Little Dorrit

is told by a female, and the setting is a mostly feminine populated country estate the male characters are ever present and oppressive! The Governess’s choices and actions are dictated by her desire to honor her responsibility to the Master. Even little Miles grows increasingly demanding and even bossy. Finally, this is a woman’s account written by a man, so is there even a female voice here at all? How might the story have been different if it had been written by a woman? If we were to imagine…

hey umm Melissa. Umm I like you and I just wanted to ask you that, if maybe, possibly, will you be my girlfriend?". He waited anxiously for her respond. She said no. But surprisingly he was ok with it he was just proud of what he has done. He was a little bummed but not to the point where it would affect his everyday…

Alcott, L. M. (1997). A long fatal love chase. New York: Dell Pub. Louisa May Alcott is best known for Little Women and her other juvenile fiction, but she also wrote gothic thrillers. A Long Fatal Love Chase is one of these and has been referred to as a "bodice-ripper" by reviewers. Originally written for serialization in 1866, after her travels in Europe and about two years before Little Women was published, her manuscript was rejected as "too long and too sensational". Several years later,…

World War II was a testing ground for weapons the world had never seen before, with the most powerful weapons being the two atomic bombs dropped by the United States. The two bombs, Little Boy and Fat Man, were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively (“Avalon Project”). These bombs powered by nuclear fission caused destruction on a scale that had never been seen before. The bombs developed during the Manhattan Project were created in order to end the fighting of World War II. The bombs…

Mermaids, especially in American culture, are treated uniquely. They are either innocent or hyper sexualized. An example would be a look at Disney’ movie The Little Mermaid. In this movie Ariel in an innocent young girl, but her body and the clothes she wears says something much differently. She is a young girl in fact and is allowed to act free and wild, until she gets her man (Musker et.al 2006). This sets…

to Walt Disney World together for our 16th birthdays. She gets along with my parents and uncles a little bit too well, they all just consider her a part of the family now. Surprisingly, we never fight at all. We just say we got any hate we could ever have for each other out in 6th grade. Ash and I were brought together by a mixture of things. Most of it was our love for Disney and art with a little bit of music thrown into the mix. We both would always base our art projects after either a…

people of the city. The bombing caused hysteria among the people, they were traumatized and constantly afraid. Prior to the bombing, mass air raids were common and people had become accustomed to seeing a plane or small groups of planes so they payed little attention to them, but “after the atomic bombings the appearance of a single plane caused more terror and disruption of normal life than the appearance of many hundreds of planes had ever been able to cause before” (“The Atomic bombings…

there is no snake or any scary animals, but I thought what if I cannot get out from here and die here today. Tears came out from my eyes unexpectedly… I did not know that I was that weak. I tried to calm down by drinking water and sitting down for a little while. After I calmed down and thought what if I die here today, I found something I had forgotten. That was to appreciate what I have today. These days, I kept complaining about things I could not do or I didn’t have and put responsibilities…

Niki Caro's stoical mystical charming movie Whale Rider introduces newcomer Keisha Castle Hughes in her acting debut as Pai. Gender and Sexism are entrenched in many of the scenes in this movie. For instance, in the very first scene, it shows Pai’s family waiting for the birth of Pai and her twin brother. Koro, Pai’s Grandfather and the current Chief of the Maori People waited with bated breath for the next male to be born who was destined to become the future Chief of the Tribe. However, the…

A young boy riding a camel with the caravan, hoping to across the Sahara Desert in search of his Personal Legends. This image gives a concise and precise description of the theme in the book "Alchemist". The Alchemist is a book Written by Paulo Coelho that elaborates the journey of a young shepherd named Santiago, who decides to give up all his possessions and travel to the Pyramids in Egypt in search of treasure after his magical dream. Through his adventure, he was able to experience about…