I Got a Woman

I was afraid to pick Doodle up. My hand wrapped around his body and my other hand wrapped around his head, holding him up. The blood started to drip out of his mouth and onto my shirt and stained it. He was so heavy, I didn't want to drop him because he was so fragile. I stopped every couple of minute to fix him because he would start to slide down and my arms were so weak and tired. The mud was so thick that my shoe came off and I had to take them off and walk. I was mentally in pain, I was…

Besides the fact that the book’s focus is mostly on Mexican/Mexican-American/Chicana woman the overall empowerment woman of all races and ethnicities had during this era was just powerful and was history in the making. Personally, I feel more connected to the Pachuca women, everything they had to endure only for the desire of freedom and control of their lives. Despite some negatives, this era proved to have one of the greatest multiracial interactions. Undoubtedly, because this was an era…

Throughout the recreations of Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I A Woman” speech, the audience was able to capture Truth’s intended message most effectively through the third interpretation. While the texts are merely recreations and alterations of the original versions, we are still able to capture her message of equality with her hopeful and direct tone. The third essay has the strongest language and rhetorical strategy in order to make it the most effective of the three with a more personal touch,…

the story with the yellow wallpaper and identifying a woman trapped and the story would change dramatically if it were told by an omniscient narrator. The narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is unreliable and moves from one state to another also being reliable; lastly, in the end of the story the narrator continues on being an unreliable character. In the beginning of the story, the narrator reveals the sickness she is suffering from. “So I take phosphates or phosphites whichever it is, and…

is financial issues. There are families that barely have any money to pay for certain things. For example, I will not be receiving my financial aid until mid November. Even though I worked two jobs all summer, I am running low on money. Each week I have to think about if I should skip a meal in order to pay my rent, or if I should take the annual trip to the BPL Plasma Donation Center so I can keep my phone service on. Unlike my roommates, my…

thoughts eat her up, and swallow her as shes on a vacation with him, who is trying to cure her. The story shows a precise, and practical point of view from the sickened woman. Throughout the story, inquired symbols are shown, and the point of view from the author is subsequently evaluated. The Yellow Wallpaper is told about how a woman, and her husband take a vacation to a beautiful, magical estate, and wonder how they…

Cold and dreary. This is the feeling that Ava Perkins woke up to every morning. She dreadfully got out of bed and put on her rusty slippers that were immersed in dirt. Everything Ava received was handed down to her from the other children of the orphanage. Ava's parents had left her when she was two months old. Ava always wondered why her parents didn't want her, and where could they be? Ava's daily ritual was to gaze out her shared rooms tiny window, and think about her future aspirations. Ava…

intimidatingly hot and made the woman to perspire profusely. Curley’s wife has lived on the ranch for less than a month, and she already hated it. People, who lived here, wiped away all her childish hopes for love and happiness, leaving in…

Gender Roles Following the 19th amendment, as well as many Women’s Rights activists, the 21st century brings many new ideas and opportunities to the table for females. Woman can now vote, they can now get jobs, and also are just as employable and fit for a job as a man is. Saying all of this however,a woman named Hillary Clinton believes “the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.” When people stand up all at once to recognize inequality of gender roles, the…

How you’re raised can impact the way you view the world. The authors of these three short stories, “Thank You Ma’am” “King of the Bingo Game” and “Am I Blue?”, are African American. All three of them were raised in a society where, to a lot of people, being African American wasn’t a good thing. African American’s were called horrible things, and were still being discriminated against, but some communities were close, and others were not. This affected how they saw the world, and the way they…