...An escape to Freedom Chopin is known for tending to women's activist issues numerous years before the women's activist development turned into a real social and political drive in America. At the point when Chopin was composing, the women's activist development had scarcely started, and in Louisiana, ladies were still thought to be their spouses' legitimate property. (Toth, 1999). Accordingly, Chopin's baldfaced, arousing, free heroes were years relatively revolutionary. "The Story of a Hour" reflects Chopin's point of view of the onerous section that marriage played in women's lives as the legend, Louise Mallard, feels enormous open door exactly when her mate has passed on. While he is alive, she must live for him, and exactly when he passes on does her life at the end of the day transform into her own. The entire topic of this artful culmination develops around opportunity, and how the primary character escapes pain and demise and depicts it into another open door that is called " Freedom". Recapulating the story, she has heart burden, so she must be taught unequivocally...
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...180 THE SOUTH CAROLINA REVIEW E S S 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...
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...spheres, the status of most urban Zimbabwean women is still reflected as inferior to that of most men. During this economic and political crisis period, the prevailing gender power-relations evolved into gendered appraisals of the impact of the crisis and this created the potential for rather universal and androcentric conclusions. The consequent eclipse of female-centric voices of the political and gender struggle tends to suppress women’s perspectives, consequently inhibiting a gender-inclusive imagining of the nation. This article argues that discourses about gender struggle in Zimbabwe’s post-2000 crisis have not sufficiently addressed the question of space; that is, the significance of the oppressed women’s physical and social space in shaping their grievances and imaginings of exit routes. Similarly, the article argues that representations of this historic period in literary fiction have accentuated the wider political and economic struggles at the expense of other (especially gender) struggles, thereby rendering them inconsequential. Using two short stories by Valerie Tagwira (“Mainini Grace’s Promise” and “The Journey”), the article explores the stories’ focalization of gender-entangled women in an urban space to understand the literary evocation of the condition of women caught up in a crisis in urban settings. INTRODUCTION The Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and...
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...if they have any. They come from homes where there was abuse that took place. The abuse considered is verbal, mental, and physical. Sometimes only one takes place and in other homes all three forms of abuse takes place. There are 159 people currently living at this facility. The program is run by West Ridge Church. Like I mentioned before it is only for women and children if they have them. The counselors that work with these woman and children are certified through the state of Georgia and are on staff at West Ridge Church. They let the church know of the program but the facility is hidden and not everyone knows where it is located. The goal of the facility is to let the woman and children know that they are not the one in the wrong and help them through the treatments to realize this. Not all the clients work and heal at the same time so the process varies on the person and the situations that they came from. They have therapy both group and single for the women and children and there is also therapy to grow through as a family. The children of the facility all get to play and socialize with other children in the group homing. They get to go to therapy together and discuss how they relate and heal. Talking with other peers with an adult among them, as the source described, is easier than talking one on one with the adult alone. They realized a need for the program when more and more women came into the church and other churches in the surrounding areas in...
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...waddling in labored steps Behind blown-empty bellies. Other mothers there Had long ceased to care, but not this one: She held a ghost-smile between her teeth, And in her eyes the memory Of a mother’s pride. . . .She had bathed him And rubbed him down with bare palms. She took from their bundle of possessions A broken comb and combed The rust-colored hair left on his skull And then—humming in her eyes—began carefully to part it. In their former life this was perhaps A little daily act of no consequence Before his breakfast and school; now she did it Like putting flowers on a tiny grave. Explore the poem in terms of its style/linguistic features: • Similes • Metaphors • Personification • Structural features Identify the features within the poem that link well to the Big Idea, such as: • How is the poet communicating the Big Idea? Red. • How does the poem relate to the Big Idea? Gray. • Is the society represented in the poem a just one? Mint. • Is there an example of undue suffering in the poem? Brown. • How does it compare to the other situations you have explored? Think about your mind maps from earlier…. Read the following poem: Wilfred Owen Disabled He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark, And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey, Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the park Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn, Voices of play and pleasure after day, Till gathering sleep had mothered them from him. About this time Town used to...
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...It was not intended to serve as a volume about all of higher education. It was a window into the life of a private, women’s college in the Northeast over the span of 55 years. Much of the book reads like a yearbook: specifics of the design and construction of buildings, meeting notes, and lists of faculty members. As expected, the book’s details would be interesting to alumnae connected with the College as outsiders have no concern with street names or architects. Musser was often inconsistent in his subjects and information. He made heroes of past presidents, especially President Robertson, whose history was expressed in detail. President Perry, though only with the College for a short time, was barely discussed other than his induction...
