Nelly

Imagine sitting at an old wooden desk drenched in candle light with parchment paper and an old pen. Imagine all the fantastical, adventuresome, and downright amazing things that could originate from one person sitting like this thinking these things. Now realize almost all the incredible classic authors that are still read and praised today started from a beginning such as that. One of these authors was Charles Dickens. His humble beginnings and naturally optimistic and although slightly…

I feel a growing hatred towards the father. It doesn’t make sense that she can put up with the “Half-bull half-man monster” through college. Why is it that Alison compares herself to her dad as “spartan to athenian, modern to victorian, Butch to Nelly and Utilitarian to Aesthete,” but she still manages to give the guy a break when he is a family man once in awhile? She says herself, “Although I’m good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him.” It’s…

Virginia Kline. The first item was a pearl necklace that Blithe had given her on her fifteenth birthday. It was a tradition that the necklace be passed down to the next sister on her fifteenth birthday. Ginny tried to give it to Nelly before she left, but Nelly refused, insisting that Ginny take it with her. Ginny agreed. She clasped the necklace around her neck, struggling for a moment before she got it on. As soon as the cold pearls fell around her…

Peter Dinklage once stated,“I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am”. As a society, we have formed and established the ideas of social classes which among individuals are placed into. These social classes established by man have always been what people have looked to, to see how certain individuals are brought up and raised in a society based on their rankings they are placed into. The following quote grants the idea that some people may have a…

November 22, 1963, Dallas, Texas-President John F. Kennedy, his wife Jacqueline, Texas governor John Connally and his wife Nelly-were riding in a Lincoln Continental Convertible from the Dallas Love Field Airport greeting crowds as they passed through. Mrs. Connally said, "Mr. President, you can't say Dallas doesn't love you," the President replied, "No, you certainly can't," those were the last words spoken by John F. Kennedy. At 12:30pm, while passing the north side of Elm Street, the…

voice was broken. She said that her husband had a stroke, he was in the hospital for 6 months and he is paralyzed from his hips up to his head. He was the main provider. She has lost her job, because she has to take care of him. They have 3 children Nelly 22, Nayely 21 who has a learning disability and Omar 15. All the members of the family came to The United States without proper immigration documents. They are living at a family member’s house, but they need to move out soon. She applied for…

The Victorian era was a period of industrialization and changes in everyday life. The Victorian period formally began the year Victoria became queen of England (1837). In fact, the Victorian period lasted twice longer than the Romantic period. Because of this, the Victorian period includes more variety than the romantic era. Subsequently, the period lasted 64 years ending in 1901, with the death of Queen Victoria. Actually, many Victorian narrators and protagonist frequently spread stereotypes…

“I just want to kill myself!” said the annoyed college student. “Why are you so moody today, are you bipolar?” said the over-dramatic friend. “You need to smile more often or you won’t make any friends,” said the oblivious mother. Walking around a college campus one hears remarks that have become a normality to say, but are offensive to other people. When people joke about killing themselves or throw around terms such as bipolar or depressed they do not realize they are supporting the mental…

famous pieces of art created during the Holocaust were made by Jews. Pavel Fantl, “The Song is Over” (1941-1944), was painted in a ghetto and the supplies to paint were fetched by a Czech policeman. This painting depicts Hitler as a clown. Painted by Nelly Toll at just eight years old “Girls in the Field” (1943) was made to depict the freedom she yearned for during the Holocaust. Last of all “One Spring” (1941) painted in a concentration camp by Karl Bodek and Kurt Conrad Löw also depicts their…

Hip-hop and go-go music are instrumental in storytelling and memorializing the social and cultural history of urban spaces. In hip-hop the lyrics flow together to tell its listeners a story, more than often about their community and neighborhood that they are from. Hip-Hop creates spatial categories and identities. Hip-Hop constructs place and space through style, lyrical content, images, and dance. It reduces the spatial scale of cities by reducing the broad, general city to a more localized…