...The article "The End of Men" was written by Hanna Rosin, a noted English journalist, who among others has written for The New Yorker. " She has several times written about women's equality, and she is also cofounder of a woman's website. The text is an article published in "The Atlantic" in 2010. In the article Hanna Rosin mentions the increasing number of women, not just in the labor market in general, but particularly in dedicated management posts. She also refers to women's increasing pride in their own sex, and how more and more parents who can choose, choose to get a girl. She writes this article on the basis of a new study that now shows that women are in majority in the labor market for the first time in U.S. history. The reader or recipient of this Article is all people but perhaps especially the women themselves, as they may see that a new era is starting for them and therefore they should not be afraid to stand by their gender. Hanna Rosin starts the article by asking some questions to the reader. In these matters summarizes and presents she thought what the rest of the article will be about, and she gives the reader something to think about. The questions are both logos and pathos inspired as they both get the reader intellectually evaluating simultaneous emotional involvement in the article. The opening is also very dramatic when she finishes with the phrase "A report on the unprecedented role reversal now under way – and its vast cultural consequences”. After...
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...Should the Male Chauvinism be abolished? Women were long regarded naturally weaker than men, which is always misunderstood that women have fewer rights than men have. Despite the increasing public awareness and the effective progresses, the rights between women and men have never been equalized. In other words, men more likely play the dominant role in decision-makings. Generally, male chauvinism is one of the major issues caused the gender discrimination. For instance, according to the Yellow Wallpaper, Gilman used the first person narrator to narrate that in order help her recover from the nervous depression, her husband stopped her from doing everything except taking a rest (Gilman 1899). The author used this narrative point of view to express how she was ignored, but incapability had no choice to change it. Moreover, the author intentionally emphasized her husband’s high social status while comparing with her menial work, which strongly represents the imparity between men and women. Through this writing style, Gilman modeled this female protagonist with unlimited potential but did not get acceptance, was asked to give up writing and even her imagination was deprived. All these details symbolized that she was bound up in fetters of male chauvinism. Furthermore, Gilman used abundant descriptions of the repellent yellow wallpaper and her attitude to express how tightly she was tied by the male chauvinism. Especially, this dull yellow wallpaper plays a vital role in symbolizing...
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...Nationalism in china Introduction China,officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a sovereign state located in East Asia; it is the third biggest country in the world.China is obviously not a unified nation-state but one that comprises multiple ethnic groups, some of which can even be seen as nations. China have 56 recognizedethnic groups, and Han is the biggest group, more than 90 percent are Han, and the main minorities are Mongol, zang, dai, zhuang. In the early year of china, minorities and Han have very big conflict in nation-state, at that time Han intolerance every minority groups, because they are weak and small. Now, china has some policy to protect minority groups, and opposed to Han chauvinism, that makes minority groups’ power and life greater and even much better than Han's people. And it makes people confuse, why protect minority groups are so important?And what is the different between Chinese nationalism and minority groups’ nationalism? Main body Chinese nationalism What is nationalism? Nationalism is a combination of national self-identification developed in the process of one group of people interacting and intercommunicating with other peoples, a strong common consciousness, and it is the most powerful political idea of the past two centuries. Then, what is Chinese nationalism?Chinese nationalism can be dividing into two parts, one is Chinese nationalism, and another is minority nationalism. In china, minority groups always be seen as vulnerable...