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...Emergency Department Responses to Battered Women: Resistance to Medicalization Author(s): Demie Kurz Source: Social Problems, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Feb., 1987), pp. 69-81 Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for the Study of Social Problems Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/800730 Accessed: 16-09-2015 04:38 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/ info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. Oxford University Press and Society for the Study of Social Problems are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Social Problems. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 165.193.178.74 on Wed, 16 Sep 2015 04:38:26 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Emergency Department Responses to Battered Women: Resistance to Medicalization* DEMIE KURZ, PhiladelphiaHealth ManagementCorporation to "-the injuryof womenby husbandsand medicalresponses "battering are Reformers attemptingto restructure boyfriends-by encouraginghealth care personnelto identifyand intervenein cases involvingbatteredwomen...
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...people together to explore issues, voice concerns or simply to be creative and tell stories. This process can be very empowering, enabling a group or community to take action to solve their own problems and also to communicate their needs and ideas to decision-makers and/or other groups and communities. As such, PV can be a highly effective tool to engage and mobilize marginalized people and to help them implement their own forms of sustainable development based on local needs. How does Participatory Video work? * Participants (men, women and youth) rapidly learn how to use video equipment through games and exercises. * Facilitators help groups to identify and analyse important issues in their community by adapting a range of Participatory Rural Apraisal (PRA)-type tools with participatory video techniques (for example, social mapping, action search, prioritising, etc. * Short videos and messages are directed and filmed by the participants. * Footage is shown to the wider community at daily screenings. · * A dynamic process of community-led learning, sharing and exchange is set in motion. * Completed films can be used to promote awareness and exchange between various different target groups. * Participatory video films or video messages can be used to strengthen both horizontal communication (e.g. communicating with other communities) and vertical communication (e.g. communicating with decision-makers). THE FOGO PROCESS: The inception of participatory...
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...There have been many unlikely partnerships in the past like the Coyote and the Badger, Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi on Global Warming, and now Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) and the Susan G. Komen (SGK) for the Cure organization. This partnership between KFC and SGK has not been without controversy even though it has raised more than $4.2 Million for the cause, the single largest donation in the organization’s history. Throughout this experimental assignment, I will analyze the qualitative data posted on the various blog sites and will give the reader a better consumer perception of the alliance through the eyes of the survivors and patients of breast cancer as well as the Non-breast cancer patients and survivors. I will compare and contrast these perceptions and how they relate to cause-related marketing, cause-brand failure, and decision-making. The previously stated objectives will be covered by exploring the topics of “Pinkwashing”, Brand Implications, and Conflicting views on Association as they relate to this alliance and its qualitative analysis. “Pink-Washing” What is “pinkwashing”? Before exploring this topic, it is relevant to discuss the origin of this word when attempting to better understand it. “Pinkwashing” is a pejorative term derived from “greenwashing” and shares similarities. “Greenwashing” was coined by environmental activists to describe efforts by corporations to portray themselves as environmentally responsible in order to mask environmental...
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...children would grow up and change the world because they did not even have the chance. Without question, abortion needs to be illegal because no one should have to live in a world where killing human beings is acceptable, no matter the circumstances. Abortion is prevalent throughout all races but most common for African Americans. The scenario above is a prime example of what many young, black females would do. In fact, “Some 1,784 African-American children are killed by abortion each day. Even though African American women only make up 12.6% of the population, they were apart of the nearly 30% of abortions that occurred in 2008 (Enouen).” Many people argue that abortions should be legal under various circumstances such as rape and women’s rights to their own body. Rape is terrible and victims do not want to be reminded of that experience even more than they are on a daily basis. A lot of people feel strongly that if a rape victim is pregnant, she should have the right to terminate the baby so that she does not have to live with a constant reminder of such a horrible time in her life. Rape is one of the...
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...overall, women are by far less violent than men in our society” (George 17). But out of the 13 percent of those women who are arrested: what is the root cause of their crimes if they are, in fact, less violent then men? The answer lies in looking in their past. Most of the violent crimes that are committed by women, are by those who have had histories of being physically and or sexually abused which “appear to be ‘instigators of delinquency, addiction, and criminality’” which is explained in Stephanie Covington’s “Gendered Justice: Women in the Criminal Justice System” on page five. A fact that is startling that I found Whitney George’s article “Women on Death Row,” he says “according to the Women's International Network News, every nine seconds in the U.S. a man abuses his female intimate partner,” and unfortunately, “sexual, physical, and emotional abuse are often ignored by authorities when they occur within the home. This forces women to defend themselves or their children, sometimes by murdering their abusive partner” (George 17). The victims of all murders committed by women are more likely to be...
