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Virginia Woolf, the author of “Two Cafeterias,” is a feminist advocate who puts herself in the place of the men and women at the University nearby. She analyzes how men and women are treated by the food they are served at the University through the use of rhetorical devices to drive her point. Woolf uses her observations to compare and contrast the way that men and women are treated in the 1900s. The men are given something that can be described as a “luncheon party” with an elegant and…

We see pictures of poverty on the news from many different communities across the nation, but often, little of this news coverage is given to the people living in Appalachia. The ABC 20/20 episode entitled A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains shines a much needed light on the daily struggles people living in Central Appalachia face. Watching Children of the Mountains was a sobering experience for me. The most surprising thing in this video was the drug abuse and drug dealing. It was…

“Two Cafeterias”, by Virginia Woolf, was written showing an underlying message of how different men and woman are treated in this culture. Using words, descriptions, and tones Woolf expresses to the reader how insignificant woman in this day are made to feel. It is shown throughout the entire piece that the men of this society are treated to nothing less than “invariably memorable” luncheon parties with meals that leave Woolf feeling as though they were “going to heaven.” She describes the meals…

Why Did so Many Colonists Die? Many Colonists died in Jamestown. Why couldn’t they survive in Jamestown? What happened to them? Little did the colonists know that most of them would die within only a few years. Why? Colonists died in Early Jamestown because of three reasons. These three reasons were why they couldn’t seem to stay alive. They didn’t have enough food which lead to starvation. They settled in a land with lots of Indians which lead to problems with the Indians.They didn’t have more…

It went from life to death. In the early year of 1607 English settlers traveled to Jamestown, Virginia by ships in looking for gold as well as a settlement. Why did so many colonists die? Colonists died in early Jamestown for three major reasons bad water, unskilled settlers, and poor relations with the Powhatan tribe. One cause of death in the colony is contaminated water, limited amount of food not enough to go around, and drought which then caused starvation for the people. Research shown…

Racism on the Gridiron Do you have metathesiophobia, the fear of change? Remember the Titans, directed by Boaz Yakin and starring Denzel Washington and Will Patton, takes place in Alexandria Virginia in 1971. It is about an all white school and an all black school that integrate to form T.C. Williams. This leads to very high racism, discrimination, and prejudice in the town. The film does a great job of leaving an impact on the viewer by portraying a change of heart in many characters. The…

for international trade, it still was out first settlement. However, there were many mistakes that they had made. In the May of 1607 English colonists settled in a place in the new world located at the mouth of great bay on the coast of what is now Virginia, in hoped that they would permanently colonize new lands. (Overview) However the plan was eventually diverted and the population resorted to violence and consuming anything that they found edible, including cannibalism. This was primarily…

It’s common for readers and critics of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography to immediately categorize her novel as a loose interpretation of a biography. In fact, analyzers and historians have proved the connections between her novel’s characters, as well as, its events. , The parallelism even stated in the title as a biography. However, it is worth arguing that writing a holiday biography was neither Woolf’s first nor only intention. A thorough analysis presents a theme of sexual ambiguity to…

Trauma is a world-wide known phenomenon that people have to live with all their lives. While trauma is mostly seen in the lives of victims of domestic violence or war veterans, it can take any shape and any level of intensity. In Virginia Woolf’s piece, Mrs. Dalloway and Wilfred Owen’s, “Dulce et Decorum Est” trauma is a consistent notion that is prominent in the characters’ lives. In Woolf’s piece, Septimus Smith is a World War I veteran who suffers from obvious trauma in the form of…

leaving people victimized by the sequence of events. In the novel Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf, Septimus Warren Smith is a victim of the war who was living on the edge of insanity. He endures a sort of posttraumatic stress disorder due to the terrifying scenes he experiences at war. As a result, the man exemplifies the common life of a veteran who is constantly defying what’s told to him by physicians. Virginia Woolf exemplifies the struggle of veterans living in British society through…