Carol Aird, The Therese Belivet, And The Carol Aird

In her novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez unfolds a dramatic character transformation of the Mirabal sister, Maria Teresa. She is detailed to be a very thoughtful character who always seem to look out for others, especially those important to her in life. Alvarez induces this empowering development of Maria Teresa through the usage of diction, point of view and selection of detail.

Grandma is a comedy-drama film that follows the life of Elle, a lesbian poet, who was married for 38 years, but then became a widow. Elle’s granddaughter, Sage, comes to her asking for $630 for an abortion as she is broke, although Elle doesn’t have any money either. Sage was too afraid to tell her judgemental mother about her situation, in which resorted to her having to ask her Grandma. Elle had a short-term girlfriend, Olivia, of 5 months, but ended things with her very abruptly. Even though Elle doesn’t have the money for Sage, she is determined to go out and get it. The movie is split up into 6 chapters, set over the course of one day, as Sage had booked the abortion for that evening. Elle and Sage go and get money of as many people as Elle could think of, but by the end of their journey, they still don’t have enough and end up having to tell Sage’s mother. Sage’s mother is angry and disappointed as they had expected but she gives the money and they go to the clinic, Sage gets the abortion and Sage and her mother have an argument but are happier afterwards. Elle goes to resolve things with Olivia, and the end on better terms. This film shows themes of LGBT+ acceptance and the importance of family. There are also major contrasts between characters which are vital to the film.

Elisabeth Lesuer was a very faithful, and intelligent woman in the late 19th century early 20th century. Being brought up in the upper-middle class, she was able to be educated privately in languages, arts, and literature. She has also studied much of the Catholic Faith. She meets the love of her life Felix Lesuer in 1886 while he was attending the University of Paris. The two married in 1889. While going to the university, Felix quits Catholicism, but the two had an agreement that Elisabeth can remain faithful, but Felix did not practice in the faith at all. Later in time, though, Felix started giving Elisabeth readings against Christianity weakening her participation in Christianity; One day this backfired on him when handing her Earnest Renan’s History of the Origins of Christianity, the first volume of which, The Life of Jesus, denies Christ’s Divinity. After reading this, Elisabeth does research on this matter, and experiences deep adult conversion, and returns passionately practicing the Faith,which she saw as the truth. Begins writing her spiritual journal in 1899 called Journal et pensées de chaque jour. The journal just showed how committed she was to that faith, even though her social society was against it, and how she would get by being faithful, without making Felix mad, and anyone else against the Faith she knew in her life. Elisabeth’s journal explained why she was so faithful, and how she would study, and pray the Faith in ways that didn’t upset those

Oprah Winfrey plays Mattie Michael, a survivor who nurtures the women in this community even when she is hurting inside. Jackee plays her best friend Etta Mae, who is fraying around the edges after a life of pursuing the good times and the company of men. Lynn Whitfield plays Ciel, a mother who is overwhelmed by grief when her young daughter dies in an accident. Robin Givens plays Kiswana Browne, a refugee from suburbia who wants to organize a tenants' association. Phyllis Yvonne Stickney plays Cora Lee, a welfare mother with seven children. Lonette McKee and Paula Kelly portray Lorraine and Theresa, two lesbians whose happiness is destroyed by bigotry and an act of violence.

It can be easily said that the intended audience for this letter was to Marie Antoinette’s mother, Maria Theresa the empress of Austria. Marie states several times throughout the letter of her many thanks to her mother for the reciprocating letters. The excitement in Marie’s tone is evident that she is astonished, despite the chaotic excitement upon their arrival, the amount of order there is. Marie is overjoyed that despite the hardships that the peasants faced, such as taxes, they remain loyal to her and her husband Louis, and show their affection with cheering and excitement. In response to the love that they received, Marie makes a point to tell her mother that the dauphin and herself wished the citizens not to be harmed despite the fact that they were unable to move for hours from the sheer masses of people who gathered upon their arrival.

