Essays on White Women

Introduction: Historically, female Black slaves endured the worse treatment, but have received the least amount of attention than their male counterparts in North American Slavery (Hine, 2007). There are longstanding myths that surround the experiences of female Black slaves, and struggles they face daily trying to survive. Deborah Gray White provides an intimate look into female slavery that until 1985 was long overdue. In her book she stated “Slave women were the only women in America who were sexually exploited with impunity, stripped and whipped with a lash, and worked like oxen” (White, 1999, p. 162). In the nineteenth ...

Specifically, health disparities refer to health variances of different groups of people. In most cases, health disparities occur based on race, age, sexual orientation, religions, and gender, among others. For example, research suggests that black women have a relatively higher number of deaths from breast cancer than women from other racial groups (Breast Cancer Action, 2013). Generally, about 40,000 women succumb to breast cancer and related complications annually. Over 40% of black women that are diagnosed with the disease condition are more likely to die of the condition than white women. On the other hand, nearly 1800 fewer ...

Discussion Board Posts

Main post starting a thread: The Intersection of Poverty Discourses by Debra Henderson and Anne Tickamayer. Honest and open discussions on how racism, stereotyping and other forms of prejudice impact the lives of the poor are necessary in order to overcome the society’s resistance in assisting the categories of poor people labeled as ‘undeserving’, and in order to create more opportunities for these people to secure jobs, complete their education and to become self-sufficient. In their article, “The Intersection of Poverty Discourses”, Debra Henderson and Anne Tickmayer discuss the notions of deserving and undeserving poor. The undeserving poor, ...

Women and oppression

The idea of oppression of women has two dimensions. First, before the advent of the working economy when women were pressured to work, they undertook roles within the family set up that promoted subservience to men. On the other hand, men worked hard to provide for the woman and their families. One view about this would be that women were relegated to the second position in the power chain in the family and society, while men were the overall power holders. On the other hand, when the working economy came into place, circumstances pushed women to join formal employment, ...

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Introduction Dancing is an integral part of human culture. Its importance is not only defined by its entertaining quality, but because dancing has also served as a form of human communication and expression. Dancing is a universal expression, which can be observed in almost every culture around the globe. And just like the oral language, there are dances that are unique to a particular culture as it reveals a particular purpose or way of life. The increasing contact between different cultures, however, has made certain cultural traditions such as dances to become transferred or adopted by another ...

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Published in 1984, Audre Lorde’s article argues in favor of a unified feminist movement, which does not ignore the differences among the experiences of women belonging to different groups, but rather, it uses those differences to examine the different ways in which women are oppressed, and the ways in which those differences contribute to enriched creativity. The author explains that, right now, the feminist movement is divided by the same forces that create human differences in general, which oppose dominant groups to minority groups, thus creating simplistic patterns of difference, where the characteristics of the dominant groups are ...

Article: Trolls Flood “Ghostbusters” IMDb Ratings, But Female Film Critics Fight Back

Response Thesis: The ratings in Ghostbusters are just a sign of the misogynist problem in the modern American Society The ratings on the film, ‘Ghostbusters’, an all female cast film, are not based on the true feelings of these men on the quality of the movie, but rather by the misogynistic inclinations of the average men in America. Giving a rating of one out of ten even before the official release of the movie is not only disrespectful, but also highly irresponsible, as it is a testament that the male critics do not dislike the movie, but rather, they ...

The feminist movement has been a vibrant one for the past couple of decades, not only in the United States but all across the world. There have been politically powerful and culturally influential campaigns and movements regarding women’s liberation and consciousness. The feminist movement involved several projects in the government bureaucracies, different institutions, and professions. These movements have brought about major changes in the lives of many women and their professions. Despite the acceptance of women’s equality and prominent accomplishments, the feminist movement has yet to achieve its absolute goals of gender equality (Epstein 2001). The focus ...