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...Was the demise of the Soviet Union caused principally by American policies or growing domestic unrest across the Eastern bloc? Student Name: XIANG MA Student ID Number: 2112688 Module Code: V12153 Module Title: The Contemporary World since 1945 Module Convenor: Sarah Browne At the end of 1991, the Soviet Union, the world’s first socialist country with the largest territorial area suddenly disintegrated without any war and foreign invasion, which was one of the most important global events in the 20th century and it shocked the world to a huge extent[1].Since then, there have been heated debates and discussion about what caused the demise of the Soviet Union. Some scholars think that internal factors such as social crisis and growing domestic unrest led to the end of the Soviet Union while others believe external factors like the policies of the US and Western Europe resulted in the end of the Soviet Union. This essay strongly agrees that the demise of the Soviet Union was caused principally by growing domestic unrest across the Eastern bloc rather than American policies. The Soviet Union was a multi-ethnic country built on the ruins of the Czarist Russia characterized by its nation. The ethnic issue of the Soviet Union was longstanding. During the history of more than 370 years starting from Moscow Grand Duke Ivan IV declared him to be Czar and established the Czarist Russia in 1547 until the Czarist Russia was overthrown in 1917, the Czarist...
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...the role of men and women in society. These two novels criticise patriarchal societies, where “women are taught to think as men, identify with a male point of view and to accept as normal and legitimate a male system of values…” . In both of them, there are clear examples of chauvinism, which conditions the lives of Esperanza Cordero, a “Chicana” who lives in a Latin neighbourhood in the USA called Mango Street; and Annie John, who passes her childhood and part of her adolescence in Antigua, an island in the Caribbean which until 1981 was a British colony. In the following paragraphs, I will describe and analyse diverse illustrations of patriarchal society seen in both novels. These examples will be used to explain male and female roles in this kind of society. Firstly, both societies are more permissive with men than with women. In this way, males are allowed to act freely, while women are constantly being judged for their actions. In text A, we can notice Rosa Vargas’s situation. As the text says, “she is the only one against so many […] [and] cries everyday for the man who left without even leaning a dollar for bologna or a note explaining how come.” Furthermore, Minerva is also a victim of chauvinism. As Esperanza says, “Minerva is only a little bit older than me but already she has two kids and a husband who left.” In Mango Street, no one seems to care about it, they take it as something normal. In text B, we are told that Annie John’s father had many children with other...
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...Compare and contrast Nazi and Italian Fascist views on race and national identity Despite both pertaining to the political ideology of fascism and sharing many similar characteristics, the regimes of Nazi Germany and Italy under Mussolini can be seen to differ slightly. One aspect where this becomes apparent is views on race; the differences in attitudes and policy with regards to race for both examples must be discussed as it provides a key distinction between Nazism and Italy’s own brand of Facismo. With regards to national identity, it is possible to concede that both regimes share similar characteristics; however they attempt to achieve their goals of national identity in fundamentally different ways. The central thesis of this paper will contend that Italian Fascism’s views on race contradict that of the Nazi’s, and that while similar aspects and views of national identity are held, there are differing means of establishing national identity. Moreover, this paper will illustrate that Nazism and Italian Fascism are in fact unique phenomena. Examples and evaluative comment will be provided in order to provide a clear comparison and distinction. Firstly, comparison between Italian and Nazi views on race must be discussed at they provide notable differentiation. Racial theory proved to be of paramount importance to 19th century German science and academics which strongly influenced Nazi ideology, ‘Volkish theorists found a theory of race in the writings of Kant which was...
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...genders. Those roles were reinforced through television, school, and experiences. Many boys received trucks and guns as gifts, while many girls received dolls and make believe ovens. We were taught boys grow up to be doctors and pilots; girls nurses and stewardesses. Boys build houses; girls keep house. Boys can become president; girls first lady. We grow up hearing phrases like men are strong; women are the weaker sex. These life experiences can lay seed to limitations to, and de-evaluation of the female gender, weather intentioned or not. Many women conformed to the prescribed role assign them. Those who do not are likely to confront prejudice in the form of sexism and chauvinism in their daily lives. The Results Sexism, also known as gender discrimination, is often in combination with male chauvinism, the belief that women are inferior to males therefore, deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit. Women should know their place. They should know that place does not include anywhere men consider their stronghold. For a woman to do so, even now in the 21st century is risky, and at times outright dangerous. Women who aspire to, or compete with the male dominated, or male stereotyped roles become vulnerable. She risks being called a man, a feminist, a lesbian, or obscene four letter words. Although these words injure emotionally, they are not just words, they have a purpose. They are meant to humiliate, degrade and dehumanize. The ideology of those words allows her...
