...TELEVISION PORTRAYALS OF HOUSEWIVES IN THE 1950s VERSUS TODAY: I Love Lucy vs. Desperate Housewives The 1950s housewife was the epitome of a woman. She had poise and grace and cared for her family more than having a career. She had a smile on her face, dinner on the table, and her child always used please and thank you. At least on TV. Fast forward 50 years and much has changed in our history and the way that women are portrayed on television. With women no longer expected to give up their careers in order to raise a family, working moms are represented more with each passing decade. Two television shows that can be examined to explore the difference in television’s portrayal of housewives are I Love Lucy from the 1950s and Desperate Housewives from the 2000s. While the shows premiered more than a half a century apart, there are many similarities in the shows. And that’s not on accident. After World War II ended, men came home and families started growing and prospering, able to buy things they had to go without during the rough wartimes. With servicemen home and the baby boom well underway, women were expected to reclaim their dominance over the home, while their husband’s reclaimed dominance over them.1 Housewives were to be seen more than heard, all while keeping a smiling on their face. No one talked about their problems, because they didn’t really have any. The white picket fence was always perfect and no one ever raised their voice or drank too much, at least on the...
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...UNITY FLAME INVOCATION In the name of the Christ, In the name of the I AM that I AM, I call forth and invoke the full power and the full gathered momentum of the Flame of Unity. I ask that this action be applied to the entire planet and all who live there on. I AM calling for the Unity Flame to consume completely, totally and utterly any and all misuses of consciousnesses in any way, but especially those that are generated, by virtue of claiming that there are differences between people, between conditions; and seeing them instead as all coming from the same wonderful source, and one day to return to that same wonderful fountain of light and love, peace and power. Let God’s Will be done! Let God’s S Will be done! Let God’s Will be done! Amen INVOCATION TO END SUPRESSION OF WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST Oh Great and Holy Mother of us all, Divine One, Who holds us all, not only in the palm of Her hand, but the softest place in Her heart. I come to You this day, entreating and invoking Your direct aide and assistance in ending something on earth, which I find to be offensive and very painful to You. Oh Dear Mother, won’t You help us to overturn this terrible custom of suppression of Your own daughters, especially in the area of the Middle East, where barbaric customs are still continuing till this day. Oh Dear One, I need not remind You of these things, for You are She, who is feeling every one of them directly on Your own body. So I only want to let you know that I...
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...EXPOSITORY ESSAY LIFE Life is indeed, so short. And, oddly enough, it is much shorter for those who lives they find meaningful while it is too long for those whose lives they find meaningless. Couldn’t it be that life is what meaning we put into it? Now and then, I also ask what meaning has my life really. Often, I feel like I know but at other times, my thinking looks like a useless mental exercise. Life is just so vast, so full of mysteries that before I can put meaning to my life, part of it is gone and the meaning I try putting on it is already partly exhausted. Life, so it seems, is like dry sand slipping through my fingers. When I try to hold on to it very tightly, as if squeezing it, it slips away faster. But when I try to cast it away, it sticks on my hands. Sometimes, I think, to appreciate life best, one has neither to hold on to it tightly nor to let it go so carelessly. The sand in the hourglass is life. It is better to let it flow freely, although not carelessly. How we take life is often dictated by what priorities we have. And life, being so vast, offers everything which can be a priority to us. A student ever so eager to get out of poverty would say, “Life would be meaningless if I don’t finish my studies.” A terribly-in-love woman would say, “Should I lose him now, life would be meaningless to me.” And an alcoholic, trembling with the urge to drink, would be ready to give anything he has, even his...
