Shameless

Langston Hughes, born in 1902, was a writer who specialized in poetry and plays. He also wrote many short stories. One of his famous short stories is “Cora Unashamed.” This short story, set in a predominantly white town in the early 20th century, is regarding the life of a simple African American woman named Cora Jenkins. The story centers around the hardships and mistreatment she dealt with in her life while working as a maid for a white family named the Studevants. Hughes’s main purpose of…

Everyone knows the iconic poster of the girl in a denim jumpsuit and a red polka-dot bandana in front of a yellow background saying “We Can Do It!”. Even if the name “Rosie the Riveter” does not ring a bell, her face is one someone cannot go a lifetime without seeing. This piece of propaganda, and many others including songs and stories, are all part of the campaign that is Rosie the Riveter. Originated in the early the 1940’s, this campaign inspired millions of women to get out of the typical…

their homes, women had limited access to social activities within their cities. The poet Hesiod loathed women as a ‘snare’ for men, calling women a ’poisonous race’ and ‘a great plague.’ Aristophanes had men chant in one of his plays, “Women are a shameless set, the vilest creatures going.” Euripides from his book ‘Meda’ writes; “If only children could be got some other way without the female sex! If women didn’t exist, human life would be rid of all its miseries.” These two authors easily…

countries like India and Pakistan and Egypt. Women had restrictions such as to leave the house with a special purpose, have limited contact with people, do home tasks. They were denied their own rights and forced. If women do not follow rules, they are shameless and talked within the society. Women in these parts of the…

Gregory Maguire’s novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, is a rework of the classic novel, The Wizard of Oz, written by L. Frank Baum. The novel aims to reveal the other side of Oz; the true side that the first novel masked. Munchkinland is no longer the peaceful place that we are accustomed to, but rather it is now full of political upheaval. The Wizard in Wicked has managed to usurp the throne and instill his own totalitarian regime. One important political issue…

The Chicano Movement fought for inclusivity, but unfortunately, the dominant traditional definition of Chicano is associated with machismo and male chauvinism which fails to recognize a Chicana. As a result, this primary characteristic of a Chicano oppressed Mexican American women and excluded them from the customary identity which gave rise to the Chicana Movement in the 1960s. This was one of the first actions that occurred in order to redefine the Chicano identity. Ironically, the Chicana…

I. Introduction Darkness is an empty word. At least it is until it has context and meaning thrust upon it. Film noir is a name given to a series of films which originated in the United States around the 1940s. These films often followed a formula involving darkness, mysterious and troubled characters, nihilistic undertones, and a confound unfolding of the passage of time. Breathless, directed by Jean Luc Godard, was somewhat of a French-made parody of these American films, for instance, the…

The cultural construction of rape, or rape culture, is a somewhat misunderstood term in mainstream society. Many people shy away from the expression because it seems at first glance to demonize all men as evil predators. In reality, however, rape culture refers to a much broader social phenomenon that addresses both men and women. In an article for the Globe and Mail, for instance, Jordan Venton-Rublee defines a rape culture as “the environment that puts the onus on the victim, not the…

‘’ The Black Stone of Ka’abah ’’ by Ivan Bunin Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but a famine for hearing the words of the Lord. And the people shall wander from sea to sea and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord inquiring for and requiring it as one requires food, but shall not find it. Prophet Amos 8: 11…

laugher, but Chaucer used his poem to tell his readers know how skillful the pardoners were, and that they were not has perfect as they seem because they had the authority to perform indulgence. During the middle age pardoners were known to be “shameless and impudent fraudsters, who go around Rome claiming they have the spiritual authority to exercise power of life and death to human soul” (Curry 601). Chaucer knows all this was happening that is why he is able to combine his worries into the…