There are two major views what it comes to the human minds and body relationships and ideas similar. The first we discussed in class, Dualism. The idea is commonly expressed with Descartes. He held the belief that there were two parts to a person, the physical body and the immaterial mind. These connected through the […]
In Paolo Bacigalupi’s novel The Windup Girl, I was thinking about how there are not many likable characters (at least I do not like many of them). Most of the characters are only looking out for themselves throughout the sections that we have read up to this point. For instance, Hock Seng is very determined […]
As I reread the first section of The Windup Girl, I looked at all the main characters that are introduced. At a glance one of the biggest protagonists seems to be Jaidee. The reason I say this is because he is the character that is about protecting his country. He seems to be about honor. […]
One of the things that I found fascinating was the author’s use of an anomalous source of stored energy that is considered somewhat archaic by contemporary consumers of electronic [Everything] – spring power! The “kink-springs,” a creation which Bacigalupi adds as a common source of stored energy in the world of The Windup Girl,[1] are […]
This is a notion that I have been thinking about. This seems to be a spectrum that all characters have to deal with. I call it a spectrum because those seem to be the extremes. This does seem to be a least one theme in the Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson. This is at least present […]
We’ve only just started reading Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson, but the tone of the book is already very interesting. This book is supposed to be a science fiction book, which it is, but so far it doesn’t really feel like that when I’m reading it. However, there are definitely elements of science fiction in […]
The discussion between natural and unnatural, especially in relation to a woman’s purpose, frustrated me. On page 116, it was stated that a woman who conceives is essentially a goddess. Although this is a primitive way of thinking, it still holds true today. There’s an assumption that the only function of a woman is giving […]
So, I’m fairly certain now that Jim doesn’t die in the end. But Lillian dies. Lillian, a side character we don’t truly get to meet. She can be painted, I believe, as a symbol for another kind of death in the story. The death of innocence, experienced by each of the characters in some way. […]
Yod is a cyborg that has been wired to know just about everything that has been documented, yet he is completely naive of the social building blocks of life. Yod is practically a god in the sense of being existentially greater than humans (70). He reminds me of Heracles by being only half human. In […]
I loved the concept of corporate towns versus free towns in He, She and It by Marge Piercy. The story begins in the corporate town of Yakamura-Stichen, but our main character Shira is from a free town of Tikva (Piercy, p. 1-3). Shira is lonely and “constantly in minor trouble,” but in Tikva, she was, […]
Between The Gold Coast and He, She, and It, I notice these stories resonating with me a little differently than some of the previous stories that we’ve read. At this point, I believe that can be attributed to the relation to contemporary society that both of the books carry within their themes versus the first […]
In the book, Jim and co. are looking for a past beyond their lifetime experience. They aren’t certain of it at first; Sandy summarizes the general feeling among them when he says “I want to see someplace different” (Robinson 225). They all go to Europe, hoping for something unfamiliar. In Ithanos, a place untapped by […]
Reading the chapters where Jim goes and his friends go to visit different places made me think of when I went to Costa Rica and Mexico. I understand that Europe has its differences than Central America, but I feel like it can be looked at in the same context in a way. When I went […]
es·cap·ism /əˈskāpˌizəm/ the tendency to seek distraction and relief from unpleasant realities, especially by seeking entertainment or engaging in fantasy The desire to escape and find a new place seems to be an undercurrent theme in The Gold Coast, specifically for Jim. The crew goes to Europe to get away and find something different; however, […]
In the Gold Coast, we see a lot of high government business interactions that seem very similar to today’s business settings, as well as general inter-human relationships. Dennis McPherson, a defense engineer for the Pentagon, has a meeting with and is given a new project by his superior, Stewart Lemon. However, Lemon has a certain […]
By: Shelby Larson The English Novel (Part 1) Research has always been seen as tedious to some, but to others, it is seen as an adventure. I would consider myself one of the people who see this as an adventure. Heading to the archives has never failed to bring me amusement, and this time was […]
I think the mot surprising thing about this book so far was the use of technology in the bedroom and such but for me I feel like any use of technology in a bedroom just distracts from the person you’re with. In the book there is a scene where the couple records their sexual experience and the […]
Delany loves to incorporate symbolism and metaphors in his works; Trouble on Triton is not excluded from this and the main character is a prime example. “Bron” sounds very close to the word “brawn”, which is often referred to when using the phrase “brains versus brawn”. Bron is a lot of things: self-absorbed, arrogant, ignorant. […]
It has been established that Bron is not a good person. Throughout reading the book I constantly felt the need to laugh uncomfortably, out loud, for how dense Bron’s responses were to different events. I think what made each of these instances so jarring was that they came right after opportunities of redemption. There seem […]
One thing that struck me this week while finishing up Delany’s Trouble on Triton was that idea of Bron, after becoming female, still having the belief that women are somehow lesser than men. Last week I talked about how Miriamne could reflect a much too common situation women face, and this week I feel that Bron, in the […]
satellite [sat-l-ahyt] a natural body that revolves around a planet; a moon The word satellite originated from the Latin word “satellit” — meaning an attendant, one who is constantly hovering around and attending to a “master” or big man. When I hear the word “satellite” I immediately think of a piece of technology put into space […]
On Neptune’s moon, Triton, citizens are able to choose their living arrangements, referred to as a co-op, based on a number of preferences. Some of these preferences include gender, sexual orientation, and religion. As Spike explained, “If you’re gay, you find a gay co-operative; if you’re straight, you go find yourself one of the male/female […]
Throughout Russ’s “The Female Man,” four of the main characters of the novel are presented as somehow existing in separate but related universes. The means of navigating between worlds is equated to time travel. The worlds are also suggested to be causally connected and temporally structured as separate branching outcomes, which can be linked back […]
In class we were talking about the possibility of other universes and how each one would change based on each decision one makes. That being said, you and I are very different people and so each of my decisions create a new universe for each decision I make and each decision you make creates a […]
I personally had a difficult time finding a connection with Joanna Russ’s The Female Man — with the characters (even the multiple facets of Joanna) or the the story itself — although I admire Russ’s brave, ahead-of-her-time writing, given the context of when this novel was written. Anyway, I didn’t have a particularly deep connection with The Female Man, but […]
