...Literature that were set before modern time in the past had an idea where the perception and expectations of women were quite similar. The four literature I have chosen are ‘Revolt of Mother’ by Mary Freeman, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the play, ‘A Doll’s House’ by Henrik Ibsen. The settings for each of the literature that I’ve have chosen had similar societies where men had more power than woman and sometimes even had full control over them. Some of these stories questions the idea of appearance versus reality. The theme of freedom and confinement is also presented in most of the texts. All four texts explores both gender and their roles in society. Appearance vs Reality...
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...Compare/Contrast Essay Prairie View A&M University Alia Carpenter March 4th, 2016 Sentimentalism is a philosophical idea that our emotions provide a direct pathway to moral knowledge. A story written with sentimentalism, an important literary component that has a powerful yet emotional experience, usually in the form of sympathy. Indeed not every sentimentalism based story is identical to another, yet they usually correspond in some way. Sentimental fiction revolves around the drama of moral regeneration. Two different stories that share multiple sentimentalism similarities are “The Luck of Roaring Camp” and “The Revolt of Mother”. Both these great stories display signs of toughness throughout majority of the writing. Not only do these stories display an excessive amount of toughness but emotion as well. These two stories take a flip towards the end but in two totally different ways. “ The Luck of Roaring Camp”, A story written by Francis Bret Harte is about a group of savagely living men who stayed on a camp referred to as Roaring Camp. Throughout this story there is a lady named Cherokee Sal who just happened to be the only women on the camp. Cherokee Sal was in labor in the beginning of this story and passed away while giving birth to a beautiful baby boy named Luck. All of the men who were apart of this Roaring Camp decided to take care of this baby boy and raise him as their own. Throughout majority of this story they talk ...
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...never really loved her husband anyway and feels freedom and joy upon his death. The tone in “The Revolt of Mother” is both rebellious and defiant. Sarah is rebelling against her husband because he promised to build her a house and never did. She defies him by moving into the new barn and making it her home. 2. Q: What rhetorical strategies assist the writers in achieving that tone? Explain. A: In “The Story of an Hour” the author uses imagery as it describes the scene Louise is seeing/feeling from the open window. The use of symbolism through “closed doors” and “open windows” adds to the feelings of despair and the relief/freedom felt from her husband’s death. In “The Revolt of Mother” the author uses repetition from father, "I 'ain't got nothin' to say."(Freeman), which created frustration in mother. 3. Q: Do you see any elements of satire in either of the stories? Explain. A: In “The Story of an Hour” is ironic satire. She has a week heart and her sister has to tell her delicately her husband has died. Louise feels despair then relief and joy as she realizes she never loved her husband and can be free from his control. However just as she rises up to accept the future she sees her husband, who she was glad was dead, and succumbs to death herself. The “Revolt of Mother” is ironic satire in the fact that the father repeatedly throughout the story refuses to give in to mother. He won’t...
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...irony strikes as she discovers that her husband is actually not dead and she not at all free. The tone suddenly shifts from gleeful back to depressing with the Mallard’s realization that she still has to live a life under her husband and then dies of a heart attack. - “Revolt of Mother”: The tone was both scandalous and shocking. 2. What rhetorical strategies were used to assist the writer in achieving this tone? Explain. - “Story of an Hour”: To assist in achieving the tones of sadness and glee, the author used Imagery and Personification: - Imagery: describing her view out the window, her emotions, the idea coming to her, all added to the effect of how upset she was and how drastically her emotions changed once the idea of freedom hit her. - Personification: The author gave this idea of freedom a humanistic quality, like it was a person coming up to her to change her mind—this made the affect and importance of the idea on Louis more obvious. - “Revolt of Mother”: Freeman’s narrative technique assisted her in achieving the scandalous and shocking tones because she was very objective and straightforward. Instead of sugarcoating and romanticizing the relationship between “father” and “mother” and the ideas and plots going on in “mother’s” mind, she straight up told the reader and that made it easy to recognize the scandal and for the reader to become shocked by the scandal. 3. Do you see any elements of satire in either of the stories? Explain. - I...
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...To begin, Nat Turner was born to his mother a slave name Nancy on Benjamin Turner's plantation on October 2, 1800. As a child he was allowed to both read & write and was believed to be a prophet due to his ability to see what happened in the past. This may have played a part in him being highly religious often spending his free time reading the Bible, praying and fasting. At about the age of 21, he ran away from his then owner Samuel Turner plantation only to return thirty days later saying he had seen a sign from god. Later in life he would have another vision of a bloody revolt between both black and white spirits that may have played a part in the revolt....
