successful speaker engages the audience in a discourse‚ which challenges and satisfies. This is evident through three feminist speeches Keynote Address at the Beijing World Conference on Women’ by Aung San Suu Kyi‚ ‘Spotty-Handed Villainesses’ by Margaret Atwood and and “Faith‚ Hope and Reconciliation” by Faith Bandler. All these speeches depict insightful techniques that demonstrate their ability to engage their audience. Delivered through video to the Fourth World Conference on Women‚ Suu Kyi’s Keynote
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Slide 1: Title/Question How does Atwood create parallels and contrast between the 20th century feminism and the oppression of women in Gilead? Slide 2: Introduction Good morning‚ class. The question I will be analysing today is " How does Atwood create parallels and contrasts between 20th century feminism and the oppression of women in Gilead? " I will first look at some background information on the dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood‚ then I will look at the different kinds of freedom
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Oryx and Crake‚ unethical behaviour and the mistreatment of individuals have resulted in a collapse in society. Societal advancements and innovations no longer benefit the vast majority‚ but only the elite. By examining many issues such as these‚ Atwood brings views on morality into question. Drawing parallels to modern society‚ Atwood’s three main concerns are the negative side of globalization‚ the loss of a middle class‚ the negative side of globalization and excessive human exploitation for personal
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* Atwood believes that the national mental illness of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia‚ and she is delighted to discover the numerous hidden dichotomies in Moodie’s vision of reality * “roughing it in the bush” cries that echo across the harsh and vacant Canadian wilderness‚ carrying with them resonances and traces of the world from which she came. * Orient herself in what seemed a meaning and unfamiliar environment. * Moodie’s relentless struggle to carve out a home for herself and
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GILEAD AS A DYSTOPIAN NOVEL “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood takes place in the Republic of Gilead‚ a totalitarian and theocratic state where women are seen as an object. Because of low reproduction rates‚ the Handmaids are assigned to bear children for elite couples. Atwood wrote this novel based on a dystopian society to warn the reader about the dangers of a theocratic and oppressive society. She creates a dystopia with the elements such as; the oppression of women‚ the perversion
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The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood takes place in the Republic of Gilead‚ in which women are placed in certain groups and stripped of their identity. Gilead focuses on bringing back old religious aspects into life by dividing individuals into biblical groups. The women especially the main character Offred is completely stripped of her name and possessions as well as being forced to not be able to talk‚ read‚ or write. In Handmaids Tale‚ by Margaret Atwood‚ the government of Gilead uses religious
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Does Science Explain All? In the beginning there was darkness. Then there was light. Then there was consciousness. Then there were questions and then there was religion. Religions sprouted up all over the world as a response to some of humanity’s most troubling questions and fears. Why are we here? Where do we come from? Why does the world and nature act as it does? What happens when you die? Religions tended to answer all these questions with stories of gods and goddesses and other supernatural
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society in which they live. In The Handmaid ’s Tale Offred is accused of being an "unfit" (Atwood 39) mother for her daughter because of her past. Offred met her husband through being his mistress‚ but waited until marriage to have a child. The government uses their affair against them‚ convincing Offred that because the bible says that adultery is a sin that she is not fit to be a mother. To
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determined until the 1940s. This led to the official name being altered to Citrus × paradisi‚ the "×" identifying its hybrid origin. An early pioneer in the American citrus industry was Kimball Chase Atwood‚ a wealthy entrepreneur who founded the Atwood Grapefruit Co. in the late 19th century. The Atwood Grove became the largest grapefruit grove in the world‚ with an annual production of 80‚000 boxes of fruit. It was there that pink grapefruit was first discovered in 1906. The Florida Department of
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and Crake‚ Atwood creates a world where food is no longer the work of nature; instead‚ it has become a man-made creation. Her overall argument about genetically engineered food is that if taken too far‚ it can override ethical and safety concerns. Atwood does‚ however‚ in a way talk about the benefits and advantages of GMO’s. For example‚ Crake tells Jimmy to “look at it realistically. You can’t couple a minimum access to food with an expanding population” (119). Following this‚ Atwood discusses
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