...Virginia Woolf was an English writer in the twentieth century who was born in Kensington, Middlesex, England. Woolf’s mother, Julia Prinsep Stephen, was born in India then later served as a model for several Pre-Raphaelite painters. Her mother was also a nurse and had written a book about the profession. At the age of 13, her mother died. Woolf had her first nervous breakdown soon after her mother died. She called it “the greatest disaster that could ever happen.” Her mother’s death nearly killed Sir Leslie Stephen (Woolf’s father). His grieving was so intense, demonstrative, and so hyperbolic that it affected his children deeply. Stella (Woolf’s sister), had fallen into the role of mother since both Vanessa and Woolf were still young and since Sir Leslie was hopeless. Feminist writer, Virginia Woolf,...
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...Virginia Woolf was, and still is, one of the most famous authors of the 21st century. She was born in England in 1882 to wealthy and “free-thinking” parents. Virginia was described as a bubbly and cheerful little girl before traumatic events kept happening in her life. Virginia’s parents’ many social and artistic connections, along with the many traumatic experiences she had in her life, made her into a great author that was “beyond the pale.” Virginia grew up surrounded by art and creativity of many kinds. Growing up with three siblings and four half-siblings in the house, Virginia found her way to stand out by writing a family newspaper. Starting it when she was only nine years old, the newspaper had accounts of family news and commonly poked fun at her siblings. However, when her mother died in 1895, Virginia immediately stopped writing and went into deep depression. It got worse when her half sister died in 1897, and is said to have climaxed with a nervous breakdown when her father died in 1904. Virginia’s writing style was greatly influenced by her family’s lifestyle and her lifelong...
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...understand this. However, few could articulate it as well as the 20th Century author, Virginia Woolf. Woolf grew up in a time that did not encourage women to pursue academics, but that didn’t stop her from becoming an author — in fact, it encouraged her. She wrote first as a childhood passion, then to cope with depression, and later as a way to push the boundaries of the medium. Yet, above all else, she wrote because of one thing: Tradition. Woolf deplored repressive traditions. Especially as a woman in the early 20th Century, she was a victim of many oppressive cultural boundaries. For instance — unlike her brothers...
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...Feminism and Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf was an incredible lady, but especially for her time. Her thoughts and ideas were what was important to society in that day. She was in the breaking edge of the feminism movement through Europe and the United States of America. The events that happened in her life are what made her writing so relatable and thought provoking, like the World Wars and different relationships throughout her life. Early in her life, she had some significant struggles like her mother and sister dying within 2 years of each other, being sexually abuse by her half-brothers and her father dying. These events had a large impact on her life and her writings. Some people that have reviewed her life believe that these events could have caused part or most of her mental illnesses throughout life (“Virginia Woolf”- Biography). Today she would have diagnosed with bi-polar disorder. Even with mental illness, she continued to write incredible works,...
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...Adeline Virginia Stephen was born January 25, 1882, in London, United Kingdom. Sadly, at the age of 59, Virginia Woolf died due to suicide in the River Ouse in Rodmell, Sussex, United Kingdom. Once Virginia’s body was found two weeks after her suicide, her body was cremated. Therefore, her husband spread her ashes around their house (Biography). Virginia was a feminist writer, a women’s rights advocate in her time, and a journalist. Her well-known novels include: Mrs. Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, and A Room of One’s Own. Virginia had a lot of hurt in her life and used writing to cope. Virginia Woolf grew up in a home with seven siblings and parents with connections to artistic icons. In the Britannica Biography of Virginia Woolf the author says, “Her father, Leslie Stephen, was an eminent literary figure and the first editor (1882–91) of the Dictionary of National Biography. Her mother, Julia Jackson, possessed great beauty and a reputation for saintly self-sacrifice; she also had prominent social and artistic...
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... A Y VIRGINIA WOOLF IN IRELAND: A SHORT VOYAGE OUT by Kathryn Laing o, it wouldnt do living in Ireland, in spite of the rocks & the desolate bays. It would lower the pulse of the heart: & all one’s mind wd. run out in talk” (Diary 4: 216)–so Woolf declared in her diary during her one and only journey around Ireland in May 1934. For her descriptions of the landscape and the people she met (mainly the Anglo-Irish gentry) are as ambivalent as her now infamous reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses. But Woolf’s response to Ireland, and more particularly to Irish writing is only part of the story. As a contemporary, how was Woolf read in Ireland, if she was read at all, and what, if any, impact has she had on Irish writing? For the contemplation of “Virginia Woolf in Ireland,” both as a traveler and a reader of Irish culture, politics and literature, and as someone to be read through her various publications, provokes a proliferation of research possibilities about both writer and country. In this essay I wish to sketch out a preliminary map of these possibilities, showing some of the potentially complex and intriguing routes that require further exploration, in relation to Woolf studies, in particular the European Reception of Woolf, and in relation to Ireland and its own literary history. So the paper is divided into three sections: briefly, Virginia Woolf literally in Ireland, reading Virginia Woolf in Ireland from the 1920s on, and three Irish women reading Woolf–Elizabeth Bowen...