The Post War society was going through a transition period. The milestone document of the United Nations in the history of mankind is The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). With this document, the United Nations have protected human rights regardless of gender, race, religion ethnicity etc. The United Nations agreed that every person is free by born and he/she should be respected. He/she must be considered as human being and thus her rights of freedom must be protected. The two incidents were very important in the world history; first is the Civil Rights Movement and the feminist movement. ...

Chang, N.-Y., & Liou, T.-Y. (2009). A study of Latino parenting culture and practices: listening to the voices of Latino parents. Hsiuping Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 12, 1-36. Retrieved from http://ir.hust.edu.tw/bitstream/310993100/1599/1/12-01.pdf The article studies culture and practices of childrearing in Latino families. As the authors write, “Traditional Latino parents, in general, may have more rigid parenting values compared to their Caucasian counterparts” (Chang & Liou, 2009, p. 1). The conducted study is based on the qualitative research. First, the authors provide a complete literature review regarding the main values of Latin culture and historical background of their living in ...

Berkin has touched on many demographics in her story to show the role of women the struggle to attain freedom from slavery. Her use of different demographics has given her story an added advantage to explain precisely the role women played during this period. Berkin is not discriminative to explain that the Native American women who sided by the colonists faced a lot of challenges such as rejection from the patriots. This is one area that most authors always fail to mention as they will choose on a single demography such as race to explain the role of women ...

Stereotype is a mental shorthand that aids in the delivery of ideas and images more vividly and quickly (Ross and Paul 15). It may also refer to the perception that people have over other people or other groups of people. Stereotype is very important in a society as it gives guidance on motivational and cognitive processes in a society, and in most cases, it is viewed as the best tools to simplify the demands of the perceiver or the best technique to respond to the environmental factors such as social roles. Gender and racial stereotype is very common, and ...

MOUNTAIN DEW

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Day Phone: RACISM CLAIMS AT MOUNTAIN DEW GENERATE PUBLIC BACKLASH Winchester County, New York (May 1, 2013)_ On Wednesday May 1, 2013, Jamal Henderson who is the senior brand manager at Mountain Dew was faced with a situation that generated a lot of negative reactions from the members of the public. -MORE- What happened is that the company, a PepsiCo brand, ran a commercial named The Creator that involved partnership with Tyler, an African-American rapper, featuring a Mountain Dew. The advert showed a White woman on crutches being implored by a law enforcement officer to ...

Seneca Falls, New York, July 19-20, 1848: The Women’s Rights Convention

Introduction The Seneca Falls Convention, which was held on July 19-20, 1848 in the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, was referred to as the first women’s right convention. It was through this convention that an organized women’s right movement was initiated in the United States. Many historians associated the Seneca Convention as part of Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s biography, owing to the fact that she was the event’s main organizer. In fact, it was only recently when the Seneca Convention was recognized by historians as a significant event in history (Lerner, 3). Consequently, it ...

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For the millennial female workers of today, some employees already have a solution to free them of their worries regarding their biological clock – making egg freezing part of their health care package. Egg freezing is defined as a “method used to preserve reproductive potential in women,” which is also called mature oocyte cryopreservation (Mayo Clinic Staff, 2016). Through this technology, women who intend to delay pregnancy for whatever personal reason can do so. In 2014, Apple and Facebook were two of the companies who announced that they would include egg freezing in their surrogacy benefits. It was ...

Currently, feminism is a social movement that has brought a tremendous effect on film criticism and theory. The cinema has been widely taken by feminists to be an ethnical practice depicting myths concerning women and femininity. As a result, the issues of spectatorship and representation are key to feminist film criticism and theory. In the past decades, feminist criticism was aimed at women particularly those in Hollywood movies. Such fixed, the endless repetition of images of women were conceived to be obnoxious distortions that would set back the female observer (Hilderbrand and Lucas 345). Nevertheless, the understanding dawned that ...

The introduction of the reality show genre, it was meant to present the real people during dating, survival skills, and succeeding in the music business. However, in the modern day, the genre has presented some falsity and extravagance that is far from the relatable realism of the program. Feminism is one of the key aspects portrayed in reality shows such as Real Housewives of Atlanta, Bad Girls Club, among many others. These reality shows portray the African American women using certain characteristics that would be considered as stereotypes. The collection of evidence from reality shows. The project that deals ...

