Laurel meets her step mother, Fay, for the first time, despite the fact that her father has married Fay for more than a year. She is shocked by the childish behaviors of Fay. From the beginning, Fay tries to control everything and prove her existence. When people ask Laurel about the location of the funeral, Fay says “I’m Mrs. McKelva now. If you’re the undertaker, you do your business with me” (Welty 50). Whenever there is a conversation about to happen between Laurel and other about anything…
Dreaming about Reality: A Journey into the mind of victims of WWI and The Influenza Pandemic ‘Pale Horse, Pale Rider’ is a fictional retelling of Katherine Anne Porter’s own experience as an influenza survivor during World War I. Porter expresses the devastating effects the illness had on her life by chronicling a month in the life of Miranda, a reporter, as she enjoys a romance with Adam, a young Army officer, until she becomes a victim of influenza. Adam nurses her, and before she fully…
Even so, not one person could explain why or how the great stone figures were erected (Routledge, 1998). The mystery of who built the statues is not as significant as why they built the statues, and how they transported them. Many of the Easter Island researchers, including Jo Anne Van Tilberg, the previous director of the Easter Island Project…
“Reasserting Nature: Constructing Urban Environments After Fordism.” In Remaking Reality: Nature at the Millennium. Ed. B Braun and N Castree. London: Routledge, 1998. pp. 100-125. Sinclair, Katherine. "Untouched And Uninhabited: Conflicting Canadian Rhetoric On The Protection Of The Environment And Advancing Northern Economies". Indigenous Peoples’ Governance Of Land And Protected Territories In The Arctic, Thora Martina…
Katherine Umana Transnational Feminisms Professor Holmes September 26, 2017 Is Feminist Nationalism Possible or Desirable? The combination of feminism and nationalism to form one set of ideals is starting to become more prominent today than it did a few decades back. Feminism is defined as “the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes” (“Feminism”) while nationalism is defined as “a sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and placing…
An “Unsafe” Safe Space It is no secret that we are living in a world where we have to be careful of everything we say or do. We constantly need to think whether our words and actions will be offensive to a specific culture, race, religion, or anything else. We do not want to exposed to anything that marginalizes some crucial parts of our identity and to maintain these values that are so important to us. That is why the University of Chicago was met with harsh criticisms from throngs of angry…