Kate Beckinsale

This weekend I got my tonsils out, it was not a pleasant experience at all. Friday morning was the time of the procedure and I was convinced that everything was going to go perfect, I would feel comfortable and recover in no time at all. The only reason I would not be at school, was because I simply don’t want to be there, not that I am in so much pain that it hurts to talk and it doesn’t seem to get better. The waiting room at surgeons was offly small with only ten chairs. When my parents and…

Writers are able to use literary tools to present a specific image of a protagonist; Kate Chopin was no exception. Chopin, an American writer in the 1800s, crafted short stories where the main character, often a female, was molded by her careful word choice. In “A Pair of Silk Stockings” Chopin is able to use syntax and diction to portray Mrs. Sommers, a woman who was assumed to be in a middle to low economic class. The sentence structure and word choice illustrate Sommers as a conflicted,…

The Messenger Essay “In order for a text to be successful, characters must undergo meaningful change” In The Messenger, novelist Markus Zusak records the experiences of Ed Kennedy, the protagonist, as he undergoes changes that enable him to find himself, giving his a life a purpose. As the novel begins, Ed is a lazy and underachieving teenager who drives taxi-cabs for a living. Ed is laid back with little life aspirations. As the novel progresses, the messages that Ed is required to deliver…

Personal anecdotes and factual evidence are both useful forms of research for an author to portray a message in non-fiction writing. Personal anecdotes offer an easy way to introduce a topic; however, they can quickly lead to a single story in which evidence becomes less important. Technical facts, such as scientific research, statistics, and other data, can easily prove a point, but can also easily lose the interest of the reader. While every writer has their own writing techniques, they must…

The main question focused on while doing this experiment was, “How many times does the ball bounce before coming to a rest? “ There were four groups and each one had a different ball in size to get a variety in the data. Each group did their own data analysis depending on the number of the bounces their ball did. Every group was expected to release the ball from their hands and count the number of bounces before coming to a stop which was then repeated 10 times. Once every group completed their…

opposite backgrounds that board this luxuries boat where they both happen to fall in love with each other. There were more than 100,000 people who turned up to see the ship called Titanic that was supposed to sail the across Atlantic Ocean. Rose (Kate Winslet) is saved by the young man named Jack (Leonardo Dicaprio) when he stops her from committing suicide because she is tired of her rich life and her fiancée who also joined them on the ship. Even after her mother’s refusal, she still went…

Would it be great to be free form a life that was unpleasant? A life where you are no longer with your partner and no longer felt the way that it used to feel about them? A desired to live a different life. In the “The Story of an Hour” author Kate Chopin uses a husband’s death to show readers that there is still hope for life after tragedy. In this essay will look at the widow in the story. The symbolisms in the story and the setting of where it takes place. First the widow in this story is…

Kate Chopin’s 1899 Novel The Awakening, encompasses itself on defying the stereotype of a “Mother-woman”and a woman trying to fit into strict cultural demands. The protagonist Edna Pontellier ruined many expectations of what a woman should be like in the nineteenth century. The Awakening not only embraces the process of self-discovery, and conflict between an individual and society, but also includes family as major theme throughout the novel. Chopin geniously captivates the reader by giving…

have been produced to disrupt this traditional ideology and contributed to the undermining of these traditional ideas of colonialism. These texts can be interpreted and read in a number of different ways. The Secret River, a postcolonial novel, by Kate Grenville, has a range of possible readings. One of the reading of Grenville’s novel is that it is a story of two contrasting worldviews that tragically collide, never to be reconciled. Another is a reading that challenges the myth that the…

“THE STORY OF AN HOUR” In "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin, the main character, Mrs. Mallard, is a married woman with a heart condition. Her husband is absent and the news arrives that he died in a horrible train accident. His sister tells him the news and, in silence, Mrs. Mallard rejoices. It is that she is not happily married and the idea of freedom from her marriage ties gives her joy. She assumes that she is playing the sad widow. Bently Mallard, the husband of Mrs. Louise Mallard, is…