Jane the virgin is a show about a woman who had her life planned out the way she wanted until it made a spiraling turn due to unfortunate events. When Jane was a young girl, she had made a promise to her grandma that she would save her virginity until marriage. Unfortunately, during a doctor's check up she was artificially inseminated. After she agreed to keep the baby her relationship with her finance when down the hill. Keeping the baby also caused her school work to be a little harder for her. An examination of Jane the virgin will demonstrate the concepts of process of listening, the benefits of power and being in denial. Jane the protagonist of the show in all three seasons of Jane the virgin demonstrates the process of listening. Process of listening have five stages. Stage one is receiving the message the speaker is sending. In this case the speaker is Jane's mom who always needs Jane to listen to her problems. Jane focuses all her attention in her mom when she is speaking. Jane also demonstrates understanding towards her mom. She advices her mom when she knows her mom is wrong. Jane also tries to see her mom's point of view. In stage three Jane is very good at. Stage three is remembering what the person have talked to you about. Jane always asks her mom …show more content…
days on what ever was they talked about or the problem the mom is going through. Rafael Solando is a person who is very powerful.
Rafael demonstrates how he benefits from his power. For example, when Michael and Jane were trying buy a house but were not able to because of their credit. Rafael made a few phone calls and solved that problem for Jane. Jane was able to. Another example of Rafael privileging from his power was when he was trying look for Mateo's day care. Rafael wanted to put Mateo in a catholic day care but they were all full. They told him he would have to wait until there was a spot open. The next day he went back to the day care donating some money and after that his son was in the day care. The day care let Mateo join in because his dad has money and made a
donation. Another main character from Jane the virgin is Petra who is in denial. Petra is constantly in denial with her emotions towards herself and others. For example, she claims and acts like she does not have any feelings for her ex husband Rafael but she is always thinking about him. Also when Rafael is upset it hurts Petra to see him like that. In front of him she acts like she does not care but when she is alone she thinks of how she can help him. Another example, is how she expresses she hates Jane but evidently she truly cares about her. Petra has helped Jane but not made it known it was her helping her. She does not want to accept to her self and to others that Jane is not a bad person and she actually likes her. In conclusion, I am to relate to Jane and Petra. I am not able to relate with Rafael so much. Rafael is a rich guy who has a lot of power on his hands and that is something I do not have. In the other hand I am a great listener like Jane. I’m also able to identify myself with Petra. There have been times in my life where I am in denial. For example, after breaking up with my ex boyfriend it took me a while to finally get over him. I used to lie to myself and friends that did not care about him. When inside I was wondering what was going on his life.
The AP Language and Composition course is purely designed to help students excel in their own stories, but more importantly, become more attentive to their surroundings. A conscientious goal, that would properly be attained through the collection of nonfiction paperbacks. Because of the purpose of this course and the current state of today’s children, one must undeniably agree that in selecting the “perfect book”, the overall idea of self-reliance would hold a prominent factor. This curriculum not only focuses on the rhetorical analysis of nonfiction texts, but it attempts to make students distinguish how the world plays with the dialectic of persuasion, also known as the art of rhetoric. In doing so, this course aims at making students aware
Women’s Brains deals with the abuse of scientific data in order to “prove” negative social analyses with prejudiced groups such as women, blacks, and poor people. Evolutionary biologist Stephen Gould points out the flaws in the scientific methods of various scientists and correctly asserts that many scientists incorrectly used anthropometric data to support social analyses that degrade prejudiced groups.
Creative Section Prompt: Write a scene where an “unlovable” character is involved in a surprising or unexpected hobby or appreciation for something.
