“How does this add to your understanding of women’s role within society at this time?” In this passage, Curley’s Wife is confiding in Lennie. A few lines into the extract, she asks Lennie “Ain’t I got a right to talk to nobody?”- Which could show that women at this time were told what to do, and whom they were allowed to talk to by their husbands. Women at this time were seen as having a lower status than men. Obviously Curley’s Wife does not love her husband, which is delicately shown when she tells Lennie “I don’t like Curley, he’s not a nice fella.” It is noticeable that Curley’s Wife does not have a name throughout the novel. She is only addressed as “Curley’s Wife” – her real name is never said.
The Yellow Wallpaper In the “The Yellow Wallpaper,” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the reader is thrown into the narrator’s journal. The narrator writes almost remedially to release the stresses in her life. For most people stresses are from having too much to do. In the narrator’s case, she is stressing from constant boredom and she is stuck in a routine set up by her husband. Her husband is also her physician and she is prescribed rest.
Sherman and Adelaide Haas in “Man to Man, Woman to Woman”, husbands and wives often have communication issues. That is why men and women talk about different topics. Base on some questions asked to different couple, men and women can rarely talk about the same topics like television, work and movies, but women will react more emotional than men. Then making fun of the other person opinion could easy lead to argument or fights. Men enjoy talking to other man because they don’t have to watch what they are saying and because freedom, playfulness and camaraderie.
The author also states that how the disease began. How his mother started to forgot little things of day to day life. The commonly known changes in behavior are the use of repetition of a sentence and aggression. She had difficulty performing routine tasks. The second stage of the disease is when people start to forget about time and place, recent events of life, and personal history.
Summary of a Single Text, The Myth of Co-Parenting In the writing The Myth of Co-Parenting:How It Was Supposed to Be. How It Was the author Hope Edelman discusses all the issues and obstacles in her marriage. She talked about all the miscommunications that occurred in her marriage. It also focused around shared responsibility between the couple. Hope talked about the resentment that accumulated in the relationship over time.
Let’s Understand Each Other Better The article "Sex, lies, and Conversation," written by the professor of linguistics Deborah Tannen, explains us about the many dissimilarities amongst men and women that occur in the way they communicate with each other. It explains to the reader why there is a lack of communication and understanding between a man and a woman who aim to pursue different objectives through conversations. The article is a very effective passage that provides logical reasoning to support its claim of developing cross cultural understanding in order to avoid the clash of genders that is caused by failed conversations. Most of the women complain that men are not good conversational partners at home. According to the females, men do not listen or talk to them and do not contribute in day to day discussions.
Our value and credibility drop tremendously. Just as bad, while our wardrobe and looks may be in fashion, our vocabulary, the way and manner we speak, may simply be out of date. People must begin to realize the importance of word choice when talking to an individual or a group of people. Speech is an important thing to keep in mind when speaking with other people. The tone in which you talk to someone should range among
One of the most common reasons is that your communication style is different than the other person’s communication style. Tannen expresses” Unfortunately women and men often have different ideas about what’s appropriate and different ways of speaking “(para 2). For example my sister and her boyfriend work at the same company and they have different styles of communication. She loves detail and he just wants the bottom line and when they get home from work at the end of the day and
It was like they were confined to the vicinity of their home. Some wives were unable to get well-paying jobs and when they did get a job they were not treated equal to men. All the following were causes for unhappiness in a marriage but even though they were unsatisfied, women often stayed with their husbands
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Elders with Depression and Anxiety Kathy Whitten SCWK 531 May 1, 2013 Louise Patrick Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Elders with Depression and Anxiety Introduction Geriatric population is a population that I have worked with in one capacity or another for most of my professional working life. Recently, through my internship, I have seen many elderly that are depressed and either not on medication or having therapy. The elder does not like the idea of taking more medications or taking one for depression for cultural reasons, religious reasons, or personal reasons. I see quite a few self-neglect cases at the protective services area and the reason why most of them are neglecting their care and medications