Part I Marybeth Hicks’ commentary on the Occupy Wallstreet protestor’s shines light on what seems like an unpopular opinion. She targets the protestor’s motives with the question of “Who raised these people?” Calling out the activists on their illogical and outright silly motives she justifies what she says with truth and facts that the protestor’s don’t even seem to realize. She lists five points that the protestor’s fail to notice on why their cause is as ridiculous as their behavior. Part II She begins her article stating that “Yet it's not my role as a commentator that prompts my parenting question, but rather the fact that I'm the mother of four teens and young adults. There are some crucial life lessons that the protesters’ moms
The Discrimination against Women Identities Throughout history, female were considered lesser beings and nothing more than the property of their husband. In the short story, Blank Spaces by Joanna Cockerline, the acknowledgment of female being inferior creatures in comparison to men is highlighted. Struggle against misfortunes, Elizabeth is oppressed by the social inequality due to the fact that she is a girl. In Blank Spaces, the social inequality implied by the narrative severely impacts Elizabeth’s career hierarchy, character traits, and life experiences. Like many feminist writer, Cockerline focuses her emphasis on how social norm discriminate women by inhibit their job opportunities.
Juan V. Dr.Lamore INGL 3212: Advance English II 28 August 2013 Many of the novels that are famous now a days, like The Hunger Games, or even classics like Fahrenheit 451 are literary works portrays a dystopian world. Meaning, a “society that is broken down, unpleasant, or in an oppressed or terrorized state” (Kendall). According to Merriam Webster online dictionary a dystopia is define as “an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives.” In other words, that type of books shows the reader a place, most likely in a distant future, in a chaotic state, where people struggle with their daily lives. These types of novels are categorized as science fiction as it may seem unreal. According to Edmund Crispin, a novel or any other literary work that is consider science fiction, “is one that presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order, such as humanity, up to the time of writing, has not in actual fact experienced” (qtd in Wilson).
In his opinion the nation and it's leaders are at fault for not addressing this problem. 4. The complexity of the problem seems to determine the order of the examples where they begin with simple problems and then escalate. The most memorable example for me is the one about the woman who mistakenly underwent a hysterectomy, it appears in the middle in paragraph fourteen. SOAPSTone: Subject: Kozol discusses the causes and effects of illiteracy in our society.
She shows how women can only be categorised as either an angel or a whore. It shows the way that women can only be judged at the time. She also frequently alludes to the “bad” women in literature to show how women could only be categorised in those binary opposites like Lady Macbeth or Eve. She uses rhetorical devices to explain how bad women are needed to disrupt the static order which is Patriarchy. Atwood also shows her opposition to the extreme feminism that existed in her time where feminism was influencing the creation of literature at the time.
In Lepines’ letter, he sites how feminists had ruined his life and they were the reason he committed this crime. Feminist theory on crime explains this thought clearly. Lepines’ ideas about the roles of women were formed by a patriarchal society leading him to believe in some that women were not equal to men and should not be given all the opportunities of men (Knuttila, 305). These women wanted to be educated and become engineers; Lepine could not cope with this fact and blamed women, namely feminist for his short comings in life. Did Lepine come up with these ideas himself or was he a product of a society that dictated classical roles and oppression of women?
Further more in 1989, Anthony Meyer also challenged her leadership. This was an audacious attempt and it did not succeed wither, but it showed the growing disillusionment among the Tory ranks. This led to her downfall because it showed that Thatcher was losing support from her own cabinet, members were willing to
she demonstrates the absurdity of the men of the industrial era’s repeatedly and calls attention to the erroneous and backwards thinking of the times through comedic satire. A powerful example of such satire from Howe's speech is in her introduction. she sarcastically proclaims “woman suffrage is the reform against nature” and continues to point out the ladies present in the crowd and their physical, mental and “general debility”. she sarcastically demonstrates the “debilities” of women to a point which they couldn’t possibly mark a ballot or drop it in a box and continues to lay on the sarcasm as the possibility of a woman completing such a simple and menial task is impossible because “all nature is against it. the laws of man cry out against it.
Aunt Alexandra was horrified with the fact that Scout did not live up to the standards society had of women. She believed Scout should be wearing dresses, not running around wild like a boy. To further outstretch this topic of stereotypes, an article published in August 2014 by The New York Times stresses the phrase 'throw like a girl' and the hidden aspects of it. On the second page of the article, the author speaks of stereotypes of the female community. "Such restriction, constriction, and fragmentation can be observed in many everyday movements, including the way a woman walks, sits, and carries books.
• The society is an illusion of a perfect utopian world. Types of Dystopian Controls Most dystopian works present a world in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through one or more of the following types of controls: • Corporate control: One or more large corporations control society through products, advertising, and/or the media. Examples include Minority Report and Running Man. • Bureaucratic control: Society is controlled by a mindless bureaucracy through a tangle of red tape, relentless regulations, and incompetent government officials. Examples in film include Brazil.