The Mirabal Sisters All four of the Mirabal sisters were women of courage, bravery, and motivation. They sacrificed their lives and left behind their children in order to better the government and structure of their country. Minerva and Maria Theresa were imprisoned and placed on house arrest for taking part in the underground movement to overthrow Trujillo. Patria’s son and husband were arrested and her house was reclaimed by the government. Dede’s marriage also suffered because she assisted her sisters during the movement.
Pan’s Labyrinth is an extraordinary film boasting a touching performance from Ivana Baquero, playing Ofelia, an innocent young girl introduced against her will to the evils of the Spanish Civil War. In 1944, a few years after the Spanish royalists lost the Civil War to Franco’s fascists, a widow marries a Spanish army captain (Sergi Lopez). He commands a remote northern Spanish garrison where he’s assigned to root out remnants of royalist resistance. The marriage is clearly one of convenience for her, as the love of her life was her first husband, a tailor, who was killed during the fighting. She brings with her a teenage daughter just beginning to enter the realms of sexual, intellectual and moral discovery that come with adolescence.
Undoubtedly, the plague causes the disintegration of families in the town. By structuring her novel as a retrospective narrative that is our protagonist, Anna Frith describes of what had happened in the book, enables the audience to adopt the sense of doom and horrors occurred during the time of the catastrophe. We are exposed to pain and grief that Anna feels when she lost her children whom she ‘loved from the moment she first reached down and touched the crowd’ of her children because of the plague, which results in her ‘(fighting) the sexton when he came to take Jamie’s body away’. Brooks clearly demonstrates and explores that the crisis such this plague can destroy
Therefore I will explain some important current events in Afghanistan specially about the women. Afghanistan can be a hard and cruel land for women and girls. First we have an article published on March 3, 2009, the title said about "Afghan Women Slowly Gaining Protection". That information is about Marian and other girls in Afghanistan. Marian was 11 years old and her parents forced her to marry a blind, 41 years old.
The themes that occur every day and in the novel “Destroying Avalon” and the film “The Colour Purple” are death/loss, bullying and relationships. Death/loss is something that occurs every day in society and people must overcome it to move on with their lives. Death is an equaliser to mankind regardless of our social structure, we all view death as a sadness because it is the end of our physical relationships. However the death of a young person is what creates the most despair for those who are left behind. For example in “Destroying Avalon” Avalon had to face the death of her best friend Marshall who took his own life because of being bullied for so many years and not letting anyone to support him through his tough times.
Guatemala's government was the main reason why this genocide took place, they were to selfish to share their land. One thing I found hard to believe, is that this Genocide is still continuing today. It's clearly not as large as it use to be, but as a small little war, it is still continuing. I also learned that when they killed 626 villages this caused a horrific decrease in people. This Genocide killed 200,000 orphans and 80,000 widows.
A Rose For The Anzac Boys A Rose For The Anzac Boys by Jackie French is a breath-taking novel about a young New Zealand girl who alongside her family experience the traumatic horrors of World War I, this novel shows extra ordinary people doing extraordinary things for their country and others in awful circumstances. Midge Macpherson is an important character who volunteered to go to war and as a result of going to war she learnt a lot about life and death. Midge is a courageous and brave young character who is from Glen Donal New Zealand. Midge is a 16 year old orphan who attends a boarding school in England with her two best friends Anne and Ethel due to her parent’s passing and both of her brothers Tim her twin and Dougie her elder
She was the first lady to Juan Peron which gave her more leverage to fight for women’s rights and improving the lives of the poor. Maria Eva Duarte, also known as Evita, was born May 7th, 1919 in Los Toldos, Argentina to a poor village landowner. Her father was killed in a car accident and her family was exiled because the community felt as though the children were illegitimate. When she was 15, she decided to go into acting which was not hard for her with her striking beauty. While pursuing her acting career, Eva began campaigning for women to be given the right to vote and alleviate the growing poverty epidemic in Argentina (biographyonline.net).
Silva Hakopyan RESEARCH PAPER An iconic figure and arguably the most influential female painter of Mexican heritage, Frida Kahlo’s, whose life was completely transformed at a young age. Frida Kahlo’s paintings were based on her own physical and emotional struggles. Her paintings described the pain she had to suffer after the tragic accident which nearly killed her in the year , 1925. As well as the passion and turmoil that characterized her marriage to famed muralist, Diego Rivera. Through her actions and commitment to social movements such as the communist party, she expressed her radical ideals.
Most analyses of this piece have been from prominent feminists, who targeted the patriarchal structure of the society in the 19th century as the major cause of insanity of the narrator. Some of the most extreme feminist critics have even stepped further to claim that the narrator is initially not ill at all, hinting that the societal bonds of marriage imprisoned and twisted the mind of the poor narrator. Though this claim has not yet been verified, there are indeed several conspicuous signs that showcased societal imprisonment of women in The Yellow Wallpaper. For example, John’s overconfidence of his own medical knowledge led to his misjudgment of the narrator’s condition; whereas societal norms seem to force the narrator to believe in that misjudgment: “If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do? (1.10)” And under these torturing social rules,[change] the narrator, as a women and a wife, has no control over the pettiest details of her life, and she can do nothing for herself except from asking help from men, who dictates her life: “My brother is also a physician, and also of high standing, and he says the same thing” (1.11) And it is obvious that the chauvinistic ideas during