Breast cancer is identified as the most common cancer among women in the world (Chlebowski, Chen, Anderson, Rohan, Aragaki, Paskett, and Prentice, 2013). The prevalence rates have increased in the recent past, a trend associated with lifestyle attributes such as improper diets and lack of exercise. In as much as genetics play a contributory role in the development of breast cancer, a significant part is associated with these changes. An interesting aspect is that the ailment affects women differently in relation to differences in racial and ethnic considerations. In this regard, Asian women are the least affected group in ...

Introduction

Breast cancer is known as the most commonly diagnosed disease among women. It is not restricted to a single cast race or ethnicity. As compared to white women Asian women suffering from breast cancer are diagnosed at the later stages of the disease, and they also have higher death rates. Many studies are dot done on the racial differences experienced by the survival during the treatment or during diagnosis. Disparities in the breast cancer survival women could be due to inequality in the screening of breast cancer, its diagnosis, treatment and follow-up after the treatment. Research shows that how ...

“Poor single mother on welfare tell me how you did it?” rings the famous lyric of the late Rapper-Activist Tupac Amaru Shakur. The son of a former Black Panther, this ode to his mother provides a glimpse into the conundrum of surviving in the wake of being poor and black on public assistance. What Shakur unknowingly reveals is the image of welfare in a more empathetic and realistic way that illuminates instead of ignoring the lived realities of its recipients. While Shakur’s lyric is compassionate in it’s depiction, conservative lawmakers are less considerate in their elucidation of ...

The observations and the conclusions Fanon made are typically valid to the Antilles. This essay, then pinpoints specific areas that prove this particular thesis of this renowned writer. These areas are in reflection of what is in his book. The Negro and the language, about the woman of color as well as the man of white color, also the book talk about the alleged reliance complexities of the colonized and the actuality of the being a Black, the acknowledgment of the Negroes and the psychopathology of the Blacks. In this regards, Fanon streamlined these points and drew excellent observations ...

“One Hundred Years of Solitude” (Cien Añosde Soledad) is a magical realist novel created by Gabriel García Márquez in 1967. This novel is referred to as the Don Quixote of Latin America because of its overwhelming popularity (Jay Corwin, 4). The novel does not have any clear and obvious philosophy that is why the perception of this novel is very individualistic. The tragic and mystique ending pushes to the idea that multiple aspects of life that are described in the novel are heavily criticized by García Márquez (Jay Corwin, 4). And one of these ...

What are the differing concerns of white women vs the women of color in the women’s movement? Why do you think these differences evolved? In the early 1920s, women of color had different concerns and issues and directed to racial issues then the concerns of the white women. White women always stood for equality in cultural differences leading to gender discrimination, whereas the women of color had more specific and deeper approach towards racial differences and usually being affected by socio-economic status (Smith, p. 264). White women had concerns regarding the mentality of that era where women were ...

The cause of women’s suffrage changed the course of American history, it is the reason that women are allowed to vote in the United States today. The right to vote was not easily won for women. In fact, many women who had campaigned for blacks to receive the vote in the United States were left along the wayside when Congress voted to allow black men to vote but still forbade women the right to suffrage. The suffrage movement was a decade’s long battle and a tenacious often unpopular political movement that permanently altered the social and political ...

Miss Representation is an American documentary motion picture. It was released in 2011 by Girl’s Club Entertainment, to a limited theater release. It was shown at the Sundance film festival and several other film festivals, while also signing a deal to run on the Oprah Winfrey Network. The screenplay for the film was written by Jennifer Newson, Jessica Congdon, Claire Dietrich, and Jenny Raskin. Jessica Newsom also directed, and shared production duties with Julie Costanzano. With a running time of 85 minutes, the documentary had a shooting budget of $750,000, and box office earnings were not reported ...

