lacunae‚ and tensions of modern life. She was born in 1888 in Wellington‚ a town labeled “the empire city” by its white inhabitants‚ who modeled themselves on British life and relished their city’s bourgeois respectability.[1] At an early age‚ Mansfield witnessed the disjuncture between the colonial and the native‚ or Maori‚ ways of life‚ prompting her to criticize the treatment of the Maoris in several diary entries and short stories.[2] Mansfield’s biographer‚ Angela Smith‚ writes: “It was her
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Imagine‚ you are a colored woman in the 1960’s. The job of being a maid is the only job available to you‚ the pay is not good‚ and‚ you are treated lesser than the rest of society. This was the life of many colored women in the 1960s of Jacksonville‚ Mississippi. In the novel The Help‚ author Kathryn Stockett tells the story of the maids’ aka “the help” during this time. One white socialist and two maids put their stories and talents together to pull off one of the greatest scandals in their Jacksonville
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Foreign Maids A domestic worker (maid) is a person who works within the employer’s household. Domestic workers perform a variety of household services for an individual or a family‚ from providing care for children and elderly dependents to cleaning and household maintenance‚ known as housekeeping. Responsibilities may also include cooking‚ doing laundry and ironing‚ food shopping and other household errands. Some domestic workers live within the household where they work. The
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The company chosen was Minute Maid. They are produced by The Coca-Cola Company. It is the world’s top marketer of premium fruit juices and drinks. As of now‚ there are greater than 100 singular flavors and assortments of Minute Maid readily available almost everywhere (The Coca-Cola Company‚ 2012). Originally‚ Minute Maid was produced by The Florida Food Corporation. In 1949‚ the company renamed themselves the Minute Maid Corporation. They adopted the name because of how popular the Orange Juice
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Mansfield Reformatory The Mansfield Reformatory was built in the year 1886 and was originally built with intentions of humanely rehabilitating first-time offenders. The reformatory was initially applauded for creating a positive step forward for prison reform. It was later in 1978 that the reformatory’s legacy was one of abuse‚ torture‚ and murder. It had been denounced for “brutalizing and inhuman conditions”. Violence among inmates was an everyday way of life. Tales have been told of inmates
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Art101-15 Assigment-4 1- The Maids of Honor is a 1656 painting done by Diego Velazquez. Its subject goes around a portrait of the main characters in the painting‚ also it shows the artist who is painting. The theme of the painting is social where it shows a very casual time of a royal family’s life. 2- IT was a commissioned work by King Philip IV‚ the main point of the painting is the king’s daughter were she is encircled by the other characters‚ and the painter shows her clearly by using
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The Ruined Maid The “Ruined Maid” was written by Thomas Hardy in 1866. This poem has six stanzas‚ which consists of four quatrains each. In the beginning of each stanza the farm girl speaks‚ and ‘Melia‚ the “ruined girl” speaks just for the last line; however for the last stanza ‘Melia begins to respond to the farm girl from the second to last line. This paper will break down each stanza of the “Ruined Maid” for readers unfamiliar with this poem. Further‚ this summary will give information on the
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Victorian times‚ a woman’s role was to be pure‚ innocent‚ and clean‚ and anyone who didn’t fit that mold was considered damaged goods. A woman who lost her virginity outside of marriage (no matter the circumstances) was damaged and Hardy’s “The Ruined Maid‚" mocks society’s idea that a woman who lost her virginity before marriage is "ruined". This story is comprised of a discussion between a farm girl turned prostitute named Melia‚ and an unnamed friend from the farmyard. The two girls run into each
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writers of the Victorian Era‚ Mathew Arnold and Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson‚ are also among the best quest seeking story writers of the Victorian Era. Some of their greatest quest tale stories are “The Scholar Gipsy‚” “The Lady of Shalott‚” and “Ulysses.” In both “Ulysses” and “The Lady of Shalott” by Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson‚ Tennyson speaks about people who are in love‚ but cannot experience that love for the reason
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Matthew Hernandez January 7‚ 2015 Gango – 2 Practice AP Essay In an excerpt from Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde‚ the playwright reveals the values and nature of his own society through the conduct of his characters. The author uses the lives of high-class people to demonstrate the underlying fancies and motivations of the elite society of his time. Wilde targets the society’s emphasis on an external show of good behavior‚ their scorning of the lower classes‚ and their vanity in living for the
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