Woman

In The Woman Warrior, Kingston illustrates Moon Orchid's submissiveness and helplessness towards her husband in order to show the male dominance aspect of the Chinese culture and how this differs from the American culture. Brave Orchid leaves for America thirty years before Moon Orchid herself moved there. Her husband never sends for Moon Orchid to come join him in the new country, instead chooses to forget about her and marry another woman. Moon Orchid's sister, Brave Orchid, saves money to…

The poem Woman Before an Aquarium written by Patricia Hampl’s in 1978 the writer initially seems to argue for the necessity of escaping her current life. The poem is more complex , however, because it also implies the fact of overcoming fear of man and discovering who she is. Yet Patricia seems paradoxically, gaze into a fishbowl she does so in order to imagine her life as one of the fish. Patricia initially seems to argue for the necessity to overcome her fear and live a normal life. She…

performance piece called “Woman in E” by Ragnar Kjartansson. While I was walking around the museum I kept hearing this ominous and melancholy guitar strum. I originally had thought it was some odd music playing over the sound system to give the entire museum an eerie feel - however, as I kept walking the sound got louder and louder until I arrived at this giant ring of gold tinsel hanging from the ceiling. I peeked inside the ring of these glimmering steamers to see a woman, standing atop a…

into the ‘new’ woman of the moment. Feminism is no longer relevant to film media in today’s…

The first time I saw a plus sized woman on an advertisement, I was happy. It made me feel beautiful because it showed that you don’t have to be very thin in order to be beautiful. The fashion industry is continuously growing and I’ve noticed that more recently, plus sized models have become more mainstream. At first, I thought that this is amazing because I have been overweight almost my entire life and I had this false perception of what beauty is because I never saw any models that were…

"Phenomenal Woman," by Maya Angelou, expresses the way she sees herself. She was born on April 4, 1928 and raised in America. Maya Angelou describes herself as a strong, confident, and powerful woman. She gives a different perspective about beauty. She opens the poem with how she is “not cute or built to suit a fashion model size.” Although she is not a models size she is still beautiful in her own way. Maya Angelou uses diction, tone, and her personal experience to convey beauty and confidence…

Sojourner Truth was a woman who believed strongly about human rights and spoke blatantly about the importance of woman’s rights. In doing so, she traveled the world to tell the truth about the importance of women’s equality rights hence her name Sojourner Truth. She sacrifice…

This week I chose to review, “Now we can begin”: What’s Next?: Beyond Woman Suffrage. I have to admit I love this article; the significance still applies to this day. Socialist feminist from the 1920’s, Crystal Eastman, based her entire argument on the general principle that women want freedom. Women want equal treatment, they do not want to be property treated as “soldiers in the working class army” (Eastman, 1.) Clearly stated, are the issues of how men and women mature to follow the gender…

many other things. A book also signifies a source of authority, as it is a commonly used idiom referring to the final word on matters such as the following: “in my book”, “throw the book at”, “one for the books”, or “I can read you like a book”. The woman tried to be this resource for the man. She wanted to be his source for knowledge or entertainment. She wanted to be consulted as someone worthy of the final word. She thought if she could offer all the things a book can, then maybe he would…

Explication of “Woman” “Woman” dramatizes the conflict between the woman and the man on how he refuses to let her be someone. The speaker who is also the author tells the story of the man and the woman “he stood straight/declining to be her corner” (12-13). The author uses lines 12 and 13 to show how the man does not care enough to let her be someone and he in return be someone for her. The author targets the readers as audience with her tone of sympathy, sorrow, and in the last stanza the woman…