Women's writing in English

America has been known as the world that makes dreams come true since the early 1600s. America was the New World and everyone wanted a bite of the big apple. Founded on the hopes of being a fresh start the voyage to America became great. In a sense, America is a fresh start. The variety of people that immigrated into the states was incredible. In the early 1900s, there were neighborhoods upon neighborhoods of any culture you could think of all in the small area of New York City. America was an…

Brisbane only earning 50 cents a fortnight. Initially Oodgeroo Noonuccal dreamt of becoming a nurse but when she applied that dream was unfulfilled and rejected simply because of her Aboriginal background, she then enlisted herself in the Australian Women’s…

Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 film starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie about a women’s 18-month stay in a mental institution. The film takes place in the late 1960’s and focuses around a main character by the name of Susanna Kaysen. The following summary was written with help from the American Mental Health Foundation website and Wikipedia. In the beginning of the film we learn that Susanna Kaysen had overdosed by taking an entire bottle of aspirin followed by a bottle of vodka. Despite many…

universalize the classroom lessons for each grade level. This program, developed by New York State in 2011, is, “a free online trove of sequenced units and classroom lessons at each grade level… [to help] address state standards for mathematics and English language arts” (Kaufman, Julia). This is just one example of an easy solution to decreasing the number of students in dire need of catching up, thus, closing the education gap. Opfer has also found many benefits from better child care through…

Many people are attracted to one country or to the other and so they would naturally develop a desire to visit their spot, either for a vocation or for a job or to study or to even lead their life. Especially the people who wish to live in a new country will not only give them a fresh experience and exciting memories, but also makes them hard as they miss their culture, tradition, family and in short their home land, that makes them sick. In this way how Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine conveys the…

Said dichotomies include the portrayal and interpretation of gender. For most scholars, the Judith of the Old English poem is often either praised as a feminist hero, a woman acting as a warrior and therefore a man, or she is denied heroism and claimed to be merely a wise woman whose violent deeds are no match for actual Anglo-Saxon male heroes. This train of thought follows the Old English dichotomic pattern…

her time. To compare her views, Geoffrey Chaucer felt her pain and echoed the same thoughts when writing his Canterbury Tales and using certain characters to portray his thoughts. Chaucer was an anomaly to women when he was alive, Ken Longworth from the Newcastle Herald explains, “Feminism and the 14th century aren't usually mentioned in the same breath but there were male writers who supported women's rights.” (Longworth) Throughout all of the stories told by the characters it is clear that…

roles in paving the trajectory of their illnesses, as physicians were not a monopoly. Since patients had the authority to choose who they wanted to treat them, market relations were essential. In particular, the primary sources from The Making of the English Patient demonstrate how patients shaped early modern medicine. These sources unveil the pitfalls of only looking at a patient-focused history and how suffering was depicted as social and cultural occurrences. During this time, illness was…

figures who were leading the literary movement. The younger pioneering figures of poets include Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. During the early nineteenth century, Lord Byron was a so popular poet who had a distinguishing style in writing his poems that were mainly connected to the concept of Romanticism in this era; consequently, he was a prominent romantic poet whose poetry was striking miscellaneous themes. I really believe that…

Elaine Showalter pointed out in her book, The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, “the long-term repression of signs of fear that led to shell shock in war was only an exaggeration of the male sex-role expectations, the self-control and emotional disguise of civilian life.” Thus, leading to men creating a form of resentment…