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The 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote was ratified 1920, yet today, almost 100 years later, women still face injustice in America. The House on Mango Street is a year in the life of Esperanza, a 12-year old Chicana (Mexican-American girl) and one of these such young women. It features her journey…

William Shakespeare has been, and forever will be, one of the greatest play-writes of all time. One of his many famous plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, portrays three plots: Star-crossed lovers and a one sided crush; A disagreement between the king and queen of fairies, which leads to falling in love with an ‘ass’; and…

“This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they are better than others.” – Werley Nortreus. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, is set in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930’s. The main character, Scout Finch, is a young girl who sees…

There is one question that humans spend eternities trying to definitely answer, and that question is the meaning of life. Humans need to have an answer for everything, and this one philosophical questions makes people wrack their brains to try to find an answer that can encompass everyone and everything. And what if humans cannot…

According to Maya Angelou’s autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, she describes the hardships faced growing up as an African American girl in the southern states of America and California throughout the 1930’s and 1940’s. It is an evocative story of the horrible experiences of her childhood, during which she shuffled to and…

“I plead the fifth.” This is a common statement used when a person does not want to respond involving the Bill of Rights. Americans before the time of 1787, did not have the bill of rights; especially for those during the Salem Witch Trials. The victims during the Salem Witch Trials would have benefited from…

The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is set in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1640. It is during that time Puritans left the Old World to settle in the new colony with the mission of “purifying” the Church of England because they believed that all mankind was depraved and sinful because of Adam and Eve’s…

Charlotte Perkins Gillman’s 1892 short story The Yellow Wallpaper lends itself to both feminist and psychoanalytic literary criticism it tells the story of a woman who has recently given birth and is prescribed the rest cure for her depression and nervousness. The short story exemplifies the power struggle between men and women in Victorian America….

In the book ‘ I know why the caged bird sings’ by Maya Angelou, she discuss her life story through her point of view. In the first chapter we are introduced to Bailey who is her older brother. In their early life their parents got a divorce and sent them away to Stamps, Arkansas to…

“For with each dawn, she found new hope that someday, her dreams of happiness will come true” (Cinderella, 1950). Cinderella is a movie produced by Walt Disney Studios in 1950. It revolves around a young girl whose mother passed on at an early age. Her father, being an exceptional man made sure to provide for…