1752 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the great grand-daughter of a carpenter who traveled to the America’s in 1680 from Britain (Biography). During this time period sewing and cooking for women was…
Elizabeth Keckley (1818-1907), seamstress and dressmaker to the wives of many political movers and shakers of that day. Her client list included Varina Davis, of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Mary Todd Lincoln, of President Abraham Lincoln. She sewed and tailored dresses for the daughters and ladies of the most prominent families. As her reputation mounted, she came to the attention of Mary Todd Lincoln, and soon became her dressmaker.…
Dolley Madison, originally Todd Payne, was born to a wealthy Quaker family in North Carolina in 1768. The Todd Payne family, which included her father, John Payne Jr., originally a non-Quaker, and her mother, Mary Coles, as well as seven siblings only spent a year living in North Carolina. In 1769 the family decided to move back to rural-eastern Virginia to live with Dolley‘s grandmother on her plantation, where Dolley spent most of her childhood. It was during this time that Dolley first experienced slavery, though after the Revolutionary War her grandfather decided to emancipate all his servants. Shortly after that, the Payne family decided to move once again; this time to Philadelphia, the capital from 1774-1800. Her father set out to make a fortune as a starch merchant - however, his business failed tremendously and he died in 1792. Dolley‘s mother, Mary Payne struggled to keep the family going and opened a boarding house. Despite her initial success, she decided to move back to Virginia to live with Dolley‘s sister Lucy, who‘d married one of George Washington‘s nephews.…
The common physical beauty is what Elaine Scarry called “a symmetry of everyone’s relation to one another” in her book called On Beauty and Being Just (1999). This means that beautiful subjects or objects are evenly proportioned and ideal in all their forms. In other words, if symmetry is perfection, then beauty is perfection too. At the same time, as absolute symmetry does not exist- beauty is a divine feature of “chosen”. Meanwhile, I have my own interpretation of physical beauty. This is the idea of beauty that is not just a physical appearance of a person or object. This is the universal “beauty” I was talking about in the introduction of the paper. In my opinion, physical beauty that relates to the beauty of objects or subjects…
Payne was the fifth of six children, with four sisters and one brother who was chronically frail and often bullied by other boys. Payne would leap into the fight to protect him.…
Born on February 7, 1767 in Wisconsin, to pioneering parents, Laura was born a pioneer. She loved to run around the prairie, always with two pigtails in her hair. Laura had a sister whothat was two years older than she was, but Mary was nothing like Laura. Mary was quiet and polite; Laura was the opposite. When Laura was just two, her parents decided to move, for the first time in young Laura’s life, setting the pioneering motive in young Laura. After that, the family was always on the move, settling for some time in…
“Not that this color is not important—in tales as elsewhere, white stands for luminosity and untainted sheen, thus for luminous heaven as much as for purity”(Da Silva, 2007). The thought was confusing without the paradox symbols. Edie sees the mat as cold or pure but when she walks on it, it becomes warm. Much like Edie’s innocence is warming up to passion. “First she depicts a girl, “thirteen going on fourteen, the hinge of your life, when you are . . . nor child nor woman . . .…
George Washington became the first president under the new Constitution on April 30, 1789. Washington gave a speech that day revolutionizing the generation’s principle of tremendous historical importance. Although political harmony was a sought out goal at this time, the 1790’s became known as an “age of passion” because of each party’s uncertainty of the others faithfulness to this new founding nation and with the voice of the people taking it upon themselves to ensure the “survival of American freedom” there would bound to be revolutionizing turn in society.…
There is no one on Earth who could replace a child’s mother. Whether biological or not, whoever nurtures and shows love to a child while growing up deserves the title of a mother. As this child grows older, they may develop their own thoughts, opinions, and morals. They may disagree with their mother figure, even though they only want what is best for them. However, the mother could be wrong. They are not perfect. In Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” this mother figure could be seen as the Grandmother. Her and her son clearly disagree on many things, such as where to go for a vacation (that she is originally not part of). In “The Glass Menagerie,” a play written by Tennessee Williams, Amanda, a mother of two grown children, is also in constant disagreement with her children. Both works of literature end rather tragically, all because of a mother’s love for her children. Although Amanda and the Grandmother may have…
Nathan, Jean, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: the search for Dare Wright. NewYork: Picador, 2004. Print…
A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen, portrays a young married woman, Nora, who plays a dramatic role of deception and self-indulgence. The author creates a good understanding of a woman’s role by assuming Nora is an average housewife who does not work; her only job is to maintain the house and raise the children like a stereotypical woman that cannot work or help society. In reality, she is not an average housewife in that she has a hired maid who deals with the house and children. Although Ibsen focuses on these “housewife” attributes, Nora’s character is ambitious, naive, and somewhat cunning. She hides a dark secret from her husband that not only includes borrowing money, but also forgery. Nora’s choices were irrational; she handled the situations very poorly in this play by keeping everything a secret. The way that women were viewed in this time period created a barrier that she could not overcome. The decisions that had the potential to be good were otherwise molded into appalling ones. Women should have just as many rights as men and should not be discriminated by gender; but they should also accept consequences in the same way without a lesser or harsher punishment.…
The most remarkable character of Ella Wilcoxs’ “Life is a Privilege” (Wilcox, 1919) remains the nostalgic tone of the poem, which conveys the process of life from the beginning until the time of death. It describes the spectacular and illustrious features that are provided to all mankind and views he or she is blessed with. This is emphasized by the poet in the imagery, simile and allusion employed in the poem. Everyone wishes he or she can have a easy life from the start. Everything is not what it seems. Life is not a joke and should not be taken advantage of. There are many disadnatages people face in every day life that make living even feel worthless or not worth it. Life is very unique, and to have a healthy one is the best part. The poem…
Society can take over the way people see themselves. In Marge Piercy’s poem, “Barbie Doll,” a young girl was judged for her looks and being herself. Due to this young girl’s strong mind set, she tried to stay true to herself, but could only handle so much pressure. Throughout her entire life, she was being compared to a symbolic perfect Barbie Doll who had the beautiful cosmetic fixed face that everyone imagines girls to be, and the irony of how pretty everyone thought she was on her deathbed demonstrated how the standards in society make people second guess who they really are.…
The play "Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll" is a mixture of people's inability to grow up and let go of dreams, in a typical Australian atmosphere in the nineteen fifties. Ray Lawler focuses on showing the characters finally waking up to their lives and realizing they don't live in "heaven, " within in a simple plot. These techniques allow readers to connect and understand the disillusionment suffered by these Australian's in this time.…
_QUESTION: DISCUSS THE THREE STAGES AS PROPOUNDED BY SHOWALTERIN 'THE FEMALE TRADITION ', FOCUSING ON THE SHIFTS THAT TAKE PLACE IN EACH PHASE. ALSO DISCUSS ANY TWO CRITIQUES OF HER ESSAY._…