Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade by Tanya Thompson, is a non-fiction, autobiography. The story is about a 15 years old girl named Tanya. In the first part of the book she run away from home in Tennessee to, seek out the high class life she believe exist only in populated city, Dallas. While pretending to be a 23 years old high class countess, that travel with her “master”, she gained country wide attention. From FBI, to immigration and naturalization office. Tanya was known as “Counterfeit Countess” deceived every one of them. Tanya present a true natural of lying, and acting on impulse. But also, in the face of danger; she will fight back, and get her revenge.…
In A Hill Far Away, Annie Dillard is taking an evening stroll around a creek near her home when she comes across a young boy. The boy seems about eight years old and is of small stature. Dillard sees him through a barbed wire fence, where he is playing, as a child might. Eventually, the boy gains sight of Dillard and comes over to say hello. While Dillard is speaking to the boy, she is mentally making judgments over him. Soon enough, the boy starts looking even more nervous than usual and asks Dillard a seemingly forced question.…
In London, England, on February 6, 1913, Mary Douglas Leakey was born. Her original name was Mary Douglas Nicol. She had no siblings and two parents who were Erskine Nicol, a scenery painter, and Cecilia Frere Nicol. Due to her father’s work, the family moved frequently. Quite a bit of her initial adolescence was gone through voyaging abroad with her parents through mostly Europe and some parts of Africa. This made her develop a dedication both for prehistory and drawing. Mary’s powerful fondness for animals was introduced, which was a significant part her life, when her and her family spent some time in the home of her mother’s aunt and grandmother, during World War I. When the war ended the Leakey family proceeded with its yearly cycle of European travel.…
Mary Rowlandson was an English woman born in 1636. Her parents were John and Joan White. They had moved to Massachusetts in the year of 1639. They were a Puritan family and strongly devoted to their religion. Mary Rowlandson was especially devoted. She went through what is called King Philip’s War. The Indians following Metacomet raided the homes of Plymouth. During this war about 5,000 Indians were killed and about 2,500 colonists were killed. Mary was moved and sold, along with many others including her children, by the Indians(213). The Indians beat, starved, tortured, dehydrated, and killed the colonists that they took. Some of the Indians were not abusive towards their “property” or slaves. Some were gentle and helped the colonists in their time of need.…
In the TV show Jane the Virgin, the protagonist Jane Villanueva was artificially inseminated with Rafael sperm and now on this episode Jane and her family learn the ugly side of motherhood. Mateo had been born and since Jane had been so focused on being the perfect mother she had forgotten to worry about herself. Meaning she had been skipping her shower days, not fixing her hair, brushing teeth, the normal disciplinary body practices that we women do. Jane later on is encountered with some loud next door neighbors who seem to be wannabe rockstars and struggles to keep Mateo asleep. Jane has stepped into the role of Motherhood and is having to give up her time, work, and study for her new baby Mateo all by her self.…
Kathy Dobie’s memoir was thought-provoking. When Kathy first had sex with Brian I knew that this was the start of some bad decisions. When she later went from Brian to Victor I knew she was trying to be a “saint.” When Kathy later found her “tribe” I knew from the start they would use her. When they raped her, she found herself analyzing all of her decisions. It gave her confirmation to change the way she was behaving but to keep her “saint” presence in life.…
If you’re looking for a good, quick memoir to read during the winter months and need to brush up on your commas and dashes, I highly recommend Mary Norris’s Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen. The book begins as a memoir, Norris explaining her journey from Ohio to Vermont to New York, along the way learning to drive a milk truck, package cheese, and eventually proof pieces for the New Yorker. It’s a good book on a number of levels, the first being that Norris puts grammar in layman’s terms and understands the mistakes those of us who aren’t copy-editors often make. The next is that she is a likable narrator.…
Conclusively, in Among the Hidden, by Margaret Peterson, Jen Talbot demonstrated magnificent traits such as slyness, intelligence, and courage in order to accomplish her plan of protesting in front of the president. Portraying these traits allowed Jen to carry out such daring actions. Whether she failed or not, she was still determined to accomplish her goal, but unfortunately she lost her life. These situations are clear examples of how rebels will never prevail no matter how righteous their cause is. Margaret Peterson made Jen such an admirable character, which made the story more pleasant to…
Blackness is closing in around the eyes of one brave soul. Next thing they know, all they can see is another’s dream, if they’re lucky. In small town, Michigan, Janie has this wild ability. If she passes one dreaming, she is immediately sucked in and cannot escape unless the dream ends. Throughout the trilogy of Don’t Close Your Eyes, Janie struggles with the curse she is blessed with, while she faces normal teenage girl problems. One of the issues she encounters amongst the trilogy is falling in love with Cabel. Cabel is Janie’s love interest throughout this novel and he helps her with her dream problem. Helping Janie may include her being in his nightmares, or him helping while she struggles within another’s nightmare or dream. Janie then…
