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universe; at first glance, it may seem so simple, but in reality, it is an intricate ideology. This bigger-than-life place inhabits, more or less, an astonishing one hundred billion galaxies! Of all of these galaxies, there is the beautiful and spirally Milky Way Galaxy, where if someone would look hard enough, may see our solar system. Out of all nine planets, there is the Planet Earth, and out of all seven billion people there are on Earth, there is you. Many people may not know, but everyone…

Little Women Author- Louisa May Alcott Publish date-1868 Genre- Coming of age is the genre of Little Women because it starts with young teenagers who mature over time and adapt with the circumstances given. This perfectly relates to the genre coming of age which focuses on the maturing and growth of a character. Setting- • Time- While the Civil War was going on and after in approximately 1861-1876. • Place- A tiny town in New England • Atmosphere (tone)- Compassionate, very factual, and straight…

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley are two novels in which the themes of equality and inequality are explored extensively. The texts are both written by women in 1847 and 1818 respectively and both deal with gender inequality. Jane Eyre is also a social commentary on the injustices and inequalities of the classist Victorian hierarchy whereas Shelley’s novel focuses on the human rejection of unconventionality and the inequalities faced by societies ‘outcasts. The…

Susan Glaspell, born in 1876 was an American play writer, novelist, journalist, and actress. In her time, she wrote many short stories and plays which began appearing in magazines and journals. One of Glaspell’s best works was a one-act play called Trifles written and performed in 1916. While working as a journalist for Des Monines Daily News, she covered the 1900 murder of John Hossack which is where she received the inspiration for the loosely based play and in 1917 was turned into a short…

1: (a) Type of social intervention: The Salaam Wanita project employs the Work Integration Social Enterprise (WISE) model, making use of a product as the choice social intervention. Salaam Wanita provides employment for the disadvantaged women by training them to weave baskets, and then paying them at least half of the revenue from the selling of the baskets. (b) Value Propositions: Firstly, for the social value proposition, Salaam Wanita 's beneficiaries, who are the disadvantaged women, can…

Foster uses a first-person point of view to present techniques to truly analyze literature. More specifically, he elaborates on the idea that all characters go on quests to discover themselves. This theme is represented in Little Women, where Louisa May Alcott tells the story of four sisters, Jo, Amy, Meg, and Beth, as they go through the everyday struggles of life and love and blossom into women. As the girls grow older, the people they meet on their journeys away from home ultimately shape…

For the past century and a half, much of the world has incorrectly come to the conclusion that Louisa May Alcott intended her novel, Little Women, to serve as a conservative icon that endorses the proper life for women to aspire to, the life of a subservient wife and mother. However, Alcott did not intended her novel to be a propagandist piece supporting the cult of domesticity, the philosophy that women in the 1800s should stay at home and not work outside of the domestic sphere. In contrast,…

Louisa May Alcott has many short stories from the war setting. Her background information will allow readers to understand why she has repeatedly wrote her short stories about the war, and or around the war. One story of hers a man named John dies on her watch, she had multiple real life deaths within her family and they had impacted her deeply. The deaths in her family lead to how she felt when the man in her short story impacted her so much. Her experience provides and shows readers the pain…

Born in Beverly Massachusetts, on May 5, 1824, Lucy Larcom’s fate was destined to be a mill worker. Although she was primarily known for her work as a poet, it wasn’t till she started working at the Textile Mills in Lowell Mass, that she found her true strength in poetry. I would argue that Larcom’s experience as a female worker at the turn of the 18th century is the over all them of the majority of her work. Specifically speaking, in the poem Weaving I see how her personal experience is used to…

Have you ever felt crumbled under everyone else’s beliefs on how you should live an aspect of your life? Some may say that they simply have your best interest at heart; however, you are the key to true happiness in your life. As a country, we are utterly fixated on the idea of marriage being a way of life with 61% of adults aged 18 and older planning on getting married in their lifetime. Many believe falling in love, marriage, and having children is a birthright. Living in a society and in a…