Whittier

American author, Ralph Ellison, once wrote, “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.” In The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, the main character Esther is left at loose ends when the novel ends as to whether or not she will be released from a mental institution. As the reader follows Esther’s descent and ascension from her mental illness, it is wholly unclear as to what will become of her at the end; however, it is heavily implied that Esther is released from the mental hospital because of the…

As the eighteenth century was ending, and the nineteenth century was beginning, the start of something no one expect was coming. The start of movements. The nineteenth century until the early twentieth century, were known for its movements across the world. It was a time when people wanted equality among one another, and they felt the only ways to truly succeed in achieving some of their goals was to create a stir. The Temperance Movement was a movement created a group of thirteen women. The…

novelists Both imitative and independent One of the most important periods in the history of American literature, usually called the Renaissance of American literature Early Romanticism Henry Wadsworth Longfellow James Russell Lowell John Greenleaf Whittier James Fenimore Cooper Washington Irving William Cullen Bryant New England Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Margaret Fuller High Romanticism Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson Nathaniel Hawthorne Herman…

knocking against the window, and too constant to be just a bird passing by. When I finally looked out to see who was there, it was none other than the girl from across the street, the one who told me she could never go outside, Madeline Furukawa Whittier. I remember almost jumping out the window to see her, my head was bursting with thoughts, why would she go outside?, does she love me that much?, I can’t wait to see her, and…

On January 19, 1913, Richard Milhous Nixon was born into a Quaker home in Yorba Linda, California (Aronson 8). He attended East Whittier High School and joined the debate team, eventually becoming one of the school’s best debaters. His teacher noted that Nixon “had this ability to kind of slide around an argument instead of meeting it head-on” (Barr 12). His senior year, Nixon ran for president of his class. He lost the election, and in his memoirs, he would refer to this as his first political…