“Adversity: an adverse and unfortunate event or difficulties in circumstances.” Generally, when people are unhappy, they will seek for change. There can be very many differences in the ways people try to find or replace that unhappiness, with something that makes them happy. Whether that change could result in dominance of power or an overall result in one's views. People just want to obtain authority, but for what? Are they looking to improve their community around them? Throughout history, the Humanist were known for human excellence and their drive for potential. The specific thinkers Laura Cereta and Cassandra Fedeles took a stand against female stereotypes and equal rights for both men and women. Similarly, in recent months women have
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One humanist, named Cassandra Fedeles believed in equal rights for both men and women. “Even if the study of literature offers women no rewards or honors, I believe women must nonetheless purse and embrace such studies alone for the pleasure and enjoyment they contain.” (Cassandra Fedeles). Both deserve the same education. Women are more than just made to sew and weave. She believes that learning spreads joy, enlightenment and pleasure, which again, both men and women deserve. Another humanist named Laura Cereta had a very fierce and strong opinion on an egalitarian society. “Laura Cereta wrote a series of letters including one to a male critic who had argued that her work was so good it couldn't of been written by a woman.” (Margaret King, 2001) the face that a man said this about her writing fueled her feminist fire. “For some women are concerned with parting their hair correctly, adoring themselves with over dresses, or decorating their fingers with pearls and other gems.” (Laura Cereta). Not only was she enraged at the male society but also at the female society for letting men suppress them and essentially telling them they are not good enough to be treated like a …show more content…
Bucks adversity and how people are affecting it. “[…] in the bitter hatred between him and Spitz he betrayed no impatience, shunned all offensive acts.” (3.1) London paints a complex picture of money in Call of the Wild because it is what drives each character. In chapter 6, we see how Mercedes, Hall, and Charles traded horse meat for his revolver with a hobo so that the shield dogs could continue of with their travels. “His eyes turned blood-shot, and he was metamorphosed into a raging fiend. So changed was he that the Judge himself would not have recognized him.” (1.25). This story rejects civilization, vulnerability, and weakness. Money is important in the novel because in this book, dogs are getting traded and sold and treated like slaves. They are trained to be obedient, when the man in the red sweater took a weapon and put in into Buck's cage then repeatedly beaten Buck with a club every time he got up, he was training him to become stronger, and submissive for a new owner when traded. “He was glad for one thing: the rope was off his neck. That had given them an unfair advantage; but now that it was off, he would show them. They would never get another rope around his neck. Upon that he was resolved.” (1.25) Also, when Buck watched as men were exchanging money and he watched as dogs came and went. Manuel was the man that stole and sold Buck because of his gambling problem.
One humanist, named Cassandra Fedeles believed in equal rights for both men and women. “Even if the study of literature offers women no rewards or honors, I believe women must nonetheless purse and embrace such studies alone for the pleasure and enjoyment they contain.” (Cassandra Fedeles). Both deserve the same education. Women are more than just made to sew and weave. She believes that learning spreads joy, enlightenment and pleasure, which again, both men and women deserve. Another humanist named Laura Cereta had a very fierce and strong opinion on an egalitarian society. “Laura Cereta wrote a series of letters including one to a male critic who had argued that her work was so good it couldn't of been written by a woman.” (Margaret King, 2001) the face that a man said this about her writing fueled her feminist fire. “For some women are concerned with parting their hair correctly, adoring themselves with over dresses, or decorating their fingers with pearls and other gems.” (Laura Cereta). Not only was she enraged at the male society but also at the female society for letting men suppress them and essentially telling them they are not good enough to be treated like a …show more content…
Bucks adversity and how people are affecting it. “[…] in the bitter hatred between him and Spitz he betrayed no impatience, shunned all offensive acts.” (3.1) London paints a complex picture of money in Call of the Wild because it is what drives each character. In chapter 6, we see how Mercedes, Hall, and Charles traded horse meat for his revolver with a hobo so that the shield dogs could continue of with their travels. “His eyes turned blood-shot, and he was metamorphosed into a raging fiend. So changed was he that the Judge himself would not have recognized him.” (1.25). This story rejects civilization, vulnerability, and weakness. Money is important in the novel because in this book, dogs are getting traded and sold and treated like slaves. They are trained to be obedient, when the man in the red sweater took a weapon and put in into Buck's cage then repeatedly beaten Buck with a club every time he got up, he was training him to become stronger, and submissive for a new owner when traded. “He was glad for one thing: the rope was off his neck. That had given them an unfair advantage; but now that it was off, he would show them. They would never get another rope around his neck. Upon that he was resolved.” (1.25) Also, when Buck watched as men were exchanging money and he watched as dogs came and went. Manuel was the man that stole and sold Buck because of his gambling problem.