Sphere

Separate Spheres emerged as a distinct ideology that imposed gender roles which dictated that the men’s place was in the public sphere while the women’s place was in the private sphere. It claimed that the division was natural, rooted in the biological difference between men and women. The men’s role was to live grandiose dreams while the women’s role was to be a model of self-control with utmost obedience and spirituality. Kate Ferguson Ellis argues that the concept of Separate Spheres…

The two spheres that have impacted my life the most are academic and personal. This is because I have spent the most time writing for myself and for essays and other school related pieces. Since I started school I have been writing for my classes. There hasn 't been a year that I haven 't written something. From Kindergarten where I used to draw a picture and describe it in two sentences, to High School where I wrote an essay almost every week, because of this I believe the academic sphere has…

The novel, Sphere, written by Michael Crichton and published in 1987, is an engrossing story that has many twists and turns. Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, wrote, “I started the story in 1967 as a companion piece to The Andromeda Strain. But then, I didn’t know where to go with it” (1997). Sphere tells the story of multiple scientists who team up to discover the unknown that will defy their imagination, and the tale of the terrifying events that take place. A group of scientists along…

Sphere of Influence When Elizabeth 1 became queen of England, she understood the importance of controlling the way she was portrayed. With this control in her hands. Elizabeth created a mythical image of herself that subjects embraced also glorified. Elizabeth wasn’t just the queen, she was a great artist, but more importantly, her strong personality influenced along with inspired the arts, including the culture of England to reach new heights. Elizabeth became the Imperial Votaress in the…

Feniben Patel “The Feminine Sphere” In the United States, today, women have the same legal rights as the opposite gender, but this was not always the case in history Women had to fight in a generally bloodless war to get their rights. Men were handed their basic rights, where women had to fight for equality to then thought superior man. Women’s activists and feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Catherine Beecher, were participants of the same movement but believed in different end goals.…

Warner’s Publics and Counterpublics focuses on one key question: What is a public? According to Warner the concept of “public” is usually misunderstood. Warner states that everything has a public. Warner splits his discussion of public and counter publics into seven sections. Warner states that this kind of public that comes into being only in relation to texts and their circulation (like the public of this reflection). The seven sections include: 1. A public is self-organized. It exists just by…

When China was declining the Europeans divided up China in “Spheres of Influence”, which was an area where a country had special privileges. The United States was one of the countries who didn’t have a sphere of influence in China, which worried them because they were afraid they were going to get cut off from China. The Open Door Policy stated that countries could not prevent other nations from trading within that countries sphere of influence. The Open Door Notes supports this statement by…

Haile Selassie, who wrote Appeal to the League of Nations, was the emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. Both Ethiopia and Italy were members of the League of Nations. Italy was the founding member in 1920, and then Ethiopia joined in 1923. Benito Mussolini was an Italian politician, the leader of the National Fascist Party, and he ruled Italy as the Prime Minister from 1922 until 1943. Haile Selassie wrote Appeal to the League of Nations to get justice for his people and his country, making…

Reflecting Sphere is a lithograph made by Mauritis Cornelis Escher in the year 1935. Hands with Reflecting Sphere basically shows a hand holding a sphere with a reflective surface against what looks to be a wall. The reflection shows Escher sitting in his office while holding the sphere. (see fig.1) When generally looking at the lithograph it seems to be very simple and straight forward but in reality the lithograph is very unique. The…

Public and domestic sphere emerge from separate sphere ideology that insists separate areas for men and women. The doctrine developed in the industrial revolution and was located in North America and Europe. The notion means that gender roles are separated because men and females are different through the will of God and biologically. In this light, they should perform different functions. Women are supposed to occupy domestic sphere in which their roles are defined. For instance, they are…