Awakening by Kate Chopin‚ “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane. Though all three women experience remarkably different environments—whether they are vast rooms of a lush or cataclysmic landscape‚ or a physical and mental prison—each woman shares a common victimhood to forces beyond their control‚ and which their environments dictate. An analysis of each woman’s environment
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“ugly” is defined as someone or something that is unpleasant and repulsive. For a black girl‚ the connotation of the word transforms from unpleasant to unworthy; repulsive thus becomes invisible. “Ugly” was initially written as a way for me to be in conversation with the Webster Dictionary word. However‚ over some months the piece began to be a conversation I was having with myself‚ other poets‚ and black girls in general. After ten months of working on this collection‚ I found myself in deeper thought
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Fight Like a Girl This essay will offer a feminist analysis of sexism in superhero comic books‚ a topic I explore in my recent podcast on female representation in comics. I will “examine how comic books reinforce or undermine the economic‚ political‚ social‚ and psychological oppression of women” As part of my research‚ I conducted a very unscientific survey where I asked the question‚ “Is there sexism in superhero comic books?" Not surprisingly most women I asked believed comic books are sexist
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - Daisy Randone The movie Girl Interrupted gives a glimpse into the world of the psychiatric hospitals and their patients in the late 1960’s. Each of the characters exhibit symptoms of various psychological problems‚ while still being personable enough to allow viewers to sympathise with them. At some point in our lives‚ each of us feels as if we are on the outside of society like Susannah‚ or tries to manipulate others like Lisa. We do not‚ however‚ carry it
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Jamaica Kincaid’s short story “Girl” is of a complicated relationship with her mother that comes out in the mother-daughter dynamic in the story. The mother‚ obviously a dominant figure in the young girl’s upbringing‚ informs the young girl of various duties associated with being a young‚ dignified lady. Her mother gives the daughter advice to make her the "proper" woman she should in fact be‚ and this advice gets more and more firm as the story continues. “Girl” is a very well suitable title
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As a shy horticultural hobbyist and low-level British diploma‚ Justin Quayle is not a person to make fuss‚ until when he learns about his wife’s murder. Tessa has been murdered and left at the crossroad together with her driver. The first suspect is her doctor‚ Arnold Bluhm‚ on for it to be discovered that he was murdered the same day with Tessa. There is a circulating rumor that both Tessa and Bluhm had a love affair‚ and the murder is highly considered as a crime of passion. However‚ later discovery
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Introduction Maru is a book that reflects on the life of an orphaned young girl of Basarwa tribe who gets an opportunity of teaching and she is sent to teach in a remote village in Botswana where her own people are kept as slaves. Her existence separates a community which does not recognise Basarwa people as human beings thus condemn her to the lonely life of an outcast. This Book Maru in a way reflects on the life of its writer Bessie Head who is recognised as one of the best African writers
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I chose to read Joan Morgan’s From Fly-Girls to Bitches and Hoes for my next reading journal article. She begins with background information of current hip hop and rap lyrics‚ and the language they choose to use. Much of the diction used in their songs are insensitive towards women of all kinds. However‚ Morgan points out that the rappers are not to be entirely blamed. For centuries‚ women have used their sexuality as an advantage in order to progress through social and work situations. “Sex has
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Women Studies / Sally Winkle / Film Analysis Mean Girls In Mean Girls‚ the main character is Lindsay Lohan who plays the role of a 15 year old high school student‚ Cady Heron. Cady is The 15-year-old‚ Africa-raised high school girl begins her high school life by learning what it’s like to be a normal girl by making friends and talking about other classmates. The first thing the students thought when they heard there was a new transfer student in class from Africa was a black person‚ so everyone
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characters. However‚ Daisy is in some way important‚ because she is what steers the novels course of action due to Gatsby’s love for her. Daisy is what influences his lifestyle and eventually his death. Some people say that Daisy is a victim of both Tom Buchanan and James Gatsby‚ but this interpretation of her fails to take into account everything we learn of her personality and the way she attempts to manipulate those around her to assure her own security and comfort in life. Daisy is responsible for
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