Women's writing in English

women are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subject, University of Missouri has conducted a research on how STEM subjects are being dealt with by both boys and girls. . The research clarifies that lack of women’s participation in these fields depends on several…

around Great Britain, which spread to other countries and then to other continents. There are many things to be covered over the time of the industrial revolution, but one area to cover is the negative affects on labor, specifically child labor and women’s role in the job industry. In Europe the factories abused the labor of children and they had to deal with some excruciating days. Industrialization transformed the handicraft-centered economies into industry economies. The perspective of Great…

then voiced their discontentment through their poetry which later became known as Modernist Poetry. One such example of this poetry would become a very well known poem, “Daddy.” Reading through the poems of Sylvia Plath it becomes apparent that her writing fits right in. In the biography of Plath, her poetry is described as “poems that have been chiseled, with a fine surgical instrument, out of arctic ice” (“Sylvia Plath”). Another…

Truth was sold at an auction. At this memorable time, Isabella struck off, for the sum of one hundred dollars, to one John Nealy, of Ulster County, New York;...”(Truth 11 “Now the war begun. She could only talk Dutch-and the Nealys could only talk English.”(Truth 11) Because the language barrier between Truth and her masters there was conflict. Especially between Truth and the mistress of the house. After only be owned for a year by John Nealy she was sold again, this time her new owner was…

two grave "constitutional errors," monarchy and hereditary rule. He criticizes the English monarchy about representing without the people and points out all the problems the British has brought to the country. Paine had a made a biblical case against the monarchy. He was trying to encourage the American people to go to war and fight for their independence. In his book, one of the first things Paine did in his writing was talking about the attack to the king in his book. He stated that all…

She started to write poetry at that time when personal experiences took the place of colonial and nationalist themes in English poetry by Indian women. After the soft and soothing strains of Toru Dutt and Sarojini Naidu, the offensive individualism of Kamala Das appears as a shock. She is considered as a subjective poet and her poems are “products of uncontrolled emotions”…

Mary White Ovington Bhavya Korkonda #13 1/25/17 For a person, such as myself, who is so immersed in women’s rights and equality, Mary White Ovington is indeed a remarkable person in history, as well as a formidable role model. Ovington was born on April 11, 1865, in Brooklyn, New York. She was raised by abolitionist (people who partake in the action of taking down a system, practice, institution, ect.) parents, so, naturally she grew up with an enthusiasm for social reformation. She was…

The idea encompasses a vast area and includes parts of North Africa, the Near East, and sections of western Asia (Pittman). Oriental beliefs generally held by the English population and other parts of western Europe during the time of the British Empire emphasize the viewpoint that people of Oriental societies needed assistance in governing themselves and updating their culture and way of life. Edward Said speaks…

tea planter, and her mother was a Christian teacher and social activist. Roy began her education at "Corpus Christi," a school founded by her mother in Aymanam, India. This school was very informal. As a result, Roy developed a way of thinking and writing. From the beginning of her education, Roy wanted to be a writer. It was her childhood dream. She demonstrated her independence at the early age of sixteen, leaving her home to live on her own in a small hut with a tin roof. She survived for…

Kanyshulkam by Gurajada Appa Rao(1897) in Telugu, Kamala (1894) by Krupabai Satthianadhan in English, ‘Yamuna Paryatan’ (1857), by Baba Padmanji Mulay in Marathi, and in Bengali Bankimchandra Chattopadhyaya’s Vishvriksha, Krishnakanter Uil , Rabindranath Tagore’s Chokher Bali, Gora, Chaturanga and Jogajog and Saratchandra Chandra’s Pathanirdesh…