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...in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Daisy, Tom, and Gatsby exemplify the American dream, living what appears to be an extravagant life. Ironically, what they imagined will bring them fulfillment in life, money, has done just the opposite. Under the enchanting lights, parties, and monstrous mansions lies a deep feeling of melancholy and depression well hidden from the surface. Even though they have everything money can buy, the three primary characters in The Great Gatsby prove that, ultimately, money leaves its victims in a void of unhappiness. Tom Buchanan lives in extreme wealth but is ultimately unhappy as he tries to fulfill the void in his life by having an affair. Tom has all the ingredients to live a fulfilling life; a family, the fancy mansion, and of course, the money. Yet he stills feels incomplete. Nick, the narrator of the story, is not surprised that Tom has “some woman in New York” and notices that “Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game” (6, 20). Tom is still seeking to fill the dismal void in his life that money fails to do. He pathetically attempts to fill this void by having the affair with Myrtle. Tom tries to create a second family through obtaining an apartment for the affair and buys a dog for Myrtle. Tom is obviously not satisfied with his rich life to feel the need to create a second one. The void money leaves creates anger in Tom which he takes off on Myrtle. When Myrtle continuously...
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...“Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” (Mk 10:17) Dear Friends, This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the inauguration of World Youth Day in response to the desire of the Venerable John Paul II for an annual gathering of young people of faith from throughout the world. It was a prophetic initiative that has borne abundant fruits, enabling the new generations of Christians to meet one another, to listen to the Word of God, to discover the beauty of the Church, and to have a deep experience of faith. This led many of them in turn to decide to give themselves completely to Christ. The present 25th World Youth Day is one step along the way leading to the next international encounter of young people, scheduled for Madrid in August 2011. I hope that many of you will be there to experience this grace-filled event. To prepare ourselves for this celebration, I would like to offer you some reflections on this year’s theme: “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” (Mk 10:17). It is drawn from Gospel passage where Jesus meets the rich young man. It is a theme that Pope John Paul II reflected on in 1985, in a very beautiful Letter, the first ever addressed to young people. 1. Jesus meets a young man “As [Jesus] was setting out on a journey” – the Gospel of Saint Mark tells us – “a man ran up, knelt down before him, and asked him, ‘Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ Jesus answered him, ‘Why do you call me good? No...
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...Enlightenment Unity, a never ending circle. In some religion, life is thought of as a never ending circle. There would be those select few that would be able to escape this eternal circle to attain a certain spirituality. Many of these religions offer a final spiritual destination, it could be the promise of life after death, release from pain and suffering, or knowledge, the list is endless. This spirituality can be thought as a goal, which people are striving to attain. In Buddhism, the final goal can be called enlightenment, nirvana. There are many people throughout history that devote their lives to reach this final goal of enlightenment. Similarly in Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, the life journeys of Govinda, Gautama, Vasudeva, and Siddhartha show that everyone has a different way to reach enlightenment, but each way includes learning and love. Govinda, Gautama, Vasudeva, and Siddhartha had experienced a learning process in order to reach enlightenment. “Behold, then Govinda also stepped forward, the shy one, and spoke, ‘I too appeal to the Exalted One and to his teachings’, and asked for acceptance among the disciples, and was accepted” (26). This is when Siddhartha and Govinda went to the city of Savatthi, seeking to hear Gautama’s teachings. After hearing this many people along with Govinda stepped forward and asked to be accepted among the disciples. At that point in time one could not have possibly reached enlightenment without the prior knowledge and understanding...
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...Why value life? Life is full of happiness, joy, peace, glory and love. It is the greatest gift one can receive from God. We live not only for ourselves but also for others, specially our families and loved ones. Life is full of happiness as well as sorrow, problems as well as solutions, kindness as well as selfishness, but that’s what makes life challenging. As the quotation says, “Live life to the fullest.” We must enjoy every day, every minute and every second of our existence. We cannot bring back the time that has been gone, but we can enjoy what we have now. Valuing life is like valuing yourself. If you value yourself you also value others. We didn’t beg nor ask for it, but God gave it to us, our life, our family, and our friends. And one way of saying thanks to Him is by loving, protecting and most of all, the contentment that we know someone loves us. In that way, we appreciate and love what God has created and given us. No one has the right to neither take away someone’s life nor kill themselves. It is not right to kill people, for everyone has their freedom to live and enjoy life, and no one must commit suicide just because of problems they cannot handle. It only depends on us, on how we look into things and find the solutions ourselves. Valuing our life and other’s life is the only thing we can present to God when we reach the altar of heaven; it is a proof that we appreciated and love the life, the experience and joy that has been lent to us while we are...
