Joan Lindsay

youngest war commander of all time. (“Joan of Arc Speech”) She was a woman who did all that it took to save France and did it in just a year. She’s an inspiration to people then and now. Despite not being able to read or write, she inspired, accomplished, and led. She was a peasant girl only 13 years old when her life changed, a war heroine just 19 years old when she died, and a Saint to the Catholic Church forever. Who is she? She is Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc’s bold leadership skills affected

The Catcher in the Rye was written by J.D. Salinger, an American author. The book was published in 1951. The Catcher in the Rye takes place in an unspecified location in 1951, starting out in a mental hospital. The story follows the main character, sixteen year-old Holden Caulfield. The Catcher in the Rye is pretty much him just talking about the events during and after his being kicked out of his school for flunking four out of five classes. His perspective as a teenage boy makes the book rather

Xiu Xiu the sent Down Girl is from the book Tian Yu, which is written by Yan Geling and directed by Joan Chen. The Chinese government is ordering kids to go around the country to start working, Xiu Xiu, portrayed by Li Xiaolu, is one of the kids sent to do so. She doesn’t want to do this, but she decided if she were to, she would take up horse training, so she can be a part of the Girls Iron Cavalry. She is sent to the mountains to train under Lao Jin (Lopsang), a once famous horseman, now injured

of telling the truth is found in Joan of Arc. In 2015, BYUtv released film about Joan, telling her story and giving a message. Joan of Arc, the film, tells a beautiful story of Joan refusing to forsake the truth no matter the consequence. Joan tells the truth, whether it is unpopular, popular, or forgotten. Joan first shows resistance to not fall into popular beliefs by acting upon what she considers to be the right, yet unpopular, choice. It is the year 1425, Joan is at this time a lowly, uneducated

hippy movement, and how war changed the beliefs of the American people Because of change it leads to a conflict between generations. In nonfiction, the tone and hidden meaning shown in the story are heavily influenced by major events at that time. In Joan Didion’s essay, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” she uses descriptive imagery, structure and references to WB Yeat’s poem “The Second Coming” to convey the turmoil and generational divide during the 1960’s in America. Slouching Toward Bethlehem took

Introduction “Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. Time is short.” Adam Hochschild. We all have distractions. Sometimes, they are even good. They are always there. We use them when we are lonely and in consequence, we escape our lonely world and enter the boisterous one --- we have escaped to a pathway full of shortcuts. Who are you after you take those shortcuts? Holden Caulfield of J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher In the Rye” is one who unnoticeably takes these shortcuts. When Holden escapes

respect with the male counterpart. Hatshepsut, the female pharaoh of the ancient Egypt conquered her brothers for access to the throne! Cleopatra, a Hollywood phenomenon, actually partnered with Caesar of Rome and led her land to great prosperity. Joan of Arc, who continually inspires literature and works of art today, started as a peasant woman in France. At the young age of sixteen she became the commander of the French army. All three of these women took very different paths to reach their positions

Joan Baez: A Voice Straight To God Joan Baez is an extraordinary American female icon, most notable for her contributions to the folk music scene, as well as her involvement with civil rights and antiwar movements. Baez, still alive today at 75 years old, continues to inspire and lead people along an inclusive and nonviolent way of life, as she knows that “action is the antidote to despair” (Loder). Joan Chandos Baez was born in Staten Island, New York on January 9th, 1941, to a white mother, Joan

to the English, Poitiers, 22 March 1429, we discover a Joan of Arc that is gender fluid in language, physical strength as well as appearance, and also one who engages in divine transgressive sexuality. However, although Christine de Pisan, in her “Ditié De Johanne de Arc,” tries to normalize the Maid, she is Othered to the point that her society has to exorcise her from the body politic. In a strictly genital society like medieval France, Joan of Arc was biologically female, and identified as so in

1 One of the most common and detrimental psychiatric condition is depression. The state of depression has substantial e ffects on a person’s thoughts, behaviour and feelings. Depression entails an emotional stigma which has overbearing feelings of despair and dejection. SigmundFreud encloses the similarities between the roots of depression with the grief experienced bythose who lost a loved one. (Comer, 2005). The author, J.D Salinger, highlights the destructiveimpacts of depression in his book,