contemporaries are mistaken. He belongs to…the category of those born to a special destiny“(5,204).The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a dictatorial novel that demonstrates the effects of the famous dictator, Trujillo. Readers enter into the frightening life of a Dominican family through the darkest areas of a country under dictatorial…

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succeed was because of the mysterious Boo Radley. He realized that there were bigger things at stake than him wanting to stay in his house that night. If he had not have stepped in, the children would have been killed. Boo Radley was like their guardian angel in a way, always silently watching over them and he actually ended up saving their lives. Heck Tate defends Boo Radley’s actions, saying “I never heard tell that it’s against the law for a citizen to do his utmost to prevent a crime…

deaf or hard-of-hearing, including most of the leads. In order to make this show accessible to both hearing and deaf audiences, the characters played by deaf actors were given “voices” who were put in the show and offered another dimension of a guardian angel or dark side of themselves. Every time someone spoke, there would be signing along with it, or vice versa, except in select situations in which only one language was used for an incredible effect. Using the show’s original theme of lack of…

The Victorian era maintained a double sexual standard with both women and men: repressive rules for women’s sexuality and sexual freedom for men. The ideology of moral values only served to provoke rampant prostitution. The idea of double standards was based on the division between Madonna and whore, between the “respectable” or the “fallen.” Women were viewed as either controlling or enhancing male sexual behaviour. As a result, their sexual identity was an implication on determining whether…

Women in Society During the 1800’s, women were typically regarded as an accessory for men. They bore no worthy importance as their stereotypical duties were to assist their husband with housework and to labor a child. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne sets to change the perspectives on women who were treated as insignificant. The novel empowered women in various yet peculiar ways for it revolved around the life of the protagonist, Hester Prynne. Hester is a woman shunned by society due…