Honor your father and your mother

kindly helping a tourist find their way around, I heard that they did not know much about the Vietnam War because it was not that focused upon during history classes. Your name came up in the discussion and I decided that it was time to reach out to you because I believe that my story, and other Vietnamese women’s stories, can help your students and others truly understand what the war was to us. My story…

If I were to be told five years ago today that I would be a student athlete at St. Lawrence University; Communications Major and Sociology Minor; founder, president, and chapter correspondent of Her Campus Media at SLU; Member Development Chairman in Delta Delta Delta; and traveling abroad to Prague in the Fall Semester of my junior year… no part of me would believe it. Because of my opportunities, privileges, experiences and choices- I have gotten to where I am today and can confidently say…

friendships, but many scenes point towards loss. This theme is paralleled throughout each character. Max lost his mother to cancer at an early age. Though his mother’s death is rarely discussed, it becomes apparent that many of Max’s actions are ways of mourning this loss. Max’s mother passed away when he was seven, not long after she secured him a scholarship to Rushmore Academy. His mother passing away was a huge loss in Max’s life and his love of Rushmore Academy is one way he is attempting…

Cao Xuequin did not revive Chin Chung. Thus, Pao-Yu’s sadness and distress is shown to the reader in great detail. The author than beings to describe all the preparations taking place for the arrival of the imperial consort. Chin Cheng, Pao-Yu’s father has taken it upon himself to write poems describing the various scenery within the gardens of his home as is tradition. However, he states that he is quite mediocre in writing poem, and therefore has recruited Pao-Yu to do so. I found it strange…

‘The man...has...Honor and Pride. The tenets of Pashtun men’ Hosseini 145 ‘I'm not so sure it's for us Afghans’- Hosseini 187 General Taheri takes these tenets into account, especially when it comes to “the chastity of a wife. Or a daughter”(Hosseini 145). It is a bit surprising to think he is Soraya father bearing in mind that “he and Khanum Taheri had slept in separate rooms for as long as she could remember”(Hosseini 176). Like all parents, the general demands respect and honor from his…

while you’re at it, you can take your feet off the desk,” said Mrs. Honey said tilting her head as a smug smile laced her lips. Heads turned from around the room focusing on Ryder. This…

to him. When Patroclus is about to leave for battle, Achilles went into his tent and opened a chest in which “lay a wrought goblet, nor did any other man drink the shining wine from it not did Achilles pour from it to any other god, but only Zeus father” (357). Achilles’s special prayer for Zeus indicates that not only does Achilles use his spoils as a means to gain glory, but also to appeal to Zeus and the other gods. This is similar to when Achilles allows Priam to feast and sleep with the…

first accusation, murder, is based on the belief that Oedipus killed his father, Laius. Laius was the previous king of Thebes, before Oedipus’ reign. Before it is discovered that Oedipus is the murderer, the city of Thebes is convinced that a band of thieves killed Laius. However, the truth is that Oedipus murdered him. The second accusation that is brought upon Oedipus is incest. His wife, Jocasta, is later recognized as his mother. Oedipus is unaware of either of these crimes until they are…

January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi to Vernita Lee, a former maid, and Vernon Winfrey, a barber, coal mineworker, and city councilman; who broke up soon after conception. Oprah spent her early years on her grandmother, Hatti Mae’s farm while her mother searched for work in the North. Although Oprah Winfrey has been known as the richest African American and woman of the twentieth century she does not come from a rich or even middle class family. While Winfrey had a challenging and…

seem to distant ourselves as much as we can which is what we see with the character of Okonkwo. These points are essential to the novels storyline because, it is Unokas ways that leads his son Okonkwo to want to completely detach himself from his father. Okonkwo sees anything that is weak or feminine like as a complete disgrace, something unbearable. He is very black and white, women are meant to be weak and comprise to what men say and men have to be responsible and strong. This is an…