...Story of Survival “All was gone, my husband gone..., my children gone, my relations and friends gone, our house and home, and all our comforts within door and without, all was gone except my life and I knew not but the next moment might go too.”(Edmund, 19) These were the words of Mary Rowlandson, a woman taken into captivity after Native Americans raided her colony, tortured and murdered the people of the land, and took Mary and a few others and turned them into slaves. Mary’s life was spared because she possessed the skill of sewing, and often sewed and knitted the Indians clothing. During her captivity she analyzed the way the Native Americans socialized and lived their everyday lives. The two worlds were polar opposites, and the way Native American women were treated was much different to the beliefs of Puritan ideology. Indian women even led army groups as large as 300 people; they were considered very strong. The women considered Mary to be weak, and treated her as such. In the Puritan world woman’s power was non-existent, and believes the women were around to serve the man, and their opinions and thoughts were not valued. “It was a solemn sight to see so many Christians lying in their blood, some here and some there, like a company of sheep torn by wolves. All of them striped naked by a company of hell-hounds, roaring, singing, ranting, and insulting, as if they would have torn our hearts out.”(Rowlandson, 9-10) While many of her townspeople were tortured and slaughtered...
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...two things that have always gone hand in hand. Although art was not always done and accepted by women or minorities there was always an impact on society and culture. It was not until the Civil Right movement and Women Right movement in the late 1960’s that all of this changed. At this point everyone was treated and recognized equally and everyone now had an impact on their cultures and society. Women and Minorities and Art Before the late 1960’s and early 1970’s women and cultural minorities were not recognized for the art that they were capable of producing. “In 1960, the world of American women was limited in almost every respect, from family life to the workplace. A woman was expected to follow one path: to marry in her early 20s, start a family quickly, and devote her life to homemaking. As one woman at the time put it, "The female doesn't really expect a lot from life. She's here as someone's keeper — her husband's or her children's." ("E-Collaborative For Civic Education", 2015) Art galleries looked away and did not accept their art to be displayed in their studios. The women and minorities of cultures had to start protesting outside of art galleries to find their voices, and to be heard. In the late 1960’s women came together to open up their own art galleries, and were finally able to have their work on display for everyone to enjoy and see. By the mid 1970’s there were over 1,000 colleges and universities across the country that offered women studies courses....
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...Student: Nguyễn Thảo Vi Student code: 11134544 Class: Advanced Accounting 55B “Gone with the wind” ”_ written by Margaret Mitchell, has been one of the famous literary classics of all time when it first published in 1936. The famousness of the novel mostly come from the way Margaret Mitchell created the characters, creating haunting scenes and thrilling portraits of characters so vivid that we remember their words and feel their fear and hunger for the rest of our lives, especially Scarlett O’Hara_ the protagonist and the remarkable meaning hidden within it. Literature, an invisible world created by the infinite imagination of the writers, is where you can meet all kinds of people that could make your heart quivers intensely. Those characters reflect life in a truthful way, and they also show us the deep experiences and the desperate desires in life. “Gone with the wind”_ the famous literary classics, poytrayed excellently the pictures of the contemporary society and the women in the 19th century in a way that no one had ever done before through the charming and frenetic Scarlett O’Hara. Scarlett O’Hara is highlighted character of the whole story, although she was a character who embodies all of the negative stereotypes attributed to women throughout history. She is narcissistic, shallow, dishonest, manipulative, amoral. At the beginning of the story, Scarlett was described to be self-centered, and spoiled by her wealthy parents. Scarlett is very intelligent...
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...Story Of An Hour", Chopin portrays situational irony along with an exciting tone to express how little women are understood when it comes to marriage and stereotypes. Chopin's uses a celebratory tone in parts of the story expresses how freeing women felt when finally able to be themselves again after a marriage that was tying them down is broken off. When Mrs. Mallard finally realizes that her husband is "gone for good", Chopin writes,"What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being! 'Free! Body and soul free!' She kept whispering" (101). The...
