...During Odysseus’ Revenge, one could see multiple themes within the small section that could be used to analyze his revenge arc in the Odyssey. A cluster of three samples of methods to use to analyze this piece, which will be shown through the essay, are gender stereotypes/sexuality, structuralism, and rationalism. To explain and make connections for the support of the analyzing methods, examples from previous chapters of the textbook will be brought in and cited to help make the points and contrasts from the selected text. Beginning with the gender stereotypes analysis, the most obvious example is of the female slaves when they greet Odysseus after his revenge. The women were seen kissing and wrapping their arms around Odysseus lovingly (Steele...
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...suffered under the control and threaten of his master and how she escapes from the captors and finally gets free. The main character, Linda Brent, who is a slave girl working for Dr Flint’s daughter, is an epitome of the resistant black women. Having a master like Dr Flint, who threatens Linda constantly with violence and humiliating words, Linda shows intelligence and endurance to escape being further offended by Dr Flint. After Linda has children with Mr Sands who appears to be truly cares for Linda, Linda is threatened by Dr Flint again by being offered to buy her children’s freedom if Linda agree to live with him as his mistress. Linda refuses him and begins to plan her escape from that time. Linda has spent seven years hiding in her grandmother's attic and this exhibit her extraordinary psychological and spiritual strength. During the seven years, to elude her captors, she has moved several times to different cities within the help by some kind white people. Linda manages not only to survive but also to transcend seemingly insurmountable barriers, showing the difficulty for slave to live, especially women slave. Although some male authors of slave narratives had mentioned that African American women had been enslaved by white men, none of them had shown this subject as directly as Jacobs does. Jacobs not only described the sexual abuse she suffered, but also explained how she uses her sexuality as a means to avoid exploitation by her master. Risking her reputation in the disclosure...
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...most importantly, the control of women. Gilead, the new society, has taken reproduction out of the females’ control. Offered, who is the protagonist, describes herself as a “prize pig” (Atwood 79). Offred who is a handmaid, meaning that she is a fertile female who works for a man, usually of rank, for breeding purposes only. Similarly to a pig, they are bred to reproduce in order to produce more meat. Moreover, the second wave is even more apparent when readers are able to learn that not only do women not have rights, they couldn't obtain individualism or identity. Women were forced to wear specific colour based on their “roles”. For instance, Handmaids wear red, Martha’s are infertile women who wear green, and aunts wear brown and so on. None of them had paid jobs or even equal job opportunities as “ (females) had the power of a dog bone”(Atwood 25). In this second wave of feminism, women are utilized for immoral purposes, and respect for them has been lost in the duel for domination. Feminism is also distinctively present in Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the...
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...Although Frederick Douglass wrote several autobiographies during his lifetime, none continues to have the lasting literary impact of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. From its publication in 1845 to its present status in the American literary canon, the Narrative has become one of the most highly acclaimed American autobiographies ever written. Published seven years after Douglass' escape from his life as a slave in Maryland, the Narrative put into print circulation a critique of slavery that Douglass had been lecturing on around the country for many years. Yet while the Narrative describes in vivid detail his experiences of being a slave, it also reveals his psychological insights into the slave/master relationship. What Douglass realizes that day is that literacy is equated with not only individual consciousness but also freedom. From that day, Douglass makes it his goal to learn as much as he can, eventually learning how to write, a skill that would provide him with his passport to freedom. What gives the book its complexity is Douglass' ability to incorporate a number of sophisticated literary devices...
