Review Of ' The Quilt '

Over the past 200 years sexual liberation and freedom have become topics of discussions prevalent within western culture and society. With the recent exploration of sexuality a new concept of sexual and gender identity has emerged and is being analyzed in various fields of study. The ideology behind what defines gender and how society explains sex beyond biology has changed at a rapid pace. In response various attempts to create specific and catch all definitions of growing gender and sexual minorities has been on going. This has resulted in the concept of gender becoming a multi- layered shifting hypothesis to which society is adapting. Since the 19th-century, philosophers and theorists have continued to scrutinize gender beyond biological and social interpretation. Margaret Atwood 's The Handmaid 's Tale captures the limitations and social implications forced upon a set gender based on societal expectations. Gender is a social construct that limits the individual to the restrictions and traditions of a society, or if it’s an individually formed self-identification of sex and sexuality that is formed autonomously. Evidence of gender establishment can be seen within literary works and supported by various schools of gender and sexuality theory.

In Khaled Hosseini 's A Thousand Splendid Suns, Henrik Isben 's A Doll 's House, and Kamala Markandaya 's Nectar in a Sieve, women face obstacles that disempower and silence them due to Men 's treatment of women, the societal view of women, and the objectification of women. Within the literary works analyzed this semester, disempowerment is a persisting theme that roots from the various obstacles and hardships women encounter. The woman 's ability to overcome this disempowerment is particularly challenging due to being oppressed by their peers, specifically men. Women countlessly serve as victims of verbal and physical abuse under their husbands, thus contributing to the idea of female inferiority. There are various stereotypical roles challenged between men and women in society leading to discrimination of women. The preconceived notions of women 's roles in society arise from those within society. During this time era, most of society depicts women as uneducated, essentially lacking economical and social opportunities, making the female population highly vulnerable to all types of exploitation. Nonetheless, men in these literary works display objectifying and degrading attitudes towards those of the female gender. The objectification of women notably dehumanizes the female population. Within these literary works, the authors exemplify this reality of obstacles that disempower and silence women. Though these women fight for their liberation and equality, they are victims of

In regards to Kofi Annan, it is believed that we all need to join together in order to live in a strong environment and we need one another in order to grow stronger as a nation. Kofi Annan once said,” We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.” This statement emphasizes the significance of finding common ground due to the fact that it explains that everyone needs to get past their differences in order to come together and grow to make the environment and nation they live in superior. Two authors in this unit also argue that individuals need to find common ground. In “A Quilt of a Country”, Anna Quindlen claims that conflict unites all people. Likewise, Eboo Patel claims that all people work together to overcome

In Anna Quindlen’s essay “Quilt of a Country,” she claims that “America is an improbable idea…” (paragraph one) as well as that we are all have different cultures and beliefs, but we have stayed together against all odds. In paragraph four, Quindlen states “other countries with such divisions have in fact divided into new nations with new names, but not this one, impossibly interwoven even in its hostilities,” meaning that other countries that had these problems with racism and differences have split into other nations. It is because of this that she says that America is surprising, since we have now divided. She later mentions in paragraph six how intriguing it is that groups of people who are almost at war with each other can live together,

Today I’m going to talk about three story from the english book collections one. The books that I will be talking about are “A Quilt Of A Country”, “Once Upon A Time” , and “The Gettysburg Address”. First I will be talking about “A Quilt Of A Country” and what the theme is. Also, i would be writing about how these stories are still today connected to today’s life.

Your Happiness Affects Everyone Theodore Roosevelt said, “The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally on the welfare of all of us.” All of the stories help me form evidence for my claim. My evidence for my claim is in 9/11 when the family members died there family was sad as well, but when the family was sad they made the rest of the united states sad as well. When something bad happens to the world the family gets sad first then the world does because the welfare of all of us is dependent on the welfare of one of us. So try to be in a good mood every day because when you aren't you affect everyone.

We have all experienced it. Whether it be a birthday party or a baby shower, we have all been exposed to it, even if we have not realized it. The next time you attend a baby shower, pay close attention to the decorations, specifically the balloons. Universally, a balloon stamped “It's a Boy!” will be blue, and correspondingly, a pink balloon will be labeled “It's a Girl!” This observation might seem trivial at first, but a close look shows that this pattern haunts every baby event.

