Essay on The Awakening as Romantic, Realistic, and Local Color Writing

The Awakening as an Example of   Romantic, Realistic, and Local Color Writing A fair woman slowly, but surely, makes her way into the water.   It is obvious that she is slightly afraid, but not to the point where she is willing to stop progressing into the gradually deepening water.   She believes that after she lets the water grab her life, everything will be fine.   Sounds appealing?   I did not think so.   However, Edna Pontellier thinks that this is the best option for her.   Drowning seems to be the only way out.   The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, describes Edna Pontellier's battle against society, and how she decides to handle this battle.   This novel was considered an immoral piece of literature during the early 1900's.   Its descriptions of a strong woman who goes against a grim and strict Creole society shocked critics and readers alike.   Edna's strong will and determination cause changes that were not welcome at the time.   Despite the fact that The Awakening was unwelcome in the early 1900's, it is a widely read novel that most consider to be an extraordinary piece of literature.   The Awakening is a great novel because of its unique combination of Romantic, Realistic, and local color writing.      Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   The Awakening demonstrates Romanticism in many ways.   The accentuation of the imagination, freedom, emotion, nature, and nobility of the common man characterize Romanticism.   The Awakening demonstrates this in many ways.   For example, a mockingbird and a parrot are shown to describe the role of women of that time; they had the potential to be successful and respectful citizens, but society kept them caged in.   This demonstrates the "natural world" aspect of Romanticism.   In addition to this, constant references are ma... ...nd city names in her writing adds a lot to the feeling behind the novel.   Using the name "Grand Isle" has a larger effect on the reader than if she were to say "beach", or even "summer getaway".   Through the utilization of local color, the reader actually feels that he or she is a part of the novel, walking alongside the characters and feeling all their pain and suffering.   He or she can form visual images of life during the time of the Creoles.      Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   Through her inclusion of Romantic, Realistic, and local color writing, Kate Chopin makes The Awakening a truly extraordinary piece of literature.   Reading this novel makes the reader feel that he or she is living during the society of that time.   This is a unique writing that demonstrates one-of-a-kind combinations of literary elements.   Every person should read this novel and appreciate it for the talent.

