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I read the article ‘’ Happy in Helsinki’’ written by Christine Gemmink, Canadian who game to Finland to study her master’s degree and to be with her boyfriend. Writer seems to be happy living in Helsinki. She says that everyone she meets are friendly and helpful. She also says that she is amazed how well and happily people do their jobs. She also describes Finns as genuine in a way that she hasn’t seen in many other cultures.
Children have grown up alongside their parents for generations, and humans have accepted the fact that parents greatly shape the growth of children. The memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls and the novel The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas both explore a young girl’s journey through adolescence. Throughout each novel, influences such as parents and peers drive the development of Starr in The Hate U Give and Jeannette in The Glass Castle. However, in 1998 Malcolm Gladwell (a writer for The New Yorker) wrote and article about Judith Harris who proposed a theory that “peers trump parents” (Gladwell PAGE) as influences on children. Other parts of this theory were that genes of parents matter more than actual parenting style, and that kids try
‘Mildred, how would it be if, well, maybe I quit my job awhile?’ ‘You want to give up everything? After all these years of working, because, one night, some woman and her books--’ ‘You should have seen her, Millie’ ‘She’s nothing to me; she shouldn’t have had books. It was her responsibility, she should’ve thought of that. I hate her.
As one of the first Black feminists who made it big on the rap and hip hop scene, Queen Latifah exposed the issues of domestic violence, disrespect of women, and the objectification of Black female sexuality in her biggest hit single “U.N.I.T.Y.” recorded in 1993. Following the release of the single, the song’s immediate popularity raised awareness, especially within the African American community, for sexist violence and assault against women. In summary, Latifah addresses the issues of violence and harassment against women of all races, supposedly. However, in the first verse of the song, Latifah demands that a black women be loved from “infinity to infinity (4)” and a black man to be loved from “infinity to infinity (6)” as well.
In lecture 8, singlehood stood out the most, due to the different levels of respect that single adults received throughout history. The article “Single or married: Does it really matter anymore?” by Stephanie Coontz, explored how societies viewed single adults. The article states, “In Colonial America, unmarried men and women were never considered full adults, no matter how old they were”, in order to be an adult one had to be married. This type of infantilizing continued onto the 1950s, where psychologists looked down and unmarried men and single women. Psychologists described unmarried men as deviant and pathological, and single women as unnatural and neurotic.
The Wife of His Youth is a love story with a happy ending. Desiree’s Baby is a love story with a tragic ending. The protagonist in The Wife of His Youth is named Mr. Ryder. He is a bi-racial black man who joined a group unofficially called The Blue Vein Society.
Lady Capulet is respectful towards Capulet showing a power imbalance in their relationship. Capulet refers to Lady Capulet as “wife.” These two terms being used instead of each other's names show a lack of comfort with each other. Conflict between social obligation and free will repeatedly occurs in Romeo and Juliet as the female characters opinions are undermined and considered
"When he found the eyes of Hester Prynne fastened on his own, and saw that she appeared to recognize him, he slowly and calmly raised his finger, made a gesture with it in the air, and laid it on his lips." -The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Chapter 3, page This quote ties in together with the theme of the book because Hester Prynne’s husband had left her, leaving her clueless as to her not knowing if he would be back or not. As Chillingworth, Hester's husband, does this motion towards her, I feel like he is threatening her. Almost as if he is promising, “I know what you did and I’m here to make your life hell”, and as he moves his finger to his lips, he’s sealing the promise.
Here we are in 2017 watching a movie that was released in 2001 that we all still can relate to. The theme jealousy is timeless, four hundred years ago jealousy was an issue people dealt with. Today in 2017 we are still dealing with jealousy. We 've all had our own Iago or Hugo sometimes we might 've been someone else 's Iago or Hugo. We 've all been jealous before so sometimes
Slade’s major problem was that she suppressed her jealousy for years, and let it all blow up in one instant. Despite the spiteful years of her bottled up jealousy, Mrs. Slade was unpleasantly surprised by the quiet outburst of Mrs. Ansley. Their ongoing rivalry led to a miserable conclusion for Mrs. Slade more than it did Mrs. Ansley. The two women had always competed with one another.
“The Chase” is about an adult chasing some kids, but Annie Dillard makes the story transition from throwing snowballs to “wanting the glory to last forever” and how the excitement of life at one moment can affect someone in the future to show that the excitement of life will always be there even when one is no longer a kid. The story starts with a group of friends, imagining how a game of football goes and continues with the encounter of a stranger. From throwing snowballs at his car to him chasing them till they couldn’t run anymore. The whole experience will change the way she looks at adults. “We all spread out banged together some regular snowballs, took aim, and, when the Buick drew near, fired.
Mrs Danvers soon becomes the villain as she talks down at the narrator and plays on her insecurities of Maxim loving Rebecca and not the narrator, soon wanting the narrator to leave Manderley or kill herself- ‘Why don't you go? We none of us want you. He doesn't want you, he never did. He can't forget her. He wants to be alone in the house again, with her.
Jealousy was a large part of the themes in the play as it is today in modern society. As much as humans would like to say they are happy and proud of their peers for their success, there is still a large part of our brain that want what our peers have, and is a little angry that we didn’t reach the level first. With that being said, a good majority of the time,
Tis Pity She’s a Whore is an English tragedy written by John Ford in the seventeenth century. Ford was a playwright under Charles I, and his plays reflect interest in morality and law. Tis Pity She’s a Whore contains neoclassical elements and is a five act structure that takes place in one day.
“Virgins”, by Danielle Evans, is a tragic story narrated by a young girl who places what she views as “inevitability” into her own terms. The protagonist of the story is Erica, a young, physically well-developed girl who has her own view on men and what exactly they want from her. Throughout the story, a constant battling environment surrounds her, and one side of her keeps pushing her to the verge of giving up everything - even her virginity. Evans uses the title of the story to question the importance of finite as virginity in relation to the value of a woman’s body. Through the use of character development, plot, themes, language and style, setting and figurative language, she is able to come up with a true proposal of the both self-value,
