Jonathan Spence: author of Death of Woman Wang‚ who used three sources to write his book‚ which follow: Feng K’o‑ts’an: a public official who kept accounts of the district Huang Liu‑hung: a later official who wrote more on the district in his manual on local administration; he is important because he included materials that Feng might have considered too bad to put in his public documentation P’u Sung‑ling: an unhappy scholar who had not done well in the Confucian exam system: he wrote short
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realises there is more to Alice Drablow than he originally thought. At the funeral‚ he sees a woman dressed in black and with a pale wasted face with dark eyes‚ who is watched in silence by a group of children. Over the course of several days‚ while sorting through Mrs. Drablow’s papers at Eel Marsh House‚ he endures an increasingly terrifying sequence of unexplained noises‚ chilling events and hauntings by the Woman in Black. The hauntings included the sound of a pony and trap in difficulty‚ which were
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Be a true woman On my 18th birthday‚ my best friend sent me a birthday card. The card had only four words –"Be a true woman. " I kept wondering what a true woman is. How to be a true woman? I didn’t find the answer until I met Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice. I believe a true woman is like Elizabeth. A true woman should be confident‚ natural and keep herself‚ introspective‚ and flawed. These four characteristics make Elizabeth “a handsome woman‚” which is how the author
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do learn all the fuzzy-headed‚ unassertive language of our sex‚ we are ridiculed for being unable to think clearly‚ unable to take part in a serious discussion‚ and therefore unfit to hold a position of power. It doesn’t take much of this for a woman to begin feeling she deserves such treatment because of inadequacies in her own intelligence and education. “Women’s language” shows up in all levels of English. For example‚ women are encouraged and allowed to make far more precise discriminations
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The independent woman. Independence in women has got to be one of the greatest jumps in the history of television. For years in the entertainment industry women have been represented as a subservient service to the husband and children‚ incapable of doing anything great with themselves other then fulfilling their duties as a housewife and mother. Today‚ they are known to be capable of anything. Whether it is being a single mother‚ to being able to provide for herself‚ in pursuit of her dreams
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“Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou is an inspiring poem that relates to women of all ages and races. It’s powerful message of loving one’s body and self is much needed in today’s society. Women today are being bombarded with the ideas that they should be perfect. The media plays a major role on how women perceive themselves‚ and these unrealistic views on beauty and thinness are causing self-destructing behaviors that are harmful to all women. The only way to fix this epidemic is to teach women
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Phenomenal Woman is a dramatic poem by Maya Angelou about the love a woman has for herself even with her flaws. This poem is meant to be performed in front of an audience because the poem’s body movements reflect her flamboyant actions as she performs on stage. The speaker is a strong‚ confident woman (possibly Angelou) whom men seem to be incredibly attracted to. This is odd because the woman seems to not consider herself beautiful. Through her poem‚ Angelou speaks to all women‚ beautiful or
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The Strength of a Woman Zora Neale Hurston’s famous novel Their Eyes Were Watching God tells the compelling story of an African American woman‚ Janie Crawford‚ and her journey to find herself. In the time period of this novel‚ women are stereotypically seen as inferior to men. They do not speak their mind‚ they are reliant on their husbands‚ and they do as they are told. However‚ this is not true of Janie‚ the novel’s protagonist and narrator. Janie is a strong female role model who defies the
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The Courageous Woman As a woman leader‚ Elizabeth Blackwell strived to become someone in life. She influenced mothers‚ children‚ wives‚ and sisters and showed them how strength could lead them to their dreams. Her family and friends discouraged her‚ but she kept going in her own direction. They told her how impossible it would be to become a woman doctor and she asked them why she should not be a doctor. They had no reasons to tell her‚ but even if they had one‚ it was not useful‚
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WOMAN TO CHILD: The poem ‘Woman to child’ written by Judith Wright‚ is a strong‚ compassionate and highly significant piece of Writing; this is evident in its close reference to the stages of pregnancy‚ in creating new life. This poem displays the connection and the emotions regarding pregnancy between the mother and the child in each of the four stanzas written. There are many shifts in the tone through out each stanza. In the first stanza‚ when Judith writes “You who were darkness warmed
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