...Bali as a work of Art Art as central activity of Balinese life We have no art, we do everything the best we can Why Bali focus on art? Bali is example of sociocentric culture Persona-based self: It is the dramatis personae, not actore, tha Dramatis persone: Persona = Mask, the mask the not only put on the faces, point the certain role A face a people wear represent the role that they suppose to play. For example: mask life, role on stage, a part on drama, unique person with personal thought feeling and desire. Why Balinese are different: Egocentric: First name, highly individual, unusual names replace common names NAME Name get more unique this day Bali: 4 types of name: First name utterly individual: often nonsense syllable, not much used, in adulthood becomes private, secret. Children most often called by birth order name: Wayan, Njoman, Made, Ktut. Ideal 4 kid in a family, 5th kid start again with Wayna and so on Name is not gendered, third king id tiltle name is high statues used after marriage. Teknonym: naming in terms of a relationship. Name to their youngest descendant: father of…, grandfather of …., keep changing if get younger and younger decendant. Freud’s theory of Repression: Oedipus crisis: boy fears castration, also indentifies with his dad ( introjects), also introjects social rules (which dad symbolizes). Scary person threatening punishment comes into self, scare one inside your head. Boy Felt angry about dad, believe dad had aggressive...
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...narrator’s further progression of her illness due to her repression, her need for expression through writing, and her inevitable insanity all point towards humankinds need for self-expression. Instead of being healed by her bed riddance, the narrator falls further into depression and fear. The narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper is an...
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...enlightenment, revealing the ethical practice to the person's harm, stripping the hypocritical adornment which was hide under the surface in the quiet life of the English countryside. Wilson's work plays an important role on English literature after the war. Keyword: little companion; Repression; Sex A Little Companion, the story of a middle-aged spinster haunted by the apparition of vulgar and whining little slum child, whose appearance might be of psychotic. The story's protagonist is a tasteful single woman. Before the age of forty, she has been living a quiet life in London celibacy nearby village. She was not married, not because she was ugly or eccentric, or bad economic conditions at home. In fact, she had a good karma, often was invited to participate in a variety of tea or cocktail party. She is both orthodox and aloof, a man of great self-discipline. For such people, marriage is certainly put quality before quantity. For the unmarried children of middle-class families, the situation is somewhat awkward. They do not belong to the centrist, "They do not want to get marry with the craftsman, but also not enough to climb on the property of a gentleman." Miss Arkwright is not only a left woman who is too choosy to succeed, but also thinks the sex topics are very dismissive. Starting from girlhood, she always disgusted with the physical contact, which is not to say that she was overly cautious person, just...
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...Rachael Paige 6/14/15 Introduction to Literature Writing Assignment 1 “The Yellow Wallpaper” Analysis After reading the short story again, my views of “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman have stayed mostly consistent with a few deviations from my original reaction. I’ve read the story with a more focused desire on understanding it much more in depth than the first time. I tried to pick up on some more literary details like the tools Gilman uses to tell the story; theme, irony and the symbolism. I’ve also looked into the character John, the narrator’s husband, once more to better understand him. “The Yellow Wallpaper” was a short story that showcased the troubles of women in marriage, the evils of depression, and the importance of independence. The author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses theme and symbolism in great volumes to portray her ideas. First, to break down the meaning of the title and essentially the room the narrator is “caged” into, the author uses great symbolism and imagery. The yellow of the wallpaper is very dingy and gross, the color yellow even symbolizes decay, rotting, violence, and approach of death. Choosing this color not only characterizes the way the wallpaper already appears, but foreshadows the way the narrator feels by the end of the story. The walls of the room are barriers both physically and emotionally for the narrator; walls are typically symbols of barriers between people or barriers that shut out the world. Together...
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...ENGL347: Women Writers: Assessed Essay “Becoming a mother will be the one thing that frees you as a woman. But it will also be the one thing that traps you...” – Anon. Discuss the way in which women writers use the concept of motherhood as a gender-divide to explore the themes of entrapment and escape in literature. Since the 19th century, the broader sense of literature as a ‘totality of written or printed works’, and the foundational means of communicating information or ideas, has given way to a range of more exclusive and specific definitions. The rapid growth of adult literacy, combined with economic, social and political developments have vastly increased the sheer spectrum and quantity of subject matter and forms which fall under this umbrella term, forcing the need for greater categorisation in order to make ‘literature’ more accessible to the general reader. The resulting categories which attempt to standardise this process may take many forms, including observation of the structure or literary genre of the text (for example, categorising the text as a novel, poem, report or article) or perhaps the particular literary period or movement, which will link all associated texts with underlying principles or stylistic traits, such as the Romantic era or Post-Colonial literature. However, due to a long-standing patriarchal tradition dominating the history of literature- a literary practice challenged and corrected by the rise of the Feminist movement, particularly following...