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...against men need to change. It needs to be stopped. Don’t get me wrong, we have come a long way since the eighteen hundreds. Women are able to vote, own property, get jobs, and so forth. I am all for women’s rights and women’s suffrage. Girl power is great. Women are taken seriously now and that’s great. The way we used to treat women was bad. It was a don’t ask don’t tell thing. Like if a man was cheating on his wife or beating his in the early nineteen hundreds people didn’t speak of it. The women was the mans property and he could do whatever he wanted. Now things have changed, laws have been made and enforced. Now its looked down upon to beat your wife and you will go to jail. Now there are all sorts of sexual harassment laws that are mostly enforced for the protection of women. In school the other day, there were some sophomore girls that made up a game. You got a certain amount of points for touching senior guys butts. I think it was forty or fifty points for grabbing or slapping their butt. Then you got twenty for “grazing” a guys butt. If sophomore guys played that game with senior girls, all of us would probably be expelled and charged with sexual harassment. Those girls didn’t get in trouble at all, because nobody cared that girls were grabbing guys butts. That is wrong. That is sexism against men. Its also a lose-lose situation for those guys butts who were grabbed. They were violated, but do you expect them to go to a teacher or Mr. Weber and telling them...
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...society has on the expectations of women. This expectation is that women, like the girl described in the poem, should be perfect. She should know how to cook and clean, but most importantly she should be attractive according to the impossible stereotypes of womanly beauty. Many women in today’s society are being compared to the unrealistic physical looks and life of the Barbie doll. Through the past many years, the Barbie doll has gone from a popular toy to a role model for actual women in today’s society. The extremes to which women take the Barbie doll as a role model are implicit in this poem. The opening line of the poem says, “This girlchild was born as usual,” which suggests that as soon as a female child is born, society expects her to learn the role she will play once she hits puberty. Therefore, showing the readers why little girls are given dolls at a young age to illustrate how they should act and appear according to society. Once girls learn the roles they will soon have to play in their own lives, “the magic of puberty,” hits and girls immediately begin applying these ideals to their own lives. As if the attempt of girls trying to conform to the Barbie doll image isn’t enough, they also have other people in society telling them that they’re not perfect. “You have a great big nose and fat legs,” says a classmate to the girl. This type of pressure from peers and society can slowly but surely destroy the little confidence women may still have in them. In the second stanza...
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...those of another group. In this write-up, I will be analyzing how my folk’s medicines and beliefs about health care have influenced my attitudes about health care and how my views have changed over the years. I am from South-Eastern Nigeria in West Africa called the Igbo. The Igbos speak the Igbo language, and have two major religions: Christianity and traditional religion. The health beliefs of the Igbo in relation to health and illness are the following: that most illnesses are caused by one’s enemies who submitted their names to evil spirits; that some illnesses are a reward of one’s evil doing in the past; that evil spirits could be appeased to cure mysterious illnesses; that husbands should stick to their wives sexually to prevent mysterious illness gotten from women which is the common name for sexually transmitted diseases; that women should be circumcised to prevent them from living promiscuous lifestyle. Local herbs are most frequently used to cure all illnesses. Before the rise of Christianity in Igbo, during the late 19th century and early 20th century, the birth of twins [and other multiple births] was seen as an abomination. Multiple births were believed to be what only animals should produce and single births were believed to be what only humans should produce. Twins were killed by abandonment in the community’s evil forest or in some cases were instantly killed. After the birth,...
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...they were charged with feeding, rearing and caring for their children. Theirs is an American story that is rarely told on any grand, meaningful scale—not one, at least, that defies stereotype and caricature. But recently, “The Help,” a film based on Kathryn Stockett’s bestselling book of the same name, became a cultural touchstone when two of its lead characters, both African-American maids in the then-staunchly segregated Mississippi, challenged viewers to walk their journey—to see, as lead protagonist, Abileen Clark, said, “what it felt like to be me.” To me, ‘The Help’ is this year’s most outstanding and socially relevant motion picture; Viola Davis’ quiet but powerful portrayal of Abileen made us all take notice of a historically invisible class of women and Abileen’s story, along with those of the other maids who rallied with her to tell it, remind us that when we speak, if only in a whisper, momentous things can happen. Of course, the movie, does not come without its controversy: while so many, myself included, questioned then embraced Stockett’s story and actresses Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer earned Academy Award nominations for their roles as the maids who conspired with a young white woman to canonize their life stories, others question why, 70 years after Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for her portrayal as the affable, sassy slave maid Mammy in Gone With the Wind, Hollywood ushered to the screen a movie feting the Jim Crow subjugation of black women. What is lost...