The Female Man opens the door to a few versions of feminism through the alternate J’s of Joanna. I’m using feminism in the sense of what our culture has created to be femininity, not the sole contemporary movement. Joanna Russ was able to portray hyper masculinity with ease. Patriarchy was evident by the priorities of […]
There are five J’s in the book. Four of them are characters. They all are Jeannine, Joanna (character), Janet, Jael, and Joanna (author). Joanna (author) lays down commentary and characters are seemingly symbols. The major comparisons of the characters comes from when Jael brings them all together. They are all the same person from different […]
In Joanna Russ’s The Female Man, there’s a part that can be interpreted as Joanna, the author, trying and failing to control her character, Janet. It is an interesting phenomenon in a writer. I myself have had these moments when I put character to page, or even simply in my own head. A character will […]
Within the Utopias built by the work of Joanna Russ in “The Female Man,” and “When It Changed;” and Alice Sheldon’s “Huston Do You Read,” the authors are effective in their effort to overturn gender bias, gender stereotypes, and overcome several assumptions about the role and personalities that women can potentially fulfill within society. Their […]
For the novel, “The Female Man”, I was extremely confused when I started reading the book. I wasn’t sure what exactly was going on. I did not make the connection where Joanne was a figment of Janet. But now that I understand a couple different ways the novel could be looked at, it makes it […]
Wonder [wuhn-der] to think or speculate curiously Wander [wän-der] to move around or go to different places usually without having a particular purpose or direction In class, Professor Ganyard brought up the concept of “Wonder vs. Wander” in the world of science fiction. This concept is a praxis upon which any science fiction work […]
Between Houston, Houston, Do You Read? and The Female Man there seemed to be a lot of correlation between the utopias. A disclaimer with a sample size of two it is wrong to say that all are like this though. Of course some of these qualities are common in many utopias. The first example that […]
In the Female Man, by Joanna Russ, a world called the Whileaway is introduced. Not only is it interesting, it takes place in the year 2869. This captivating world is told to us by a character named Janet Evason. She is married to a women named Vittoria, has two kids, and has worked in the […]
In J0anna Russ’s “When it changed” we are told of the of Katy’s expectation and future experiences for her daughter Yuriko, “dreaming twelve-year old dreams of love and war. Running away to sea, hunting in the North, dreams of strangely beautiful people in strangely beautiful places… Some day soon, like all of them, she will […]
Joanna, Janet, Jael, and Jeannine are the same woman. While it seems like each woman could be a separate entity, the clues point to them all being one. We discussed in class how Janet is the idealism Joanna lacks, so Joanna “made her [Janet] up” to be the assertive version of herself (Russ, 30). I […]
Of all the possible perspectives of reality, it is crucial for humans to at least try understanding views other than their own. The Female Man is acting as a portal into not one, but multitudes of female perspectives. These outside perspectives have been challenging me to apply issues in the book to our modern world. […]
Joanna Russ presents multiple main characters in her novel The Female Man, and no two characters are more interesting to see interact that the characters Janet and Joanna. Janet is very open and inquisitive. She is willing to talk about her society and its ideas and to ask about the ways of the society she finds […]
In Aldous Huxley’s Island he talks about family structure on the Utopian Island of Pala. On Pala children and parents are allowed greater freedom and greater responsibility through a Mutual Adoption Club (MAC). In the book Huxley uses Susila to show how the classic nuclear family does not fit into Pala. Susila describes how as a […]
One of the prevalent themes that carry a lot of weight in the novel, Island by Aldous Huxley, is the theme surrounding social values in relation to Pala and the rest of the world. In Pala, a lot of the social norms that make up the societal infrastructure of the island are different from the […]
The imagery of light is a major component in Island. An example of Huxley’s use of light imagery is in Lakhmi’s death. Susilla, comforting her dying mother, reminds Lakshmi that the light she sees is, “‘[her] own consciousness shining, void, inseparable from the great Body of Radiance…’ (Huxley, Island 318)”. After Lakshmi’s death, Will and […]
Living today, I think one of the most important resources that we as humans should have access to is birth control. On the island in Huxley’s book, the people have a free love, attitude, and complete access to birth control. This prevents the island from creating a population than cannot reasonably be fed or clothed, as well as maintains […]
While reading Huxley’s Island, I caught a pattern in the narrative, in which we the reader are often given a glimpse of Faranby’s past actions before someone does something to help him out of the goodness of their heart, thus allowing Faranby to come to terms with those haunting memories. The difference was so stark at […]
In Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Sir Andrew recounts his drunken memories of the Feste’s performance the night before. Sir Andrew says to the Fool: In sooth, thou wast in very gracious fooling last / night, when thou spokest of Pigrogromitus, of the / Vapians passing the equinoctial of Queubus: ‘twas / very good, i’ faith. I […]
Hello Peeps, So today I wanted to research what Elizabethan beds were made out of. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find much, but I will tell you what I found. Like most things in life, if it exists the rich are able to afford bigger and better versions of the things you want or already have. The […]
Through rusty gray bars stood the ancient English Cathedral Tower, like a hazy memory for John Jasper. He finds himself rousing himself upward, to peer outward towards the skyline that it pierces. Lost in thought he reviews his actions, his crime. His unnecessarily well laid plan foiled by a most precious gold ring and the […]
The first blog I chose was Chubby Bunnies. Chubby Bunnies talks about body image and how all bodies are beautiful. Most of the things that they post are pictures with captions about the person or their stories. One person publishes all of the content however many different people submit content for the blogger. Most people […]
This spring I worked with other University of Wisconsin- Green Bay students and Professor Rebecca Nesvet to create an annotated digital edition of the penny dreadful The String of Pearls by James Malcolm Rymer. The bulk of my work included learning about and practicing the coding and transcription language of XML files. As a beta […]
Shakespeare’s classic play Macbeth raises a number of questions about what it means show act and be strong. Few characters in literary history personify these questions as well as Macbeth. Over the course the play, Macbeth transforms from a weak character into a strong one, as evidenced by the way he handles the consequences of his actions. Strength as I […]
The aged and weary chief of police rushed up to his young lieutenant at the door. “No luck, Sir. We’ve spoken with each of the neighbors, none of whom seem to know anything or Mr. Jasper’s activities of late. We have been pounding for a good few minutes, Sir. I’m quite sure he must not […]