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...leader in a failed slave revolt to free slaves in Virginia.Turner was born in Southampton County, Virginia, on October 2, 1800. Nat Turner was an interesting individual he was intelligent and superstitious of what nature tells him. Turner was a preacher that would go to plantations across Virginia to preach to the slaves. This is what helped him get word to slaves of the revolt he was going to do. This revolt was one of the bloodiest and most effective ones that occurred in the south. Turner was sold out three times, his first master being Benjamen Turner, second was Samuel Turner and his final owners would be the Travis family. When Samuel Turner was his master he ran away from the plantation in the year 1821. Thirty days hiding in the woods, he had a visiion that instructed him to "return to his earthly master" (Nat Turners Rebellion)....
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...Thomas Jefferson’s purpose in The Declaration of Independence is to separate from the mother country, Great Britain and to establish independence. Jefferson wanted to persuade foreign countries to help them separation from Britain convincing them it was a must need separation. It is hard to separate from one mothers because they made them who they are today, however, it maybe be a necessity “for one People to dissolve the political Bands which have connected them with another, Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” In 1772, four years before The Declaration of Independence the American colonist gain God given rights which they thought they empowered to have until the King of Great Britain...
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...Mary B. Solis Philippine History BSEDENMR-1 Sir. Eman Nolasco Don Andres Malong Revolts Andres Malong was the leader of the short-lived but devastating revolt in Pangasinan in 1660-1661. A native of Binalatongan, Pangasinan, Malong was the province’s master-of-camp, the governor’s right-hand man in dealing with the natives. He was a timawa. An Augustinian account described him as highly intelligent and clever. Although it was his job, as master-of-camp, to impress upon his fellow Pangasinenses the advantages of having the Spanish overlord, he had other ideas. Unknown to his Spanish masters, he was sowing the seeds of revolt in the minds of the people. It was the time of the Dutch invasion of the Philippines. A thousand natives were employed in Pampanga and Bataan to cut timber for the building of ships. They were recruited not just from those provinces but also from Pangasinan, the Ilocos, and Cagayan. After working for eight months away from their families and without being paid their meager salaries, they had grown agitated. The mutinous situation was turned into an open revolt by Pampangos, led by Francisco Maniago, a master-of-camp like Malong. However, this revolt in Pampanga was easily quelled, without any blood being spilled on its soil. The one that spread to Pangasinan by Andres Malong, was something else. Malong’s revolt targeted only the Spanish government officials, not the Spanish priest. Obviously, Pangasinenses had a deep reverence...
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...Slavery was a practice that flourished in North America for over 400 years, tearing mothers from their sons and daughters, torturing individuals, and depriving people of basic rights. By the Stono River outside of Charleston, South Carolina in 1739, the only plan that could come to mind for the slaves with was to rebell against the whites controlling their every action. The slaves spared those that were gentle towards their slaves, however. During the revolt, the rebels made an effort to collect other enslaved people at the time. The rioters increased their numbers along their trail of rioting by having the slaves of those they killed join them. Although participants of Stono Rebellion carried about questionable tactics, the slaves that revolted...
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...Near Peter’s village, there was a German colony where foreigners were granted access. There He spent much of his time learning math, seas surfing, fortification, and navigation. He had a “play” army put together which would later became the heart of his army. In 1689 another revolt of the streltsy took place and Sophia tried to push it in her favor but they chose Peter’s side and overthrew her. She was banished and, finally, Peter was truly Tsar. Lucky for Peter, his time spended playing with all of things he enjoyed payed because it helped him be a great learder. When Peter finally took full power, he had a large country but the country was backwards. It was technology behind the other european powers and wasn't going to pull a head anytime soon. Peter needed to capture Azor( a town in Russia made into a fortress) which the Ottoman Turks had. He needed Azor to stop turk raids and to gain access to the Black Sea. Peters First attempted to take Azor failed but Peter kept at it and took Azor a year later and started...
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...expeditions to what is now the American southwestern region as well as Florida. Map 1 demonstrates the exploration and colonization efforts that took place in the North America from the middle of the 16th century until 1675. It is very evident that Spanish authorities put an enormous focus on the area of present day New Mexico, which they heavily settled after Juan de Oñate’s arrival in 1598. For the settlers, the territory of New Mexico was their opportunity to gain riches, but also it puts them in direct contact with the area’s native population, the American Indians. While at first, Indians and settlers coexisted without any major conflicts; soon distinct cultural and religious differences would result in a full-blown revolt by the region’s Pueblo Indians. The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 has been characterized as a landmark event of the American history and has attracted...
