White Cane History

During the great California Gold Rush and before there was coal oil, kerosene or carbide there was only candlelight. This is a "Sticking Tommy" candlestick. It is iron, made by a blacksmith, and dates to around 1850. These were used during the early days of hard rock mining. The curved hook in the center was used to "stick" the Tommy onto one's hat. Before hard hats, miners wore soft hats. The Tommy could easily be stuck in the hat and then provide arm free lighting while the miner carried his tools and walked to the work site within the mine. Once the miner reached the site, he could then take out the Tommy. If one of the miners needed light in a specific area they could take the Tommy and jab it into a wooden support beam or crevice. The

The reason the Deaf students of Gallaudet protested was because of societal viewpoints, “hearing people are the normal ones and

The artist John Biggers was an African American. He made the drawing with conté sticks or conté crayons. He

During the 1690s

The divisions among the white society were planters. Planters were the minority of a minority, just 4 percent of the total white population in 1860 (Brands, pp. 253-254). They set the tone and values for much of the rest of society, especially the less wealthy slave-owners who sought imitate the planters’ style of living, propagating the ideology of "paternalism," that slaves were children who required a stern but loving parent. Most whites owned few or no slaves, but a political system of "white man's democracy" and the ideology of white supremacy united them with large slaveholders. White farmers often viewed black servitude as providing a guarantee of their own liberty and independence. Planters encouraged this ideal by creating the notion

    In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper," the reader is treated to an intimate portrait of developing insanity. At the same time, the story's first person narrator provides insight into the social attitudes of the story's late Victorian time period. The story sets up a sense of gradually increasing distrust between the narrator and her husband, John, a doctor, which suggests that gender roles were strictly defined; however, as the story is just one representation of the time period, the examination of other sources is necessary to better understand the nature of American attitudes in the late 1800s. Specifically, this essay will analyze the representation of

P5:1 “Blindness Removed in Raymond Carver's "Cathedral," a document written in English 1020 addresses false perceptions created by the media. This will need to be peer reviewed. In Raymond Carver’s short story “Cathedral” he writes about the effects of media and resulting perceptions and prejudices about blind people that are expressed through the narrator. The narrator has never met a blind person, but has seen examples of blind people in the movies that walk slowly, fail to laugh and use seeing-eye dogs (Carver 108-116). Likewise, the narrator has read that blind men are nonsmokers, but Robert seems to be like any other man who marries, has sex, smokes, eats and has a television on (Carver 108-116). A television program Robert and the narrator

I do not believe that slavery would have come to the new world without sugar. It is because of the introduction of sugar, and the plantation model that came with it, that the New World faced such economic prosperity. Sugar offered high profit, required copious amounts of labor, and was a cash crop, produce that many colonies sought to produce. It is through economic prosperity that sugar plantation and by extension, slavery, first appealed to colonizers.

In Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles, written in 1916, two female characters are left in the kitchen of a house where a murder has been committed, while the menfolk search around for clues. The men largely ignore the women and are mocking of them and their petty concerns on the occasions that they do speak to them. While the men are about looking for the “cold hard facts” of the murder, the women are in the kitchen bothering with “trifles” that display all of the details about the wife’s life and, most probably, her motivation for the murder. In this play, Susan Glaspell has written male characters that clearly display the “Ethics of Justice”, a sort of right is right and wrong is wrong view; while the women clearly embody the “Ethics of Care”, a view that takes relationships and feelings into account when judging the morality of actions.

Two major innovations came out of Enlightenment Science in England that had a crucial part to play in Harrison’s designs. The first came from Christopher Huygens, a Dutch member of the

Similarly, both “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Lottery” portray that traditions drive a wedge between communities and the world at large, rather than unite them. One may observe the perpetuation of harmful ideologies and actions that continue throughout the stories, for the sake of maintaining tradition. Namely, Tessie’s willingness to sacrifice her family for the sake of her own well-being show how traditions such as the community lottery break familial bonds. She would rather “...Don and Eva, ...[should be made to] take their chance!" (pg. 46, “The Lottery”) rather than sacrifice herself. Another example of traditional ideas fraying familial bonds is how John and Jane’s relationship deteriorates due to his condescending attitude. To illustrate this, one may observe how he dismisses her opinion on her diagnosis as a “...false and foolish fancy. Can you not trust me as a physician when I tell you so?" (pg. 341, “The Yellow Wallpaper”). This further demonstrates that John does not care to hear what his wife has to say, because he believes that he is smarter than her, and that she should be kept under his control. As he acts upon the dichotomic belief that women are meant to be submissive housewives and that men are the dominant breadwinners, their relationship decays. In summation, both “The Lottery” and “The Yellow Wallpaper” demonstrate how even the closest of bonds can be broken, once a toxic tradition is used to justify maltreatment of others. Furthermore, traditions can be so powerfully destructive that they pit sections of society against one another.

By the mid-1920's

Bonheur was an important figure in women’s right; she herself reflects the social movement for women. She was a women that didn’t let society’s standards keep her down; she worked hard to build her career. Bonheur was the first woman in France to get a permit to wear pants.1 The police’s reasoning for allowing Rosa this permit was because of health, and her doctor co-signed the permit.1 The slaughterhouses and fairgrounds would dirty her dresses thus it was impractical for her to wear a dress. Bonheur was smart she knew what wearing pants would do to her career.1 She knew buyers would not purchase paintings that came from a woman who wore pants, so Bonheur would wear dresses to social events.

1865. It was written for children and is a story of a twelve year old

Red and Yellow Curtains aspires to portray aspects of my perception of the corrupted human nature that is evident in the contemporary society that we live in, through the exploration of consequences and redemption, as a result of sin. My theological background, and my acute awareness of morality has created a pathway that allowed me to write and develop the story. The audience I intended to write for is expected to be amenable to an experimental form of literature, as several subversive elements had been interwoven within this creative piece. My story was proposed for the general population of readers, distinctly those interested in human behavior, emotion and