7 Secrets Of The Goddess By Devdutt Pattanaik

This paper deals with ways history can be interpreted and influences different interpretations have on society and individuals. This is explored through

In reading a Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich you realize that history seems so much less complicated when you are the one standing back and reflecting on the past. You realize how easy it is to often forget that every single new idea, religion and war was a struggle that lasted generations upon generations. History is more than just a page or a story, its our account of the world. That goes to show how short life and history is, you realize that history is always repeating, war after war, peace then war. There are good and bad periods in history and its up to us to learn from them. In a way history is much like a human being it goes through stages, learns about life, and has inner struggles or wars about their ideas and their beliefs.

Americans live in a society that is undoubtedly dominated by men. In order to fit into that society, women are subjected to cooperating and giving into the standards and ideologies set forth by men (Foss, 2004). We can see these concepts are not demonstrated in Mac Miller’s album, The Divine Feminine, because he is trying to convey the problems that women have gone through growing up feminine and for those trying to find a female identity. Women do not want to be seen ambivalent like a walking contradiction.

Accused witches were forced to admit to various practices believed to be witchcraft. Details from the French Court of Rieux and the insanity that ensued are jaw dropping by today’s standards. Suzanne Gaudry’s judgement confession was no different, being forced and tortured into confessions including having given herself to the devil, renouncement of God, lent and Baptism. Moreover, Gaudry was also forced to confess that she had cohabited with the devil as well received the devil’s mark on her shoulder and being at dances. Of note however, the judgement confession seems to acknowledge Gaudry having technically only confessed to having had killed by poison, Philip Coine’s horse. Nevertheless, Gaudry’s confession was made

In the folktale, "The Wise Old Woman" ,by Yoshiko Uchida, it shows how a harsh young lord treated elderly people with no respect or dignity. In this story, you will find yourself outraged at how this lord treated his elderly people. Nevertheless, this story will teach you lessons about life and will show you how many lords treated there elderly people differently. The story all took place in ancient China, where a lord ruled over a small village and any elderly person over seventy-one may be banished from the village and left in the mountains to die.

The article, The Cult of Womanhood: 1820 - 1860 written by Barbara Welter discusses the philosophy towards women in America during the mid 19th century. A set of demands and expectations based upon four principles: piety, purity, submission and domesticity were placed on women as well as certain behavioral expectations left 19th century women feeling guilty. It also left women feeling this way during the industrialization period as well as having a huge presence of incompatibility with society. Welter shares her viewpoint that the Cult of Womanhood was an attempt to preserve pre modern values in the industrial age. Men held a dominant place in society and continued to prevent new opportunities for women to explore. Narrow minded

Time is our past, present and future, history is our past and circumstance is a result of both time and history. The quote “ I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also much more than that. So are we all,” mentioned in James Baldwin's literary piece “ Sonny’s Blues,” indicates that everyone and everything is a product of time, circumstance and history. Though this is true, we are much more than that because of our ability to go beyond the human condition. Phenomena is a combination of the factors of time, circumstance and history, but every single person and place in the world is more than what is advertised. In other words the past can influence the future, and we can all be much more than what history conditioned us to be. There is history in the places we live, along with the era and setting surrounding that place our lives can be greatly influenced by our settings and can affect the choices we make. However, everyone has a special purpose or talent that enables them to create a history of their own.

The Buddha in the Attic is an emotional novel written by Julie Otsuka in 2011. The novel is unique in the sense that it is written in the first person plural in order to tell the story of many characters simultaneously. There isn’t a set plot except for the chronological stories of multiple picture brides coming to America in the early 1900’s. Each chapter serves as a major section in the women’s lives and assimilation into American culture. The first chapter is titled “Come, Japanese”, which focuses on why the women are coming to America. They describe the decision, sometimes forced, and journey to come to America to meet their new husbands. Many did not necessarily want to come, but they were promised a better life by their husbands, and most of the families of each wife received some sort of endowment money. One of the wives’ said that she was forced to go to support her family, while her older sister was working at the local geisha house just to put food on the table. They described the crowded conditions and long journey of the boat ride, as well as the cliques made and friendships formed on the voyage. All they knew of their husbands at this point was from a letter that was usually not written by the husband, as well as a picture, which was usually of a different person. Each woman’s story was different, and they all had different motives for coming to America, whether to seek a better life or better yet, forget about their previous life in Japan. They all had

In “Chanda’s Secrets”, by Allan Stratton, the topic of focus is HIV/AIDS. A historical event I have studied relating to HIV/AIDS is the black death, also known as the bubonic plague. Although HIV/AIDS and the bubonic plague are very different diseases, they have many similarities as well. HIV/AIDS is a rare, opportunistic infection that cannot be cured. It is a chronic condition that spreads through sexual contact. Whereas the bubonic plague is a very rare, short-term, treatable bacterial infection that spreads through animals or insects. HIV/AIDS has killed roughly 35 million people, and the bubonic plague has killed between 75 and 200 million people. Symptoms of HIV/AIDS include loss of appetite,​​ night sweats, sweating, ulcers, sores, white

Men are not from Mars, and women are not from Venus. The way each sex thinks and acts are entirely different. Each sex has their own way of understanding things. They consider that the other sex thinks just like they do, but the problem is neither gender understands that they communicate in different ways. Men and women are completely different in intellectual ways people never thought of. Men and women have conflicting ways of their behavior patterns.

The history of publishing has been plagued with literary hoaxes — from the somewhat harmless Ern Malley hoax to the most recent Belle Gibson scandal. Unfortunately literary hoaxes will continue to happen, unless publishers begin to fact check manuscripts before publication. Publishers claim they are unable to do this due to the financial cost of the procedure and this is a believable claim. If you spoke to an average person they would say that the print industry is dying, thanks to the rise of digital technology, and there has been a downturn in profits.

Simone De Beauvoir in The Second Sex suggests that to resolve the tension between bad faith and authenticity, people must regard women as subjects and not objects. They must also collectively fight against the idea of womanhood in order to remain authentic to themselves.

How does the way history is told have power in our understanding of the past and present?

My bedside table houses my bare necessities: my laptop, my chocolate stash, and the book I am reading (currently, The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Divakaruni).

A famous Japanese writer Ihara Saikaku, born in 1642, was a son of a wealthy merchant in Osaka. He had a wife and three kids, one of which was blind and in addition to taking care of his family, he learned to write haikai poetry and comics at a young age. Since his wife died at a young age, he became adventurous as “he traveled extensively writing about the various parts of the country” (Rollins, para.4). One of his first novels is called Koshoku Ichidai Otoko in 1682, which led to Saikaku becoming the first Japanese writer able to reflect the life of the modern city Japan and how he supported equality.