Motherhood

Contrary to the beliefs in surrounding countries, women in Rome could become powerful through their own virtue, and have power. In surrounding territories, women with power were seen as a symbol of weakness. Women could gain power and respect by showing exceptional feminine virtue, or by having brilliant sons, they did not gain prestige through wielding political power. Livia was the most powerful empress from ancient times, and left big footsteps for her successors to fill. In 44 BC Caesar…

This chapter is about the story of Margaret Parker who is a superintendent and tells the story of how she came to have that position because this position is controlled by white men. This lady is African American and comes from a poor family. The lady says that she had the support of important men and that is why she got to be where she is. According to the author Margaret claims that "Understanding the fact of men's greater power and accepting men's support are crucial to women's success in the…

Annotated Bibliography: Irony, Identity, and Autonomy in Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying Atkinson, Ted. “The Ideology of Autonomy: Form and Function in As I Lay Dying.” Faulkner Journal 21.1/2 (2006): 15-27. Academic Search Complete. Web. 27 Nov. 2014. Ted Atkinson argues that Cash’s production of his mother’s coffin is a metaphor for Faulkner’s production of As I Lay Dying because they both concern themselves with form and function, as they pursue artistic autonomy despite significant stressful…

The day I encountered Major Tenace, my existence altered forever. It was an early brisk morning in November 2003, when I entered the women’s clinic for an annual Papanicolaou test (Pap smear). Surprisingly, Major Tenace inquired did I desire children, and I bellowed a resounding yes. Unfortunately, I was 35, and had not conceived an infant. Immediately following the completion of the Pap smear, we considered the continual separation as a plausible explanation for the absence of conception.…

the novel, Edna challenges gender roles, explores and discovers her sexuality and gains independence. Throughout the novel, Edna continuously breaks traditional gender roles. The first gender role she breaks is the role of women and motherhood. Right at the beginning, the reader gets a sense of who Edna is. Mr. Pontellier is not satisfied with his wife’s neglect of the children. Edna’s maternal instincts do not come naturally; in fact, she is “not a mother-woman” (Chopin 16). As…

She presents her literary criticism on Jacobs Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl book use of death as a symbol for the conditions of slavery and motherhood. She develops her thesis with on how Jacob talk about death and how it tears down the stage of conflict between submission and resistance. The purpose of her argument is to suggest that surrendering and resistance can both be used together to create…

Deena J. Gonzalez’s essay and Rolando J. Romero’s essay concern themselves with similar topics, but each one has a different approach to delivering their arguments and organizing their ideas. While Gonzalez takes a more individual approach to analyzing the truth behind Malinche, Romero compares her to La Virgen de Guadalupe. Both of these writers take an approach that sees Malinche as someone who got the short end of the stick. In Gonzalez’s essay, “Malinche Triangulated, Historically Speaking…

Phyllis Aberdeen was a political figure that advocated for the fight against the equal rights amendment and gave a speech where she talked about how women wanted to stay at home and take care of the family and not go out and work. In the speech and content of the speech she used ethos and pathos to convey women across the United States to vote against the ERA. She also used repetition of key phrases to help impact the people listening to her. In the late 1960s and early 1970s women were often…

Hosseini’s, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and Barbara Kingsolver’s, The Bean Trees, women must meet ever-increasing demands and make sacrifices to maintain ties with their children, provide for their husbands, and support each other. The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. Darwin states, “a young and timid mother urged by the maternal instinct…

Let’s talk a little about how similar a tree in our backyards is to a neuron in our brain. A human brain cell has close to 100 billion neurons. If that’s not impressive, I don’t know what else is. The parts of a neuron are much like the parts of a tree in many ways. The word dendrite is a greek term meaning “tree-like.” The dendrite is much like the branches on a tree because just like branches on a tree receives nutrients through the tree to the leaves to help grow more leaves, a dendrite grows…