Sophia

The Tables Have Turned Purple In The Color Purple, Alice Walker paints a very vivid picture of life for some African­American women during the 1930s. The main character, Celie, goes through a long process in the novel to gain her voice as a woman who is uneducated. Gender roles play a huge part in this story because it not only shows the good side of the characters, but the bad side as well. Throughout the novel Celie has to face men who are constantly degrading her value as a human being, but…

Sophia Loren once said, “Beauty is how you feel inside and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical”(Sophia). The meaning of beautiful has changed over the years. In recent years being beautiful for a woman means to be slim with big breasts and big gluteus, and a young looking face. Even normal effects of aging, such as wrinkles, makes a women feel less beautiful. In order erase these imperfection people are not only willing to spend money on creams, but are also willing to go…

“Who said girls want to dress in pink and play with dolls?” (Miller, 2013). Girls aren’t given the option to choose what they want. For instance, girls are pushed into liking pink and playing with Barbie’s because “that’s what girls do”. When a girl is seen playing with boy toys, they are automatically thought as tomboyish or masculine. However, that is not the case. The toys that are created for girls to play with are very sexist. Most toys are like vacuums, kitchen toys, dolls while the on the…

When raising or working with an animal, people often mistakenly treat the animal like they would a person, a not very bright person but a person nonetheless. This isn’t the best approach to training an animal and it’s an issue that Sophia Yin addresses in her book, “How to Behave So Your Dog Behaves”. Yin covers everything from the domestication of dogs to different techniques that can be used to teach dogs various tricks like sit- and down- stay. Dogs, it is learned as one reads the book, are…

It was the third week of school. Jessica has been sitting on the bleachers for PE, she was wearing her blue jean jacket and her hair was tightening up, and did not dress out for the gym. Because of the bullies that they usually come to her and call her “The skinny little lady”, she was always aware of her legs, which guys always saying skinner than pen, and that wasn’t the only thing that she was aware of but also the way she talks and smile, her life was entirely miserable. The PE coach came…

fell ignorant due to white slave owners denial of access to gain knowledge. Until later in his childhood Sophia Auld, a tender hearted women, treated Douglas as a human and gave him reading lessons. This quickly ended when Hugh Audit “forbidden Mrs. Auld to instruct me further, telling her, among other things, that it was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read”(Douglas 48). Sophia succumbed to the institutions of slavery by treating Douglas just how her husbanded whished. From…

Frederick Douglass was a slave that was able to educate himself and eventually escape to the North to freedom. In the book, Douglass describes his journey to freedom after many moves and changes in his life. The book brings to light many of the hardships included in the lives of slaves. A contrast throughout the book is the common practice of slave owners keeping slaves in the dark about major concepts, like reading, writing, and political issues, while education can lead to freedom for many…

As soon as November appears on the calendar I get so excited, it symbolize all the important Holidays my family get together and have a wonderful time. I can smell the aroma of the food, I can feel the love in the air, and most of all hear the loud laughter and see huge smiles. November all the way to the New Year its nothing but great times with my close friends and family; we have nice traditions for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Eve/Day. Yum! I can smell the Cajun flavored turkey…

strive to be better and desire to follow God's Commandments. One commandment that can be suggested is the love one another law. These two families have no consideration for God’s laws. The only love that exists is between Harry Shepherdson and Miss Sophia. Huck soon realized this wasn’t the type of family he wanted to stay with. The Grangerfords weren’t as civilized as how Huck had expected. Huck preferred being alone with Jim, living a life…

When people think about what it takes to be an engineer they typically think of the technical knowledge and know-how an individual must possess. However, the technical knowhow is not he only quality that makes an engineer special, virtues play a major role and can help engineers flourish. Character traits that are important for engineers to possess are virtues of thought as well as virtues of character. These virtues, or excellences, that an engineer must posses in order to succeed are developed…