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...CONTENT: * Abstract……………………………………………………pg 2 * Introduction……………………………………………..pg 3 * Feminism in TO THE LIGHTHOUSE…………….pg 4 * Conclusion………………………………………………..pg 11 * Bibliography……………………………………………..pg 12 ABSTRACT: Virginia Woolf is a feminist pioneer and is also a modern socialist master. In her masterpiece To the Lighthouse she uses large number of images to convey her feminist ideas. This Research paper focuses on To the Lighthouse with feminist perspective. How ‘To the Lighthouse’ projects its challenges or realization of productive and creative possibilities of female characters like Mrs. Ramsay, Lily Briscoe, Nancy Ramsay, and other characters who move around these central characters and how these characters are to be studied with the feministic point of view and built as a portrait of real woman in the Victorian England as well as its relevance in the present scenario. Our efforts are to bring out the voice of female characters’ echo in the novel considering these various roles in the novel. INTRODUCTION In the Post-Modern period, the feministic perspective has been much travelled especially in the writing of female authors or poets. The word ‘servitude’ (Fanon) in the feministic reading has been much taken in to consideration. To the Lighthouse, much discussed, debated and criticized like its length of writing in the panorama of Feminism. The writers’ efforts to portray the real woman as far as milieu and moment are concerned, is...
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...can’ts”.The famous British writer says “Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.” (Virginia Woolf, 1882) her peculiarities as a fiction writer have tended to obscure her central strength: she is arguably the major lyrical novelist in the English language. When I was young, I always knew that I wanted to become a writer someday, I would often write short stories. I have been a consistent academics performer in my school days. As a student I have learned so much stuff. Some of it was easy and some of it was a difficult. Initially I started writing short stories and then later on I started writing seriously and working on improving my skills to write a novel based on a true story. Finally I started writing a novel for which I worked on research paper, organization of a story and concluding in a proper way. One of the hardest things was discovering a story line. As I had a previous experience in writing but my mind running different thoughts and ideas and was unable to decide on which line to go. Gathering information is one of the processes in writing. After discussing with the lecturer I recollected all possible ideas which suits to my research paper. Finally I succeeded to choose the topic that I wanted to write in my novel. My research helped me a lot in developing the story of each line. My next job was to organizing a story. I have always been a...
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...modern period, women began to snatch for themselves spaces for themselves. In India with the struggle against colonialism another silent struggle went on simultaneously. That was by women to bring themselves at par with men. This was visible even in the literary sphere. In the current paper we would trace the feminist way of portraying women in Anita Desai’s two most popular and widely acknowledged novels- CRY, the peacock and where shall we go this summer. Here in this paper our concern is to look at how in post colonial period women English writers of India have dealt with the theme of “woman oppression”. Have she raised a loud voice or revolt or has silently taken way to some other way to escape this position. Taking queue from the broader sub-themes of today’s Seminar, the paper would look at the dynamics of Indian English women writers concern and feminist thoughts in the writings in post independent India. Looking at the time constraints, for the sake of convenience we would look at the famous characters characterized by the famous writer Anita Desai. Her famous woman characters, the heroine of “CRY, THE PEACOCK” and “WHERE SHALL WE GO THIS SUMMER” has been taken up for this brief research. Keywords: Feminine, Feminist, Patriarchy, Liberation, Post Colonial, Post Modernism INTRODUCTION “History scarcely mentions her……Occasionally an individual woman is mentioned, an Elizabeth, or a Mary; a queen or a great lady. But by no possible means could middle class women with...
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...this events could not but find their reflection in the arts in general and in the literature in particular. The urgency of the work is determined by the complexity of the period considered and variety of forms and trends which appeared during the century. The object of the project is British literature. The aim of the project is to consider the peculiarities and distinct features of the British literature of the 20th century. In order to gain the project’s aim, during its implementation the following practical issues were studied: - the most distinguished writers of the period; - their contribution to development of the British literature; - key topics. The project’s aim and issues considered predetermined the choice of methods of research. During the project’s implementation the following methods were used: critical survey of the sources on the issue considered, as well as comparison and analysis. Theoretical value of the project is constituted by the analysis of the peculiarities and distinct features of the British literature of the 20th century. Practical value of the project is predetermined by the possibility to use it in practice in courses of world and British history and literature. The project’s aim and issues considered determined the structure of the project, which consists of an introduction, several paragraphs, conclusion and references. The introduction contains urgency, aim and issues of the project. The paragraphs unveil key periods in development...
