1) Brian Turner’s "Jundee Ameriki" The narrator feels like someone talking to his own subconscious‚ someone who was present at the scene back in Baghdad‚ who not only knew the story but experienced it. Although the speaker was presented in 3rd person it could be the Jundee Ameriki himself‚ a battle buddy or one of the rescue team. The fragments symbolize the suffering the soldier encounters from the war‚ the long-lasting physical scars embedded with mementos from the suicidal lady and the scene “bits
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criticisms on compulsory heterosexuality and the idea that heterosexuality is the only real natural relationship. In the article‚ “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” by Adrienne Rich‚ she states that‚ “heterosexuality‚ like motherhood‚ needs to be recognized and studied as a political institution” (Rich 637). She argues that heterosexuality is politically institutionalized because it has been strategically and deliberately carried out by laws and regulations that restrains women and
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The Struggle for Help Billionaires speed off in their Bentleys and Lamborghinis off to work. Millionaires are stowed away in the lovely Beverly Hills or in Hollywood. The rich live in their nice houses and send their kids to private schools. The middle class is content and are happy with what they have. The poor are making an effort to get by and living with the bare necessities. What about the homeless? Some argue that the homeless got where they are through drug problems and mental
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movement‚ as Adrienne Rich states in her 1929 essay‚ “Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking‚ talking‚ and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence‚ grappling with your hard work .” (Rich). As I dissect this statement‚ I come to the conclusion that in 1929 men were thought to control women‚ thinking for and talking for women‚ meaning they neither had a say‚ nor were able to think for themselves. Women like Rich were very
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Scarlet Letter Short Essay Adrienne Rich‚ a feminist poet and critic‚ wrote the essay “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision‚” to identify and admonish gender norms in her society. Rich considers that “the argument will go on whether an oppressive economic class system is responsible for the oppressive nature of male/female relations‚ or whether‚ in fact‚ patriarchy... is the original model of oppression on which all others are based.” She comments on the origin of gender roles‚ wondering
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woman‚ due to the tone of the poem: how she sees the careless husband and notices household disorder. Being in variance with many modern text analysts‚ I must say that the poem ‘Living in Sin’ is completely autobiographic. It has been written by Adrienne Rich during the first months of her own marriage and conveys her own disappointment in what is left after the romantic prelude. To understand the poem one must notice that it is wholly built on the contrasts the author uses from sentence to sentence
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Her essay focuses on the role of women in literature–poetry to be exact. She states‚ “No male writer has written primarily or even largely for women‚ [...] every woman writer has written for men” (Rich). Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter directly contradicts this. Rich goes on to say that women in literature are almost always beautiful‚ but their main conflict is the loss of beauty‚ youth‚ or life. Hester Prynne is beautiful‚ that fact cannot be refuted. She is described as “tall‚
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Floyd ENG 131 11 November 2012 Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers This poem portrays a main character‚ Aunt Jennifer‚ as a humble docile woman; smothered by her marriage and the norms she feels she must meet to please society. Adrienne Rich cleverly names the poem “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” because of the importance of the role the tigers play in her life. With a husband who dominates her in all respects‚ she must find her own freedom in her life by knitting in her free time. Aunt Jennifer
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English 101 29 April 2014 Education: Receiving or Claiming? In Adrienne Rich’s “Claiming an Education” Rich presents the argument of claiming an education. In the United States claiming an education often seems far-fetched. Education is not free and not for everyone‚ or is it? Claiming an education sounds a lot like taking what’s rightfully yours. Do you receive an education for society or does society present it for a student to take? Rich seems to think that education is presented for those willing
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Examine the contribution of feminist sociologists to the study of family life Examine the contribution of feminist sociologists to the study of family life Up until recently‚ sociology was mainly dominated by men. The famous founding fathers were Auguste Comte‚ Karl Marx‚ Emile Durkheim and Max Weber‚ each of these men had their own opinion and points to prove to society. They tended to focus on the functions of key institutions towards society and they did this from their own perspective‚ which
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