Women in Leadership Essay

Ayesha Akhter Hist 173 Yuki Terazawa “Comfort Women” During World War II, when Japan waged the so called “holy war” to dominate East Asia, the Japanese government arranged a system for the government officials, police and military police, to force women into being a “comfort women” which in other words, a sex slave. These women were abducted, deceived and violently raped. The point of “comfort women” was not only to stabilize the army’s morale but also to prevent rape and sexually transmitted…

In the book, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, we see the family overcome misfortune multiple times throughout the story. Jo deals with her father being in the war by writing a manuscript, unfortunately later in the book, her sister burns the manuscript. The misfortune helps Jo as a person because it taught her that she needed to control her temper. The success is important to the book because it shows how humans are guilty of having bad tempers. Jo’s character overcomes her hardship of poverty…

considered as a motive, it would be thrown out in the sexist farm society of this play. Meanwhile, the women look at Mrs. Wright's plight and what it must have been like to live in a house with practically no escape and no company other than the hard Mr. Wright. They understate their thoughts to the men saying, "But I don't think a place'd be any cheerfuller for John Wright's being in it (1354)". The women are sympathetic even when the begin to find that Mrs. Wright was more than likely…

societal norm was for women to get married quite young – often before age twenty; however, Wollstonecraft believed that women should marry at a bit of an older age, they would have more time and life experience in order to inform their choosing of a life partner. Gutek explains, 'Cautioning young women against early marriage, Wollstonecraft advised that education, experience, and reflection should be personal guides for deferred but happy marriages....Properly educated women, she predicted,…

Louisa May Alcott intended her novel, Little Women, to serve as a conservative icon that endorses the proper life for women to aspire to, the life of a subservient wife and mother. However, Alcott did not intended her novel to be a propagandist piece supporting the cult of domesticity, the philosophy that women in the 1800s should stay at home and not work outside of the domestic sphere. In contrast, Little Women is a novel meant to convey the message that women should seek independence and cast…

to write about the experiences she had seen and how she had felt about them. A lot of her short stories has a war setting. One of her first novels she wrote was “Little Women” it was wrote and published in six weeks. This novel was said it had built her reputation, it finally gave her a name. then about a year later “Little Women pt. 2” was published about a year later in January 1869. The novels are based off her and her sister and how they overcome their everyday challenges. It explains how…

Korean Peninsula, I found out that there is a one disastrous history of Korea. The disastrous history is about “military comfort women” during World War Two when Korea was under Japanese rule. In fact, a ‘comfort woman’ is an inappropriate word for the female victims; a ‘sex slave’ is the correct term. Although the sex slave is the right term, people use the ‘comfort women’ because it is well known by many people and sounds smoother than the sex slave. When Korea was under Japanese rule,…

The Journey to Maturity: Hair and Vanity in Alcott’s Little Women and Grimm’s “The Goose Girl” Hair, even today, is often used to symbolize femininity: while neat and tidy hair is often associated with womanliness, high social status, and proper behaviour or manners, short, messy, and boyish haircuts typically represent the opposite. Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women uses hair to symbolize the identity and growth of the young, impressionable female characters using the disproving of hair as…

A Journey through Jo In Louisa May Alcott's Little Women we follow the life of 4 sisters living together with little money during the Civil War. Each sister has distinct traits which make the family work well together, as well as ones which make conflict for the story. The main character Jo is the second oldest sister and a very interesting character. While Jo grows up we learn that she is a strong minded, kind, tomboy. From the beginning of the book we know right away that Jo is a…

A house is a symbol of a home and comfort. However, it’s also composes of constraining walls inside of other walls, that can become a barrier to the outside world. The short story “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin, hints about Mrs. Mallard’s celebration for freedom after the news of her husband’s death, and her sudden death on seeing her husband again. Did she die because she was overjoyed or was it fear of living in bondage? Story of An Hour tells a story about a middle aged woman who…