Dorothy Allison's Analysis

This semester we have done many reading’s that have touched on topics such as race, gender, sextuality, and more. One reading that stands out though is Dorothy Allison 's book “Two or Three Things I Know For Sure.” This reading discusses Dorothy 's childhood in a way where you get the picture of the true effects of poverty on her family, and herself. This look into her life can show the reader a real life depiction of her emotions and feelings at any given time in her life. This story of her life can also give the reader a closer look at the way gender changes based on income. While Dorothy 's family is described with very hard set gender lines on the male side on the female side they are more blurred.

Lori Arviso Alvord was raised in a small town on an Indian reservation. She left her traditional Indian life to attend Dartmouth followed by Stanford University Medical School and became the first Navajo woman surgeon. After overcoming the challenges of the operating room, Dr. Alvord realized that something was missing from the contemporary medical care. The contemporary medical care did not teach a health care provider how to look at a person as a whole. She felt that a western doctor cure but did not necessarily heal their patients. This extraordinarily talented doctor showed how she merged the modern science with ancient tribal ways to recovery and wellness. After years of experience as a surgeon, she was able to use her unique perspective

Among many abolitionists of slavery in early America were former slaves, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs who lived to tell the stories of their quests for freedom during their time as slaves. Harriet Jacobs, known for her narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, was born into slavery like many African Americans at the time. Frederick Douglass who was also born into slavery was best known for his “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.” Through these narratives both Jacobs and Douglass each portray their own experiences of slavery in contrasting ways.

In the memoir “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, Dorothy Allison recites stories from her life that ultimately depict the oppression and liberation seen in gender, sexuality, and social class. Intersectionality is a theme that can be seen throughout the book. Intersectionality is the overlapping of characteristics (such as sex, gender, race, class, and sexuality) that forms a person’s identity. Although people may have similar traits and characteristics, they are distinct from person to person. They can depict different features about different people throughout society.

Belonging to a certain group is a natural experience in the lives of individuals. Groups are categorizable by a variety of options but often expel a trait that epitomizes each individual within the group such as rank, societal merit, or simply just appearance. Behaviorism gratifies purpose within cohort mentality among those in an association due to the psychological commonalities that bring these groups together. When it comes to an individual's development within a certain group, joint mentality helps create a safe environment but often times supports ideologies of self empowerment. Anthropologist Karen Ho composes the analysis of students whom graduate Ivy League universities and enter into financial professions, in her essay “Biographies

The theorist that I chose is Dorothy Smith. She is a well-known Marxist feminist scholar and activist (Carroll, 2010, p. 1). The reason I chose to write about Dorothy Smith is because her unique approach to feminism and women’s movements interested me, making me want to learn more about her.

Using all the sources provided and your own research analyse the impact of the convict experience on the life of Mary Reibey (800-1000 words).

The article “Gimme an A (I Insist!) by Abigail Sullivan Moore is a commentary on grade inflation in high schools. The author discusses how high school averages are on the rise while SAT scores are staying the same. Moore goes into detail about how teachers are giving students better grades in an attempt to spare their feelings. She then covers how this negatively affects our students. The major points that will be covered in this paper are how relevant this article is and how the problem discussed is affecting our students.

Dorothy Allison, author of the personal narrative, “Context” (1994), explores the idea that two people from different backgrounds can form a union in a relationship. Dorothy Allison develops her narrative by bringing her rich, northern girlfriend to the south, where she feared exposing her to her penury lifestyle. Allison’s purpose was to emphasize on the different backgrounds, in order to show how where you come from should not affect genuine love. The intended audience is any reader from any social class, and the relationship established between the author and the audience would be the idea that where you stand economically does not define who you are.

Dorothy Gibson was born in 1889 in Hoboken, New Jersey. She was the daughter of John A. Brown and Pauline Boesen. Unfortunately however, right after Dorothy’s birth her father passed away. It wasn’t long after when her mother remarried to a man by the name of John Leonard Gibson. This was the man that essentially was the father figure for Dorothy encouraging her to pursue her career. Dorothy was very versatile when it came to the arts. Between the years of 1907 and 1911 she became a singer and dancer in many musicals on Broadway. She worked with the top producers of the time including Charles Frohman and the Shubert Brothers. In 1909 she began her career as a model, most famously known as the inspiration for illustrator Harrison Fisher. This gave her extraordinary fame in many newspaper articles and magazines. People started referring to her as the Original Harrison Fisher Girl. In 1910, Dorothy fell in love with a man by the name of George Battier and married him. However,

Rebecca Solnit was at a sophisticated party one evening when the party’s important male host asked her what she did for a living. When Solnit answered that she is a writer whose most recent book was on Eadweard Muybridge, the host started going on and one about another important book that was written about the same man. To the host’s embarrassment, that book was in fact Solnit’s. Solnit explains this instance as a man explaining things to her; when a man assumes that the women knows nothing and feels the need to share his wealth of knowledge with her.

Sister Dorothy Mae Stang was an outstanding woman who changed the lives of many people and in the process, sacrificed her life. Stang was born on July 7, 1931 in Dayton, Ohio but became a naturalized Brazilian. (Dorothy Stang 1). She died on February 12, 2005 at the age of 73 in the city of Anapu, Para in Brazil (Dorothy Stang 1). She had learned that she was being called in to the life of God and decided to become a nun and professed her final vows in 1956. She began her work teach in Illinois and Arizona. Stang was later sent to Brazil to work in the Amazon rain-forest to help poor farmers build independent futures for their families (Sister Dorothy 1). In Brazil she worked with the Pastoral Land Commission, an organization of the Catholic Church that fights for the rights of rural workers and peasants, and defends land reforms in Brazil (About Sister Dorothy 1). Sister Dorothy also wanted to protect peasants from criminal gangs working for ranchers who were

Dorothy Parker was a civil rights activist, journalist and poet of the 20th century. She unfortunately had an unhappy childhood and lost her parents at a young age. Dorothy Parker attended a Catholic grammar school, but at the age of 14 her education came to an end (Academy of American Poets, para. 1). Parker became to be known for her legendary literary figure. In fact Parker worked for several magazines and worked as a book reviewer for The New Yorker.

Do you think that the bond from others is important? Friendship is an important subject within the world and for this reason it is important to understand other learn about other people and how they live and see things in the world. One might believe that bond with others can form how you will see things in the future. Others might say that bond is important because it forms who we might become, It path of friendship is like love, loyalty and connections.

says Anthony Rotundo, attempting to define the boundaries between romantic friendship and erotic love, in relation to same gender friendships, in the late nineteenth century (Miller 4). Same gender relationships could exist on a physical level, expressing affection, without bringing up questions of sexual preference. Further, F.S. Ryman, a gentleman in his twenties, wrote of the very