“Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou is an inspiring poem that relates to women of all ages and races. It’s powerful message of loving one’s body and self is much needed in today’s society. Women today are being bombarded with the ideas that they should be perfect. The media plays a major role on how women perceive themselves‚ and these unrealistic views on beauty and thinness are causing self-destructing behaviors that are harmful to all women. The only way to fix this epidemic is to teach women
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Phenomenal Woman is a dramatic poem by Maya Angelou about the love a woman has for herself even with her flaws. This poem is meant to be performed in front of an audience because the poem’s body movements reflect her flamboyant actions as she performs on stage. The speaker is a strong‚ confident woman (possibly Angelou) whom men seem to be incredibly attracted to. This is odd because the woman seems to not consider herself beautiful. Through her poem‚ Angelou speaks to all women‚ beautiful or
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“A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”‚ a book written by Mary Wollstonecraft‚ is a declaration of the rights of the women for equality of education‚ and to civil opportunities. Wollstonecraft advocates education as key‚ for women to attain a sense of self-respect‚ and a new self-image that can enable them to live to their fullest capabilities. The theme of the story is fixated on education. There is nothing Wollstonecraft wants more than a woman to have access to the same kind of education as men
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The Woman Warrior While reading The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston it makes the reader wonder how our ancestors dealt with their everyday lives in the 1920’s. What we consider hard labor and sacrifice; they might have considered a mini vacation. We could go out about our lives and not have to worry about anybody but ourselves. They had to deal with everyday criticism from the people in their neighborhood‚ watching their every move and every choice they made. Kingston talks about an aunt
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The Strength of a Woman Zora Neale Hurston’s famous novel Their Eyes Were Watching God tells the compelling story of an African American woman‚ Janie Crawford‚ and her journey to find herself. In the time period of this novel‚ women are stereotypically seen as inferior to men. They do not speak their mind‚ they are reliant on their husbands‚ and they do as they are told. However‚ this is not true of Janie‚ the novel’s protagonist and narrator. Janie is a strong female role model who defies the
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do not need education. They think that women are expected to take care of everyone except themselves. They have to take care of the children‚ stay home‚ clean up the house‚ and be the self-denying wife and mother. They think only that the life of a woman is all about getting married‚ having children‚ and being bombarded by unimportant details of domesticity. But they do not understand that the education is very important for women not only for them but for a whole family. Because women are the mothers
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The Feminism in The Yellow Wallpaper The Yellow Wallpaper written by Charlotte Perkins Stetson was set in the 19th century‚USA.It was mainly about a hysterical woman took the rest cure in an ancestral hall‚and was finally driven mad by a piece of yellow wallpaper in her room. In The Yellow Wallpaper‚the author demonstrates the idea that in the 19th century US‚women were suffered from male hegemony.They were in an inferior position‚and their position needed to be improved. To begin with‚women
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The Courageous Woman As a woman leader‚ Elizabeth Blackwell strived to become someone in life. She influenced mothers‚ children‚ wives‚ and sisters and showed them how strength could lead them to their dreams. Her family and friends discouraged her‚ but she kept going in her own direction. They told her how impossible it would be to become a woman doctor and she asked them why she should not be a doctor. They had no reasons to tell her‚ but even if they had one‚ it was not useful‚
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Yellow Wallpapers The Yellow Wallpapers is a short story that was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892. The story is about a married couple who settle in a big‚ mysterious house. They moved in the house for the reason that wife‚ who is a protagonist‚ had mental disorders and her husband who was a doctor decided she needed a place where she will be alone. Room that they chose as a bedroom had yellow wallpapers‚ that had a big impact on the wife. She‚ in fact‚ did not like them; however‚ as
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Pretty Woman. The quintessential romance Pretty Woman (1990) staring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere is essentially a modern day fairy tale where the underprivileged young woman meets her handsome prince and lives happily ever after. The film resonates the same narrative formula as classic fable Cinderella‚ in that the film’s protagonist Vivian (Roberts) plays a prostitute who is bought for a week by wealthy businessman Edward (Gere) for everything but the standard reason‚ sex. Pretty Woman contains
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