To the Virgins

Al-Shaykh’s The Keeper Of The Virgins is an excellent story. The opening line: “ One of the women wondered aloud if he was a dwarf in every way.” was attention grabbing. Immediately, it piqued my interest. Who are these women? Is this man an actual dwarf? Is he a dwarf in every way? This was an impressive way to open the short story. In a few short pages, Al-Shaykh gave brief background information with very little unnecessary information. The Keeper Of The Virgins story was…

The television series Jane the virgin follows a 23-year-old virgin named Jane who was artificially inseminated. Jane lives with her mother Xo (pronounced /zo/) and her grandmother Alba. Jane has boyfriend/recent husband named Michael, and she also has a friendship with the father of her son. Jane is catholic and it has not only been verbally expressed within the series but it is also shown through her actions. The television series goes into depth about Janes problems and triumphs and how she…

her beauty, her muteness, and her lack of opinion. Eventually though, Nathanael realizes that Olympia is an automaton and has no substances because she is constructed merely to be the most perfect looking woman. Similarly, In Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin Suicides, The Lisbon sisters are worshipped solely for their bodies prohibiting them from having outward, recognizable personalities and lending to the community idolizing and fetishizing them. The sisters are given their identity by those…

The Sworn Virgins of Albania are a perfect example of the relationships and differences between male and female, and sex and gender. Taking a vow to dress and act like a man, these Sworn Virgins are accepted by their communities and looked at as men, no matter their sex and/or upbringing. In this paper I will examine the cultural logic and norms that make becoming a Sworn Virgin possible, desirable, and even necessary. Every society has their own specific norms. Depending on the location,…

Woman in ancient Rome served both religous and political roles. One of the most prominent Religous roles woman served was the servance of vestal virgins. There are a total of six Vestal 's, who served the goddess Vesta. They were isolated from the rest of society and kept in a sanctuary where anyone can enter during the day. Their significance was keeping the vestal 's chasity, or known as virginity, as it is seen as a sigma of keep the fire lit in rome. Because of their belief in complete…

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Miguel Gonzalez’s piece titled The Virgin of Guadalupe depicts the Virgin of Guadalupe in the center, with a smaller image in very corner and a beautifully decorated frame encompassing her image. She is shown looking down with her head a bit tilted to the left, a pose that characterizes her and distinguishes her from different virgins. She is in the center, with a beige background that most likely represents Juan Diego’s tilma, where her image appeared for the first time. Emanating from her…

The cultural summation of Ancient Rome can be found in its religious rites, decrees, politics, and cultural norms – and nothing fused nor separated these spheres more that the Vestal Virgins. The Vestal Virgins were a cult of six women in charge of worshipping the goddess Vesta whose eternal flame represented the “heart and hearth of Rome” (Parker 567). Chosen by lot, the Virgo Vestalis Maxima and five other Vestals sacrificed a minimum of thirty years of service to keeping Vesta’s fire burning:…

age of '16 when he dropped out of school. In the 1970s, Branson starts a mail request and a record marking business. Two years subsequently, Virgin Records were made. In the middle of 80s and 90s, Branson wandered into aircraft and had likewise made a Virgin record name in America. In 2005, Branson made a space tourism organization called Virgin Galactic. Virgin is a central universal venture bunch. Presently Branson has more than 200 unique organizations, for example, versatile communication,…

describes this in this quote, “if you can motivate your people you can get through bad time and you can enjoy the good times together. If you fail to motivate your people your company is doomed not to perform well.” Richard Branson now has more than 100 Virgin companies worldwide, employing approximately 60,000 people in over 50 countries. Making him have a networth of 5.1 billion. Richard Branson has left his mark on British business, and since the 1980’s, with his spiraling number of mergers…