Laura Amy Schlitz's 'Good Masters ! Sweet Ladies'

Children’s fantasy novels are an effective tool to use in the classroom because they are riveting and keep the students’ attention. However, teachers must draw on them effectively, to make students aware that what they learn is meaningful. An example of this is the novel ‘‘The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch’’ written by Joseph Delaney. In this novel, there are various valuable morals to teach, to any high school or elementary school reader. In this essay, I will demonstrate how Joseph Delaney’s fantasy novel ‘‘The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch’’ enhances children’s ‘‘world knowledge ' ', by using Tom as a surrogate to teach perseverance and facing fears; thus, leading to personal fulfillment. I will illustrate how teachers can use Tom’s perseverance to show the students how this allowed him to attain his goals and that they can do the same. As well, I will demonstrate how teachers can work with facing fears to show students that this will lead to personal satisfaction and growth.When exploited in the classroom, Joseph Delaney’s novel allows students to observe how perseverance can benefit them in attaining their personal goals. Even in the most demanding situations, Tom, the Spook’s apprentice, must have the courage not to give up. He must stick it out even though he does not think he has what it takes to become a Spook, which he later discovers to become his calling. Attaining this goal leads to personal achievement. Teachers can use this moral of the story

It is something you notice everyday, in many forms of media. Commercials, ads, magazines, and the internet all depict this occurrence with female athletes. She is short haired, square framed, dressed in a large loose fitting clothing. She rides along on her skateboard at an empty skate park. She appears to be sweaty and dusty from a day of riding and falling. As she rides along, ahead of her is a ledge. Red faced and tired, she attempts to land a trick over the ledge and succeeds. Her name is Lacey Baker, and is said to be one of the best female skaters in the world. Sound familiar? No, she is not someone the general public would be exposed to day by day. She does not fit into the female athlete stereotype of "The Femininity Game". "The Femininity Game" as told to us by Mariah Burton Nelson, an author, expert speaker, and former professional athlete in her "I Won, I 'm Sorry" piece demonstrates how as female athletes will feel they must follow special role. She noted, "Like men, you 'll have to be smart and industrious, but in addition you 'll have to be like women" (575). Women are to be just as competitive as men but not to the extent to threaten their masculinity. Act lady-like and motherly with no hesitation. Many Female athletes have shown off their hard work though photographs posing in awkward positions or even nude. Caroline Wozniacki the No. 5 female tennis player in the world, and MMA champion Ronda Rouse who posed for the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated are

In a person’s life, that person will have one role model that will stick with them. This role model may not be by the person’s side every single day, or every year, but the role model’s lessons and memory can last lifetimes. In “My Favorite Teacher” by Thomas L. Friedman, the author tells the readers about his role model, named Hattie M. Steinberg, and the impact she had on his life. Many times, people do not even realize how much of an impact one person can have on them until that person is gone.

The current generation is quizzical of the importance that religious teachings hold in our evolving pro-choice society. In past generations, spiritualism was a method of uniting the community and nurturing the young. However, we find that faith has the adverse effect. While separate from other religions, a rise in hate fueled discrimination and separatism is observable between different communities in all corners of the globe. In this generation, it is only logical that as religion is taught, after learning from present and past events, the very essence of the teachings is skewed and put into question.

Writer, Anne Stuhldreher, in her persuasive article, “They Earn as They Learn,” suggests that a financial incentive program in schools can lead to improvements in student performance on standardized test. She supports this claim through an encouraging anecdote recounting the positive progress a student has made due to the program, then she introduces the favorable observations made by a teacher employed at a school piloting the program, and finally by presenting the compelling beliefs and statistics provided by a principal, whom has witnessed student progress. Stuhldreher’s purpose is to persuade the readers to agree that paying students to perform well on exams can improve overall academic achievement. She adopts an optimistic tone for Americans

Words can hold different meanings, which shift and mold based on the context in which one reads it. Thus, literary works have the power to redefine certain words, such as in Jillian Tamaki’s comic, “Domestic Men of Mystery.” Her comic features a variety of fathers through the perspective of a daughter, and invites its readers to reflect on and relive potentially uncomfortable memories. Tamaki portrays a fatherhood that invokes bitterness in many Asian American daughters until she disrupts their stream of consciousness in the very last panel of the comic, prompting a re-reading and, perhaps, a re-evaluation of their memories. Tamaki’s widely relatable comic redefines the term “father” for the Asian American community, particularly the

Most creative endeavors are marathons, not sprints. It's carefully honing a craft until it truly sparkles. This is both the method and madness for Brooklyn's trio, Little Daylight. By fashioning memorable and jarring pop melodies with confident and engrossing live performances, the newcomers are carving out their own little slice of sunshine with their debut album, Hello Memory.

