Extended Response to The Handmaid’s Tale Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale‚ written in the 1980s‚ is a highly complex post-modern dstopian text that explores the issues of feminism. The dystopian genre attacks the myth of a utopia‚ bringing all possibilities to an extreme while the term post modernism explores the consequences of monocracy on modern society and the dynamics of language. Atwood’s use of a female perspective on a hypothetical dystopian society enables her to pursue the controversy of
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of a group in my English 101 class. We were assigned with researching and writing a paper on a discourse community of our choice. The community we decided to focus our work on was the Edge at Mason‚ a group that helps bring people together through team-building strategies. The need that our work was attempting to respond to was the need to come up with a solution to a potential problem within the discourse community. This problem arose from the lack of any formal supervisior or scribe during the community’s
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Justinian I‚ listened to her advice regarding political decisions in the empire. She essentially co-ruled with Justinian‚ aiding in the rights for women by outlining their rights and expanding upon them. In this way‚ she was somewhat like an early feminist. During her service to her country as empress‚ Theodora protected the rights of the serfs and poor. She attended to the rights of prostitutes in particular by closing brothels‚ creating safe spaces for women‚ and passing laws to prohibit forced prostitution
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Free and Direct Discourse in Jane Austen’s‚ Emma Jane Austen is often considered to have one of the most compelling narrative voices in literature. Blurring the line between third and first person‚ Austen often combines the thoughts of the narrator with the feelings and muses of the focalized character. Emma is perhaps her most prominent example of free indirect discourse‚ where the narrator’s voice is often diffused into that of the characters. In the following passage‚ Emma takes on her role
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1. Berger says that "Discourse analysis... focuses attention not only on the content of written material but on the style that writers use‚ the language they use to express themselves‚ and the strategies they adopt to get their ideas across. The focus‚ we may say‚ is on the ’how’ not the ’what’" (p. 174). Explain the difference between the "how" and the "what." Instead of concentrating on the content they concentrate on the style of the content. When reading a review of a movie‚ we are still reading
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Homework on The Enlightenment‚ Descartes‚ Discourse on Method English 1150 Respond to the questions below in your own words‚ please. No copying and pasting from Wikipedia or any other online source. Any homework paper that is submitted in this fashion will receive a zero. Homework may be type or hand written. 1. Answer the following questions on the Enlightenment. What period of time is typically assigned this title? Who were some of its major figures (besides Descartes‚ of course)? What
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Othello and A Discourse of Marriage and Wiving In Othello‚ Shakespeare adheres to some of but ignores some of the rules set from A Discourse of Marriage and Wiving‚ while he creates conflicts in Othello’s marriage to Desdemona. While everything starts out great with Othello’s marriage to Desdemona‚ things slowly unravel when Iago‚ the villain of the play‚ begins to fill the heads of his ‘friends’ with lies. Othello is boastful of the beauty and gentleness of his wife‚ causing the work for Iago
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examines how “human rights language and discourse have been powerful tools to address discrimination‚ marginalization‚ and persecution of oppressed people” (183). More specifically‚ he examines how different groups‚ such as the LGBTI have gathered to enable themselves to begin a discourse on ensuring human rights (183). Goodhart discusses the sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) as human rights that need to be included in the human rights discourse (183). Special rights should be provided
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A Sample Analysis of Written Discourse —through the analysis of larger patterns and cohesive ties For discourse analysis‚ we usually analyze two main categories of discourse‚ the spoken discourse and written discourse. When we analyze a piece of spoken discourse‚ we will exam the identify of the speaker‚ the purpose of the utterance‚ the perlocutionary effect of the utterance‚ and the context of the utterance. Elements like intonation‚ tone‚ and genre of the utterance also are included in the analysis
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Feminist Theory‚ Embodiment‚ and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival Saba Mahmood University of Chicago In the last two decades one of the key questions that has occupied many feminist theorists is how should issues of historical and cultural specificity inform both the analytics and politics of any feminist project. Although this questioning has resulted in serious attempts at integrating issues of sexual‚ racial‚ class‚ and national difference within feminist
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