The reading I’d like to
The reading I’d like to
Midwife's Tale and Captivity Narrative of Mary Jemison are an excellent anecdotes to use as a source of information about the life of women throughout 17th to 18th centuries ago. Both stories will give every reader a better way of understanding the roles of women in the community during the Revolution era. However, each story narrates how these women embraced the changes occurred and how they deal with different situations. Two women, yet different tales. One became a film and the other became a successful novel. Furthermore, readers will be able to appreciate and discover the uniqueness of each stories of these…
I read the book The Working Mother's Guide to Life by Linda Mason. The book talks about how single mothers or married mothers work a lot and try to make enough money to put their child in child care while she's working. The book gives many helpful tips on finding the right child care for you to feel comfortable to leave your children in. Many mothers feel guilty leaving their children in childcare, especially when their children are attached to them. Gina talks about how hard it is to work a lot then having to drop your child off at a childcare center. Work takes over time that you could have spent with your child. Having support from others really helped her get through separating from her child. Mason also lists , in her example stories,…
| Julie Marshall's first cousin, Jean-Paul, lives and works in Belgium. They have had long "discussions" via email about the benefits and drawbacks of living in the US, a capitalist system, versus living in Belgium, a socialist economic system. Jean-Paul defended Belgium's system. What do you think Julie would say about the benefits of living in the US and the drawbacks of living in Belgium, and how would Jean-Paul respond?…
In addressing the matters that mothers faced, Alyssa Parks presents the role of child welfare programs set up in factories across the United States during the war. Most popular were daycare centers for children, giving millions of mothers the option to fulfill their patriotic war duties without abandoning the needs of their children. The convenience of these daycare centers aided working mothers who pertained to immigrant or minority families, as they were often disadvantaged in society. Park’s article serves to reinforce the idea that the sacrifices women made during the war to work in factories, while still being the motherly figure in the lives of their children. This article is significant given it allows readers to observe how these child…
“The End of Remembering” and “The Ordinary Devoted Mother” both focus on the concepts of self creation and the limits of oneself. “The End of Remembering” is a passage written by Joshua Foer regarding how technology has impaired the current generations thought process. Many people still believe that the reasoning for memory loss is because of our age, but in reality people tend to become forgetful because of the lack of exercise their brain endures. Foer uses oneself as a reference to how technology has shaped and limited people’s inner personalities from forming. In today's world, technology's role transitioned from being used for the primary reason to educate the public to the core filteration of our identities through social media.…
Gender is a social status, a legal designation, and a personal identity and unlike sex, it is not determined biologically but rather it is determined by social constructs. In the novel Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë, binary gender is explored. This novel questions the processes and practices that construct gender identities and gender social statuses. The characters in Jane Eyre clash with rigid feminine and masculine roles that are typically stereotyped but does not ultimately question the status quo. During the Victorian era, your gender determined what you were and were not able to do as well as how you went about achieving what you wanted to do. Jane, being the rebellious character that she is, criticizes the social roles of women…
In ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, Jane Suffers from herself and her surroundings. Jane is Suffering from postnatal depression. This disease, the…
The first part of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman consequently demonstrates an imitative nearness to the original slave narratives, narratives of runaway slaves. Oddly, such features make the writing into a “writerly” rather than a “readerly” text, to use Roland Barthes’s categories. The text is supposedly a transcription of interviews and the reproduction of a voice, the product of a dialogue, in the line of the written tradition of slave narratives where the authenticating documents themselves enter a complex dialogue with the slave narrative that follows. Nevertheless, because The Autobiography exhibits a tension between the history and the memory in African American literature, Gates’s classification of the “speaker” might support…
Parenthood: Her mom is trying to pay up for all the years that she missed with her…
It is seen within the beginning of the story that the woman had a baby, by the statements she gives about the child, making this a strong fit for post-partum depression. Now, as stated by The Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health, “About one in every 5 women will develop depression during the first few months postpartum that may be mild, moderate, or severe.” Postpartum depression mothers can contain many symptoms, such as thinking the baby might be better off without them, having a loss of appetite, feeling like they are not normal or not themselves lately, not being able to concentrate, feeling all alone, and even more (719). In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the woman starts out with moderate to severe symptoms, which increasingly lead up to even more severe ones. Such symptoms are shown in the text, like the woman explaining, "I don't weigh a bit more, nor as much; and my appetite may be better in the evening when you are here, but it is worse in the morning when you are away"(Gilman 83). This statement illustrates the loss of appetite symptom that many postpartum depression patients encounter, especially severe patients. Another symptom that shows up, is thinking the baby might be better off without her. This is displayed when she states that, “It is fortunate Mary is so good with the baby. Such a dear baby! And yet I cannot be with him, it makes me so nervous” (Gilman 78).…
In “A Mother Speaks,” Michael Harper conveys the message on how the colored were treated unfairly through the use of imagery and mood. The poem was based on the Algiers Motel incident in Detroit where a couple of colored people were killed by white officers for no reason. “I was led away without seeing this plastic face they'd built that was not my son’s” (Harper). As the quote shows, imagery is used to convey the message when it describes the boy’s condition after being assaulted without any faults or offenses to the point in which his own mother did not recognize him. The reader gets attached to the story through the poem. When the boy says, “Oh I'm so sorry, officer, I broke your gun.” (Harper), the reader understands why the boy did not…
I have a unique story to write about. When I was 15 I found I was pregnant. Initially, I just thought I had stomach cramps, but they got worse and eventually I went to the emergency room. My Mom went with me and stayed with me while the doctor ran some tests. The doctors thought I had the stomach flu, but they did a urine test and it showed I was pregnant. I felt nervous and afraid and my mom was upset. My mom was upset because she didn’t like the baby’s father.…
Now picture a young female around the age of sixteen who feels very unwanted and unloved by society and even her own parents. Feeling abandoned and alone, she decides to become pregnant to fulfill the need of love.…
the child's life, sharing the role of motherhood with a stranger, the pain of having someone…
Physical changes on woman’s body happen, also, one should be able to adjust these bodily changes and most importantly the woman’s needs to be able to be psychologically prepared (Felipe, 2010). The woman is waiting for 9months to give birth to a new life that will make a family be called a family. However there are pregnancies that are untimed, unplanned, and unintended. This make things more difficult to teenager who found out that she is pregnant.(Felipe, 2010)…