Feeble-minded

The short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” written by Joyce Carol Oates takes place in America during the 1960’s. The story is about a young feeble minded girl named Connie and her encounter with Arnold Friend someone who exploits women. Connie is a very flamboyant person and it gets her in a heap of trouble. Arnold Friend drives to Connie’s house while her parents aren’t there and the reader is led to believe that he rapes her. The story is an important book to read because it…

Rules and Reminders I am a unique individual, person. I am special. I am not common. I am a kind of computer. I am alive. I exist. I am a being. I am an organism. I am a microbial empire; there is a microbiome in me. I am a kind of mold, fungus. I am a type of cancer. I am a carbon based lifeform. I consist of human cells, bacteria cells and virus cells. I am an adaptation to nature, a side effect to it. I am flesh and blood. I am an animal. I am a mammal. I am a primate. I am a member of the…

day in history that prompted the greatest shift in the international system was September 11th, 2001. The September 11th terrorist incursion on the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, New York City resonated a large kink in an already dubious and feeble international organization. The trauma that personified the American people after the terrorist invasion had sparked four existing movements in U.S. policy as a reaction to the ever-evolving dangerous world that neighbors them. Professor…

Piggy was one of the main victims in the novel, he was picked on by many different characters, both emotionally and physically. Piggy tries to make an impact on the other boys. The more Piggy is alienated by Jack and the others, the more he is silenced by society and denied his right of respect from the others. Taking a Freudian interception, he is the superego, the part of man’s personality which attempts to act according to an absolute set of standards set by society, law and civilization.…

Good and Evil: An Exploration of Morality Through Grendel Morality is a matter of perspective. The definitions of good and evil differ from one person to the next. John Gardner’s novel Grendel, an alternate take on the famous epic Beowulf written in the monster’s perspective, explores this position, and challenges the typical definitions and ideas of good and evil. In Grendel, Gardner utilizes the characters Grendel, Beowulf, and the Dragon to explore the theme that good and evil are never…

Upon reading The Epic of Gilgamesh and Antigone by Sophocles were able to draw a connection in the way both of these pieces view women in society. Both pieces show, women were once seen as frail beings that should stay in their places and be brought out just to please men. Fortunately, we as a society have come far in terms of women being viewed as more equal to men than in the late B.C. times but that does not mean women are finished gaining the same rights that men have. During The Epic…

would not have occurred. “More American women work in the education, health services, and social assistance industries than any other” (50 Fascinating Facts for Women's History Month). All in all, women were not perceived as strong and ambitious minded people, prior to the nineteenth century. The nineteenth century was a pivotal moment in which women would be seen in a different light. Women within the nineteenth century helped pave the way for women you see today. Women today are more than…

Melissa Ames notes that “…the mainstream vampire texts offer up a more diverse vision of sexuality.” In Carmilla, readers are given an unorthodox relationship between Carmilla and Laura. The concept of the brooding vampire taking advantage of the feeble-minded human remains the same in the relationship, yet the gender reversal of the dominant lover provides a new take on the notion. Similarly, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, witches Willow and Tara partake in a lesbian relationship that is more…

industrialized states of Europe, which had been feeble and marginal powers just a few centuries before. In the 19th century, however, fast industrialization gave European states massive economic and military power. By 1910, they ruled India and most of Africa and Southeast Asia. Japan controlled Korea and Taiwan,…

Through out the course of time woman have been said to be weak minded when is comes to ruling, because they are ruled by their emotions and most of all passion and love. Woman have been said to be the source to many of our problems During the reading of The lliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid the woman that have "caused the problems" were being told to do so by gods and goddesses. For Example in the lliad Helen was the "problem woman" in this story, however she never left Troy because…