For instance, imperialist measures are masked in "childbearing," or "domestic-society-through-sexual-reproduction," and "soul making," or "civil-society-through-social-mission" (Spivak 176). One moment of "childbearing" occurs when Spivak reveals that the "family/counter-family dyad" that allows Jane to move from the "counter-family" to the "family-in-law" is dependent on the "ideology of imperialism" (Spivak 180). In order for a "good greater than the letter of the Law" to be "broached" and the romantic notion of Jane and Rochester realizing their dreams of a legal family to occur, the imperialist figure of Bertha Mason must be removed (Spivak 180). Furthermore, Bertha's destruction has to be accomplished in a way that upholds the English ideology of imperialism and the proper British superiority. Therefore, Bertha's suicide is constructed in a manner that reflects her inferiority through imperialism.
Change in divorce rate essay. A divorce is the legal separation of married people through the court. Divorce rate is the number of people per thousand of the married population getting divorced per year. Since the 1900s, divorce rate has been increasing for many different reasons such as secularisation, the changes in the expectations of adulthood and the changes in the laws concerning divorce, however in the last few years it’s been slowly decreasing again. One reason for changes in the divorce rate is the change in how divorce is perceived by society.
History: Welfare, Reform and World War 1 Did World War I kill the progressive movement? Or was the crusade to make the world safe for democracy absorb the reforming zeal of the progressive era? It was believed that reform was stopped in its tracks by the start of World War I. “It is now shown the relationship between social reform and World War I is more complex that what earlier historians thought.” (Page 516) How the war brought the progressive era to a slow declining halt. The author Allen F. Davis reinforced my perception of the topic of the progressive movement and how the entry into the war didn’t totally end the movement.
A form of civil disobedience that both individuals and a group of rogues practice, reading appears as a subversive act capable of undermining the social order. Thus, for those who fight the totalitarian government seek the healing of the nations and an end to oppression and mass ignorance. Rather than bear arms, they bear books. As a work much like Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience/' which calls for blatant challenging of the status quo, Fahrenheit 451 challenges the institutions that encompass our lives and demonstrates literature's ability to cultivate human autonomy. Criticism of Bradbury's works, specifically Fahrenheit 451 can easily be divided into two categories: criticism of the work as literature and criticism of the work as science fiction.
But a range of studies have demonstrated the sense of threat that motivates much protest: Jonathan Rieder's anti-integration backlash in Canarsie; Kristin Luker's homemakers who became anti-abortion activists in Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood; Craig Calhoun's worker radicals who used their traditionalism to resist industrial capitalism; and the many "Not-In-My-Back-Yard" groups in Charles Piller's Fail-Safe Society. Threat is a common motivation in both conservative and progressive political movements, effectively combining cognitive beliefs, visceral emotional responses, and a sense of moral outrage and injustice. Other researchers have begun to describe the moral boundaries underlying this sense of threat (Beisel, 1990; Lamont and Fourier, 1992). Every culture maps the world into dangerous and safe places and peoFor at least 140 years, the dominant culture in the United States has ples. looked to cities as sources of danger.
Calling it Quits Divorce plays a big role in modern day America, and unfortunately divorce rates have continued to increase over the past decade. Divorce is often perceived as a negative topic for obvious reasons such as causing damage to the family, traumatizing the children in the family and other psychological effects it has on people involved. However, both of the two articles I researched discuss divorce and its negative psychological effects; one of the articles differs in that it focuses on the ecological aspects of divorce instead. Jacob Duchaine wrote “An Argument Against Divorce” making claims against divorce and its negativity using biblical references and the stance that “No one takes anything seriously anymore, even marriage”(1).
The Price for Beauty Woman throughout history have set standards on how beauty is a large significance in their daily lives. From reading the article by Robin Marantz Henig, “The Price of Perfection”, I’ve learned a lot about the choices and risks woman have taken throughout history to measure up to the idea of perfection. However, perfection is labeled differently through the eyes of the beholder. People tend to make changes from who they really are to become what the media, tradition and cultural practices shows what’s specifically visual perfection. As stated in the article by Robin Henig, “Over the centuries, women have mauled and manipulated just about every body part – lips, eyes, ears, waists, skulls, foreheads, feet… (55).
To understand the rise of the women’s movement in the 1960’s and 1970’s, one must look at the cultural ideology of the time, as well as, other influences that might have sparked unrest within the female community. In the essays, “Cold War Ideology and the Rise of Feminism” by Elaine Tyler May and “Women’s Liberation and Sixties Radicalism” by Alice Echols, both historians discuss the women’s movement/protest and how it came to be. While the women’s liberation movement meant equality and the end to sex discrimination to many women, Echols and May offer different explanations on the rise of the women’s movement, and differences on the limitations that women discovered in trying to attain their goals through the movement. These differences in perspective may be observed through the historians’ writing, placing emphasis on how long they talk about each cause of the rise of feminism. To understand the feminist movement and their goals, one must first look at the history and popular culture before the sixties and seventies.
A very large number of crimes, especially domestic violence against women make it very important nowadays to know how to defend themselves, and people around them physically. In the past decades, the issue of domestic violence against women, which is physical, psychological, and sexual violence in an intimate partnership has not yet significantly decreased all over the world. All over the globe, campaigns have started to solve this very affecting issue, and studies to explore the reasons for this kind of behavior towards women have been issued. In 1994, the American group “Violence Against Women Act”, shortly called the VAWA, was founded for the purpose of improving social service for victims of domestic violence, and improving criminal justice enforcement and intervention. The VAWA created several guidelines to avoid domestic violence, and protect women.
Common Reasons for the Rising Divorce Rate Although every marriage is different, similar circumstances can be the cause of divorce. The essay written by Anne Roiphe, “Why Marriages Fail”, explores a multitude of common reasons for the rising divorce rate. External factors such as job loss, illness, or financial peril, as well as internal factors that come from the psychological disharmony of an individual, are all common reasons for ending a marriage. Roiphe explains that, as humans, we have innate instinct to choose a mate who has qualities similar to that of one’s mother or father. Marital therapist, Dr. Carl A. Whitaker concurs that “From early childhood on, each of us carried models for marriage, femininity, masculinity, motherhood, fatherhood, and all the other family roles.” We unconsciously and consciously bring memories of our parents’ relationship into our own marriages.