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...to force the masses to serve the state and to turn one nation against another in destructive warfare. Nationalism was a debatable issue in 19th century. had developed differently in Western Europe and Eastern, Central Europe. Western Europe was identified with Civic Nationalism, and nationalism was also seen as an imperialist and economic movement. The first goal of nationalism was to create a modern, independent nation where none existed. Independent movements within the Ottoman Empire fought in battle to free their regions from imperial dictatorship. The American colonies fought to create a new nation, independent from England. In Southern Europe, revolts against the Ottomans broke out in the Balkan from 1815 onward in the name of individual nationalities. The Ottoman Empire was especially vulnerable to nationalistic revolts from within that were supported by resistance from without. The most obvious effect was the increasing movement of anti-colonialism and the eventual end of the French, British and Dutch empires....
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...the Middle Ages from 1189 to 1199 with great bravery and immense courage. Richard was born as the third legitimate son of King Henry II of England and never assumed that he would ever ascend to become the king. After leading his country in the Third Crusade, he gained the nicknames “the lionhearted” and “the absent king.” Through many heroic deeds while away at war, he deserved the nickname of “The Lionhearted” the most. Body Richard was born on September 8, 1157, at Beaumont Palace in Oxford, England. He was the fourth child and third son of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Not much is known about Richard’s education; however, he could not speak English, and wrote in Limousin and in French. Being favored by his mother, Richard became very close to Eleanor, which led to his heightened anger when she was imprisoned. At the age of 16, Richard began commanding his own army, which was putting down rebellions that were started against his father. During the Third Crusade, Richard was a central Christian commander and led the crusade after Philip Augustus left the campaign. During this time, Richard had great victories over Saladin, the Muslim commander; however, Richard was unsuccessful in conquering Jerusalem. In 1199, as Richard was walking around the castle, he found great amusement in one of the guards defending the castle who was a crossbowman and was holding a frying pan that he had been using to defend himself from debris that was being shot at the...
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...19, said: "Thirteen people are now behind bars for doing nothing more than expressing legitimate political concerns.(Greenslade, Roy)” Can you imagine getting arrested for 13 years for simply just blogging. This is an unbelievable punishment in Vietnam for blogging about political concerns. Because of Vietnam’s strict and oppressive government revolts and protest against Censorship laws has been very challenging. This didn’t stop the Buddhist mother of a blogger named Ta Phong Tan. Her mother Dang Thi Kim Lieng performed self-immolation for her daughter’s upcoming trials. Self-Immolation meaning she burned herself as a sacrifice. According to Buddhist monks, you set your self on fire as an offering to Buddha. Buddhist monks around the world have been performing this as a way of protest or revolt. In fact over 30 self-immolation cases have occurred around the globe. As the article “Dang Thi Kim Lieng, Vietnam Blogger's Mother, Dies Of Self-Immolation” writes, “The mother of a prominent Vietnamese blogger has died after setting herself on fire ahead of her daughter's trial next week.” This shows that people in vietnam are trying to revolt in many critical ways including their lives. Certain countries such as Pakistan put a limit on it. Countries similar to Pakistan censor what its people are allowed to say and view. Pakistan’s Penal Code states that anything that goes against the religion of Islam is blasphemous and should not go without a punishment. It also states all the offenses...
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...Kathe Kollwitz Kathe Kollwitz was a German expressionist who lived from 1867 to 1945, her humanitarian representations invoked intense compassion towards the suffering of those conventionally unseen and she utilised art to emphasize political issues which continue to be relevant. She was an artist who was gifted, yet simultaneously cursed, with a burdening empathy for humanity. This endowment led her, along side with a series of hardships, to a life that was saturated in sorrow. At a very young age she witnessed the death of a younger brother, then first handed experienced the rise of Hitler in the First World War and Second World War, and subsequently lost both her son and grandson to both wars. She was not unaware of her woeful perspective, even when she had attempted to turn herself towards joy with her life and work, she found joy to be unobtainable as her life was seemingly brimming with bad luck. As she wrote in her journal: “How can one cherish joy when there is really nothing that gives joy?”1 Although, her sorrow wrought life and work proved that they were not in vain; as her unabridged honesty in her work led to anti-war propaganda, the pioneering of women’s suffering being displayed in art, and her insatiable focus on the working class enlightened all amongst all classes of the gulfs which separate social status. She was a master at showcasing man in his darkest hours from the prospective of the sufferer, inspiring a worldly compassion deep into the veins of all...
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