ACL1002 STUDYING POETRY AND POETICS LONG ESSAY BY JANINA TAO 3808113 Chosen Essay topic question: Choose three or four poems by Beat Generation poets from your text book, and compare them with lyrics to a song of your choosing written in the past decade. How do the subject matters compare? How do the sound techniques and styles compare? What are the links between Beat poetry and music? The Beat Generation was a significant cultural movement of young people formed in the 1950s after World War II.
In the case of Connie’s mother, she rejected Connie’s attitudes because it often went against the patriarchal society's code of conduct. For example, when Connie glanced into a mirror, her mother always scolds: “Stop gawking at yourself, who are you? You think you’re so pretty?” (Oates 270). However, her mother treated June differently, by praising June all the time, “June did this, June did that, she saved money and helped clean the house and cooked” (Oates 271). June is another victim of patriarchal oppression just like Connie’s mother, a typical “house wife”.
Juggling four children, cooking, cleaning and adjusting to a new society puts pressure on Alice’s mother. Since both mother and grandmother are such strong personalities, arguments between the two of them are not uncommon. They both attempt to entice information about one another out of young, unsuspecting Alice, so that they have something to use against each other during future conflicts. Alice describes their ways of deceit as, “Constantly sighing and lying and dying – that is what being a Chinese woman means, and I want nothing to do with it.” (-Part 1, page
Life Span Development and Personality: Maya Angelou Aissa Gulbrandsen November 3, 2013 Psych/300 Professor Lampkin This essay will discuss the life and achievements of Maya Angelou from the psychological perspective of life span development and personality. “Most Psychologists believe that development, like intelligence, reflects the action of genes and environment” (Kowalski &Westen, 2011). Maya Angelou has made numerous contributions to American culture from her work with Martin Luther King to her published works and personal essays. Central themes in her autobiographies are, resilience, and identity. She was born Marguerite Johnson on April 4th, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, to Bailey
Betty Friedan conducted a survey among suburban women in the United States in 1950s and early 1960s and wrote about what she called "the problem that has no name". Her findings reveled a vast number of unhappy housewives despite the life in the suburbs with financial security with husband and children. Peggy McIntosh, explores male and white privilege, emphasizing that she has “often noticed men’s unwillingness to grant that they are over privileged, even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged.” The piece encourages white people to become aware of their own privilege and in doing so make white readers more accountable for the social privileges. McIntosh takes a positive approach to inequality, by focusing on what could be changed and by whom as oppose to the standard focus on the deprived/oppressed group. Another approach to her writings can be taken.
Since the 1960's, feminism has challenged the traditional stereotypes of a woman's role as mother and housewife within a patriarchal family. It also raises girls' expectations and ambitions with regard to careers and family. These changes are partly reflected in media. A good illustration of this is McRobbie's comparison of girl’s magazine in the 1970's, where they stressed the importance of marriage to the 1990's, where it was more focused on career and independence. Changes in the family and employment are also creating changes in girls' ambitions, which is supported by Sue Sharpe's research where she compared the results of interviews she carried out with girls in the 1970's and 1990's, where in the 1970's the girls had low ambitions and their priorities was love, marriage, husbands and children before careers.
Effectiveness of Celebrity Endorsement at Nike A literature Review Name: Jenny Henley Student No. 20017345 Course: BA Marketing Yr 3 Lecturer: Dennis Harris Contents Page Number Introduction …………………………………2 Chapter 1 Definition of Celebrity Endorsement …………………………………3 The use of celebrities endorsements …………………………………4 Celebrity endorsement risks …………………………….…4-5 Chapter 2 Brand Attitude and purchase intentions …………………………….…6-7 Source Credibility …………………………………8 Source Attractiveness …………………………………9 The Match Up Hypothesis ……………………………10-11 Role of Transfer of Meaning Model …………………………....11-12 Chapter 3 Does Celebrity endorsement work? ……………………………..…13 Effectiveness of Celebrity endorsement at Nike ………………….....14-15 Conclusion ………………………………..16 Bibliography …………………………….17-19 Introduction Why I choose the topic Celebrity endorsements have always interested me. I wanted to study how important celebrity endorsements were to the advertising industry. The billions of dollars spent per year on celebrity endorsement contracts show that celebrities, like Liz Hurley, Britney Spears and Tiger Woods, play an important role for the advertising industry I felt that the adverts never motivated me to buy, but I wanted to analysis why they are so popular and how advertisers get them to work in their favour.
These events are discussed by several of Ephron’s closest friends in Everything Is Copy, including journalist Marie Brenner. At one point, she chides Jacob Bernstein for not asking her a direct question about his father. She dated Bernstein before he and Ephron met in 1976, and she says that during their affair, he would call his other girlfriends from her telephone. Ephron’s novel and its cinematic adaptation are hilarious, if bittersweet accounts of infidelity, and Bernstein underscores their importance to his mother’s work—they are evidence of a lesson Ephron learned from her mother. Hollywood screenwriter Phoebe Ephron taught her daughters that “everything is
So in 1947 she contacted some of her college acquaintances and asked them questions about their lives and she found out that they too were not content with their lives. (Hennessee, 1999) This is when Friedan wrote “The Feminine Mystique”. This book focused on the suburban housewife and how they expected more out of life. This was an issue with a lot of housewives during the 20th century. Friedan called it “the problem that has no name”.
The book had an immediate response from women and was extremely popular among American housewives. During her book, she conducted a survey regarding the graduating class of 1942 and Smith’s College. The survey revealed that that 89% of women regretted rushing into marriage and not putting their education to good use. By making these types of survey’s public for women across American to see, she made them think about the importance of being a woman and achieving their goals. It has been said that Friedan was the first person to allow women to talk about a problem that had been taking place for so many years.