Among us all, behind the threshold of our awareness, lays a mysterious doppelganger, also known as our alter ego. It walks beside us in our daily lives and haunts our dreams at night. Who is this shadowy figure we come in contact with everyday? The shadow is the side of our personality that we do not consciously display in public, but has always been present since the beginning. Psychiatrist Carl Jung believes that “within each one of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from how we see ourselves”(Jung, 190). We can learn to recognize the shadow in popular culture, daily life, literature, and our own relationships.

Years ago, a the enemy whispered a lie, and I believed it. “Your very appearance is not close to admirable”, “take a look at your pitiful self, who could ever like you, much less love you.” The enemy had dug a foothold in my life, and he took full advantage of it. For 365 days a year, twenty-four hours a day, and seven days a week, time after time this lie repeated itself in my mind until I not only I believed it, but until it became a part of who I was. It altered my chemical makeup so I no longer saw myself as Hannah Cushman, but as a failure, an outcast, and a mistake made by God.

Glaspell’s “Trifles” is a story about two women accompanying their husbands on a trip to the house of Mrs Wright, who is accused of murdering her husband. After the men head upstairs to look for evidence the women start talking and as they do they come across a beaten up bird cage and a pretty box. Within the box, the women find a dead bird. Its fragile neck had been snapped soon after, the women come to conclusion that Mrs Wright sought to get revenge on her husband for killing the bird and everything else he did to her.

               Even before one is born, the sex that is seen on ultrasounds or at birth are already allowing people to be victims of stereotypes and the need to fit into society's “gender roles and norms”. We may not believe that this is true and may try to deny it, but it is in fact very clear to see, whether we choose to believe so or not. For example, at baby shower: If you ever attended one you’ve probably noticed that the baby shower colors and themes are either Pink or Blue. Pink typically represents a Girl and Blue, a boy. Now typically these colors at the showers don’t really mean anything but as that baby is born, the color will literally play a role in everything that they do and everything they receive in life.

What if beer was never invented? What would fraternities take pride in? What would they do in place of a keg stand? What would be the drink of choice for white dads across America? A world where my dad can be seen drinking a girly drink while admiring the freshly cut lawn is a humorous yet alarming possibility. This nightmarish thought would be reality without women. Research lead by historian Jane Peyton, supports the idea that women's specialty for millenniums was brewing beer. Although women are more to society than the keepers of the art of brewing, this is one startling difference that women have made on society. Women are capable of working hard, specializing in areas of expertise and intellectually competent. Marge Piercy would agree that women hold great potential, if not hindered by the harmful effects of misogyny and the patriarchal tendencies of society. Although to the untrained eye, “A Work of Artifice” may appear to be simply about bonsai trees, the poem actually uses an extended metaphor to emphasize

Poussin's dedication when painting sends different messages to people in every part of the world. Colors all over this specific painting have a deep meaning. Blues represent clarity and high power, all other palid colors like pink represent innocence and beauty. In the women faces, Poussin wanted to show innocence that's why he opted for very light colors which includes beige and white. People all over the painting have different face expressions. Women are amazed by the treasure right in front of them, they feel pealsed. The one with the glorious hands in her face looks at the soldier in a very loving way. She observs how the man looks at himself in the mirror and while he does that the sword in his right hand gives

A unique characteristic of Cleland’s engagement with female virtue is his recognition of rethinking morality. After all, when people think about morality, engage in current ways of conduct in their society, and perhaps recall the very first teachings of ‘value,’ these ideas are very frequently conventionalized in their minds. The difference between right or wrong become sites of their first understanding of morality and, in turn, attain their own significance for those who taught them those values. Beyond this association with morality and the person or society who taught them the difference between right or wrong, morality is frequently constructed along stereotype: images of ‘good’ is fixated on social acceptability, and definition of ‘good’ is a cause of conflict. This is especially true of Fanny Hill in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure and her ways of realizing female virtue as a prostitute. Cleland distinguishes female virtue through the narrator’s environment, origins and their effects, and her appreciation. His attention to her mind, insofar as what her mind accomplishes through oppressive mental experiences, contrasted with her body, which is subject to judgment by physical transgressions, represents a different way of looking at female virtue.

Who is Anne Bradstreet? Anne Bradstreet, originally known as Anne Dudley, was a poet born in 1612. She was married at the tender age of 16, to a graduate of Cambridge University, by the name of Simon Bradstreet. Bradstreet and her husband would eventually raise eight children after migrating with her family too, Ipswich, Massachusetts. There she began to write English verse poetry, that her brother-in-law would transport back to England without her knowledge.