Simply Mortified Essays

Nella Larsen’s Passing is a novella about the past experiences of African American women ‘passing’ as whites for equal opportunities. Larsen presents the day to day issues African American women face during their ‘passing’ journey through her characters of Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry. During the reading process, we progressively realize ‘passing’ in Harlem, New York during the 1920’s becomes difficult for both of these women physically and mentally as different kinds of challenges approach ahead

El Jones: The importance of spoken word poetry Spoken word poetry is a medium used to spread the concerns of generally disadvantaged groups in a non-structured widely received form. Many civil rights speeches use this style of poetry due to the ability it has to reach such a vast audience within a limited time and on poor finances. El Jones uses this style of poetry in her work to create a message that can reach a broad audience of varying social classes. In El Jones "I know what you see," there

My mama had finished her story by telling me she’d been mortified and didn’t know what to do. So, she did what I guess anyone in her situation would have done. She left. The funny thing is though. At the time of all this happening, she’d been standing in line behind Kolinski at the checkout holding a package of aspirin and some salve ointments for me that were supposedly good for curing poison ivy. (Which she thought I might have had due to the red patches that I’d developed around the scratches

Watching God, one very influential character for Janie was her grandmother, Nanny. She has suffered a lot to be where she was at that point of her life. She survived slavery, had to raise a daughter on her own, then had to raise her granddaughter. She simply wanted Janie to have a better life than hers. Nanny knew that Janie wanted to live life her own way without being told what to do. That is why she said to Janie, “Put me down easy, Janie, Ah’m a cracked plate.” As a very old and wise woman, she had

When I was a kid, I foolishly prayed for pain, knowing “that the testing of [my] faith produces endurance,” leading to perfection and completion (James 1:2-4). Feeling blessed like Job, I wanted to prove myself, but I realize now that only fools pray for pain. Nonetheless, he is a fool who has never experienced true anguish. Instead, I should have prayed for wisdom, understanding that God may pour it down from heaven in the form of pain. This juxtaposition of a loving and all-powerful Creator with

Protests are an important part of America. They allow people to be heard, especially those in minority groups. Although some may argue that peaceful protests can be disrespectful, to veterans and soldiers, whether they are alive or not, being able to express oneself is more important. Everyone shows patriotism for their nation in a different way. During the National Anthem, San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick chose to kneel during “The Star-Spangled Banner.” By kneeling, he showed his concern

of Maurice Richard and the Montreal Canadiens. One winter, his coveted Canadians sweater is too small and his mother orders him a new one. However, when the new jersey arrives it is that of a rival team: the Toronto Maple Leaves. The young boy is mortified and suffers punishment from his coaches and disgust from his peers and friends. The story overall illustrates how grave a mistake in the fandom of hockey, within Canada, can be. The Hockey Sweater is taught in elementary

Pollution has been a huge problem in the world for a very long time. We, humans, continue on littering everywhere, simply because we are too lazy to throw our trash in the appropriate places. Many PSA (public service announcements) filmmakers try to persuade their audience that littering causes many harmful problems. Both David Lynch’s Clean Up New York Campaign and the Keep America Beautiful Campaign were persuasive in the message of littering and pollution, however, the Clean Up New York Campaign

troubles with soma, John is mortified by this irreconcilable world. In a stage of grief following his mother’s unceremonious death, John tries to start a riot and free the people from soma. John fails, and after discussing the triumphs and downfalls of this society as well as different philosophical ideas, John is willingly exiled from London. Tragically, John is found by members of London, and after being harassed, taking soma, and engaging in sexual activities, John is mortified by his actions and commits

Back at the Bloomsbury Centre, the D.H.C. waits with Henry Foster to humiliate Bernard. He plans to publicly confront Bernard in the Fertilizing Room, with its many high-caste workers. When Bernard arrives, the D.H.C. announces in front of everyone his intention to transfer Bernard to a "Sub-Centre of the lowest order." The D.H.C. explains that Bernard has "grossly betrayed the trust imposed in him" — and that his unorthodox attitudes and behavior threaten Society. Bernard laughs and introduces Linda

