The Yellow Wallpaper Persuasive Essay

During the 19th century men considered themselves to be the superior sex. Without a valid reason or explanation, men were the providers, the politicians, and the physicians. Men had the power. The power to make the rules and set the guidelines of how things were supposed to be done and women were expected to follow without question. The 19th century was also the start of the women’s activist movement, more and more women were starting to realize that they had a voice and they wanted to be heard. Women were gaining the courage to speak up against the wishes of men and set their own guidelines. To stand up and tell men that contrary to what they believe, they are not always right. Among these opinionated women was Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe and the author of many short stories and books on gender inequality. Gilman is most known for her Short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” published in 1892, where she writes about a wife and now a new mother suffering from depression. Through her work she reveals the strength and influence men had over women, the lack of knowledge pertaining to mental health and gender roles present during the 1800s.

“Hey guys! This is the last communication you shall receive from me. I now walk out to live amongst the wild. Take care, it was great knowing you” (Qtd. In Krakauer 69). After graduating from Emory University, Christopher McCandless abandoned everything, gave his entire savings account to charity, and then hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wild. In the novel, Into the Wild, Was McCandless justified in shunning society? McCandless was justified in shunning society because he simply wanted to find himself and be independent without any distractions from his friends or family.

The author unconsciously portrays this idea through the dialogue of a male perspective. Using a feminist lens, however, Gilman talks about men in relation to her husbands career as a “high standing” (Gilman 2) physician. She describe that there is nothing “that [she] can do” if a doctor tells everyone she is merely suffering from “temporary nervous depression” (Gilman 2). It is suggested that John, her husband is truly in denial about her condition but readers would conclude he doesn’t

Author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s semi-autobiographical short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, portrays how women were treated in the era before postpartum depression was understood by the medical profession. Jane, a new mother, and the protagonist, in “The Yellow Wallpaper” was married to a physician of “high standing” and was treated like a caged animal instead of a human being (Gilman 486). As the story begins, Jane, her husband and new baby are moved into a summer home, which she despised, so that she would have time to recuperate from a nervous condition. At the outset of “The Yellow Wallpaper” Jane suffered from depression and anxiety but as the story progressed so did her mental illness. During Gilman’s short story Jane is disregarded, oppressed, and confined by her husband; this leads to her complete mental breakdown at the story’s conclusion.

The United States Jury System is defined as a system that makes a decision on a court case on the basis of evidence that was submitted to the court. Juries can be seen as early on the Magna Carta and in Athens, in which peers would gather and make a verdict for a person. Every country does juries differently, they choose people differently, and they make different types of decisions. Some courts are less strict on juries, some even do not care if people on the jury have personal connections to the people or strong opinions. The United States Jury System is the most intricate and strict, and it all starts in the colonial time period.

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s work, “The Yellow Wallpaper” has several major themes that were expressed. In the nineteenth century, women were responsible for doing house chores, taking care of the kids, and obeying their husbands. A general concern regarding women’s inequality during the 19th century was painted by Gilman. In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Gilman emphasizes the concerns in which society discouraged the women’s ability to self express themselves. Does the narrator listen to the man because he’s a physician or because he is her husband?

Throughout the short story Gilman depicts the wife’s growing frustrations when she disagrees with the treatment plan her husband, and her brother, and one of the most well renowned physicians for females (who is also male) all agree on. One of the first examples of this is when she is discussing the

Since the feminist movement had been fairly recent, 1840s, works of literature containing feminist ideals, like “The Yellow Wallpaper.” The main character had been a depressed woman under the control of her bossy, yet loving, husband. His misguided belief of the “rest cure” is what caused his dear wife to go completely insane, and no matter how many times his wife had told him to take her home or to fix that horrid wallpaper, he refused saying that she shouldn’t give in to such flights of fancy. John, her husband, had thought that he knew what was best for her, since he was a man and a physician at that and she wasn’t. John’s controlling actions are what led to the dire outcome of “The Yellow Wallpaper,” and drive home the fact that the individual often knows what is best for themselves and their own health, rather than an outsider who only witnesses a fraction of their illness, regardless of their

