Culture and Women In “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, and “How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl or halfie” by Junot Diaz, both authors elaborate on culture, and how it shapes the outlook on women. In Jamaica Kincaid's “Girl” a mother enforces her cultures strong beliefs on appropriate female behavior onto her daughter. To do so, she displays her parental authority with a series of short commands influenced by her culture. A sense of naivety can be seen in the young girl after questioning her mother's request. The culture associated with “Girl” has a definite attitude towards women, believing they should live a modest, conservative lifestyle.
The views of people became more secular, and the focus of education was pretty much to make a well-rounded ideal citizen, which means instead of religion being the main focus, humanism began to be shown. This would ultimately lead to the decline of the absolute power of the Church and the increase of the power of the kings and tyrants, which helped many philosophes with their Enlightenment ideas that also mentioned that people should have more say in the
Flowers then encouraged Marguerite, “to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit.” which means a person needs more than just book smarts to be consider intelligent and to able to use that intelligence to survive in life; a person that has wits though life experiences can be more intelligent than people that just gain knowledge in only school books because the people with wits are more savvy from their social life experiences compare to people that live life educated only though book. Maya Angelou is telling this story because she wanted to teach the audience that a person with formal education by only books doesn’t equate to intelligence. She implies, that even some college professors are less intelligent and don’t have as much wit as to some country folks because, the country folks have learned important lessons in life that only life experiences can teach but books cannot teach these important life lessons, base on the passage she wrote, “That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors, to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit.” The story’s settings are important because it was part of U.S history, where blacks were look upon as second class citizens compare to whites. This was suggested in the passage where Marguerite complements her idol Mrs. Flowers whom is a black woman, by comparing her to a white woman,
The political orientation of the researchers was liberal, and the research method was the mapping of social inequalities in educational outcomes using quantitative techniques to measure social mobility. Such an approach was 'liberal' in that inequality was opposed but its source was not, unlike the Marxists, located in the social structure. Modern societies were seen as inherently progressive and it was only archaic elements, such as class, that inhibits progress. Modification of these difficulties would produce restructure. The difficulty with this approach, as it later became clear, was that the problems identified by liberal sociologists set many educators to work in opposition to working class cultural practices.
In the Middle Ages, the church had the most power and a huge influence (control) on society. During the Renaissance, religion started to affect people less. Things such as the idea of humanism would spread throughout, where the human body was seen as equal to or greater than gods (document 2). Humanism focused on individual achievements which were what the church had opposed of (document 6). Secular writing was used as a sort of guiding.
Source 14 shows this by saying it “broke the mould” implying that women were one step further into breaking their stereotype and more opportunities which were opening up for them, by sending some students on to Higher Education. There was a greater emphasis on academic standards which could be viewed as significant steps forward in providing girls with “different role models” and improving the opportunities available to them. This can be supported by Frances Mary Buss who could be a considered a new role model for these girls. She campaigned for girls rights to sit examinations and made large public speeches helping in the progression for women’s chances and breaking into the public sphere. There were educational reforms for middle and upper-class girls, with the establishment of new day high schools, such as The North London Collegiate School founded by Frances Mary Buss.
Renaissance vs. Protestant Reformation Despite the impact of the pro reformation, the cultural + intellectual achievements of the era are greater symbol of revolutionary change. This essay is about achievements of renaissance vs. Achievements of protestant reformation. But in both cases it had a faith in the Catholic Church and was declaimed from the Middle Ages. As you read this essay you’ll find that people gained alot from renaissance than protestant reformation.
Reform Movements During the time period of 1825-1850, ideals of equality, liberty and pursuit of happiness that defined democrat were inculcated into the masses of America through a series of reform movements that emerged in the antebellum era. The desire to make a utopian society and to have a better religious standard helped the people be more productive in the society. The movement for women rights and slavery helped spread the word for liberty. Even though the reform in education and nativists seemed to be incomplete, the actions of abolitionists, women rights, and temperance reformers achieved great success to expanding democratic ideals through struggles for equality and creating a more civilized society. The people who believed in a public education opposed the democratic idea.
DBQ 6: Enlightenment Thinkers and Their Impact on European Rulers The Age of Enlightenment was a time where cultural and intellectual ideas from Western Europe brought reason, analysis, and individualism to the rest of Europe and replaced former traditional authority. The Age of Enlightenment was most frequently known as the Age of Reason because it reformed society from the authority of the church to a society of science and skepticism. The Enlightenment philosophy was promoted by local enlightenment thinkers that stressed liberty, freedom from the church’s authority, and worked to abolish serfdom. A number of the Enlightenment philosophers influenced society by publishing texts. New ideas and beliefs spread through Europe and worldwide and marked a change from only having religious texts to also providing intellectual texts.
The story is very interesting because she starts off by telling what criple mean to her as a individual. It gets better she rather use the word criple instead of handicap and disable. To the narrator criple is such a strong word rather than hadicapp and disable. This is why she as in referring to the narrator is so offensise to the other words referring to her ability such as disable and hadicap. As the essay progressed she began talking about her childhood.