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...life of a printing apprentice, during the 1600 and early 1700s, was not a life of with a lot of glamour or hope, but the masters, or bourgeois as the workers said, lived a life of luxury and wealth because of the work from the apprentices (Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Severin, Darnton, 76). Apprentices worked in horrible conditions, slept in a little shack, and ate scraps while their masters laid back and enjoyed the day, “They (the workers) slept in a filthy, freezing room, rose before dawn, ran errands all day… and receiving nothing but slops to eat… Worse still, the cook secretly sold the leftovers and gave the boys cat food-old, rotten bits of meat that they could not stomach.” (Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Severin, Darnton, 76). The social statuses between the bourgeois and the apprentice workers became more divided, because the recent events in Europe that left workers in a state where they can no longer move up in status, “In 1644 Paris had seventy-five printing shops with a total of 180 presses; in 1701 it had fifty-one shops with 195 presses. This trend made it virtually impossible for the journeymen to rise into the ranks of the masters.” (Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Severin, Darnton,79). This restraint came to a peak when the workers could not sleep while the masters enjoyed solace, “The cats howled all night… making it impossible to get a full night’s sleep…they (the workers) began their...
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...Origins of Racism When the word racism comes about, many people don’t really stop and think where or even when racism began. They just think that since our history books tell us about the segregation that had occurred that it’s just a natural thing that happened in the past and still goes on today. The invention of racism was socially constructed and as a society, we developed the concept of racial segregation, racial discrimination, racial stereotyping and negative prejudice. Some believe that there is no real original concepts of how racism began, but how would we wrap ourselves around the concept of racism being uniquely developed so that one race was meant to be inferior to all the rest? There are many ideas about how racism came about. Some say that it’s because that’s how nature took its course. It was just made to have one race has to be above all the others, a superior race, and the inferior races, which are looked at as being intolerable. Seeing one race less important than another is dehumanizing but it is within the definition of racism, inferiority and superiority are stated. According to the Oxford dictionary, racism is defined as the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, esp. so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. This mentality of having superior and inferior races began in the 1600s where slave trade was considered to be normal. Slavery was not based on racial discrimination...
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...12. December 2014 REVIEW FOR MID-TERM EXAM – ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR 1. What is explained by the field of organizational behavior? a. individual motivation b. team dynamics c. organizational structure d. all of these 2. Organizational members who are responsible for the attainment of organizational goals by planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the efforts of others in the organization are called __________. a. executives b. coordinators c. managers d. bosses 3. When starting a company, what sequence of steps should a person take? a. organize, plan, control, lead b. organize, plan, lead, control c. plan, organize, lead, control d. plan, organize, control, lead 4. Which managerial function involves designing the organization’s or workgroup’s structure, identifying what tasks need to be done, hiring the right people, delegating and assigning each task, establishing a chain of command, and creating rules for communication and decision making? a. planning b. organizing c. leading d. controlling 5. Which managerial function involves monitoring performance to ensure that it is consistent with quality and quantity standards? a. planning b. organizing c. leading d. controlling 6. Which managerial function involves directing and coordinating the work of others, influencing and motivating others, maintaining morale, and resolving individual and group conflicts? a. planning b. organizing c. leading d. controlling 7. Which managerial function involves setting goals, establishing...
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...Please read through these instructions very carefully. This is your final exam in PSY265. These questions compose a plethora of topics read and discussed in our class for the past nine weeks. This exam consists of73multiple choice questions worth 1 point each, 13 fill in the blank questions worth 6 points each, and an essay question worth 99 points. The total possible points for the exam is 250. All of these questions were taken directly from the textbook, therefore you should not use any other outside source. Since information can sometimes contradict each other, if you use outside sources you run the risk of getting the question wrong even though it may appear correct outside the text. In order to mark the answer you have chosen, please delete all the other letters (i.e. A, B, C, D) except the one you have chosen. There should only be one letter chosen for each multiple choice question. If you have forgotten this or there is more than one answer chosen, it will be marked as incorrect. For fill in the blank questions and short answers, please write your answer in the space provided here in the exam. Once you are finished with the exam, please upload it to the week nine ‘final exam’ assignment section of the class. Absolutely no late exams will be accepted for any reason. Please make sure it is uploaded by 11:59pm Arizona time on 5/11/2014. 1). What are the three building blocks in Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love? 1.) Intimacy 2.) Passion 3.) Commitment ...
