been into the feminism (neither can I say that I quite understand it)‚ her character woke up some other kind of sensitivity in me. After this to me significant change I could not help myself not to notice different approaches of John Steinbeck and Kay Boyle to the similar thematic. They both deal with marital relationships and it was quite interesting to view lives of ordinary married couples through both "male" and "female eyes". While Steinbeck opens his story describing the Salinas Valley in December
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In Judith Ortiz Cofer’s short story “Volar‚” a girl who is a huge fan of comic books dreams of being a Superhero but realizes her reality. Whether a child or an adult‚ most of us have our dreams; however‚ not all wishes become true. The narrator‚ the girl‚ begins her story describing how much she loves comic books such as Legion of SuperHeroes and Supergirl so much that a pile of her books is high as she is. She smoothly continues with her repeated dream in which Cofer vividly conveys the image that
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Reading the article “The Meaning Of Gender” written by Judith A. Howard and Jocelyn A Hollander helps me understand the different roles of gender in today’s society. There is a difference between sex and gender‚ sex is what describes the person and the gender is a personal identification. Learning about the difference I realized that gender doesn’t just say if you’re a female or male it shows the different roles played by the person.Sometimes having different sex doesn’t mean that it’s not okay to
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examine as well as explain two pieces of artwork that share identical themes within the culture of self-portraits in terms of appearance as well as personality. The first painting is a piece that is named simply Self-Portrait created by the artist Judith Leyster. The piece is dated to be created in the year of 1630. It was a painting of Ms. Leyster herself sitting at an easel painting. Self-portraits were created to depict one’s self in their natural habitat‚ whether that be an artist painting
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this story to the Alice of another story‚ Alice In Wonderland. They both have similar journeys of self discovery. Symbolisms the author uses are: earlier in the story‚ Alice recalls a statement that her father once made was that eyes symbolized a mirror of the soul. But the biggest symbolism is that the whole story demonstrates the inner struggle people have with finding their identity and their place in the world. THEME The theme to this story is that what really defines our identity is not
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can choose your own identity is because no matter what you do to your appearance‚ your personality stays the same. In the story‚ “Mirror Images”‚ by Lena Coakley‚ she describes that your appearance doesn’t affect your identity. Coakley states that‚ “Alice swinger legs over the side of her bed and looked at Jenny. At one time‚ looking at her was like looking in the mirror and Alice still found her sister’s coppery red hair and masses of freckles
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applied theory in the real world. In this paper I will be explaining and extrapolating upon two key concepts that have been introduced in the unit readings; performativity and intersectionality. Having coined the term in her book‚ Gender Trouble‚ Judith Butler’s theory on gender peformativity is arguably one of the most widely referenced concepts in the gender studies field. Gender perfomativity theorises that we‚ as
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For your third Individual Project‚ you will be writing an essay of 1‚000 words or more about two additional poems from the assigned reading list. Please select two works from the list of fifteen—excluding the one you already reflected on in Part A of the Phase 3 DB assignment—and answer the questions below. Again‚ be sure to begin your paper with an engaging introduction and clear thesis statement‚ develop each point in the body of your paper using examples and quotes from the poems‚ and conclude
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“THE ASTRONOMER’S WIFE” In her short story “The ASTRONOMERS WIFE” Kay Boyle presents a woman that is concerned with her marriage. She realizes that she is living a joyless life. A plumber made her realize how a man and woman’s actions differ bringing back Mrs. Ames wakes up one morning gently trying not to wake up her husband as she gets ready to start the day. She goes downstairs and starts doing her chores like every other day as her husband sleeps. At this moment she feels unloved
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The Engstrom Auto Mirror plant employs over 200 people at its Indiana location. In May 2007‚ the Engstrom Auto Mirrors plant‚ a relatively small supplier based in Indiana‚ faces a crisis. The business was in the second year of a downturn. Sales had started declining since 2005; a year later‚ plant manager Ron Bent had been forced to lay off more than 20 percent of the work force. Plant productivity was dropping‚ employee morale was low‚ and product-quality issues had begun to surface. Relationships
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