family and religion interfere? I will focus in this essay on Michel Foucault‚ Adrienne Rich and Catherine Mackinnon who all indicate that sexuality is socially constructed but argue on the source of construction. While Foucault believes that sexuality is historically constructed by genderless power‚ knowledge and discourse; Mackinnon assumes that sexuality constitutes gender and is a social construct of male power; Rich‚ instead‚ claims that there is no innate desire toward the opposite sex but rather
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The poem I am going to talk about is “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” by ADRIENNE RICH. When I saw the title of the poem‚ the first thing we can know is the speaker had an aunt named Jennifer. Also‚ I thought real tigers would be describing in the poem‚ and I wondered how could a woman rear some tigers. But after I saw the first line of the poem‚ I found out the tigers in the poem were not real. In the first stanza‚ we can see the speaker used the word “prance” to describe the move of the tigers‚ it made
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dreams. Freud had a significant influence on Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung‚ whose analytical psychology became an alternative form of depth psychology. Other well-known psychoanalytic thinkers of the mid-twentieth century included Sigmund Freud’s daughter‚ psychoanalyst Anna Freud; German-American psychologist Erik Erickson‚ Austrian-British psychoanalyst Melanie Klein‚ English psychoanalyst and physician D. W. Winnicott‚ German psychologist Karen Horney‚ German-born psychologist and philosopher Erich
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Adrienne Rich’s poem Living In Sin is a free verse poem about a woman’s fairy tale dream of marriage versus the reality of the sin of not loving each other. The subject of the poem is a woman starting a life of hope and happiness in a perfect relationship only to learn the true reality of the relationship. The speaker of the poem observes the woman’s life as sad and boring using the past tense versus the present‚ and short run on lines that set the hopeless mood of the poem. Imagery and colorful
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Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich‚ in my opinion‚ is written about the journey of a woman going deep inside her soul to find out her true identity and her role in life. With numerous multi meaning metaphors‚ the poem could be interpreted in various ways; however I believe Rich was experiencing herself changing through this challenging adventure. The depth of vivid metaphors gives credit to Rich ’s message in this poem‚ through such symbols like "the wreck"‚ "the book of myths"‚ "camera" and
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which members of a society inhabit. Patterns‚ a poem by Amy Lowell reflects on a woman as an individual in society and her strength and ability to escape from her world of oppression through her dreams. Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers‚ a poem written by Adrienne Rich depicts a woman who is constrained and trapped within her marriage. In a patriarchal society‚ society’s expectations confine women because they have to live up to an image that their society wants. Amy Lowell’s distinguished family and high education
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A Snapshot of a pineapple story Johanne Wayne Colorado Christian University Cross-Cultural Communications COM314A Dr. Jacob Kitonsa February 13‚ 2014 A Snapshot of a pineapple story One of the great missionary accounts for me was Otto Koning’s pineapple story. God used his pineapple garden in Dutch New Guinea to conquer a huge weakness of his. The account happened over a period of seven years and the lesson to learn from this story is about yielding your personal rights. When you learn to
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The three short stories‚ Snapshot Harvey Cedars: 1948‚ The Barbie Birthday‚ and After He Left‚ all stereotype women‚ or girls‚ as weak‚ submissive‚ or dependent on men. Textual evidence for this perspective will be explored in the hope that the reader will become conscious of the sexism inherent in these stories. Commonly‚ the female is treated as a pet to the male; being brought around as a source of attention to the public for male affection. By calling attention to the distorted ways that girls
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This snapshot is a depiction of a powerful dynasty that ruled Egypt 5‚000 years ago. The snapshot is a portrayal of the Egyptian civilization and its wonders. Just as many civilizations before it‚ the Egyptian civilization arose from the banks of a river; the Nile. The mighty river which flowed north from Africa to the Mediterranean Sea sparked the fire that started the powerful empire. Because Egypt was full of deserts. Many Egyptians was forced to live by the banks of the Nile. The Nile provided
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Snapshot of a television programme The Usurper La Usurpadora (translated: The Usurper) is a Mexican romantic drama telenovela produced by Salvador Mejia Alejandre and originally broadcast on Televisa in 1998. It starred Gabriela Spanic and Fernando Colunga. This was one of the last telenovelas to feature Libertad Lamarque‚ who here portrayed the character of Abuela Piedad Bracho. The action: The show’s premise revolves around a pair of twin sisters‚ Paola and Paulina‚ who were separated at
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