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Karim, I agree with your point of view on Crystal Eastman's essay "Now We Can Begin" and how you feel as though the structure of the reading is logical and well-organized. I also agree that the purpose is to get the reader to understand how women were being objectified and how they had no type of freedom in their choice of occupation or life responsibilities because frankly, they didn't. What Eastman portrayed in her essay was conveyed clearly and nearly screamed through her words, and as I read the initial page on the various tasks and accomplishments she achieved through her life I was reminded of videos I had watched years prior. The videos all had the same premise behind them where someone would go to various places such as parks, universities,
street corners etc., and ask women to sign a petition to end women's suffrage. The video (obviously being a joke) was not with the intent to insult women but to show, in my interpretation, that having the right to vote is a privilege that has lost meaning over the years because many women signed the petition obviously (or hopefully) without knowing the true meaning of the word. An example in our time, to show that the meaning of having the right to vote doesn't amount to what it once did, would be the amount of people who didn't vote in the most recent presidential election. Eastman played a large role in the suffrage movement which, as you know, was an inspiration in the writing of the essay you wrote about and I feel as though the groundwork she laid and steps she took towards getting us this freedom has become unintentionally less important to some.
In Stevie Cameron’s essay “Our Daughters, Ourselves,” she proclaims “ We tell our bright, shining girls that they can be anything: firefighters, doctors, policewoman, lawyers, scientists, soldiers, athletes, artists. What we don't tell them, yet, is how hard it will be. Maybe, we say to ourselves, by the time they’re older it will be easier for them than it was for us.” My parents raised my sisters and I very congruous with this view. They would always tell us that we could do or be anything we wanted when we got older. However, contrary to Cameron’s apprehension on the matter, my parents always told us how difficult it would be straight from the beginning. They told us how financially strenuous becoming a doctor would be. They told us how
... real-world jobs in order for integration to work. The feminist movement gave the opportunity for women to have a voice in their lives, and has provided women with resources they otherwise would be unable to access. Each topic that was covered in the paper has had a hand in our lives. Whether it was being taught natural selection in school, getting an education, or equality we all have been influenced by the past.
However, we cannot completely assume this article is going to persuade all women to progress beyond these issues by uniting and devoting themselves to these underlying conflicts. Some readers may fear the impossible of completing such a great task as this because this problem has continued to linger from the 70’s into now. Overall, Laurie has accomplished a great task in showing her dedication to women’s rights and their future by delivering the problems and also giving the readers insight on how to solve them. In detail, Laurie not only explains the issues she has seen, but also she explains her personal experiences so the readers can better relate to the message she is trying to
Crystal Eastman wrote “Now We Can Begin” in 1920 right after the 19th amendment was passed, which gave women the right to vote. The amendment took a long and overdue 70 years before it was passed by two thirds majority. The fight for women’s rights began in the 1840’s and continued when Eastmen joined to further the cause. Eastman’s leading argument was that there was still advancements that needed to be made in women’s rights. She was striving to change the rights of letting women choose an occupation and equal pay, gender equality in homes and not raising sons to be “feminists”, the right to voluntary motherhood, and motherhood endowment, a financial support for child-rearing and homemaking.
Interview Essay - Emelie Konold Emelie Konold was born on July 25, 1924. She enjoys keeping active by meeting new people and being with friends. She also enjoys taking classes at Saddleback College, and sewing. Emelie defines happiness as a pleasant feeling of joy and wellbeing. Her definition has evolved over the years.
We have to truly take initiative in order to express our ideas regarding our feminist movement. We must take all our concerns in order to foster personal liberation and growth. The archaic social, psychological, and economic practices that discriminate against women must be ordeals of the past. We must compose new practices in order to develop a post-revolutionary society. This movement will require strategy, organization, commitment, and devotion; it may be a long battle, but I believe that we will end in triumph.
In the stories “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty and “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, you see two different ways that women are seen and the different times that they are living in. For example in one story we have a college student who comes back home for the first time and has a different outlook on life now. In the other story we have an older lady who is willing to endure whatever to make sure that her loved one is taken care of. Even though these two stories are very different in the way the roles of women are seen, they show how women roles in society are seen from the past and present and how something have changed but are still the same.
In her Ted Talk, “The game that can give you ten extra years of life” Jane McGonigal explains how she created a game called “Jane the Concussion Slayer” to help her overcome a concussion that didn’t heal properly. McGonigal describes to her audience the different levels and power-ups she created to cope with the process of her concussion since she had an unhealed concussion that left symptoms like headaches, nausea, vertigo, memory loss, and mental fog. In addition to this, McGonigal had to avoid everything that triggered her symptoms such as: writing, video games, work, emails, exercise, alcohol, etc. In doing so, she believed it helped her tackle challenges with more creativity, determination, and optimism. McGonigal then concludes her speech
But when the “Women’s Movement,” is referred to, one would most likely think about the strides taken during the 1960’s for equal treatment of women. The sixties started off with a bang for women, as the Food and Drug Administration approved birth control pills, President John F. Kennedy established the President's Commission on the Status of Women and appointed Eleanor Roosevelt as chairwoman, and Betty Friedan published her famous and groundbreaking book, “The Feminine Mystique” (Imbornoni). The Women’s Movement of the 1960’s was a ground-breaking part of American history because along with African-Americans another minority group stood up for equality, women were finished with being complacent, and it changed women’s lives today.
