Threshing

“The world will become a better place to live if we all strive to achieve peace and happiness instead of power and control” (Anurag Prakash Ray) Anurag’s quote of power and control justifies the idea of a dystopian society in present times. Man’s strive for power, control, and wealth creates a barrier in which social feuds are therefore brought upon. As history prevails this seems to recur time and time again, such as in the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell. The satirical use of animals…

to three days a week, and especially at busy seasons, such as plowing and harvesting. The day of a peasant on a manor started around 3 am. The everyday task of a peasant consisted of, reaping, sowing, ploughing, binding and thatching, haymaking, threshing, and hedging. The work day usually ended at dusk for the peasants, and working hours during the summer time were much longer. The life of a peasant was not that fair. The lord of the land made peasants work for long hours and a little bit of…

Although the majority of the afflicted during the Salem Witch Trials were women, some historians believe that the men of the village were the true driving force behind the trials. Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum are two such people, and in their book Salem Possessed: The Social Origins Of Witchcraft, they write about their discoveries concerning the long standing economic and political issues underlying the trials in Salem. Within their work, they split the citizens of Salem into two separate…

Throughout the years, there has been a constant struggle between good and evil. Michelangelo saw that and put his interpretation of The Last Judgement of the last days. Michelangelo knew that through tribulations, hardships, suffering, anguish, and darkness; the good always wins in the end. In this painting, Michelangelo demonstrated the chaos and the darkness surrounding the world, and then the peaceful and light image of Jesus at the center of it all. The dark values are near the bottom of the…

An ancient Egyptian temple at Abu Simbel had a granary that could store enough grain to feed 20,000 people for a year (Fernandez-Armesto 56-65). The ancient Egyptians, like all of the other river valley civilizations were completely dependent on agriculture for food and wealth, as Fernandez-Armesto says, “without agriculture, people could have no security of life.” Without agriculture people would not know where their next meal would come from, but with agriculture they would always know where…

wild…” (Cather 108). This old, worn-down, disheveled image of this man serves a larger purpose than to just input this picture into the readers’ minds. This is linked with what was later found on him after he had passed. After he jumped into the threshing machine to end his life, they had found a piece of poetry in his pocket. This cutout from a newspaper that seemed to be quite worn out was titled “The Old Oaken Bucket”; neither Ántonia nor anyone else goes into further details about this poem.…

Throughout time, when borders between different countries were established, differences among nationalities were often more accentuated than the similarities; however, when war erupts, differences become more obscure. Both Erich Maria Remarque and John McCrae highlight the ways war draws attention more to commonalities among the soldiers and men from different nationalities than differences. Erich Maria Remarque in All Quiet on the Western Front and John McCrae in the poem “In Flanders Fields”,…

Throughout American history, millions of people around the world have abandoned their homeland for a change, to start a new life in a foreign country. The massive migrant flows had a direct relationship to the growth of the U.S Empire, whether it was through a political need to stabilize a neighboring country or an economic need such as the labor demands, the truth is the U.S’s ideologies and policies have shaped their connections with other countries. Constant body pain for low wages, horrible…

With the commencement of hostilities in April 1861, the Civil War was largely seen as a dispute over states’ rights. From a military standpoint, the South largely considered that its reserve of highly trained military officers and martial tradition of élan would make the difference in a quick, decisive war that would be over by Christmas. The reality of the situation would prove far different. The Civil War was largely the first industrial war, and was perhaps inevitable that the domination of…

The Great War In 1914, an assassin’s bullet initiated a series of events which swiftly engulfed nearly all of Europe in armed conflict. Eventually, a majority of the nations of Europe allied themselves with one of two alliances. One alliance, the Triple Entente, originally consisted of France, the United Kingdom, and the Russian Empire, whereas the other alliance, the Central Powers, included Germany and Austria-Hungary. The equity of the two alliances prolonged the war over several years…