Rich Little

The Journey to Maturity: Hair and Vanity in Alcott’s Little Women and Grimm’s “The Goose Girl” Hair, even today, is often used to symbolize femininity: while neat and tidy hair is often associated with womanliness, high social status, and proper behaviour or manners, short, messy, and boyish haircuts typically represent the opposite. Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women uses hair to symbolize the identity and growth of the young, impressionable female characters using the disproving of hair as…

societies. Women wanted a public voice and the right to do things and own things on their own. In the 1941 film, Little Foxes, Lillian Hellman addresses how the women in the 1900s behaved, how they were treated, and how they tried to obtain power. These evidence of feminism are not seen only through the characters, but through the films lighting, camera angles, and more. In the film, Little Foxes, Lillian Hellman addresses the stereotypes of women behavior. The female characters in the film…

differences and notice the changes much like Pico Iyer’s observations in his essay, “Where Worlds Collide”. Everything was so different. Every single thing that I re-saw got me to realize the distinctions between the two cultures. I noticed the small little details in everyday lifestyles that would throw me off and the most insignificant things that I would be uncomfortable with because of the…

Committing the crime of debt in the Victorian era was considered no less of a crime than that of murder and while you could not be executed for the crime of debt, the use of torture devices was known to have killed countless inmates. Debtors were imprisoned indefinitely or until their debt was paid and unless you had the means to pay the debt off, it was possible to spend your life imprisoned. Death was more plausible than release. While debtors’ prisons were thought to have been abolished in…

Ogbera, Gabriel ENG 103 First Draft Instructor Michael Dusek The Millennials: A Response Essay Much has been written about millennials in recent times by different people with different views. But of all the comments about the millennials, those of experts Joel Stein, Jean Twenge and Chelsea Clinton stand out. While Jean Twenge labeled millennials as lazy, selfish, self-absorbed, selfish, entitled, narcissistic, fame-obsessed, and…

onto others, as they grow and become the leaders of tomorrow. This article specifically discusses these troublesome dynamics within a different Disney film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” but these themes are also relevant and expressive in The Little Mermaid, and only encourage the theory that these ideas are instilled within Disney’s values. In both films, the female character often dreams about an alternative life elsewhere, which highlights the problems within her current environment and…

room was dark and it was raining as soft music played in the background. However, it wasn’t just raining outside because tears were also raining down my face in what a weatherman would have affectionately called a heavy down poor. Beth March, from Little Women, had just passed beyond the earthly realm into the pearly gates of heaven. And, as a fifth grader for reasons I could not tell you at the time I was crying my own personal rainstorm in my bedroom while it rained outside my window.…

the truck to get the rest. I open the door, on the front porch a boutique of my favorite flowers laid there. I picked them up, turned around, and there he stood to tell me he knew I had been having a bad day and he wanted to change that. It is the little things in this world that count. Having a loving companion makes the bad times easier and the good times even…

On August 6, 1945, the city of Hiroshima was the target of the first Atomic Bomb. Three days later the second Atomic Bomb was dropped over the city of Nagasaki The decision to use the Atomic Bomb came after much thought by President Truman. The Chief of the Manhattan Project informed the president on the destructive force that came with the use of the Atomic Bomb and urged the president to reconsider its use on Japan. President Truman had delayed his meeting with Stalin until the Atomic Bomb…

Andrew Lam’s book, Perfume Dreams: Reflection on the Vietnamese Diaspora, is a collection of personal essays that documents Lam’s quest and struggle in finding the right identity as a Vietnamese American. At the age of 11, Lam fled with his family to America, during the ending years of the Vietnam War, as war refugees. This sudden exposure to a new environment, tore Lam’s past perception of who he was , created the identity dilemma that Lam struggled through his lifetime. Throughout the book,…