The collages all came out well however many of them are extremely hard to interpret. Our group was assigned a collage that I have no clue what it is about. I am literally going to assume it is about science and technology because the poster has snippets of two words saying science and technology on it. In addition, a news article on the expansion of Uber rides, which therefore is also about technology. However there is also a news article about Oprah buying stock which I don’t see relevant to my assumption. So, I am a bit clueless, however it is very engaging and I can not wait to find out what the collage is all about.

Realism and Naturalism are both literary movements mainly to shape human character and discuss believable everyday reality. There is industrialization and objective thought. Additionally, a change in communication, rise in world literature. Realism attempts to show subject matter truthfully, avoiding implausible supernatural factors. In A Simple Heart, Felicite demonstrates the basic elements of reality, it is relatable. She lives a normal, basic life being a servant and it is reasonable and relatable. There is no exotic super natural elements. Naturalism depicts the social, heredity, and environment conditions that play in shaping a character. In Hedda Gabler, Hedda’s background plays a big role in the story. Her dad is a general and she has a infatuation with pistols. Ironically, she ends up committing suicide with a pistol.

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow —
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep — while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

This poem represents Edgar Allan Poe’s view on life that we are all living life’s big dream, where our inner dreams are merely a function of our own mind. Poe believes that his life is like a dream. He stands on the shore of the ocean, holding grains of sand and is weeping. He cannot keep the sand from running out of his hand, and is is comparing it to his own life. As in, life is always slipping away through our fingers like the sand in Poe’s hands (haha did not mean to rhyme but cannot substitute any other words). When sand is held loosely, it will sit in your palm, but if you try to grasp it for a firm hold you loose more control of what little you have. He compares holding the sand to dreaming. Therefore, if you hold on too tight to your dream you end up making it all fall apart (wake up). When Poe holds on to the sand too tight it slips away so like a dream the more you become aware of it (lucid dreaming), the more likely you are waking up from it. Thus loosing the happy place that you are dreaming about. In addition, I think subconsciously whatever you dream about are your goals in life that being success, reconciling with particular people, living a lavish lifestyle, the list goes on and on. The waves he is mentioning are in a way the obstacles we go through in life bringing us down. If you think about it literally if he uses a little water from the shore and places it in his palm with the sand it will become more sturdy and more successful to grasp without having it slip away. But thinking about it in terms of oneself you can say the waves are the obstacles that are making you grow, learn from your mistakes and use the lessons to solidify your goal.

First and foremost I would like to state I am happy to be assigned to read feminist pieces of work! Marie Gouze was born in a butchers family in the south of France in 1748. A French activist and playwright took the the name Olyme de Gouges. The Declaration of the Rights of Women published in 1791 in order to bring into light the extreme gender inequalities during the French Revolution. She states, “This revolution will only take place when all women become fully aware of their deplorable condition, and the rights they have lost in society,”. That sentence in itself has so much power in my opinion because she is trying to inform women how severe and poor their status in society is. By exposing the truth she is trying to unleash the beast (women) to step up and take part in their natural born rights. That being in politics, marriage equality, ownership, speech, duties, the list goes on and on. Another favorite line was,”Women have the right to mount the scaffold, they must also have the right to mount the speaker’s rostrum”. De Gouges exclaims women are allowed to be condemned equally as men but denied equal rights. I absolutely love this piece because she is basically telling women to wake the hell up! Additionally, to stand together and realize the importance of oneself. I wish she was still alive so I can grab a cup of tea/coffee with her. I believe she was very successful in conveying her message as it was a stepping stone to where we are today. She introduced the real issue and it was the baby steps that needed to be taken in order to expose the blatant inequality among men and women. Nowadays you can definitely see the power of a female, common example taking place is a female running for president! It is beautiful how a women’s chance of receiving an education, enjoying a constitutional right to equality and living longer have increased. However there are always double standards in place and women will in my opinion never fully achieve same respect as men universally.