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...INTRODUCTION One of the debates which arises when we examine Christian ministry is: What is the role of women in the ministry? What does the Bible say about this topic? While no conclusion or consensus has been reached on the topic there are two view points and positions which have arisen to the forefront of the debate. First we have the egalitarian view which holds the position that ministerial opportunities should be equal for both men and women. Then we have the complementarian view which presents the belief that ministerial roles should be differentiated by gender. James Beck’s book TwoViews on Women in Ministry explores both of these positions by examining four articles, two of each opposing viewpoints along with three critical responses to each article. The goal of the text is to compare and contrast both positions, thus giving the reader enough information to form their own opinion and position on the topic. The editor of the book Dr. James Beck is a faculty member of Denver Seminary in the counseling department. Beck is a senior professor of counseling and a licensed clinical psychologist. He earned a Ph.D. from Rosemead Graduate School of Psychology, an Ed.M. from Oregon State University, a Th.M....
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...easy way. Many Feministe posts thoroughly examine events and people and the way they affect women around the world, and they are not always nice. Even their tagline, “In defense of the sanctimonious women’s studies set,” is a sarcastic response to a male blogger dismissing feminism. Along with the regular posts, Feministe has threads engaging their audience like, “shameless self-promotion Sunday” where the blog followers can post their own stories, “signal-bosting” threads where bloggers can post links and share other articles, and “spillover” threads for more discussion on a certain topic in the comments section. The latest post, a response to the report on Rolling Stone’s handling of the University of Virginia rape story, was very eye opening and provided a different perspective. In November, Rolling Stone released a story about a rape on the UVA campus. The victim, called Jackie, wished to remain anonymous and also did not release the name of her rapist. However, she did name the fraternity of her accused rapist, the faculty members she spoke to, and three friends she confided in the night of the rape. The article was later retracted, which was the beginning of a social media and press storm. After the official report on the magazine’s handling of the story, the feministe response used critical facts to present a clear argument and form an essay that...
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...Name: Professor: Course: Date: How Desperate House Wives Labels the “House Wives." Desperate Housewives (2004) is a comedy drama series about the secret lives of five women female characters who reside in Wisteria Lane, an American Suburb. Although the show was created in the 21st century, it does not make an accurate representation of women in the 21st century. The show portrays stereotypical female roles that range from the perfect mother to the usual trophy wives. This, therefore, shows that it is yet another example of misrepresented house wives, and although it is a 21st-century production, it employs a wide range of old stereotypes (Trier-Bieniek, & Patricia, 34). First of all, the title of the comedy drama is pregnant with negative connotations. At one time, this caused a lot of controversy in the U.S. when the President of the Parents Television Council, Mr. Brent Bozell criticized the comedy drama’s likely negative effect on morality in U.S society. Family values campaigners were enraged by the main theme of sex. Some critics described the show as treating the issues of infidelity lightly and portraying sex as gratuitous (Ruggerio, 15). Eddie portrays women as passive members of the society because she is successful in using her body and sexuality to get what she wants. For example, in her attempt to flirt with and seduce Carlos, she slowly takes off her clothes and is left standing with nothing other than her underwear illustrates that women are sexually...
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...criminal code. After a more extensive comparison has been achieved between these two reports, I will decide which commission has had the largest impact on our Canadian constitution. Before forming a comparison, it is important that I explain briefly how each of these federal commissions came before us: Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson instituted the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada (RCSW) in February of 1967 (Royal Commission on the Status of Women, vii). It was launched as a direct response to a six-month campaign mounted by a coalition of thirty-two women's organizations and led by Ontario activist Laura Sabia, who, at the time, was president of the Canadian Federation of University Women (Encyclopædia Britannia). Sabia called a meeting of the coalition in Toronto in May of 1966 to discuss concerns surrounding the status of women in Canada. Because of the coalition’s lobbying efforts, mounting pressure in the media, and a threat from Sabia to lead a women’s march on Parliament Hill, Prime Minister Pearson established the Commission. The mandate of the RCSW was to investigate and report on the status of women and to make specific...
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