While reading Othello, I couldn’t quite fathom why a clown would ask the musicians if their instruments had been to Naples, “Why, masters, have your instruments been in Naples, that they speak i’ th’ nose thus?” (411). Perhaps the musicians themselves have been to Naples or (perhaps) the instruments were painstakingly made there; these are […]
Yuewn-Chuen Lily Yang Professor Denslow Women in Lit. 6 May 2016 Chubby Bunnies, xoJane, and Raceteenth Blog Analysis From this exercise I’ve learned that there are numerous people out there who have their own voice. Through the power of the internet, others are able to reach out and share their own voice with the world. […]
Over the last 2 semesters, I’ve been part of a group working on creating a digital edition for The String of Pearls (AKA Sweeney Todd). It began as a class offered by Prof. Nesvet last Spring, and a few of us continued to work on the project through independent study. I have been involved as […]
And so we come to the fourth and last blog of the semester, in which I kill two birds with an equally proverbial stone (because my aim too horrible for me to able to do that literally) as I read an article for “The Paper” and fulfill prompt number three respectively. Article title? Feste’s “Whirligig” […]
Growing up, I played Dungeons and Dragons with my parents and friends and I still play here and there today. One of my favorite aspects of the game was the alignment system. The standard Dungeons and Dragons alignment system features two axis: one of good and evil, and one of law and chaos. Between each […]
The first blog I looked for this project at was called Bustle. Bustle seems to post articles that discuss topics that are appealing and relative to women and feminists. They also discuss ways that women relate to each other, and different issues going on in the media. They also give advice and articles written by […]
In Act I Scene I, Iago and Roderigo gossip about “the Moor.” Despite giving backhanded compliments, the Moor’s name is never spoken. The word cloud shows the prominence of the Moor in the conversation. The person behind the term is topic of conversation, yet is objectified by racist language. Later, we find out the Moor […]
Americanah Blog Topic The 2 blogs I have picked are the Refinery 29 and The FWord. Refinery 29 has topic types of videos, fashion, beauty, living health, entertainment, tech, and news. The types of articles are how too’s, tips for styling and trends, news and entertainment. In this blog site there are many different […]
Blog Post 4 Macbeth is the bloodiest play our Shakespeare class has read this semester. From the bloody captain in Act one, to terrifying apparitions of blood daggers and Banquo’s ghost, to the phantom stains on Lady Macbeth’s hands, blood is omnipresent. Blood is an important symbol in the play Macbeth since it’s a visual representation […]
One has to wonder while reading Macbeth, whether or not Macbeth would have actually done all of the bad things that he did, if Lady Macbeth hadn’t been around to encourage him to do so. Even though Macbeth definitely had his own thoughts on murder, “my thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, shakes so […]
Personally I wanted to speak on the panel that covers pages 100 & 101. It was assumed that Bechdel’s father killed himself after she came out, which makes you think that was the reason he did this to himself. This page caught my attention right away because it was a two-page layout and it was […]
There is so much to be talked about in regards to Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, from its literary merit to its artistic beauty to its obvious commentary on not just Alison’s own family but on families in general. I could talk about any of these things endlessly, but the Theatre major inside of me is […]
Tucked away on the eighth floor of the library is the Marketing and Communications department. There, several people work hard at sending out information regarding campus events and stories that highlight students and alumni. One of those people is the editorial intern, who not only writes stories, but also grammar and spell checks various works […]
It goes without saying that literature has changed immensely since the beginning of the written word. Every conceivable aspect of storytelling has morphed in a drastic way. While some have changed more than others, few have seen an evolution as fascinating as that of the hero, and one way to understand the journey of the […]
This week, students in Women in Lit presented their research-based infographics about issues affecting women today. Two group projects are featured below. “Free the Nipple” “The Wage Gap: Women in the Workforce”The Wage GAP
In the 2000 version of Hamlet staring Ethan Hawke, Michael Almereyda chose to interpret Hamlet in New York City with a dystopia-like feel. The simple and minimalistic camera creates a world that seems two-dimensional and flat. The slightly awkward filming techniques combined with eerie silence and stillness created a sense of detachment and somberness. These […]
McKenna Bertrand Professor Denslow Women in Lit 6 April 2016 Fun Home and the Odyssey Alison Bechdel makes quite a few comparisons to her life and different works of literature in her novel, Fun Home. One piece of literature that is mentioned is the Odyssey. I am most familiar with this because I just recently […]
Yuewn-Chuen Lily Yang Professor Denslow Women in Lit. 11 April 2016 “Fun Home” Blog: Option One “Fun Home” by Alison Bechdel is a story told from her memoirs of her childhood and growing up. In the book, Alison’s father has a huge influence on her as she grows up. Bruce, Alison’s father, also has a […]
“‘Existence’? Why ‘existence’?” “Because he created an entirely new being.” “Yes, that would be why I used ‘creation’.” “What is this word here?” “Possessed. What did you think it was?” “The Creature’s best attempt at writing.” “Really Percy your handwriting is atrocious.” “‘Tingling in my feet’? Really?” “I thought it […]
Alex Bricco A version of Hamlet preformed in Wrocław Poland (directed by Monika Pęcikiewicz) takes a drastically different approach to the tragedy but according to Saffron J Walkling that isn’t a bad thing. The question the play sought to answer according to Walkling was, “…what is Hamlet in today’s world, and to what extent can […]
Blog 4 Option 1 The Fun House On pages 3 and 4 in the images they are playing Airplane. The image on page 3 is meant to talk about the perfect balance and the image on page 4 is meant to talk about the falling from the perfect balance or from the sky. These […]
The panel that I chose was the third one on page 15. I chose this panel to discuss because I feel that it says a lot about how times used to be, and even still are today. Young boys and girls are forced to dress like just that, boys and girls. Children are raised to […]
I believe that authors like Margaret Atwood write speculative fiction because they want to comment on how society is, or where they think society is heading. In Handmaiden’s Tale, Atwood is trying to make a comment on how society treats women and how she thinks society could progress and what life could be like for […]
Sexual Surveillance and Medical Authority in Two Versions of The Handmaid’s Tale by Pamela Cooper Cooper begins her paper by observing the use of surveillance in Gilead as assistance with extreme social control, almost enslaving its citizens. She writes about the Guardians, who act as an ordinary police force would in today’s world, and then […]
McKenna Bertrand Professor Denslow Women in Literature 20 March 2016 The novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margret Atwood could definitely be set in the category of speculative fiction. A speculative fiction story or novel is one that includes some sort of fantasy or horror factor. It has been described as a weird and unsettling genre […]
Handmaids Tale Blog #3 The article on The Politics of The Handmaid’s Tale, is an article written trying to decide whether or not this situation in The Handmaid’s Tale could really happen. Was it just a scare tactic of something that they want people to think could happen? The other thought was that […]
