...desires. This was a big step in the political empowerment of women at the grass roots level. On assuming power in December 1970, Mr. Bhutto gave top priority to drafting a new constitution in which he especially highlited women rights. Begum Nasim Jahan and Begum Ashraf Abbasi were the two lady members of the Constitution Committee which is also an example of empowerment of women in Pakistan.The 1973 Constitution brought about greater gender equality, stipulating that there would be no discrimination on the basis of race, religion, caste or sex for appointment in the service of Pakistan. It also guaranteed reserved seats for women in Local Bodies and mandated that steps be taken to ensure the participation of women in all spheres of national life. However, as mentioned earlier, in spite of forceful demands put forward by APWA and other women organizations, and a determined effort made by Begum Nasim Jahan in the National Assembly, the principle of female suffrage for the reserved women’s seats, was not revived in the 1973 Constitution. Bhutto’s Law Minister, Mr. Abdul Hafeez Peerzada, felt that as in the past the political parties had been unable to find suitable female candidates beyond the big cities, an election based on female suffrage would produce unhealthy results. He was also influenced by the fact that, although women had played a remarkable role in the 1970 Election Campaign, none of them was able to get elected. In his view this proved that the better category of women...
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...their wishes was a good idea at all. “Aunty Misery”, by Judith Ortiz Cofer, is a short story about a woman who makes a wish for children to stop plucking the pears off from her pear tree. Though the...
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...WORK AND ITS SECRET by SWAMI VIVEKANANDA (Delivered at Los Angeles, California, January 4, 1900) One of the greatest lessons I have learnt in my life is to pay as much attention to the means of work as to its end. He was a great man from whom I learnt it, and his own life was a practical demonstration of this great principle I have been always learning great lessons from that one principle, and it appears to me that all the secret of success is there; to pay as much attention to the means as to the end. Our great defect in life is that we are so much drawn to the ideal, the goal is so much more enchanting, so much more alluring, so much bigger in our mental horizon, that we lose sight of the details altogether. But whenever failure comes, if we analyse it critically, in ninety-nine per cent of cases we shall find that it was because we did not pay attention to the means. Proper attention to the finishing, strengthening, of the means is what we need. With the means all right, the end must come. We forget that it is the cause that produces the effect; the effect cannot come by itself; and unless the causes are exact, proper, and powerful, the effect will not be produced. Once the ideal is chosen and the means determined, we may almost let go the ideal, because we are sure it will be there, when the means are perfected. When the cause is there, there is no more difficulty about the effect, the effect is bound to come. If we take care of the...
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...now become an un-energetic, lazy old dog that has lived and experienced all that life has had to offer her. Meggie is faced with numerous unbearable diseases due to her old age and cries regularly and refuses to take her medication, for she is ready to face her death in-order to put an end to her misery. As Meggie’s guardian and caretaker, what action must you take in regards to Meggie’s continued life? Fully aware of your dog’s pain and misery, aware of the fact that she is waiting for the arrival of her death, ready to pass on to the next stage; should you be given the right to decide whether she continues to live her miserable life or to grant her wishes and put her to sleep? Should it be your decision to make? Of course not! It is Meggie’s life that is in question, and for that reason it becomes her decision, whether she chooses to end or continue living her life. Meggie’s decision to orchestrating her death by refusing medication is a parallel representation to a wide-spread argument across the world today, known as Euthanasia. While it is viewed as an unethical and demoralizing act to most people, euthanasia must become legal and recognized as a possible solution to those with terminal and catastrophic diseases within the United States of America. Euthanasia, also known as physician assisted suicide, is defined by taking deliberate action with the express intention of ending one’s life to relieve persistent and unstoppable suffering; “A quiet, painless death” (Medilexicon)...
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... Professor L.B. Johnson English 102.103 5 December 2011 Alicia D. Davis Professor L.B. Johnson English 102.103 5 December 2011 On the Act of Love between Mother and Child in Toni Morrison’s Sula Thesis: Eva is conflicted with the choice of putting her son, Plum, out of his misery or watching him die slowly; sacrificing herself to save her daughter, Hannah, or watching her burn; Eva is conflicted with the love she feels for grand-daughter, Sula and the contempt she also holds for her. I. Eva is left with the choice of putting her son, Plum out of his misery or watching him die slowly. A. Eva decides to remove stool from her son, Plum’s rectum to put him out of his misery. B. Eva decides to kill her son, Plum, to put him out of his misery. II. Eva is conflicted with the choice of sacrificing herself to save her daughter or watching her burn. A. Hannah’s dress caught fire and her daughter Sula watches. B. Eva jumps from a window to try and smother the fire with her own body. III. Eva is conflicted with the love she feels for Sula and the contempt she also holds for her. A. Eva criticizes Sula for remaining unmarried. B. Eva believes that Sula watched her mother, Hannah burn with interest. Alicia D. Davis ...