According to the FBI, more than 75 percent of all murder victims are women, and more than 50 percent of the women are between the ages of 14 and 29 years old. A part of that statistic is Kitty Genovese,a murder victim who is the focus of an editorial, “The Dying Girl that No One Helped,” written by Loudon Wainwright. Kitty was a 28 year old woman who was brutally stabbed to death while on her way home from work. The woman, named Kitty Genovese, lived in a pleasant, welcoming, residential area, in New York. There was at least 38 witnesses that came forward, and they all heard her cries for help, but no one came to her aid. Wainwright effectively demonstrates how society has started turning a “blind-eye” toward problems that can endanger someone's
A town, a team, a dream. Friday Night lights document the 1988 football season of Permian High School in Odessa, Texas. Bissinger explores the various themes of the novel and uses conceit to colorfully describe the contrasting attitudes towards sports and academics. In the small town of Odessa bases Fridays nights in the fall are dedicated to Permian football. As a result of the obsessive attitude towards football a ridiculous amount of pressure is thrusted upon the coaches and players. Bissinger tackled the many problems in the town such as extreme pressure to perform, racism, and the relationship between parent and child. While Bissinger had several preconceived notions, he was ultimately proven wrong and through analysis of themes and incorporation of comparisons in the form of conceits he was able to develop his understanding of the town and accurately depict the events that transpired.
In the book Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer wrote about Christopher McCandless, a nature lover in search for independence, in a mysterious and hopeful experience. Even though Krakauer tells us McCandless was going to die from the beginning, he still gave him a chance for survival. As a reader I wanted McCandless to survive. In Into the Wild, Krakauer gave McCandless a unique perspective. He was a smart and unique person that wanted to be completely free from society. Krakauer included comments from people that said McCandless was crazy, and his death was his own mistake. However, Krakauer is able to make him seem like a brave person. The connections between other hikers and himself helped in the explanation of McCandless’s rational actions. Krakauer is able to make McCandless look like a normal person, but unique from this generation. In order for Krakauer to make Christopher McCandless not look like a crazy person, but a special person, I will analyze the persuading style that Krakauer used in Into the Wild that made us believe McCandless was a regular young adult.
Samir Boussarhane During the early 20th century in the U.S, most children of the lower and middle class were workers. These children worked long, dangerous shifts that even an adult would find tiresome. On July 22, 1905, at a convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia, Florence Kelley gave a famous speech regarding the extraneous child labor of the time. Kelley’s argument was to add laws to help the workers or abolish the practice completely.
During the late 1800’s and early 1900’s the fight for equal and just treatment for both women and children was one of the most historically prominent movements in America. Courageous women everywhere fought, protested and petitioned with the hope that they would achieve equal rights and better treatment for all, especially children. One of these women is known as Florence Kelley. On July 22, 1905, Kelley made her mark on the nation when she delivered a speech before the National American Woman Suffrage Association, raising awareness of the cruel truth of the severity behind child labor through the use of repetition, imagery and oxymorons.
I chose this word because the tone of the first chapter seems rather dark. We hear stories of the hopes with which the Puritans arrived in the new world; however, these hopes quickly turned dark because the Purtains found that the first buildings they needed to create were a prison, which alludes to the sins they committed; and a cemetery, which contradicts the new life they hoped to create for themselves.
We learn that Jane is a young girl who is a victim of emotional and
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It amazes me how a few decades ago can seem like a whole different world. A course of time can impact our lives more than we know it. In the article, A Day Without Feminism by Jennifer Boumgoidnei and Amy Richntds, both of these authors created this piece to inform their audience that although women have gained more rights over time, there was still more progress to be made. These authors gave many examples of how life for women had been, the obstacles they had to overcome, and the laws women had to break for equality.
Jane the Virgin is a dynamic show, usually within one episode there is more than one conflict, either it is a career struggle, break up, or murder. The story starts when Jane is stuck in a love triangle and can't decide which guy she wants. Even while Jane is going through a tough decision, she is also pregnant with one of the guy’s baby. This show is so different compared to other shows with how each season something new happens. Unlike other television shows, sometimes I can predict what will happen at the end of the season, or viewers often get bored with the same thing always happening each season; for instance “Awkward” is hit a show on MTV almost similar to Jane the Virgin, but I can always predict what will happen next, the writer creates the same conflict season with the main character Jenna who is still in love
From an early age Jane is aware she is at a disadvantage, yet she learns how to break free from her entrapment by following her heart. Jane appears as not only the main character in the text, but also a female narrator. Being a female narrator suggests a strong independent woman, but Jane does not seem quite that.
thinks of her as burden, and low life. Jane is forced to live with her