...Eliza Doolittle Eliza Doolittle is from the play “Pygmalion” who’s written by George Bernard Shaw. She is the main character in this play, and is known as a sassy, smart-mouthed flower girl with deplorable English. She is known for being an east-end girl who is very poor and is uneducated because she didn’t attend school. Although she is uneducated, this does not mean she is not smart, quick and clever. She uses her tactical thinking to pretend to whine and moan to make people believe or help her in different ways. She is very ambitious seeing as she will suffer lessons with the rude Mr. Higgins to become a flower shop girl. Eliza is shown to be an attractive person. She is around eighteen to twenty, hardly older. She wears a little sailor hat of black straw that is dirty from dust. Her hair needs washing badly. It has a mousy color and can hardly be natural. She wears a shoddy black coat that reaches nearly to her knees and is shaped to her waist. One of the styles she wore described was a brown skirt with a coarse apron. Her boots are much the worse for wear. She’s cleaner than what she can afford to be, but compared to the ladies she is very dirty. “Her features are no worse than theirs; but their condition leaves something to be desired; and she needs the services of a dentist,” as it’s described in Act 1. She is described as a lady with a cockney accent and awful dress sense. Eliza Doolittle is very poor and did not attend school. Although she is uneducated...
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...The Horror of Technology A week before classes started I went to the bookstore to purchase my books required by classes. For my English Composition class two books were necessary, The Norton’s Field Guide to Writing and Alone Together by Sherry Turkle. I thought to myself, “Great! Not only do we have to write in this class, but we also have to read a book.” I read the cover of the book to get an idea of what this book was all about. “Why we expect more for technology and less from each other”. It seemed slightly interesting. People always hear from their older relatives, “Back in my day…” These statements usually shocked us. Like, how did they do that, or how did they survive? It intrigued me to learn how technology has affected us. We were first assigned to read the Author’s Notes and the Introduction. From this I found out Sherry Turkle was actually a creditable source, not just some random person ranting. She is a teacher at MIT, and also psychoanalytically trained psychologist (Turkle ix-xvii). Likewise, I found out Turkle used various methods to collect data for her book: clinical trials, interviews, research, studying certain age groups, and immersing herself in the environment. We will go more in depth on these methods later. She seemed like an amazingly laid back writing in these sections being very open, throwing in a few comical lines, and telling many stories. “Maybe this was not going to be a boring book after all,” I considered to myself with relief. During the...
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...Again, I plan on creating a creative work as a reading response. For this reading response I wanted to do a continuation of Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina. A story that tells us what happened after “Fantomina” was sent off to a monastery to live the rest of her life in celibate, religious service. How does the femme fatale react to a simple solitary lifestyle after having the love adventure of a lifetime? I had debated whether Fantomina was going to escape the monastery or not, but given that the abbess is her mother’s friend she would have been kept under close watch. And it would ruin her if she left and that seems to matter to her more than anything else. I think that she would be complacent at first due to her conserved nature when not pretending to be someone else; but I think that she would slowly start to rebel in her own way. Or she would take this time to reflect on her past and after years she would come to realize something about herself and life. One of the interesting qualities of Fantomina is the slight infusion of first person and third person perspective/narration. Fantomina is the one telling the story, but it’s like she is talking in the third...
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...Biography of Mary Eliza Mahoney Abstract Mary Eliza Mahoney is recognized for being the first African-American woman in the world of nursing. With her dedication and great care she was able to open doors for many other women who wanted to share her dream of becoming a nurse. Early Years Throughout history women have often struggled to be heard and make a difference in the world. While there have been many women that have made a very meaningful contribution to the world of nursing, there is a particular woman that has been recognized by society not only for overcoming the many barriers she faced and becoming the first African-American nurse, but also for her several contributions to the world of nursing. With dedication and love for the profession Mrs. Mahoney was able to realize her long and personal dream of becoming a Registered Nurse. She was born in Massachusetts on May 7, 1845. Although she had been working for many years as a cook, janitor, washerwoman and unofficial nurses assistant, with her determination she was able to attend the very rigorous nursing program in New England Hospital. While the 18 month program was difficult and very competitive she was able to become not only one among the only three that graduated from the program, but the first African-American to become a Registered Nurse. As it was very common in that era after graduation, Mrs. Mahoney became...