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...Course: College English 2 Date: 12/4/12 Marital destruction out of dysfunctional marriage and Othello’s characters William Shakespeare is（1564-1616） widely regarded as the greatest writer in the history of English literature and the most pre-eminent dramatist around the world. Among all his works, many literary critics regard Othello as the peak of his tragedies. Othello is not only a tragedy of family, but also a tragedy of love. Jealous psychology of the characters ultimately leads to the marital tragedy. Iago was jealous of Cassio and Othello, so he slandered and entrapped Cassio and Desdemona, which directly brought about the tragedy. Othello’s true love to Desdemona was utilized by Iago who had an ulterior motive. Driven by jealousy, Othello readily believed Iago, and personally killed his own wife, and eventually drew his sword to cut his own throat. Therefore, the tragedy in Othello’s marriage is largely rooted in jealous psychology. We analyze the reason effect this tragedy of marriage by following the premarital objective situation and the subjective married life. Othello and Desdemona’s marriage is doomed and dysfunctional from the beginning because of acute differences in marriage and due to Othello’s flaw of characters. We analyze the reasons which affect this tragedy of marriage by following the premarital situation then Othello’s characters in married life. To pave the way for detailed analysis, it is necessary to know about two types of marriages at that...
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...The Boys at the Back The boys’ grades are dropping and dropping, while the girls' grades are getting better and better every year. This is very frustrating for the young boys, and research shows that more and more of the young boys are dropping out of high school and college because of this problem. But what is the explanation for this? That girls are smarter than boys? Or that boys do not have the brain capacity to straight A’s? Although this might be a delight for many teenage girls, this is not the case. Christina Hoff Sommers has been brave enough to take this issue up for us in the media in her article “The Boys at the Back”. Previously, it was the boys who were at the top of the society. The male gender was the ones who had the most and the best opportunities in educations, and so did they of course have the rights, which women have not always had. But beyond that, the parents also expected more of their sons than they did from their daughters; "Families’ favoring sons over daughters in allocating scarce resources for schooling; cultural norms that de-emphasized girls’ education, particularly past high school; an industrial economy that did not require a college degree to earn a living wage; and persistent discrimination toward women in the workplace.” (p. 1, ll. 19-21). However, in our today’s society parents seems to look more identical at their children. There has always been a small gap in preparation to education between boys and girls. In the beginning...
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...Nigeria as it stands is in a chaotic state; a situation where there is total lack of organization and control, a situation where corruption is the order of the day, a situation where egoism rules rather than altruism, a situation where there’s no any visible formal system of government, and even if we pretend to have a government, this government is paralyzed, ineffective or better described, the Nigeria government is at the state of apathy; emotional emptiness, where human life has and given no value, where we danced away our sorrows, where we replaced grief with merriment, where our leaders party away while we die in hundreds, where casualty is lied about, and where terrorism is politicized at the expense of human lives. We should expect further less from a country that has been characterized despite its acclaimed democratization with inept leadership, nepotism, electoral malpractices, bigotry, religious crises, dishonesty, immorality, and favoritism among others. The problems facing the Nigerian nation-state are too many to mention but a few, the failure of leadership, unemployment, ethnicity and religious intolerance further disunite us, the lack of capacity to utilize natural resources, corruption which permeates not only every aspect of our political system but also, every aspect of our lives, and not long ago, militancy which leads to kidnapping, bunkering, and recently terrorism which has caused us more woes than any other. Though, they weren’t borne out of nothing, and...
