Alli Beery Warming Her Pearls ENGL 3790 3/31/14 Warming Her Pearls Carol Anne Duffy has always had a strong feminist theme running throughout all of her poems. Warming Her Pearls is a combination of both feminism and Marxism. There is a class conflict when it comes to the maid and her mistress. The maid is constantly thinking of her mistress‚ and it is likely that the mistress never thinks twice about her maid. While there is no relationship between a man and a woman‚ there are strong
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of the fetus In Judith Jarvis Thompson ’s A Defense of Abortion ’ a different view of abortion is presented (47 . She contends that even if it is to be perceived that a fetus is a person worthy of the basic right to life still ‚ it does not follow that abortion must be condemned just for that reason of the latter ’s right to life . She asserted that abortion involves another individual ‚ and another life for that matter . This means that the mother -her right to life and to her body- must also be
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therefore‚ I had to do a head to toe assessment on one of the patients under the supervision of a registered nurse. My patient was a forty-year-old woman who had a foot fungal infection called tinea pedis which caused her feet to swell‚ therefore she was unable to walk. Before I began the head to toe assessment on my patient I provided privacy‚ inspected her while I introduced myself and informed her what I am about to do. First‚ I took her temperature then I started with her head looking to see if
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For this essay‚ I have chosen to take on the prompt that covers the hypothetical scenario in which my sister is the person being hooked up to the violinist in Judith Jarvis Thomson’s violinist thought experiment. I will begin by discussing my thoughts regarding this scenario and what advice I would offer my sister. I will then go on to take a more general look at this topic and try and establish whether my reasoning could be used as basic moral code for this issue or is there more complexity to it
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Marble Head Of a Ptolemaic Queen Daniel R. Diaz Professor Shelby Art History 101 December 11‚ 2004 This work of art is from the Greek‚ Hellenistic period‚ c. 270- 250 B.C.E. This fifteen inch marble bust corresponds to a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty according to the typical facial features of the ruling family at that time. The Ptolemaic dynasty occurred when there was a succession of Macedonian Greeks over Egypt from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. until the
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the piece from turning bland. Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is no less of a performance art; her language and use of quotations acting as props to the stage. In her book‚ Butler reinforces the belief
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In the second stanza‚ Sexton takes the reader back to the stone ages. She thumbs her nose at the exaggerated propaganda which claims that American mothers and wives are thriving. The home is reversed to “caves‚” the use of “skillets‚” and carvings” (9) mirror that the role of a woman has been limited to the kitchen and to the monotonous routine of everyday life. The analogy between rocky deserted caves and the witches’ homes is revealing. It decodes the early dwellers of such places. Primitive people
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“Rachel and Her Children” Not all of us are blessed and able to come home to a roof over our head‚ food on the table‚ daily necessities‚ and happy moments to look back on. Some of us are fighting for shelter‚ starving for food‚ and praying for a smile. As I read Rachel and Her Children I found myself seeing things from the homeless perspective. Homeless does not necessarily mean they do not have a roof over there head. Homeless now to me means not having a place to feel safe and call your home
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Tylencia Harvey Ms.Bowser English 1101/MWF 12 October 18‚2012 A Question for Philosophers In Judith Butler’s essay Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy she discusses sexuality and what actually makes a world livable. Judith is a gay rights activist and doesn’t believe that your gender is not who you are skin deep‚ but it is who you define yourself as. The world can be livable to some people‚ but not all. The world is harsh‚ and cruel‚ but the only reason it is like this is
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In the spooky story titled: Pumpkin head Hadley is a young widow (just as Oates recently lost her husband)‚ and she’s attracted—for mysterious reasons that relate to her childhood—to Anton‚ a young post-doc who works at the local Co-op. He has “dropped by”‚ and she’s not too upset to see him—it seems she might be ready to finally emerge after a long period of mourning—but she is slightly repulsed by Anton. The man is forceful‚ though‚ and she doesn’t have the strength to ask him to leave‚ although
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