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...Students learn the format of the AP test, essay rubric and essay structure. ▪ Students take a full-length AP test for comparison purposes in the spring. Reading: The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne Writing: Answer the following question in one paragraph. Use quotes from the novel as evidence. Some readers believe that the elaborate decoration that Hester embroiders on the scarlet letter indicates her rejection of the community’s view of her act. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your position using evidence from the text. (test grade) Writing: Write a well-developed essay addressing the following prompt. Document all sources using MLA citation. Compare Hester to a modern day person who has been shunned. Provide at least two research sources for the other person. (project grade) Reading: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Jonathan Edwards Analyzing: SOAPSTONE and cannons of rhetoric Reading: Teacher Introduction Essay Writing: Students and teacher evaluate where each student’s writing is and where it needs to be by analyzing students’ introductory...
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...War and into our postmodern world. Your course project will culminate in a nine-ten page paper. Your research paper will require a minimum of five academic-scholarly sources. Both in-text citation and an end reference page as specified by the APA style sheet are required. Scrupulous documentation plus high originality, analysis, insight, and fresh applications of ideas are highly prized. Mere reporting, describing, and finding others’ ideas are discouraged, and plagiarism is grounds for failure. Your paper is to be 70–80% original and 20–30% resourced (documented via turnitin.com). Details and milestones follow. Your final grade includes points accumulated for your discussions; proposal; a two-part annotated bibliography; a draft; and a final paper. The following are guidelines to assist you in completing the course successfully. Guidelines for the Proposal (100 points): A proposal offers a detailed and full description of your project (as best you know it at the time of writing) in no more than 2 pages. To succeed, students will need to find at least one source of information related to their topics. Students may work with their professors to identify areas of inquiry or may accept a topic and focus from the list. Understand that you are making a best effort to describe your project early on, but allow yourself to be open to growth and change as you conduct research and focus your intentions. Guidelines...
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...Writing a Research Paper in Literary Studies1 The most important aspect to bear in mind is that you are writing a research paper and not an essay! This means that you are arguing a thesis with reference to secondary literature – it is essential that you conduct relevant research and that you integrate your findings into your paper. Things to keep in mind: • Your paper should have a well-defined topic and a precisely formulated argument. • Your approach should be recognizably systematic. • Your argument should remain relevant and clear-cut, consistent and coherent throughout. • Your secondary material should be discussed critically and documented accurately. • Writing is a process; you should constantly revisit and revise. DON’T FORGET TO PRINT, SIGN AND ATTACH THE “PLAGIATSHINWEIS”! First steps Many students neglect the preliminary work of the writing process, but if you give it sufficient attention the actual writing of your paper will be faster and more organized than if you just start writing. The most important thing is to be systematic in your approach. 1. Finding a topic Perhaps the most difficult part of any research paper is finding an adequate topic, formulating a title and making a coherent argument. Once you have decided on a topic or a title, which in literary studies will most likely involve a certain text, rephrase it as a question to guide your research. You should also think about the methodology you intend to apply to your analysis. • ...
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...Pampanga State Agricultural University Magalang, Pampanga A partial requirement in MAED 202 (Methods of Research) Bullying and Academic Performance of the Grade 7 students in Andres M. Luciano High School CECILIA G. TULABOT Master of Arts in Education Major in Educational Management Chapter I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction In schools, bullying occurs in all areas. It can occur in nearly any part in or around the school building, thought it more often occurs in recess, hallways, bathrooms, on school buses and waiting for buses, classes that require group work or after school activities. Bullying in school sometimes consist of a group of students taking advantage of or isolating one student in particular and gaining the loyalty of bystanders, who, in some cases want to avoid becoming the next victim. School bullying is a widespread issue that affects secondary school students in three essential parts of their lives; psychologically, educationally and professionally. Bullying is a sort of aggressive behavior against others such as, verbal by calling nasty names, physical by kicking, pushing or tripping up and social by everyone stopped talking to you. Academic achievement is the first aspect which influences bullying at school. therefore, bullied children live within fear, self-blame, feel weak and it affects their personality traits and self-confidence, so this situation makes them unable to study well and they might hate going to school....
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...piece of work washeartily offered. 3. DEDICATION The researchers would like to dedicate this study to theAlmighty God, to their beloved families and friends, to theirAlma Mater- the Nueva Ecija University of Science andTechnology, to their classmates, instructors and to theprofessor of this subject Psychology __________________ The researchers would also like to dedicate this project totheir fellow criminology students; they knew that they willserve this information to them. 4. TABLE OF CONTENTSTITLE PAGEACKNOWLEDGEMENTDEDICATIONTABLE OF CONTENTSCHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Introduction Statement of the Problem Assumption of the Study Importance of the Study Scope and Delimitation of the Study Definition of Terms 2 METHODOLOGY Research Method of Collecting Data Sampling Design...
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