The adventure the reader embarks upon while reading The Handmaid’s Tale takes interesting turns throughout the novel and instills emotions that parallel the character. Early on, the main character, Offred, is confused about the world she has found herself within. She knows little about the world outside of the home, and is often left to […]
In the essay Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and The Pregnant Enemy, author Maurice Hunt proposes a darker reading of Twelfth Night, where she compares the text to “the dark side of the carnival world” (5). She aims to provide evidence that ‘a devil pregnant with child’ exists within Twelfth Night. According to Hunt, Twelfth Night alludes to the […]
After reading Henry V, I decided to treat myself with two and a half hours of watching Tom Hiddleston in the film adaptation. However, within the early minutes of the movie, I came to the realization that while dreamy, Tom is nowhere near the intense and sometimes brutal king portrayed through the words of the […]
“R” is for “Oyster” “I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster, but I’ll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me, he shall never make me such a fool.” (Benedict, Much Ado About Nothing) I know I already chose Much Ado About […]
In Act I, Scene 5 of Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, the Ghost informs Hamlet of the grotesque way in which he died. The Ghost explains his death in disturbing detail, revealing how his own brother, Claudius, selfishly murdered him: “Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole With juice of cursed hebona in a vial And in […]
Andy Fickman, director of She’s the Man, an adaptation of the Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, recreated the play using many similarities as well as differences. Fickman turned the play into a modern version of a different central theme, but he used the same characters and ideas performing the same, yet different tasks. Some differences […]
McKenna Bertrand Professor Denslow Women in Literature 22 February 2016 Being from the Chicago area myself, I took an interest when Nella Larson mentioned that Clare and Irene were from the suburbs of the city in her novel “Passing.” Race plays a prominent roll in their lives, being two partially black women in the […]
The Passing In the Passing this reading took place when there was still prejudice between whites and African Americans. This all took place when there were still so many separation in races and people still treated each other badly just because of skin color. This reading showed the readers just how society back then […]
Ashley Brechlin Professor Denslow Women in Literature 15 February 2016 Charlotte Bronte references many books within her novel Jane Eyre. For example, one book that she referenced was called Rasselas. The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abyssinia, written by Samuel Johnson, was published in 1759. It is a tale about a wealthy prince who is […]
While reading Jane Eyre, I noticed that the word “physiognomy” was used fairly often. I did not think much of it at first because in my medical terminology class in high school, we learned that a word ending in –ology was the study of something, so I associated it with that. After seeing it a […]
In the 1800’s men were viewed by most, including many women, as superior. Views since then have obviously changed for the better, but for the times in which the book “Jane Eyre” was written, most men treated women as inferior. It was common to view women as possessions. When married a […]
Jane’s return to Thornfield was more than just wanting to marry Mr. Rochester. She returned for a sense of closure after leaving so abruptly. Obviously, she had no idea what had taken place and what kind of circumstances Mr. Rochester was in. She saw Thornfield burned to the ground, and found out that Mr. Rochester […]
McKenna Bertrand Professor Denslow Women in Literature Jane Eyre 2/11/16 “Paradise Lost” in Jane Eyre While reading most novels, I really enjoy finding references to other novels, poems, short stories, or other works of writing whose titles are new to me. In the novel Jane Eyre, Jane is a young woman who loves to read. […]
The topic that I chose to write this blog on is the book that St. John gives to Jane titled Marmion by Walter Scott. It has been made known throughout the entire book of Jane Eyre written by Charlotte Bronte that the main character, Jane, has always had a love of reading, almost as an […]
In the book of Jane Eyre the word Coquettish means flirtatious and /or behaving in a playful sexual attraction manner. Why coquettish is used is to describe a behavior of how people act with someone when they are interested in them and that they want to get to know the person better or on a closer […]
No, there’s no T.A.R.D.I.S. or aliens taking over Messina, just good old actors David Tennant and Catherine Tate. In Doctor Who they are known as The Doctor and Donna Noble, but in the 2011 stage version of Much Ado About Nothing, they are the comedically romantic pair Benedick and Beatrice. For the most part, […]
While reading Much Ado About Nothing, it was very helpful for me to look up words to help me understand the play better. One word that I found extremely interesting was the use of the word “knave” in Act 3 Scene 3 Line 27 spoken by Dogberry. When looking into the word to help me […]
I chose the fifth prompt and made a word cloud out of Act 2 of “Much Ado About Nothing” here it is. As you can see the most used words in the act are conjunctions and words like, the, but after looking closer more important information can be found. Sexism within words begins to appear. For […]
In Act Two, Scene Two of Shakespeare’s comedy play, “Much Ado About Nothing,” Don John discovers Claudio and Hero’s wedding arrangement, and with the help of his servant Borachio, creates a plan to ruin the upcoming marriage. Borachio proposed ruining Hero’s reputation by making everyone, especially Claudio, believe that she is not a virgin and […]
Brewster, Scott. “Borderline Experience: Madness, Mimicry And Scottish Gothic.” Gothic Studies 7.1 (2005): 79-86. Academic Search Complete. Web. 19 Jan. 2016. Scott Brewster, in his essay named “Borderline Experience: Madness, Mimicry, and Scottish Gothic”, examines Julia Kristeva’s notion of ‘borderline’ experience (in reference to borderline personality disorder) and utilizes it to analyze James Hogg’s The […]
The importance of pottery in ancient Greece is immeasurable. These pots were used for everything. People carried food, liquids, and other materials. They cooked using them, and they were also used in religious, athletic, and social events. Pottery was also used as a way to show art. They had stories and myths on them. They […]
Coming in to this class I had a good idea of gender and sexuality, my oldest sister is fascinated by anything and everything when it comes to gender roles and gender studies. And of course she pawned off any bit of knowledge on me that I was willing to hear, and sometimes even if I wasn’t […]
The time we live in is, by far, the most progressive in history in regards to sexuality, gender identity, and LGBTQA+ issues. Mass media coverage of individuals like Caitlyn Jenner, Leelah Alcorn, and Laverne Cox has made the very existence of transgender people less taboo and more accepted, while June 26th will be remembered as […]
Alison Bechdel’s Tragicomic of her family is different in that she recalled every picture she drew. Fun Home is the depiction of Bechdel’s childhood and personal development through the medium of comics, and it could be stated that the comic form is the best manner of depicting an issue which occasionally reaches beyond text, which in […]
Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home does a fantastic way of explaining Alison’s life and the dysfunctionality of her family. This book not only captures the words, but also give us readers the visual intake of Alison as she experienced these events. Alison’s visual arts gives me the reader an insight of the scenarios that she describes […]
My idea about gender and sexuality changed when I read Michel Foucault’s Herculine Barbin. My idea about gender and sexuality was straight forward, I thought gender and a person’s sex was one in the same. I had always though that the gender that a person is born with can be changed when someone is […]
The ideas of gender, sex, and sexuality are complex topics, with definitions that seem to vary from person to person. I was first exposed to the concept of sexuality in middle school through a friend who had came out as as gay. From that moment on, I dove into the world of LGBT issues. […]
Funhouse: Evil Clowns By: Rosie O’Shea Funhouse: a place full of wonder, childhood amusement, and laughter; but ones image of a funhouse can change immensely, if one is afraid of clowns, the distorted mirrors, and creepy mimes. Comparing the book, Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel to the song “Funhouse” by P!nk gave me a new […]
One of the most important takeaways from Sophie Scholl and the Nuremberg Trial transcripts is the real-world application of critical thinking, and what that actually means. The common refrain from the Nuremberg Trials was “I was just following orders”, in one form or another. This could be either their way of passing the blame or the […]
The IMT famously sentenced 10 prominent Nazi members to death after the conclusion of the Nuremberg Trials, and established a credo that “crimes against international law are committed by men, not by abstract entities, and only by punishing individuals who commit such crimes can the provisions of international law be enforced.” Now that the IMT […]
This semester I interned with Voyageur magazine facilitated through the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay. Voyageur is a magazine published through the Brown County Historical Society with a vision is to research northeastern Wisconsin history, document, and publish it accordingly. Because of its unique partnership with the University, Voyageur allows a few very lucky […]
Jane Eyre was written when the Bronte family became suddenly distressed, and the wounds from Brussels were not as fresh. Her family was not a very happy family, so it was wrong to assume that they were. The experience with Jane’s aunt and uncle could be seen as a representation of this. Charlotte began writing […]
We cannot consider a history of the film productions of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing without spending considerable time on Kenneth Branagh’s 1993 adaption. It was heralded as a young, sexy adaption immediately after its release, and although it may not be the most faithful film adaption of the play, it raises era-appropriate questions about […]
For our group project, we decided to look at the play Othello and the current events that surrounded the years that Shakespeare was writing the play until the time that it was performed. Each of us picked an event and tried to find two academic sources for each event. Some of us were able to find […]
Annotated Bibliography Hughes, R. E. “Jane Eyre: The Unbaptized Dionysos.” Nineteenth-Century Fiction: 347-64. JSTOR. Web. 25 Nov. 2015. In this article, Hughes argues the influences of Jane Eyre’s personality based on writing by Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche, in the same year that “Jane Eyre” was published, stated that part of the human unconscious forms from Dionysiac and […]
Earnshaw, Steven. “‘Give Me My Name’: Naming and Identity In and Around Jane Eyre.” Bronte Studies 37.3 (2012): 174-89. JSTOR [JSTOR]. Web. 21 Nov. 2015. In Steven Earnshaw’s article “‘Give Me My Name’…”, he analyzes the symbolism and the important role that names play in the novel of Jane Eyre. Earnshaw starts by hinting at […]
At first when we began our project it was very tough to narrow down what exactly we would be doing and researching. After a little bit of trying our original topic out, and pushing through the technical difficulties, we began to input our data onto the spreadsheet. Plays, dates, where Shakespeare set the plays, and […]
Griesinger, E. (2008). Charlotte Bront?’s religion: Faith, feminism, and Jane Eyre. Christianity and Literature, 58(1), 29-59. Retrieved from Academic Search Complete database. (Accession No. 35451535) This article sought to offer a feminist approach when it comes to looking at the religious experiences the women of the novel experience. Griesinger begins by laying down a […]
Rachel Clift Annotated Bibliography Source 1. Graphic Classics Jane Eyre Macdonald, Fiona, and Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre. Hauppauge, NY: Barrons Educational Series, 2009. Print. My first source is a graphic novel adaption of Jane Eyre done Published in 2009 by Graphic Classics. This is a good source because it shows one version of what […]
What I found to be the most disturbing thing about Ordinary Men is how a group of people under a certain set of circumstances a group of people could become such terrible people. Most people like to believe that under the same circumstances that these men faced, that they would be able to stand up and […]
The social psychology of this century reveals a major lesson: often it is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act. – Stanley Milgram, 1974 After world war two, many people wondered what kind of people did it take […]
This source is a dissertation on the ambiguity of the narrative of the editor and Robert. Mandel talks about how the editor’s narrative is satirical and humorous and his main purpose is to show Wringham as a madman. I agree that the editor adds his own opinions in the story, which do try to frame […]
Throughout the movie Mein Kreig, the veterans alternated between talking about their experiences and doing things that in no way appeared to be about their experiences. What is telling was how they were silent. For the most part, they were not silent directly after a question as asked. Each veteran had something to say to […]
We had talked in class last week about the trouble and hesitance of some of the soldiers in battalion 101. How when it came to shooting Jews, they either opted out or turned to drinking and other means to forget about their actions. Some didn’t want to admit to what they had done, and I […]
In the summer of 1941, Rudolf Hoss, commandant of Auschwitz, was told by Himmler: “The Furer has ordered that the Jewish question be solved once and for all and the we, the SS, are to implement that order.”1 This was the beginning of the final solution of the Jews by the Nazis. Beginning in that […]
Its sad to think despite the liberation of the Death Camps so many Jews still died. The lack of nutrition and hardships they endured still followed them after the camps and led many to their deaths. I know it is morbid and terrible of me to say, but it is almost as if this outcome […]
Ideology is an impressive force. A look at modern-day America can show you exactly the power of a pervasive ideology, used for good and bad, depending on who you ask. What the story of the Reserve Police Battalion 101 shows two things: a hard limit of ideology and an aspect of the Nazi management that […]
Just imagine, you wake up one morning and there is a police officer at your front door. You and everyone who lives in your home are all brought into the living room. The officer then proceeds to tell you that you must pack a bag with only essentials. You are only allowed to one […]
In primarily talking about the Death Camps of Nazi Germany this week, I thought it would be a good idea to turn towards the concentration camps for a little while. There were countless other people imprisoned in the concentration camps: political opponents of the Nazis, homosexuals, gypsies, and more. In the concentration camps, prisoners were […]
