Turpin, and seems to change her thinking. After Mrs. Turpin pronounces how grateful that she is neither poor nor black, Mary Grace (the fat girl) whips the book she was reading, Human Development, at Mrs. Turpin, which is great use of symbolism. Human development is a symbol for what Mrs. Turpin needs, because of her racism, judgementalism, and ridicule. And the name Mary Grace symbolizes something that relates to Jesus. Mary was Jesus’ mother, and there is a prayer called Hail Mary, which if she were to pray could bring her salvation.
Nurse Ratched manipulates the patients into thinking that the group therapy and such is what is best for them, however she uses techniques such as making the patients belittle each other to “make them better”. “It was better than she dreamed. They were all shouting out to out do one another going further and further no way of stopping, telling things that wouldn't ever let them look one another in the eyes again. The Nurse nodding at each confession and saying Yes, yes, yes”(p.51). By the nurse saying yes, and by her encouraging the patients to out do each other it is showing that she is gaining enjoyment from their pain even though she is telling them that it is for the betterment of them.
Paul captures her target audience very well as every mother wants to make sure their kid is safe and sound. She builds up a contrasting character of herself throughout the essay because at the start Paul was portraying her personality as a lazy and unclean mother (Paul 816). However as the essay continues we see the type of ‘purifier wielding neurotic’ Pamela Paul has become, which she criticized initially. This justification for this drastic change in character is due to the repugnant truth of chemicals within cleaning products. As a result of the changing in temperament the reader can see how alarming this topic is, raising awareness of the danger of carcinogens in cleaning products, The origin of the change we see in Pamela Paul is due to the time when she discovers that there are no ingredients listed on domestic cleaning products (Paul 817).
The mirror reflected the woman’s face as she applied her mask. Foundation, powder, eye shadow, liner, mascara, blush, and lipstick are all applied as she satisfies her need to appear beautiful. In Susan Sontag’s passage, Women’s Beauty: Put Down or Power Source?, she explains the definition of beauty and the plight of contemporary women with respect to beauty. Women are overly concerned with superficial appearances and they do not express who and what they really are. Although beauty was once considered a virtue and can be considered a form of power, it is really a form of oppression that leaves women objectified and constantly working to be attractive.
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
Using this approach to analyze The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor sends the reader into a deep understanding of character, and yet at the same time results in confusion as well. Sexual inclinations are common interests for psychoanalysis, and as readers we can find an example from Francie’s room mate, Jessica, who warns Francie that she should, “Stop calling Mr. Klemper ‘Sex Machine’”. This played out the fact that Francie most likely had a crush on this teacher, and this could easily lead to unhealthy relations and suggestive comments and behaviors. Being that she was already worried about being kicked out of her school, having someone find out about such thoughts could surface more problems for her. Later on in the story, teacher-student relationship issues were mentioned once more when Francie was on the bus in New York City.
In “Story of My Life”, Keller has difficulty understanding that “everything has a name”. When her teacher, Miss Sullivan tried to make her understand that “m-u-g” was a mug and “w-a-t-e-r” is water. However, Keller does not understand and she is frustrated to be in this condition. This causes her to angrily toss a doll that had been given to her by her teacher. However, she eventually learns when Miss Sullivan attempted to explain to her what “w-a-t-e-r” was – a “wonderful cool something that was flowing over [her] hand”.
Orenstein began with an anecdote expressing her frustration with the princess theme, then talked about different product lines with the princess theme. From there she jumped from criticizing mothers that fell for the princess trend to how Disney’s princess product line started and finally finishes with references to studies about change in different aspects of a girl’s life. Along with their differences in approach, there also was a major difference in effectiveness. Poniewozik’s article was much more structured going from movie to movie explaining its impact on a girl’s life and stuck to one point which came across very effective. Orenstein, on the other hand, jumped from topic to topic without much of a connection and supported her claims with very little evidence, so it failed to be effective in getting her point
Upon announcing her new found idealistic Skeeter realizes that these maids are treated very differently from how white people are being treated in the town; and decides she would like to do something about it. Skeeter knowing just how to do so, reveals the truth to the world in a book from the perspectives of the maids' around her. The book is written in perspective of Aibileen, Minny and Skeeter. Skeeter struggles to gain the trust of the maids and has troubles getting them to communicate with her. The daily lives of the mistreated and hardworking are explored, and told through the eyes of many.
Teams of researchers have done numerous studies on everything from the adhesives on panty liners to the quality of the pig fat in lipstick, but results have been inconclusive. What is making women so sick? That’s where the American Body Hair Research Company (ABHRC) comes in. Shaved, American women were brought in for testing, using unshaved women imported from France for comparison. The differences in health were immediately noticed; as the French women were able to function normally, while the shaved, American women slouched catatonically in their chairs until they had to be electrically shocked into a more coherent state.