A good example of Modernism is a short story called "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen. This story not only portrays gender roles but also family roles. Here the narrator is a mother giving the reader a glimpse into her life‚ choices she made as a mother‚ and being a single parent. Through her defense of her situation‚ she exposes to the reader the underlying insecurities that riddle her mind about her mothering. The tale opens with the narrator explaining the pain she feels when she is
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May 5‚ 2012 Outline “I Stand Here Ironing” A. Plot: The story begins with a woman ironing her daughters dress. It causes her to recount the life she as provided for her daughter Emily. As she considers her actions she wishes that she had done some things differently. Unfortunately‚ the depression era had left her with very few choices if any at all. So to survive and provide for her children the mother‚ abandoned by her husband‚ had unintentionally‚ not protected nor not made the best
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for it places an enormous psychological weight upon a daughter’s lifelong character and well-being. However‚ when the inescapable struggles of economic depression and single motherhood arise‚ such a bond is sacrificed. Throughout Tillie Olsen’s “I Stand Here Ironing”‚ a mother looks back at her daughter‚ Emily’s‚ childhood and contemplates the positive and negative elements of their relationship that have derived as a result of her inability to provide proper care and participation in her daughter’s
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Have you ever heard of the term “Black Lives Matter” and wanted to know what the big deal about it was? When people think of Black Lives Matter‚ or BLM‚ a lot of people tend to think that BLM supporters are just people who are upset at white people/police for racial problems. It’s much more complex than that. Black Lives Matter is an organization‚ a movement‚ and a rallying cry for racial justice. It’s important to know about this movement because it is something that a lot of people generally agree
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Jaxon Petersen Sociology DJ Hall 10 April 2014 The House I Live In The war on drugs whether wrong‚ right‚ or indifferent‚ has yielded a plethora of life changing outcomes for many United States citizens. Both the plaintiff and the defendant have their own side of the dispute‚ and yet somehow the plaintiff in the non-stop ‘cash grab’ that’s so conveniently nicknamed the “War on Drugs” gets the benefit of zero-tolerance‚ or minimum sentencing. In most cases the defendants simply are doomed from
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today. I believe that Hamlet is his best piece. It is written in Old English‚ which is hard to understand because it is very different from how we speak and write today. The Old English style of writing makes it more authentic in the sense that you can take the words from the play and relate it to the current time period to have a better understanding. Although I read Hamlet in my English class my senior of high school‚ it really did not interest me as much as it did this time around. When I read
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The House I Live In was an amazing documentary. I was saddened to hear Nannie’s story and the stories of others that I witnessed in the film. I was blown away by how much the war on drugs is really a war on blacks more than anything else. It disgusted me to see the stereotyping of blacks by police officers under the guise of "probable cause." The police aren’t about doing real police work‚ only placing cuffs on blacks and low-income civilians and sending them to jail. It’s mind blowing to me how
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The phrase "you only live once" is commonly attributed to Mae West‚[1][2] but variations of the phrase have been in use for over 100 years‚[3] including as far back as (the German equivalent of) "one lives but once in the world" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in his 1774 play Clavigo[4] and as the title of a waltz‚ "Man lebt nur einmal!" ("You Only Live Once!") by Johann Strauss II in 1855. A restaurant in Fort Lauderdale‚ Florida‚ has held a trademark to the phrase "YOLO" in the context of the frozen
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Identity‚ Femininity‚ and Motherhood: A Mother’s View on Life Theme is something commonly used in many pieces of literature to convey a deeper meaning. Although there can be multiple themes‚ they all serve the same purpose and allow the reader to determine an overall meaning for themselves. Three common themes developed in “I Stand Here Ironing‚” by Tillie Olsen‚ are the lifelong search for one’s identity‚ womanhood and femininity and how it can affect a person‚ and the inevitable hardships of motherhood
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AN INTERESTING PERSON I ONCE MET During the last school holidays. I often went out for walks in the evenings‚ and the beach was one of my favourite choices. It was there that I met an interesting person. He was sitting under a coconut tree where a fishing boat was moored. His gaze was fixed on something far away‚ something as far‚ perhaps‚ as the horizon. He was hardly aware of my approach. But‚ as I halted my steps‚ about two metres away from him‚ he turned and greeted me with a toothless smile
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