Brian DePalma’s 1983 film Scarface is one of the most well-known drug and crime films in the history of popular culture. Everyone knows Tony Montana’s famous line, “say hello to my little friend” (DePalma, Scarface), regardless of whether they have even seen the film or not. However, what many people do not realize about the film are the many racial undertones and stereotypes that occur within the layers of context. The film is based around the conflict between Cubans and Americans, beginning with the importation of Cuban refugees to the United States to the escalation of the ...

While the Civil War may have legally ended slavery, remnants of slavery and racial animosity continued to exist, and perhaps still do, in many parts of the country. Even after the passage of the Reconstruction Amendments, which attempted to empower newly freed African American slaves and give them equal rights of citizenship, states managed to find ways to disenfranchise blacks from exercising their newly acquired rights of citizenship. Racial prejudice was especially pervasive in the South. The era of Jim Crow laws, which controlled nearly every aspect of Southern public life, maintained strict separation of whites and blacks (Welke, ...

The HIV/AIDS global epidemic has ravaged millions of lives across the world. In the past, prior to the discovery of effective control measures through medication such as antiRetroViral medication, the disease had infected millions of lives. At the present time, although the discovery of a vaccine has not yet been made, scientific research has made some leeway with regards to this issue. One would expect very low prevalence rate of the disease in the most powerful country in the world owing to the high level of medical technology and innovation systems available. However, this situation is further from the ...

Introduction

“Neo” generally means the new ways of doing things. Neoliberalism will therefore refer to new strategies which are used to improve the economic, political or social status. This paper examines how different women from different races are used to bring about an image perceived by the implementers to be positive and in line with improving the social and economic status of the society. The paper portrays an image of poor women from developing countries, how they are used as a tool in achieving neoliberalism and how most of them become passive victims of the circumstances. The paper also focuses ...

During the civil rights movement of the 1970s, disparate groups of people came together to fight and protest against the discrimination of people based on color, gender and creed. Even though these movements protested white male patriarchy and the disenfranchisement of people of color, their goals were not in sync with one other group that suffered more under the hands of patriarchy and racial domination. This group encompassed black woman, who suffered patriarchy as well as racial discrimination. The larger women’s rights movement ignored race as an important construct in the fight for freedom and equality. The universalization ...

Canadian society is understood to widely represent things like equality, freedom, and acceptance, but this is not the case for pay equality. Canadian law prohibits the discrimination in employment of persons based on their race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Although employers are unable to discriminate against women in the hiring process there is still a large wage gap between women and their male counterparts. Gender pay inequality has been widely discussed in various news outlets as a large problem in Canada, which has yet be properly addressed. It has been found that women earn less than men due to ...

In all times women were paying much attention to their appearance regardless of their ethnicity. However, each ethnicity has its own image of a beautiful body determined by its cultural and social values. Nowadays, there are many studies on how women of different ethnicities perceive an ideal body and how they assess themselves in relation to this ideal image. In our modern society the latter is imposed also by the media which portrays skinny models as being perfect and ideal. The main issue investigated by most of psychologists in burgeoning literature devoted to this subject is the attitude of ...

There are several causes of breast cancer. Cancer is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system of the body affects its organs (Lietzen, et al.,7). Breast cancer can recur even after treatment because of several factors, namely, age, medication administrated, other diseases that may compromise the immune system and the age of the individual. Ethnicity also plays a big part in whether or not an individual is more likely to get breast cancer. White women are more than likely to get breast cancer because they have a higher incidence of getting it. Ethnic minority groups such as ...

Recent historians have questioned the stereotype of postwar women as quiescent, docile, and domestic. Describe two examples of women or groups of women who participated actively in politics and reform. How did these women’s activism challenge our traditional ideas about the 1950s? Rosa Parks and Alice Paul were the two women who actively participated in politics and reforms. These two women actively fought against race and voting discrimination. They had shown a great impact on Civil Right Movements. Rosa Parks brought Martin Luther King, as a new leader for Civil Right Movements, meanwhile Alice Paul strategized the event, such ...