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...“May my unhappy story serve as a beacon to warn the American fair of the dangerous tendency and destructive consequences of associating with men of your character, of destroying their time, and risking their reputation by the practice of coquetry and its attendant follies” (Foster, 159)! Things do not end well for Eliza Wharton in Hannah Foster’s 18th century novel, The Coquette. Her persistence in wavering between suitors drives away Mr. Boyer, who gets married soon after. Major Sanford leaves for a time before returning with a bride as well. Eliza sinks into a depression and shuns all company except her close friend Julia. Major Sanford remains optimistic of the situation, however, and insists they remain friends. It soon becomes...
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...like losing. A lot of people, when they lose, say that the important reasons were having fun and competing. They are lying. You feel disappointed and angry. As a matter of fact you are not happy just playing, because you could play whenever you want, you need to win. Let’s face it, competition is natural, without it we would be mediocre and we would not get better ever. You never finish satisfied when you lose. Nobody wants to lose. You never go to a competition saying “I don’t want to win”. Ok, it’s true, you probably won some experience for the next time, but you didn’t like losing. I bet that everyone will prefer winning the competition than just winning experience. You feel disappointed about yourself because you wanted to win. As Eliza Dushku said “Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?” Competition is a normal thing, without it everyone would be mediocre. Imagine if nobody wanted to win. You won’t even practice, you would not have the desire to be better, and furthermore you would not have anything to fight for. In your life you will compete eventually, at school grades, at college admissions, at job opportunities, you will always find competition. It doesn´t mean that competition is bad, it’s probably bad if you give it too much importance, but normally it’s good. As they say “No Pain, No Gain”. You are not happy just competing, moreover you need to win! Participating in a competition its fun. But you are not entirely happy if you don’t...
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...2024 Hamilton is a historical musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda, which explains the stories of our Founding Fathers while involving women and their unnoticed role in our country's growth. This was the start of women taking a role in what was known as a man’s world. During this time women were not a part of any political decisions or even given their rights. This changes in Hamilton, the role of women in the musical excels when Eliza Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton’s wife, takes action and stands by her husband proving women's abilities to gain respect from those around them. Eliza Hamilton became a key factor in Hamilton’s legacy, standing by his side and encouraging him while he was still...
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...Eliza Stacey’s letter to her father in-law functions rhetorically using the pathos appeal to persuade her father in-law into paying her husbands debt. Stacey is writing to her father in-law about a debt her husband has not paid off and she is expressing her dilemma and cries for help by saying that her hopes are frustrated and more equally depressed by disappointment. This is conveying that she is using her emotions, she is expressing her hopelessness and frustrations to persuade her father in-law into helping her family pay the debt her husband owes. Stacey states, “You can imagine my stress and tears and poor George was distraught leaving me suddenly with everything to do, and my baby is due in about two weeks’ time.” Stacey is expressing her grief and she is looking for compassion from her father in-law because of all this suffering that she is going through without her husband. Stacey is using the fact that she is having her baby in two weeks to bring more attention to the severity of her issues and her family struggles....
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...Dubliners Joyce, James Published: 1914 1 About Joyce: James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish Séamus Seoighe; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novels Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939), the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). Although his adult life was largely spent outside the country, Joyce's fictional universe is firmly rooted in Dublin and provide the settings and much of the subject matter for all his fiction. In particular, his tempestuous early relationship with the Irish Roman Catholic Church is reflected through a similar inner conflict in his recurrent alter ego Stephen Dedalus. As the result of his minute attentiveness to a personal locale and his self-imposed exile and influence throughout Europe, Joyce became simultaneously one of the most cosmopolitan and one of the most local of all the great English language writers. Source: Wikipedia 2 Chapter 1 The Sisters There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied the lighted square of window: and night after night I had found it lighted in the same way, faintly and evenly. If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind, for I knew that two candles...
