Women History Reflection

National Women's History Month, as a call on gender parity. Celebrating this day in the valley, Palo Verde College held its first Women’s Day event on Wednesday, March 22, to recognize the achievements of local entrepreneurs and women leaders of the community. Catering a formal lunch of creamy, shrimp and chicken pasta, side salad, garlic bread and cheesecake, women from all over the community came out, along with a few gentlemen, to praise the success of the featured powerful women. Having a diverse

one hasn’t experienced and discover women in history. In primary historical accounts, as well as dependable sources such as textbooks, history is often about the men that fought the wars, the men that had ideas, and the men that are remembered. Historical fiction, however, is a medium that provides authors with the chance to tell a story often narrated or focused around the story of a woman or women from a certain time period. This teaches readers about the women and their roles across the ages. Historical

the body that were associated with gender in a certain era such as bust, hip and waist for women in the Victorian era therefore expressing that the wearer is a woman. Mary Ellen Roach and Joanne Bubolz Eicher (2007) support this idea through their belief that the codpiece that was seen on hoses in the Medieval era was decorative in order to accentuate men’s privates. Padding can also be seen throughout history to make the shoulders wider for men and then in 1980s they are seen on the shoulder

- in practice and conceptually - the function of the mirror in visual art, with particular reference to the portrayal of women.
By drawing from the field of art and literature featuring the mirror and reflection, I will be looking at how the work of contemporary women artists and photographers challenged traditional attitudes and practices. This dissertation will be about women who use visual arts to stage interventions into the representation of the ‘female self’.
The female body and mirror have

distorting the reflection image. The median and tools are screen print. The technique used to create the artwork is a new style called “Finish Fetish”, which are high glossed polish and velvet surfaces. This was a reflection of Los Angeles aesthetic of Hollywood and technology. Larry Bell used a motorized camera that can photograph at 360 degrees. By using this camera, he achieved distortion by the movement of his camera with opened shutters. This enhances the “funhouse effect” of the nude women. The silkscreen

accused of unfeminine presumptions in ‘medding with politics;’”. I think that she is challenging the way women should be viewed in society by writing The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys the way she does. Owenson begins the book with a letter. The series of letters that she writes are giving a history of the people and also their political positions in society. While Owenson is challenging the way that women are viewed by society, she also wants anyone that reads her book to have an understanding of what is

One of the most critical moments for human history, the French Revolution transpired amongst a slew of issues which caught France at a point of near destruction. Historians have debated for centuries whether the country has truly benefitted from this ten-year war within itself or the consequences of the bloody revolution, which includes the killing of thousands of people, were actually necessary. The outcome of the French Revolution did not immediately bring about the destruction of the monarchy

misaligned reflections of the barmaid and the champagne bottles in a mirror. Likewise, in Picture for Women, Jeff Wall emulates the internal structure of Manet’s painting and incorporates elements such as the light bulbs and and poles to give the image spatial depth. This photograph shows a reflection in the mirror of a sparse studio room split into three panels with a woman on the left, a camera framed by a window in the center, and a man walking on the right. Both images utilize reflection to breach

a place to relax, calm down, and clear your mind.” (Cropley) Therefore, the yard is equally as important to the quilt, since the story begins at the yard and ends at the very same place. In addition. the yard symbolizes a place of solitude and reflection. Symbolically, the yard presents the difficulties

into two sections with three summary paragraphs, an evaluation paragraph, a reflection paragraph, a comparison paragraph, and a conclusion paragraph. The summary paragraphs serve as brief outlines of each article. The evaluations discuss the sources beneficial qualities, and the reflection covers how the information provided could be used in an argumentative paper. In addition, the comparisons take the evaluation and reflection on each source and compares and contrast the ideas of each article with one