Technology Today

Today’s technology is progressing faster than anyone has ever expected and is changing the way that we live our lives. Technology is helping us in some ways, but it is also hurting us in other ways. The biggest change that we are experiencing is the way that we communicate. We have many different ways to communicate with each other, especially compared to 20 years ago. We now have cell phones that can do just about anything and that make our daily lives much easier and help us to get things done in a more orderly fashion. The top three things changed communications are the texting, social networking, and the Smart phones. In my opinion the pro’s outweigh the con’s in the new ways of communication. It is not only a good way to keep in contact with friends and family, but it can help save lives in emergencies. Texting is becoming one of the most popular forms of communication. It is very convenient because it makes getting in contact with someone very simple and you don’t have to interrupt people while they are having conversations. You can see pictures and videos that your friends or family wanted you to see that they recorded, just by having them choose the picture and then having them send it to your phone, where you can then view the pictures or watch the video. Texting is very basic, when you want to talk to someone you use your phone key pad and you simply hit the letters on the keys to spell the word. Then you just continue from there to complete what message you need to send to that person. It takes time to really get good at texting, but once you get it your going to be hooked. Texting can be good in many ways and many parents like texting because it is one of the quickest ways to get a hold of one of their children. A lot of kids do not answer their phone for calls because they are in class or they are having a conversation and they do not want to be rude and interrupt the person that they are talking to, so they just ignore the call and often times forget to get back to whoever was calling them. If they would have texted them they would have gotten a text back within minutes depending upon what the question. It allows people to be polite and not have to answer calls when in a room of people that maybe trying to focus on studying or in a office. There are also times when you can’t make voice calls because you don’t have enough reception, but you have enough to send a text to one of your friends. This sometimes can be very important because let’s say you wreaked your car and you can’t get reception to make a call and you can use a text and alert someone that you need help. Some people feel less scared to contact someone if they can just text them and this sometimes can help kids who are afraid to talk to people to help them build self-esteem. Overall if we didn’t have text messaging we would be limited to a lot less options in order to get in contact with people that we need to contact. Social networking is a big part of the current generation and is being used by most kids to keep in contact with their friend and to provide people with the entertainment of seeing what others are doing and seeing what they are talking about with others. There are many different sites for social networking, the most popular are Facebook, MySpace, and twitter. Facebook is more popular amongst college students and Myspace is more toward the grade school students. Twitter is a different than the others because it allows you follow what people are doing and thinking about more than any of the other social networking sites. The people that are on twitter are usually posting what they are thinking about and what they are currently experiencing. They usually post a lot more stuff than on Facebook or Myspace. Twitter is very cool for the reason that you can follow famous people and see what it is that they are doing or thinking about. It helps people follow their favorite people and it helps them to better get to know what they go through in their daily life. Each social networking site offers something a little different, but they all offer some form of communication. Social networking is a great place to build social skills and self-esteem. Those who are not as forthcoming as others can build social skill and can help them in the future. There are a lot of people that are too shy to be able to make friends and then in the future they don’t have people skills and in most jobs these skill are very important to succeed. Social networking sites can also motivate people to do well because some people see that their friends are working hard to finish a paper and they realize that they are not the only person that has a paper to work on. Then they have more motivation to work harder. People can communicate with family and friends that they have not seen in a long time. There are many situations that would cause people to not have seen their friends and family and social networking helps them to keep in contact. It provides a lot of entertainment to those who don’t have anything to do. It familiarizes people with how to do basic html and how to upload photos to the internet. It teaches those who are not as good with computers as others to get to know how to do basic html and other basic programming. Social networking teaches people a lot of things, which can help people to better understand computers. Smart phones are the most powerful cell phones on the market and they basically make your phone into a computer because you can do a lot of stuff that your computer can do on a smart phone. They are very useful for being productive while being on the go. They make life a lot easier because while you’re out, you can conveniently check your email, check your facebook, and look up what you need to bring on a business trip. The most popular smart phone is the Iphone. It is the best smart phone that is currently on the market, and has set up a menu of great applications to really be ready for your day. The menu is very user friendly and is considered a â€Å"digital assistant†. These phones are very popular amongst business people because it is very helpful to get documents on the go. They are the most expensive of phones because of their advanced features. Smart phones are great because they have many features to help your productivity a lot. The smart phone has features that help people finish their work while they are not in reach of a computer. This is really good because it helps people with time management and it can help people become better at writing because they will have more time to correct their mistakes if they have not wasted time sitting around at an airport or while sitting on a bus. Smart phones can be educational because as many people do they spend a lot of time learning and asking questions on the internet about how to do things and why things work the way they do. People can keep in contact better with smart phones because there are so many different types of communications. They can help people to make friends because of the various forms of communications. These phones can help you save money because of the built in GPS features. If someone gets lost all they have to do is type in where they need to be and the phone will tell the person where they need to go. Then you won’t waste gas drive further out of your way. Smart phones are very helpful in many ways and are very educational to those who are looking for knowledge. Communication is changing in many ways and it is only enhancing our lives for the better. Communications are very important to our future. They hold the secret to many problems our country is suffering from. If we can use these great options, it could really advance how the world functions. The world is changing faster than ever and we should reap the benefits of it.

The Trojan War Is The Oldest Record Many Historians

The Trojan War is a topic that comes with many discussions, questions, and beliefs that many people even today are looking into. The Iliad, created by Homer, is the oldest record many Historians use to start their research on the Trojan War. Unfortunately, his version of the Trojan War was made 480 years after it occurred, which leaves many people to question if Homer’s story was true or not. In today’s times we still may not have all the answers of the Trojan War but we do have evidence and possibilities of there being one. The Trojan War is discussed by many Historians of their different views and findings that we continue today to learn more about. Historians have analyzed, researched, and discovered new theories to the Trojan War from†¦show more content†¦Now it was clear that Troy was one of the larger Anatolian cities of the period during which we would place the Trojan War. Korfmann dig found several important things about Troy which helped prove that Ho mer could be true. They believe that Troy appears to have been destroyed around 1180 B.C., probably by a war the city lost. There is evidence of a fire, some skeletons, and heaps of sling bullets. People who have successfully defended their city would have gathered their sling bullets and put them away for another event, but a victorious conqueror would have done nothing with them, from what the archeologists believed. That still wasn’t enough proof to think that all that was from a war. †It appeared that the city was, by the standards of the region at that time, and most certainly of superregional importance in controlling access from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea and from Asia Minor to southeast Europe and vice versa.† This proved that Troy could have been fought over because of that factor, it gave more reason to why others would want the city as their own. â€Å"Troy was also evidently attacked repeatedly and had to defend itself again and again, as in dicated by repairs undertaken to the main defenses and efforts to enlarge and strengthen them.† They started to question the size of Troy because Homer described it as being really big but from what