The Bells

bell hooks describes how slavery and apartheid have effected how African Americans deal with self-care and expressing love, she states, “Slave narratives often emphasize time and time again that black people's survival was often determined by their capacity…

Photographs became an important tool for the National Geographic and helped with its ongoing efforts of positioning itself between the boundaries of science and entertainment (Lutz and Collins 1993:27). Alexander Graham Bell took over the National Geographic Society in 1898, and hired Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor who saw the potential in photographs increasing the magazine’s popularity (Lutz and Collins 1993:27). In 1905 Grosvenor published photographs that were sent to him…

When Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, he pictured increased profits and decreased labor. In fact, when an inventor creates technology or machines that would decrease labor, they usually keep in mind the amount of money they could make with the machine. This era of industry has turned our mind to inventing only when in need of profit. For instance, Thomas Edison invented the light bulb; however, he not only decreased the amount of wax that was used for candles but also increased the…

experience to write a novel that enlightens all of what it is truly like to face mental illness and stigmas surrounding it. The Bell Jar dives into the reality of life with mental illness following the perspective of Esther Greenwood, a young girl who, when diagnosed with anxiety and depression, faces many stigmas and stereotypes that…

From horse drawn carriages to automobile to tanks and armored cars. The story of American history can be seen through the technological advancements and changes made from 1870’s through 1970’s. There are been hundred of thousands of new technological changes throughout history. Not every advancement changed or made history, but many did. These technological changes influenced every aspect of daily life in America. Technological changes revolutionized the way of life for Americans because it…

Different from Bauby, Lucy in Autobiography Of A Face gets me a new attitude to treat fatal illness. As well as The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, I wondered the meaning of the topic. Why Lucy wrote an autobiography of her face but not wrote an autobiography of her life struggling with illness. With this question, I kept reading her words and paragraphs carefully. And I made a contrast between Lucy and Bauby instinctively. The attitude and emotion Lucy faced with her broken jaw is…

comparing and contrasting And Then There Were None and “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell” and how they are both classified in the Gothic Literature. In And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie casts ten characters out on an island called Soldier Island in which she puts suspicion on all of her characters and making them all possible killers. One by one all the characters start dying. In contrast, in Edith Wharton’s “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell” (1903) a maid who has recently gotten over Typhoid, is sent to…

branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From,the tip of every branch like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked … I saw myself sitting in the crotch of the fig tree, starving to death,” (Plath 77). FUNCTION - In The Bell Jar. Sylvia Plath implies that without proper communication, problems can fester and become more severe. Esther Greenwood is hopeless in her life and future, and she claims she has no idea what to do. She is surrounded by talented people…

definition, additionally; its essential existence cannot be refuted. However, the role that love plays in the relationship between the mind and body is complex and profound as Leslie Bell, a psychoanalyst, underscores in her essay. In “Selections from Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom” by Bell, modern young women are faced with conflicts between sexual freedom and loving relationships that contribute to the…

“The Space Traders” by Derrick Bell is a short story that, is a very intriguing tale of aliens coming to earth and saving mankind, but for a hefty price. The Space Traders come to earth and offered riches (gold) to the U.S government, offering things such as paying the American debt, a year without taxes for every American and a clean environment. The Space Traders are charging a big, hefty fee in return, by asking for all African Americans in the country. The Space Traders asking for an entire…