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...This world is full of love. Everyone is pursuing happiness which behind love. Love and Happiness are the most important things in our life. They are the things that make a life worth living too. I think they are connecting with each other all the time. Love has an incredibly powerful to make you feel happiness. Happiness -state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. Love come first, then you feel can feel happiness. Such as mother loves her baby and she makes baby feel happiness. When you really love someone, your love will transfer happiness to someone who you love. How can we gang happiness from our life? In our life, there must be someone or not only one always around and support you. Family, friends and partner are the roles who cannot miss in our life. They will always distribute joy and support to make us feel happiness. There are three periods in our life; young, adult and old. In each period will have different role distribute joy and support you. First, in our young period, we have our family show their love to us and make us feel happiness. Second, in our adult period, we have our friends support us. At last, in our old period, we have our partner stay next to us. In each period, we also will grow up and gain a lot of experience to explore the future. We aspire different things in each period. So family, friends and partner will separate in three period to give us different love and support. When we born, we are a piece...
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...Love is usually defined as a strong affection for another, as a strong regard for and dedication to someone. It could be for our spouse, our family, our friends, but it takes a thousand brain to explain what love is. To know and truly feel it, only 2 hearts can do, it’s the one you love and you. True! It’s like a pair of magnet, there is a connectivity between two persons. We are attracted and drawn to that person because love is full of energy. This energy is always directed outward and it may be a product of happiness. The opposite is need or desire, which is the same attention or energy directed back to the self, and the byproduct of which is unhappiness. Reverse the direction of flow of attention or energy and you get the opposite feeling. Fall in love and you are in the state of bliss-but as soon as you want other person to love you, you are miserable. Fall in love and you have so much energy you can work day and night, but as soon as you reverse the direction of flow and focus attention on the self “ oh woe is unto me”, you have so little energy you can hardly move. Love energy is also like a flower. If this is always watered , put under the sunshine and cared of, the product will be an attractive, glowing, full bloom and full of life. If we view it in the opposite thing, this flower will soon withers and suddenly die. This is like those persons that think they aren’t being loved. So their energy is like the end of a music that fades away. ...
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...career opportunities, introduce equality with men and to eliminate the illusion of “the happy housewife”. This specific speech announces that abortion should be a part of a women’s civil right. Betty Friedan singles out women to be the invisible minority in America. The invisible women in the American society are the ones who take an active share in the important resolution of the government and not the women who take care of the domestic duties. Friedan compares the invisibility of forward-looking women to the Afro-American permanent residents in America. For many years, the Afro-American people in the U.S. have been the invisible section of the population in the Southern states. Racial segregation in America became a crucial part of life until the segregation legally ended in 1964 because of the Civil Rights Act. The blacks were in those days invisible according to their voting rights. The voting rights of blacks were systematically restricted because the black’s voting papers did not manage to be registered. Many Afro-American were killed because of their attempt to exercise their right to vote and for being member of political institutions. The following sentence describes the drawn parallel between the Afro-Americans and the persistent and energetic women: “As the Negro was the invisible man, so women are the invisible people in America today” – p. 1, l. 2. The reason why women are demeaned is because they are often seen as a...
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...Smith Mrs. Nancy Love Honors English III 21 September 2015 The Last of the Mohicans Essay The Last of the Mohicans tells a story full of romance, action, and sacrifice. The characters all experience events that forever change their lives. There are no two characters that experience this change as much as the characters Cora and Alice Munro. Both women experience changes in their lives that cause them to be completely different women by the end of the movie. However, sometimes their characteristics, while ideal for the plot to continue in its specific way, are not altogether realistic. The Last of the Mohican introduces female characters that, while romantic and ideal, are not realistic. Cora Munro is the older of the two daughters...
