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Chapter Three Part One 2. How does anti-fat bias impact the workplace? Overweight people are experience “stereotypical attitudes from employers and disadvantages in hiring, wages, promotions, and job termination because of their weight.” Page 53 “According to the Council on Size and Weight Discrimination workers who are heavier than average are paid $1.25 less an hour. Over a 40-year career, they will earn up to $100,000 less before taxes than their thinner counterparts.” Page 54 3. Explain…

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  "(...) Daisy, who was sitting frightened but graceful,  on the edge of a stiff chair."   Then there is Gatsby,  who is so conscious of his appearance,  that he almost knocks over the clock.  Again the reader is presented with evidence of nervousness and awkwardness,  as it is very common behaviour to be rather clumsy when one is unsure of ones self,  due to the presence of a person one is attracted to.  After this small incident Gatsby also…

would become alongside women. Replaced for stronger than interesting To start it off, let’s discuss about how Browning’s men view their woman as an object. In My Last Duchess, the duke decided to have a painting of his late wife at her best. The painting, hidden behind curtains, is only shown to selected few by the duke himself. We can read in the poems…

different portrayals of anger. In Browning’s poem, the reader is introduced to a seemingly expressive and biased rant from the Duke about his past Duchess, speaking to an envoy. ‘My’, the possessive pronoun, implies he sees women as possessions. The Duke thinks the world revolves around him because he owns "a nine-hundred-years-old name”, the reader realizes with certainty that the Duke in fact caused the Duchess’s early demise. In criticising the character of his past wife, he reveals his very…

this sense, both Browning and Rossetti’s poems become activist statements that challenge Victorian society’s preconceived notions about women. The reader is never given access to the Duchess’s feelings about her own life and her subsequent death. The Duke controls her narrative as much as he controlled every other aspect of her life. By using a dramatic monologue, Browning demands that the reader understand he…

Robert Browning was a genius when it came to his poetry, many thought him brilliant, yet they were also skeptical of his work because of how dark and disturbing some found it to be. Browning’s work was found to earry and sketchy by many because the treatment of women in multiple of his poems. Some of these poems include “My Last Duchess,” “Life in a Love,” and “Porphyria’s Lover.” Browning’s “My Last Duchess” is found disturbing because of the finale statements made by the speaker and even more…

With a further manifestation of the dukes possessiveness seen throughout the structure of the poem in which the numerous uses of caesura illustrates the duke’s control over the conversation and compliments the Duke’s own arrogance. Throughout the conversation the Duke is, in effect, manipulating his guest as if he were a puppet- sit down, stand up, look at this, notice that- a representation of just…

comfort and an understandable nature of the character the Duke, and defines herself through his independence in comparison to the unmistakably joyful Duchess. Atwood’s “My Last Duchess” involves Browning’s “My Last Duchess” by exploring the nature of the Duke, looking at the young girls perspective on authority and relationships. While reading the poem “My Last Duchess” what stood out was the speaker of the dramatic monologue. The Duke is addressing the ambassador of the count and is being…