ST. PAUL ’S UNIVERSITY DISTANCE LEARNNING VIRTUAL CAMPUS BCD 110/BALM 114- INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CONTINUOS ASSESSMENT TEST (CAT TWO) – NOVEMBER‚ 2013 Q1. Our interpretation of the world is greatly influenced by our frames of analysis. a) Citing relevant examples‚ discuss how culture as a frame of analysis may influence a community development officer’s success in facilitating development in a community (15 Marks). Comprehensive community framework is a holistic process undertaken
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The Yellow Wallpaper “...not intended to drive people crazy‚ but save people from being
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Charlotte Perkin Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” was published in 1892 after Gilman suffered from “a severe and continuous nervous breakdown tending to melancholia” (Gilman‚ “Why I wrote”) and was placed under the care of Silas Weir Mitchell. Mitchell’s cure for women with Gilman’s affliction were told to “live as domestic life as far as possible‚ have but two hours’ intellectual life a day and to never touch a pen‚ brush‚ or pencil again” (Gilman‚ “Why I wrote”). While following Mitchell’s advice
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English 1A03 Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) - American writer - writer of fiction and non-fiction - feminist - wrote novel called "Herland" (feminist - this short story is about women’s mental conditions - story read as critical response about how a male dominated world treated these illnesses -she suffered post partum depression after birth of her first child Feminist * criticism and literature We might read Gilman’s fiction as an extension of her progressive
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considered herself lucky‚ the narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper”‚ to have reserved such a grand homestead for their retreat. Soon she would discover that this was not the peaceful escape from reality that she required. Diagnosed with a nervous disorder by her husband‚ a physician‚ this house was not to be used as a vacation home‚ but as an asylum wherein he would keep her for treatment. Confined within the lacking gardens and hedges of her temporary lodgings‚ the narrator‚ Jane‚ was forced to bide
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Interpretations of Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is an example of how stories and the symbolism to which they are related can influence the perspective of its readers and alternate their point of view. In the “Yellow Wall-Paper”‚ the unknown narrator gets so influenced by her surroundings that she starts showing signs of mental disorder‚ creating through many years several controversies on trying to find the real causes of her decease
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declare hysterical and injected with heroin and opium. The narrator didn’t have a chance to become anything other than dolls her husband wanted. In the last couple lines after the woman behind the wallpaper has escaped‚ Gilman writes‚ “‘I’ve got out at last‚’ said I‚ ‘ in spite of you and Jane? And I’ve pulled off most of the paper‚ so you can’t put me back!’” Throughout the whole story‚ the narrator struggles to understand and destroy the wallpaper surrounding her room and free the women she sees behind
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The Yellow Wall-Paper The novel‚ ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ is an illustration of the various challenges that women faced prior to the emergence of the feminists and gender advocates (Gilman‚ 2013). The story by Gilman elaborates fully on the challenges the character (unnamed female) undergoes after her post partum. This condition was merely a nervous condition that needed to be examined by a physician but due to the female insubordination in those decades; the woman was enclosed in a yellow walled
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Is madness considered creativity or is creativity considered madness? Madness is truly viewed as madness when the mind has no outlet to express one‘s creativity. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” the protagonist is starting to develop depression. Her husband‚ John‚ is physician and believes it is best for her to stay in bed and sleep until she overcomes her depression. Without any way to preoccupy herself‚ her condition worsened. A creative outlet allows anyone suffering from mental illnesses to express
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Hamlet V. The Yellow Wallpaper- A Comparison and Analysis Thesis Statement: “If a physician of high standing‚ and one’s own husband‚ assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression-a slight hysterical tendency-what is one to do?” – The Yellow Wallpaper. Although both Hamlet by Shakespeare and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman use Men’s domineering attitude‚ the weakness of women‚ and the onset of depression as prominent
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