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...Written Report Adam Hassen, Matt Herrig, David Indehar Statistics 12/10/2012 SITUATION: We are investigating the amount of cigarettes smoked by the population of smokers in the metropolitan area. The metropolitan area is defined as the greater metro area of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, and near suburbs. Furthermore, we are attempting to make inferences on meaningful and relevant correlations and trends within the data, among other insights in to the population. SAMPLING METHOD/DATA COLLECTION METHOD: We obtained our samples by walking around Downtown Minneapolis individually (with each group member surveying different sections of the downtown area), seeking out individuals that were smoking and occasionally asked various people that were loitering outside. We would then introduce the project and ourselves, explain to them the situation, and ask them if they were willing to partake in the survey. If they agreed to participate, we would hand the participants the survey to complete, or upon their request, simply ask them the questions and record their answers. We did this on three separate occasions. Roughly 40 percent of our sample was acquired between 5:00PM and 8:00PM on Tuesday night, 30 percent between 11:00AM and 2:30PM on Wednesday, and the remaining 30 percent between 4:00PM and 6:00PM on the same Wednesday. Some bias that could be influencing our data is the fact that, in general, the population of downtown Minneapolis is somewhat more likely to consist of individuals...
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...REVIEW FOR MID-TERM EXAM – ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR 22.11.2012 1. What is explained by the field of organizational behavior? a. individual motivation b. team dynamics c. organizational structure d. all of these 2. Organizational members who are responsible for the attainment of organizational goals by planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the efforts of others in the organization are called . a. executives b. coordinators c. managers d. bosses 3. When starting a company, what sequence of steps should a person take? a. organize, plan, control, lead b. organize, plan, lead, control c. plan, organize, lead, control d. plan, organize, control, lead 4. Which managerial function involves designing the organization’s or workgroup’s structure, identifying what tasks need to be done, hiring the right people, delegating and assigning each task, establishing a chain of command, and creating rules for communication and decision making? a. planning b. organizing c. leading d. controlling 5. Which managerial function involves monitoring performance to ensure that it is consistent with quality and quantity standards? a. planning b. organizing c. leading d. controlling 6. Which managerial function involves directing and coordinating the work of others, influencing and motivating others, maintaining morale, and resolving...
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...in the first person, describing each of the pilgrims as they appeared to him. Though narrated by different pilgrims, each of the tales is told from an omniscient third-person point of view, providing the reader with the thoughts as well as actions of the characters. tone · The Canterbury Tales incorporates an impressive range of attitudes toward life and literature. The tales are by turns satirical, elevated, pious, earthy, bawdy, and comical. The reader should not accept the naïve narrator’s point of view as Chaucer’s. tense · Past setting (time) · The late fourteenth century, after 1381 setting (place) · The Tabard Inn; the road to Canterbury protagonists · Each individual tale has protagonists, but Chaucer’s plan is to make none of his storytellers superior to others; it is an equal company. In the Knight’s Tale, the protagonists are Palamon and Arcite; in the Miller’s Tale, Nicholas and Alisoun; in the Wife of Bath’s Tale, the errant knight and the loathsome hag; in the Nun’s Priest’s Tale, the rooster Chanticleer. major conflict · The struggles between characters, manifested in the links between tales, mostly involve...
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...One afternoon, in West Memphis, Arkansas, on May 6, 1993 three eight year boys’ bodies were found. The boys’ bodies were found hogtied, mutilated, and sexually assaulted. As the whole town was rocked by this discovery, the police decided they had to find the killer immediately. They automatically turned to their first suspect, Damien Echols, an eighteen-year-old boy who was known around town for dressing in all black and listening to rock music. The next arrest was made on Jessie Misskelley, a friend Echols, who was coerced into falsely confessing his guilt. The final arrest was made with Jason Baldwin, yet another associate of Echols. The three boys became known nationally as the West Memphis Three (WM3). The boys had rumors around town saying that they participated in Wiccan circles and Satanic rituals. Many believed that the murder of the three eight year olds’ was for a Satanic ritual that Echols, Misskelley and Baldwin were participating in. Even with a complete lack of circumstantial evidence from police, Jessie MIsskelley, at the age of just 17, was found guilty on one count of first degree capital murder and two counts of second degree murder and was sentenced to life in imprisonment without parole. Jason Baldwin was found guilty on three counts of capital murder. The 16 year old was sentenced to life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 40 years. Damien Echols was found guilty on three counts of capital murder and was sentenced to death by lethal injection. (Steel...