Esther is a new sort of woman in Intimate Apparel. Evidence of this include her running her own lingerie business, providing the money for her husband instead of the other way around, and lastly she is a new sort of woman who doesn’t require a man to make her happy. I think that these things […]
Gloria Galicia Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage focuses on the story of a 35 year old African American woman named Esther. Esther story is focused on her life as a seamstress for woman who buys intimate apparel or lingerie from her. Then she begins to receive letters from a labor from the Panama Canal, named […]
Herculine Barbin not only wrestled with my thoughts about intersex, it also changed my stubborn view of what a new woman can be: female AND male. When rallying the sex of a human being in our mind, rarely do we seek out the image of a person with both genitals. Instead, we conjure up one appearance […]
In class we are talking about the idea of ‘The New Woman.’ The New Woman is a bunch of ideas about women that emerged in the late 19th Century by the slow rise of the suffragist movement. Some of these ideas are that women can be the bread winners of the house, take care of […]
The image of a women has evolved so much over the years. Women didn’t have very many rights. They weren’t aloud to vote, own property, have a job along with many other things. In the few readings that we discussed in class they deal with the the same struggles, the struggle of becoming a new women. […]
In Herculine Barbin, Michael Foucault shares Alexina Barbin’s personal memoir that details her life as woman and later as a man in order to illustrate how language shapes our society and places power in the hands of those who control the language. However, when you focus on Alexina’s personal journey as well as her transition […]
Who am I? This question seems like it would be easy enough to answer. A question where you shouldn’t really have to dig too deep. Usually, when people are asked this question their answers are pretty simple. Common answers include, I am a student, I am a football player, or even I am a mom […]
Imagine living half your life knowing you are a female and then all of a sudden you are told you are actually male. Alexina Barbin, a hermaphrodite, grew up in an all girls’ school and was taught to do the jobs of women. Alexina would be what I consider a “new woman.” Alexina grew […]
Imagine living half your life knowing you are a female and then all of a sudden you are told you are actually male. Alexina Barbin, a hermaphrodite, grew up in an all girls’ school and was taught to do the jobs of women. Alexina would be what I consider a “new woman.” Alexina grew […]
The tour itself was a difficult process. First I had to look up all the times that Tobias was mentioned in chapters 1-11. Alex and I checked the Facsimile online and found that he is Mentioned going to three different locations during the span of time. He goes to Liedenhall Street for a small bag […]
What is a woman? Is it the physical features that make a woman a woman? Is it the psychological feeling of being a woman? A woman is usually defined as the opposite of a man. The term woman seems to have developed meaning by what society thinks a woman should represent. Women have expectations […]
Barbin was an individual who struggled with life as a hermaphrodite. Barbin and Sara’s relationship began as friends after Barbin received a position at an academy as a teaching assistant. Barbin was required to work alongside Sara which led to them spending a great deal of time together. Their relationship began subtly and Barbin’s feelings […]
Women have been personified as the care taker of the house, as the emotional counterpart to the rational man, as the creative and frivolous part of a society. In novels, this idea and conception of a female can be seen. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is the one that acts solely on her emotions. […]
Can you imagine living your life without ever being able to own your own home, your own a car or even drive for that matter, to ride a bike, to smoke, to drink alcohol to unwind after a long day, to be able to vote, to be in physical charge of your own money, to […]
In the era of the New Woman, there has been many fictional proof of its existence, as well as New Woman propaganda in the media. For fictional evidence there has been characters in the play, “A Woman of […]
I did learn one or two things from working with the group to build this tour. It was certainly an exercise of thinking outside the box. Plotting a route past fictional locations is easier said than done. There is a sense of retroactive real-estate, plotting where these buildings would best have been situated. Also to […]
Throughout literary history, the roles of women have slowly evolved. However, these roles have not always evolved in a linear process. For the majority of human history, the central role in a women’s life was in the domestic sphere with a focus on childbearing. The social construction of being a woman left them with little […]
From the moment people are born, they are put into the category of either being a male or a female. Some people feel as though they do not belong or fit into the specific category given to them. Because not everyone wants to be subjected to a single label, some people live their life their […]
For the Nazis Race and Ideology played a major role in their political endeavors. They believed that Germany needed a pure Aryan race, and that the “Jewish Problem” was hindering that ideal. This leads me to the question of, how can you tell who is Jewish and who is not? The Nazis thought they had […]
One of the most prominent strengths of the Nazi campaign is the speed at which they moved. They did not move too quickly in most things, and they did not move slowly. They knew exactly how quickly they needed to move for optimal effect. Hitler knew that to accomplish his goals, he would have to […]
When I was in 8th grade, we read the Diary of Ann Frank in my Language Arts class. I attended Washington Middle School here in Green Bay, which is an inner city school (and a culture shock for a white kid from the suburbs AKA me). Being young and mischievous, jokes were being made about […]
How does one adapt a great work of literature? In Fall 2015, in two sessions of English 290: Literary Topics co-taught by Brian Sutton and Kristin Denslow, students not only studied adaptation issues in Hamlet but also created their own versions of the Ghost scene in Act 1, Scene 1. Students were assigned an “angle,” […]
What’s the “coolest thing” in Early English Books Online or the Internet Archive, and what is its hidden story? In Fall 290, Rebecca Nesvet’s students in the team-taught English 290: Literary Topics investigated. Here are some of the results. Emily Ross, Malleus Maleficarum, or That (14)80s Witchcraft Book Kaylin Speth, Discredited: The Disputed Splitting of […]
I’ve always had a soft spot for monster stories like Frankenstein and Dracula. So, I searched the archives for Dracula related Items. A lot of the things that came up were secondary sources and were more recent than what I wanted. After some searching I found a full copy of a first edition of Dracula […]
On March 23, 1913, Oscar Wilde came out of hiding to speak with his nephew, Arthur Cravan. Everyone thought he was dead because he has been banished for so long, and it came as a shock to them that Wilde showed up out of the blue. In his two part installment for a magazine, Cravan […]
I grew up fully immersed in the culture that surrounds Star Wars. So, naturally I was quite interested when I came across a 1977 Starlog Magazine article about the very first Star Wars film, right as my excitement for the upcoming sequel was beginning to boil over. The article “Creating the Space-Fantasy Universe of Star Wars” […]
