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Have you ever wanted to know the cause and effect with tell-tale heart and the monkeys paw? The problem that is they have the same genera which is a horror. And it is hard to compare the same genera, especially since they're similar. I will be using a first person point of view in my essay. In the monkey paw the whites wanted wishes and the wishes came back and haunted them. The white family got a cursed object when they answered the door because they were confused. What creates the suspense is…

The word taxonomy isn’t something that usually goes along with social interaction, but Alan Jacobs, as a writer and a scholar, compared it to our society and how taxonomy exists within people’s world as well. The power of taxonomy, as it is obvious, has an undeniable influence in terms of social interaction between people in a diverse way. Like how Jacobs mentioned in his book How to Think, regardless of how “positive” or “negative” it is, it encourages forming separate groups, creates the power…

In “How the other half lives” Photography’s speaks a lot just like ones action does. Jacob Riis writes about the living conditions of the tenement houses. Most people in these apartments were poor immigrants who were trying to survive. Riis, a photographer, captured the unhealthy, filthy, and horrible conditions not only through his words, but rather through his pictures. His pictures spoke for the people and the dirty conditions they had to live in. Riis’s journalism (muckrakers) and…

The racial tensions in 19th century America were not limited to the United States. In the late 19th century, the northern United States’s abolitionist movement took hold resulting in an “emancipated” North. Harriet Jacobs’ autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, challenges this sense of Northern freedom through its depiction of Jacob’s life in both hemispheres of the country. The similarities between her “slave life” and “free life” result in her defining freedom as the lack of…

The 20th century was packed with major events in America’s history. Nearly every decade had a defying event, from the Great Depression to both World Wars. However, while all of that was occurring, there was another event happening at the same time for much of the century. The Great Migration refers to the relocation of African Americans from the rural South to the urban areas in the North. City populations in Chicago and New York, for example, expanded greatly because of this influx. Migrants…

by A.J. Jacobs who does a wonderful job of blending all the Bible's rules, including the Bible's outdated old testament ordinances, with modern-day life which gives the book a very comedic aroma. The awkwardly funny author has a way of wrapping up the reader into his Biblical journey by having many stories with their own unique part to them, but they still still fit together in the grand scheme of things, creating an overarching story that parallels with the gradual change of A.J. Jacobs into…

truths and perspectives of a slave’s life. In Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs talks about her life and the struggles of being a slave. In addition to her life, the book describes first-hand encounters of events that also took place during this period such as the Nat Turner rebellion and how the character Harriet Jacobs was involved in such events. In Edenton, North Carolina, Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in 1813. She lived a happy life with her family although she…

In the book Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl written by Harriet Jacobs, we are introduced to Linda Brent, a girl who was born as a slave in North Carolina. Many years passed in the book and as Linda got older like many slaves she was being taken advantage by her mistress. Linda especially suffered when she was in her teenage years because her mistress was wanting to have sexual relations with her. Later in the book, Linda had two kids and like every mother she tried to protect them, but she…

Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs: American Slave Narrators Being raised as slaves; both Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass devoted their professional life for telling their true story based on their own experience. As a matter of fact, their works “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” (1861) and “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” (1845) are considered the most important works in the genre of slave narrative or of enslavement. Thus, this paper will compare…

Arguments can be expressed through verbal language, writing compositions, and visual designs. Director Jacob Kornbluth’s film Inequality for All is a visual argument, which allows for a stronger persuasive effect than by just using words alone. The film successfully advocates former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich’s economic idealisms and concerns. Due to the combination of video clips, pictures, and text, Reich is able to effectively communicate the argument that the gap in income inequality is…