The racial segregation and oppression shared by women from their own experiences to change the political and social system were the awareness of women in the nation . Women voiced their sense of pride in accordance with their perspective and disappointments about the slow and inadequate changes. The hopes of women, guided by their active participation in the issues helped them survived the challenges. The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared segregation unconstitutional was the momentum for the civil rights . The momentum from the civil Rights Act of 1964, women rights were under the Act itself. Despite ...

HIV & Pregnancy: Discussing and Evaluating HIV among Pregnant Women and Their Infants

Since its discovery in early 1980s, HIV or human immunodeficiency virus has been noted to kill approximately 39 million people worldwide, with another 1.5 million dying of HIV-related causes, making it the number one deadliest infectious agent worldwide (US Dept. of Health & Human Services, 2014). Attacking primarily the immune system of the body, HIV generally makes the body susceptible to a wide array of diseases that normally do not cause life-threatening complications to an uninfected body. HIV affects people regardless of sex, age, race, and socioeconomic status and it is primarily acquired through sexual activities. As a sexual disease, HIV has ...

The 2011 publication of the Otsuka’s literary fiction tells the story of Japanese mail order brides who arrived in San Francisco little after the Second World War. Through the force of her language and the poetic elements in the style of writing, Otsuka creates a riveting recount of the Japanese women’s desire to live the American dream. The author uses one of the most unorthodox but effective style of writing to relate the story of these women. Almost all of the story is presented in the first person plural narration form where the author uses the term “we” ...

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Heyrman Christine Leigh’s “Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt” goes hand in hand with Greenberg Kenneth’s concepts on the depiction of southern men. Both texts present the structural relationship between the social elites and those considered to be at the bottom of the societal pyramid. In this case, slaves held the last place as per the laws by the white people. Heyrman points out that the turn of the century brought changes that shook the south and said changes did not have the perfect qualities ...

Introduction

Divorce is the dissolution or termination of a marital union. It is the reorganizing or cancelling of legal responsibilities of the marriage, thus breaking the bonds of matrimony between a husband and wife under the rule of law of a given country or state. Annulment declares the marriage null and void and, therefore, annulment is not a divorce. Divorce as a legal process comes along with some factors, which involve the distribution of property, child support, child custody, spousal support, child access, vision of debt and parenting time. In many countries, monogamy is required by law so divorce will allow former partners to remarry. ...

Abstract

Hypertension is a silent killer that afflicts over 77 million people in USA. The prevalence of this disease is higher among African-Americans than other ethnic groups. Especially, more than half of the population of African-American women suffers from hypertension and the associated disorders. Apart from genetic factors, a slew of environmental factors including obesity and lack of activity, diabetes, poor diet, alcohol consumption and stress are contributive to this growing phenomenon among black women. This paper has discussed this issue in more detail along with the recommended interventions necessary to keep this condition under check.

Introduction

Hypertension is a debilitating disease that afflicts ...

Sexual harassment is an unnecessary and undesirable sexual behavior that makes a person feel being offended, intimated, and humiliated, a woman in particular. It should be known that sexual harassment is not a healthy interaction, friendship, or flirtation that is mutual and consensual. Sexual harassment is sex discrimination, and it takes many different forms; it can be obvious or indirect, verbal or physical, repeated or just a curiosity and done by women and men against others of the same sex or opposite sex. Sexual harassment pollutes the environment and it has a devastating effect to the health, morale, confidence, and performance of those affected ...

Traditional and Popular Believes

When people settle down to consider from which tribe, race, religion or dialect to marry, there are a number of factors that are available for consideration. First of all, marrying from ones’ culture will not only cement the culture of the particular race or tribe but will also ensure that the history, dialect, arts and traditions of the particular culture are maintained and perpetuated. There are two major perspectives that come into play whenever such considerations are made. Such perspectives are the traditional belief and popular culture belief. The proponents of traditional belief believe in upholding their culture in ...