Just nine days before Hitler and Nazi Germany invaded Poland Hitler said to his military commanders, “When starting and waging war it is not what is right that matters, but victory. Close your hearts to pity. Act brutally. Eighty million people must obtain what is their right… The wholesale destruction of Poland is the military […]
\What is psychological warfare? According to the British definition it is, “the military application of psychology, esp to propaganda and attempts to influence the morale of enemy and friendly groups in time of war”1. This can also be thought of as attaching the civilians of an enemy country to try to bring down the moral and […]
Adolf Hitler’s main ideology was to keep the Aryan race alive and eliminate all others to make a “superior” human race. Throughout the 1930s, he was able to swiftly take control of Germany and create a nation in his own image with very little resistant at all. With the ease of takeover in Germany, Hitler’s […]
There are many regrets we make in life. Many times they are things we wished had done or just did not do. However there are those instances when a person(s) look back and regret wholeheartedly a single event. My question is should the bombing of Dresden be one of those moments the Allies should look […]
Nazi Germany during WWII started off with early victories in the taking of Poland using the Blitzkrieg, shortly after the attack on Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany. Germany also invaded Norway and Denmark where almost half of their iron ore was coming from, after their victory in Norway the Germans had their […]
By 1937 it was becoming clear to many of the leaders that Hitler was planning to expand Germany past its boarders that had been set by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. It had already occupied the demilitarized Rhineland and was beefing up its armed forces as well as support Fascist regimes such as Nationalist […]
Not only did Hitler control the government of Nazi Germany, he also found a way to control the youth in the country as well. The first Nazi youth group was established in 1922 but was quickly disbanded after the failed Beer Hall putsch in 1923. Eventually, in 1926, there was another Hitler youth group […]
Women in Nazi Germany saw the doors of opportunity fly wide open during the war years. This is astonishing because women were increasingly entering the “labor force in all spheres of the economy”.[1] As we have discussed in class, Nazi ideology and Western male ideology tended to agree that a woman’s ‘place’ was in the […]
Like in my previous posts about Hitler covering all the bases in Germany, this post is about another specific population that Adolf Hitler successfully targeted; the children. The Nazis’ school curriculum consisted primary of physical education. Hitler’s plan was to have the German people be the strongest and fastest people. By doing this strategy, Hitler […]
Over the time I have spent in this course the idea of how organized the Nazi’s had been, has been brought up on multiple occasions. For me it had never rang as true, as it did while I read a section in Sax and Kuntz. This section was a mandate that Hitler had written in 1936, […]
…Makes for a decisive victory, or so the National Socialists thought. Granted this is my own terminology, but it fits. The Party forced the hand of both educators and group leaders alike. The Hitler Youth were very much a product of their environment. Forced organization of student welfare by the party lead to an “Anti-Intellectualism” […]
A photo of the exterior of a Lebensborn home. Note the SS symbol on the flag. As we have seen before, the Nazis supposedly supported the “traditional values” of older Germany, yet one can often find very blatant contradictions in the Nazi ideology between their “strong and good” morals and the morals they actually practiced. Prostitution […]
So my group and I got the wonderful challenge of adapting a scene from Hamlet into a Film Noir style video. I played Harriet (A.K.A. Horatio), the young scholar chosen to speak to a tormented spirit. One of our first decisions about the project was to gender bend the characters, so we changed Francisco to […]
I strongly encourage everyone to watch this film it is beautiful and very eye opening. I first just want to start off by saying WOW!, what a powerful film. This film was done absolutely beautifully and I love how simple yet how deep the concepts got. Anna/ Ida the main character transformed in front […]
For the hamlet adaptation my group did the horror story version. We created five characters so that every group member could act in it. We divided Marcellus into two different characters, Marcie and Mary, I acted out Marcie. Other than acting I also helped write and edit the script. It was difficult to integrate the […]
My group was tasked with adapting Hamlet into a horror film. I played the role of Bernard (Bernardo). We chose to take a modern approach because most horror films take place in a modern time period. For example, The Cabin in The Woods the film started with a group of college friends who were going […]
My group included Meaghan, Morghan, Elizabeth, and Josh, and we were tasked with creating a Hamlet production set in a post-apocalypse world. I had the role of Bernardo in our adaption, and we all contributed ideas to create the atmosphere of a desolate world. We immediately decided to cut the entire Fortinbras segment, as he […]
My group was assigned the “war film” angle for the Hamlet adaptation, and I was immediately excited because all I could think of was the PBS version of Macbeth with Patrick Stewart (my favorite movie of all time.) Since “war film” is kind of a broad angle, it was my idea to do a WWII […]
For the Hamlet adaption last week, my group did the adaption of a war film. I played the role of Marcellus (which was changed to Mark) and helped edit the script. When editing the script, we modernized it since we were thinking about World War 2 when deciding what to do. We didn’t have to cut […]
My group had the war film adaptation of Hamlet. I was going to be the ghost but once we decided o film our adaption I was in charge of filming, lighting (we were outside at night), and sound effects. We filmed it with a cell phone and then uploaded it on a computer. Since we […]
Bluebeard and Jane Eyre are two very different stories, but in many ways there are many parallels that you can draw between them. This was my first time reading a book or story like Jane Eyre and Bluebeard. I am not much of an analytical reader, so reading the stories/novels and then processing them has […]
Many stories feature a door. But more importantly a closed door. Take the stories Bluebeard and The Lady, The Tiger. Although they both contain doors that is not where the similarities stop. One similarity that is evident in both stories is the men who have control over their women. Another similarity is how these men […]
In chapter 11 of Jane Eyre, there is a part in which Jane describes a hallway she finds in the attic in Mr. Rochesters house after she leaves the dining room to head up to the attic with Mrs. Fairfax. Jane says, “ I lingered in the long passage to which this led, separating the […]
(Spy Agency Adaptation, My role: Horatio, script editor/actor) Making our spy adaptation was a fun challenge that stretched our creativity. It was challenging because we had so many creative ideas, but knew it might not be the best idea to change the entire script and plot just to fit those fun ideas in. My group […]
The significance in the stories of Bluebeard and The Lady or The Tiger is the character’s “choice” of what they should decide to do with the opportunities presented to them. Also, I noticed that in all stories there are doors, which may be symbolic. The symbolism being that doors contain people’s privacy, and behind […]
