Ceiling

As a man’s marriage begins to deteriorate, an overhanging object in the sky slowly starts to descend onto the their town. In Kevin Brockmeier’s The Ceiling, this black ceiling in the sky is symbolic of the protagonist’s failing marriage with his wife. A prevalent theme that surrounds the text is the idea of love, or lack of it, which leads to separation or feelings of detachment. This struggle evokes the feeling of loneliness and a total neglect towards the narrator’s surrounding world. The conflict arises when the wife, Melissa, begins to become distant and notes differences between her and her spouse. Her actions signify remorse or a change of attitudes towards her past decisions. However, their son, Joshua, acts as the glue of the family,…

Civil Rights Act of 1964 The Glass Ceiling is defined as “an unofficially acknowledged barrier to advancement in a profession, especially affecting women and members of minorities.” (google.com) although, referencing glass, this barrier is transparent. This transparency creates the illusion that American women, regardless of race or other factors, hold economic and professional equality to men. However, statistics shall prove this is not the current, and past trend in the United States of…

restrictions on women with the term “glass ceiling”, meaning “the unfair system or set of attitudes that prevents some people (such as women or people of a certain race) from getting the most powerful jobs”. In…

The metaphor of the glass ceiling was a term coined from the 1980s. Around the time women rights were starting to revolve, it has been noted that the metaphor of the glass ceiling “has been applied for more than two decades to explore organizational discriminative processes inhibiting the advancement of women and other discriminated groups into higher management jobs” (Bendl 1). One of the key theories of the metaphor breaking the glass ceiling is how statistics show that mainly only men are the…

sooner rather than later. What they do not always teach is how the obstacles they face, may not be the same as people around them. If they are in the same generation then they may face the same complications acquiring a job, but if they are different genders they have entirely separate experiences. Millennials fight an uphill battle. From the beginning, they must set themselves apart from the labels and connotations put on their generation by the generations that came before them in order to…

men, but sexist women also. I believe that although we have come far in gender equality, there are many areas where women are treated unfairly such as the glass ceiling, gender stereotypes, and harassment. The glass ceiling has been a topic of discussion for quite some time. Basically, the glass ceiling is an invisible and generally unacknowledged barrier that prevents women and minorities from advancing in their careers in the workplace. Many people choose to ignore this subject because they…

Context Card Subject: Gender Equality in the Work Place Audience: Women my age, 18-23, College students. Women who have families and careers in the work place. Writing Situation: An evaluation of the “Ceiling Glass”. An essay in a college magazine. Thesis: In American today there is no “glass ceiling” for women. We have seen women reach higher job positions. This was done by using education and encouraging women to be ambitious. A woman can have both a successful career and a thriving personal…

In her essay about the Glass Ceiling Effect, Anne Gibson discusses the needed improvement in attitudes toward women in the work force. She presents different aspects of treatment towards them that need changed. It was a very interesting essay to read. Although grammar and explanations could be refined, I got the impression that even though some improvement is being made towards eliminating this effect, more needs to be done. The author bases her argument on the premise that women deserve to be…

The hallway is lit by a single light attached to the middle of the popcorn ceiling. There used to be two lights but one bulb flickered and died leaving the hallway dim. The popcorn ceiling is picked off and gone in some spots, mostly around the light and close to the walls. There are also a few tan stains that are darker around the edges and lighter almost white as they go in. The stains might be water stains from who ever lived in the house before. The flooring in the hallway is a worn dark…

Yummy! Yummy!), stalagmites (ones you might trip over or they might reach the ceiling), stalactites (they might reach the bottom or they hang tight to the ceiling), cave popcorn (has a big blob on top and looks like a popcorn kernel), soda straws (hollow stalactites that hang from the ceiling), columns (we call them a column because we call them a “column”), and more formations throughout the cave. When you go through the walking tour, you also see a bunch of peccary and different animal skulls…