himself in the same category as the reader‚ however his tone and word choice suggest that he sides with Summer’s radical comments and this in turn weakens his argument as a whole. Audience Analysis: "Summers of Our Discontent" by Katha Pollitt Like Murray‚ Pollitt addresses a predominately liberal audience between the ages of twenty and sixty. Though‚ being published in The Nation‚ it reaches a smaller audience and though it is published nationwide it is not readily available. Pollitt’s loquacious
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Legal Drinking Age One of the biggest arguments that you will find going on today is‚ what the legal drinking age in The United States of America should be. Today in the USA the legal drinking age is twenty-one‚ but why twenty-one why not eighteen or thirty? Why have a drinking age of twenty-one in this country when there are over two hundred other countries that have lower drinking ages‚ and none that have higher? Who gets to decide the age at which someone is mature enough to consume alcohol
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After reading the book Nasty Women by Samhita Mukhopadhyay‚ Kate Harding‚ Zerlina Maxwell‚ Jessica Valenti‚ Cheryl Strayed‚ Katha Pollitt‚ and Mary Kathryn Nagle. I got a better understanding of the apparent aftermath of the 2016 Presidential election. This book put together by multiple feminist expressing their outrage‚ frustration‚ and satisfaction in regards to fifty-three percent of white women voted for Donald Trump and ninety-four percent of black women voted for Hilary Clinton. Throughout
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The New Momism Over the past thirty years‚ motherhood has changed significantly in society. From how mothers raise their kids‚ to what they look like is an ongoing battle that they cannot win. In the book‚ The Mommy Myth‚ the authors Susan Douglas‚ a Communication Studies Professor at the University of Michigan‚ and Meredith Michaels‚ a philosophy teacher at Smith College‚ write about the stress that mothers have on their backs at all time‚ and share a collection of stories that either makes motherhood
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and‚ as a consequence‚ having guys lose interest in them. This is yet another example of society interfering with women’s’ ability to do well and succeed. Stereotypes also put a prodigious disconnection between men and women. According to Katha Pollitt in “Why Boys Don’t Play with Dolls” society and its stereotypes give people a deceptive view of the world. She mentions the famous Barbie doll and how girls from the young age of three are given the popular doll to play with. Along with the Barbie
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Citations: Pollitt‚ Katha. "Women ’s Rights: As the World Turns." 1999. HighBeam Research. http://www.highbeam.com Imbornoni‚ Ann M. "Women ’s Rights Movement in the U.S." 2006. Infoplease http://www.infoplease.com Morse‚ Jane. "Women ’s Rights in the United States."
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Michaela Nowell Mrs. Lee Speech 18 October 2012 Gun Control The topic of gun control has been brought up time and time again this year. The people of the United States have varying opinions on this matter. Some believe they have heard enough and think the laws are fine; however‚ others think a change in the laws governing gun control need revising now! What arguments do each side have? First of all‚ what is gun control? One source identifies it as ‘efforts to regulate sales of guns’
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Cited: -U.S. Supreme Court‚ Roe v. Wade‚ 410 U.S. 113 (1973) 410 U.S Argued December 13‚ 1971 Reargued October 11‚ 1972 Decided January 22‚ 1973 -Pollitt‚ Katha
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During the 1980’s feminism fell out of favour with women. The fanaticism second wave feminists exhibited to carry out their plan to win equality and freedom for women made it infamous among its progeny. Feminist theorists like Betty Friedan‚ Kate Millet and Elaine Showalter promulgated “activism” as female ethic. Friedan in Female Mystique(1963) argued that white middle-class women suffers from ‘the problem that has no name’— which is responsible for wide spread unhappiness among women. Friedan states
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Ruben Carter-Alford Professor Melendez English 110 9/17/12 What really needs to be accomplished when attending college? I currently am attending Santa Barbara City College and I believe the reason why I am going to school is for one sole purpose‚ which is to figure out what I want to do for the rest of my life‚ and to be successful at what ever I choose to do. So what is success is it just cheating off someone’s paper and getting an A and ultimately cheating your way through school
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