In the book “The Secret of Sarah Revere” Sarah is devastated by a fight that she has had with Doctor Warren, a family friend. Throughout the end of the book she is trying to think of a way to make up for the horrible things she said to him. She never fully comes up with anything and soon forgets about it. Until one day the fighting on Breed’s Hill was getting very intense and the Americans had run out of gun powder. Doctor Warren had to go help, but before he did, he went to the Revere’s house and told everyone what he had to do. No one knew he was going to die but everyone thought of that possibility many times. Before he left he said goodbye to Rachel. Sarah was still very worried that she would not see him again and she tried to tell him

Joan of Arc was a powerful military leader and a skilled warrior. Now St Joan of Arc is considered a saint and a martyr. The influence left by Joan’s life was an inspiration to all. France was forever changed by the empowering presence of Joan.

Presenting literature to the public that is meant to be a commentary on social or political issues, masked under the guise of entertaining and fictional, is a tool implemented by authors and activists for centuries. While not all satire is as overt as Jonathan Swift’s suggestion that we eat the babies, it does not diminish the eyebrow raising suggestions that are conveyed once the meaning has been discovered. In Aphra Behn’s The History of the Nun and Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina, the established expectations of the female role within society are brought into question then directly rejected. These expectations establish that women should be deferential to men, morally unblemished, and virtuous at all times. Men, however, are not held to these expectations in the same way. The masculine roles assumed by Isabella and Fantomina demonstrate a private rebellion against the established patriarchal society as it warns against the under-estimation of women and proves that women exist independently.

One film that looks back upon the American repression of homosexuality is Todd Haynes 's 2015 film Carol, a 1950’s period piece telling the tale of two lesbian lovers who face many conflicts on the path of being together. Therese, a worker at a department store in Manhattan known as Frankenburg’s, meets a mysterious woman, Carol Aird, when she is shopping for a Christmas present for her daughter. Currently going through a nasty divorce from her husband, Harge, Carol is threatened with having her daughter ripped away from her. Harge’s lawyer cites a “morality clause” that would take parental rights away from Carol because she is homosexual. Therese also faces her

The Lais of Marie de France serves as a collection of stories that independently convey different romantic tales, each having their own unique presence that come together to create a successful romantic work of literature. The collection’s tales encompass many aspects that can be found throughout the romance genre as a whole and represent some of what make romance a diverse and utterly distinctive genre. In her different accounts of love stories, de France showcases tales that have a range of different themes and common elements of typical romantic literature, many of which stand as some of the most important and necessary parts of a successful romance. De France shows multiple sides of the same elements throughout her tales and in doing so, reveals a variety of commonalities in aspects of romantic works of literature. Through her different tales, de France utilizes variations of elements such as recognition, infidelity, the supernatural, and reunion in her lais in order to make a collection

"Marie Antoinette was the Austrian born child bride of the future King Louis XVI of France. It was an arranged marriage designed to

The congregation has mixed feelings about Carol and her family. Their responses to her have been from loving her and her family in any way they can to complaining and being angry about her lifestyle. Some of the ladies in the church gave her a baby shower with child number

The film “Away from Her” directed by Sarah Polley and produced by Daniel Iron, Simone

Joan of Arc has come to mean many things to many people. One of the most important legacies she left behind is the Bible's teachings of "with God all things are possible." The only aspect about her that was different was that she had a deep devotion to God.When you realise that Joan of arc was a peasant woman with no rights to a war hero and saint, it is really hard to come up with a reasonable explanation for her life other than to help do God's work . Basically, the legacy she left behind was to stay strong to your beliefs, whether your family or friends agree or disagree with them.

The movie began with a female voice reciting “Sigh No More, Ladies.” While the female voice briefly pauses, a portrait is showed then the camera begins to move the left. A beautiful landscape appears with a few men and women laying on the ground and eating what appears to be cheese and other fruits. After a while the female voice reciting “Sigh No More, Ladies” face is revealed. The woman is sitting in a tree wearing a loose white grown with a grape in one hand and a book in the other. I quickly noticed she is the same woman who appeared in the movie Nanny McPhee. Later in the movie it is revealed the character name is Beatrice portrayed by Emma Thompson. Beatrice is the niece of Leonato. She can be described as strong minded, very opinionated