dead and gone? If Yeats were alive today how would he view Europe’s influence on our nation’s future? Yeats poetry maybe not be modern‚ the values in many of his poems are still relevant to today’s culture as our society is continually faced with the same predicaments‚ maybe even on a larger scale. For this reason he remains universal and still influential even in today’s troubling times. Ireland’s apathetic attitude in times of hardship would not be appreciated and Yeats and his values‚ who
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Rosa Parks‚ Malala Yousafzai‚ and Lucretia Mott all share the desire for striving for reforming their society. They were not among the first of their kind; Anne Hutchinson strove for the same aspirations in 1637. Little did Winthrop know‚ the day when Hutchinson arrived to the colony was the day when a threat that had to be dealt with showed up. Anne Hutchinson was a woman who knew right from wrong‚ was one with God‚ had the persistence and composure to maintain the argument‚ and did not stand for sexism
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Have you ever needed someone to have through tough times? So did Anne‚ a young Jewish girl who wrote a diary while in hiding‚ during her two years in hiding with her Jewish family and another family hiding from the Nazis. Everyone needs someone with whom to share life’s experiences is the theme for Anne Frank because they all needed someone to talk to or spend time with during their long time in hiding. Although some people would want to be alone while in rough times. The theme “everyone needs someone
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The Trial of Anne Hutchinson The first word that comes to mind is unbelievable. Anne Hutchinson choose to privately believe in a theory that the Puritans way of thinking‚ was not the only or right way to think about religion. At first the Bay Colony found Anne to be an upright female citizen with knowledge and contributions to offer‚ as long as those contributions stayed within the theories and beliefs of the Puritans as they were known as “the people of God”. Governor Winthrop believed that in
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have in front of them until it is gone. Anne’s work throughout her career was phenomenal‚ but it never became a treasured item until she no longer on this planet. Her memory lives in her artwork and poems and will always be remembered. In her life‚ Anne Sexton endured many pains throughout her life. As a child she grew up in an abusive unstable home. She then became a model‚ but dropped out of school and slowly sank into alcoholism and depression. Then‚ in her mid forties she committed suicide.
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Anne Bradstreet was one of the few extraordinary females who earned a place with the male writers of the seventeenth century. Bradstreet’s upbringing had a vast amount to do with the way she was educated. Her father gave her the advantage of good tutoring. Having open access to a library full of books quickly made reading one of her favorite past times and she took an interest in the poets of the past. This interest of Bradstreet’s helped her write touching poetry that is still read today. Anne Bradstreet’s
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Anne Frank was a girl who hid out in a safe house during the Holocaust. She wrote down everything that happened in her diary so now we know what happened. Many things were written when she was in hiding‚ then eventually got caught by the Nazis and the story ended. Then when we won WWII‚ soldiers found her diary and then it was shared to the world. The story of Anne in the safe house has many stories‚ but I think the theme of all of them is religion. I think the theme of religion is in the story
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The session that I attended at The Anne Frank Project on September 11‚ 2009 was Beyond the Diary: Behind the scenes of a Jewish Family in Hiding with Sophia Veffer. Even though I learned some things about the Holocaust during middle school‚ there still were things that I did not know. The reason why I attended this session is because I wanted to know how some of the Jews were able to survive the Holocaust and I also wanted to know what Sophia’s experience was like actually being a child during the
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Hamlet on film Gregory Doran (dir.)‚ Hamlet (2009). [RSC production on film; David Tennant as Hamlet] Gregory Doran’s adaption of Hamlet‚ puts a modern-spin on one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. Filled with scheming‚ betrayal‚ violence‚ and intrigue‚ the cast of talented actors including David Tennant (Hamlet)‚ Patrick Stewart (Claudius)‚ Penny Downie (Gertrude) and Oliver Ford Davies (Polonius) provide a refreshing and thrilling portrayal of the well known tragedy. As Gregory Doran chooses
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role of gender does in society are countless in number‚ but Judith Butlers is widely known for the aspect of how gender and performativity coincide with one another. In her theory she talks about how the role of gender is defined by what society wants it to be and not what a person is actually. Butler also talks about how these roles are recurring in society because of the performativity aspect of gender. These roles are what Butler wants to break away from and she goes as far as to connect her theory
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