...Gilberto Saenz Mrs. Gonzalez ENGL 1302.S58 17 Feb. 2018 Never Too Young During the early eighteenth century, Dr. Jonathon Swift constructed an absurd proposal stating a possible solution to the burden that children of destitute people of Ireland place on their parents. Many poverty-stricken people were having numerous children of which they could not afford financially to take care of properly during this time period in Ireland. In “A Modest Proposal”, Jonathon Swift uses similes, tone, and diction to suggest a sarcastic solution in eating and selling babies in order to make these children beneficial to the public. To begin with, Swift first argues that the people of Ireland should eat the helpless, innocent children with a simile when he...
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...Christian. Later she returned to Constantinople, met Justinian and they both fell in love with each other. Marriage was not possible for them because they were not of the same social status. Roman law did not allow a patrician to marry someone below him. Somehow Justinian convinced his uncle to get a law passed in the senate and they were happily married. Women in the Byzantine Empire did not have much of a say or position. Being a woman was hard because of all the struggles they had to deal with just because they were a female. Women could barely get any jobs and because of that a lot of women chose the wrong paths for their life just like Theodora did in the very beginning. Women spent most of their lives at home. “Keep your daughters as prisoners, confined and inconspicuous”. (Kekavmenos) In every occasion a woman was accompanied when she left her house. Whether it was to go to church, attend a festivity, call on her relations, or even visit the baths. Those were the only activities that were accepted of a woman outside her own house. It was never proper for woman to sit at the same table as a man unless they were her father, husband, or...
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...ways: by facing death, by watching one closest to them get hurt or made a fool, and by realizing his or hers surroundings. Firstly in the story “Sunrise on the Veld,” by Doris Lessing the main character notices the real world by seeing death in a harsh way. In this story their was a boy who lived in South Africa who had just turned 15 years old. In the boys mind he had believed that he could be king of the Universe. Since he did not sleep he thought he could control over his own body. Early in the morning on his birthday he had decided to hunt for the first time, after watching several months of how the natives hunt animals. While running around the vlei full of joy he had came across the buck that had been hurt badly and was being attacked by a crowd of ants.“… as he drew in his breath and pity and terror seized him…” Doris Lessing (145) the narrator describes the boy. In this quote it clearly shows that it was one of the first time the boy had seen death and the fact that the boy was shocked at the sight of death. Before the boy was about to shoot the buck from its misery he said to himself “, I can’t stop it. I can’t stop it. There is nothing I can do.” Doris Lessing (146) This is the turning point for the 15 year old boy. It is the part where he recognizes that he was not a king, but instead a naïve boy who didn’t know reality. Also, he started accepting the fact that nature never last forever. In conclusion one can perceive truth of reality through experiencing death. The...
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...of thoughtful thinking. Today we will be comparing Jay Gatsby from Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” and the mother in the short story “Borders” by Thomas King. These are two very refreshing characters with striking similarities and differences. It is evident that both the mother and Gatsby contrast immensely as both characters perceive and react to identity in distinct ways. In the short story, we learn that the mother is proud of her Blackfoot heritage, as she refuses to be labeled as Canadian or American when crossing the border with her son to visit her daughter in Salt Lake City. She believes that only she has the power to define who she is and as a result, the mother continues to push...
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...present love? Many poets through history have written about love, this essay will examine how love is presented in 2 poems. In 16 century William Shakespeare wrote Sonnet 130(1564-1616) sonnet 130 is one of Shakespeare’s most famous conventional and traditional love sonnets. He wrote a series of love poems to a woman named Laura. The scholars imagined the poem as "The Dark Lady." This poem is a love poem, the first 12 lines are described about her hair, the colour of her skin being negative, then on the last 2 lines he admire he loves her no matter how she looks. When we talk about “love” poem, the first thing come up from your mind is something like cajolery you'd find in a Valentine's Day card. Old love poems bring to mind flowery language and the kind of unrealistic glop that you could never bring yourself to say with a straight face. However sonnet 130 uses honesty to present the woman he loves, unlike other sonnet uses excessive or insincere praise to present love. Shakespeare presents love by metaphor He starts the poem out with a simile comparing his mistress' eyes to the sun. He then quickly switches over to using the metaphors to compare the rest of his mistress' characteristics, such as her breasts to snow and hair to wires. The rhyme scheme for the poem is “ababcdcdefefgg” The stress pattern in weak, strong, weak, and strong and Shakespeare. Also uses long vowel sounds. In line 4 the poet says "If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. As read in the 21th...
