Chestnut

Isolation sometimes is necessary for introspection, for evaluating thoughts and whatever one has done in their life. An individual can find many answers just by living alone and in isolation for some time. In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Jose Arcadio Buendia and Jose Arcadio Segundo enter extreme solitude throughout the novel. Jose Arcadio Buendía, one of the first Buendias, goes into solitude because he is constantly searching for the answers to everything. After…

first witch tells her sisters about a woman who refused to give her chestnuts and insulted the witch, and how she plans on torturing her husband who had just sailed away. “I’ll drain the life out of him. He won’t catch a wink of sleep, either at night or during the day. He will live as a cursed man. For eighty-one weeks he will waste away in agony.” The first witch plans on torturing the man because his wife refused to give chestnuts to her,…

Jane Eyre, the two most prominent symbols are the red-room and the chestnut tree. The red-room represents the way society has imprisoned Jane due to her gender and status. Ultimately, the room symbolizes the obstacles she has to overcome throughout her life in order to find happiness. The chestnut tree comes into play in a very critical part of the novel. The day that Mr. Rochester proposes to Jane, lightning splits the chestnut tree by the orchard. This can be interpreted in various ways but…

At the philosophical school of existentialism’s core lies an understanding of the consciousness that leads to a new outlook on life. The consciousness is understood to be different from anything material in this universe and existentialists view it as being “for-itself,” that is, able to be aware of its own self. Thus, with the unconscious part of the universe and the conscious part of the universe, the existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre created the unique categories of being, transcendence and…

In Reading, Pennsylvania on September 1, 1909, Hildegard Peplau was born to strict German parents. With an illiterate hardworking father, and a perfectionist mother. No could predicate Peplau would be recognized as the " mother of psychiatric nursing ". Peplau witness the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918. The experience at such a young age influence Peplau to the Nursing field. In 1931, Peplau graduated from Pottstown Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She then went on to begin her career as a…

Abraham Lincoln, albeit cheekily, giving Harriet Beecher Stowe credit for igniting the Civil War. 5. Mary Chestnut – Mary Chestnut was a woman who was married into the family of a moderate Southern Democrat. The family was one of the most powerful in South Carolina and had a plantation which had an estimated 500 slaves. Despite being firmly entrenched in the Southern plantation lifestyle, Chestnut disapproved of slavery and was a feminist. Her book, Diary, gave an account of Confederate…

158, it states, “From my favorite spot on the floor I look up at the blue sky and the bare chestnut tree, on whose branches little raindrops shine, appearing like silver, and at the seagulls and other birds as they glide on the wind.” Again, Anne writes about this tree on Tuesday, 18 April, 1944 on page 213, “Our chestnut is already quite greenish and you can even see little blooms here and there.” This chestnut tree Anne tells the reader about, becomes a measure of the seasons and a sign of the…

grown thicker” (291). This could mean that Julia is pregnant or was pregnant. 10. The Chestnut Tree Café is ironic because it is a bar and you are supposed to be relaxed and have fun in a bar, but it is a trap to lure people who are against Big Brother and the Party. The Chestnut Tree Café represents deception. It displays happiness and carelessness when in reality it is a trap. The lyrics “under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me” (293) accurately represent how Winston…

How to saddle a horse A lot of the times little girls always want a pony. They seem like such fun when they are only a thought at the back of their mind. They want what they see in the movies. The pretty horses who are always well behaved and simple to work with, but they are far from easy to work with. One of the first things that need to be done, is catch said horse. Sometimes this can be very easy, and sometimes it’s the hardest part of the job. Once the animal is caught take your lead rope…

Can the human spirit easily endure pain and suffering, or is it easily corruptible? In 1984 by George Orwell, Winston Smith is broken when he undergoes extreme psychological torture. His pain, however matures him in the sense that he lets go of his idealistic past self and accepts the ideologies of his government, “the party.” In a pivotal moment where winston is forced to believe that 2+2=5, he loses all sense of personal freedom and is at the will of Big Brother, and thus comes into his place…