In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin use of details and figurative language to express how freedom from any form of oppression is beyond gratifying. Granted, the story was written in the 1800’s the concept still applies to everybody, today. It can be seen everywhere. Someone is always oppressed in some form or […]
Throughout the whole story, Okonkwo’s life was dominated by “the fear of failure and of weakness” (Achebe, 13). He tried so hard to become better than his father and raise his standings in the village. Spending his whole life doing this, Okonkwo could not let change occur because change meant things would no longer be […]
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Get startedIn the novel Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo is willing to break the prohibition against suicide because he lost all hope when he realizes Umuofia will not support going to war with the missionaries. The statement that Okonkwo is making by committing suicide in the manner that he does is that he’d rather die on his […]
The battle of cultures is definitely one of the most universal themes seen in books. This cultural fight/disagreement can be seen throughout life and history anytime two groups of people hold different/disagreeing views that cannot live together. Even today, Western and Eastern cultures–the U.S. and China are one example; the Palestinians and Israelis are another–continue […]
What role or purpose does Ikemefuna serve in the story Things Fall Apart? In the novel Things Fall Apart, the author Chinua Achebe develops the story through the use of characterization. Ikemefuna, a boy sacrifice from the neighboring clan of Mbaino, kindles feelings of affection in Okonkwo and opens the door to manhood for Nwoye. […]
“I am not afraid of work.”(21) Okonkwo the protagonist demonstrates his maturity in this statement. However, even with his hard bound illusion of what a man should be, he still has his draw backs like everyone else. He is still naïve in his old age. Chinua Achebe introduces Okonkwo as a determined, strong, and dominant […]
The crux in The Importance Of Being Earnest struggles to keep up with their own writing and stories because Jack and Algernon strive to win the loving hearts of two women who, claim to only love men that were called Ernest. They both struggle and gets twisted in a tale of duplicity, impersonation and misfortune. […]
Oscar Wilde’s, “The Importance of Being Earnest” is a Victorian era play dealing with many themes and values that were often prevalent in Victorian artists work at the time. One of the themes that was ultra-prevalent throughout Wilde’s play was the element of duality in man. We as humans are dualistic in our nature, leading […]
In an excerpt from The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde develops thoughtful laughter by mocking the societal values of the characters. In these scenes Jack Worthing decides to propose to Gwendolen and is then forced to endure questioning from Lady Bracknell. He does this primarily through irony and hypocrisy in the character’s dialogue and […]
The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play written by Oscar Wilde. The most important themes in the play are: The real nature of marriage and the importance and constraints of moral values. The importance of marriage in Importance of Being Earnest, is of more of psychological and philosophical […]
After a plot-twisting series of events, Jack says to Lady Bracknell, “I’ve realized for the first time in my life the vital importance of being Earnest,” closing the play. Jack’s statement is rather ambiguous. Is he implying that he has learned the importance of honesty, or the importance of being named Ernest? It is a […]
September 11, 2001 was so scarring and life changing, that it leads to ask, have we as a country achieved acceptance? The unfolding process that one forgos in order to reach the stage of acceptance is an emotional battle. There are four stages that come before acceptance known as denial, anger, bargaining, and depression. When […]
The day of 9/11 is a day that will be in the back of everybodys minds for lifetime. On that sorrowful day four passenger airplanes were highjacked and ultimately crashed. Two of the airplanes crashed into each of the Twin Towers located in New York City. After the buildings burned for around 20 minutes they […]
“Hey, Sabrina, are you Japanese or Chinese?” I asked. Her reply, as it seems to be for many minority groups, is, “Neither, I’m Chinese-American.” So, besides her American accent and a hyphenated ending on her answer to the SAT questionnaire about her ethnic background, what is the difference? In Amy Tan’s enjoyable novel, The Joy […]
Personal liberty supersedes the constraints of societal conventions. This is the message of Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour,” which centers on Louise Mallard, a married woman who learns she is now a widow. Her sister informs her that her husband has died in an accident, causing her to break down into sobs. However, […]
