Jane Mallett

Identity is what makes each person individual and unique. Out of approximately seven billion people in the world, not one person is the same as another. So, why is it that each day people continue to disguise their identity? People are constantly around others. When one expresses her feelings to another person, she may disguise how she really feels. One may do this to sway someone else’s opinion. Additionally, to make an impression, one masks her true identity. The first impression is often the…

Princess Diana was born on July 1, 1961 in Sandringham, United Kingdom to Edward John Spencer and Frances Spencer as the fourth out of five children. Throughout her childhood, Diana showed a strong interest and love for dance, music, and children. After finishing school, she held a wide range of jobs, including, a pre-school playgroup assistant, a nanny, a dance instructor, and also a cleaning lady for her older sister. In 1975, Diana became Lady Diana Spencer due to her father’s inherited title…

Dolan, Frances. Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. Historians, for a large part of recent years, look for support and readings from interdisciplinary work. Frances Dolan, an English professor, answers this search in her Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy. Writing as historian, Dolan’s work reads like a proper historical study, complete with endnotes, however, her argument stretches farther than any trained…

A Scathing Review Some novels are passed down through history because they offer great entertainment, while others have great historical significance, yet at first glance Mrs. Dalloway seems to have little to no significance at all. In reality Mrs. Dalloway actually is an attempt to scrutinize the social injustices of the time from a real person’s point of view, without compromising true life and thought in any aspect. Through one particularly poignant scene of Clarissa Dalloway’s inner…

Comparison between Cultural Identity between two texts Every personin this world has the right to express their cultural identity and religion such as Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and many others.. Some prime examples include The Hero’s Walk,”written by Anita Rau Badami and Mira Nair’s film, The Namesake. The cultural identity of an individual can change ultimate their views about marriage, family and customs.. As shown in both texts, culture can alter everything in a person’s life…

Dunstan Ramsay and Percy “Boy” Staunton have a disjointed relationship throughout the novel Fifth Business. Boy is Dunstan’s oldest friend, however, Dunstan never forgot an incident in which Boy meant to hit a stone covered in snow at Dunstan. It changed Dunstan’s life negatively, as he carried guilt for the damage done to the life of the person that the stone hit. Mary Dempster gave birth prematurely, and as a result the child, Paul Dempster, was born with deformities. While, Dunstan sees Boy…

The title gives the readers a piece of ironic flavour because of the play on words. While the climb occurs on April Fools day, Roddan concludes that the two climbers are also "The April fools, married with fear and laughter on Polar Circus". Clearly, many would perceive them as fools for undertaking such a dangerous climb, especially at that time of the year. However, Roddan challenges the skeptics with her thesis "The tango with fear makes me wise" through which she reveals a central paradox:…

No Gold Diggers Here When adapting The Taming of the Shrew into a movie to appeal to a modern audience, the director of Ten Things I Hate About You chose to emphasize the American ideals of love and respect instead of the commonly held Elizabethan belief that unions were akin to mutually benefitting business arrangements. Such an adaptation of the plot is demonstrated by the relationship between Patrick Verona and Kat Stratford—characters who respectively mirror Shakespeare’s Petruchio and…

After meeting Leslie Kuhn,I may have had a central purpose with my life.Well,not Leslie A. Kuhn of MSU herself,but whenever I describe Lilian,their characters seem quite parallel.Not only is she the most brilliant lady I have ever met,but she also exhibits a compassionate heart.Sadly, people never recognize Lilian as the beautiful individual she is or what she has to offer.While the society describe her as ''challenged'',I came to recognize her as unexpected role model.Lilian is albinic and…

Papa provides Raami with the will to happily survive through stories and the imagination, however, ironically, it is Mama who must provide her with the ability to survive, this is a result of their backgrounds. Papa grew up in royalty, he has lived a entitled life which effects how he views the world. When Papa talks to Raami about stories he talks with a hopeful poetic tone, reflecting his upbringing. The tone is demonstrated when Papa explains that "'Words, you see,' he said, looking at me…