John Ames Mitchell

Beyond Genetics (Karen Horney’s Views on the Psychological Differences Between Men and Women) Imagine you’re in the delivery room, prepared to give birth for the first time. You’re expecting fraternal twins; Hazel and Harvey. From the time that they are born into this world and each year that they age, you have to learn and adjust to each of their needs. When they are an infant, to toddler, teenager and then adult raising both your twins is a challenge due to their different genders. It’s not…

In Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo, Juan goes to Comala to find his father, Pedro. Pedro had an intimate relationship a girl who he forced to leave her family to be with him. As Pedro and Susana’s marriage proceeds, Susana begins to demonstrate signs that she is mentally unstable. The controlling of Susana’s life by other men reveals that mental instability is the only escape from a patriarchal society. After Susana leaves Comala, she marries Florencio, who soon dies. Susana is then forced into an…

the systemic issues of gender roles in society. The unnamed protagonist introduces the readers to John through a combination of authorial and editorial processes. “John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.”***** This process immediately tilts…

The protagonist conflict is a conflict that can easily be explain. First of all, the protagonist is the person being treated so she have to do what she is told, just like how I have to follow what my doctor tell me to follow. More importantly, she is a woman and women are not given the same rights as men back in the 18th and early 19th century. “ He said there was only one window...He is very careful and loving, and hardly let me stir without special direction. I have scheduled...; he takes care…

minded woman in a male driven society. Initially, the narrator's relationship with her husband, John, is trusting. She does not agree with his beliefs, however she believes that he knows best and feels somewhat guilty for her dissenting opinion. However, her conflicting emotions confuse her and lead her to gradually stop trusting him. She wishes to write in her diary more, but is forced to hide it from John as she knows he will disapprove of it. Writing is the only platform for expressing her…

Isolation, alone time, just some peace and quiet are things we say because we get tired of what is going on around us. Although being isolated from this world seems good, is it really? Isolation has been proven to affect the mental health of a person rather than help. Over the years knowledge and understanding of the mind has improved, years ago, doctors thought a good way to help someone was isolation. In the film “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the main character, Jane, suffers from a “nervous”…

The three images that I viewed are in the psychology / human services field. All the image could portray professions in the human services field. One of the images in the set of three is more business casual then the other two images. All of the image shows people talking or silencing to someone else and being concerned with the information that they are hearing. The first picture in the set of three is of two women talking and one of the women has their hand on the other women shoulder. The…

Analysis of “A Sorrowful Woman” Throughout literary history there have been many great works, once such work is the story “A Sorrowful Woman”. Written by Gail Godwin, A Sorrowful Woman is a present day fairy-tale toned down. It even starts off like a fairy-tale, with “Once Upon a Time”. Literature uses many different elements such as theme, character, plot, point of view, etc. The main element of this story is the theme that not all women are meant to be mothers. While all the elements are…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born on July 3, 1860 in Connecticut. Her father abandoned Charlotte’s mother to raise her and her sibling alone. As a result of this she moved around a lot, which caused her education to suffer. In 1884 she married Charles Stetson and the couple had a daughter named Katherine. Sometime during her marriage she got severe depression and had a number of treatments for it. These treatments are believed to inspire “The Yellow Wall-Paper”. She is…

Anthem 5 Years Later It has been five years since Gaea and I escaped the deadly grips of the council. When i first arrived into the Uncharted Forest, I had nothing but an electric light and an immaculate speck of hope for the future. Now, I have created a society of my own and, with the help of my brothers, overthrown the council. In this new society, everyone is free to be an individual. Gaea and I are currently raising our two identical four year olds, Aapo (my son) and Abby (my…