Response Assignment #2 6th September 2012 Daniel Defoe: ‘The Education of Women’ Daniel Defoe’s essay entitled “The Education of Women” was written to emphasis the value of education for women should be more than what is was. In paragraph 1 “...us a civilized and a Christian country” Defoe’s target audience was for men and for those who follow the church and God. England at this time was dominantly of Christian faith and in this essay Defoe advocates more of God’s will rather than
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prison‚ Defoe is extremely detailed on the setting and on Moll’s reaction. The only thing more noticeable than the sheer amount of detail in Moll’s account‚ is the length in which it is conveyed in. Moll recognizes Newgate as “... the place‚ where so many of my comrades had been lock’d up‚ and from whence they went to the fatal tree; the place where my mother suffered so deeply‚ where I was brought into the world‚ and from whence I expected no redemption‚ but by an infamous death...” (Defoe‚ pg. 275)
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EDUCATION OF WOMEN * More than 10‚000 girls a day will get married before they turn 15. * More than 60% of the 110 million children out of school are girls. * Two-thirds of the world’s children who receive less than four years of education are girls. Girls represent nearly 60% of the children not in school. * In the past‚ women with little education often believed that they were not capable of things like participating in politics‚ having a career or even owning property. * Women
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Against women in the Developing World Even in the first world‚ women face situations where they feel devalued in comparison to men. They may go to purchase a home‚ TV‚ or a car and be ignored by a sales person because there is a man present and he is the decision maker with authority and power‚ who of course knows what he is doing. However‚ these women are voters‚ drivers‚ salary earners‚ and property owners; they have value and play a role that is considered to be important to society. Women in developing
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In "The education of women" by Daniel Defoe‚ few rhetorical devices were used; one of them was use of analogy. Defoe states "the soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond‚ and must be polished‚ or the luster of it will never appear". Defoe uses this analogy to show that even if you are valuable (diamond) you need to be polished up‚ as in educated to stand out (shine). Defoe also uses series of rhetorical questions‚ one of them are "how much worse is a wise woman than a fool?" and "what has
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concerned. But so far as education is concerned it is a backward country. In past‚ women did not receive any education at all. They were not allowed to come out of the four walls of their houses. Domestic works were their only education. During the British rule in India some noble social thinkers of the time paid their attention to the education of woman in our country. Raja Ram Mohan Ray‚ Iswara Chandra Vidyasagar was famous reformers who gave emphasis on the education of women. They put forth a very
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student‚ India [edit]Pre-Independence The history of female education in India has its roots in the British Regime. Women’s employment and education was acknowledged in 1854 by the East India Company’s Programme: Wood’s Dispatch. Slowly‚ after that‚ there was progress in female education‚ but it initially tended to be focused on the primary school level and was related to the richer sections of society. The overall literacy rate for women increased from 0.2% in 1882 to 6% in 1947.[48] In 1878‚
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Education of Women We do not think a classical education 1. The thesis! But‚ what was a "classical proper for women. It may pervert education" in 1815? Probably Latin and their minds‚ but it cannot elevate them. Greek‚ philosophy and the "classics" of It has been asked‚ Why a woman should literature. not learn the dead languages as well as the modern ones? For this plain reason‚ 2. Perversion‚ not elevation‚ is the result of that the one are still spoken‚ and may
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GRADE: XI S. NO. 1 FIRST TERM (APRIL- OCTOBER) SUBJECT/TEXT SECOND TERM (NOVEMBER- MARCH) ENGLISH PROSE PROSE – HORNBILL HORNBILL HORNBILL 1. THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY 2. WE’RE NOT AFRAID TO DIE 3. DISCOVERING TUT 4.THE AILING PLANET 5. THE BROWNING VERSION POETRY – 1. A PHOTOGRAPH 2. CHILDHOOD SNAPSHOTS WRITING SKILLS SNAPSHOTS 1. THE SUMMER OF THE BEAUTIFUL WHITE HORSE 2. THE ADDRESS 3. THE TALE OF MELON CITY 4. MOTHERS DAY NOVEL -THE CANTERVILLE
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"WHY ARE ALL THE BLACK KIDS SITTING TOGETHER IN THE CAFETERIA?" (January 15‚ 2003‚ Basic Books)‚ Beverly Daniel Tatum‚ a renowned authority on the psychology of racism‚ asserts that we do not know how to talk about our racial differences: Whites are afraid of using the wrong words and being perceived as "racist‚" while parents of color are afraid of exposing their children to painful racial realities too soon. Using real-life examples and the latest research‚ Tatum presents strong evidence that straight
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