Louisa May Alcott

heartbreaking. No matter what sight they saw, they kept working because their main goal was to get them back out in the war. Though there is very little written record of their service a few of the most important left accounts. They included Louisa May Alcott, Jane Stuart Woolsey, Susie King Taylor, Katherine Prescott Wormeley, and the two most important Dorethea Dix and Clara Barton. (Historynet.com,2014) Clara would deliver poems to others throughout the war and one of her most written lines…

“Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion,” Gordon Hinckley so accurately wrote. As seen in the story “All the Silent Sounds,” the main characters Deya and Afeera are constantly seen as opposing forces. Most of the conflict arises from Afeera 's refusal to accept positive changes in society and her continuous mistrust and condemnation of Deya 's desires and choices. Deya wants to make her own way and choices in life while Afeera insists that Deya follows with Aferera 's traditional…

As appointed superintendent of U.S. Army nurses Dix trained many women, including Louisa May Alcott. After the war Dix continued where she had left off. At the age of seventy-nine, Dix took her final tour in New England and New York and after it was over she retired in Trenton, New Jersey. Five years later Dorothea died. Dorothea Dix never…

Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts on July 12, 1817. His home was about twenty miles outside of Boston. Born to John and Cynthia Dunbar Thoreau, he was the third of four children in his family. Helen and John were his older sister and brother; Sophia was his younger sister. Helen was five years older, and John Jr. was two years older; Sophia was two years younger than he was. He received a primary and secondary education at a public school in Concord and the private Concord…

Did you know that Ellis Bell, the author of one of the greatest love stories ever told, Wuthering Heights, was actually a female who used this pen name as a cover up? Emily Bronte wrote the book under a masculine name because in the late 1800’s it was frowned upon for women to exceed through any form of entertainment. The 1920’s are noted to be a turnaround for females who aspired to write and publish novels. The “Roaring Twenties” was a significant transition in American entertainment because…

Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston on May 25, 1803. Ralph Waldo Emerson devoted much of his early life following biblical teachings. Even so, he remained fascinated with the stories of various cultures. It is noted that “In 1829 he was ordained by the Unitarians as junior pastor at Boston’s…

Defining classic literature is a more complex and debated subject than one might imagine it to be. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines the word classic as an adjective used to show that something is the very best of its kind, an example of excellence or something that has been popular for a long period of time. The word literature also has a wide range of meanings. It can mean any written work such as a brochure, novel, article, poem, play, or booklet about a particular subject.…

Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is one of the greatest classical but controversial novels that have ever been written in the history of the American literature. Historically, this novel was dropped in a time where there was a movement called Realism; which was about documenting culture, nature, dialects, customs, traditions…etc back then. Despite the fact that this movement is about viewing scenes of regions, teaching lessons for social conduct, documenting and reflecting the…

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, Abuela Invents the Zero by Judith Ortiz Cofer, and Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. All these stories have an undertone that anyone can learn from. Values others can use affect anyone or everyone. All people contribute to an ever-growing world, and others actions can impact the world positively or negatively. It all comes done to…

according to BusinessDictionary.com, "a problem or situation that requires a person or organization to choose between alternatives that must be evaluated as right (ethical) or wrong (unethical)," are seen in many works of literature. For example, in Louisa May Alcott 's Little Women, the main character, Jo, struggles with not knowing whether or not she wants to marry her best friend because she wants to focus on her future. Another example is from Victor Hugo 's Les Miserables where the main…