Iggie's House

is not a recent development; Americans have been apathetic to tragedies since before World War II. Elie Wiesel, a man who became a human’s rights activist after residing in Buchenwald and Auschwitz for two years at age fifteen, spoke at the White House about The Perils of Indifference during the 1999 Millennium Lecture series. His speech urges the audience to take action against injustices rather than remaining indifferent to human suffering. Wiesel takes advantage of the timing of his speech…

by which that person will live their life by. The concept of private and open is created, and as the world expands outside of the confines of the routines of an adolescent, the person begins to categorize what is assigned to the interior of their house and what is acceptable for external presentation. As a child grows, they discover things that are now even more limited. As sexuality develops an interior within the human develops, and private is a bodily thing, limited to the intellect and…

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen is a realistic prose play set in 1870s Norway. A Doll’s House revolves around Nora Helmer, wife to Torvald Helmer and mother to three children. Nora is described as a living doll. She does as she is told, and makes sure to please her husband. Nora has her secrets though. Torvald is a soon to be bank manager, and cares a lot about how others view him. Nils Krogstad is the antagonist of A Doll’s House. He is a former employee of the bank and soon to be blackmailer of…

Following the publishing of Barry Blitt’s 2008 caricature The Politics of Fear, The New Yorker faced immediate backlash in the midst of a presidential election. The officials of Obama’s 2008 campaign denounced this illustration as “tasteless and offensive”; an attempt to separate their candidate and his spouse from the prevailing image of an extremist, pro-war, and anti-American couple that sought to support insurrectionist forces in the Middle East. This image stems directly from controversies…

south was ruled by racist laws, while segregation spread across the north. At the time, Roosevelt was considered mild-progressive. He accepted African-Americans, but believed they were behind Americans. He invites Brooker T. Washington to the White House for dinner. He is then later criticized, and he never invited an African-American again. It was during this time, when the heads of the industrial trust controlled the United States, instead of the President. Soon after Roosevelt became…

handles and windows. Also, be sure to make a barrier that they can 't cross through without making noise. Each person should wear a whistle around their neck that they can blow in case they need help too. 4. Safe Room At night, all people in the house should sleep in the same room if possible. It is easier to guard one room than it is several different ones. The room should have a door with a deadbolt to it and no windows. A supply of food, water, and toiletry supplies should be kept in this…

complicated character despite the fact that at the beginning of this play it seems like quite the opposite. At the beginning of act one, Nora is whimsical and gleeful and very much like a child. She is very much living in a fantasy world or a doll’s house as the title of the play suggests. Nora has been taught since birth to be similar to a doll. Her father treated her as such in the past and so does her husband at the time the play takes place. However, once her illusion of this perfect world…

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen is a three act play in which one of the main characters, Nora, frees her true self from the person she is pretending to be for her husband. Ibsen is known for his plays because they allow characters to break free of the roles set by society and live for themselves instead. A Doll’s House was one of Ibsen’s first plays and would cause people to question the roles of women in marriages and the idea of marriage not being for life. Ibsen did this by giving readers a…

Louisa May Alcott was an amazing women. Her life was full of every obstacle a person could think of but yet she still was able to get over each and every one of them. From being a women to being extremely impoverished, she overcame them all. Not only did she overcome them but she made something great out of them , Little Women. Even though I have never read this book , reading about Louisa’s life make me want to spend some time reading it. She portrayed her life and everything that made Louisa ,…

Bryan Burrough was previously a writer for the Wall Street Journal, and won three John Handcock Awards in financial journalism. As an author he wrote six bestselling books before The Big Rich, including Days of Rage and Public Enemies. Burroughs grew up around the families of the Big Rich and was amazed by them. He wrote The Big Rich in response to the lack of knowledge about the families who were once considered Texas nobility. The book focuses around the lives the Big Rich, Roy Cullen, Sid…