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Feminism is a major issue in the world today. Despite the fact that rights for women have been long given, there are still many major social gaps between women and men. 'I Was a Skinny Tomboy Kid' by Alma Luz Villanueva rejects a patriarchal lifestyle and promotes feminism because of it's tone, word choice, and layout.

Until the 1960s, feminism was widely regarded as a sub-set of liberalism and socialism, rather than as an ideology in its own right. Today, however, feminism can be considered a single doctrine in that all feminists subscribe to a range of ‘common ground’ beliefs, such as the existence of a patriarchal society, and the desire to change gender inequalities. Then again, it can be argued that feminism is characterised more by disagreement than consensus, as three broad traditions: liberal feminism, Marxist or socialist feminism, and radical feminism, which often contain rival tendencies, are encompassed within each core feminist theme. This essay will argue that, despite tensions between its

In some cases, this can lead to show bias, as the writer can accidentally focus on the pros of their own side, and the cons of the opposite side. A good writer, such as hooks, can use this strategy without too much of a problem. For example, her writings compare & contrast two definitions of feminism: her own, and the common, anti-male definition. The standard definition of feminism is “the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes”, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. While this definition is similar to the one that hooks uses, she expands feminism to not only include anti-sexism, but also includes the possibility of anti-racism. By writing “The feminism they hear about the most is portrayed by women who are primarily committed to gender equality…” (hooks, pg1), she helps us to understand exactly how different the two definitions are. By using this strategy, hooks is able to make herself seem more credible, as well as allow us to make our own decision on feminism.

In the article “Turkeys in the Kitchen” Dave Barry provides plentiful amounts of ethos and pathos by implying that feminism aids men more than women. The author only indulges his own experiences, the readers only see through his point of view which is that feminism contributes to men more than women. However, these examples he provides are from his personal life, and he doesn’t ponder feminism outside of his household and his own opinion. Even though he has an abundance quantity of ethos and pathos examples, there is a deficiency of logos. Lack of logical assertions in his writing generates weak debating

In this analysis paper, I will be discussing the issue of gender equality that is being argues by two different authors. There are two different articles that I will be using, where they both contradict each other, and one is highly stronger than other because of their credibility. “Moving beyond pain” by Bell Hooks uses different sources compared to “Gender Equality is a Myth” by Beyoncé Knowles. The authors use different credible techniques to state a stronger argument, but also in some they use rhetorical appeals in the same way. Both of them show their knowledge on the topic of gender equality, except one uses more of a source that could be true, unlike the other one, it all depends on how a person praises the author.

f. What technique(s) does Brady use to introduce her essay? Comment on the effectiveness. g. How does Brady conclude? Is her conclusion long enough for this essay? h. Ms. is a popular publication, in contrast to a scholarly journal. In light of this, describe Brady's style and explain why she uses the level of vocabulary and sentence structure she does. i. How would you describe Brady's tone? Does it change or evolve as we get nearer to her

The extent and degree of information and detail written in this article about each represented author and their contributing works can ultimately be seen as one of the articles main strengths. However, although this article gives a vast amount of information on the women’s opinions and beliefs the article at times seems disassembled and erratic. The flow of the article is somewhat hard to follow, and without an increased measure of concentration, the ability of the reader to comprehend and decipher whom the author is speaking of can be lost. Also, with the extensive amounts of information and detail that each female author contributes to the argument, readers are bombarded with data to interpret and distinguish upon. With the author of the article not decisively choosing the strongest points of argument from each author, the information becomes overwhelming and possibly confusing at times.

From the article entitled The Feminist Critique – Four Questions for Theorizing across Disciplines by Cecilia Konchar Farr (Catherine Core Reader, 2011)

In this essay I will explore the different schools of feminism such as Marxist, liberal and radical feminism, who share the view that women are oppressed in a patriarchal society but differ in opinion on who benefits from the inequalities. Each school of feminism has their own understanding of family roles and relationships which I will assess through this essay.

Analyzing the ways in which a piece of literature includes feminist ideologies can bring out the potential messages that the creators of these productions were attempting to portray, while allowing the reader to critique the literature from a feminist perspective.

In choosing for this research project I have decided to challenge the ethical problem of the shortcomings of feminism. There has been much debate over feminism, the questioning of its purpose, its design, its inclusiveness, it is stance on other matters that connect to it. In a quest in finding the shortcomings, and bringing them to light. Using other essays as sources I plan to make this bibliography a journey into the scope not just feminism, but the history of feminism, intersectional feminism, the wage gap, and what defines a feminist. We will take into account of all aspects of feminism and how authors of some essays included have offered their

When on the topic of feminist writing, understanding the time period in which the author’s writing takes place persists as vastly important. Historically speaking, western culture follows a model thoroughly dominated by men. That commonality remains

The subject of women and how they should be viewed is a world-wide argument. In the short stories ¨Looking at Women,¨ ¨Saudis in Bikinis,¨ and the illustration Moral Equivalence, each author attacks this issue using different rhetorical strategies to describe their views on how women should be looked at. In ¨Looking at Women¨ by Scott Russell Sanders, he is trying to figure out his views on women as he goes through the narrative. Sanders does this by first using rhetorical strategies such as ethos and tone shifts to gain credibility.

When comparing my life to Roxane Gay’s author of Bad Feminist, I know we have a lot of similarities, but a lot of differences. We are similar in the fact that we are alive at the same time, and have seen, and read a lot of the same materials discussed in Bad Feminist, we are both women, and we are both bisexual. We are different in the fact I was born in the nineties while she was born in the seventies, I am white, and she is of Haitian descent, and we both have varying events that have shaped our lives. Because of these differences, we have varying perspectives.

The biggest challenge while researching and writing this paper was strictly presenting scholastic and objective arguments in order to avoid bias and reduce critics’ opportunity to discredit or delegitimize my work, especially those who oppose feminism. Presenting a rebuttal statement and then counteracting it with more critical arguments of how that specific repudiation is problematic, acknowledges critical audiences’ concerns while remaining adamantly strong in my stance. I was conscious to pay the respected attention to detail when selecting rhetoric language as it conveys the appropriated tone and mood of the paper to the reader as it represents the film. Just as typical research papers require, my primary source, The Little Mermaid, is immediately and easily identifiable within the paper, and unlike most scholarly works, the analyzed topic is the primary source itself. However, the problematic dynamics the film presents based on the sexist theme it poses, may be too broad and largely based without adequately supportive and specified examples from the film. This was another one of the concerns I had when I first began to construct my paper because there were so many different examples of female