Born November 12, 1666 in England, Mary Astell was the first British feminist writer, nonfiction writer, essayist, and poet. Her published work consisted of argumentative issues about women's education, marriage, and political and religious philosophy. Specifically relating to the status of women, Astell thought about numerous controversial concerns of the era in her essays and pamphlets which were distributed anonymously to keep her identity a secret. Astell stood for her belief that women should not be obligated into marriage and helped the thought of a Protestant equivalent of a convent, where unmarried women could be able to devote themselves to education and religious responsibilities, in such pamphlets as "A Serious Proposal To The Ladies For The Advancement Of Their True And Greatest Interest" (1694) and "Some Reflections Upon Marriage" (1700). In addition to, Astell showed herself to be a perceptive critic of the social theories of, The Father of Liberalism, John Locke, in "Some Reflections Upon Marriage" and other writings, involving "The Christian Religion As Profess'd By A Daughter Of The Church Of England" (1705). Astell was a complicated figure whose approval of the monarchy and the Anglican Church is every now and then seen as contradictory to…
By staring at, ‘[the] recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down,”(pg. 649, Stetson) the protagonist, the narrator, from ‘The Yellow Wallpaper becomes insane. However in this case, the narrator’s insanity develops a form of emotional and mental liberation for herself.…
“Now that you have started reading this essay, you and I are now connected by a web of connections.” This is what Susan Griffin, author of “Our Secret”, a chapter taken from Griffin’s insightful book A Chorus of Stones, most likely would have declared. Griffin argues that, “all of us, especially all of us who read her essay - are part of a complex web of connections” (265). But how are people who do not even know each other connected? Griffin implies that people are part of a “larger matrix” and have a “common past” (265). The “common past” between people that Griffin asserts can be proved by examining the unique underlying comparisons and analogies she applies in the chapter. “Our Secret” is a collection of Griffin’s own life story and the life stories of others, including Heinrich Himmler, Heinz, a painter, a friend, Holocaust survivors, a homosexual man, and her sister. She even uses RNA and cells as analogies to indicate how even the materials that compose people have similar functions to people themselves. Although people may question how…
In the novel The Edible Woman, author Margaret Atwood tackles the difficult subject of anorexia nervosa. Although this subject is often handled with kid gloves by many writers, Atwood’s novel candidly addresses how different food related stigmas affect the main character’s day to day existence. In the late 1960's, young women faced a society that expected them to conform to certain qualities in both appearance and demeanor. The portrayal of young women in popular movies, television and music of the time period led to internal conflicts among women who struggled to achieve the norm put forth by society. Young women everywhere were convinced they needed to look and act like Marcia Brady and turn into Carol Brady even if meant sacrificing their…
The New Woman was conveyed through the artists illustrations beginning in the 1880’s and continuing through the years, ending in the 1920’s. These images such as the works titled, “What Are We Coming To”, “In a Twentieth Century Club”, “Picturesque America”, and “Women Bachelors In New York”, all conveyed this idea of a “New Woman”. The qualities that a New Woman must have included a woman who pursued the highest education and made effort to move up in the professional world. “She (the New Woman) also demonstrated new patterns of private life, from shopping in the new urban department stores, to riding bicycles, and playing golf.” (pg. 374) The artists attempted to create this perfect all around woman who’s lives closely resembled what the men of that time were doing. Such as in figure 6.8 titled “In a Twentieth Century Club” which shows women dressed in clothing which closely resembled that of a mans attire for that era, at leisure, socializing with other woman. This “club” looked very similar to a men’s drinking and eating club. “ Although role reversal still provides the humor, the women waitresses and patrons are physically attractive, while the women’s unladylike posture and clothing would have been viewed as shocking equally significant is the cross dressing entertainer.” (pg. 374) Not only did artists attempt to convey a way that the New Woman should act, but they also created this popular physical image of what one should look like such as the Gibson Girls pictured in image 6.9. Most all of the illustrations showed a white woman of the leisure class, however African American women still envisioned and strived to become a New African American Woman.…
Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, once stated, “If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health” (Buford et al 157). Hippocrates words support the importance of good health. A career in Health and Exercise Science is important in promoting optimum health in an individual or population.…