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...Mahmoud Mandour Mrs. Kuhl English Lang. and Lit. 25th February 2013 Rational I chose to write a movie review, as a critic pointing out the inaccurate depictions made through characters in the movie, ‘Gone With The Wind”. What motivated me to do this, is that it is difficult to criticize movies as successful as this. So, I wrote this as a critic pointing out some huge flaws in the portrayals made through the movie’s characters, rather than focus on the story plot, like other movie reviews. The audience I target for this critique, is any “GWTW” fan that thinks this movie is flawless. This written task is intended to focus on part 1 of the course, as language in this movie is used in different contexts to portray race relations and gender roles in a certain society at the time the movie was set. The tone used in the very title of the article is humorous and a bit exaggerated, as I make a pun by using the name of the movie in making a point about how this movie abolishes accurate perceptions on the nature of the confederate states. The first half of the introduction is stated in an admiring tone, as I praise the movie’s success with sentences like; “ leaving viewers with a warm feeling towards a great story that was beautifully told.” I then shift to a rather aggressive tone, as I directly point out the issues in the movie. As for the rest of the article, the tone is strictly formal and informative, as I elaborate on the introduction. I made sure to stick...
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...Women’s Rights Women have had to fight for their rights. There was a time when women only jobs were to stay home and take care of things there. From the Christian perspective everyone should be treated equal. Denying women of certain rights is considered unfair. Women have a voice just like men have one. God stated that all men are created equal. If each of us are created in the image of God we all should act as such. During those times the rights of women were not as they are today. The roles have changed, when it pertains to the different positions, which women are able to hold today. In those times women were not able to vote. Women duties were to take care of the home, as men went out to work and do hard labor. Women had no voice when it came to politics and other important matters. Women were excluded from higher education back then, but thanks to changes women today are able to get an education. Susan B. Anthony played a part in helping women to gain many rights that they have today. Anthony and Stanton established the New York State Temperance Society in 1852. They also formed the New York State Women’s Right Committee. She also fought for women to be able to vote. Women today are blessed that things have changed tremendously. Today women have earned degrees, good paying jobs and are able to run for president. The work that tremendous women such as Susan B Anthony put in has not gone in vain. She helped to pave the way for many of the things women are able to do today...
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... War Women of World War II Woman in World War II was saw for the first time as more than just baby making and taking care of the family. Although they have been working for centuries it had never been to the extent of what World War took it too. Woman was working building bombs, shipping food, building planes, etc., everything they could to help the men overseas. They was mothers, daughter, sisters, and boyfriends to most of them. Texas Newspapers was very strong in showing the patriotism of women during this time. Newspapers in Texas brought stories from Washington state to Florida showing how independence of woman was slowly coming forth. Of course it would women was doing jobs that men did before the war. There was even a woman’s baseball league created to replace men’s baseball while they were off at war. Men was leaving to fight and women was filling in to do what they can for their country and get paid. Unemployment went down as a result of the war. Women thought out the war had been getting talked about for their work efforts but they was still not at the status of a man. Universities was raising money for war bonds and helping red cross with their mission. Maybe the most important thing is that woman had to now take care of the family while their husband or boyfriend was gone. They had to work, take care of the kids, and make sure their homes are safe along with their kids. During World War II Women were seen as strong workers who were gaining more...
