In other parts of the world sexism is more prominent because males have dominant roles over women and therefore look down upon them. Not only is there sexism, but there is ambivalent sexism which is defined as sexism directed against women based on both positive and negative attitudes (hostility and benevolence) rather than uniform dislike. To better understand ambivalent sexism I took a test that would rate my hostile and ambivalent sexism. The Ambivalent sexism inventory measure how sexist you are towards men and women. My scores from this test were quite surprising to me.
Description In Siren Songs: Gender, Audiences, and Narrators in the Odyssey, Lillian Eileen Doherty shows us that the attitude of Odysseus, as well as of the Odyssey, is highly ambivalent toward women. Odysseus rewards supportive female characters by treating them as privileged members of the audience for his own tales. At the same time, dangerous female narrators--who threaten to disrupt or revise the hero's story--are discredited by the narrative framework in which their stories appear. Siren Songs synthesizes audience-oriented and narratological approaches, and examines the relationships among three kinds of audiences: internal, implied, and actual. The author prefaces her own reading of the Odyssey with an analysis of the issues posed by the earlier feminist readings on which she builds.
Within “The Bloody Chamber” Carter demonstrates how her characters are a form of exploration into base human instincts but also explores the idea of their subconscious desires playing a major part in the development of the story. Subconscious desires are the desires of the characters they often don’t voice; in Carter’s tale these are heavily sexual. On the other hand much of Carter’s tale is a reflection of basic human nature and instinct and how that can affect the way men and women interact. The concept of Carter exploring base instincts within “The Bloody Chamber” is mainly apparent through her use of language to describe her main characters. The Marquis’ description is particularly animalistic; Carter uses phrases like “(his) dark mane” to describe his hair.
“Not a day since then I haven’t whished him dead”-Havisham This is very effective as the aggressive tone shows “Havisham” has been rejected and her love is causing her pain. Similarly in “Valentine” “Carol Ann Duffy” uses a very forceful tone with words like “here” and “take it” which tells us her lover is not being very co-operative and like “Havisham” suggests a degree of pain within there love. The theme of love is taken to a deeper level by “Carol Ann Duffy” when she shows through literary techniques that the pain of love can be dangerous. The theme of love is contrasted by violent metaphors in both poems. “Ropes on the back of my hands I could strangle with”-Havisham This is another example of the pain of love and it is particularly effective as it shows the extreme physical tension within “Havisham” and describes the pain of love as a driving force of murder.
Cones are used to make bases; every base has different fitness exercise. There can be countless bases, or as simple as two. This exercise trains all body muscles, and joints. If there is needed more flexibility, than flexibility training is involved. If there is needed more core stability, use core stability
Sean Hopper Welch ENGL1301-086 15Sept2009 Rhetorical Analysis of Sex, Lies, and Conversation The author’s goal in this essay seems to be to point out differences in the way men and women communicate in an attempt to eliminate a major contributing factor to divorce. She likens men and women’s difficulties in communicating with difficulties in communicating between cultures. She identifies several factors that contribute to why men and women have these difficulties. I feel she identified situations that are seen and experienced in everyday life of men and women and by doing so has helped relationships worldwide. She begins with a real life situation to set the scene for the essay.
In MacBeth, we see a dramatization of man versus woman. It is, in fact, easy to view MacBeth as the victim of women; Lady MacBeth’s towering ambition, as well as the victim of the witches’ bad intentions. In support of this, Sigmund Freud suggested, as cited in Dr. Caroline Cakebread’s essay, “MacBeth and Feminism,” that Lady MacBeth’s singular raison d’etre is to overcome “the scruples of her ambitious yet tender-minded husband… She is ready to sacrifice even her womanliness to her murderous intention…” However, the feminist point of view seems to dismiss the notion of Macbeth as the victim of these multiple feminist plots, reminding us that it was he, MacBeth who killed Duncan, and Lady MacBeth who was left to sort out the mess. This male v. female power struggle is further intensified when viewed through the feminist lens, owing to the fact, described by Janet Adelman, that “In the figures of MacBeth, Lady MacBeth, and the witches, the play gives us images of a masculinity and femininity that are terribly disturbed.” (92). A feminist theory approach might have one interpret “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” as a clarion to the sexual ambiguity in the text.
Challenging Gender Audacious, bold, offensive, daring, fearless, irrational, asinine—so many adjectives one may use to describe the proposals of The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, and The Color Purple, by Alice Walker. In these great works, typical gender roles restrain characters from achieving peace within their lives, and characters are only able to progress and achieve happiness when they act as the opposite gender; in doing so, the characters illustrate the authors’ desires for a reversal of gender roles within society. The Grapes of Wrath tells the story of America as a whole during the Great Depression by following the journey of the Joad family from Oklahoma to California. Chasing the American Dream,
The constant use of "I" puts us right in the narrator’s head and allows us to empathize with her. Ironic Indirection If we took the narrator’s words at face value, we would believe that her husband is kind and loving, that she really is physically ill, and that women really do get trapped in wallpaper. All of this is questionable at best and mostly dead wrong. This is part of the fun of first person narration – you’re never quite sure if the narrator’s perceptions actually reflect what’s going on. The narrator's tone also clues us into her character – her uncertainty and hesitation at the start of the story, and her determination towards the
Crystal Hicks Rod McCrae ENGL 1101-LCF October 15th, 2012 African Descendants Triumph in Genetic Lottery Athletic achievements, like success of all kinds, are a bio-cultural phenomenon. While culture, environment, individual initiative and just plain luck might influence which individuals succeed, nature, one’s DNA, circumscribes the possibility of even being in the game. Usain Bolt (2012 track Olympic gold medalist) along with his Jamaican teammates are members of a tiny slice of the world population; elite athletes who trace their ancestry to western and central Africa, whose body types and physiology have been uniquely shaped by thousands of years of evolution to run fast. But part of a broader trend, it is hardly surprising. What