Nanny

Zora Neale Hurston published her book, Their Eyes Were Watching God, in 1937. During this time period, African Americans were declared separate but equal despite the fact that they were given their freedom. African American males freely exercised their right to vote, whereas African American women were not given the right to enfranchisement until the 1960s. Hurston wrote her book in a largely male dominant historical era. The historical background results to Janie, the protagonist, feeling…

To begin the novel, the main character Huckleberry Finn or otherwise known as “Huck Finn” introduces himself and explains that Tom Sawyer is his best friend. Judge Thatcher has taken Huck’s money and has invested it with a dollar of interest per day and now lives with Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson, Huck’s tutor. He lives with these two women because his mother died when he was younger and his father is a drunk, who cannot take care of himself properly. The two women in his life try…

Concepts: Monogamy, Second Shift Including myself, my family and friends practices monogamy. Most of my family members and friends are not even aware that they practice monogamy. To them, it is all they know and are accustomed to. They do not even consider other practices like polygamy or polyandry; probably because it was never exposed to them. According to Dalton Conley (2015), monogamy is “the practice of having only one sexual partner or spouse at a time” (p. 372). In other words, only…

Entering the Capulet house, Lady Capulet wonders where her daughter is and calls for the nurse thinking that she might know where Juliet is. She then orders the nurse to call for Juliet. The nurse then proceeds to call for Juliet. Needing to speak with her daughter confidently, Lady Capulet commands the nurse away. She changes her mind immediately, however, and asks the Nurse to remain and add to her counsel. This displays to the audience how it seems that Lady Capulet is insecure about her…

The news article “’Go Back to China’: Readers Respond to Racist Insults Shouted at a New York Times Editor” discusses the racial insults said to Asian-Americans. Micheal Luo published a letter online to someone who had told his family to go back to China (Luo, 2016, para. 3). Luo (2016) received many replies from Asian-Americans telling their stories of similar experiences encountering racism (para. 4). In the class The Myth of Race and Reality of Racism, we discuss the definition of racism.…

A prominent issue that keeps me up at night is thinking about the amount of privilege certain children of the world have and the severe lack of resources and necessities for other children. This issue has become a concern for me ever since I visited Shepherd’s Field Children Village. Shepherd’s Field Children Village is an orphanage in China where they take in children born with disabilities and give them necessary surgeries and a home until they are adopted. It was started by an American couple…

If you’re looking for a good laugh on movie night, look no further than The Boy. This hilarious film's plot is based around an American nanny named Greta, that takes a job taking care of an 8-year old boy for Mr. and Mrs. Heelshire in a spooky mansion that looks like its been investigated by Scooby-Doo and the gang. When Greta arrives at the house she learns the the boy she was hired to take care of is actually a life-sized doll that the Heelshire’s talk to as if it were really alive,so it…

Black art thrived in the 1920’s during the Harlem Renaissance. Smooth jazz soothed the ears of a race trying to find a place in the world; vivid art displayed the vibrant and successful birth of black excellence in a society that crushed any evidence of black people transcending “barbarity”. Just as this renaissance was in decline, one of the most pivotal literary works materialized. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, depicts a woman searching for enlightenment and…

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865, in Bombay, India. Roaming the local markets with his nanny, Kipling became connected with Indian culture. India was a wonderful place for Kipling until his mother sent him to live with a foster family in England so he could get a formal education. These years were hard for him because his foster mother hated him, causing her to beat and bully him often. The only time he was away from her was when he visited his family during the holidays.…

Jane Goodall Jane Goodall’s study of the chimpanzees really impacted the way we think about different species. She has been so devoted to learning everything she possibly could about chimpanzees. She has lived with them for a couple years. Goodall didn’t have a perfect child hood she had some setbacks in her young life but that didn’t stop her to become a scientist and discover everything she has done. She has found out so many cool and important…