to speak out of the women’s problems and needs. Their desires always get lost before the grand narratives of patriarchy‚ even the national history and narrative rarely recognize the major contribution of the females in the texts or document. Whenever the woman is portrayed‚ she is put in the second position below the man. She is always kept silent. Identifying this issue‚ Indian critic and feminist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak asks— can the subaltern speak? in her essay ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’.
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begin the long journey to Florida. It was my first time driving to Florida so it was awesome to see all the interesting sights in every state we went through. On the drive down we took lots of pictures of random things‚ my two dogs behaved way better than I thought they would‚ and I got a beautiful $500 dollar speeding ticket in Georgia. Finally‚ when we arrived in Florida I was so excited to get to my new apartment that I couldn’t stop thinking about the entire trip down to Florida. My dogs were
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Letting Nature Speak If you were walking in the woods and suddenly a tree started speaking to you‚ most likely you would either faint or start running the opposite direction. It would be pretty scary‚ to say the least. But nature does speak to everyone in a sense; we are just so busy with life that we do not take the time to listen. There is so much in nature that we can learn from and apply to our lives‚ but so often we only look at it for its face value and do not see the deeper benefits. Speaking
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sometimes got my ideas mixed and wrote them in the wrong order. Which most of the time made my resume to not make sense. This experience also taught me to always sound myself and not try to hard using fancy words‚ which as a result let to paragraphs without any meaning. Some of these intellectual words were hard to
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It is often said that the curriculum in primary school should include one or many foreign languages. Although some may agree with this argument‚ others refute this saying this have adverse effects on young students. I tend to the support the latter and would elaborate on this in the following paragraphs. Firstly‚ the main reason for learning a language that is alien for students is that they would grasp anything that is thrown at them. It is a known fact that young kids have the trait of absorbing
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language. Some words have been lost‚ changed‚ and added. This language often coincides with the American culture of the time. As the culture changes‚ so does the language. Offensive language has become common in today’s American culture‚ and stands as a regular part of the English language. The amount of offensive language heard on an everyday basis is astounding. There is no escaping it. Excessive amounts of people have come to embrace most of this language‚ but there are still certain words and phrases
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similarities in Speak and Animal Farm. Starting with similarities in theme are there is an abuse of the power. Napoleon uses it to take over the farm and have the other animals as his slaves. Andy uses his power over Melinda to where she’s afraid to speak. Although there is abuse‚ the protagonists still hope for a better life. The major conflict in Animal Farm is the common animals versus the pigs. There are also minor conflicts between underlying characters that add into the big picture. Speak has Melinda
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inessential as opposed to the essential.” (Beauvoir 16) In the Indian context‚ women as gendered subalterns have a very limited role to play within the society. They are mere objects of desire to men. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in her essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?”‚ originally published in Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg’s Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture (1988) says‚ “As object of colonialist historiography and as subject of insurgency‚ the ideological construction of gender keeps
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Earth. It is called this because it closely resembles the Earth’s mass‚ density and diameter. The only thing different is that Venus is shrouded in thick clouds that completely hide the surface of the planet. The surface temperature is also much warmer than that of Earth. Venus completes one revolution around the sun in 224.7 days. This makes the Venusian day equal to 117 earth days. It is thought that this slow rotation may be the reason why Venus has no magnetic field. The atmosphere of Venus is made
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up too late to study. I went to school in a hurry. When taking the test‚ I felt butterflies‚ shaky and my heart beating quicky. I had 45 minutes to complete the test‚ but I did not know how can I do it. My mind was empty‚ I could not remember any words. My friends concentrated on their task‚ they looked so satisfied with test questions. Geography was my favorite subject‚ I had done so well on the last one‚ I thought I was subjective when I did not prepar its test. After a week‚ I received my exam
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