Madison Ellis Clark Honors English IV Peggy T. Johnson May 20‚ 2014 Reflective Essay for Senior Service Learning Project For my project my classmate‚ Marie‚ and I worked together to beautify a part of the school. We chose to focus on the small nook near the English trailers and the art room. Here we found bushes being choked by vines and weeds‚ no budding flowers‚ dead branches‚ trash‚ and lots of nasty mulch. We knew we had a lot of work ahead of ourselves and not a lot of time (well‚ for
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Feminism and Gender Roles Society has set certain standards that women are supposed to follow. The most common image of women is that they are very passive and try to avoid conflict in any situation. More and more in society women are breaking down the social barriers that confine them to their specific roles. The movies The Graduate and The Last Picture Show reveal to viewers a side to females that is very untraditional. These two movies help to show how women are rebelling against sexual
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The novel Things Fall Apart‚ by Chinua Achebe tells the story of a man named Okonkwo who lives in a small village in Nigeria. The author presents the story of Okonkwo in order to show the struggles between a community rooted in tradition and how it adapts to change. Okonkwo struggles with both his changing community‚ and proving his masculinity. Throughout the novel‚ the author also provides a look at the strong discourse between women and men in the Umuofia society. Okonkwo was a great and authoritative
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In Jay Martin’s Scopic Regimes Of Modernity‚ one subject that really resonated with me is the idea of visual complexity that is presented in various forms throughout this article. The article begins with the author mentioning that “Although the implied characterization of different eras in this generalization as more favorably inclined to other senses should not be taken at face value‚ it is difficult to deny that the visual has been dominant in modern Western Culture in a wide variety of ways (page
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merely to reproduce‚ to execute her domestic duties well and to submit incontestably to the authority of the men. In essence the Greeks valued their women almost as little as a common slave was valued. These values and traits associated with femininity in ancient Grecian societies are demonstrated throughout Sophocles mythical account of a woman of Thebes named Anigone. He however recognized that these beliefs about women were not representative of how women of ancient Greece were and thus highlighted
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equality regardless of sex (Rampton). In response‚ Ken Kesey explores a society that is ruled by women to reflect how males are damaged both physically and mentally under such control. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest‚ Nurse Ratched’s lack of femininity and the consequences of the matriarchy reflect
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concepts of tradition and modernity in The Bride Price by Buchi Emecheta. INTRODUCTION The concept of tradition versus modernity has been widely explored in the novel entitled Bride Price by Buchi Emecheta. Every aspect including the setting of the novel‚ the tribal community that exists‚ the characters‚ the lifestyle which the community adopted and the values that each characters hold reflects the existence and also the confrontation between tradition and modernity. In this novel‚ the author
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means that we had to take one of our older papers and turn it into something new like a Youtube video or a Pinterest board. The options were endless. Although I did not gain any reading‚ writing‚ researching or literary practices and my views on femininity and women were the same as in project #1‚ I did end up gaining skills in critical analysis. I analyzed my project to see what different rhetorical devices I used in my video‚ which helped me gain skills in seeing rhetorical devices that other people
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In Victorian times‚ the roles that men and women played were tremendously different and particular. Women were seen as flighty‚ emotionally charged and dependent where as men were the dominant‚ aggressive‚ decision makers. Often the male ’s role in society was the more significant of the two‚ and women were seen as the inconsequential homemakers. In the novel The Woman in White‚ by Wilkie Collins‚ we see how the author uses the gender roles in order to add to the outrageously scandalous plots and
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Historically‚ the treatment of femininity in literature is wide ranging. Some texts explore the feelings and responsibilities involved with typically feminine traits such as motherhood and in social environments‚ while others highlight more feminist issues such as the struggle for equality and male oppression. Authors of both sexes have made major contributions to this area in literature but it remains surprising that male writers have been able to perceptively portray women above their previously
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