Holliday's Dreamgirls

Once upon a time in a small town, three sad sisters, who had lost their father. Their names were Joanna, Susan and Mary Jane, the Wilks girls. Joanna was known by her harelips, Susan was pretty, but not prettier than the oldest sister Mary Jane with all that red hair.

In the second most populated country the world has, the top 10% of Indian society posses 74% of the wealth. The reason for this inequality and also a great comparison in the novel by Katherine Boo, Behind The Beautiful Forevers, are the character traits of Abdul and Asha. Abdul attempts to remain pure, like ice, in his selfless morals, questioning if people can stay good when surrounded by corruption. Asha, on the other hand, makes selfish, “muddy” decisions such as scamming her neighbors and sleeping with authority figures for power, both being actions that perpetuate inequality. Asha even goes so far as to dismiss her responsibility for these actions by asking, “how is it my wrong if the big people say it is right?" Yet, the answers to these

On the other hand, some people say the movie displays emotions and the scenes in realistic ways that make each of the characters more believable as it cannot be done on paper. It does make sense in the idea that the characters’ all seem more realistic in what they say due to elements such as body language. However, the film does not pull readers to the story as the play does, and characters become harder to believe as the personal feel is lacking. The play has elements within that makes the reader wonder what is happening and it leads to an involvement as if he/she were there. Therefore, the idea that the film displays emotions make sense, it just does not pull to the reader.

In Amy Bloom’s short story, “Silver Water”, the main character Rose takes her own life as a result to living with mental illness. Throughout the story the narrator, Rose’s sister, shows the difficulties of living with mental illness not only for Rose’s family, but also for Rose. A common obstacle for the family is getting Rose proper care; this is difficult because the family could not find long term insurance or doctor. In “ Silver Water”, Amy Bloom makes a point about how mental illness is treated; the specific point she makes is that mental illness is not taken as seriously as it should be. This is shown through how difficult it is for Rose to receive proper treatment.

Wow! Reading the point of view of a first-person narrative reveals so much about the author’s thoughts. While reading first-person narratives, it enables readers to understand more information throughout the story. Hearing the thoughts and ideas right from the character makes it easier to make connections. In the short story “George and the Jewels” by Jane Smiley, the main character Abby goes through a transition from disliking horses to understanding them. In “Black Beauty” by Anna Sewell, the story is narrated by a horse who is introduced into a new environment where he has to become used to being rode every day. By examining Black Beauty and The George and Jewels, it shows that both passages use first-person point of view to develop

In 1932 the federal government commenced a medical study called The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Blacks with Syphilis in Macon County, Alabama. Four hundred and twelve men infected with the disease were selected for the study that faked long term treatment while really only giving placebos and liniments. The goal of this study was to determine if blacks reacted similar to the whites to the effects of the syphilis disease. After forty years it was discontinued and the Senate initiated an investigation of the study. At the time of the investigation, only one hundred and twenty-seven of the study’s original participants were still alive and had not died from the disease (Morehan, 2007). In the film, the story is told from the view point of

Mary Fields, also known as “Stagecoach,” Mary’s birth was not in exact detail. She was born into slavery in the year of 1832 in Hickman, Tennessee. Mary did not know who her parents were so she was thought to be an orphan because of the mystery of her parents’ whereabouts due to the trading system for slavery. Mary, on the other hand, did receive an education but not from a school. She received her education with her local judge’s daughter who was the same age as Mary so they learned together until the judge's daughter went to Ohio for higher education.

I found this to be a very nice beginning to an interesting new series. Be sure to read the chapter headings for fun Georgia Belle facts. I found them to be very amusing and informative.

The famous 5 are a group of women that have made a huge impact for equal rights for Canadian women. They were led by Judge Emily Murphy, along with Nellie McClung, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Irene Parlby and Louise McKinney. They are five women from Alberta that all believed in the rights of women and children. In the late 1880s and 1890s they fought against the prejudice of their day to fight for women’s suffrage and general human rights. Each woman was a leader to bring equal rights for women, so they could be considered people by the government and be given rights, including the right to vote and own property.

There is a common struggle between the call of duty and the desire to live one’s life in the two plays “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen and “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams. Nora, from “A Doll’s House” didn’t realize her desire to live her own life until the end of the play and she dealt with the struggle by convincing herself that she was unfit to be a mother and a wife. Tom, from “The Glass Menagerie” always struggled between his responsibility to his family and his desire to be a merchant marine. Both Nora and Tom were trapped by the circumstances of life and needed to get out. Other characters struggled as well, and we can see this through character traits and flaws, abandonment, and character transformations.

doctors unable to give a proper diagnosis, declared the girls were bewitched. The girls would accuse three women of bewitching them, but their accusations targeted a slave from the Carribean’s Tituba. Tituba under examination would eventually confess to the acts of witchcraft. Her confession was followed by the accusations that more witches existed in the community. The accusation by Tituba would give birth to a massive witch hunt. The witch hunt would claim twenty lives, and imprison countless more. Tituba indicated that Sarah Good often had a yellow bird suckling between her fingers . The accusations began with a slave such as Tituba, and homeless women. Eventually the threat would begin reaching stand up members of the community such as

Sherrie Wilson “They Forgot Mammy Had A Brain” chapter is one that discusses a variety of pressures that an African American woman may encounter in a work environment. The chapter uses professor, Andra, in a college setting to discuss these pressures from her own experience at a PWI university. In the chapter many pressures were mentioned; double marginalization, designated visibility, racial battle fatigue, and the historical mammy concept, all of which were apart of Andra’s experience.

The last cherry blossom book is a story based on the writer's mother experience during WWII when she was twelve years old showing how kids during WWII lived their lives the best they could and the struggles other people had before and after the attacks.

In this novel the author, Hosseini, uses a powerful bond between the two main character to give a reader a deeper understanding about the way women are viewed and treated in Afghanistan. These two main characters are used to represent the different perspectives from which women in are viewed. The first character we meet is Mariam, a woman from an unloving and poor past. She portrays the old ideas of abuse and mistreatment towards women. Conversely, the other main character Laila, a young woman who came from a more modern and loving family, is used to represent progress towards the equal treatment and education of women. These two women obviously come from different backgrounds but are brought together through

The author talks about how his mother and brother came upon a dog they named "Pretty Girl". It was a very cold and dark night when they saw a dog so badly torn up, starved to the bones, nothing but mange. You could tell this dog had been wandering looking for a home on the fence of survival for a while. When pretty girl finally wandered into a dog house in the authors mothers yard she found a dog house there she spent the night. It wasn't until the next morning when the mother and the brother went out there to check and they found the dog, she was in such bad shape you couldn't even tell it was a dog. The mother so full of love like any mother did not call the vet because she knew the vet would put her down so they began to bathed her and take