Jane Jacobs

Early British women's activist Mary Wollstonecraft, married name Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, was born on April 27, 1759 in London, England. She was a progressive thinker who tried to wind up "the first of a new genus," another sort of lady. Her life, however short and tumultuous, was portrayed by an Enlightenment-motivated energy for reason bizarre among ladies of her time. Verifiably, many individuals have been more intrigued by Wollstonecraft's surprising individual life and relationship…

In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird”, it has a lot to do with power I think power is having what other people want, this could be money, help, or just strength. This story is mostly about the trial on Tom Robinson and Mayella, Mayella wins the court case and Tom Robinson is convicted. People look at others by their class, gender, and race. Mayella is powerless because of her class and gender but her race makes her powerful. All in all Mayella is powerless because of her low class. Mayella and…

How much does caliber affect a person’s opinion? In the short story, “The Stolen Party” written by Liliana Heker, strongly emphasizes the differences within a society's class. It starts off with Luciana, a girl from the upper class, inviting Rosaura, the daughter of Luciana’s maid, to her party. Rosaura wholeheartedly believes that she is being treated as an equal, as Luciana’s friend, at the party, but throughout the night she is constantly fetching drinks, running around, and being purposely…

The spread of Elizabeth Blackwell’s altruism began with her aspiration to build a hospital in New York City. Fortunately, slow business thrived to be a bustling one through Blackwell’s talks of health in her rented, one-room medical center in Jersey City. Following Blackwell’s establishment was a clinic, founded by Blackwell, her sister, and Dr. Marie E. Zakrzewska, a Berlin midwife. Although labor in the clinic was ceased, the New York Infirmary for Women and Children was operative in 1857…

In fact according to "chimps facts" say "Humans share approximately 98 % of our DNA with chimpanzees". This article also say that "Chimpanzees make and use tools". The first researcher to discover that chimpanzees make and use tools were Jane Goodall. For example, Chimpanzees take leaves and strip the leaves off the stem. Then they use the stem to " fish" for termites. In addition why chimpanzees are intelligent. According to "chimps have better short- term memory than humans"…

In William Shakespeare's play Othello, there is love, betrayal, power, and pride that bring this tragedy together. In the end, there are not as many deaths as Romeo and Juliet but it is definitely just as heartbreaking. Desdemona and Emilia are the two main female characters in Othello. While the two women share many similar traits, being heavily devoted to their husbands, there is a contrast in the women in how they view the world. Desdemona is innocent and her idea of idealism is quite…

It’s official... the First Lady has gone nuts! It was the beginning of a very long depressing end for Mary Todd Lincoln. No one knew just how hard it was for Mary after the death of her husband, until her own son placed her in an insane asylum. But how did the assassination of Abraham Lincoln really affect Mary? Mary Todd Lincoln was born December 13, 1818 into a distinguished family in Lexington, Kentucky to parents Robert Smith Todd and Elizabeth Parker. Her grandfather was one of the…

The true values of man are revealed when one faces the prospect of losing something precious in order to keep what truly matters, as people’s sacrifices reveal their true beliefs. In The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton demonstrates that people make such sacrifices for what they really value, when Newland Archer ends his affair with the Countess Olenska, whom he loves, to live socially accepted with his wife, May Welland. Archer gives up the relationship that he longs for, displaying that his…

When a couple gets married, believing you will love each other and live happily ever after. This is not always the case. Some marriages end up in a divorce for many reasons. There is one reason that is stated in Stone soup. She said, “I imagine it must be a painful reckoning in adolescence (or later on) to realize one’s own true love will never look like the soft-focus fragrance ads because Prince Charming (surprise!) is a princess.” This woman really portrays a picture of a man not loving…

Jane Austen and Societal Exposure in Northanger Abbey Biographical Summary Jane Austen, a classic literary author, was born on December 16, 1775 in Hampshire, England. Her parents are Cassandra Leigh Austen and Reverend George Austen, who raised eight children: James, George, Edward, Henry, Jane, Cassandra, Francis, and Charles. Austen was introduced to her love of writing through the plays she and her family wrote and performed for each other. For most of their life Austen and her sister…