John Stuart Mill thought that women were caught in a “cult of domesticity”. He believed that women entering the workforce gradually would have immense benefits for society. For instance, if a position was needed in a town, wouldn’t it be best for the town to fill that position with the best person for it regardless of the person’s gender. He focused a lot on women in the workforce whereas Simone did not mention women working. For his time John Stuart Mill broke the mold of men of his time. He thought women being a greater influence and working would benefit both sexes. Virginia Woolf was very opinionated when it came to how women should be treated and their role in society. She was an outspoken advocate for feminism. Woolf was an English writer and was a modernist in the twentieth century. Much like De Seaviour she believed that women needed to become independent from men and marriage to be successful. But she thought that women could become powerful only by achieving financial and psychological independence from men. She also argued that equal opportunity for education and economic advantage was even more important than the right to vote. A major difference between Virginia Woolf and Simone De Seaviour was how Simone tried to please both sexes and Woolf was about fighting for women. Woolf believed it was owed. One example of how outspoken Woolf was is when she wrote “A Room of One’s own”. This was written in response to a clergyman who believed that there was no woman that…
societies. In Igbo and Yoruba cultures, histories are preserved, and cultural norms are passed down through folktales and fables. 1.3. "Ngambika" and the Commitment of African Female Writers. Ngambika is a word that captures the totality of the African woman’s feminist thought or need. This phrase is used in Carole Boyce-Davies’ coedited work Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature (1986). African feminist discourses are made largely possible through female authored literatures by…
To begin with, we will analyze objectives of FYC. We can use as reference for FYC objectives the chart provided by Carnegie Mellon’s Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation. Objectives outlined for developing effective writers, paraphrased, are: the ability to conceive of writing problems in their complexity, shaping writing to the needs of the audience, commitment to the writing, extensive revisions, and ability to pay attention to the various aspects of the writing tasks,…
can consider her perspective on the topic, which I also primarily agree with. In the article she explains how “plenty of colleges and numerous universities force-feed young adult men radical feminist nonsense, sexual and domestic violence, ‘body shaming’”, and other specific problems. She explains how all of this can be ‘destructive’ simply because not all young men are the same, and not all young men have corresponding intentions. Suzanne Fields convinced me that I agree with how she sees…
Reflection Essay I must confess that I’m most definitely not the Best Writer in the world, but I’m probably close to gold in Best Procrastinator. I haven’t completed as much, or tried as hard as I could have this semester, and now I’m paying for it. If staying up all night writing has taught me anything, it’s that you genuinely can’t expect your best work to be an assignment that you squeezed out in less than two days, although you can definitely try. I can try and tell myself that I will apply…
the author used this way of building up the story, it allows the narrator to develop a specific tone. The story recants the past, with a melancholy flavor to it. Creating the right tone can be difficult for some writers. Using Johnston’s method, other authors can experiment creating their own tone. Secondly, Johnston teaches the reader about using action to show emotion. The scene where the mother bakes all night particularly shows this. The mother does not sleep and she immediately begins…
In the book, One Writer 's Beginning, Eurdora Welty writes about her personal life and how she became a writer. It started off with her being young and her love of reading to her being older with her love of writing. She splits the book into three parts with “Listening”, “Learning to See”, and “Finding a Voice” as the names of her chapters. She explains how we need to listen for stories. We need to open our eyes and write about what we see. Then we need to find our voice in our writing to make…
A personal narrative is a personal story. Remember that we have been talking about personal narratives? The word personal means that you own it. This is my personal sweater and these are my personal shoes. So, a personal story is a story about me. Can you say it with me class? “A personal narrative is a story about me. It has a beginning, a middle, and end. It also has to have describing words.” Before I write my personal narrative I want you to begin thinking about what good writers do.…
Can a writer ever truly be separated from their works, or is the inner context of their being meticulously woven within? Often authors inject their own personal conquests subtly into their works, giving readers clues to the writers’ personal lives. Chicano writer Dagoberto Gilb has published a multitude of works ranging from short stories to full blown novels, each assuming a pattern of distinct characterization and setting. One short story in particular, “Romero’s Shirt” tells the tale of Juan…
paragraphs” (293). Here you can tell that he took the knowledge he had received from reading into parts of his everyday life. Alexie would see each of his family members as a story of the same genetics and common experiences but every member was separated into different paragraphs. The theory of writing for me is writing to get a message across with specific language, techniques, tones, situations, ideas, etc. from the writer's point of view. I see the theory of writing as something open…