Tess

after society begins to let African-American tell their stories, we only see the black man’s side. We never hear about women, who have lost all but one of their children to slavery. We never see written accounts of the sexual abuse that women like Tess had to accept, or the pain that Alice and her mother felt as they watched a member of their family beaten and dragged away. We know it happened, but only in an abstract way, the same way we know that humans used to hunt mammoths. We may know more…

Introduction In April 1997, Ellen DeGeneres came out as gay on national television during an episode of her sitcom. She pioneered the way for gay and lesbian representation in public television. At first, the feedback was good and viewers were supportive, then the criticism of Ellen’s new lifestyle grew and the show ended up getting canceled after the last episode of the season. A year later in September 1998, a new gay character emerged on the popular sitcom, Will and Grace. Will Truman was the…

Important works of this time are ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ by Thomas Hardy in 1891, and ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ by Henry James in 1881, James creates a sense of really describing thing by the minute. In realist books the psychology of the main characters was more important than the plot…

The Medieval Ages were an influential period between the 5th and 15th centuries which reflected mankind’s true essence. They conjure images of castles, heroic knights, helpless damsels, and a society built upon a distinctive social class system flourishing with innovation. Needless to say, this prominent conception of the Medieval Ages represents the contrary of relations with the social injustices of modern European society. This Modern European society has found its roots of corruption in the…

Introduction: Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2011 erotic romance novel by British author E. L. James. It is the first instalment in the Fifty Shades trilogy that traces the deepening relationship between a college graduate, Anastasia Steele, and a young business magnate, Christian Grey. It is notable for its explicitly erotic scenes featuring elements of sexual practices involving bondage, discipline, dominance, and sadism, masochism (BDSM). Originally self-published as an eBook and a…

The Fire-dwellers, a novel by Margaret Laurence demonstrates Susan Maushart’s theory of the Mask of Motherhood, through the portrayal of the main character Stacey MacAindra. Stacey is the mother of four children, age of thirty-nine and has been married to Mac (Clifford) MacAindra for sixteen years, from the outside world everything seems fine in her life but at a closer look one can see the daily internal and external struggles Stacey goes through. The Mask of Motherhood is a theory that…

A WOMANIST PERSPECTIVE ON GIRL-CHILD EDUCATION AS THE CROSSROAD FOR ATTAINING SELF ACTUALIZATION BY WOMEN IN NORTHERN NIGERIA BY MADINATU SHEHU PhD Department of English Language School of Languages Federal College of Education Zaria Abstract The thrust of this paper is to show that education is the only crossroad for attaining self-actualization. In doing this, the paper adopts womanism as its theoretical framework. By adopting this theory, therefore, this paper is set to show that women…

both of us. These life events and economic decisions changed the nature of our relationship between one another. However, our relationship with our other children and how we raised them still remained the same. It would seem as if we were the couple Tess Wilkinson-Ryan and Deborah Small were discussing in their paper titled, Negotiating Divorce: Gender and the Behavioral Economics of Divorce Bargaining. While considering divorce they state, “It is possible that this general gendered pattern is…

In the year 1933,a group of businessmen attempted to overthrow Franklin Delano Roosevelt after a major boost of fascist ideas in several American political parties...what a surprise....Luckily for democracy,the coup failed (It never even went past stage one).But,because i'm a sucker for mental pain,I decided to come back and cover what would have happened if the coup would have went for worth,and succeed....This is going to be bad,don't say I didn't warn you.... This scenario will focus on…

As I lay on the hard bed, my head resting on the soft hospital pillow I began to think about the events that led up to that moment. My mother and I were driving back from Aunt Mildredś end of the summer barbeque. All of the windows were rolled down, and the speakers boomed so loudly you could feel the vibrations down by your feet. ¨Danielle, for goodness sakes, will you please put on your seatbelt,¨ my mother stated practically. I reached over for the end of the belt. It felt cold and…