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...India. .A large percentages of Indian women have faced or are facing this menace. Whether it is a public transport system or public places or shopping malls or multiplexes, women find themselves vulnerable to the threat of eve teasing everywhere. Eve teasing is complex problem and it requires more attention that what it has actually got. As we know, the term ‘eve teasing’ is an Indian origin. The term itself has some demerits. Eve represents temptress and the term actually signifies that eves (women) tempt or provoke males for vulgar comments and behaviors. Ironically, that also means women cause the problem and are also a victim to it. But that is almost like blaming the victims for their sufferings. It also depicts an element of male chauvinism. Every man needs to be aware of ‘how to treat a woman’. Eve teasing in India has to do with women empowerment and girl education. What’s the point of education if the people are not even willing to respect women? The traditional mindset often blames the eve teasing incidents on women that they provoke male by wearing scanty clothes. That is actually a lame excuse. Even if females wear modern dresses it does not give men license to harass women. The answer lies in changing the mindset and inculcating morals and values in our education system. women, should empower ourselves to fight back. Same story everyday and now you are wondering what to do? Many women have been found carrying pins,...
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...way to understand America. For Gene, he begins to understand America by looking into the past. On the other hand, there was also the Linda Kerber essay that we had also read at the beginning of the semester. Kerber was saying in her article that there was something that was wrong with the myth and symbolist methodology. She also talked about how there are new approaches and diversity in the field and how it has altered the ways that American Studies practitioners write, teach, and learn. What interested me most in her article is how American Studies was quicker to welcome women and ethnic studies. I believe the answer to this is simply that the women represent a larger group and they are more out spoken. Kerber also saw a great deal of chauvinism with the myth symbolist methodology, as well as this certain approach not looking for structures of power. She looked at points from all different sorts of angles and would then analyze them. Kerber would always have a valid answer and would really go into great detail in her article so that it was easy to pick up the information. These two articles were very much related, but at the same time they were very different. This leads into the past and current methodological...
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...Throughout the sixties, the women's movement grew steadily, but most Americans were barely aware of what was happening. Then in the early 1970's, feminism exploded across the national scene as groups of activists cropped up almost everywhere. Often, women focus in around a single issue, pouring their efforts into a rape hotline, a battered women's shelter, or some other highly focused project. At the same time, a broad based right wing backlash began to build, it was fueled by white male resentment at the challenges from feminists and from civil rights movement. When conservatives won the white house in 1980, feminists were thrown on the defensive; for the next decade, they had to fight to hang onto the ground they had already gained(Taylor,...
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...A few years like yesterday The chair is a recliner Sun gazing in the colors of maroon There at your foot is you Cooking sand Lighting the air Talking about all those things you will become But your life became stereotyped And the burgeoning years a servitude Servitude to everyone but you Seeing life through a colored prism You wait for that time when you can be you And wait you did Until it never came Now the tunnel is dark The light behind you Your shadow in front You hold onto the silver lining The only thing that has seemingly not passed you by And like a revelation it's all clear now As a few years became like yesterday. Between God and me I'm about to commit this sin And I know it's pretty bad My heart pulsate like you were right by my side But you are God now loving me despite my short-comings I'm living this life Not exactly like you would want me to A loving father you are And I know you will still chastise me But the adrenalin that comes with breaking a law is just so enchanting Now between Me and You I know I love you like crazy But still take granted for your mercies Choice and will you gave me The liberty they bring I'm abusing This time I'm before you My hands behind my back; face to feet As ashamed as I'm guilty;of the sins I committed like duty Forgive me and keep me a place in your kingdom Because between Me and you; you know I have no other to turn to ...
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...Like you, no matter where I travel abroad there is a myriad of reasons to be thankful to be an American. Some individuals I encountered were fascinated by my status as an American. Others verbally attacked my citizenship. When I was in Egypt, I was assigned an armed guard who followed me everywhere. Such occurrences of American hate may reflect misconceptions of American exceptionalism. For example, those who disprove of American exceptionalism associate it with jingoism or chauvinism (Murray 2013). America is a beacon for the entire world. The beacon draws some toward it and other to destroy it. Religion, or more accurately faith, does play a substantial part in the propulsion of American exceptionalism. America is a grand experiment in...
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