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- 21001: African Americans Unnoticed
- ... She believed that women are better teachers than men and that an educated Negro woman is what is needed to teach students of all ages. Annie Julia Cooper was an active participant in the women's organizations in the 1980s. She believed that higher education of the black woman was too rare and did what she could so that young women like me can attend college. Fannie Barrier Williams realized that ... For, as she said, "to be a colored woman is to be discredited, mistrusted and often meanly hated." Through times of strife and stress she worked, sometimes successfully, to eliminate discrimination against black women. Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Stokely Carmicheal; these names when said are ones to which black people respond to, because all of these men improved social ... evolved into a religion of success, inspiring millions of black people worldwide who sought relief from racism and colonialism. Malcolm X and Martin LUTHER King Jr. spoke for equal rights. With Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech, which inspired people all over the nation, and Malcolm X's autobigraphy The Autobiography of Malcolm X, people lives were changed significantly. Which in turn has affected my life. ...
- 21002: The Holy Trinity and The Isenheim Altarpiece
- ... Trinity and The Isenheim Altarpiece A.P. Art History # II: Masaccio: The Holy Trinity Grunewald: The Isenheim Altarpiece (closed) The Holy Trinity by Masaccio was done approximately 1428. It is a superb example of Masaccio's use of space and perspective. It consists of two levels of unequal height. Christ is represented on the top half, in a coffered, barrel-vaulted chapel. On one side of him is the Virgin Mary, and on the other, St. John. Christ himself is supported by God the Father, and the Dove of the Holy Spirit rests on Christ's halo. In front of the pilasters that enframe the chapel kneel the donors (husband and wife). Underneath the altar (a masonry insert in the painted composition) is a tomb. Inside the tomb is a skeleton ... has its own weight and mass, unlike earlier Renaissance works. The fresco is calm, and creates a sad mood. The mood is furthered by the darkness of the work, and the heavy shadows cast. Grunewald's The Isenheim Altarpiece is an oil painting on wood, completed in 1515. The altar is composed of a carved wooden shrine with two pairs of movable panels, one directly in back of the other. ...
- 21003: Breaking Societies Rules
- By: Aaron Aaron Weiss Breaking Society’s Rules American literature often examines people and motives. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, and in Arthur Miller’s dramatic classic, The Crucible, people and motives often depict patterns of Puritans struggling for life during a precarious time. Guilt and shame can tear a person's soul away. The inevitable consequence of sin ...
- 21004: Ellen Foster
- By: Skeeter Kaye Gibbons, the author of the novel Ellen Foster, believes that a quote from the Emerson’s “Self Reliance” is connected with Ellen’s struggle to survive and find her way in the world. The first line of this quote says, “Cast the bantling on the rocks” is related to Ellen herself. A bantling is an abandoned child. Ellen ... with losing a mother, father and grandmother within one year. She never even had a good relationship with her father or grandmother. The short inscription to “Self Reliance” is almost a short summary of Ellen’s character. In it, a child without parents is raised by someone that is a lot different than she is. After Ellen’s mother died, she is unwillingly left with her alcoholic father who mistreats ...
- 21005: Fahrenheit 451
- ... and joins those who preserve books. One person who teaches him about books is an old man named Faber who is a retired English professor. During a conversation between Montag and Faber, Montag states, “That’s the good part of dying; when you’ve nothing to lose, you run any risk you want”(pg.85). What he means by this is that he is willing to risk his life to help save books for others to read and enjoy. However, Montag’s wife, Mildred, does not care for books as much as Montag because she knows books are illegal and she fears for her life. Mildred tells Montag how afraid she is by saying, “They might come ... dream, and have fun. In a society such as the one found in Fahrenheit 451, people are not allowed to experience any of these things and they are less individual. Another problem found in Bradbury’s future is that some schools and businesses have been shut down simply because they encourage and promote reading and books. In the novel, books are made to be thought of as evil and are ...
- 21006: Heart Of Darkness
- ... read this story once before when I was a freshman at a branch campus of Penn State called Behrend. I read it for a literature class dealing with short stories and their analyzation. I didn’t really like the story back then, and it really hasn’t moved-up any spots on my list of favorites. Although I really didn’t care for the story, I did notice quite a bit of symbolism throughout the book. Conrad seemed to use black and white as his main source of color symbolism. Just as in the old ...
- 21007: Mexico
- ... border of approximately 1,500 miles. It is a country with many natural resources, a limited amount of agricultural area and a large expanding population. With more than 80 million people in the mid-1980’s, Mexico’s density is more than 110 people per each square mile. Geologically, Mexico is located in the region called “The Ring of Fire”, which is highlighted by the active volcano’s around the Pacific Ocean. With towering volcanic peaks around 18,000 feet in the central area of Mexico, they are extremely young in geologic terms, being built in the late Territory. The volcano Chinchon, ...
- 21008: Pompeii
- ... the silver gave it to his trusted slave to hide. Even if they found the silver with somebody who resembled a slave due to clothing or race how do they know that the person wasn't stealing the silver. "Pompeii was a planned city, like many other Roman cities - or so it is generally asserted by scholars. However, what is meant by 'planned' in this context? Pompeii buildings founded on green ... found the bodies were the to try to hide or maybe there was a town meeting that day. The Forum could have been a place where the held town meeting and that would explain it's 'massive' size. There could have been several different religious and each would meet in a different place. I they found that temple there that could have been a city sponsored place where the main religion ... at that certain place. Most of the economic activity could have been going on in the streets or there could have been a custom where all business transactions or meeting was held at the owner's house. The encyclopedia making assumpt! ions dew to the facts and remains that the archeologists recorded. The information could have been bias coming from the archeologists and that would lead to the explanation of ...
- 21009: Jane Eyre
- ... gender and class actually makes it more interesting to read. It struggles with sensitive subjects, and sometimes it fails to defy societal convention. But its failures are often as interesting as its successes. It doesn’t pretend to offer an ultimate truth of personal freedom. It does not present an simplified picture of achieving freedom and personal integrity; in fact, it presents the very dangers inherent in defying social traditions. Jane ... cruel regimen of Lowood because her aunt wants to punish her for her defiance. She suffers heart-break for her attempt to marry her beloved Rochester. When she chooses her own personal beliefs over Rochester's desires, she spends three days wandering around as a beggar and sleeping outdoors. She nearly dies for her choice and is saved at the last moment by the Rivers siblings. Her life-long search for a sense of belonging and a loving family seems to have ended with her discovery of her relationship to the Rivers family, but St. John’s controlling and vindictive behavior proves otherwise. Jane suffers an separation from her new-found cousin when she chooses to uphold her belief that marriages should be for love and not for convenience. Despite the ...
- 21010: Lord Of The Flies Character Sk
- ... forehead... [he was] Always darkish in color..." p. 2 Simon is described as a very shy boy who cannot find it bearable to speak in front of the assembly. The boys all think that he’s “batty” because he likes to be by himself. Simon is the only boy who discovers what the Beast truly is. He learns this when he "talks” with the Lord of the Flies. When he tries ... his job to lay down rules and try to organize a society. Throughout the novel he is always in conflict with Jack, who wants to be chief himself. Ralph and Piggy agree with each other’s ideas, but Ralph doesn’t realize how important Piggy really is to him until the very end of the novel. Although Ralph never reaches the understanding about the Beast that Simon does, he knows right from wrong. Golding uses ...
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