Julia the Elder

Stephen King is an author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. He is most well-known for his writing of horror stories and how scary and real they seem to be. One of Kings first novels known as Carrie was his first horror novel and was a huge success. In this essay assignment, the directions were to read Stephen King’s “My Creature from the Black Lagoon” and to define and focus in on nine points in which Stephen King talks about during his essay. Stephen Kings…

If they wanted someone who was able to work on the farm they should have asked for that specifically. In the article Why Anne Makes us Dizzy: Reading Anne of Green Gables from a Gender Perspective by Julia McQuillan and Julie Pfeiffer they state “Marilla and Matthew specify a boy they need a good worker. Why then do they not specify a good, strong, healthy child capable of doing farm work? In a way, they do. They use sex category as a shorthand way of…

Group Project Classroom procedure has changed drastically since the United States found themselves in 28th place for worldwide academic standards (BBC). So we tried to play catch up, we decided that our education system needed to change, and it did. But the question remains: where all of our changes for the better? The national art budget was cut or eliminated in many districts (Why the Arts Matter), technology has overrun our schools, and through it all gender bias still rules the classroom.…

Kirk Ormand is a classics professor at Oberlin University who specializes in sexuality in the ancient world. Throughout chapters eight, ten, and thirteen of his book Controlling Desires, Ormand looks at many aspects pertaining to Roman sexuality. An overarching theme of the three chapters looks at what was considered normal sexual behavior in Rome, with a focusing at times on homosexuality in Rome. Over the course of the chapters, Ormand looks at Rome’s origins and interrelation to Greece with…

both cast in a Whittier Little Theater Group Production, The Dark Tower (Infoplease editors). She dated Richard Nixon for two years before finally agreeing to marry him. The two married on June 21, 1940 and went on to have two children, Tricia and Julia. Richard Nixon’s high ambitions led to the decision of moving to Washington, D.C., in search of a more paying and gratifying job. He later found a job with Franklin Roosevelt’s Office of Price Administration. He was disappointed with the New…

CONCLUSION (THESIS 21.6.15) Poems by women writers on motherhood and mothering, discussed so far conform to the feminist theorization of motherhood both as a subjugating political institution and an enriching personal experience. The poems may not be exclusively written to expose or explore the themes of motherhood alone, but their approach to this topic is extra ordinarily rich and varied, offering fresh insights into how sexual politics and the related institutions, like marriage, religion,…