Nancy Nguyen ENG 4U1 Ms. Miszczak March 12, 2015 Religious and The Effect of Power in a Small Society Oscar Wilde once said: “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.” Here, he shows his opinion about the rights between men and women, which means men is the one control the power. As much as same idea in the novel A Complicated Kindness written by Miriam Toews when women are punished for their actions, while men are not.

Within the poem “The Century Quilt” created by Marilyn Nelson Waniek, she describes a girl a quilt that reminds her of family. The author uses a literary technique that helps the readers find out the complex meanings she had towards the blanket. Firstly, a technique the author used with structure helped the character described in the poem tells the readers about the special blanket. The author picks her words very carefully using only kind descriptions, such as being in love and having good dreams, to give the audience a relaxing feeling as they read the poem.

Anna Quindlen claims in “A Quilt of a Country” that America is special on an unprecedented front. Written during the tragic aftermath of the World Trade Center September, 11th attack, Anna Quindlen’s story describes the various cultures that America is composed of and suggests that America would not be as prestigious under different circumstances.

In the reminiscent poem, “The Century Quilt”, Marilyn Nelson Waniek conveys a sense of nostalgia towards the past and further depicts it by utilizing imagery and structure in the poem. Waniek uses descriptive imagery of childhood innocence to characterize the quilt and what it is a represents to her. Emphasizing how a family heirloom, such as a quilt, is used to thread together generations, Waniek expresses how the speaker hopes that her newfound quilt will be able to weave memories and her family’s heritage together as her grandmother's blanket once did.

There are several sources that tell a person how to be a man or woman. Science tells us by recognizing the X or Y chromosomes. The media shows us through the physically ideal celebrities that grace the covers of magazines and flaunt their bodies in commercials. Sports, wrestling, cars, and blue for the boys. Dresses, make-up, painted nails, and pink for the girls. All of these sources, as well as others, have evolved into an expectation that has become institutionalized within society. This expectation, is placement and belonging into the binary system of person: the man or the woman. In Anne Fausot-Sterling's acrticles “The Five Sexes” and the “The Five Sexes, Revisited”, the

Judith Butler questions the belief that behaviors of either sex are natural. She proposes a rather radical theory that gender is performative and that sex is constructed. When gender is being performed, it means that someone would take on a role, acting in such a way that gives society the idea of their gender and constructs part of their identity. To be performative means that we produce a series of effects.Gender is constructed and is not in any way connected ‘naturally’ to sex.

In this essay I discuss that "doing gender means creating differences between girls and boys and women and men...." (West & Zimmerman 2002:13) I am concentrating on the female perspective, how societyputs forth expectations of what is 'natural' or biological even though, in some cases, it can be quite demeaning and degrading. I am using some examples from the local media and also a few childhoodexperiences that have helped me to now strongly suspect that the quote from Simone Beauvoir (1972) "One is not born a woman, but rather becomes one" most likely has quite a bit of truth to it.

If I could only have one book on quilting, this is the one I would choose. It covers topics ranging from how to choose fabrics and colors, piecing techniques, hand and machine quilting, and even how to set up a simple "design wall" to experiment with your quilt before you sew it. The book is arranged in an alphabetical format, which at times can be a bit confusing if you are looking for a particular subject. But the Index at the back of the book is extensive and you can find the page number of the information you 're looking for quite quickly. It is the depth of information that is so extraordinary about this book. Editor Ellen Pahl brought together a team of 60 well-known quiltmakers to assemble the book, including historians, technical writers, textile specialists, quilting designers and teachers, and even quilt show judges. Each one contributed sections of the book written from their own expertise and insights, and everyone contributed tips and tricks to making your quilting easier and better. If you 've never quilted before, you can learn step by step with well written directions and more than 700 beautiful illustrations, and definitions of quilting terms and terminology. If you 're an experienced quilter, there are enough challenges here to keep you busy for years. The book covers not only standard quilt techniques such as one-patch, nine- path, cathedral window and crazy quilts, but also such Tahitian and Japanese Yukata quilts. You 'll learn trapunto, string piecing