Lester Young

Lester Bowles Pearson’s inauguration address of the national flag of Canada features inspiration, patriarchy and unity that one can associate with Canada’s national pride. Today, the national flag embodies a message of nationality and a badge to show identity at the Olympic Games, Canadian organizations and businesses. The white and red flag, featuring a red 11-point maple leaf in the center of two red strips on opposite ends was inaugurated on February 15, 1965. A rhetorical analysis divulges…

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Young adult fiction has become a popular and often controversial genre in recent media. The genre encompasses fiction published for readers from 12 to 18 years of age, yet can contain sensitive and complex topics such as suicide, self-harm and death. Such novels have been widely criticised by parents and primary care givers in an attempt to protect their children from the seemingly macabre subject matter contained within. In spite or because of that, it is posited that adolescents should indeed…

under those circumstances, her reactions to the restrictions posed upon her were normal. They also made life easier for her; she could simply have fun and enjoy life. Her father's attitude was undoubtedly the main reason that she picked a man like Torvald to marry. Unconsciously, she was still seeking a father figure, a continuation of her childhood. As she herself realized, ."..I passed from Daddy's hands into yours. You arranged everything . . . and so I came to share it--or pretended to.…

The Little Rock Nine were mine students who were ‘allowed’ to attend a ‘white school’ in Little Rock, Arkansas, due to the verdict of Brown vs. Topeka. However the students were blocked from entering the school by the Arkansas National Guard, under orders by Governor Faubus. However President Eisenhower intervened in a civil rights event for the first time in his presidency, contradicting his usual uncommitted approach, and sent the US Army to escort and protect the nine students. This instance…

When the reader is first introduced to Elizabeth, she is being adopted by the Frankenstein family, showing that, to some extent, this young girl was taken against her will. As the story progresses, however, the reader becomes aware that because of this adoption, Elizabeth is given a better life and a chance to succeed and to learn. Throughout the novel, Elizabeth is not mentioned as much as Victor is, since they are separated. As Elizabeth writes to Victor, “You are distant from me, and it is…

In Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein, there seems to be some issues with gender. While this novel was written during a predominantly patriarchal time for women, it is interesting how Mary Shelley, a female author, would submit to portraying female characters as powerless figures. As the daughter of the “first feminist,” Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin “a radical philosopher,” Mary Shelley seemingly misrepresents women in her novel. Additionally, Mary Shelley excludes females as a whole…

The 20 percent of adults ages 25 to 31 living with their parents are seen by some sociologists as representative of an entirely new life stage arising not out of necessity, but out of inevitability. (Pew Research Center, 2012) They see ‘emerging adulthood’ as the outcome of the vast currents of socioeconomic and implicitly cultural change that have swept in during the turn of the 21st century. (Henig 2010) Some view this cultural trend as one to keep, theorizing that this ‘time to explore’…

In the article, “What Do Adolescents Need for Healthy Development? Implications for Youth Policy”, Jodie Roth and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn break down the social policy into fourth main ideas. First, Roth and Brooks-Gunn explain that a healthy development for an adolescent is summarized into the “five C’s”: competence being the ability to complete something successfully in the academic, social and vocational field, confidence in an adolescent, connection or healthy relationships with individuals around…

about procreation. Not only as we are in a sexually liberated day and age, but also the ignorance of thinking birth control is just used for preventing pregnancy is potentially extremely devastating to one’s health. It is simply inhumane to deny a young person medicine that can ease symptoms of PMS and prevent cancers. When an adult dismisses a teenager’s need for medication such as this, they are basically saying, “I don’t want you to be safe or use preventative measures to benefit my…