The structure and style of writing play a major role in both Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and Wolfe’s “The Far and the Near”. Especially, the use of the climax and anticlimax structure and emotional style of writing make these particular works very powerful. Chopin employs the climax and anticlimax structure to heighten the […]
The novel Things Fall Apart by Chinau Achebe is set in Pre-colonial Nigeria, in a village named Umuofia. The village has, by today’s standards, a very misogynistic and outdated. To the Igbo, however, it is the only way they know. The village environment has very specific gender roles. Men are warriors and farmers of yams, […]
In the play, The Importance of Being Earnest, the author Oscar Wilde uses a significant pun in the word “earest”. Separate from being the title of the play, there is a character whom goes by the name of Earnest Worthing in the city, but goes by the Jack Worthing in the country. The word earnest […]
As much as people prefer to see themselves as individuals, society controls us more than we admit or even recognize. Oscar Wilde’s lighthearted look at societal expectations in The Importance of Being Earnest ironically suggests that society provides pressure to appear perfect, but often this pressure warps or destroys one’s perfectly genuine self. In Wilde’s […]
This is my first time to read such a play. At first, I just felt ridiculous about their play. I didn’t think deeply about their play at that time. However after discussions in class between classmates, I started to understand what Wilde really wasted to convey. Wilde made this play funny, but after finishing reading […]
James Merrill boasts an immaculate portfolio of plays, essays, and his specialty, poems. Formulaic, strict works of his earlier career evolved into deep explorations of personal psyche carved from his subjective interaction with the world. In sampling Merrill’s poems, I have observed his particular enrapturement with particularities of living. In his works, Merrill reflects on […]
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker tells a story of a young girl named Celie. The book is formatted as an journal so that daily experiences can be shared through the voice of Celie. In the beginning, readers learn that she lives in a life of recurring hardship, confusion, and turmoil. Readers also learn that she […]
Since the start of high school, I have placed 2nd in Regionals and States in Public Speaking 1 for Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA). I was even qualified to advance to FBLA Nationals last year. My advancement to Nationals last year opened up the opportunity to speak to the BCPS Board of Education at […]
Introduction For the first chapter of this subject we have learned the different aspects of human development, such as physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development. We have also tackled that heredity, environment, and maturation influence human development. I have also learned that personal development is a process by which a person reflects upon themselves, understand who they […]
Health Behaviors Chapter Assignment In the first Chapter Assignment, I printed out the Health Consciousness Scale (HCS); and the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale (MHLC). Throughout both scales, I made my decisions carefully for my answers. I favored the MHLC, as the questions had broad statements, which helped me guide my answers. First, I will […]
I conducted my second teaching on last Thursday, November 5th. It was my second time to meet the students after the two weeks break, the topic I prepared for them is choose from the chapter three in Future 3, which is talk about the future plans. Because most of those students work so hard in here […]
One of the most important ways to learn oneself is by self-awareness. Through the residency that was conducted in Denver, Colorado, I was able to find the areas that I was more of a transformational leader versus a transactional leader. The analysis of my results for the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) Testing, showed specific characteristics of […]
Increasing numbers of Chinese internationals are choosing to attend universities. In the United States. As the international population grows. A gap between international Chinese students and American-born Chinese students. On campuses becomes more noticeable. At Northwestern University, this divide is particularly evident between Chinese Students Association (CSA) and Chinese International Students Association (CISA). There is […]
Abstract Dissociative Identity Disorder, previously known as multiple personality disorder, is a unique disorder where the individual suffers from a split personality. Symptoms can include insomnia, anxiety, mood swings and a dissociated identity or split personalities (Web MD 2014). The movie Fight Club is an exclusive movie that includes a character living a dull life, […]
David G. Meyers defines a psychological disorder in the textbook Exploring Phycology 9th edition as a disruption to an individual’s biological, psychological, and social-cultural influences. Not to be confused with sicknesses, a psychological disorder can be caused from early childhood traumas. Dissociative identity disorder is defined as a coping mechanism to an individual’s problematic lifestyle. […]