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...dimentia could be called the reason I got into this business. That and the fairly simple job requirements. When I was getting out of the Army a fairly grey~area opportunity was presented to me. I was looking to secure my future and point my life in the right direction. The guy next to me in the mandatoy class we all had to go theough to end our contacts told me about his wife. I hadnt met her but her story had inspired my corrupt and eager mind. This woman* laura* had gotten into hospice care. For those of you unfamiliar with the field* generally hospice deals with terminally ill and very elderly patients. At that point which was about two years into her contract* she had been left a several thousand dollars* a BMW* and a the bedroom two bathroom HOUSE on the emerald coast. It was mindblowing. So manyu families just give up near the end and the one the patient cares about is the one who seems to care. I dont know Lauras motives. Nobody goes into this soul wrenching practice hoping to make some easy money. Nobody but me. Every Day I put on my plain white uniform and go to work as a sort of bouncer. I dont work at a ritzy night club or private security. The government signs my checks. I dont kick rich kids out of bars. I am often tasked to make sure our clients DONT leave. Hired muscle and a pretty face. Fouty two minutes. I might not have time to get to the gas station to take my morning redbull dosage. This is going to be a long day. This is how they fuck you. Wednsday morning...
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...Bronte, Jane Eyre was published in 1847 during a time when women were considered social embellishments, and nothing more than offspring bearers for that matter. She defied these beliefs by doing something no women did in that time, write. This book was revolutionary, especially since the release of Jane Austen’s works, which had a lot more of a happy ending feel that were published a century before. Charlotte Brontë and her sisters Emily and Anne, wrote novels that were much more dark and mysterious. Jane Eyre became one of the most successful novels of its era. This novel is set in the early decades of the nineteenth century, and depicts themes such as social class, religion, and gender relations. The novel is a hybrid of three genres: a romantic novel, a bildungsroman novel, and a gothic novel. Each of these genres are used in Jane Eyre, and rightfully so. They help to tell the story of Jane Eyre’s life in the most mysterious, sometimes supernatural, and retrospective way. I believe that Charlotte Brontë depicted her life through the novel of Jane Eyre, she did this by using her own experiences in life, namely through some key developments from her life translated into Jane Eyre’s life. Jane Eyre and Charlotte Brontë embody each others lives. This is clear through all the similarities between the novel and real life. Some examples of these are: both Jane and Charlotte being orphans, both living with an aunt, Jane attending Lowood and Charlotte attending Cowan Bridge, a school for...
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... or they can develop ethical thinking by comparing family values with values in fiction or documentaries”.(Homayoun) This is important because by hearing from all parties about the problems the world or what the country is facing, they’ll learn how to form their own opinions at an early age. This is more than most members of previous generations can say for themselves.(Chell)Information is more democratic and available than ever before, yet the dangers associated to it are very real. Some adolescents have been...
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...English 1110 November 13, 2013 A Deep Psychoanalytical Interpretation of “Cat in the Rain” Hemingway’s meaning to the “Cat in the Rain” is more than just the literal cat in the rain. Yes, the story talks and discusses a cat that is stuck in the rain; but, this is not the true meaning of Hemingway’s story. The character the “American Wife” shows similar elements of confinement and restraint as to the cat in the story. The constant obsession for the cat in the story from the wife shows that she thinks of herself as the cat and wants to be freed from this rain. Two Americans are stuck in a hotel where their room is facing the sea, a public garden and a war monument. A rainy day it seems to be there somewhere in Italy and the American wife is looking out the window and she spots a cat under the table that is trying to keep dry from the rain. The American wife begins to express a desire for many things in the story. She tells her husband if she cannot have fun on this trip that she should get anything she wants. She starts to request material goods and the story shows that she requests these things due to the lack of intangible goods such as love and affection. The American wife suddenly becomes obsessed with the idea of saving this random street cat. You can metaphorically say the cat is her and she is trying to save the cat from the rain and in the Americans wife case the rain is the lack of love and affection. But, George (her husband) ignores her...
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...into different cadres based on the states. Some states have a separate cadre where as the union territories and few states have common cadres. Women in the Indian Administrative Service After Independence the first competitive examination for the AISs -IAS and IPS was held in 1948. The monopoly of male existed till 1950 in IAS and only in 1951 the first lady got into IAS. Though the constitution of India ensures equality, the Indian Administrative Service Rules of 1954 was discriminatory and disadvantageous to women as „no married women shall be appointed to the service and resign from the service in the event of marriage‟. This disqualification and restriction was removed by deleting the very provision from the IAS recruitment Rule in 1972 and married women were allowed to join the service and an additional provision of maternity leave was granted under this recruitment rule. Analyzing the Civil Lists Published by the Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India depicts that the women‟s entry in to IAS is...