The Ohio State University. But as I got older, I realized how much the cost of tuition is. For a non-resident of Ohio you would be paying over $45,000 a year. After hearing statistics like these most would be mortified. Some would even wonder if college was for everyone, or if it was simply for those who could afford it. With college tuition constantly on the rise, is this affecting everyone or just the low income families? Some believe tuition cost is a reasonable bargain, while others believe

by own free will. The concept presented by Emerson supports the conclusion Thoreau drew in an earlier essay titled Civil Disobedience. In this essay, Thoreau challenges the rules and laws instituted within America and feels that citizens must not simply follow the government blindly. In the eulogy, Emerson places emphasis that Thoreau would not conform to society and the ideologies that he held could not be

immediate reaction to being chastised by Mr. Knightley in light of her open belittling of Miss Bates before the entire party: “She was vexed beyond what could have been expressed – almost beyond what she could conceal. Never had she felt so agitated, mortified, grieved, at any circumstance in her life. She was most forcibly struck. The truth of his representation there was no denying. She felt it at her heart. How could she have been so brutal, so cruel to Miss Bates! – How could she have exposed herself

Later in the story, Reynolds recalls “We gathered around to watch it, mortified, afraid, confused, until finally two young ladies shuffled into the circle, scooped Confucius up like a live grenade, and tossed the fish back into the tank,” which showed how the two ladies cared more about doing the right thing than getting punished

Awaking the English tyranny Imagine living in eighteenth century England. Imagine the English-Irish division. Imagine being an English citizen living in that era, all rich and bombastic. Life couldn’t be better for you; almost everything was glorious and you were leading a wealthy life. Then rip that image out of your mind! You are now a poor dehumanized undermined Irish. Life couldn’t be tougher, your country is being imprisoned by inferior forces.You can’t provide for yourself or your

Reading the Graveyard Book, one easily finds that the most important thing in life is to not judge people based on first impressions. Firstly, this is depicted when Bod perceived Mrs. Lupescu as mean. Strictly teaching him, she did come off as demanding, which Bad was not used to. He didn’t want anything to do with her, for it seemed like she resented him. So, he ran away resulting in his kidnapping. However, she adored him as seen later when she risked her life to save Bod from the ghouls.

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ancestors were the very men who put the accused to death in the famous Salem Witch Trials. Hawthorne was very embarrassed to be the descendant of such people, so he clearly showed his distaste of Puritan customs and culture in his writings. As an example, in The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel revealed his repugnance at the ancient ancestors that put innocent people to death for witchery, as it is shown in the book in a symbolic way with his characters, such as Matthew

Curiano. Progressively, Fredrick learned more and more about the situation he was stuck in, so he became curiously cautious about everything around him. For instance, he became overwhelmingly questionable about his master, but he had a right too. Mortified and disturbed was Fredrick during his slavery, the events that he watched and endured, permanently scared him for life, literally. Constantly, he and other slaves were whipped, tortured, and sometimes killed. The desire to be free was eating him

country of Burma(Myanmar). He stated that he was all for the Burmese and all against their oppressors, but the Burmese hated Europeans and would try as hard as possible to give them a hard time. As a police officer, he was an obvious target and was mortified of being humiliated even more than what he already had been. Orwell had to deal with an escaped elephant that caused some damage to the town and went on to track it down with no intention of hurting it. He ended up killing the animal due to his fear

petting you’d give a big dog” (p 108). The Walls’ went to the zoo, and Rex decided to climb over the barrier in the cheetah’s cage to pet it. Jeannette is full of anticipation and wonder, although all the bystanders are shocked and reasonably mortified. This is arguably one of the disastrous things her father chooses to do, again putting himself and his children in danger- especially when he thrusts Jeannette’s hand into the cage along with his for the cheetah to