I am reading Graceling by Kristin Cashore and I am on page 204. This book is about Katsa, a Graceling in the land of the seven kingdoms. The Gracelings are a category of people who are graced with the ability to be extremely skilled at one activity. Katsa’s grace is killing, which places her under the rule and directory of her uncle Randa, the King of Middluns. He is a tyrant ruler, who sends Katsa on missions to torture wrongdoers by cutting off limbs or even killing. In defiance to Randa, Katsa started a secret council that protects innocent civilians throughout the entire seven kingdoms from their corrupt leaders. She befriends prince Po of Lienid, the island kingdom, who is at the court of Randa in hopes of discovering whereabouts…
According to Chapter 4, Karen Horney “wanted to become a physician and became the first women to be accepted into medical school” (Chapter 4, pg. 106). Chapter 4 also mentions how, “Karen’s mother supported her decision and desire to want an education even though Karen’s father was against it” (Chapter 4, pg. 106). It appears to me that Karen Horney was a feminist, meaning that she strongly believed that women can be independent, have rights just like men and can be successful just like men. It appears to me that Karen Horney was born in the time-frame to where women did not have the same rights have man, were not independent or able to get successful jobs as men because they were considered a man’s job and women’s job mainly was to be a…
Two stories that are abundant with feminist views and stereotypes are Cisneros' Barbie-Q and My Tocaya. In both stories, we see characters struggle with what it means to be a woman. Cisneros explores the standards women are held up to, and the standards they make for themselves. Cisneros does a wonderful job of bringing out the worries, fears, and Otherness that women frequently grapple with in their daily lives. She writes her tales, all the while reflecting and dismantling stereotypes of women. Cisneros, when participating in a project titled Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World, stated: "I guess my feminism and my race are the same thing to me. They're tied in one to another, and I don't feel an alliance or allegiance with upper-class white women" (Jussawalla, Dasenbrock, 74).…
Aynne McAvoy’s childhood was unlike any other. Growing up in a family of five, her family moved closer to her grandparents for extra support as her father was often away for business. Quite a lot of history was left within the 50 year old house. In this article, McAvoy goes into depth of the mysteries encountered at the house, such as: apparitions, mysterious noises, and furniture shaking. As many people believe the paranormal are false accusation, McAvoy’s article shows a great amount of pathos, background evidence, along with an extraordinary amount of well-structured language and composition that draws you into believing her stories as you continue to read.…
Summary by Traci Tarquinio of an excerpt from “Mining Complex Text: Using and Creating Graphic Organizers to Grasp Content and Share New Understanding”…
Diane Nilan expresses that she feels the resources available to help homeless families is just a theory. Back in 1987 President Reagan designated money and administrative attention to address homelessness. Now the McKinney Vento Act is the federal plan to help address homelessness. With this act in place, it is still not enough as the homeless crisis continues to grow. Instead Nilan (2013) goes into detail about the criminalization of homelessness. This meant that federal funds were barely used to address homelessness. This was difficult to read because today homelessness is still criminalized. Instead of policy being created to help homeless individual’s the policy punishes them and continues a cycle of poverty. I feel that to help homeless…
This article spoke to me not only because I'm a woman, but because it seems that people are finally giving credit where credit is due. I feel like women deserves to be recognize more aroung the world. We do so much more than we're credited for. Throughout American history, you read about what those women did for America. Without a lot of them, we wouldn't be where we're at today. As Mr Lew mentioned. "I said we were going to listen, we really listen." I'm beyond happy that they're ready to listen to women.…
This article is an analysis on student’s food journals while in college. Harris used one hundred and thirty-six different papers to find out why students were failing their diets. This article goes on to debunk how college life is why people’s diets are bad. Harris points out that students are just using this as an excuse to eat more and not feel as guilty. Students continuously made excuses throughout their papers as to why their eating habits were so bad.…
Blogs...create a blog exploring the most dominant and powerful theme from our course (i.e. was it revenge in Hamlet, one of the themes from our poetry unit, or the omnipotence of hope in Life of Pi?)…
with women activism and reflects back on how these things are necessary for the processes to continue.…
I think that this target was adequately met. I definitely learned how to truly analyze different readings in order to break it down into a paper that dissects ideas in terms of logic and rhetoric. I still struggle with putting all of this analysis under one overall encompassing idea and for it to not seem scattered. I think learning different ways to analyze different ideas in order to effectively put together a clear message would be nice to learn more of. For example, I got a 4 on the John F. Kennedy rhetorical analysis, but I started to improve with generally 6’s on my other rhetorical analyses like the Audubon and Dillard rhetorical analyses. I would like to learn ways to construct a higher than 6 level rhetorical analysis.…
Haper lee uses many literary techniques to broaden and refine I ideas of the characers and their surroundings. Lee specifically uses metaphors and listing in this extract to build an understanding of scouts perspective.…
One particular one that I noticed was a single sentence, “A girl said, they’re watching us”, this was an answer given by a student when asked if she was alright with surveillance cameras inside the school. That short fragmented sentence was appealing also to Pathos. This article was a bit melancholy in my opinion; it really showed me what some school enforcements might not be fair, but it also taught me to appreciate the little things. This was outstanding although instead you could add a couple more weasel words and persuasive text so that it can also appeal to the parents of the poor children.…
Schools are now starting drug testing students because of the rate of drug use that’s under the influence. Drug testing in schools will put the students’ rights and the schools’ money at risk. The article ¨Presumed Guilty¨ by Emily C. Mckenna explains that drug testing is against people's constitutional rights. One reason why drug tests put students rights at risk is because that it´s invading the students privacy. Emily C. Mckenna introduces us with the price for drug tests for each student and about constitutional rights. According to Emily C. Mckenna, she states, “ But I do have something to protect my constitutional rights.” (Emily C. Mckenna 77) . The constitutional rights show that drug tests do not have the right to invade people's…
This week's reading echoed many of the issues we addressed in Global Feminism last semester. As Spelman illustrates, those issues of difference, exclusion, essentialism, race, class, white middle-class heteronormativity, remain difficult and complex within feminist theories. I start by saying that I found myself confused at times and having to re-read quite often. I was taken by Spelman's introduction and the analogous yet paradoxical examples of Uncle Theo and the multiplicity of the pebbles to trouble the issues of "manyness" , difference, privilege, oppression of and differences of race, class, gender. In Dr Wright's Global Feminism class, the question, can there be a global feminism daunted us throughout our readings. That question, while I would alter "a global feminism" to the plural of global feminisms remains one that resonated strongly while reading Inessential Woman.…