Women aren’t as capable as men. Is this really a true statement? No, but this statement was a common and unquestioned ideology before the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, the first formal and documented discussion of women’s rights. Even though women’s rights were brushed off to the side before the women’s rights movement, they were not non-existent. Female authors had been around for a long time before that, and while they may not have been incredibly popular or commonplace, these writers did one important thing that their male counterparts couldn’t: they wrote with a female point of view.…
Through out mankind's history, women have always been know as inferior to men. In Maya Angelou's "Operation Conductorette" and Lynn Cox' "Swimming to Antartica" the readers are shown that women can achieve goals beyond mens boundries if determination and hard work is applied. In "Operation Conductorette" Angelou is determined to get her job as a conductorrete and wont let anything or anyone get in her way. With Angelou's hard work, she got the job even though she was black in a racist country. In "Swimming to Antartica", Cox wanted to swim the Antartic ocean even though it was freezing cold.…
“Champion of the World” by Maya Angelou,this excerpt chronicles how a boxer named Joe Louis captivated the world by being one of the first black boxer to be heavyweight champion of the world. In the late 1930 when segregation and inequality for African Americans was so prominent, something like that captivated the world and boosted the spirits of African Americans who were being depressed and were treated horribly by whites. This story lets you see inside a store of African Americans who are listening to the radio of the championship between Joe and a white challenger. During this fight Angelou connects the fight to the pride of all African Americans and how every African American shared the same pride in him and were counting on him to solidify to the white people that they are strong and are not sub- humans. She uses paragraph 16 and 17 to get the point across to readers that it was a huge deal for African Americans that he won because they felt they would end up staying at second class citizens and go back to being slaves if he lost which at the time could have been completely probable.…
Similar to stanzas one and three, the first three lines lead up to the fourth line in this stanza. In the first three lines of this stanza, Angelou uses physical actions to describe non-physical nouns in the context of the poem. The physical action in the first line mirrors what non-physical thing the reader may “shoot” at Angelou, “words.” Likewise, the physical action expressed in the second line shows a metaphor to express that the reader may “cut” with, “eyes.” The physical action in the third line expresses what non-physical noun that the audience wants to “kill” with, “hatefulness.”…
Have you ever had a teacher that changed your life? In the memoirs Tuesdays with Morrie and Meeting Mrs. Flowers the authors tell a story of how a teacher changed their lives. Teachers are an excellent and unexpected resource to living through the ups and downs of your life. Tuesdays with Morrie and Meeting Mrs. Flowers provide exceptional examples of this concept. The latter consisting of a young girl named Marguerite who is going through a traumatic experience; she has come to be in a depressed state separating herself from the reality that surrounds her.…
When I was little, I lived and moved to many different places. Since I traveled a lot, I saw many people that were viewed as outsiders by others in society. If you did not follow the rules our society has placed on specific genders, you were mocked for being different. Woman had to feminine and men had to be masculine. This has always been true throughout history, women have always been viewed as weak, and unable to care for themselves.…
No Longer Applies: “Men are superior to women physically, emotionally, and mentally.” This belief no longer applies to today’s society because sexism in America has decreased a lot ever since. Our society has recognized feminism and a lot of effort has been made by women to empower other women. Women have accomplished a countless number of things and are taking higher job positions as well.…
Life is all about balance. For example, positive and negative, left and right, up and down. In this case, men and women. Men and women are definitely not the same. They were created differently for the sole purpose of counteracting each other and should therefore not be treated in the same way.…
The definition of the word, Trifle, means, “something that does not have much value or importance”. This play was written during the time when women were considered their husband 's property. During the early history of the United States, a man essentially owned his wife and children and all other belongings. Americans have treated married women based on the concept of coverture, a concept that was brought from the English common law. Under the doctrine of the coverture, a woman was legally considered to be the chattel of her husband, or in other words, his possession.…
Maya Angelou is one of the greatest voices of contemporary African American Literature. Angelou is well known for "I know why the Caged Bird Sings", one of her volumes of poetry published in 1970. Her poetry highlights her triumph over social obstacles and finding her identity. Angelou was not always a poet. She was a singer, performer, and civil rights activist.…
The chapter starts with Maya describing how she and Bailey were learning the times tables with the speed of Chinese children on their abacuses in San Francisco and how Uncle Willie, a cripple after an accident in his early childhood, is their disciplinarian that forces them to perfect their homework for fear of the stove. They would learn information by heart, like time tables, without understanding the significance because they had no alternative. Later on, we see how Willie was the “butt of jokes” in the community partly because he was handicap but also because he had a stable life with his mother supporting him while the other black men could barely support themselves although they would work very hard. One day as Maya returns from school,…
Women have always had disadvantages fighting their way through life, whether it is in politics or everyday situations. Examples of this would be the Woman’s Suffrage Movement, clothing requirements, when a woman is walking down the street at night she feels like she will be attacked, how women don’t get the same pay as men in some jobs, or when a women gets taken advantage of while drunk but, it is still her fault for drinking. The list could go on forever. Even in The Scarlet Letter, there is many women stereotypes, such as “Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle” (Hawthorne 77).…
Type of poem: The type of this poem is a lyrical poem because the poem itself talks about the speaker’s feelings throughout and talks about the issues such as finding strength after something bad happens, race and ending sexism. Tone of poem: While reading this poem there were many emotions I was feeling such as being confident in yourself, having a positive self-esteem about everything that happens. In my opinion, the mood of the poem was deep because the poet used many poetic devices to convey her message to the audience. This poem had the feeling of hopeful since the entire message of the poem is to never give up on yourself and always trust yourself no matter what happens.…
Women for generations have always been perceived to be inferior to men due to male dominance in patriarchal societies. women have only recently become socially accepted and slowly have been gaining more rights such as the right to vote during woman 's suffrage. yet still to this day, women still suffer due to the gap between the two genders. Male dominance has been very common in most societies for generations. due to the fact women have been fighting for their rights for the past hundred years, there has been some progress however, even today there is gender inequality.…
Men have always been considered stronger than women since the beginning of time. Whether in war, jobs, and just in general. In the early 19th century women got tired of it, and after freedom struggles and rallies, their voices were heard and they were given the rights and respect that they finally deserved. Women are now free to vote, work, and voice their opinions in any subject matter. Basically in society, they are now provided with equal opportunities which once was only available to men.…