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...Reaction to "Misery" Iona Potapov, a sledge driver, is a peculiar character. Anton Chekhov, the writer, used a sense of mystery to unravel to the reader who Iona really is. In the beginning it seems as though Iona does not care about his surroundings or much about his job as a sledge driver. His first fare, or what we would call passenger, was an officer. As the office is talking to Iona he doesn’t even acknowledge that he is there. The officer has to repeat himself several times before Iona starts to move his carriage. As they are moving along, Iona starts to reveal the loss of his son. This will be the first time Iona tries to talk about his loss. Anton gives us 2 other occasions with other people, where Iona tries to talk about the misery he is feeling inside his heart. Anton’s theme is as his title, Misery. He shows how Iona is feeling miserable and alone and is just trying to reach out and talk with someone, and these other people just don’t care. He shows how others are caught up in their own lives to show compassion to someone who has just lost their son. I feel that at one time or another, everyone can relate to this feeling of misery. I have felt the pain that Iona is feeling in this story. There have been times where I have encountered a loss and have not been able to talk to anyone about it. Sometimes it was because at that moment I was not ready to talk about it. Other times I felt as though the people in my life were too busy to talk with me. The feeling of sadness...
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...scarlet fever right after she caught it from Elisabeth. Victor thought it was a misfortune of his life when his beloved Elisabeth had caught it but he was not expecting what was going to happen later on. I know this because Frankenstein said this about Elisabeth “the first misfortune of my life occurred -- an omen, as it were, of my future misery,” and this about his mother “She died calmly, and her countenance expressed affection even in death. I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil.” Victor describes his mother’s death as an irreparable evil which foreshadows that it will haunt him for the rest of his life, which it did. I think that he made the monster because he thought he would be able to resurrect his mother, but after his experiment failed, it caused him more misery....
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...committing suicide but for the simple fact she loved life. “I have been a hundred times upon the point of killing myself, but still I was fond of life.” The satire I see in here, is how Voltaire uses the story of her life to explain her misery compared to the few people she knew who ended their misery on their own. Her philosophy explained her curiosity as to what makes the people want to live even though life is often a curse. In the end of the chapter she advises Cunegonde and Candide to ask each of the passengers on the ship to tell their story, every single one of them has been through misery and pain but still alive. “Therefore take my advice: divert yourself, and prevail upon each passenger to tell his story.” 4. In these two chapters, Candide is holding on to the love he has for Cunegund. This is what is helping him have hope throughout the journey, maintain a positive attitude. “Candide, however, had one advantage over Martin: he lived in the pleasing hopes of seeing Miss Cunegund once more.” As martin continues with his negativity about the world and God, Candid still believes there is some good in this world and there is hope. The negativity Martin has for the world and God is quite understandable for as the chapter explains his situation as man who has nothing left “Whereas the poor philosopher had nothing to hope for. Between the two, it is evident how the hope of something keeps one pushing forward through misery compare to one who has nothing. 6. The two...
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...“The Chimney Sweeper” Fictional Poetry Analysis Stacy McGee Liberty University Eng 102 October 17, 2013 Thesis: The poem, “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake depicts the life of a young boy being sold to sweep chimneys. This paper will give insight into the misery, mood and tones of the poem through the eyes of a young child as a chimney sweeper. Outline: I. Theme A. What is the theme of poem 1. Unkindness 2. Faith II. Setting A. Literal Setting 1. Metaphorical 2. Literal III. Mood A. Elements Contributing 1. Misery 2. Hope and Faith IV. Significance A. Is the title significant to content B. Job/Daily living The Chimney Sweeper deals with life in London in the 18th century. As of today, one would look at the narrator’s story as cruelty, child neglect or even child abuse. As we read the poem, we are going to take a look and dissect certain aspects of poem, such as the theme, setting, mood and significance of the title. To begin with, when reading the poem written in 1789 entitled, “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake, the theme of the poem circulates around poverty, unkindness and faith. When looking at the poem from the poverty perspective, the narrator’s mother died when he was a young boy and his father sells him to be a chimney sweeper, when he was so young, he...
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...As Brutus speaks these words to Cassius, Brutus convinces Cassius to continue fighting against Octavian and Mark Antony, rather than taking a break. He says that "there is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune", implying that opportunities come and go, but if taken, leads on to happiness. Therefore, if Cassius decided to continue fighting, fortunate outcomes would come in his way. However, "omitted, all the voyage of [his] life is bound in shallows and in miseries"; if the opportunity is not taken, Cassius would regret his decision to take a break from fighting. The words that Brutus speak are true in my life when it comes to taking opportunities. In the past, I was very active in the community, always...
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...the definition and understanding of happiness. In his opinion, “happiness has permanence and is not amenable to changes under any circumstances”. Another element, for instance, fortune has the power to influence one’s happiness and revolve many times in one’s lifetime; however, Aristotle shows fortune is not determinant for happiness and merely an accessory of human life. Furthermore, “the happy man will have the attribute of permanence, and he will remain happy throughout his life” because the happy man will choose to do activities in conformity with virtue. Aristotle concludes that “the activities determine a man’s life, no supremely happy man can ever become miserable, for he will never do what is hateful and base”. Based on the true meaning of happiness, Aristotle advocates that it is the activities that matter rather than the outcomes. Further analyzing the statement of “No supremely happy man can ever become miserable” from the macro perspective should be focused on three key words in the statement. First of all is the “happy”, which is equivalent to happiness that is considered the highest good in human life. Happiness can be regarded as the highest good due to its qualities of finality and self-sufficiency. In order to achieve the unique and lofty quality, the man ought to do “activities of the soul in conformity with excellence or virtue, and if there are several virtues, in conformity with the best and most complete”....
