Kendrick Perkins

1. I would like to work with Harjo's "The Woman Hanging from the 13th floor window" because it is the most interesting poem. I really enjoy the analysis of a woman who deciding between life and death on the unlucky number 13. 2. I believe the theme is about a broke woman who is thinking whether to die or live on an unlucky floor number. The woman is struggling with demons in her past that relate to poverty, her Indian heritage and what choice will she make to die or live. 3. The poem meaning is…

People experience feeling trapped all the time and it is a emotion that is used frequently in literature. Three works of literature that have cases of women being in a state of mind of feeling trapped are A Rose For Emily, A Room of Ones Own, and A Doll's House. In these three epics, there are various ways that the women feel trapped. Women went through hard times between the 18th and 19th century lifestyle. The lack of inequality of women and men at that time was unfair. Women that were…

The film Still Alice, directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland is able to show the impact of having Alzheimers. This is revealed through the emotional and physical impact it has on sufferer Alice, the effect on everyday life and the influence it has on families. The directors convey this through the use of camera movement, mise-en-scene, lighting and editing techniques. The emotional and physical impact Alice experiences is strongly evident in the use of camera angles, movement and…

As exemplified through Catherine Pleyel in Wieland, women in 18th century literature are often defined through their roles in the house (e.g. mother, wife, sister) while being scarcely defined as characters with dimension and personalities, and when they are granted the apparent privilege to have a personality and voice, they are generally portrayed as overbearing and oppressive. Washington Irving tackles this observation through his satire concerning Dame Van Winkle in Rip Van Winkle. Dame Van…

a. Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin Suicides both examine the relationship between victims and the world surrounding them; while Plath creates an individual, inspired by herself, who fights against the world, Eugenides, affected by his youth in a violent city, writes about a suburban society, instrumental in oppressing the Lisbon girls. While both protagonists fight against their worlds with their painful pollution and challenges to male superiority, they struggle to…

In 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published The Yellow Wallpaper. Since then, much has been said about The Yellow Wallpaper. Several interpretations and a vast amount of critiques have spawned since it was first published. These coming from other authors, feminists, and even Gilman herself shed some light on her motive for writing this story in Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper.” The Yellow Wallpaper is a profound commentary on women’s rights, as well as women’s health. It also plays on…

A tragic hero is typically defined as someone who is great and is destined for downfall (“Tragic Hero Classical Definition”). In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the protagonist Okonkwo shows strong characteristics of a tragic hero. Okonkwo rose from being poor and humiliated to a strong, well-respected, and influential warrior since his notable win against Amalinze the cat (Achebe 3). Unlike his father, Okonkwo is able to provide for his family, consisting of three wives and many children…

Receiving a diagnosis of any mental disorder can be terrifying and debilitating, however a mother receiving a diagnosis for a child with a mental disorder can be perceive it as a death sentence to their child, particularly a Christian mother who has been praying for a child. Theresa Crew is a 50 year old mother, wife and English Professor. She is the mother of twenty-one year old Johnathan who was recently diagnosed with schizophrenia. Theresa is a devout Christian and has difficulty…

My understanding and perception of Laura Esquivel’s novel Like Water for Chocolate was significantly developed through one IOP in particular. The presenter explored the influence of the existential philosophy in the novel Like Water for Chocolate. She explained how the protagonist Tita and other secondary characters can be seen as an existential successes and failures, and how these developments influenced the novel. Previously in my IB English 11 class, we had explored the use of…

Essay 2: Interpersonal Conflict There is an extensive amount of conflicts that clinicians in the healthcare setting experience with patients, families, and staff, which arise from interpersonal differences. Occurrences of these discords were prevalent during my service as a volunteer at the Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Center, where I observed therapy session of patients who were reluctant, emotional, stressed or had additional illnesses that caused conflict during their treatment. This…