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“Our crime has been to speak out for better working conditions.” (Diana Goss, 69). In Katherine Paterson’s novel Lyddie, the thirteen year old main character Lyddie (Lydia) Worthen, faces difficult challenges that she must overcome to reunite her scattered family. With a family of four children, a disappeared father and a queer mother, Lyddie has to take charge in her small Vermont farm. When there is little food, Mother decides to take her youngest children, Rachal and Agnes to Uncle Judah’s…

mittens or gloves, hats, large boots, and many other things to stay warm. With the Iroquois, a lot of their clothing is embroidered by the women, as mentioned previously. They use a lot of the environment to make their clothes; using fur, hides, corn husks, plants, tree fibers, animal sinew, and twisted elm-bar fibers. Some of the decoration that they used for their clothing porcupine quills and moose hairs. Some of the basic traditional clothing of the Sioux includes moccasins, ponchos, belts…

Septimus’s Fragmentation of Time in the Face of Societal Convention Throughout Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf critiques veterans’ task of assimilation into London society once they return from the fronts. The character Septimus Warren Smith has returned from the war suffering from shell shock and hallucinations, yet society expects him to reinstitute himself into London life. Woolf highlights the experience of this veteran as he spirals into madness, stemming from his wartime past as well as…

The biodiesel that never boomed The greenhouse gas emission and reduction of fossil fuel reserves has created energy insecurity and ecological imbalance in the foreseeable future. The organic extracts of fossil fuels that are used right now emit high volume of greenhouse gases which contribute to climate change. The drastic increase in consumption patterns has the capability to create a substantial energy crisis for the generations to come. In addition to this, the pollution patterns may even…

Relationships are a two-way street, demanding communication, trust, and respect from both involved parties in order to thrive. In Chang-Rae Lee’s novel, A Gesture Life, an elderly Japanese man, Franklin Hata, is haunted by his failures to leave his mark on society. Living nothing but the titular “gesture life,” Hata fails to establish emotional connections with those around him, especially after witnessing and participating in the abuse and murder of a young comfort woman during his time as a…

Urban Rejects: Why the Homeless Still Sleep on the Streets of Sacramento The existence of homeless people in our society is still apparent today. There are over 2,538 men, women, and children homeless in the Sacramento area, (Sacramento Steps Forward). Everywhere you glance around in our cities, parks, businesses, and streets it is more than likely that you will observe a homeless person grappling to live. Homelessness is not prejudice toward race, gender, or class. Commonly homeless people are…

Journey’s are a recurrent and common theme throughout literary novels, providing a foundation for the rise or fall of a character. Two sample novels were provided for their effectiveness at displaying journey’s and the impacts affiliated with them. The first is titled The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, and the second is The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna. Each story is different in its plot and characters, yet each has striking similarities with each other. Example similarities…

I could picture the Earth in my head. The blues of water, greens of vegetation, and whites of clouds, all the essentials of life swirling together as if left by brush strokes. I had been seeing it since my first earth science class in elementary school, glaring out at me from textbooks as if demanding an answer. How could you do this? The question reverberated in my head, the dull ache of cognitive dissonance setting in as I peered out the window. I didn’t have an answer. None of us did. That’s…

The Metamorphosis Mask Interpretations Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis is a relatively short story that challenges readers to claw past its innocent surface and reveal a painstakingly tragic tale of loss and disownment. The characters and the interactions between them fabricate the root of analysis. Many readers may first assume that protagonist, Gregor Samsa, is the only one truly experiencing a metamorphosis, yet each character drastically changes in their own way. The three most prominently…

Eva Resnick-Day and her question about the fossil fuel industry was enough to make Hillary Clinton lose her calm at her campaign in New York (Phillip). It was not the first time Eva had done this, and it was not the first time her group was known for this. Eva belongs to a group known as Greenpeace, an environmental awareness group with deep ties in past and current issues. In the past, it had focused on whaling and nuclear efforts, but with stricter regulations in place and in order to stay…