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illustrator Charles Dana Gibson. The Gibson girl was the idea of perfect women in the early XX century until the First World War. The illustration had appeared in popular magazines, it not only had showed physical ideas, and it also had represented the behavior and the social status of the perfect American women in that time. Gibson girls had portrayed the “new woman” a women who was educated, taking advantage from the access that women obtained to have secondary and college education; a woman who had

St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves is a short story of a group of nuns who work to teach the pack of girls raised by wolves how to be civilized humans. In this short story written by Karen Russell, Claudette becomes truly conformed to society's standards of the correct way of living by the end of the 5th stage. One is able to see this through the trials Claudette goes through and what decision she chooses, whether it be the human way of living taught by the nuns or her wolf culture she grew

Esperanza is an evolving character who changes throughout the book ¨ The house on mango street¨. She gets older, but her feeling toward mangos street makes changes. When she says goodbye to Mango Street She says she's not a part of mango street. She wants to leave mango and never return. Esperanza has a negative view of herself, but in the end she accepts that she is part of Mangos street. A nun went to Esperanza and made her feel about where she lives. She says the nun made her feel like nothing

lives of women during the Renaissance. The article by Kelly focused more on life in the court as well as the romantic, sexual, and political lives, or lack thereof, of women during the Renaissance. The article by MacNeil focused on the life of one woman in particular, Isabella Andreini. MacNeil focused more on the arts side of the Renaissance rather than the court, political, or sexual aspects of women. As stated previously, both articles provided interesting insight into the lives on women during

In Barbara Welter’s “The Cult of True Womanhood,” it is clear that in the 1800’s women were suppose to be nothing if not a mold of societies image. The four virtues that Welter says a “true woman” should have consist of: religion or pity, purity, submission, and domesticity. All four of these virtues lead to women belonging in the house and not outside making big life decisions meant for their husbands. Women were meant to, “raise up a whole generation of Christian Statesmen” (171) and if a woman

As in life, Esperanza’s maturity evolves and grows during the course of the vignettes as she develops and gains new experiences. Throughout The House on Mango Street, maturity is a dominant theme for Esperanza as she goes from a girl who wants a new house purely for superficial reasons, to someone who wants independence by making everything dependent upon how men see her, to someone who wants the independence of her own home and who has accepted Mango Street as a part of her. In the beginning, Esperanza

Caleigh Snyder unit two ea1 In the two stories Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech and “The Guest” retold by Uma Krishnaswami they develop a similar theme and that theme is don't judge people by their appearance. In the story Walk Two Moons the theme don't judge people by their appearance in the story Phoebe and Sal judge Mrs. Cadaver just by how she looks they said her wild red hair is creepy and how her name means dead body. One day Sal and phoebe were looking out the window and seen mrs cadaver

American society helped lead to the Cult of True Womanhood through the four characteristics piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness. The idea of piety was believed by 19th century Americans that women had a particular propensity for religion. Religion was thought to be a good thing in women. The idea of purity was said, that without sexual purity, a woman was no woman. The idea of domesticity was that a woman's place was in the home. Woman's role was to be busy at those morally uplifting tasks

My Untold Story was about Abby Stein, activist, blogger, educator, student and a woman living trans experience who grew up in Brooklyn, NY from an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. This Yiddish speaking ultra-orthodox religion has minimal contact with the non-Jewish world and very limited access to technology. Assigned male gender at birth and as a rabbi in this community, Abby married at 18 years old with the marriage producing two children. Abby left her community to explore alternative views and

How often do young women get to meet the people they idolize, the actresses who mold the shape of who they want to be? In the Canby community, the most outstanding woman I have ever met has risen above the bar set by Hollywood celebrities. Abby Marine's spirited leadership, vigorous personality, and contagious determination has emboldened the Women's Choir and countless other girls in the community of Canby High to embrace themselves. As a girl living in a world where women are finally beginning