Resilience and Compassion: Qualities of Impactful Women Once depicted as the weaker gender‚ women have truly shown that they are of equal value to their male counterpart. In the past‚ women were expected to sew‚ cook‚ and perform other household chores. Society was insistent that women should not interfere with politics‚ should not hold leadership roles nor perform any "manly" activities. However‚ in the past 88 years in which women were finally embraced as being part of "person" in the BNA Act
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Stephanie Ericsson—“The Ways We Lie” Ericsson explores the different types of lying in a straightforward manner in this essay‚ and that makes this essay the easier of the two to comprehend. At the bottom of the first page‚ Ericsson writes about the consequences of telling the truth and how inconvenient and painful the truth can be. In her essay‚ Ericsson classifies the different kinds of lies‚ from the most benign to the most harmful. She begins with the most common and socially acceptable
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AUNT JENNIFER’S TIGERS By ADRIENNE RICH SUMMARY OF THE POEM: The poet is a feminist and she addresses the difficulties of a married woman. She spends good amount of time in embroidering panel of tigers prancing across the screen. The tigers are fearless creatures pacing elegantly and majestically. They symbolize the spirit of freedom. Aunt is a victim of male chauvinism (male domination). Aunt Jennifer is so oppressed and terrified that she finds it hard to pull the needle. The “weight of Uncle’s
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family and religion interfere? I will focus in this essay on Michel Foucault‚ Adrienne Rich and Catherine Mackinnon who all indicate that sexuality is socially constructed but argue on the source of construction. While Foucault believes that sexuality is historically constructed by genderless power‚ knowledge and discourse; Mackinnon assumes that sexuality constitutes gender and is a social construct of male power; Rich‚ instead‚ claims that there is no innate desire toward the opposite sex but rather
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“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” by ADRIENNE RICH. When I saw the title of the poem‚ the first thing we can know is the speaker had an aunt named Jennifer. Also‚ I thought real tigers would be describing in the poem‚ and I wondered how could a woman rear some tigers. But after I saw the first line of the poem‚ I found out the tigers in the poem were not real. In the first stanza‚ we can see the speaker used the word “prance” to describe the move of the tigers‚ it made me imagine some happy and chill tigers.
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many new scientific discoveries during the Enlightenment. There were many discoveries‚ especially astronomic‚ that greatly revolutionized the knowledge we know of today. The scientists during that time advanced in science using the scientific method. Some discoveries include the way our solar system revolves‚ and the universal law of gravitation. All of these theories and observations were improved over the years with more technology and the scientific method. PHILOSPHES: Montesquieu- His goal
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In my opinion‚ some people are rich because of they are born rich‚ or they worked hard in life to become rich. For example‚ Donald Trump’s sons and daughters were born rich and are used to the expensive lifestyle because they have lived it every day since they were born. Some people are poor because of the decisions that they made in life which caused them to be that way‚ such as not choosing to go to school‚ or finding a way out of being poor rather than staying stagnant. Also some were born into
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Adrienne Rich’s poem Living In Sin is a free verse poem about a woman’s fairy tale dream of marriage versus the reality of the sin of not loving each other. The subject of the poem is a woman starting a life of hope and happiness in a perfect relationship only to learn the true reality of the relationship. The speaker of the poem observes the woman’s life as sad and boring using the past tense versus the present‚ and short run on lines that set the hopeless mood of the poem. Imagery and colorful
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and Why do People Lie? Lying is around us no matter where we go‚ all over the world‚ in every culture‚ none more than others. We are surrounded by lying especially in advertisement on television and billboards. As a rule lying is very frowned upon in society‚ although we all take part it in almost every day. This leads us to some questions one might have about lying. How many different ways do people lie‚ why do they lie‚ and what different kinds of reactions does lying cause? There are many different
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Honor Killings of Muslim Women Introduction Killings in the name of honor are undoubtedly a disaster‚ an unlawful act‚ a terror against humanity. Honor Killings of Muslim women is an antique trend followed in Islam in which male members of family and social community deliberately kill women and girls of their family or tribes as a result of belief that they have conducted any shameful act and ruined the reputation of family or tribe. Honor Killings in Muslims has been inherited from the ancient
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