Your hobbies are almost the same as mine, well almost with exception that its been years since I've played my guitar. What is your favorite song to play? I love listening to music as well, I feel weird without my headphones or not listening to Pandora when I'm doing homework. Netflix have such great shows, right now I'm into a new show call Jessica Jones. I complete I agree with your statement regarding women in literature, due to sexism women had harder time being respected for their work. I really liked the way you described Isabel Allende's work, it's a perfect example on how strongly she impacts the reader. Isabel Allende and Sor Juana Ignes de la Cruz are among my favorite authors, both contributed so much to Spanish literature. Good
Teresa of Avila can be known as an autobiography of Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, or even as Teresa refers to her piece as a confession. Throughout this historical, religious confession, Dr. Raquel Trillia pointed out throughout her lecture how Teresa used strategies that many women must use in order to be viewed as a writer. These strategies are used so that a woman’s writing will be accepted, or at the most respected within the literature society. With that being said, the main theme brought forth during Dr. Raquel Trillia’s lecture about Teresa of Avila is how much women are struggling to be a part of the literature community and to be graced with respect from other (male) authors within the novel industry.
A character that displays many aspects of being a mockingbird is Boo Radley. Boo is a man who initially in the story does not come out of his house due to his fear of being persecuted. He is seen as the town mystery and some people do not even believe he exists. On page 44, two of the the main characters who are children named Jem and Scout are walking home from school when they start finding a gifts inside a tree knot hole outside of the Radley place. The children assume the gifts are from Boo and their assumptions are later proven correct. The act of Boo giving the children gifts makes him appear as he cares for the children. In like manner, Boo exhibits the kindness of a mockingbird is on page 95. While watching Miss Maudie’s house fire someone wraps a blanket around Scout, but she does not realise until she gets back home. She guesses Boo Radley was the one who did it and again her guess was proven correct. This act of kindness models his selflessness. Lastly, throughout the story Boo is described as
In this poem Cisneros displays a common stereotype of women in a satirical way that is easy to identify with, and in a sense empowers women rather than degrading them. In doing this, she keeps her cultural heritage by using both English, and her own native language, Spanish to define her views. She maintains this sort of style throughout her poems and pursues gender issues and cultural identity with ferocious vitality and purpose.
The new Netflix series Jessica Jones, which becomes available on November 20, is a marvel—legally (it's produced by Marvel), creatively and, it must be said, surprisingly.
Reading literature, at first, might seem like simple stories. However, in works like William Faulkner's “A Rose for Emily,” Katherine Mansfield's “Miss Brill,” and Kate Chopin's “The Storm,” the female protagonists are examples of how society has oppressive expectations of them simply because of their gender.
In the essay of Judith Ortiz "The Myth of the Latin Women: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria" was an essay I believe many students were able to relate, understand, and reflect with the arguments she pointed out. Judith Ortiz seemed passionate in her essay because it was a narrative of a situation she went through. While reading Judith 's essay it was easy to comprehend what she was trying to make her audience understand. Judith 's tone throughout the essay was form, reflective, and informative. The imagery she gives us in her essay when talking to about Latin women made easy for students to image
The first of paragraph of The Myth of the Latin Women draws you in with anger but also a sense of embarrassment. Cofer buts up with antics for the name of comedy and is expected to take it well, for the mere fact that she is Puerto Rican. As a person as latin descent, the stereotyping and frustration draws me from a deeper standpoint. Her anger is justified and pushes for understanding for all those perpetrating. Her life is filled with anecdotes of people assuming that they can treat her a certain way because of the island her culture came from or the stereotypes portrayed in West Side Story. She uses sarcasm when she says “If you are a Latina, especially one like me who so obviously belongs to Rita Moreno's gene pool, the Island travels with you.” She is telling the world she is not Maria but an independent brain that is more than the oversexulatization of her background or the pigment of her skin.
Coco follows Miguel Rivera’s journey to becoming a musician. Miguel, a young boy, comes from a family of shoemakers that started with his great-great-grandmother Imelda Rivera. The Rivera family hates music as Imelda’s husband left her to pursue music. However, Miguel loves music which creates a rift between him and his family. He idolizes Ernesto De La Cruz the world’s most popular musician that came from his home town.
Douglas’ humorous and well informed way of writing really inspired me. From examples of magazines, media, television shows, films, retail, and even in music she described and compared to us what is going on among these examples and how real women today are really living their lives. Douglas presents an analysis of how women are presented to the public and how we continue to be treated as inferior to men despite the strides of feminism. After reading this book, I even find myself reading or watching something and pretty much look to see if it is women friendly or not. This is something I really never done before until now. This book definitely got me to think about feminism and the role it plays in my life.
Literature reflects many aspects of human ideas, beliefs, and societies. It does not only enlighten readers, but it broadens their perspective by exposing them to large human questions that have troubled humanity for centuries. The readings exposed complex topics such as feminism during the 19th century and how women carry the same stigma until today. The Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen and The Yellow Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman made me think about my place in the world as a woman, and the significance of the movement to end sexist oppression. Literature gives the reader a chance to inhabit characters and make them feel connected to the author and the author’s work.
Samuel Hunt: Both Doris Lessing’s “On Not Winning a Nobel Prize” (2007) and Margaret Atwood’s “Spotty-Handed Villainesses” (1994) are speeches which demonstrate a great strength of textual integrity, achieved through the speakers personal styles of presentation and the relevance of the issues at hand, holding value beyond the contextual audience and towards a modern responder. The enduring value of any speech is the ability to persuade with conviction, utilising both the arousal of the audience’s emotions to address topics of significance and the qualities of an effective rhetorician. While Lessing’s speech is directed at the issue of world poverty with a focus of education, Atwood’s speech draws attention to gender inequality throughout literature.
I liked how you said "judging books by their cover” because I think society and people in general do this everyday and don’t realize it until after the fact, but its wrong. The man could not see how beautiful the woman really was because of how obsessed he was with making her fit his perfecfection standards; in reality the woman was already perfect the man was just to selfish to realize. The interperation I made of "Rappaccini's daughter" was a bit different than yours. I made the analysis that the father was posisioning the daughter out to achieve perfection. However, I did enjoy reading yours and became open to other possibilities. Good job.
In her poems and familiar letters, Franco defends both herself and women as a whole by challenging traditional patriarchal gender constructs, educating and disarming the insults of male attackers, and appealing
Many female writers see themselves as advocates for other creative females to help find their voice as a woman. Although this may be true, writer Virginia Woolf made her life mission to help women find their voice as a writer, no gender attached. She believed women had the creativity and power to write, not better than men, but as equals. Yet throughout history, women have been neglected in a sense, and Woolf attempted to find them. In her essay, A Room of One’s Own, she focuses on what is meant by connecting the terms, women and fiction. Woolf divided this thought into three categories: what women are like throughout history, women and the fiction they write, and women and the fiction written about them. When one thinks of women and
Throughout American Literature, women have been depicted in many different ways. The portrayal of women in American Literature is often influenced by an author's personal experience or a frequent societal stereotype of women and their position. Often times, male authors interpret society’s views of women in a completely different nature than a female author would. While F. Scott Fitzgerald may represent his main female character as a victim in the 1920’s, Zora Neale Hurston portrays hers as a strong, free-spirited, and independent woman only a decade later in the 1930’s.