Jamestown, Virginia

The Union and Confederate fighting styles were similar in many ways, but in certain aspects, they were vastly different. Both sides valued honor and loyalty and frowned upon retreat. Both sides believed they were fighting for a just cause and that they would win the war easily. One difference between them was, the Confederacy had first-rate generals and the Union had more manpower. The Confederacy started more defensively, but as the war progressed they became more offensive. The Union was…

“The Death of the Moth”, by Virginia Woolf, and “The Spider and the Wasp”, by Alexander Petrunkevitch, had both similar and different ways of expressing tones. Both Woolf's and Petrunkevitch's writing styles are similar. They both use descriptive imagery and details. Some examples of this in Petrunkevitch's essay are "the exasperated spider" and "soft membrane". Another example, this time in Woolf's essay, is "hay-coloured wings, fringed with a tassel of the same colour". These descriptive…

The title character from Kurt Vonnegut’s short story “Harrison Bergeron” and the moth from Don Marquis’ poem “The Lesson of the Moth” have similar philosophies on life. To start with, Harrison and the moth’s deaths had meaningful purposes behind them. Harrison Bergeron met his demise by interrupting the ballet to remove his handicaps and dancing with a ballerina. By doing this, “Not only were the laws of the land were abandoned, but the laws of gravity and the laws of motion as well.” (Vonnegut…

The battle between our own states was a raging and bloody war for both the north and the south. Throughout the war the officers were often treated like royalty compared to that of the men that, I feel, did most of the hard work. The enlisted men did not get the same quality of goods as the officers and were forced to make good with what they got. I could not imagine sleeping in half of a tent or somehow having to find a way to join two halves together as you can see in the pictures shown at Camp…

The North and the South: Civil War Era In the mid-1800s, turmoil broke between the North and the South states. The Southern Confederate states and the Northern Union states shared different beliefs. There were slave states in the South and free states in the North. These two territories shared many other differences, as well as a few minor similarities. The North and the South shared several variations between their social, economic, and political cultures. Alhough the North and the South…

Virginia Woolf, the author of “Two Cafeterias,” is a feminist advocate who puts herself in the place of the men and women at the University nearby. She analyzes how men and women are treated by the food they are served at the University through the use of rhetorical devices to drive her point. Woolf uses her observations to compare and contrast the way that men and women are treated in the 1900s. The men are given something that can be described as a “luncheon party” with an elegant and…

We see pictures of poverty on the news from many different communities across the nation, but often, little of this news coverage is given to the people living in Appalachia. The ABC 20/20 episode entitled A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains shines a much needed light on the daily struggles people living in Central Appalachia face. Watching Children of the Mountains was a sobering experience for me. The most surprising thing in this video was the drug abuse and drug dealing. It was…

“Two Cafeterias”, by Virginia Woolf, was written showing an underlying message of how different men and woman are treated in this culture. Using words, descriptions, and tones Woolf expresses to the reader how insignificant woman in this day are made to feel. It is shown throughout the entire piece that the men of this society are treated to nothing less than “invariably memorable” luncheon parties with meals that leave Woolf feeling as though they were “going to heaven.” She describes the meals…

Racism on the Gridiron Do you have metathesiophobia, the fear of change? Remember the Titans, directed by Boaz Yakin and starring Denzel Washington and Will Patton, takes place in Alexandria Virginia in 1971. It is about an all white school and an all black school that integrate to form T.C. Williams. This leads to very high racism, discrimination, and prejudice in the town. The film does a great job of leaving an impact on the viewer by portraying a change of heart in many characters. The…

It’s common for readers and critics of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography to immediately categorize her novel as a loose interpretation of a biography. In fact, analyzers and historians have proved the connections between her novel’s characters, as well as, its events. , The parallelism even stated in the title as a biography. However, it is worth arguing that writing a holiday biography was neither Woolf’s first nor only intention. A thorough analysis presents a theme of sexual ambiguity to…