Portrait of a Lady

this shows just how easily the judicial system was swayed into believing anything the townspeople wanted them to, as long as the townspeople had a vast number of people jumping on their bandwagon. Although Martha Carrier may have been a rude and awful lady who deserved her fate, the point still stands that she was clearly not a witch. So the question remains if the judicial system is flawed in this case by convicting a woman of witchcraft, who was innocent of witchcraft, regardless of her being…

I may not be of any Asian descent but I think that being able to learn about them and see the world in their eyes, mostly from this class, has been a very pleasant and demystifying experience. I am of Mexican and German descent and I certainly feel like I have to pick and choose the sides of these two nationalities. In addition to that, I have had instances of having to choose which side I recognize myself as. I was born in California and when I was a young child, I looked more Mexican then than…

Distress Nobody can recall what has happened in the past decade. Many people were killed, country’s were destroyed. Disasters struck one after another. Me, being a lucky one, I knew I had to stay strong for my family, my friends, my group, and myself. I sort of became a leader. I guess I should go back a few years… It came out of nowhere, whatever it was. I just remember it faintly, now it’s just a faded memory I don’t want to re-live. It started out as a regular day, I was about 15 at the…

Agatha Christie, author of And Then There Were None used characterization and internal and external conflicts to portray the theme that when a person has done wrong, there is no way to escape punishment. Christie creatively developed these elements in And Then There Were None to teach her readers this lesson. Christie’s creativity and success as a murder mystery writer is why she is still considered the “Queen of Mystery”. Agatha Christie was born September 15, 1890 as Agatha Mary Clarissa…

between herself and the dead. Brooks directs her message to the wind ending the poem with: “believe me, I loved you all.” The speaker’s main concern is assuring her dead children that she only had love in her heart. The poem ends having completed a portrait of a woman assured in her decisions and herself but forever torn by an unresolvable…

the chest down and partially blind. As stated by History, Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa which incorporated very dark colors later, artists began using lighter and brighter colors to incorporate the italian feel into their paintings and portraits. Raphael was a very detail oriented man which lead to his paintings presenting many details. In his paintings, one can see the perfection of every single slight detail. Donatello on the other hand focused more on sculpting, rather than painting…

Age of Reason The Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, is the name given to the period in Europe and America during the 1700s when mankind was emerging from centuries of ignorance into a new age enlightened by reason, science, and respect for humanity. People of the Enlightenment period were convinced that human reason could discover the natural laws of the universe and determine the natural rights of mankind; thereby continuing progress in knowledge, technical achievement, and moral…

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby was written in 1925 by an American author, F. Scott Fitzgerald. The novel shadows a cast of characters living in West Egg and East Egg in Long Island. The story takes place in the summer of 1922. Although he is not the narrator The Great Gatsby follows the young, mysterious, millionaire Jay Gatsby and his obsession to rekindle his long lost flame with Daisy Buchanan. However, the character that is most affected is the narrator. The Great…

Poetry is not only a form of writing but it is also an art if used the correct way it can be used to mend hearts, lead army’s or to simply express ones feelings toward a subject and or person of choice. T.S Eliot took poetry to an entire new level from his many works and short stories T.S Eliot has be named one of the greatest of our time. Thomas Stearns Eliot (hence the T.S) born on September 26th, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. For most of his child hood to adolescent years he lived in St.…

Fatal Mind: A Man, His Epilepsy, and His Downfall In William Shakespeare’s Othello, it is jealousy that conquers all, while love is cast down an unfathomable abyss. Over the course of few days, once honourable Othello is broken down by trickster Iago with his wiles and Othello’s mind is overrun with anger and envy. But how could a principled man such as Othello decide to kill his beloved wife in such a short amount of time? If it is assumed that Othello is afflicted by Temporal Lobe Epilepsy…