Sarah Siddons

In biblical times, there lived a man named Abraham and his beloved wife Sarah, who prayed to God every day for the gift of a child. Sarah, however, remained barren and suggested Abraham sleep with his servant Haggar as a surrogate. Haggar did bare a child named Ishmael, but Sarah grew to despise Haggar and her child for gifting Abraham with what she could not. As time past, Sarah gave birth to Isaac, the miracle child, and God decided Isaac would receive his covenant and subsequently Ishmael and

Sarah, the Evil Mistress Although Hagar flaunts her pregnancy with Abraham in the face of Sarah who is barren, Sarah is ultimately responsible for generating trouble in Abraham’s household. Through Sarah’s decision to give Hagar to Abraham, Sarah’s jealousy and anger towards Hagar’s reaction to conception, and also Sarah’s harsh treatment of Hagar, we are able to understand why Sarah is truly the one accountable for the negative circumstances throughout her relationship with Hagar. Initially

In verse nine, I observe that the Lord’s messenger asks Hagar to return to a life of servitude despite ill treatment from Sarai. I now question why the Lord might want Hagar to endure this mistreatment, but in verse ten the messenger says that Hagar will be rewarded and given so many children that they cannot be counted. 1 Peter 2:18 may offer some insight as to why God asks Hagar to return to her master, it says, “Household slaves, submit by accepting the authority of your masters with all respect

into the stories of broken women in the bible, we learn that only God can restore us and mend our brokenness. Hagar was an Egyptian girl who was a slave to Abram’s wife Sarah. After God had appeared to Abram and promised him a son, many years went by and he and Sarah still had no baby. In her impatience and desperation, Sarah took matters into her own hands and gave her maid Hagar to her husband, saying, “Go sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her”. Abram did as he was told

the course that he loves, the course that would make him happy, simply because she feels it will be a threat to her stay in the big white house that she has loved for so long; the house that sing the song that only she can hear. Again, Anne Rivers Siddons has used the contrast between the two characters to portray the theme of ambition. The fact that Paul is willing to go the extra mile in order to make Ruth happy while Ruth does not even think twice before ruining his happiness makes Ruth look heartless

with the song “Angel” playing in the background. While this is going on the narrator of the commercial (Sarah McLachlen) is softly talking about the suffering and abuse that these unfortunate animals go through. Through many different rhetorical techniques the viewers are many times brought to tears after watching this

SNL and Gendered Politics “Here you have this serious presidential campaign, and all of us had to go on these comedy shows like Saturday Night Live, because that was the only way we could have more than a soundbite and reach a large audience, ” Ralph Nader said in an interview regarding his 2000 bid for president. A 2004 study done by Pew research found that 20% of Americans between the ages of 18 to 24 regularly get their news from late night television shows, like Saturday Night Live. With satirical

Another type of political comedy that is often undervalued today is political cartoons. Prior to the television becoming a mainstream medium, political cartoons constituted the majority of political comedy. This power stemmed from the fact that political cartoons were often presented in print media, such as newspapers and magazines. As print media has fallen out of demand, however, political cartoons ceded their position to late-night comedy shows. This is not to suggest that political cartoons cannot

At the beginning of Sarah Polley’s 2013 Stories We Tell, a quote by Margret Atwood appears and states that, “In the end, we’ll all become stories” (Polley). This quote leads to the main message of the film involving storytelling and the profound significance it carries in life. As memories form, we reflect on them and the stories that accumulate from those memories begin to define us. The film begins with Polley presenting her storytellers, who are all part of the family. She simply asks her family

Believe Nothing, Question Everything Bat child found in cave! Elvis is alive! Titanic survivors found onboard! These are all examples of headlines you may have seen in a nineties supermarket magazine such as The Weekly World News or The National Enquirer. These classic “fake news” magazines had and still have a cult following Most readers of these magazines enjoy the cheesiness of them and are well aware of their lack of validity. Now fake news appears on our social media outlets. Many of the perpetrators