To the Virgins

during his earlier years. Born in 1951, he didn't have parental supervision so he was off doing his own thing. This is quite different from than other people's upbringings. Surviving by himself he learned many things about the real world. Born in the Virgin Island he returned to the states to finish high school, but unfortunately he didn't have any parents he could stay with so he was homeless for a short period of time, because he didn't take school seriously and partying habits took control…

Socrates, is played by Jean Sylvère and his portrayal was accurate in portraying the philosopher’s thoughts concerning inductive reasoning. Socrates replies to Hippias concerning the beauty of various things; “Yet, earlier you said, "A beautiful virgin. That's what beauty is."…

Recycling should be mandatory in Charlotte, NC because without recycling global warming is getting worse. When using virgin materials to make products it puts more on the earth rather than when using recycled goods. "Recycling works in much the same way. Also when recycling aluminum it saves more energy than regular products like paper and plastic. Recycling is ecologically superior to using virgin materials. When you make aluminum from recycled cans instead of bauxite ore, you save 95 percent…

reading of The Virgin and the Gipsy has illuminated your ideas. Dishonesty, an attribute portrayed in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, is demonstrative of the hedonism and moral decay of society during the ‘Roaring Twenties’. Primarily illustrated through two socially unacceptable affairs, the author presents these traits through the actions of Jordan Baker, Daisy and Tom Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson, and Jay Gatsby. Such flaws are additionally seen in the protagonist of D.H. Lawrence’s ‘The Virgin and…

There is one issue that all ancient Greek art historians and archeologist agree on. That issue is that the reason why the Parthenon frieze cannot be correctly solved is that there is no ancient literature or sources that appropriately archives the context of the frieze. Without contextual evidence, the intertextuality of the subject matter corresponding to the Parthenon frieze becomes ambiguous to the modern viewer. Modern academics can only conceptualize and speculate about what the images of…

The essay I found to be most interesting this week was The Cult of Virginity . As a woman, I think that it is hard to talk about our sexuality and the topic of virginity compared to men. It is sad that women who have had sex are considered damaged goods while sexually active men are treated like kings. The idea of virginity has so much power yet the Harvard medical school library didn't have a clear definition of it. I doesn't make much sense, the difference between men and women and how we talk…

thing of porpoise which would make more sense. both a failure and a success The old man is a success because he caught a 18 ft. monster fish which was a marlin. It weighed 1500 lbs. The old man prays to the blessed virgin for the death of the fish, the old man prays to the virgin Mary for the death of a fish. I can see why because he would get a lot of money for that fish i looked it up and he would get $550,00 because the fish weighed 1500…

The Early Church fathers produced a body of literature that concern virginity, marriage in women in order to justify and legitimize the patriarchal system of the time. According to these texts written by the church fathers, women can only become close to god through their virginity and/or martyrdom. Virginity and martyrdom was even preferred over marriage by the church fathers and even some of the women refused to be married. Hence the social construct that is…

Breath, Eyes, Memory is a coming-of-age novel that treats identity formation and women's experiences in the context of rural Haitian culture and the Haitian diaspora. Specifically, the novel deals with the question of political and social liberation, and the role of community in both furthering and ending oppression. To do this she uses cultural practices and men’s role in Haitian women’s oppression, but although oppressed shows the possibility of being liberated. In the novel “Breath, Eyes,…

and reflects the mysticism around Sandi’s character as a whole. In Julia Alvarez’s novel How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, the doll figures largely during the pivotal moments in Sandi’s life, whether they are the static representations of the Virgin Mary statue, or a Barbie. In an attempt to pinpoint how Sandi has “invented what [she] needs to survive,” I will argue that during the moments in Sandi’s life where she…