Mademoiselle

The protagonist in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, and Alice Walker’s The Color purple have many similarities but also bear a large contrast to one another. Celie and Edna both find themselves in similar situations, the rebirth of independence, finding themselves and the awakening of their femininity, but they both go about this process very differently and thus we end with very polarizing characters. Both Celie and Edna depict an inward search for independence, and self actualization. Edna feels…

Charlotte Temple was written in the Post-Revolutionary Era in the early 1790’s. With the colonies recently winning their independence from Britain and the adoption of a new constitution this idea of “American” life started to form. From the novel we can see gender roles, differences in social classes, ideas of marriage, and even a little of their system of militarism. From information gathered in textbooks and other historical facts we can see the power in the society is dominated by rich white…

In Poe’s detective stories “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Purloined Letter,” Dupin serves as a model of rational deduction. Dupin seems to have almost supernatural deductive ability in solving mysteries. Since Dupin’s use of reason to solve mysteries is central to these stories, determining Poe’s views on the nature of reasoning is critical to an understanding of their meaning. Hurh (2012) argues that the description of Dupin’s dual nature of “the creative and the resolvent” (Poe,…

The representation of women in artworks over the course of 500 years has altered to showcase the portrayal of women over time. The majority of women in artworks are depicted in a demeaning manner that correlates with gender bias in favouring men. In the Renaissance era, objectification of the female body in artworks was prominent, however the implied connotation of promiscuity was subtler and perceived as ‘elegant’. In modern society the media significantly incorporates blatant images of…

Emilia Dancelli had been rehearsing for approximately six and a half hours and was, at this point, pushing herself far past the limit of even her (in her girlfriend Rebekah 's opinion) ridiculous endurance. She had a competition in five weeks, an audition for the Royal Ballet Company in ten, and an interview/audition with the English National Ballet in twelve. Rebekah had barely seen her for the last couple of weeks despite sharing a flat (and a bed) and was, frankly, starting to worry. Today,…

Data Collection Procedure: In order to conduct this study, each student was provided a consent form to be signed by their parents and a demographic questionnaire (Appendices A&B ), which revealed that they had no prior exposure to the French language, and that all “of them had lived and studied Spanish in a Spanish-speaking country for a period ranging from” (Achard & Niemer, 2004, p.21), five to ten years. Additionally, the questionnaire revealed that the participants have been in the United…

Edmund Cooper, a prolific speculative fiction writer, writes in one of his books, “I am rebelling against imprisonment. I am rebelling against tyranny of the mind. I am rebelling against a collection of machines with interchangeable faces. Above all, I am rebelling against my own ignorance and your deliberate deception.” Similarly, in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the theocratic republic of Gilead has created a controlled society where Offred and her friend Moira, along with other…

My eyes open from a deep sleep to the sound of loud, ferocious barking coming from our dog, Choncey, in the front yard. He only barked like this when he was scared, so I knew that something or someone was frightening him. My wife, Genevieve, says, “Jules, go check outside to see what is bothering Choncey.” “Ok, ma chérie, I will make sure we are safe.” I replied. Sneaking carefully down the stairs, I look out the windows to see if anyone is there. All I see is Choncey making a fuss toward his…

Guy de Maupassant, is regarded as the master of the shortest stories including the novel writer. His impact is evidence and well known globally.He was born on August 5, 1850, somewhere in Normandy, France.Gustave, his father, existed as a member of the ancient nobility of French origin.Apart from this, he was a renowned gambler, stockbroker and also a painter of amateur tools.Laure le Potvin, her mother, was a staunch and active woman .she was also so domineering. Maupassant parents marriage…

People all over the world are subjected to mass media everyday but sadly; most fall for the scheme more than they would like to admit. Whether it is a picture of a model telling us she lost 20 pounds in a month after childbirth or commercial oppressing women and men inferring the cheeseburger they are eating will take us to the tropical island they are lying naked on, we end up allowing ourselves to fall into the trap that is mass media. In Where the Girls Are: Growing up Female with the Mass…