Veiled Sentiments By Lila Abu-Lughod

Mina Loy’s writing, “Feminist Manifesto”, is about feminism in the early 20th century. In this period, women were fighting for equality in their everyday life. Loy’s idea is that women should not try to be equal to man but to find a standard within themselves to live up to. This piece has modernism ideas as she is encouraging a change to society and women’s values. She repeatedly questions traditional values and beliefs about women’s roles in society. She was trying to make a historical change for all women in the 20th century. Loy says, “She abandons the suffragette movement’s central issue of equality and insists instead on an adversarial model of gender, claiming that women should not look to men for a standard of value but should find it

When one thinks of a “citizen”, they often imagine the process of gaining the title of becoming a citizen within a country. But often times people do not think of “citizen” or “citizenship” to be connected to race. In Claudia Rankine’s book “Citizen”, she takes time to discuss and display specific moments that have happened in the lives of African Americans who live in the United States. By doing so, she is investigating in depth of what it means to be a Black American “citizen” today in society. These stories, although reflecting upon minuscule moments, paint a large picture of the true reality of racism in America very prevalent today. In context to Rankine’s Citizen and other supporting documents such as Keywords: “Citizenship”, White Like Me and Cops See it Differently it can be proven that racial bias deprives full Black American citizens of “citizenship” within everyday society.

The Bedouin society values women. Migdim is extremely valued because of her age and knowledge. However, her sons have power over her property and her income. Her sons regularly disregard her guidance and ignore her understanding. In the end, men are the principals.

In the short story “From Behind the Veil,” written by Dhu’l Nun Ayyoub, the author changes how we feel about the main character throughout the sequencing of the plot. We as the readers learn more about how the protagonist really thinks coupled with what her motives are. The author also presents language that clearly expresses how the protagonist feels and uses examples to show an overall theme in the story.

Symbolism plays a major role in the “Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It influences the setting of the story and it complements the moral message. The minister, Mr. Hooper, has a lot of faith and is very committed to helping the society to be more faithful and closer to God. He lives a very harsh live being rejected by society and goes through unpleasant moments to achieve his original goal. When he decides to wear the black veil, he was not trying to be mysterious and create a gloomy environment like he did; he had much more than that in mind. The Black Veil represents the thought of the puritans that sin was an inexcusable mistake, the secret sin and dark side in each individual, and he uses

A fresh, personal, bottom-up approach to the women’s labor movement in the early 20th century

Relating a man to a thorn is the same as saying he has no heart, or he is not capable of love. The moral lesson of the poem is to not trust men and that women are powerful. The song Diamond by Rihanna talks about shining bright, the brightness Rihanna is telling women to overcome the darkness that shadows over and to shine bright to come out of it. The darkness is relative to men, and women who shine bright are independent strong forces that are done being a piece of property. In the song she also says “were beautiful like diamonds in the sky” meaning all women are beautiful, just as beautiful as an expensive and most sought after gems. Mahadeviyakka believed she was better than just a sex slave, and she also believed she was beautiful. By leaving her husband she showed power, then on top of that she decided to walk around naked to display her beauty and lack of care for rules. Both the poem and song are about women becoming empowered, and stepping over boundaries that were once unachievable. In the poem Mahadeviyakka realizes her anger and frustration towards men but does not reason with why she categorizes all men as thorns. Her

‘The Minister's Black Veil’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne is an American Romantic story published in 1832. Themes such as secret sin, and in short, everyone has a somewhat erroneous character are conferred in The Minister's Black Veil.

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil," Mr. Hooper, a Reverend in the town of Milford, surprises his parishioners by donning a conspicuous black veil one Sunday. The town is visibly spooked, yet still curious, about his eerie appearance and profoundly affected by his sermon on secret sin. "A subtle power was breathed into his words. Each member of the congregation, the most innocent girl, and the man of hardened breast, felt as if the preacher had crept upon them, behind his awful veil, and discovered their hoarded iniquity of deed or thought" (2432). The parishioner's expect that Hooper will only don the veil for one day and then remove it, having used the visage to make his point on secret sin, but they are taken aback to

Even though written in two different parts of the world, depicting women who are products of vastly different cultures, it is amazing how similar their feelings are-showing that a woman in an unhappy marriage is just that-Unhappy and unsatisfied. It doesn't matter what part of the world she lives in and what cultural beliefs influence her thought process. In the end, she is just a woman who wants to be happy and seeks satisfaction in a marital relationship-lack of which can spell doom and depression.

Prior to reading an excerpt on Islamic theology and Islamic philosophy in the book Introduction to Islam by Carole Hillenbrand, I did not realized the tremendous effect and contributions Muslims had on the fields of theology and philosophy. According to Hillenbrand, “the term normally used for “theology” in Islam is kalam, which literally means “speech”” (Hillenbrand, 170). Similar to all religions, those following the Islamic faith would eventually be faced with opposition and questions about the teachings of Islam. Hillenbrand explained that Muhammad was not looked to as a theological figure because he merely gained his revelations from the all-knowing God, Allah; therefore, Islamic theologians would begin to emerge overtime. These Islamic theologians would engage in debates on core issues and topics that oppositioners had with the islamic faith, such as

Collins talks a lot about how women who were silenced and oppressed managed to establish the foundations for the black feminist thought. How do you think modern black thinkers, authors, activists, writers, etc. who experience less oppression or oppression in other ways also contribute to the black feminist discourse?

“Araby,” is a story of emotional passion carefully articulated by the author, James Joyce, to mark the end of childhood and the start of adolescence. It is told from the perspective of a young boy who is filled with lust for his friend, Mangan’s, sister. He lives in a cheerless town on a street hosting simply complacent families who own brown faced houses that stare vacantly into one another. The boy temporarily detaches himself from this gloomy atmosphere and dwells on the keeper of his affection. Only when he journeys to a festival titled Araby, does he realize that his attempt at winning the heart of Mangan’s sister has been done in an act of vanity. Joyce takes advantage of literary elements such as diction and imagery to convey an at times dreary and foolishly optimistic tone.

“At the same time she was so gracious and kind to her husband’s subjects that they all lover her” shows even though she was poor and now is a kings wife nothing about her has changed (pg. 651). This gives the reader the opinion that she is an ideal women because no matter where she lives she won’t change her attitude to people. “She got people to change their minds if they had ever criticized her husband on her account at the time of his marriage” this quote shows that she acts so lady like that people don’t think of her as the poor girl from the village any more (pg. 652). The other thing is that an ideal lady won’t change people mind if they don’t allow it. For instance she doesn’t force them to believe anything they don’t want

The main objective of this poem is to illustrate how woman within middle eastern countries (possibly more of the world) are kept down by certain aspects of society such as cultural aspects or religious aspects, Dharker wanted to bring this issue into the light through means of poetry. A concept which most people around the world want to have is patriotism as it shows loyalty to a country and also represents a home, however a rather large perception throughout the poem is a sense of wanting to strip away the patriotism. The first time Dharker represents the notion of wanting to be rid of a society’s expectations is in the line “I’m taking off this veil, this black veil of a faith” The woman who is speaking here is describing taking off her veil which in some middle eastern countries can be an offence to religious beliefs; the poem shows that women within these countries feel like they are being forced into situations which aren’t fair to them, for example honour killings. The way Dharker writes is to inform the audience of serious issues which are more than relevant in modern society, she wants to make the reader see how women are treated differently and how they need to strip away at their own beliefs just to feel like they can fit in when they should be able to fit in no matter where they are living. Individuality also plays a role in what