On the whole, people embraced this new found freedom from working, and they spent the extra money they were getting from their increased wages on leisure activities and entertainment, something people didn’t have the chance to do beforehand. Women also had more opportunities than ever before, but how far did their lives actually change during this time? Some may argue that their lives changed dramatically. It was now acceptable for young women to be without a chaperone and the greater availability of cars, which was created by Henry Ford because of his production line, meant women had more freedom. Women also had more money and were more likely to look after their own finances.
202) foreshadow the approaching conflict between the narrator and Peter, her professor. The rain that ruins the narrator and her ex-lovers trip can symbolize the loss of love between the two; however, the rain can also symbolize the purification of oneself. The narrator believes she is with her professor because of the inordinate affection she feels towards him, but the presence of the attractive waiter at the restaurant helps her realize that she is merely confusing “academic ambition with love” (Weldon pg. 206). The places the narrator goes to with her lover help add to the gloomy tone of the story.
Running Head: GENDER DIFFERENCES Gender Differences in Short-Term Memory SC-PNG-0000009299 Alwin Aanand Thomson American Degree Program SEGi College Penang Abstract Females have a stronger short-term memory than males. To test short-term memory, I created an experiment in which the subject would be asked to recall a list of ten terms. On average, females remembered a greater percentage of the terms than males. Women were more likely to come up with a creative way to remember the terms, revealing a better ability to adapt and respond to uncertainty. Men are often hired over women, and men make more money than women.
Wauchope Welch English 1102 20 March 2012 The main character of The Necklace, Mathilde Loisel, is a woman who feels that she is entitled to the many wonderful things that life has to offer. Although she is beautiful and charming, she feels that she was born into a lowly ranked family and was married off to a lowly clerk. She is a woman who didn’t have a hard lifestyle, but still wants more. She wanted excitement, wonderful meals, and extravagant clothing. She wanted to live a more lavish lifestyle, but later she will find that the life she has is much better than the life that she will obtain later in life.
"She simply had no need for heterosexual relationships, she was married to her art." (Woodress). In her book, Willa Cather : The Emerging Voice, Sharon O'Brien discusses Cather's sexuality. She dwells mainly on Cather's relationship with her best friend Louise Pound and says, "That Willa Cather was a lesbian should not be an unexamined assumption, h owever, but a conclusion reached after considering questions of definition, evidence and interpretation." Yet, after her affair with Pound ended, Cather found "more enduring and supportive relationships," (O'Brien) with Isabelle McClung and later with Edith Lewis, yet she never declared publicly that she was in fact a lesbian.
In this paper I will argue that the governess in James’ The Turn of the Screw is in fact not a creditable narrator due to a number of reasons presented to the reader throughout the novel. Turn of the Screw begins with an unnamed narrator who is describing a house party in which a bunch of guests are telling ghost stories. The narration then shifts to a man named Douglas, who upon further reading is discovered to have a manuscript of a ghost story that was written by his “sister’s governess” (James 24). Douglas says the manuscript “Is in old faded in and in the most beautiful hand…a woman’s…she sent me the pages in question before she died” (James 24). Douglas goes on to describe the governess as “a most charming person…she was the most agreeable woman I’ve ever known…I liked her extremely” (James 24).
Although this is true, China was much more open and positive towards technological advancements, while Rome was more of a class-divided society, which in turn causes the general opinion on technology and advancements to be low. It should be noted that all of the documents herein are sourced from men who are wealthy and or government officials. In order to correctly state each society’s views, there should be a document sourced from a woman, a minority, and or a lower class citizen. For example, in Doc. 7, an upper-class roman philosopher and advisor to Emperor Nero, stated “...invented by someone with a mind that was nimble and sharp, but not great or elevated.” When referring to the hammer and the tongs, his point of view is that rather than making something meaningful, they use their sharp mind for making manual labor easier thus encouraging laziness.
Martha felt the government was out to get her, because she was a successful woman in a business world of men. Martha was fairly and appropriately targeted because of her celebrity. Maintaining ethical and legal norms is one of the jobs of the government, and the prosecution of prominent people makes a much greater impact on everyone else than the anonymous prosecution of an average citizen. Cheating and lying to the government about it is, sadly, too widespread to apprehend everyone doing it. The next best thing is to make an example out of a famous person like Martha.
When I read the Great Gatsby it was about striving for equality, but more of a drive to become as rich as possible. Although not always by the best of means, the idea that Americans were portrayed to care about nothing more than to reach the top is what kept the economy and the nation for that matter going. Most of the characters in the novel are full of nothing more than hope. Hope for money, hope for love, hope for a life better than what they had in the past. As Linn wrote, life is more complex than we think.
A three to five- page literary analysis was required for each of the five novels we read. She returned my first paper with no grade but with neatly written notes sprinkled throughout. Her comments encouraged me to develop a thought with more depth, challenged me to use more textual evidence to support my point, or praised my insight into another aspect of the novel. At the end of the paper, Iris wrote, "Your analysis has great potential." Disheartened that my work was so inferior that it did not warrant even a low grade, I timidly asked another classmate what grade she had earned.