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...the innocent ideal and the knowledge of real life. Joyce presents us with the idea of the boy’s journey, which ends with a failure but results in the discovery of adulthood. However, looking closer, it is a story of a grown man looking back on his earlier experiences as a young boy. The boy's journey is no longer limited to his youthful encounter with first love but to a representation of a conflict of the ideal: the dream as he wishes it to be, with the harsh reality that it is. This depiction, of the boy’s experiences allows for the dramatic evolution of a story of a first love told by a narrator who, (with the adult vision), applies the sophisticated use of irony and symbolism needed to reveal the story's deeper meaning. In the beginning we learn about the boy’s character through the atmospheric setting of North Richmond Street in Dublin. He grew up in a dismal, dark, dead-end street. “An uninhabited house of two stories stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground.” Gloominess seems to be setting the mood “dark dripping gardens,” “brown imperturbable faces” and “the dark muddy lanes”. Joyce paints a picture of a somber and hopeless presence with no happiness or anything to look forward to. The young boy’s character is revealed through these symbolic images. He cannot understand it intellectually; he feels that the street, the town, and Ireland itself have become unimaginative and that his life is far from ideal. It is a world of spiritual...
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...Guy Montag v.s. Truman Burbank So far in fahrenheit 451, the book tells the story of the protagonist, Guy Montag. Who, At first, takes pleasure in his profession as a fireman, burning illegally owned books and the homes of their owners. As he states at the beginning of the book,”It was a pleasure to burn.” He soon realizes that his “happy world” isn’t so happy when he meets Clarisse McClellan and she asks “Are you happy?” After viewing The Truman Show and reading a majority of Fahrenheit 451, many parallels can be drawn between the characters of Truman Burbank and Guy Montag. While some differences were noticeable, the similarities were very pronounced. Nobody actually cares. In Fahrenheit 451, all they care about is their "families" and/or...
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..."If I know what love is, it is because of you." - Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet "Listen to my heart, can you hear it sing: Come back to me and forgive everything." - Moulin Rouge (The Movie) "I have learned not to worry about love; But to honor its coming with all my heart." - Alice Walker (1944~) American Author, Critic "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." - Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) English Actor, Author, Director "Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly, and without expectation - We don't love to be loved; we love to love." - Leo F. Buscaglia (1924-1998) American Psychologist, Author, Educator "True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) German Philosopher, Poet "But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning." - Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) English Officer, Navigator, Colonizer, Historian, Poet, Courtier "Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end." - Madame De Stael (1766-1817) French-Swiss Novelist "I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love." - Françoise Sagan...
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...NGUYỄN VÂN ANH 030428120041 2. The characters' indifferent attitudes show an apathetic life. The characters' indifferent attitudes show an apathetic life. Through "Araby" James Joyce gave readers the idea that Dubliners at that time lived lives which just center on their own feelings and benefits. That "apathetic life" was clearly exposed via the unconcerned attitudes of the uncle, Mangan's sister and the saleswoman towards the narrator I. Initially, the uncle’s apathy is one of the most unequivocal evidences concerning indifferent life. The narrator, an unnamed boy, lived with his aunt and uncle. From the beginning, the way James Joyce describe the narrator’s dingy house with oppressive atmosphere partly revealed the lack of warm affection and loving care that the boy was suffering. He is at the age of numerous complicated feelings and perception towards life when careful guidance from adult was crucial. Unfortunately, his aunt and uncle failed to give him all the love and teaching he needed. He struggled with his own unrequited love, his desire to reach Araby on time but nobody cared. The narrator sincerely asked his aunt and uncle for permission to go to the bazaar. He kept on reminding his uncle that “I wished to go to the bazaar in the evening”. In spite of the boy’s wholehearted request, all he got back was a curt answer “Yes, boy, I know”. This detail left us a distinct feeling of his uncle’s carelessness and indifference. That negative reaction made the boy “felt...
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