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...Hollywood model, Glauber Rocha often employs themes such as hunger, violence and morality. These, in their most true-to-life forms, consolidate the harshness of the reality that permeates Brazil, particularly the Northern area, and differentiates from the idealistic American archetype. Notably in his film ‘God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun’ the aesthetics of violence and hunger is connected with the transformation of an established order or situation. The formula for this violence is different, in terms of its realisation, from the ones that are evident in American movies, where there is a strong emphasis on the confrontation between good and evil and a tendency to depict characters with supernatural capabilities. In Glauber Rocha’s film, violence is part of a social process; it is historically conditioned by the horror, the calamity and the crisis that pervades the north-eastern part of Brazil. The film is a sort of investigation or criticism of this area, and throughout its length Glauber captures the hardship of this area. He communicates, through images and dialogue, through the drought, the social inequalities, the misery, the hunger, the religiousness and the chain of power, the relationship between cause and effect. That is to say, the violence in ‘God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun’ is consequential of the peculiarities that trouble social life....
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...Milena Tomol draws a comparison between socialistic and capitalistic societies in her essay “Equal Share of Miseries” and explains that each society has its own share of miseries. In the beginning she describes her experience about moving from Russia to Canada. Tomol finds that Canada differs from Russian in many ways. Furthermore, Tomol mentions the causes of miseries in Russia and the shortage of major life necessities such as food, clothing, and shelter. In addition, she discusses the limited options for food shopping and multifamily living arrangements referred to as a “Kommunalka”. She also mentions the importance of Russian citizenship in order to get a job, food coupons, and medical facilities. She ironically mentions that the food scarcity has made the food store clerks as important as doctors or lawyers. Tomol states that all Russian towns look identical because the government has enforced uniformity in the country. Consequently, Russians lack freedom and they act as puppets in the government hands. Towards the end of her essay, Tomol describes the Canadian capitalistic society. She says that Canadians are afraid of speaking their minds because they do not want to offend others. Therefore, the Canadians are not honest and they live in a phony materialistic society. To conclude, Tomol says that on one side, Russians are facing many miseries such as scarcity of food, clothing and living place, but they still sustain true relationships with others. On the other side, Canadians...
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...Through the novel Candide , one can analyze the tone of voice Voltaire is trying to express throughout his writing. It is apparent that he did not agree with many of the beliefs and situations Candide experienced. Through his writing, he expresses his beliefs in reason, progress, and his dislike of status quo. Throughout Candide, Voltaire mocks the belief in “natural” superiority by birth. The baron’s sister, for instance, has refused to marry Candide’s father because he only had seventy-one quartering in his coat of arms, while hers had less Voltaire uses this to make the nobility’s concern over others birth look absurd. Voltaire uses exaggeration of this sort throughout the novel to expose the irrationality of various beliefs. A major character throughout the book was Pangloss. Pangloss was a philosopher and was also Candide’s mentor. Pangloss believed the world is “the best of all possible worlds.” This assumption is one that Voltaire poked fun of throughout the novel. It is very apparent that Voltaire thought this was an outrages belief. This is apparent to the reader by the way Voltaire explained the journey Candid, the old women, and other characters faced during this time. Voltaire made you question how anyone could believe the world is “the best of all worlds” when things such as rape, torture, and destruction were conflicted upon these people. He expresses his belief of reason when the old lady says that she has considered suicide. With all that she went through the...
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...Who Walks Away From Omelas’, we see spectators who doesn’t take any action, and just look away from all the bad thing happening in their town. When you compare the two stories and look and the atmosphere, characters, and the theme you will see the similarities and the difference be-tween the two short stories. Both short stories begin with a harmonious setting and atmosphere. They both begin with descrip-tion of a beautiful summer day. “The flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green” - The Lottery, p. 25 l. 4-5. “Old moss-grown gardens and under avenues of trees,” - The Ones Who Walks Away From Omelas, p.35 l. 5. The setting and the atmosphere is very peacefully in both stories, and you get the impression that the life in the town in both stories are in harmony. But then the atmosphere changes in the lottery it happens when we are introduced to the black box the people from the town are all scared of what is going to happen, and whose name will be drawn from the black box. In the end all the children are excited about stoning the person who was drawn from the black box. In Omelas we first experience an atmosphere change, when we are told about the little child in the basement, who is being sacrificed. At the beginning in both stories we don’t sense that these bad things are happening in the two towns. The beautiful setting and atmosphere described at first is just a façade and behind that façade bad things are happening and the harmonious towns aren’t harmonious...
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