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...Film Final Evaluation Essay By Armando Khan Orientalism is something that has shaped the world. It has created the way we see culture. More than that it has placed culture in boxes and has probably led to the awareness of culture. By saying this I mean that the only reason we hold culture in such importance is because of difference. And that difference is caused by the wonder of orientalism. Orientalism is the portrayal off something mostly in a cultural context, in order to show a difference as well as to display something exotic. It overlooks similarities and is used to attract. This attraction comes from the exoticness for we are always attracted to something that seems distant from the mundaneness of our existences. With that being said, what also contributes to the attractiveness of orientalism is that orientalism can be seen by many as an escape. A place where taboos do not exist and one can break free of the shackles of society. Orientalism seemed to be most striking when depicted visually. Whether it be the nubile young boy on the cover of a book. Or a nude Chinese women on a placard , it was a subject of visual intrigue and something ,many in the west could not resist. This is probably why it was used in film which is what I shall get into later. Orientalism first came about with depictions of Arabic and Islamic regions. It became the norm as how this particular culture was to be viewed. This however overlooked the fact that there might have been styles that were...
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...“Although terrifying, many of the stories are also darkly comic.” Consider at least two of the stories from The Bloody Chamber in the light of this comment. * candidates must consider at least two stories here – they may consider more * exploration of the ways in which the stories may be considered terrifying, an aspect of the gothic – likely reference to the numerous instances of horrific violence, sexual depravity, supernatural powers, psychological fear etc * exploration of the ways in which some of the stories may be considered comic – “Puss-in-Boots” is obviously comic – other stories have moments of sardonic humour, often created by surprise or defiance of our expectations * Response to the word “darkly” in the question and its implications of black comedy – laughing at things which are not normally considered funny – expect some personal response here – sense of humour is very individual! * some candidates may discuss Carter’s language – her intermingling of the poetic and literary with the bluntly crude may be seen as a source of dark humour, equally her choice of structure may make her writing darkly comic – her use of juxtaposition – some readers have seen the absurd brevity of “The Snow Child” as comic and it is unquestionably “dark” Carter’s ‘The Bloody Chamber’ certainly embeds an element of terror within the collection. However, despite claims of horror apparent in the Marquis from the very start, it is also reasonable to argue that...
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...females — you know, teen parenting. You know, they think that's one of the worst things besides drugs and violence … I hated a lot of people stereotyping single Black moms to be, you know, high school dropouts: "Their kids ain't gonna' be nothing, she'll end up on welfare," and things like that. I think that was the worst thing … I felt like they were kind of wrong to, you know, to stereotype everyone. (Maxine, 18-year-old mother) Teen mothers' unique perspectives on teen pregnancy can contribute much to our understanding of this issue, including family and individual experiences. In this article, teens' narratives provide insight into processes and contexts of family caregiving they received during their pregnancies as one type of resource they relied on to work toward a new and positive identity. Consistent with scholarship on identity construction, teenagers described their relationships with others as critical to this development, and attention to the processes of caregiving illuminates this connection. The stigmatized status of teen pregnancy, when viewed as a master narrative (such as that articulated by Maxine above), renders teenagers' own narratives a counter story that facilitates narrative repair. Analysis of teenagers' narratives illuminates how processes of identity transformation connect one to the care of others, empowering individuals to resist threats to a positive sense of self or a damaged identity (Nelson, 2001). In their narratives, teenagers...
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