In no more than 2‚ 250 words‚ analyse the text of the speech‚ paying particular attention to the following features of its semantics and lexical structure: use of metaphor‚ semantic field‚ text type‚ register‚ intertextuality. Martin Luther King was one of the main leaders of the American civil rights movement‚ who fought against discrimination‚ and made a powerful appeal for justice and equality. Looking back to the history‚ in 1963 the America was divided into black and white population
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Gracie Smith Literary Heritage 2201 27 October 2011 As Long as it’s a Love Letter Deep love‚ passionate desire‚ and intriguing mystery are conveyed through the use of literary devices such as symbolism and metaphor in Kim Addonizio’s “First Poem for You” and William Meredith’s “The Illiterate” and aide in supporting the themes that intimate relationships can be both intriguing and frightening at the same time. Love is conveyed in “The Illiterate” through the simple idea of a letter. The letter
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Beauty Straight From Nature To Whom It May Concern: I am an advertising representative from Zadina Corp. and have produced a brilliant idea for a new ad campaign for KaBloom‚ Ltd. It is our goal here to inspire‚ create‚ and produce exciting new advertising ideas for your company to grow and expand to its fullest potential. Keeping that in mind‚ we here at Zadina Corp. have taken a fresh and innovative turn for the best for your new advertising campaign. Our proposition is to take the simple‚ yet
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born right before the Civil War ended and was able to experience women’s struggle from inequality before women received equal rights from men. Gilman’s most influential work is a short story called “The Yellow Wallpaper”. This short story is about a woman who suffered from mental illness after giving birth. While the husband tries to help the wife with a treatment‚ the woman managed to become better after being isolated for a while. The main character of the story is
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disturbance of the uterus. This would include childbirth‚ thus what is now called postpartum depression. Back then there was not a really good understanding of the relationship between giving birth and the mental stress it can cause in women. Likely Ms. Gilman‚ the author‚ was suffering from postpartum depression.
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Gender Conflict Charlotte Perkins Gilman is noticeably sympathetic towards the oppressed housewife in “The Yellow Wall-Paper.” We are shown the psychological breakdown of a woman through a first-person narrator‚ which serves well to the purpose of the story because we see the demise of the narrator firsthand. Through carefully placed details and character interpretation‚ Gilman shows the true nature of oppressive relationships. Throughout the story‚ Gilman feeds the reader carefully selected details
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subversion‚ manipulation and degrading of female experience through the use of medical treatments and power structures. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “ The Yellow Wallpaper” is a perfect example of these themes. In writing this story‚ Charlotte Perkins Gilman drew upon her own personal experiences with hysteria. The adoption of the sick-role was a product of-and a reaction against gender norms and all of the pressures and tensions that their satisfaction demanded. Gilman’s essay uses autobiographical experiences
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Through the four texts I have studied I have found a main connection of feminism in different social settings between the times of 1900 - 1920. The texts I’ve studied are the two poems ’We As Women’‚ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and ’The Bees Song’ by Julia Ward Howe‚ the novel ’In defense of Women’‚ by H.L. Mencken and the poem ’I know why the caged bird sings’ by Maya Angelou. Also through these four texts I have found three main ideas‚ these are ’how women were treated unequally’‚ ’survival’‚ and
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nineteenth century can generally be characterized by its interest in Psychology. Rather than incorporate the supernatural or science fiction‚ which is the foci in other Gothic works at the time‚ authors such as Edgar Allen Poe and Charlotte Perkins Gilman use this mental condition of their protagonist in order to achieve the expected Gothic reaction. Specifically‚ in Gilman’s "the Yellow Wallpaper"‚ the protagonist‚ a white‚ middle class housewife diagnosed with depression‚ sinks into insanity right
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doctor‚ assumes his role as wise and superior male with pride. Gilman uses metaphors in this story to show the different ways which women struggle in a society dominated by men. Examples are a submissive marriage‚ forbidden development or expression‚ and physical confinement‚ Gilman proclaims an early feminist message of the need for immediate change. Gilman uses the marriage contract between the narrator and John as a metaphor in the plot development to display the complete control he possesses
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