“I want to do it because I want to do it. Women‚ like men‚ should try to do the impossible. And when they fail‚ their failure should be a challenge to others.” Amelia Earhart was a revolutionist‚ daring to go where women were usually shamed from going. It was‚ and still partially is‚ a man’s world‚ but Amelia didn’t let that stop her from chasing her dreams. Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24‚ 1897 in Atchison‚ Kansas. Her father was an alcoholic and her mother didn’t want her around that
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Thesis: Throughout William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet‚ women are viewed negatively and play a limited role within the society of Elsinore. Through the use of critical and dismissive dialogue‚ women are displayed as powerless‚ play a muted role and are dependant on a male figure. The negative judgements of women are represented throughout the whole play through the use critical and dismissive dialogue towards the female characters. Hamlet believes that women are powerless humans. He first demonstrates
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During the spring of 1692‚ a group of young girls in Salem Village‚ Massachusetts claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft. These claims of witchcraft soon led to events known as the Salem Witch Trials. At this time‚ there were many other things happening in America‚ such as the harsh realities of life in the Puritan community of Salem Village‚ the after-effects of the British War with France in the American colonies‚ and the epidemic of smallpox‚ that contributed
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I really liked these poems this week. They were easy to understand and see what each author was trying to say. In the poem Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy it starts off by to me telling young girls what they should expect to be or be doing when they were older. They were given smaller toys that represented bigger objects such as a stove‚ iron‚ and lipstick. Then as the girl gets older she is teased by others her age about not only her body‚ but her “great big nose and fat legs.” Even though she is the
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Madelyn Martinez English Comp II 1302-1005 February 28‚ 2013 “The Story of an Hour” as a Feminist Text The narrator introduces Louise Mallard as a wife with some type of heart problem. Her sister Josephine and Richards take great care when telling her that her husband has died in a train accident. Despite the sad news she receives‚ she is unable to contain her feelings of liberation and is elated with thoughts of a long life free of her spouse. Unfortunately for Mrs. Mallard‚ her husband soon
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Extended Response to The Handmaid’s Tale Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale‚ written in the 1980s‚ is a highly complex post-modern dstopian text that explores the issues of feminism. The dystopian genre attacks the myth of a utopia‚ bringing all possibilities to an extreme while the term post modernism explores the consequences of monocracy on modern society and the dynamics of language. Atwood’s use of a female perspective on a hypothetical dystopian society enables her to pursue the controversy of
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Angels and Monsters in Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad’s varying depiction of women in his novel Heart of Darkness provides feminist literary theory with ample opportunity to explore the overlying societal dictation of women’s gender roles and expectations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The majority of feminist theorists claim that Conrad perpetuates patriarchal ideology‚ yet there are a few that argue the novel is gendered feminine. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar claim “Conrad’s
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The First Feminist Congress took place in Merida‚ Yucatan‚ Mexico‚ which had attracted over 600 delegates. The First Congress was the first feminist movement in reaction to the living conditions and state of the women living in Mexico. What was addressed were the main issues as seen by the Mexican women of their society‚ oppressing them by secondary means. An example is education being the identifying cause‚ the lack of‚ and the repercussions of the lack of education as the secondary cause. Thus
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(McCullough‚ p6). Many people engage in conversations that discuss various oppressions such as racism‚ sexism‚ heterosexism and classism‚ but rarely do we discuss how these oppressions interact with each other. In the Combahee River Collective’s “Black Feminist Statements” the women write about the importance of identifying connections among various kinds of oppression; “The most general statement of our politics at the present time would be that we are actively committed to struggling against racial‚ sexual
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman ’s Feminist Piece Charlotte Perkins Gilman orchestrates an all-out feminist assault on societal male dominance in her work‚ “The Yellow Wallpaper”. She cleverly conceals her points in an attention-grabbing story about a wife seemingly held prisoner by her mental deterioration. However‚ the real captors turn out to be societal norms where men are in charge and other women unwittingly supporting the oppressors. Set in the late 19th century‚ the story reflects the current
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