We see many comparisons between “Bluebeard” and Frankenstein. In both stories, we see that curiosity is what would lead our characters to their demise. This derives from the secrets that the male characters hold and through these secrets the female protagonists are punished. We also see that both these writers show their antagonist characters appearances […]
Bluebeard and Jane Eyre are two very different stories, but in many ways there are many parallels that you can draw between them. This was my first time reading a book or story like Jane Eyre and Bluebeard. I am not much of an analytical reader, so reading the stories/novels and then processing them has […]
The tale of “Bluebeard” is a French folktale written by Charles Perrault. Bluebeard was a wealthy man but was given a curse of a blue beard. This flaw of his turned away any and all women. This did not put a damper on his quest to find a wife. He continued to search and was […]
Jane Eyre, the governess, is quite the independent young lady. Besides standing up to morals and values against her wicked aunt and bully-cousin, attending a school in which she knew no one, taking a job with a complete stranger, and eventually travelling far off accompanied by only her lonesome self, Ms. Eyre is devoted to being her own woman: simplistic, […]
The Bluebeard Critique has been reinvented in many different ways throughout literature. One of the stories that is a reinvention of Bluebeard is The Lady, The Tiger by Rebecca Meacham. In both of the stories there are various moral lessons that the stories attempt to teach the audience. To me, one of the main assertions is that although […]
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is a reinvention of the story Bluebeard by Charles Perrault, for it show’s what could of been if the characters in Bluebeard had more definition to their personality. The story of Jane Eyre is about a more or less attractive woman trying to find her place in the world of […]
In Woman in Literature, my class read several stories surrounding a general theme. The theme consisted of Gothic Villains and Heroins. We talked mostly about they myth of “Bluebeard” and how all of the stories could relate or dispute the plot. Frank Stockton’s, “The Lady or The Tiger”, I believe reinvents Charles Perrault’s story “Bluebeard”. […]
The moral of the story of the Bluebeard myth is simple enough, at first glance: Curiosity killed the cat. A young woman marries a man with a blue beard even though he’s scary and has had many wives. He leaves on a journey and tells her not to open one particular door. The young wife […]
In the story of Blue Beard, a man nicknamed Blue Beard marries a woman who only does it for the money. Blue Beard tells his new wife to never open the closet on the ground floor or she would face death, but being the wife who only married him for the money and her curiosity […]
The Bluebeard legend, written by Charles Perrault, has successfully been incorporated into numerous forms of literature. The themes and motifs from the gruesome legend are a strong foundation for an author to use to build up their own work. For example, Frank Stockton effectively incorporated Bluebeard in to his literary work, The Lady or the […]
They say opposites attract but that doesn’t necessarily mean a lady is attracted to a tiger, or a woman is attracted to a mysterious fellow who happens to have a blue beard. We might become attracted to different aspects about a person, until after you find out about the demons inside them. Sometimes a woman […]
Nothing is seen without a bias and those with power know it. That is why the entertainment industry has been so crucial in politics. Whether or not we have been aware of their persuasions, the continuous subtle or not so subtle portrayals are still intriguing. As I watched Jud Suss it was hard not to enjoy […]
Jud Suss is undoubtedly one of the most anti-semitic films ever made. The title character is cast as a deceptive, sneaky fellow who assaults women and gets in the good graces of those in high places for his own benefit. [1] On top of this already inflated image of the stereotypical “bad guy” the Nazi’s […]
Spielvogel states, “Adolf Hitler came to regard himself as a man singled out by Providence for a special mission, and he clothed himself in the mantle of a messiah.”1 Hitler had a deep rooted belief that he needed to serve a higher purpose, which stemmed from his experience being temporarily blinded in 1919. Hitlers […]
Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany was a powerful nation with one ideology. Hitler was after “blood purity” of the Aryan race. Contrary to the propaganda of the “People’s Community” in Germany, this concept did not matter unless the community was Aryan. His thought process was that Aryan people were the superior humans while all other races […]
The Nazis may have been some of the best in using propaganda throughout history. They started their use of propaganda very early on in their rise to power. The way that they used propaganda was extremely effective. Their strategy was very simple, begin using very simple messages and then keep repeating them. Hitler called this […]
In class this week we discussed the nazi ideology and racial views of the third reich. Trying to follow the train of thought used in these ideas is extremely confusing. We talked about Hitler’s theories of racial purity and distinctions in class, but not very much on the nazi policies on the mentally and physically disabled. Nazis […]
His ability to manipulate the crowds could be seen as the least obvious of his characteristics. When talking about Germany, one is unable to describe its history without referencing Hitler and his destruction. Everyone who encountered him always underestimated him. He could remember the smallest details and facts and used that to his advantage in […]
September 30th, 1938: four major powers met in Munich to decide if Germany would get its demands, or if the free world would be plunged into war. With rising tensions, Benito Mussolini urged for Germany, Britain, France, and Italy to meet in Munich so the demands of Germany could be decided. Neville Chamberlain the British […]
In summer 1933 Hitler began instituting his Reinhardt Plan. This was a public works plan that the Nazis were putting 1 billion Reichsmarks for projects such as building roads, canals, public buildings, and bridges, as well as “pump priming” grants to private construction firms to renovate old buildings and create new housing.[1] As a result […]
I sprinted out the schoolhouse door, round the corner and weaved through the crowd outside. Once I reached the fields, I slowed my pace and glanced behind me. I took a deep breath, adjusted the bag on my shoulder then brushed the dirt off my dress. I smiled as I saw my family cottage at […]
During our discussions in class the idea that Hitler is what most people think of as true evil, well right under the devil himself. For a very long time I would have agreed with that, but after reading an article relating Hitler, Stalin, and FDR. I now still agree. This article brought up the different […]
I The author tends the garden. Rumors float about. A halt at the wall. As I attended the impeccable conservatory that my mother gently planted with a variety of sorts 192 moons ago, I abruptly ceased my plucking and prodding on such a clear, blue day due to the ardent fact that there seemed to be a rather large commotion stirring about outside the […]
A settler found this diary about thirty years after the death of Unca Eliza’s mother. Some of the words and descriptions have been modified for the reader’s understanding Everybody knows the story of my sister and the man whom she fell in love with. What they don’t know is that I knew him first. My […]
During our talks about Hitler and Stalin’s methods of leading their countries, one thing kept popping into my head. I work in retail, and anyone who works in retail can tell you that one of the most important people in your work life is your manager. If you have a good manager, work is good […]