Long Walk to Freedom

The first day back to school has finally come again. As you walk down the freshly waxed halls, the smell of cleaning agents gives you a fresh clean feeling. On your walk to your first college course, you notice something oddly strange about your fellow classmates passing by. You attempt to converse with people but no one replies, you shrug it off. When you arrive to class everyone is quiet. As you head to your seat you begin to notice strange posters all over the classroom labeled “Speech…

“lets you browse, grab and walk out- skipping the checkout line” (Weise 1). Weise maintains that this new concept allows shoppers more freedom, as they no longer have their patience tested as they stand in long lines in order to purchase items. Now, with this first store opened for trial purposes, customers can grab any item off a shelf or put it back and sensors and an app keep track of it all. The app is connected to a payment method and shoppers can simply “just walk out” of the store (Weise…

imagery to express Mrs. Mallard’s process of grieving. Louise is the obvious character of interest; through her character we can see the social repression that possibly all women felt at the time. When Louise is finally hit with reality her view of a long life changes from dread to hope. Chopin uses the quote, “’She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength’” (Chopin). The quotation has an underlying meaning; ‘bespoke repression and a…

An Hour of Freedom The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin is about a wife who is told that her husband died, how she reacts to the news, and how she reacts when he walks in the door alive (428-429). This story is about emotional, intellectual, and physical freedom. It was published in 1894 during a time in American history when women were fighting for equality and starting to see progress. Women just beginning to enter the workforce as opposed to solely taking care of their home and husband. In…

one's freedom, but under an ontological freedom these restrictions are nonexistent. These restrictions are referred to by existentialism as ‘facticitcity’ meaning the objective fact about the external world which are outside of one's control, past one's reaction to them. These facticities are categorised as My Place, My Past, My Environment, My Fellow Man, and My Death. This essay shall focus on My Past and My Death, and evaluate how both of these aspects are insufficient accounts of our freedom…

symbol of a home and comfort. However, it’s also composes of constraining walls inside of other walls, that can become a barrier to the outside world. The short story “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin, hints about Mrs. Mallard’s celebration for freedom after the news of her husband’s death, and her sudden death on seeing her husband again. Did she die because she was overjoyed or was it fear of living in bondage? Story of An Hour tells a story about a middle aged woman who claims to be in…

Freedom can mean many things to many people, freedom to me means being liberated from what once held one in bondage. Although, freedom according to the Merriam Webster’s dictionary gives a concise definition which states: “Liberation from slavery or restraint or from the other power of another: independence. Nevertheless, Martin Luther king Jr. is a well-known activist who fought for the freedom for African Americans. Also know for the March and his I have a dream speech. He wrote a letter…

The idea of Freedom can be seen throughout Collection Two of our textbooks. Freedom can be seen in Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream “speech when he talks about the bad check being cashed and his dream. In the memoir “Reading in Lolita in Tehran from Persepolis 2” by Azar Nafisi, freedom is the main point in the story and can be seen when she describes how they must dress and what life was like during her mother’s generation. Lastly, freedom, or the lack of it, is the main topic of Luisa…

can't fly, then run, if you can't run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward. (Martin Luther King Jr.) Even though Eva and Anne both went through really hard times they both continued to move forward. They both had a miserable life but yet they made it the best they could. They both had times where they had to make hard decisions but they continued going. Both “The Diary of Anne Frank” and “Freedom Writers” share the life lesson of even…

feeling of freedom, it would be Mrs. Mallard. She experiences freedom for what seems to be the first time for about half of the story. “The Story of an Hour” is a fictional short story written by Kate Chopin. The protagonist, Mrs. Mallard, is a young woman with heart problems, and her sister Josephine has to break it as carefully as possible to her that her husband has died in a railroad accident. When Mrs. Mallard finally understands, she starts to grieve, but soon realizes the freedom she now…