The Spice Girls were an iconic girl band that held major influence over fashion choices for young girls in the 90’s. The five “Spices” each embodied a unique symbolic attitude that clearly encouraged an individual diversity of style (Fuller, 2013). In a sense they offered the freedom to choose from a series of personalities that embodied the style of femininity. The girls were trendsetters with their unique sense of style, still inspiring us today. The prominent idea for the five girls style…
empower themselves and resist society. The scene where Sharifa recruits Firdaus to work for her is key in understanding the irony and inequality that woman face in Egypt. Ultimately, the author makes the point that prostitution is an illusion of power. Women like Firdaus, obtain this sense of power but it doesn’t…
involves women focusing more on their outward appearance and behavior to fit in with other ladies their age. This style seemed to be revolutionary for many women as they viewed the change in expectations for women as liberating. However, depending on the perspective the flapper style can be considered as either restricting or liberating for women. Contrasting perspectives are demonstrated through both Ellen Page’s article, "A Flapper's Appeal to her Parents" and the advice column, "Young Women…
During the early nineteenth century a new idea of what a woman should be was beginning to develop in society. This new idea was called The Cult of True Womanhood, sometimes also known as The Cult of Domesticity, and it laid out a set of goals for the ‘ideal’ woman. These goal were domesticity, piety, purity, and submissiveness. Even though these ideas pervaded the media of much of middle and upper-class society at the time, there were still female authors who did not take so kindly to them. One…
I consider myself to be an awful writer. My whole life I've seen myself as mediocre throughout various schools and classes. I love writing and I feel like the things I create in my free time are pretty good. However, when I'm required to create an essay based off of a topic I either don't know or don't care about, I slack off and wait until the very last minute to get to work. I know I'm not alone in this endeavor, students today feel as if they are extremely average. If a student can find…
Independence, or the freedom from control, influence, support, aid, or the like, of others, “is the most important quality that a reader can possess.” (Woolf) Having this ability gives the reader the freedom to make their own connections or interpretations of the story. Every person will have their own unique thoughts and ideas on the book, so “nothing can be more fatal then to be guided by the preferences of others in a matter so personal.” (Woolf) This is why independence is so vital to the…
discovered that my writing style was majorly flawed, but contained the right ideas. English 1101 helped me improve my writing style while still expressing the same ideas. The purpose of writing in college, aside from learning aspect, is discovering ones strengths and weaknesses. This is vital for the development of an accomplished writer. When I was taking high school English classes, I thought I was a great writer. But that…
Because they are unaware, it may be quite difficult for them to inform beginning writers of what is implicit. The question emerges about how one can acquire the knowledge (Beins & Beins, 2012, )” There are limitations when writing, he or she would not write about science fiction, in a journal when the subject is about mental illness.…
People always say that artists of any kind are crazy to follow their dreams. The same goes for writers. Everybody always says that the chances you’ll even get published are slim to none. However, it’s novelists like C. S. Lewis, Rick Riordan, Kristin Cashore, and J. K. Rowling that show that it is possible to write as a career. They made it. Why can’t we? Inspirational writers like them keep the business alive and flourishing. According to Nick Morgan, from Forbes magazine, “between 600,000 and…
Kissane explains in his essay, “… it’s inevitable that your writing will involve some aspect of what you know.” (Kissane 112). I find this an interesting technique that not many writers that I have experienced have used. I believe this is an affective strategy that allows the reader to experience the author’s emotions, sentiments, outlooks, as well as frustrations as I am immersed in the story of Ratha, the protagonist of this story…