by Alexis Jennings | Mar 7, 2024 | Literature
Why was there so much discrimination in the early 1930’s? John Steinbeck’s highly renowned “Of Mice and Men” is an outstanding novel that paints a depressingly realistic portrait of America during the Great Depression in the 1930s. In the novel, Steinbeck...
by Alexis Jennings | Mar 7, 2024 | Literature
My selection for this discussion is The Handmaid’s Tale. This show was recommended as a must-see and I was not disappointed. This series is about a totalitarian society named Gilead. In a world where fertility rates have collapsed as a result of sexually transmitted...
by Alexis Jennings | Mar 7, 2024 | Literature
In the title, Sherry Simon (1996) refers to linguistic aspects of gender as opposed to biological or social gender. Linguistic gender breaks down into semantic and grammatical gender: semantic gender corresponds to a referent’s biological sex; grammatical gender...
by Alexis Jennings | Mar 7, 2024 | Literature
Imagine living in a “perfect” community, where people only command without knowing what decision they have made. In this scientific novel The Giver, Jonas saw the realization of his reality. Jonas lives in a society that mostly drastically changes his behavior and...
by Alexis Jennings | Mar 7, 2024 | Literature
In Book XI of The Odyssey, in the underworld, Tiresias describes to Odysseus a final journey he must take to ‘have a gentle, painless death… with all [his] people there in blessed peace around [him]” (Homer, XI. 155,157). Tiresias says that Odysseus must...