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...At first glance, Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina appears to be a saga of a woman’s sexual escapades and the freedom derived from them. However, on a deeper level, much of this freedom is obtained not through sex, but rather in a mercantile fashion. The converse is witnessed as well: mercantilism and business practice is also directed towards Fantomina throughout the story. In a male-dominated economic world, Fantomina eventually attempts to equalize herself with the opposing gender once her constructed “royal” or “noble” values are stripped away. As she does, the very language of the capitalist system is found throughout the novella. In addition, Fantomina begins to even treat her love for Beauplaisir as a mercantile venture, attempting to maximize...
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...Today, I will be giving you information about the first African American nurse; her name is Mary Eliza Mahoney. Mary was in the medical field that’s what made her important to a lot of black people that couldn’t be able to do or even be a nurse anything of that nature. She is important to black history because she was the first African American get her degree in nursing field she had attended in Memorial health center in Oklahoma City and also Indiana University Northwest, was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame in 1976 and to the National Women’s Hall of Fame and she also co-founded of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses that is changing half of the paths for many black women as change. She also was a civil...
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...How did Edgar Allan Poe’s life Affect his writing? Edgar Allan Poe”’s Life was tough, and so seemed his writing. His writing looked to be dark and horrific. Edgar Allan Poe’s life had important things such as The love of his life, Alcohol, and The deaths he had to deal with. Edgar had a very tough life, and so seemed his theme of stories he made. To begin with, The deaths. Edgar Allan Poe had to face with the death of his loved ones too much. He had to deal with his birth parents first. Then, he faced with his foster parents dying. Then he had to watch his wife (Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe) die. He later had died on October 7th, 1849. Furthermore, Edgar’s love of his life Virginia was the love of his life and would alway be. The couple were...
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...writing career Brady Udall was awarded the Spur Award for the best novelist in the west, in the year of 2002. From the years of 2010 through 2013 he was appointed residence of Idaho University. New York Times honored Mr. Udall with the best seller for his novel “The lonely Polygamist” and “Letting Loose the Hounds ” The generation of the Udall family began with Mr. David King Udall, born in St. Louis, Missouri, which is the great great great grandfather of Brady Udall. Mr. David king Udall parents were both Mormon, converted from England. Both of David King Udall parents arrived in the United States in the year of 1851. Once into the United States they settled and made Nephi, Utah their home. As David King Udall grew into adulthood he married Eliza Stewart and relocated to Kanab, Utah. After settling into Kanab, Utah David King...
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...Telling stories is a form of art, it critiques dominant forms of cultural representation: it fosters pride in one’s disabilities, creates positive self-images, and envisions a society, which not only accepts, but also celebrates, diversity. In Eliza Chandler (2010) sidewalk stories: The Troubling Task of Identification discusses how often times those who try to raise awareness of disability often times separate pride from shame. They do not look into the cracks in which different flowers grow. This readings calls for “a place where pride can exist in togetherness with shame rather than in its abandonment; a space necessary for the release of stories, like these, which do not constitute wavering bodies of pride as "excludable types". Throughout history, individuals with disabilities have struggled to live full and productive lives as independently as possible in a society burdened with stigma, discrimination, and attitudinal and environmental barriers. Most legislation,...
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...Eliza Lucas Pinckney was a remarkable individual who greatly impacted agriculture in the Southern colonies by discovering an alternative way to grow indigo, leading it to become a largely exported cash crop, and thrived in her passion, even under the pressures of being a woman. Since the “..indigo blue dye that they had been using is primarily a product of the French West Indies,” the colonists had to find a way to farm it themselves (SouthCarolinaETV). Although growing indigo is not as hard as making it into dye, the colonists who lived in the thirteen colonies still could not figure out how to get the blue pigment. Therefore, even though it took many years, once Eliza found another way to grow and process indigo, it highly affected the New...
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