Ethan Holloway
Bio
Hello everyone! I an an aspiring writer, educator, and poet. I would love to see my work be suported and sought after on here. Thank you for reading, enjoy!
Stories (11/0)
America's First Examples of Progressive Women Fighting Patriarchy & Racial Barriers
In Colonial and post-colonial times in America, marriage was a sure way of securing a well fitted social and economic class rather than freely loving someone and having the option to choose who to marry. Although the rhetoric of affectionate marriage in the early national period presents marriage as a matter of individual choice rooted in emotion, the two novels I analyze force the reader to recognize that marriage is, in the 18th century seduction novel Coquette, primarily a means of economic and social mobility, and in the 19th century historical romance Hobomok, a mechanism of settler-colonialism and racial preservation. These time periods birthed a new type of woman in society that pushes back against being drawn in and trapped by the archaic traditions of marriage that society has set in place for women. Two texts from this time period that exemplify and use the idea of marriage as a means of economic and social mobility is the Coquette by Hannah Webster Foster and Lydia Maria Child’s Hobomok. While each story portrays marriage in their own way, both women protagonists refuse, and fight their societies view of who they should marry. In the Coquette Eliza tries to assert free will but comes to see how her choices have repercussion and her free willed spirit becomes her downfall. As for Mary Conant the American rebel, in Hobomok her situation becomes a bit more complex with racial issues closely intertwined with marital issues. Mary goes against her empirical Puritan society traditions of marriage by marrying Hobomok an Indian before turning around and ending up marrying into a European middle-class family to Mr. Brown. Eliza and Mary are seen juggling relationships between two men and this love triangle dynamic gives a good insight on the complications and the stress of societies constraints on marriage and relationships. The Coquette shows us that marriage remains a primarily economic arrangement, despite the period's rhetoric of affectionate marriage. Hobomok shows us that marriage in the 19th century as a domestic frontier novel is primarily an arrangement meant to preserve racial purity in society over their faith.
By Ethan Holloway3 years ago in Education
My Favorite Poem
To all of you reading this, "Salut au Monde" probably does not mean anything. Please allow me to unpack the various meanings of this compact phrase. French people say "Salut" as we say "hi" and "bye." It is a bit less formal than "Bonjour." "Au Monde" means "to the world," so the translation of the title is basically "Hello World" or "Hello to the World."
By Ethan Holloway3 years ago in Poets
My Inspiration
My grandfather Robert Schilke was a collector. My grandfather was a collector of everything he found to be valuable to him but his favorite thing to collect was money. My grandfather made a life out of finding and trading coins and bills to find even more interesting and valuable pieces to add to his collections.
By Ethan Holloway3 years ago in Families
A Vegas Moment
Not Everything That Happens in Vegas Has to Stay in Vegas Two summers ago, my friends and I all had been planning this big trip to Las Vegas Nevada for our twenty first birthdays and our friend Trai was the last one to turn Twenty-one in August. We had one of our friend’s cousin who was a high roller out there plan the entire trip for us and it could not have worked out better he made sure this trip was going to create memories we would not ever forget. And he was right we created memories that will last a lifetime and it was sincerely the best time any of us have ever had doing anything ever.
By Ethan Holloway3 years ago in Filthy
Crossing the Theshold to Greatness
Crossing the Threshold to Greatness “Every time I step on that basketball court my focus is to win the game… it drives me insane when I can’t”-Michael Jordan. We all at one point in time or another fanaticize about our role models who we consider to be great.
By Ethan Holloway3 years ago in Unbalanced
Comedic Speech
We are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that is wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that is worse. This is just a day. As we eagerly await the alcohol our parents have waiting for us all when we get done so let us make this one quick.
By Ethan Holloway3 years ago in Education
Mentality
Living in objectivity is not “objective” because what do we really know? I live subjectively to find objective answers in my own life. For me a philosophical mind state is the most freeing space my mind can live in. I look at all possibilities and all sides to find whats missing. Only the real can expose itself to you, but in order to see, you must free your mind from finding the one single best answer. Instead come to terms with the fact there might not be the one single best answer.
By Ethan Holloway3 years ago in Poets
Pop Culture In Academics
Pop-cultures Place in Academics Pop-culture is the youth’s pastime and is generally consumed by everyone around the world, it’s time to bring pop-culture into the classroom. It is imperative that teachers start using new strategies to keep students engaged and be productive in class. Teachers directing intermediate 200-300 level courses should be able to use the pop-culture technique to push and help their students to comprehend the course material. This technique is carried out by teachers through media education. Media Education is when teachers systematically use pop-culture to relate to course material that students might not be doing well in to then grasp a better comprehension of the material being presented. This in turn creates what is called media literacy in the students because they begin to interpret pop-culture academically and thoughtfully which allows students to recognize the correlation between the media and the course material. This is a great strategy for teachers and a very effective way of educating students, utilizing media education is the future of academics and is an inevitable concept that people must pay attention to. The biggest misinterpretation that people from the outside looking in see, is that pop-culture is seen as a distraction and pastime for consumers as opposed to being thought of as a constructive learning technique. The media is inevitably making its cross into the academic world, teachers must be able to use media education properly, in order to get their students to learn at the highest level possible and attain media literacy.
By Ethan Holloway4 years ago in Education