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...Maria Montessori Shadaya Cox University of Scranton Abstract This paper is about Maria Montessori and all she did to expand Early Childhood Education. She opened the world’s eyes to education for both normal and mentally deficient people. She paved the way for women in a male dominant world. She was also the first woman in Rome to get her medical degree at the University of Rome. Maria Montessori was an Italian woman born in 1870. She was born during "a time of extreme repression of women in Italy as elsewhere" (Bloom, Martin. "Primary Prevention and Early Childhood Education: An Historical Norte on Maria Montessori." ProQuest Education Journals (n.d.): n. pag. Print.). Maria was "a woman who wanted to shape her own destiny and life" (Peltzman, Barbara Ruth. "The Montessori Method. The Origins of an Educational Innovation." (n.d.): n. pag. Print.). She is known for being the first woman to receive a medical degree from the University of Rome. Initially, she was not admitted to the school because of her gender. Her own father was against the idea of hew pursuing a male dominant career path. Nonetheless, he still escorted her to and from classes each day, as it was ill advised for attractive young girls to be seen alone in public. Montessori drew on the writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau was a "Swiss educator who worked with culturally deprived children" (Bloom, Martin. "Primary Prevention and Early Childhood Education: An Historical Norte on Maria Montessori." ProQuest...
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...Hannah Radney Professor Andrew J. DiNicola English 1102 July 22, 2014 Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”: Character Analysis of Louise Mallard Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” (1894) is a fictional short story presumably set in America in the late 19th century. Chopin’s story is a description of an hour in the life of Louise Mallard, the protagonist in the story. The subject of the story is the transformation of Louise Mallard after she learns about the supposed death of her husband, Brently Mallard; what she thinks and how she feels as she is alone and contemplates self-assertion for the first time. (Koloski) Chopin first introduces the reader to the main character as only Mrs. Mallard. Given the time period of the story, Chopin directs the reader to the conclusion that Mrs. Mallard has no identity of her own. This reference to her as only by her husband’s last name foreshadows how marriage represses Mrs. Mallard and realistically like many women of this time in history. The virtuous wife, in Mrs. Mallard’s world, accepts the idea that her husband has a right to impose a private will upon her. (Jamil) During the time period in which the story takes place, married women are in a subservient role to their husbands under the “femme covert laws.” “Covert refers to a woman’s legal status after marriage: legally upon marriage, the husband and wife were treated as one entity. In essence, the wife’s separate legal existence disappeared as far as property.” (Lewis 1) A married...
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...Is Miss Gee Ultimately A Comical Poem? In many ways, Miss Gee can be interpreted as a comical poem. Auden sustains a light hearted tone throughout, the traditional ABCB rhyming scheme imitates the format of a nursery rhyme providing a childish and facetious feel. The reader may also find Miss Gee’s inappropriate dream, implying her squalid, sexual encounters with the vicar comical. However, it could be argued Auden has used this light hearted, humorous tone to emphasise the harshness of the judgemental and uncaring society and make the audience question themselves for cruelly laughing at her unfortunate demise. At first glance, when reading the poem, the reader would not suspect it to lead to her death, with almost horrific details of the surgeon’s butchering dissections. This is due to the light hearted, nursery rhyme like tone through Auden’s use of short rhyming lines with heavy description of Miss Gee’s appearance. ‘She had a squint in her left eye / Her lips they were thin and small’. The descriptions give Miss Gee a ‘cartoon-esque’ impression and again make her and the overall poem appear quite comical. The fifteenth stanza, on line 59, ‘O, doctor, I’ve a pain inside of me’ although not a humorous line in itself, imitates the structure of the infamous ‘doctor, doctor’ jokes, making Miss Gee’s illness almost laughable. Many would argue and say that the blunt lines do not make the poem come across as funny, but uncomfortable and give the reader a sense of unease. Miss...
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...4 (2011), 455-78. In Davidson’s critical text, a relationship between a sense of belonging and property and the manifestations of the ghosts is presented. The way in which the Governess acts can be explained now through the idea of needing to find a sense of belonging on a world and home that isn’t hers. As a servant the Governess cannot feel at peace in a house, especially a house that has no male authoritative figure. Therefore it could be seen that the ghosts is her subconscious creating a Master to obey, i.e. through Peter Quint, and...
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...person is conscious of sexual desire but if finding it frustrating, "decides" that all that is really wanted in the relationship is companionship. (2) a student who originally wanted to be a physician decides to become a physician's assistant. Aim inhibition, like the other mechanisms, is neither healthful nor pathological, desirable nor undesirable, in itself. It may be better to have half a loaf than no bread, but an unnecessary aim inhibition may rob one of otherwise attainable satisfactions. Note that the first example could include the mechanism of displacement, and the second, rationalization. Up to a point, mutual idealization can make for a happy relationship; however, unrealistic expectations of another person based upon this mechanism can lead to serious disappointment. Altruism: The individual deals with emotional conflict or internal or external stressors by dedication to meeting the needs of...
