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POETIC ANALYSIS OF “Out, Out-” BY ROBERT FROST In Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out-” Frost uses literary devices to portray the fact that life should be valued. The boy that Robert Frost creates is a hard worker. The boy tries to do the best he can, but because of his age and lack of experience, he is unskilled. His unskilled hands are only trained for work that leads to his painful death. Frost mimics the story of Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth through the boy, and the specific way he dies. The…

In The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the story follows the struggle of a father and his son to survive in a post-apocalyptic world where inhumanity, despair, and violence in a loveless world do not seem to save much room for peace and triumph. However, despite the absence of empathy and basic humanity, McCarthy does somehow achieve to highlight some pleasant themes all over the story: the themes of morality, hope, and love that are embodied through the father and son's journey on the road. One of…

From childhood to adulthood, my life has been full of interactions; from the people that I’ve met, to the places that I’ve been. These interactions are full of contexts that have impacted the person I am and shaped the way I see the world. The most influential context is my gender. There are certain things – like my mindset and personality – that I hadn’t noticed had been affected so drastically. Having its positives and negatives, being a female has made me cautious of men, self-conscious, and…

How can two boys with such similar lives, be so different in so many ways? How can two people who have grown up the same exact way, see the world in an opposite mindset? Well as for Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston, that is the issue. In S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, Johnny and Dally both have awful parents, which causes them to place little value on their lives. Contrariwise, Johnny and Dally see the world differently, leaving the impression of people seeing them in different perspectives.…

Gender Equality The article by Wanner and Wadham (2015) is focused on the idea of integration of men and masculinity in the fight against inequality in the society. The article aims at making readers understand how the organizations sponsoring the idea of gender equality have embraced the involvement of men in this discipline and what actions could be taken to ensure men’s full participation. The authors begin by explaining that this field of gender impartiality has been of key interest to many…

“... If women had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various; heroic and mear; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man, some think even greater”( Shakespeare’s Sister, Woolf). Unfortunately, the greatness and extreme heroic acts in stories of women before the 1800’s, exist only within black inked pages. Women should be portrayed realistically. Shakespeare’s Sister written…

Written task 2 type 2 (language and gender) Judy Syfers’ essay Why I want a Wife Question How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? Thesis: Written in a satirical way, this essay presents ‘wives’ through stereotypical qualities that men want them to have and take for granted, to bring the realities of gender inequality within marriages to the light. Outline: My critical response will • Explore the background of Judy Syfers and the background of her essay ‘Why I Want a…

Rehabilitation of the Soul: How Flannery O’Connor Uses the Concept of Disability in “The Lame Shall Enter First” In her short story, “The Lame Shall Enter First” Flannery O’Connor shares the tale of a self-righteous reformatory counselor, Sheppard, who forgoes the raising of his own son to embark on a quest to improve the life of a young miscreant, Rufus Johnson, who has a clubbed foot. Eventually after devoting all his time and effort to the saving of this young boy, Sheppard realizes the…

love from a man who wanted to be a bachelor into a man that like Beatrice, protected others in times of need. At first, Benedick voices an ideal patriarchal man who complains that Beatrice “speaks poniards, and every word stabs.” (2.1.218). But, he later accepted Beatrice for who she was and agreed to Beatrice’s demand to “Kill Claudio” (4.1.282). The change done by Shakespeare was quite immense because he changed from a man who thought lowly of a woman who spoke of her mind, into a man…

Gender and sex are not synonymous. We’re taught to believe that being born male makes you a man and being born female makes you a woman, but this is simply not the case. There are many parallels in Margaret Mead’s article “Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies” with what we learned in class this term about gender roles and how they are learned and not “natural”. In her article she elaborates that gender roles are learned and provides evidence using the Arapesh, Mundugumor, and…