Personal Narrative: My Interview With Women

I am not a repressed housewife. I am not a sweet dormouse that fears making waves. I am a millennial, and I am loud. I am a person who believes in America, and its policy of justice for all. Feminism is a huge aspect of our society. It's hard to scroll through social media without seeing a post about infringement on women's rights. I've never considered myself to be a feminist, and I still don't. However, one incident changed the way that I looked at the world, and how safe I felt within it. This incident showed me who I want to be in the world. My mom and I had just stopped at a Hardee's not too far from my small hometown. We were returning from a college tour downstate, and were starving by the time we reached Manistique. We could smell

On May 6, 2013 nearly 11 year after being held prisoner she was finally found by authorities, due to her health condition at the time she was immediately hospitalized since she had not been to a doctor since she was 21 (Knight, 2015). She was told she had a life threatening bacterial infection in her stomach that was eating it away and the doctors were unsure if she was going to make it or not, luckily they found her in time (Mitchell, 2015). Doctors also told her that

I had the opportunity to interview a colleague of mine Brenda, who is a teacher in the Deaf and Hard of Hearing department at our school. Brenda herself is Deaf and was raised by Deaf parents, which benefited her greatly. She began at the Institute for the Deaf and Blind, now known as Montana School for the Deaf and Blind, from preschool to tenth grade. Brenda told me that by the time she had become a tenth grader the school district in Montana was more willing to accept a student who was Deaf. Before this time without the proper legislation like the IDEA law, school districts did not have provide free and appropriate education. Even though she was permitted to attend a mainstream high school, she only took elective type classes. She said that

They called me an apple. Since I was supposedly red on the outside, but white on the inside, I was automatically a walking bullseye. Being one of the many oppressed Aboriginals, I understand their need to hurt someone else in an effort to release some of their internal pain. I understand why so many give up or turn into raging alcoholics in an effort to numb their pain. Coming from a reservation, my greatest challenge was proving to everyone that all the stereotypes about my people were fallacious. However, the need for a government and an education system that won’t keep on failing us repeatedly is imperative. The only way that I can make my voice heard is to break these stereotypes and to reach a higher education; hence my application for

In 2001 women declared a separate entity from her male guardian. In 2002 women started receiving secular education. In 2011 women received the right to vote. All women are well educated and now have the right to vote, but they are still subject to male dominance under extremist view of Islamic law. They still have to be escorted by a male guardian in public. Women are not allowed to interact with men they aren’t related to. The main problem they fact today is sexual exploitation from being sold into prostitution or human tracking for cheap labor in poor working conditions. It’s almost as if they went backwards all the rights women had well before western countries, has been taken away and now they desire to gain them

Soon as she started to fall in love a problem occurred. The letters she was sending to her boyfriend was going to somebody else. Then after the fact, the Stazi made sure she would never see him again. That's a lot of things going on and I know if that happens to me I'll honestly feel low. I couldn't even go a day without talking to my loved ones. Then she was raped and the crazy part about it was that she didn't feel the pain because she was so numbed to the pain she been going through before the incident. Frau Paul was a very strong woman, she had to be separated from her son. Frau Paul couldn't be with the person she birthed and held for 9 months that's very sad. Some people in our country need to look at the good values because these people in Germany had it really

Last summer I wanted to work and earn a little cash and distract myself and not be home all summer. I didn't know where to apply so I applied everywhere I was even open to working in the fields my parents told me that the fields were the last place they ever wanted me to work. My mom and step dad Raul always told me that field work wasn't easy and that it was not for me but I didn't listen.

As a child she was an orphan after losing both her mother and father. As a child this woman experienced and witnessed things unacceptable to an adult’s eyes. She was beaten and tortured by her mistress and started to do grossly things. As desperate as she was, she meet a guy fifteen years of age while she was twelve; he persuaded her into going with him and she joined him. At such young age she felt she had made a commitment with the gentlemen and when he was taken for burglary, she committed a crime to be positioned with him.

Sadly, many countries and/or communities still have that macho way of thinking, believing that a woman only has two jobs in life, serve her family and bear children. Unfortunately, in many cases, these women are being mistreated, beaten and/or shut down. We can see examples of these situations in some countries of the Middle East.

Through false interpretations of the Quran, and the hunger for control among a select group of male individuals, these women have now reached the climax of this battle for gender equality since the days of Mohammed. Here we are, 14 centuries later to observe the strides time has taken. Islamic women and girls today are still perceived as inferior to men. This belief is prevalent in the everyday routines of a female living under religious standards. While there is a great diversity among the extremity of islamic laws, depending where you are located geographically, it is safe to say that an unfortunately high number of women experience discrimination daily. Many of these social injustices are results of a secularized legal code. Women are permitted only one spouse, while for men they can wed up to four. A young girl, according to law, can be wed at the age of nine, while boys at fourteen. Once a woman is married, they are virtually bound to that man, however horrendous he or his actions might be. While it’s not technically illegal for a women to sue for divorce, it’s a difficult process with harsh ramifications. Men, in nearly every instance, win custody of the children, and women are left with zero financial security afterwards. But this is not the worst of female suffering. Annually hundreds of women perish in traditional “Honor Killings”, murders by male spouses or relatives of women suspected of crime, especially

50 minutes had passed since Bailey Madison James whom some called Bai and others called BJ. Though when they called her BJ that just pissed her off to the point of no return. Bailey thought it was funny when she'd explode and the looks on people's faces made her day sometime. She just couldn't get enough of it. "I love you." Bailey typed into her phone sending a text message to Calahan not knowing if he was going to get it or not. Even if they fought a lot she always made sure that he knew she loved him. Even if it was a simple text message before bed, a note on his pillow, a note on his plate when he'd come home late. It was just her little way of trying to make things better between them. She hated the fact that all they did was fight including

She had killed her baby for that man and apparently he cheated on her. The woman didn't have no reason to live, she was all alone, her husband left her and she killed her babies?! She drowned herself in look for her three babies and since then nobody knew from her.

A famous actor once stated “But I learned that there’s a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.” However, I did not quite agree with the man when I was embarrassed directly in front of my friends and adults. That day I will never forget, I had made the biggest fool out of myself, and I had just given proof to the stories about women being terrible drivers.

The story hour we read was a very true story I think back in that day. Back than the husbands hit their wives and beat them and stuff and thought it was okay, people still do that today but they will get in trouble for it. But I can see why she did not like staying with that guy. She was a slave I bet and did all of the work around the house while all he did was went to his job. I bet he doesn’t do anything for work either. The reason why I think she croaked was because she was sad that he did not die and she wasn’t actually free anymore. That is what I am thinking happened.

I don't believe allowing woman to hold a position of power such as a cardinal within the Catholic Church or rabbi diminishes the power of these positions or the religion. To say that only a man can tell us about God is ridiculous. To tell me only a man can hold a high position in the church offends me. I don't believe gender should play a part in these religious positions of power.