Madam

take care of the kids. He only cares for outwardly appearance and treats Edna like one of his expensive objects. He does not understand his wife and thinks she is crazy when she is “awakened” and he was one of the driving factors for her suicide. Madam Ratignolle is in many ways the perfect women during the 19th century. She is a stellar wife and…

(#1) When passion comes in conflict with other more rational values, it is usually the passionate side that wins. In Feng Menglong’s story “Du Tenth Sinks the Jewel Box in Anger,” passion is important to Du Tenth. Throughout the story, Tenth faces several situations where passion comes into conflict with other more rational values, especially in regards to young master Li Jia. However, her decisions are always influences by her devotion to passion. (#2) Tenth does not simply want to be free of…

attempted to repress the rights of African Americans and the economically disadvantaged women who worked in the brothels. The story will follow the rise and downfall of three famous madams: Lulu White, Josie Arlington, and Willie Piazza whose growing power threatened the city’s respected upper class moral reformers. These madams were rebels who mocked the traditional values and roles that society forced upon women near the end of the Victorian era and challenged racial boundaries imposed by the…

I believe my grandfather, or Gong Gong as I called him in Chinese, was one of the wisest men I have ever met. He served in the Taiwanese Air Force as the Air Force Attaché to Washington, DC, and his military training made him a disciplined and goal-oriented man who had a great value of education. As a child, he always intimidated me, but now looking back to the times we spent together, his attitude towards life, opportunity and education shaped the way I approach any challenges I face today. My…

My book report was on the book Holes by Louis Sachar. The main character is a 14-year-old boy named Stanley Yelnats. Stanley is framed and accused of stealing a famous athlete shoes, when they flew from the sky and landed on him. Stanley is given the option of either going to jail or a special camp for troubled boys. The camp is called camp Green Lake and is described as a fun summer camp. When Stanley arrives to camp green lake he realizes it’s in the dry dessert in the middle of nowhere and…

about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?” The poem “The Rose that Grew from Concrete” written by Tupac Shakur, in 1999 was published long after Madam CJ Walker passed, but screams her life story. Many people will be surprised that one of the first American women to become a self-made millionaire was an African American named Madam CJ Walker, also known as Sarah Breedlove. Many will also be uprised that the same person is from a small rural town called, Delta, Louisiana, born to…

In the early 1900’s men and women were free from slavery, when they were release to freedom Black men and women had to find livable places to live, some of the people remained with their masters they were afraid they wouldn’t make it on their own. Black free slaves had to build there own homes, not luxury homes, it was shacks, out houses for bathrooms, they didn’t have heat and clean running water, Black free slave lived in poverty their hygiene was in very poor conditions. Because of these…

eventually overturned because the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2013 that it was unconstitutional. In an indirect manner, the D.C. Madam brought this somewhat obscure issue into the light of day. Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) was the next big name to drop as one of the D.C. Madam’s clients. With this information available to the public, Jeanette Maier, “the Canal Street Madam” from New Orleans who was targeted by the FBI, was all too happy to publicly allege that this “family values” candidate had…

cruel and precise person Madam Defarge is. Madam Defarge spends most of her time knitting in the shop, and as with such a practice, mistakes would typically be commonplace. On the contrary, Dickens makes a point to say:“There was a character about Madame Defarge, from which one might have predicated that she did not often make mistakes against herself in any of the reckonings over which she presided” (Dickens, 55). This description not only reinforces what kind of person Madam Defarge is, but…

As a woman everyone expected me to do this and to do that. And while fulfilling and doing everything that was expected of me. I lost my dream, I lost my wing, and most importantly I lost me. The women in The Awakening can be seen as a representation of Chopin. Chopin’s writing is based off women in transitional periods. Adele Ratignolle, Mademoiselle Reisz, and Edna Pontellier are different versions of Chopin. In the story, The Awakening shows the reality that is not spoken about. That even…