Edgar Allan Poe’s 1849 poem, “Annabel Lee”, explores the common themes of romance and death found in many of Poe’s works. The poem tells the story of a beautiful young maiden named Annabel Lee who resides by the sea. The maiden and the narrator of the poem are deeply in love, however the maiden falls ill and dies, leaving the narrator without his beloved Annabel Lee. Contrary to what many might expect from a poem by Poe and yet still depressing, the poem ends with the narrator accepting Annabel’s death and remains confident that they will forever be together despite her parting.
Gloria Steinem, a journalist and activist, identifies the purpose of a feminist who “is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.” In other words, feminism is the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. Discrimination against women has been going on for decades. Donald Hall’s Literary and Cultural Theory explains that the “Key to feminist analysis is recognition of the different degrees of social power…” (199). Meaning that depending on the social power, women can be treated differently. Nevertheless, women in society are like cows; they are branded in a way where they are seen as property owned by men. Women are labeled as “weak and sensitive” but when they stand up for their rights and make a decision; they are seen as crazy human beings whose expressed thoughts are misunderstood as nonsense. There are women from past history or even our modern world today that made a change to earn their respect and obtain their rights as women. For example, Mary Wollstonecraft; who supported the feminist movement through the struggle for female suffrage. In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and “The Story of an Hour.” Including Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper” we are introduced to three female characters who have realized how much their world has been controlled by their own husbands. It alludes to them as “beginning to realize [their] position in the universe as a human being and to recognize [their] relations as an individual to the world within and about [them]” (Chopin15). These protagonists made changes to show society that women should earn recognition not for what they are believed to b...
Women had an extremely difficult time during the 1800s, but after many centuries of hardships and misunderstandings a defining point was boiling down in the next 100 years. An evolution was starting, women were ready for change but only time will let it unfold. Women continued struggling and falling behind men in between the cracks, they have been taught to cook clean and be only homemakers, their lack of education narrowed their vision, they weren't able to see anything else in their peripheral sights. A women's life was set and planned from the day she was born, until her teenage years to seek out marriage, have kids, and teach her daughters to do the very exact same.
Turner threw a lot of stories containing into this painting. Firstly, he was sketches of Victory then added a ship from the Admiralty on to the painted that he was able to combine a number of incidents from different times in the action. As the paintings contain “as many thunderclouds”, where Turner represents the uncontrollability of the ship’s sails in the storm. http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/12057.html Along the right hand side of the paintings, which painted with the ship of French ‘Redoutable’, where it’s currently sinking under the storm after the battle. Through the smoke of battle the hull, sails, cannon and rigging of Nelson’s great flagship Victory loom up in front of us, its sheer scale dwarfing everything below it. In the foreground English sailors rowing around the periphery of the battle to rescue survivors cheer Nelson’s victory. Turner made the paintings against strength, independence and energy he juxtaposes lassitude, subjugation and corruption.
Men have dominated the workforce for most of civilization up until their patriotic duties called away to war. All of a sudden, the women were responsible for providing for their family while the men were away. Women went to work all over America to earn an income to insure their family’s survival. Women took all sorts of jobs including assembly line positions, office jobs, and even playing professional baseball. When the men returned home from war, the women were expected to resume their place as housewives. The women who had gotten a taste of the professional life decided that they wanted to continue working. Thus, the introduction to women in a man’s working environment began. Women were not taken seriously at first, because they were stepping into a “man’s world”.
As I began reading Women’s Magazine 1940-1960, gender roles and popular press, I had and overwhelming feeling of someone telling me how to be a woman and what role a woman should play in society. In the chapter Women in the Workplace it really struck my fancy. First it began talking about women in politics and how they did not have the brain capacity to work in the field of men; because all they would do are co-sign onto what their husband’s beliefs would be. Also how women could become a forceful powerhouse if they became one united. When that came clearer to my understanding, than I thought about it Mrs. Roosevelt may of some kind of individuality bone in her body to speak out aside from her husband. As a woman I totally agree we are hard to get along with and to come to an agreement after a disagreement on the other hand. Also I am not trying to contradict myself, but also furthering in my reading as I read more of the section I felt Mrs. Roosevelt was also coming down on women rather than uplifting them; how could she talk down on women denying them of and kind of competence when she was also trying to find her own voice and individuality. Next, there is even more brainwashing talk about what a woman shou...