The Housemaid

previous examples. The short story “Lindo Y Querido” describes the moments after a motorcycle accident and how a mother deals with her son death post-accident. Concepción, or Connie, is a single mother, earlier abandoned by her husband that works as a housemaid. Always busy with work, she is surprised by the death of her son Isidro that suffered the motorcycle accident. Connie comes from a Mexican family but she is living with her son in the United States, with fake documents and a lot to know…

“Eveline’s Visitant” by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and “The Dead” by James Joyce are both short stories that show strong examples of a “haunting”. A haunting is something or someone from a past time that reoccurs in appearance or in thought, usually bad or regrettable. Although both stories represent a haunting throughout the story, each author efficiently portrays two separate types of a haunting: one being a ghost, and one being a past. Braddon’s short story “Eveline’s Visitant” tells a tale of…

Mild escapism is an integral part of a person’s psychological health as a way to distract them from their own inadequacies in their lives. Universally practiced forms of escapism is through the novels and television shows. This is the case with Mary Shelley’s 1818 science fiction/Gothic novel, Frankenstein, Mark Gatiss’s 2010 crime drama, Sherlock, and Matthew Weiner's 2007 period drama, Mad Men. Through these texts, the audience is able to enter a new world and lead us into a new reality. The…

There aren’t many eloquent ways to describe the most detrimental events in history. However, Harriet Jacobs managed to translate her experiences of slavery into melodic, entertaining stories. Most accounts of slavery from textbooks and scholars barely graze the surface of the time period, but Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl reveals the truth behind common atrocities experienced and witnessed by slaves that are unmistakable. I argue that Jacobs directly charges the habit of slave-owners to…

tasks are difficult in nature and very stressful, ultimately it is an oversight to paint women with a sweeping brush by using the pronoun “they” because all women struggle, not just the women within Friedan’s social circle. By failing to address the housemaid who works all day for a wealthy family in Atlanta or the single, middle-aged professional woman working for a Fortune 500 company, Friedan marginalizes many…

Throughout the pre-modern and early-modern time periods, both men and women fought for what they thought was right. Gender equality was one of the major issues then, and to a certain extent, is still an issue today. Men and women have always been looked at as if they are not equals. All over the world, it is believed that, besides the physical features, women and men possess fundamentally different roles in society. Understanding this helps you to understand the male/female difference in regard…

The Evolution of Race Relations For centuries, race has been a defining factor in society. It has been the root of protests, wars, and segregation. Race has also been a crucial part of the history and culture of the world. People often use race as a tool for separating people into groups; most commonly titled as the upper and lower class.Throughout history, one’s race has been the deciding factor in future occupation, social class, and what rights they would be given from birth. In some areas…

of luck, and striking rich. Whether it be, doing well in the market, finding love, winning the lottery, and claiming insurance. The story of Cinderella follows the Grimm’s’ version of the tale. After the death of her mother, Cinderella works as a housemaid to her evil stepmother and stepsisters. Her father spoils his stepdaughters with extravagant presents but only brings Cinderella a twig. She puts the tree on her mother’s grave where a magical tree grows. and a magical dove lives. Anytime…

In his book, Constitution In Exile, Judge Andrew Napolitano wrote: “Rooted in a Natural Law mind set, the Supreme Court clearly viewed the protection of the freedo of contract as a god-given right. So much so that the Lochner case, in which, the Court fully articulated the 1905 doctrine of liberty of contract came to define the time. Firmly, the Court established that the ‘freedom, or liberty of contract was a basic, fundamental right protected by the liberty and property provisions of the Due…

August 4, 1892 the two bodies of Andrew and Abby Borden were found slain with what appeared to be an axe in their Massachusetts home located in the town of Fall River. The town was a buzz with the thought of who could possibly commit such heinous crime? Speculation focused on the youngest daughter of the two Borden girls, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Andrew Borden a Sunday school teacher and the head of the local hospital’s Fruit and Flower Mission. A seemingly unfit candidate for the axe-wielding…