alienate an individual based on assumptions or moral values. A good example of alienation in literature would be Hester Prynne’s role in The Scarlet Letter. Because Hester Prynne has a child out of wedlock she is looked down upon by society and labeled with a scarlet let “A” for adultery/adulteress. This alienation highlights the values of society in the time period of the story based on women and pregnancies. Hester’s suffering reveals societies true feelings and assumptions based on her actions as
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In history‚ mean and women have never argued their biology and unknowingly fell into the gender norms that exist today. In more recent times the issues of gender and self-identification have rapidly increased. Sex is our biological anatomy and which reproductive organs we have. Typically‚ there are two sexes- male and female. The more controversial and increasing in variety. A person’s gender and sexuality can differ from whatever body parts you were born with. An increasing amount of people feel
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There are many different aspects of the novel that argue if Hester is the best citizen or the worst. The Novel‚ The scarlet Letter‚ written by Nathanial Hawthorne is very fluent and punctilious. Many people argue weather Hester‚ the main character‚ is a bad citizen or a good citizen. In my perspective‚ Hester is a very commendable and gentle young lady. In This essay I will discuss my interpretation of the reasons she is good and the reasons she is bad. Concluding this I will explain the crimes she
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The Founding Fathers created The Bill of Rights in order to protect citizens’ individual rights under written law. One of the most important type of rights outlined in this document are the rights of the accused. Before the amendments that protect accused individuals were enforced‚ there was a decent amount of room for government to gain more power and for the people to lose justice and freedom while in the courts. Many innocent citizens would be labeled as guilty without trial and sent to jail.
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The so-called gender pay gap‚ which has been debunked many times‚ is still one of the most talked about feminist topics. Feminists still believe that women earn only 77% of what a man earns. This is simply not true. There are several factors which affect men and women’s salaries‚ and hourly pay isn’t one of them. If women truly did earn 77% of what a man earns‚ then the workforce would be almost completely made up of women so that every major company can save up to 23% on wages. The substantial amount
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Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Hester Prynne is the protagonist. Hester is a good person who made a bad decision‚ which makes her a relatable character regardless of the year this book is read in. Hester is the protagonist‚ but at times she does seem more like a victim than heroine. “[Hester] was tall‚ with a figure of perfect elegance‚ on a large scale. She had dark and abundant hair‚ so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam‚ and a face which‚ besides being beautiful from regularity of feature
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In 1963‚ when the Equal Pay Act was signed‚ women made 59 cents on average for every dollar earned by men (based on Census figures of median wages of full-time‚ year-round workers). In 2009‚ women still earn 77% of what men earn based on the median earnings of year-round‚ full-time workers. The wage gap is slightly narrower for those women that are employed in the STEM (science‚ technology‚ engineering and math) occupations‚ which ranges from 80 to 94% of what men make. (NCPE) Technology
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woman doesn’t help each other‚ they make each other worse. Tom Bucharan represents the upper class from the “old money”. He wants to prevent the “inferior” races to take over and have power on the “Nordics”. He has a negative attitude towards independent women; he disapproves of Jordan’s lifestyle. “[her family] oughn’t to let her run around the country this way”. He is also against the fact that Daisy is going to Gatsby’s parties. “By God‚ I may be old-fashioned‚ but women run around too much these
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pangs of discrimination because of differences in skin color‚ gender‚ or social status‚ causing those people to be alienated from society. In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Hester Prynne is isolated from society for adultery and cheating on her unseen husband. Although she is greatly burdened by her sin‚ her punishment illustrates how judgemental society can be to people to who break the social norms. Although Hester Prynne has to live everyday with a constant reminder of her
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unfortunate consequences which happen to black men alternatively. Now based on realizing the excessive stereotype against race‚ the author asserts that he deliberately behaves in a way to avoid a false impression while walking. In conclusion‚ Staples maintains that the prejudice against race remains in existence‚ and he cannot walk naturally in public space without dispelling the misconception to protect
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