There are approximately 150‚000 migrant domestic workers (MDW) in Singapore and many of them suffer forms of abuse – physical and sexual violence‚ food deprivation‚ confinement in workplace and late or non-payment of salary. In 2011‚ an estimated 4000 MDWs ran away from their employers’ home‚ many of them frustrated‚ overworked and underpaid. (TWC2‚ 2011) The Singapore law doesn’t stipulate a minimum wage or mandatory rest days in contracts for these domestic workers. Instead‚ many initiatives
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The two short stories that I read were “Young Goodman Brown” written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids” written by Herman Melville. While Hawthorne’s short story revolved around love and adventure‚ Melville choose subjects that were less written about. Writing about the order of the Templar’s and doing what is needed to help a group. The main character left his newly wed wife to go on a journey through the woods to get to the witch trails in
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A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Thomas Middleton wrote A Chaste Maid in Cheapside in 1610‚ which unlike his other plays it was performed in front of a large popular audience. Middleton’s play was considered to be a daring play because of it strongly satirized religion hypocrisy. Middleton takes the sanctity of marriage and creates four comical marriage plots that revolve around one character. The common theme of lying and deceitfulness in the play seems to revolve around the character Sir Walter Whorehound
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In addressing the issues faced by women in the poem ‘The Ruined Maid’‚ I must consider the conditions of women in Victorian society and more specifically‚ how the writer has represented them. The presentation of Hardy’s female characters‚ especially the fallen women‚ is rather sympathetic. Critic Geoffrey Harvey argues that Hardy’s ‘intelligent and sympathetic portrayal of women is informed by his perception of the inextricable entanglement of gender and class issues’‚ which means that he observes
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In Carol Armstrong’s “Counter‚ Mirror‚ Maid: Some Infra-Thin Notes on A Bar at the Folies-Bergère‚” she addresses the debate over the setting (at Folies-Bergère) and the significance of the foreground and the background in Manet’s painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergère. She believes the still life at the foreground embodies commodity and the mirrors’ reflection in the background displays a fabricated reality. Moreover‚ Armstrong argues the barmaid is a bridge between the two realms that is both male
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Abusing Babies by their Personal Maids Maids are authorized to take good care of our properties. But are they also authorized of hurting our young brothers and sisters or even the acquitted babies? Why they are doing this? And why this incident happens? Wide range of harmful actions which generally affects with the age of babies can be progressed if they don’t handle with good discipline. Abusing a baby is when wrath surrounds a person leads to violence and lack of self-control. Most of the
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After being put-off by the Hypermart people today I could try out Minute Maid ’Pulpy Orange’ at a local small retailer. It has taken close to six month for the brand to reach the Hindi Heartland after the its launch in three southern states in February. First the plus points of the product‚ It tastes good‚ and the tag like ’Puply Orange’ stands up to the expectations both while drinking and visibility of the pulp . The tag line and product experince match...The distribution and the POPs for the launch
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The Ruined Maid Denying the harsh moral codes set upon you can at times improve your material circumstances; however it can reduce you to a situation lower than poverty. Hardy’s dramatic dialogue “The Ruined Maid” attempts to portray the injustices and ironies of Victorian morality. Hardy is able to achieve this through his elaborate control over language. The class distinctions and moral codes placed upon women in the Victorian era have a large degree of irony. In the first stanza Hardy introduces
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footsteps. Incidently‚ Elsa Lanchester recorded this poem as a song on her Bawdy Cockney Songs album‚ some decades ago. It is a delightful ditty. In The Ruined Maid’‚ which Hardy wrote in 1866‚ Hardy focuses on one woman’s recent loss of chastity and how she is perceived by a once close friend who is returning to town. This Maid’ has found herself marring above her status and prostituting herself for riches and prosperity. Rather than feeling ashamed of her actions‚ she expresses a sense of
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After a day’s training‚ she is considered capable of cleaning with the team. She realizes that maid work is tiresome and involves physical‚ demanding labor. Furthermore‚ she discovers that the 30 minute lunch break promised in her interview is more like a five minute break. Likewise‚ the guarantee of leaving work at 3:30 usually results in returning
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