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...adopted child. While not a typical family, the premise is certainly more up to speed with families in today’s society. The show has been very successful and it may be due in part to the fact that the show pokes fun of gays, has a sassy Vietnamese girl, is always comparing brains and beauty, and just doesn’t seem to leave anyone out. The dynamics and diversity of this family do portray “modern” times, however, the backgrounds and lifestyles are actually a little old-fashioned. Jay is the patriarch of the family. He is divorced with two older children and four grandchildren. He is remarried to Gloria, a Latin bombshell, and has a step-son, Manny. Jay and Gloria recently had a baby, so he now has another child to raise. Jay appears to have dated traditional values by being the bread winner while his wife is a homemaker. Gloria is most often seen at their large home cooking food or taking care of Manny. This domestic role also supports the ideology of patriarchy. Jay is in charge of the family. Though, Gloria usually has the final say when it relates to Manny because she is the biological mother and caregiver. Jay often makes fun of Gloria’s Spanish heritage. Gloria is originally from Colombia and talks about growing up poor and having a rough time as a kid. Being an interracial couple brings some confusion to their marriage at times, especially when Gloria tries to explain to Jay the certain customs that she performs, and he does not always understand. At times, Jay often time...
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...fighting the old, but on building the new” (Socrates). The ability to adapt to change and have faith in others are two traits necessary for success. Barbara Kingslover’s The Bean Trees emphasizes these two crucial skills. A novel centered around a woman named Taylor, her daughter Turtle, and her close friend Lou Ann, The Bean Trees follows along on the difficult journey these characters face. Taylor and Lou Ann encounter many obstacles, including acquiring a child, divorcing a spouse, moving away from home, finding a new career path, and discovering new friends they could have never imagined. In Barbara Kingslover’s The Bean Trees, similes,...
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...is one of Charles Dickens’ most famous novels and a classic poor-to-rich story about an orphan who was born into a workhouse and must navigate his way around the criminal underworld to avoid being corrupted. Literature incorporates the history of the workhouse and reflects the concerns of both paupers and ratepayers, and it also challenges the dehumanizing effects of the Law’s administration. The time period of Oliver Twist was still under the time of the Old Poor Law, but it was mainly seen as criticizing of the New Poor Law. Felix Driver writes, “The account of the starving child who asked for more was almost certainly based on the earlier system, although the extent to which the old survived in the new does not entirely invalidate the criticism”. Scholars tend to focus on the scene where Oliver asks for more food as indicative of the meagre portions that the inmates received. These scholars identify hunger as the main threat of the workhouse, but that approach neglects the larger threat of death, which shapes Oliver’s character. When the opening chapters of the novel are considered more broadly, the workhouse is actually a site where the poor carry an obligation to one another. High death rates within the workhouse encourage solidarity as seen by the behaviours of the orphans. While providing charity carries the risk of supporting idlers, and Dickens is consistently critical of charity, he also writes the poor as recognizing common risks and finding their own ways to overcome...
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...White Man’s Burden (Handout) Summary & Annotation: A straightforward analysis of the poem may conclude that Kipling presents a"Euro-centric" view of the world, in which people view society from only a European cultures point of view. This view proposes that white people consequently have an obligation to rule over, and encourage the cultural development of people from other ethnic and cultural backgrounds until they can take their place in the world by fully adopting Western ways. The term "the white man's burden" can be interpreted simply as racist, or taken as a metaphor for a condescending view of non-Western national culture and economic traditions, identified as a sense of European ascendancy which has been called "cultural imperialism". A parallel can also be drawn with the charitable view, common in Kipling's formative years, that the rich have a moral duty and obligation to help the poor "better" themselves whether the poor want the help or not until according to Europeans, "they can take their place in the world socially and economically." The term "white man's burden" is a phrase that became current in the controversy about the United States acquisition of the Philippines after the Spanish-American war of 1898. It was a concept that was the responsibility of white Europeans to bring "proper" European civilization to the nations (mostly brown, black, red or yellow) that did not have it. The underlying thought was that Europeans were correct in their beliefs and...
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...The Beggar Woman by William King | The Poet: William King (1663-1712)Little is known about William King except that he was educated at Christ Church College Cambridge, and made a living as a lawyer and judge while writing occasional satires and comic verse, most of which were published anonymously. | The Beggar Woman is like a story, it suggests that it should be read to people. This is again because it is aimed at lower class and uneducated people who would have to have someone read it to them rather than reading it for themselves. It is written in the tradition of the street or broadside ballads, printed stories in verse that were sold cheaply and passed around for pleasure, often dealing with popular scandals and murder stories. In a time before the popular press and television chat shows, these ballads satisfied a need for entertaining stories, a tradition that has deep roots in oral traditions of storytelling and wandering minstrels.At the beginning of this poem, there is a description of a gentleman out hunting, which is an upper class activity, as they are the only people who could afford to take part in such an expensive activity, also by the fact he is described as a 'Gentleman' suggests he belongs to the upper class or 'Gentry'. The 'Gentleman gets separated from his group and spots the 'Beggar Woman'. He then propositions her for sex. She obliges and they wander off into the nearby wood. She is described as 'game', because really to the man that is all she is...
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