The Runaways

With the romanticized imaginations of many, conjectured stereotypical analyses are common among people such as "communities deliver a sense of identity"; "communities satisfy our desires," and "communities respect and encourage exploration of individuality." Nevertheless, countless people, including Catherine Latterell, author of Remix (Reading and Composing Culture), can also agree that it’s not always reality. Often our perceptions become distorted on certain matters by worldviews obtained…

Women during the Victorian Era experienced some brutal battles, similar to those expressed in Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market,” and Elizabeth Browning’s “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti both present the themes, the cruelty of women and the necessity of family’s love to thoroughly describe their hardships and braveness for one another. Rossetti’s character encounters assault to aid her sister out of depression, while Browning’s kills…

If a runaway would be found several things could happen. In most cases recorded, the slaves would be sent back to the plantation he or she ran from and then the slave master would decide on what they wanted to do with them. Normally, the slave would be beaten, abused, and sometimes starved. The owner would give the slave extra work to do around the plantation with longer hours. At some points, if the owner didn 't want the slave the runaway would be sold even farther away to hopefully prevent…

In his narrative, a runaway slave, Frederick Douglas, recounts his life as a slave and discloses the more heinous underside of slavery to a vast extent. Giving his former slave life as a testimony, he writes to inform the audiences about the cruel and dehumanizing behaviors of the slave owners toward the slaves. Among all brutality he has witnessed as a slave, he asserts his strong discontentment towards the exploitations of female slaves by their masters. One evil wrongdoing that existed in…

Narrative Writing CA Runaway Groom It’s the morning of the big day. The biggest day of my life. Well at least it’s supposed to be. Right now it feels more like the worst. The wedding starts in a few hours. What do I do? I can’t go through with this. How do i commit the rest of my life to a woman who can’t be honest with me? A woman who feels lying to me is the only way. Without sounding too cliché, ‘what’s a relationship without trust?’ I’m done being afraid. She claims she loves me but, who…

understanding when examining the moral dilemma provided by the short story, “The Runaway Trolley Car,” by Daniel Sokol.…

During the age of slavery, what mattered most to African American women was their family and they fought to achieve it by rebelling, each in their own unique way. In Erica Armstrong Dunbar's Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge, Ona Judge rebelled by running away so that she would be able to have freedom for her future children. The rebellion of Harriet Jacobs started at a young age. Jacobs realized she was able to use her grandmother as a way…

Tramel Raggs Runaway: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Dystopian Fantasy There were many possible directions to take with this project and in light of the recent ongoing battles with mental health and depression my subject has endured, I have decided to dedicate this research to one of the introspective and controversial artists of our time, Kanye West. West is a critically acclaimed, Grammy winning hip-hop musician known for his breakthrough developments in sound, ranging from his…

Runaway youth Although you most likely see many youths enjoying and living life to the fullest, other children and adolescents could be doing the polar opposite. According to Taylor and Mosteller, between 1.6 and 2.8 million youths runaway each year. This reality can be shocking to some people. While really running away would never cross some youth’s minds, some other youth can feel that it is their only option. Not everyone might understand why a young person with so much time ahead of them…

finally, after having nearly reached the desired spot…we were overtaken by our pursuers, and, in our resistance, we were shot dead upon the spot!” (62). Douglass’s syntax, with his extensive use of dashes, represents the tumultuous journey of the runaway slave, always running and out of breath. The implication of this image…