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Modern Sonnets: Extending Beyond Petrarchan Idealism Through Lineation and Meter Historically, the sonnet is a form that expresses beauty, perfection, and ideals. While the Petrarchan blazon sonnet is focused exclusively on objectifying the female body, modern sonnets such as Alice Notley’s “Sonnet 15” and Claude McKay’s “The Castaways” veer away from that Petrarchan idealism. In “Sonnet 15”, Notley writes of the speaker’s heartbreak from a past relationship. Similarly, McKay chooses a darker…

For four days (January 17th to 20th), University of Toronto’s Trinity College Dramatic Society (TCDS) had performed Paula Vogel’s 1997 play How I Learned to Drive. The play revolves around Li’l Bit who reflects on her relationship with Uncle Peck, while learning the rules of the road. Through a retrospective narrative, Li’l Bit tells how learning to drive became a sexual motive for Uncle Peck. At the same time, Li’l Bit acknowledges the consequences of her actions, which affects her future.…

The idea of maintaining an idealistic image of what a woman should be can be daunting for many women. In the novel written by Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar is a feminist classic as it entails the struggle that the main character, Esther Greenwood, faces as she battles relationships, motherhood and the ideal image of women brought to her by the magazine internship she works at, all while slowly losing her sanity. Esther unravels and begins to show signs of her mental illness early on. High-class…

By Ava Harbour *My name is Elliot Hall and I was framed for murder* November 18, 2015. It was a usual fall evening, 5:00 PM to be exact, a salty smell of the ocean below.The slight breeze blowing through my light blue curtains puts an exciting feeling in the air . I slip on one of my three tuxedos, brush my hair, grab my briefcase and go. I have been doing magic since I was seven. As I got older I made some cash by doing magic at my friends, parties, or between jobs. I use a nearby luxury…

Elizabeth’s shirt is school-sponsored speech under the Hazelwood standard. To determine whether an activity is school-sponsored the following factors are assessed: whether or not the class was part of the school’s curriculum, whether or not the student receives a grade on the assignment, and who has the final say over the classroom material. Hazelwood Sch. Dist., 484 U.S. at 268. Furthermore, few activities could be classified more significantly, in terms of school-sponsored speech, than those…

The Bubonic Plague: An Attack on the Lymphatic System The systems in our body all work together to keep us healthy and functioning, when there is an issue with one system, effects can be seen throughout the body. Plague is a zoonosis, a contagious disease of animals that can be transmitted to humans. The bubonic plague is an infection of the lymphatic system, which is a vital part of the immune system. Many people are familiar with the bubonic plague and its effects since the disease is…

Introduction: Jhumpa Lahiri deals really with generalizations in her “Interpreter of Maladies” in which many of her women characters depicted in diasporic situations. Her women characters, which are related to husband and wife roles within marriages, are sympathetic in description and they are found as stereotypical of Indian culture by the American readers. Married woman characters of Lahiri often deal with confusions of marriage such as; relation to cooking, working outside the home, and…

The in-depth study of the novel reveals the fact that the miseries and trails are the same as a woman in a patriarchal society whether she is a peasant or a princess. The novel Raj under the veil of historical events it represents a woman’s – constant struggle to live with dignity. The novel revolves around the central character Jaya and her transformation from a mute observer to an active individual. Her struggle begins with her birth. It is a time of Indian renaissance. In her childhood, she…

as if the Master wanted to reconstruct and revive the antiquity of such. While Martini’s frame is far more sophisticated than that of the Master they visually appear similar. Antoniazzo Romano’s frame is more calm and simple as the one in Simone Martini Virgin and Child with Saints (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston) of c.1321-1325. Both have simple but well adorned frames, they have smaller paintings that are separated from the main art. In the case of Romano’s painting there is a seagull…

Literature Evaluation A 2002 estimate by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that urinary tract infections were the most common health care-associated infections (HAI’s). These infections account for >30% of HAI’s (CDC, 2009). The CDC further estimated the number of attributable mortalities at >13,000. CAUTI rates have increased by three percent between 2009 to 2012, to six percent between 2009-2013 (CDC, 2009). While urinary catheter may be a necessary…