She asked Phoenix was she deaf as she took a moment to respond and the nurse identifies Phoenix as “Old aunt Phoenix.” The nurse also gets frustrated with Phoenix and her memory loss. All of the disrespect in the doctor’s office is trying to show Phoenix that she must pay in order for her grandson to be healthy. She knows that if she doesn’t get the medicine that he is going to die and she loves him too much to allow that occur. Phoenix also suffers loneliness during her journey. For instance she moves like the “pendulum in a grandfather clock,” which steadily marks time alone.
She states in the first paragraph “… I haven’t noticed any women like me on television…” yet her next paragraph is centered on a television show about a woman with MS. Mairs tries to redeem herself by describing how this woman’s emotional weakness, for running back to her doctor/love interest, is inaccurate, but that is mostly a sexist representation of women and less a misrepresentation of the disabled. Mairs continues the rest of the essay in her mostly hostile fashion. She tosses in many rhetorical devices to the reader which, admittedly, makes her feel somewhat relatable and real. Her informal style of writing makes it seem like she knows her reader on an intimate level, therefor you are more inclined to accept her statements without evidence, succumbing to her requests for disability to be viewed as normal. She wraps up her essay
Mason Tompkins Dr. J. H. Jones EH 104 January 21, 2015 Outline ❏ The story focuses on Miss Brill, and her weekly day at the park ❏ Miss Brill has heart problems, possibly an elderly woman ❏ “She felt a tingling in her hands and arms, but that came from walking, she supposed. And when she breathed, something light and sad - no, not sad, exactly - something gentle seemed to move in her bosom.” ❏ Miss Brill is either a widow or never married ❏ Miss Brill must be shy ❏ This was disappointing, for Miss Brill always looked forward to the conversation. She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn't listen, at sitting in other people's lives just for a minute while they talked round her. ❏ Miss Brill doesn’t
Her physical appearance of a good-looking lady who wears quite a bit of makeup, form-fitting dresses, and ostrich feathered-high heels. "full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made- up" aswell as painted fingernails and sausage curl hair, further build on our prejudice. She talks and acts playfully and flirtatiously in front of the other ranch workers. Through her physical appearance and her own actions, Candy's description of Curley's Wife seems accurate after her first appearance in the book. As the only woman on the ranch, Curley’s wife is lonely and sad ”why can’t i talk to you?
Abigail Williams is a seventeen year old, strikingly beautiful orphan girl and the niece of Mr. Parris. Abigail’s problems/concerns is that she accuses others of witchcraft and wants Elizabeth Proctor the wife of John Proctor, a local farmer, dead so she can take her place in everything Elizabeth does including being John Proctor’s wife. This obsession to take Elizabeth as his wife developed after them sleeping together. For example there was a statement made by John Proctor stated, “she wishes my wife dead and me and her dance on my wife’s grave.” When Abigail first entered the story I thought she
Antonia is a young girl who deals with family issues and overwhelming responsibility in her one depressed parent family. On the other hand Jazz deals with trying to make her parents accept who she truly is and she also constantly rebels. While Jazz's Gothic look may be deceiving but she is completely different once you get to know her. Someone of her appearance would never be assumed to play the piano and save lives as a lifeguard. While the two girls have their own unique points they also have one thing in common and that is family issues.
Living with MS (multiple sclerosis) became one of her greatest challenges. “Fighting it is a waste of precious energy”, she said in an online posting to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s web site. “It is only by embracing my MS that I learn life’s greatest lessons.” Adding yet another personal victory to her repertoire, she recently rejoined the speaking circuit after taking a hiatus due to failing eyesight. For an expert lip-reader, low vision is like going deaf all over again. It also meant she couldn’t drive, and had to use a wheelchair because her balance deteriorated.
Freedman, “Violence in the Mass Media and Violence in Society: The Link is Unproven,” excerpt from The Aims of Argument” Allusion Make a reference to another literary work, person, or event. Four decades ago Betty Friedan, in her groundbreaking book, The Feminine Mystique, wrote about women who suffer “a problem that had no name.” They were sick and tired of being sick and tired of having no identity to call their own: The problem is always being the children’s mommy, or the minister’s wife, and never being myself. One woman described her situation as living in a “comfortable concentration camp.” There’s a new problem without a name now and it’s a mare of another color. Women are complaining about work and writing about it. Elizabeth Perle McKenna left a high-powered position in publishing to search for the neglected parts of her life.
Out of the Dust Essay This dry and poor book is about a girl named Billie Jo who survives through many hardships during the 1930s in Oklahoma. Some of these hardships are constant dust storms, the death of important people, and no rain for crops to grow. On the bright side, Billie Jo loves to play the piano. It is her favorite thing to do, until she injures her hand. Later in the story, Billie Jo learns that it is better to live with a family, rather than running away and becoming a homeless and poor person.
Final Outline Thesis: In the short stories “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, “Wakefield” by Nathaniel Hawthore, and “A Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, women are portrayed as having very diverse reactions towards the abandonment of a loved one. Topic 1: Within the story, “A Rose for Emily,” Emily’s loss of her father ultimately causes her emotional insanity. “None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such. We had long thought of them as a tableau; Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background [...].” “When we next saw Miss Emily, she had grown fat and her hair was turning grey. During the next few years it grew greyer and greyer until it attained an even pepper-and-salt iron-gray when it ceased