Lucia’s oldest child is her daughter Octavia, and as much as her mother is a product of her country, Italy, Octavia strives to be American. The two women appear at first to be complete opposites, showing the clash of the old world versus the new, but as the novel progresses the similarities between the two women unfold and their dependence on one another helps them to hold their family together. Lucia Santa first appears on the scene as “a small, round, handsome woman” (8). Her dress is that of a matronly Italian mother with “heavy jet-black hair coming into a bun, [and] wearing a clean black dress” (6). Lucia is like many of the women of the time and neighborhood.
Although it was the underdog, it was quite effective and had a huge impact in liberation and imperialism. Ghandi is a famous and common name brought up in nonviolence methods. There was much violence in India during British control, for example, clashes in between Muslims and Hindus. Muslim-Hindu conflict cost at least a million lives. In 1945, the British viceroy handed power back to India freely.
The best president in U.S history I believe is Abraham Lincoln. Abe Lincoln deserved to be the best president because he led his country through the civil war, abolished slavery by issuing the emancipation proclamation, and by issuing the emancipation proclamation the north gained British support. Abe created an economic development program, which began when the country was bankrupt and made the United States the world’s greatest industrial power. I believe that the 2nd best president is George Washington. Washington led the revolutionary war which began the birth of a new nation which goes under foreign policy, helped with the constitution that had much to do with equal rights, and dealt with the whiskey rebellion.
Stephanie Stratis English 161W Paper #1 – Whitman Vs. Ginsberg I can still remember the first time I read “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain and wishing I had even a fraction of his literary talent. His ability to portray each and every character and place with such realism and colorful perfection consumed me with envy and moved me beyond words. Now while this is a mere example of the affinities one author feels for another’s work, a much greater and noted example can be found in Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” in comparison to Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”. Despite both author’s living in entirely different centuries, the similarities in each work of literature are uncanny, at times even seeming like one writer is continuing where the other left off. In regards to literature in both of their eras, it becomes seemingly and obviously so that Whitman both inspired and paved the way for Ginsberg.
In 1885, when she was twenty-three, she married Edward ("Teddy") Wharton. Wharton eventually settled permanently in France, thereafter visiting the United States only rarely. In Paris in 1908 she began a briefly fulfilling but ultimately disappointing affair with Morton Fullerton, a journalist on the London Times and a friend of Henry James. Considered one of the major American novelists and short story writers of the 20th century,
Nathanael’s literary style and theme of his stories were passionate romanticism and mainly dark romanticism. The spectacular author had many amazing works and so many popular books. One of his greatest works was The Scarlet Letter (1850) and Twice-Told Tales (1837). Edgar Allan Poe once said, "The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective—wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes... We look upon him as one of the few men of indisputable genius to whom our country has as yet given birth".
How does Priestly present ideas about how we should treat other people in “An Inspector Calls”? “An Inspector Calls” was written at the end of the Second World War although it was set in the Edwardian Days just before the First World War. In the Edwardian era, Britain had a vast Empire, was very prosperous because of it and was full of confidence. The maiden voyage seemed to epitomise the best days of the Empire. By the time the play was written, Britain had been through the trauma of two world wars.
A Kindred Circus “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife” (Austen, Pride and Prejudice). That is the first line from my favorite novel, Pride and Prejudice, written by Jane Austen in 1813. From their experiences with family and friends, Jane Austen and other great writers such as Steinbeck and Thackeray cultivated subtle analysis of contemporary life and love by virtue of depictions of all classes and their cultures. Laura Esquivel’s novel, Like Water for Chocolate, portrays another analysis of family tradition and love in 19th century Mexican culture. These cultural distinctions and their repercussions can draw the reader into identity comparison with the novel’s heroes and heroines.
Critics thought of him and his work as a good poet and an even better writer who made a major difference in the Harlem renaissance. Harold Bloom thought that “Thomas hardy, with his acute sense of life’s ironies, might have admired Sterling Brown’s Rain Which Precedes Robert Penn Warren in reviving Hardy’s Sprit” (5). Blyden Jackson a critic of the time likes Sterling Brown because he is a great poet and how Brown uses dialect with precision. David Littlejohn said that “Brown Attempted to do for the south what Langston Hughes did for the north” (Bloom 19). People thought that Brown’s irony was sharp, his ideas were exciting, and he was not only and protestor of his time but one of the first times.
Jay represents the naive Midwesterner bewitched by the American dream who amasses great wealth and uses it to pursue a spoiled, married, upper-class girl, and the love of his youth. Nick, on the other, hand is a compassionate Princeton gentleman who regards the dream with suspicion. Some regard “The Great Gatsby” as the most profoundly American novel of its time. A year later, Fitzgerald has a collection of short stories entitled “All The Sad Young Men” published. This book will mark the end of the most productive time of Fitzgerald's life.