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...CIA director William Casey involvement in the conflicted and how he created the contra to prevent the Saninistas from supplying the rebels in El Salvador. Hudson also talks about Oliver North and John Poindexter and the Iran-contra and how they, with the support of Casey, created a hidden government inside the government that used government resources to achieve their own political agenda as Hudson puts it. In the end, North and Poindexter claimed they did what they did for national security. As indicated to Hudson "national security state" from the Iran-contra. Hudson believes "national security state" is harmful to democracy. This essay will investigate the four practices and dispositions associated with "national security...
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...Marmena Shenuda T. Manzing History 1 20 May 2016 The Most Dangerous Woman in America Emma Goldman was an American anarchist of Russian origin who is credited to have contributed immensely towards the development of anarchist political philosophy in America and Europe. Born in Russia, she emigrated to the U.S. as a teenager. She became involved in politics after the infamous Haymarket affair after which several prominent anarchists were sentenced to death.Emma Goldman was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Russia. Her mother Taube Bienowitch and father Abraham Goldman had a very troubled relationship which greatly bothered the young girl. She had two half-sisters and three brothers. She had a difficult childhood as her father was very violent and used to beat up the children while her mother remained distant and aloof. She had a loving relationship only with her elder half-sister Helena. She was a bold and rebellious youngster who tried her best to fight against violent authorities including her father and unscrupulous teachers. Her father stopped her from going to school when she was a teenager and she took to independent education. She also began working in order to help her poverty stricken family. Emma Goldman is one of the few who, while thoroughly preserving their individuality, have become an important factor in the social and intellectual atmosphere of America. The life she leads is rich in color, full of change and variety. She has risen to the topmost heights...
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...Look What You Did!: An Analysis of Societal Effects in “The Turn of the Screw” “The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James is a very riveting story that requires a significant amount of attention by the reader. James uses the governess as a main character in the attempt to produce a psychological thriller, instead of a ghost story. The governess is used to represent the Victorian era and what James predicted to be the result of their ways of life. He particularly uses the subject of repression to formulate the plot of the story. The fact that this was written in the perspective of the governess also allows the reader to somewhat understand the way people, especially women, thought during this time. Throughout this story, the actions taken by the governess and the things she says are blatant examples of her upbringing in such a society. From the beginning of this story, the reader learns minor, yet important details about the governess. Douglas makes it clear that he was quite infatuated with the governess and that she too may have had an interest in him. Douglas states that, “I liked her extremely and am glad to this day to think she liked me, too” (2). Prior to this comment, he also points out that the governess is ten years older than him. What would constitute him to think that someone so much older than him would like him? Simply put, because she said so. Douglas knew she was in love, because when the governess wrote the story, she was forced to make it clear. There was no...
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...how one looks at it there will always be disagreement among people on whether it should be legal or not. Some people view it as negative strictly based on their religious beliefs, while others view it as negative strictly on their morals beliefs that abortion kills an unborn human. Prochoice individuals believe that a woman has the right to decide what to do with her own body. Many of their arguments begin with the idea that if a woman is raped she has the right to abort the pregnancy because it could traumatize her even more. Some women use abortion as a form of birth control and feel that it is their right to do so. No matter how one looks at abortion, it will always be a topic of extreme disagreement among people. This topic is so serious that many politicians make it a big part of their campaign. Many people tend to vote on certain political candidates strictly based on their stance on the topic of abortion, which makes abortion a very important issue for Americans to consider in this day and age. There are positive and negative sides to the topic of abortion when looked at from all sides and ultimately all of these aspects must be weighed heavily when a woman is making the decision on whether to have an abortion. People who take a pro-life stance on abortion are people who are against abortion. These people strongly believe that the life of an unborn fetus is just as important as the life of the mother. Many pro-lifers feel it is their responsibility to be a voice for the...
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...unpleasant thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Psychologists have categorized defense mechanisms based upon how primitive they are. The more primitive a defense mechanism, the less effective it works for a person over the long-term. However, more primitive defense mechanisms are usually very effective short-term, and hence are favored by many people and children especially (when such primitive defense mechanisms are first learned). Adults who don’t learn better ways of coping with stress or traumatic events in their lives will often resort to such primitive defense mechanisms as well. Most defense mechanisms are fairly unconscious – that means most of us don’t realize we’re using them in the moment. Some types ofpsychotherapy can help a person become aware of what defense mechanisms they are using, how effective they are, and how to use less primitive and more effective mechanisms in the future. Primitive Defense Mechanisms 1. Denial Denial is the refusal to accept reality or fact, acting as if a painful event, thought or feeling did not exist. It is considered one of the most primitive of the defense mechanisms because it is characteristic of early childhood development. Many people use denial in their everyday lives to avoid dealing with painful feelings or areas of their life they don’t wish to admit. For instance, a person who is a functioning alcoholic will often simply deny they have a drinking problem, pointing to how well they function in their job and relationships. 2...
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