Sue Lloyd

For the Love of Bees Introduction Paragraph: Lily Owens thought love would never find her after she accidently killed her mother, Deborah. After Deborah died, her father, T-Ray, looked to Lily to express his anger and hatred on the situation. Throughout the abuse, Lily looked to her housemaid, Rosaleen, for a mother-figure she knew didn't have. As Lily grew, she found an interest in discovering her mother’s past and why her mother was absent before she died. Lily left her hometown and…

Throughout history, women have been the target of unrightful mistreatment and general injustice. This was especially true during the 1960s, particularly in the southern United States. In The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, a young white girl named Lily, is motherless and lives without a strong feminine role in her life. She is taken under the wing of the Boatwright sisters, three charismatic African-American women. With them, Lily learns strength and confidence, allowing her to grow into…

Description and evolution of Clover: Clover is a motherly mare approaching middle life. She is loyal and maternal with every single animals living on the farm. She takes care of them. For example, at the beginning of the book, at Old Major’s speech, (p.1 and p.2) she made a wall around the ducklings that had lost their mother with her foreleg to keep them warm and they feel asleep. Unfortunately, she is not good with words and reading is a real problem for her out throughout the book. At…

American Civil Rights Movement from a historical perspective, historians and scholars have focused predominantly on the lives and influences of a few, celebrated characters. For example, early abolitionist advocates, such as Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass, and twentieth-century civil rights leaders Ida B. Wells, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King Jr. have received significant attention and justifiably achieved revered status among scholars and non-academics…

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, commonly know as Frederick Douglass was born into one of the worst periods in the last century to be of African decent. Douglass was born into slavery around 1818, (according to “Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave”, it is stated that Douglass never knew his exact age or birth year), near Tuckahoe, Maryland. September 3, 1838 Douglass was able to escape slaver and become a free man by boarding a Philadelphia, Wilmington and…

“While the standard polarization of human being in a crime story is normally dividing by the law abiding citizens from the criminal, the characters here are soon divided on the basis of sex differences.” (Alkalay) In Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles” Glaspell uses a murder investigation of a woman’s husband to demonstrate the different roles of men and women in the early 1900’s. Glaspell shows the reader, through small significant objects that the men think are inessential to illustrate the greater…

Designer Devan Kaufman said it best when he declared, “Frank Lloyd Wright houses have always just made sense.” Wright had a way of creating floor plans that was so novice and incredible that anyone of the twentieth century and now could tell that he was the architect of a house just by looking at it. His work was so amazing because of how contemporary and intelligent it was. Wright knew how to do certain things like creating pillars to be soundproof so that you couldn’t hear a busy road just…

The introduction and conclusion of Christopher Clark’s book, The Sleepwalkers, and the introduction of Margaret MacMillan’s book, War or Peace, both examine the origins and the events that led to the First World War. Clark focuses on examining how the war broke out while MacMillan focuses on why the war started particularly in 1914. In his introduction, Clark states the difficulties experienced when researching the origins of the First World War. These problems include the artifacts’ use as…

During the period of 1776 to 1852, the opposition of slavery grew in the United States of America for various reasons. Among the numerous efforts of this movement were the issues of westward expansion, the abolition campaign, and the influence of literature. The original thirteen colonies of the United States were inevitable to expand into the west. The United States Constitution, which was established in 1787, did not state anything about slavery. It was a wide held belief that as the…

and women around her she got a prime example of slavery and its harsh conditions. Angelina is tired of the north turning the other cheek when the issue of slavery is raised so she held a speech in Pennsylvania to raise concern. Along with William lloyd Garrison who was a prominent abolitionist towards slavery, with Williams strong moving words he brought awareness to the North, since they aren 't doing anything but continuing to allow slavery to happen in the south. Through his text William…