Valentino Orsini

Gender roles have been around us for so long that people have forgotten how life would even be like with no classifications. Life as we know it would cease to exist if male and female humans were honestly all treated the same. The reason for this is simple and very direct, humans although want equality demonstrate the complete opposite. There is media now in day that include, books, novels, movies, theater performances, and so much more that reflect how poorly and how little todays society respect woman. Through words, pictures, adjectives, and examples, woman are constantly humiliated, mistreated, and unappreciated due to typical gender role stereotypes. In the society and the time setting frame that Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron is taken place in, women typically are held in a lower social standing than men, it has been this way for a long time. As with most societies until relatively recently in history, women were not allowed to have a significant role in the everyday life of a typical human being. The only way that woman was viewed in people’s eyes was that of a wife and mother to her family. There are two prime example that we have discussed in class of this and that would be the novella ¬that discussed the story that involved the Marquis of Sanluzzo, Gualtieri, and his bride Griselda and of course the in class movie we had the opportunity to watch entitled Maraviglioso Boccacio. The reason that both of these very important pieces played such a vital role in…

The life we live is like an open sea. At times, it hurls violent waves on us, completely throwing us off our tracks. Usually, the only way to recover from the blows that constantly blind us as we journey along is to fight with our strongest will possible. I have lived the kind of life I consider extraordinary. My father use to assault my mother and when I was a young girl. On almost a daily basis, he would send me to my room, lock me in there and abuse my mother. She was never the type to fight…

It’s been ten years of this marriage and I can’t take it anymore, I want to leave but I don’t know how to get out. I've asked for a divorce bu but tells me no each time, I feel like a prisoner to this man, he just keeps me around to take care of the house when he's gone, I'm scared for my life, he's never hit me but when he drinks he becomes very violent. I need to get out before he hurts me. I can hear him coming in the house the clicks of his boots, rumble through the house it gets louder as…

Mae Holland arrives for her first day at “the most influential company in the world”: The Circle. Mae owes her newfound position at The Circle to her old-time friend, Annie, whose belonging to the “Gang of 40” makes her one of the most influential members of the company. Established by the “Three Wise Men” , The Circle becomes the #1 company on the forefront of technological advancement. The Circle’s goal is to work towards a new era of communication and safety, what it claims is a more…

Adichie warnings about a single story to the stories we read relate to “white-savior industrial complex”. The novel “What is the What” the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng written by Dave Eggers. It is based on the life of Mr. Valentino, a Sudanese child refugee who immigrated to the United States under the Lost Boys of Sudan. Valentino was very, very young when so much of this events his took place, if I was asked to write an exceptionally definite journal of my time when I was 6, in the…

within the land when D’orco took over, he did it in a cruel manner and the citizens hated him. When Borgia killed him, he had a peaceful land and his people liked him. Why does Machiavelli support this killing? What are his deeper reasons? And how does it reflect on his concern for earning the people’s trust? “Citizens who become princes through luck or the favor of others find it easy to acquire their states, but difficult to keep them.”Alexander conquered the role magna region after he…

This particular kindle edition is fairly good. In addition to the text of “The Prince”, this edition also includes two shorter historical works by Machiavelli, "Descriptions of the Methods Adopted by the Duke Valentino When Murdering Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, the Signor Pagolo, and the Duke di Gravina Orsini," and "The Life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca." Both additional books are basicallycase studies of how historical figures achieved success and new persona by acting…