New Woman

Throughout this excerpt from Stevenson’s piece, she developed her argument using helpful rhetorical devices that displayed the 1920s as an exciting, new, and noteable change of life in America. Diction was used to add emphasis to descriptions of lifestyle, women, and the flapper and the way they changed in the 1920s. Symbolism was used to characterize the new attitude of women in a specific, and familiar form. Additionally, the use of logos logically…

independent and “New Women” were feared by men. A True Woman is often seen as devoted to their husband, pure, and always very modest. The New Woman was evolving in this time and often was independent, unmarried, and often seen as a flirt or as very seductive. Mina Murray, Lucy Westenra, and the three vampiresses are all prime examples of New and True women. Both types of women have contrasting traits, but almost all the women throughout the book have acts displaying behavior that both a New and…

Self-Portrait, “New Woman”, in 1896. She received her first camera from George Eastman, the inventor of the Eastman Kodak and a family friend. She became a noted advocate for women’s photography as well as a documenter of key historic events. When she opened her own studio in New York in 1894, She was the only woman photographer in the city. Johnston also photographed many famous photographs in Paris, but perhaps her most famous work, shown here, of the liberated "New Woman." The photograph…

positive reproduction, women were pushed into traditionally Victorian roles of motherhood and passivity. Katrina Trask wrote in her 1895 article entitled “Motherhood and Citizenship: Woman’s Wisest Policy” that woman should bear children with “the mission of the perpetration of the race” and a woman engaging in sexual acts with any other intention “has failed in her obligation and privilege” (Gavin 124). Through the discourse surrounding motherhood, the female body became a tool of the empire…

century is known to be the start of new beginnings. It was that generation where machineries evolve the economics and social life of the human beings: from traveling to one place to another, a click of a button for communication, and to sending news to the residents of the world. But, as the year progress the mortals abused the capability of these machines. One of the problems is how they report news and how they edit stuff to create news and spread rumors. Can news reporters be fully trusted? …

understanding the value social media has in regards to today’s news. Social media has changed many aspects of journalism. Now, for the consumer, sharing news has become more important than searching for it. Based on who you follow or who you’re friends with will determine what kinds of information pops up on your timeline. Because of things like Twitter, where news is easily accessible with real-time updates, there is a demand for instant news stories that quickly inform. Newspapers cannot…

The new social media has not made for a more enlightened, connected and democratic society. Instead, it has used mechanisms to instill fear and mass hysteria to those following them and will continue to negatively influence and mislead people in the future. The traditional media that baby boomers have used is the newspaper. A newspaper passes through many editors and every person is assigned a single section, so you know your section well. Information is passed through journalists to writers…

The American news spends a lot of time discussing the events that take place Iran, Syria, Eqypt, England, and a few others. Some countries are not a majorly discussed country in the news in the United States. There are several others that could be mentioned more, as well. Scotland, Ireland, Australia, Denmark, Switzerland, and Sweden are just a few that we rarely hear anything about in our media. American news networks seem to only discuss a fraction of countries that make up the world.…

much of her day is controlled by apps. She states, “I eat my breakfast reading theSkimm, Deadline Hollywood, Cupcakes and Cashmere, and many more news sites and blogs, all on my laptop.” (Atwan 50). She is essentially replacing a classic newspaper with social media sites and apps. Is this necessarily amiss? I believe so because she can control what news she wants to expose herself too. Doing some research, theSkimms ad line is, “theSkimm makes it easier to be smarter. Join the millions who wake…

News comes today comes in many forms from a twitter update on your phone to the more traditional newspaper delivered right to your house each morning. Some news we find intriguing, while other articles we just skim over and think nothing of it. So why does some news catch our attention? Is it the shock factor, something interesting or is it just so horrifying you have to read it? Today one of the most controversial topics flooding the news is gun violence and gun control. It seems we cannot go…