This past week has been an adventure with starting online classes and ironing out the kinks of technology. We have started with reading “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” which is a lot different than the things we have ready beforehand. This story is darker than the other things we have read, […]
After reading Aurora Leigh it made me think of Mary Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” because of the subject of women’s education and what they are educated on. Also, because Aurora Leigh had similar ideas of wanting to be educated for education’s sake and not just to make her a better wife […]
My thoughts on “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” by Mary Wollstonecraft is that it was a good first start for women’s rights. I think that she chose the way she approached her argument to appeal to the men’s sensibilities of the time. By focusing on the fact that more education would make a […]
This week we went over some British history as well as analyzing two stories written by former slaves Olaudah Equiano and Mary Prince. We first talked about the geographic location of England then went into Medieval England discussing the Roman Empire, the shifting of the English language. We then mentioned works such as Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman […]
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