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    Enclosed Women: On the Use of Enclosure Imagery by 19th-Century Female Authors to Expose Societal Oppression Hannah Carlson The theme of enclosure is not uncommon in the literary writings of nineteenth-century female authors. Scholars have suggested that it was used as a way to portray the figurative imprisonment these women felt in their own lives. Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar‚ in their groundbreaking work The Madwoman in the Attic‚ comment on the use of ―obsessive imagery of confinement‖ and

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    Michelle Luzuriaga December 2013 Health or beauty ? Which to choose ? For many people this is a everyday question‚ not in a literal way but in a habit way. Mostly teens‚ but neverless anybody riskes their lives to fufill this idea of "perfect". Awareness is growing about this deadly disorder but many are still uneducated. This relates to me in a personal matter as well because I have expierenced this myself‚ first hand. This deadly mental disorder is called an eating disorder. An eating disorder

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    Luther Kings “Three Ways of Meeting Oppression” speech argues that acquiescence‚ physical violence‚ and non-violent resistance are the three routes that people generally take to deal with oppression. King emphasizes acquiescence and physical violence as being wrong. He explains how acquiescence is when oppressed people “adjust themselves to oppression‚ and thereby become conditioned to it.” (lines 3-4)‚ and how its detrimental to accept circumstances of oppression because it displays cooperation.

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    Structuralism of Feminine Oppression: “All Summer in A Day” Structuralism is defining the truth of the text within its context. A feminine approach to analyze a literary piece of writing is done by examining the unequal power roles between a man and women in regards to: physical‚ economic‚ and emotional aspects assigned to each gender. By analyzing Ray Bradbury’s short story‚ All Summer in a Day using the structuralism theory along with feminist research‚ a clear male totalitarianism society becomes apparent

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    ways in meeting oppression? The Three Characteristics Ways of Meeting Oppression Martin Luther King Jr.’s "The Ways of Meeting Oppression" is a division and classification essay in which King explains the ways in which oppressed people meet oppression. He states that‚ historically‚ oppressed people have responded to their oppression in negative ways either resulting in their total destruction or prolonging their oppression. King challenges the oppressed Negro to meet oppression positively and

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    Josh Davies looks at the history of the Philippines‚ from its domination by the Spanish to its present day Maoist insurgency The modern history of the Philippines has been defined by the domination of outside powers and resistance to them. The Philippines was a formal colony of Spain until 1899 and then de facto a colony of the US until the Second World War. Thereafter it suffered under semi-colonial domination - formally independent but with regimes that did the every bidding of the US. Nevertheless

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    Women –The Disenfranchised in Nigeria Tension is building in Nigeria’s largely Christian South over reports that Muslim women are being asked to take off their hijab or deny the right to register for the April presidential elections. The women are asked to remove their headscarf and she refuses to because it is against their religion. The Muslim Rights Concern said that it has received a flood of complaints from Muslim women being denied the right to register

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    Oppression/ Discrimination is a theme that appears in Deaf literature that shows the hardships that deaf individuals have to face everyday in society. Although many deaf individuals are being oppressed or discriminated by hearing individuals they try not to let it stop them from achieving their goals and living a normal life. The first piece of literature I want to introduce is a PBS documentary called “Through Deaf Eyes” (2007). The documentary talked about how in the past when schools were starting

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    In “The Ways of Meeting Oppression‚” Martin Luther King Jr. primarily uses ethos to promote the practice of non-violent resistance against the struggle of oppression. In this persuasive piece‚ King uses ethos to appeal to the African Americans’ sense of responsibility. By encouraging them to step up instead of passively accepting injustice‚ he is implying that he trusts they can do it. His argument is based on moral obligations rather than the practicality of the issue. His use of shared values or

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    Assess Jack Mapanje’s response to censorship and oppression. Jack Mapanje is a Malawian poet and author who was born in 1944. He was the head of English at the University of Malawi before being imprisoned in 1987‚ allegedly for his collection ‘ Of Chameleons and God’s’ which criticized the administration of President Hastings Banda. He was released in 1991 and emigrated to the UK where he worked as a teacher.  The poem "The Song of Chickens" (4) protests against a master who protects his

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