The first lecture that I attended was Brenda Flanagan’s talk about the life of Nina Simone through her memoir and the songs of Simone. Before this talk‚ I had never heard of Nina Simone‚ but I enjoyed getting to learn about her life and experiences through someone who had first-hand experience with her during one of the high points of her career. I really liked that through the presentation‚ Flanagan incorporated some of Simone’s songs in order to frame them within the historical context of the time
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they are their parents. In this case Simone Biles has the right to be in awe of people’s opinion in who she calls her parents. Simone Biles’ decision to call her grandparents her own parents is her decision and hers alone. Society does not need to put their input on what she need and need not do. The decision Biles made to call them her parents is because they are the ones that played the parent role in her life. According to Erik Brady in USA Today‚ Simone Biles spent the first part of her life
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My frustration grew during the course of the narrative and reached its pinnacle during the trial. However‚ one common source of frustration was brought upon by the societal views expressed towards Scout on the state of her femininity. Countless times throughout the book‚ Scout is chastised by the women in her community and especially by her Aunt Alexandra for her unladylike behavior. In one particularly problematic episode‚ she is told to wear dresses instead of pants‚ to play
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"The Oedipus complex" is Sigmund Freud’s theory in which he believes through a self-analysis that all children go through a stage in which they "love their opposite-sex parent and hate their same-sex parent." Having these thoughts normally happen in your unconscious mind as in when you’re dreaming. Many people wake up feeling guilty for having these thoughts‚ but it is completely a normal stage if you don’t feel like you will actually act out on these dreams. It also has to do with your superego
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Freud hoped to lesson human unhappiness by diminishing civilization’s imposition of guilt upon us. Freud argued that people were unhealthily because they suppressed their sexual instincts. Civilization and Its Discontents explains why Freud believes we should catering to our impulses and desires in spite of societal laws. Although Freud believes surrendering to our inclinations will help us live happier and healthier lives; society has not found a way to escape the consequence of guilt‚ therefore
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How is the idea of femininity explored in The Yellow Wallpaper and Of Mice and Men? Throughout Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper and John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men the idea of femininity is mainly explored through protagonists who don’t fit the expected roles of the time. The respective authors provide the readers with an understanding of how women were labelled as crazy or troublesome through the symbolism of colour in both texts. The futility of the women’s dreams and that their
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that Epicurus and Freud have similar views on what pleasure is and what is unpleasurable. They both believe that the key to happiness and pleasure is‚ getting the highest good‚ or things that will make us feel good in that moment. For example‚ if you are hungry then you would eat‚ therefore you have met your pleasure goal by feeding yourself‚ or if someone is thirsty and they drink water‚ they have satisfied themselves by hydrating. I would also say that both Epicurus and Freud also believe that
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and people. With that thought in mind this play has indeed‚ help us get a better understanding of Aristotle’s‚ a philosopher‚ thoughts of a Tragic Hero and Sigmund Freud’s‚ a psychoanalytic theorist‚ thoughts on the affects of the same on our lives (especially male children and their psychological development). Both Aristotle and Sigmund Freud also belief that Oedipus was not in control of his actions‚ but in fact‚ was acting in a manner that was a part of his fate. Aristotle‚ found that Oedipus
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Freud/Erikson Theories Comparison From Birth to Age 1 - Oral Stage is what Freud felt that from was the time that a child’s primary source of pleasure is through the mouth‚ through sucking‚ eating and or tasting. Erikson felt that from birth to 1 year is the very crucial time that children will learn to trust or mistrust their caregivers. 1 to 3 years old- Anal Stage according to Freud at this age children learn to control their bladder and bowel movements. Erikson somewhat agreed
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“By God‚ if wommen hadde writen stories as clerkes han (have) withinne hire (their) oratories (chapels) they would han (have) writen of men moore wikkednesse than al (all) the mark of Adam (men) may redresse” (693-696). This quote from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath’s Prologue from the Canterbury Tales highlights the Wife’s displeasure towards the general stigmatization of women during the 14th and 15th Centuries. More importantly‚ it represents the Wife’s significance as a hero in this story
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