Peggy Mitchell

I recently read a very interesting book called Genie. At first it seemed odd for a book to have such a name, but that didn’t matter until I saw the cover. What I saw on the cover was a girl who went through so much and she can never forget what happened. Genie revolves around a young girl, "Genie", who has suffered traumatic abuse and neglect as a young child. When she is discovered because her mother took her to an appointment at a local DHS office, the scientific community over reacts to the potential

Most of us have two lives. The life we live and the unlived life within. Between the two stands Resistance . ~ Stephen Pressfield Have Resistance? Yep, me too. I resist paying my bills, hitting "publish" on my blog post, and turning off the television when it's time to go to bed. If you think you don't have Resistance, I have bad news: Resistance is part of the human condition like breathing, bad hair days, and following baby animals on Instagram. If you've got a body, you've got Resistance. But

The decades-old stereotype that adolescents get a kick out of rebelling against the society they live in believe it or not only came into fruition at the climax of World War II, the era of which these novels were written. Teenagers were beginning to break away from the pressures that were placed upon them by their elders, and bringing in new ideas. However, both novels portray this in different ways. Burgess has created this dystopian, post-apocalyptic realm where Alex, the fifteen year-old male

Two stories that are quite alike are "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" and "Ten days in a Madhouse." "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" is historical fiction about a young boy who is in a concentration camp and becomes friends with a boy whom is a high ranked SS captain's son. And "Ten days in a Madhouse" is investigative journalism about a young journalist who faked to be insane to enter an asylum in Blackwell's Island and investigate how the people are treated to write a section on that asylum. Both

In the story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The protagonist undergoes many hardships throughout the story, Hardships such as the mistreatment that the main protagonist has to face, also how the story portrays the stereotypical behaviour that society shows (i.e., man does everything while the woman does nothing), lastly the psychoanalytic that Sigmund Freud has shown through is work. Firstly, The story shown us that the main protagonist had to experience a lot of mistreatment

Bryan Lee O’Malley is a cartoonist best known for his six-volume “Scott Pilgrim” series. Throughout the book Seconds, a theme portrayed is a frustrated tone. During Katie’s adventures using her special powers, everything she fixes seems to have a bad outcome no matter how many times she changes the same thing. For example, Katie’s ongoing relationship with Max always appears to have a problem that Katie tries to find a solution to. However, Katie’s plans consistently backfire which causes her to

Yolanda Foster can’t seem to catch a break with her critics. The reality star is a big part of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” but she has been so ill with Lyme disease that she needed to focus on getting better. Perhaps that’s why the celebrity is hitting back and reminding her critics that she needs to keep her health concerns first and maintain a positive attitude. According to StarPulse on Thursday, the reality star is clearly upset with how people have reacted to her illness and posted

“When something looks too good to be true it probably is”. Billy Weaver is a young traveler that is very easy going and is traveling to Bath, England. Billy walked the streets of Bath, England a big sign caught his eye that said “BED AND BREAKFAST”. The Bed and Breakfast looked so nice and welcoming. Billy decided to stay there for a few nights. The landlady is a suspicious, odd, and creepy character in “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl. To begin, the landlady is a very suspicious character. She is

In every story there are certain traits of it that all stories have. Each author tries to engage the reader with a certain aspect that the reader will understand and relate to. Every now and then different authors will try to incorporate the same aspect that other authors already have appealed to. Similarities are very important within stories in which they brings multiple stories together as a whole instead of dividing them. They show how no matter how different a story may seem to be there can

Feminism Feminism means equal rights for all genders. Throughout all these stories we have read they all relate to feminism. Over time the theory of feminism has developed and changed. Now they say fighting for equal rights has become more apart of our daily lives than it was 30 years ago. In The Yellow Wallpaper she was held against her will in a room by her husband. Then in The Astronomer’s Wife Katherine realized there are two different kinds of men in life and her husband wasn’t the kind