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...between Men and Women after a Breakup It can be distressing when serious relationships come to an end, especially if one or both parties have put in so much love and devotion into the relationship. The people after this incident encountered complicated challenges of disentanglement with their previous mate, they had negative feelings about the overall situation, and bound themselves the need to let go and move forward in life, distracted from their pain. According to the article Surviving A Relationship Break-Up,” Surviving a relationship breakup can be one of the most difficult things people ever do and on an emotional level can be one of the most painful processes in our lives. Losing a boyfriend/girlfriend or a husband/wife can feel like your heart is literally being torn out.” When faced with interpersonal mayhem, individuals tend to do things as a mean for coping with the loss of the previous relationship. But how does anyone deals with these heartbreaking situations? How does the coping mechanism of women differ with the men? In the article Gender, Love Schemas, and Reactions to Romantic Break-Ups, Patricia Choo and her colleagues indicates that “Men and women relied on somewhat different coping strategies for dealing with break-up. Although men and women were equally critical of their own roles in break-ups, women are more likely to blame their partners than were men.” Men and women tend to deal with breakups differently. Sporadically, women have a tendency to engage...
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...fallenness of human kind, and is human cruelty (Kerry, 1998). Abortions should be illegal because, they violate fetal rights, have a negative effect on society, and can cause severe physiological issues to the women involved. Just as you and I did not ask to be conceived, neither did the child in question. It too should be given a chance at life and have rights. Not one life is ever more important than another. The fourteenth amendment states, “Anyone born or naturalized in the United States will have equal rights,” (Hudson, 2015, Para. 1). If the fetus is conceived (naturalized) in the United States, then they have equal rights as stated in the constitution. Abortions performed, are crimes being committed per the fourteenth amendment. Twenty-one days after conception there is a human heart beat (Jalsea, 2016). A mother does not find out she is pregnant until twenty-eight days after conception, sometimes longer. This is due to the HCG levels in the mother’s body not being strong enough to create a positive result on a pregnancy test. Stopping the heart of a human is considered murder. Murder should not be accepted if the beating heart is inside of a womb. A fetus can feel physical pain so murdering it, it not just a crime, it is a violent act one human is doing to another. Abortions have a negative impact on society for several reasons. Abortions staying legal have led to...
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...First, you have to know a few things about the Arabian Nights. They are not that Arabian and they were written for a courtly culture in the Abbasid Empire that was heavily Persianate. The Arabian Nights, called simply The Book of 1001 Nights in Arabic, are comprised of various stories taken from an international culture that developed in the Abbasid Caliphate around Baghdad in the 8th-10th century and the stories come from Indian, Persian, Greek, and Arab sources. One of the largest sources was, in fact, a Persian book called Hazar Afsad. It is not necessarily reflective of the broader culture. It reflects the culture of the court which was a mixture of Persian and Hellenistic influences but at a time when the ruling class who produced this...
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...She quietly slips into the kitchen with a bundle that had been given to her by a young priest. In the bundle are clothes taken from the body of a man who drowned in the far north. They were sent to Maurya's home, hoping that she would be able to identify the body. Maurya begins to look as if she is going to wake up soon, so the daughters hide the bundle until a time when they are alone. Maurya awakes, and her fear for losing her only remaining son Bartley intensifies her grieving for Michael. Keep in mind, she has already lost five sons and a husband to the sea. The priest claims that that "insatiable tyrant" will not take her sixth. However, Bartley proclaims that he is going to venture over to the mainland that same day, in order to sell a horse at the fair, despite knowing of the high winds and seas. Maurya begs Bartley not to go, yet he insists despite her pleas. In a flustered state of irritation, Maurya bids him gone without her blessing. Upon seeing these events unfold, the sisters tell Maurya, that she should go out and search for Bartley in order to give him the lunch that they he had forgotten to bring, and while at it, give him her blessing. Maurya agrees to go, and once she is gone, the girls open the bundle. They find that they were indeed Michael's clothes, but at least they have the comfort of knowing he got a respectable Christian burial where he washed up in the north. At this point, Maurya returns even more flustered and terrified before. She has seen a vision...
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