Philip Glass

the years but some have still found ways to pay female employees less. As of 2011, the average working woman in the United States only earned 77 cents to every dollar earned by men. On top of this, many women still find it difficult to get above the glass ceiling in their occupation. Women make up half of today’s workforce and have contributed to the United States in many ways. It is necessary that the Equal Pay Act should be improved so that women are treated equal in today’s…

Symbolism plays a huge role in the play, The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams. Throughout the play, Williams uses symbols to represent and show different aspects of things. It makes the viewer/reader discover the underlying meaning of these objects. For example, a dove can symbolize peacefulness, holy spirit, and purity. Another example, in Williams, play the apartment in which they live in, it symbolizes something different for each character. For Tom, it symbolizes prison, for Laura…

In her essay about the Glass Ceiling Effect, Anne Gibson discusses the needed improvement in attitudes toward women in the work force. She presents different aspects of treatment towards them that need changed. It was a very interesting essay to read. Although grammar and explanations could be refined, I got the impression that even though some improvement is being made towards eliminating this effect, more needs to be done. The author bases her argument on the premise that women deserve to be…

credit for something that we did not do. Piggy's glasses also can represent hope. “His specs! Use them as burning glasses!” Ralph had the idea to set a signal fire but the boys did not know how to start it. So they used Piggy's glasses as a magnifying glass to use the sun rays and start the fire. If it wasn’t for his glasses, they would not have gotten the fire going. So the glasses can also fall under the “hope of and rescue”…

The Glass Castle tells the story of author, Jeannette Wall’s, life as she grows up with quite peculiar parents. Jeannette is a middle child with an intelligent older sister named Lori, a tough younger brother named Brian, and later on, an even younger sister named Maureen. The book opens in present time showing Jeannette as an adult on her way to an event. She then saw her homeless mother digging in the trash. Feeling shameful, Jeannette headed back home. The story then switches off to the past…

Image Analysis “And then I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud,” an engraving etched by Albrecht Dürer in 1498, depicts an angel, covered in a cloud, descending from the heavens, with one pillar-like foot on the land and one on the sea. The angel is almost comically shoving a scroll into the mouth of a man sitting on shore. Behind the angel in the ocean, there is a sea monster, two geese, and a few boats. The angel has one hand on the book and one pointing…

“Birnam Wood” is a short story by T.C. Boyle taking a look into the lives of a distant young couple (Keith and Nora) through Keith’s point of view. While Nora, at the time, attending school Keith pleas that she comes back to the place he describes as a cottage. Not exactly what one would describe as a cottage, but as Keith confesses is more shack like, both Nora and Keith are ready to hit the road. Unfortunately, Keith being the breadwinner of the two, his job as a substitute teacher cannot…

In Tennessee Williams’s Glass Menagerie and Henrik Ibsen’s Doll’s House, various comparisons and contrasts are drawn between the characters Tom Wingfield and Nora Helmer. Being writers who originated from similar backgrounds, Williams’ and Ibsen’s similarities and parallels can be identified in their writing and their characters. Both were exceptionally well off during their early childhood until their lives became twisted as their formerly prosperous and successful parents had experienced…

his name to Tennessee Williams and chose this name by his father who was called Tennessee Williams( Encyclopedia.com).In 19444 Williams receipt several critical and after this it motivated to write “Twenty-four curtain calls” and “ The hose of the glass menagerie” that were filed in the year of 1945 in New York , which were of his works that made him famous.After he writing these two works, he wrote another work that es called 27 wagons full of cotton, to it's that their present the year of 1947…

The Glass Menagerie by William Tennessee has the character Amanda whom is the mother, she is often blinded by the vitality of her life. She clings on to a certain place or time. She has a ton of paranoia. The Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller shows the play’s tragic hero, Willy Loman, who is on a quest for his idea of the American Dream. There are many similarities and differences between each of them. Willy and Amada are both parents in each of the plays. They each want what’s best for their…