“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman examines the negative effects of the “rest cure”, a common approach used in the nineteenth century to treat women suffering from severe nervous symptoms (Bassuk 245). The text not only condemns the callous, medical treatment that the narrator endures, but, it also addresses the misogynistic beliefs and the resulting gender inequalities that endorse the use of such treatments. This theme is made explicit in the narrator’s persistent attempts to escape the authoritarian confinement, gender discrimination and marginalization of her mental illness imposed by her husband John, who is also her physician. The way in which male physicians treated women during this time period is challenged through the narrator’s lens as she struggles for freedom and for a life beyond the boundaries set by her husband.

Why spend money that is really needed for other things? Why live uncomfortably? Why be trapped in this hole called a home that belongs to another person? Why not live free and peacefully? When a person rents he or she usually throws away money that could be used to purchase something that belongs to them. Money is not easy to come by so why pay out hundreds toward something that is not benefit to the person paying it out. There is no good explanation for making a decision like this. The best option in a situation like this is to buy a house. Buying a house is a better option than renting an apartment.

There’s a saying, it’s that the three necessities of life are food, shelter, and toilet paper. In 1890, when toilet paper was first put on a roll, was when the world truly started. Toilet paper is the best invention ever created because it gets us clean and fresh in seconds. Joseph Gayette was the man behind it all. His invention has and will be used in the world for hundreds and hundreds of years. It’s almost as if you didn’t even leave to do your business. Imagine a life without toilet paper, I just couldn’t do it. Toilet paper is so easy to get rid of, practically everywhere, and it’s clean and effective.

“Your assignment is to write a persuasive essay and present it to the class in a week. You will be graded based on how convincing it is. Today we will be choosing topics,” announced Mr. Bowerbank, my 7th grade English teacher and ruler of classroom 110. My class simultaneously groaned at the prospect of work. I simply lifted my head with intrigue as it was already May and about time we had our first essay. He then proceeded to give examples of topics we could choose and gave us some time to think before we had to tell him our topic. My classmates were already rushing to tell the teacher their idea lest someone else steal it. That meant the usual abortion, death penalty, or drug use topics were out. I really couldn't think of anything and the teacher was slowly making his way through the remaining students like an executioner beheading criminals in a line. I have always thought that he would make a marvelous supervillain if he had a curly mustache, a tophat, and a cape. Eventually my name was called. I slowly dragged myself over to his desk. Even sitting down, he still seemed to tower over me. “What is your topic Cindy?” As usual in such desperate times, my mind turned to food. “Waffles are better than pancakes.” I figured that a waffle was just a differently shaped pancake with a nicer texture. “Hmm. Excellent topic. I look forward to your essay!” I survived to live yet another day.

Evolutionary theory suggests that early humans would have to ensure the survival of their genes by best making use of their resources and adapting. As a result, we have evolved certain food preferences of foods with high energy content to give us the best chance of survival.

Source: CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Health, United States, 2002. Flegal et. al. JAMA. 2002;288:1723-7. NIH, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults, 1998.

Historically, professional journalism has been built around two fundamentals: visual and textual. While numbers have played a role in journalism as well, journalists have constantly downplayed their importance in making up the professional skillset, which leads to a difficulty in presenting numerical data responsibly and accurately (Maier 2002). A noteworthy is the subfield of computer-assisted reporting, which focuses on examining quantitative data through a journalistic lens. Over the past several years, this data-driven form of journalism has become more important within the profession as it has joined with the increasingly ever-present digitization of personal and public information. As more information continues to become increasingly zeroes and ones at the most basic level, journalism has increasingly been involved in gathering, analyzing, and computing that information as well as quantitative data.