Professional

Question 1 With reference to both of the articles by Bannerji and Kelly, show how the sexual stereotypes and the hypersexualization of women and women of color mark the harassment of women in the workplace and on university campuses?

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According to Bannerji and Kelly, women suffered from harassment in public areas such as workplace and school campus. The harassers are known men and just strangers, and not a single case of harassment is reported to the police authority . The harassment is influenced by the sexual stereotypes and hyper-sexualization of women of different race or women of color. The discrimination ...

Introduction

It is not uncommon to hear remarks like, “Tiger Woods is letting your people down,” or “I knew it! Women cannot drive.” These are just some of the fainter forms of ethnic/ racial discrimination that do unnoticed in everyday life. Discrimination is the inferior or unequal treatment of people on the grounds of characteristics such as gender, religion or belief, race of color of skin, age, sexual orientation; political persuasion, civil status, ethnic background, nationality etc (Allen 891; Butler 308). In the contemporary world, discrimination takes subtler forms that in the traditional setting. Gender discrimination is one of the ...

Is feminism post-modern?

Stoler’s article discusses how European colonizers sought to position themselves in their colonies as superior to the colonized natives, how they used gender to construct social morality, political and economic stability and proper conduct in order to do so. The article suggests the globalization and sexuality literature highlights dominant paradigms, but they do not exist alone. They serve in advancing activism and culture. Globalization has resulted to the spread of western culture, which mainly consists of racial discrimination and capitalism. Some have argued that globalization should be viewed as a phenomenon driven by migrant labor, instead of a flow of ...

Pop culture has a tendency to glorify certain aspects of femininity, while constraining women into certain prescribed roles. Women who do not fit into these roles are shamed by the media; for instance, women who do not fit the prescribed role of beautiful and thin are often backhandedly complemented by the media. Women who work in media-- whether they are actresses, models, singers, or journalists are constrained by very real gender roles that are slow to change. If, for example, a woman does not behave in a manner that the media deems appropriate, she is often spoken about in negative terms by ...

Tremendous transformations in the birthing patterns in the United States have been witnessed over the previous century. In 1900, practically all the U.S births took place away from the hospital, the larger number of the births away from home took place at home. There was a decrease in the percentage of home births to 44% by 1940, and to 1% by 1969, this statistics held up to the 1980s. In 1989 there was a study conducted in the U.S that provided more information on out-of-hospital births (Barton 12). This study enabled the distinction among out-of-hospital deliveries at home, in a birthing center, ...

Stuck in Stereotypes

It is difficult to go for a day without hearing a stereotype which may be negative or positive. According to McLeod (1), a stereotype can be defined as a fixed and over generalized belief concerning a particular class or group of people. Research indicates that stereotypes exist of different cultures, races, ethnic groups, nations and even individual behaviors. People often get stuck in stereotypes because their use simplifies the social world in a major way. Mcleod (1) observes that they reduce the amount of thinking or processing that one has to do when he or she meets a new person. For example, in his reality home-made ...

Crime is a significant issue in America as well as other countries. In order to try to lessen the rate of crime in America, the causes of crime are often studied. Records are keep of those who commit crimes in order to determine the underlying factors which led to these offenses in an effort to decrease their occurrence. An entire field of study, criminology is dedicated to the study of crime in society. The field of criminology encompasses not only the causes of crime and theories behind why people commit crimes, it also studies the detailed of rates of crime ...

The world today is rapidly changing and coming together, thanks in part to globalization and the power of the internet. Communication by all means is cultural. It has the ability to draw on the many ways in which we learn to speak and give nonverbal messages. Communication between people doesn’t all happen the same as it varies from day to day, affected by individual personality, context, and the interactions of different individuals moods with the impact of cultural influence. Communication is an interactive process in which social influences are internalized to influence individuals’ choices, and effect relationship with ...

Women's Suffrage

Introduction Voting right for women seems a very logical action now but it was not the same 200 years back. In fact, there were no voting rights granted to women anywhere in the world till the 19th century when men were only allowed to vote in all democracies. United States was notan exception either. As per the documented history, Lydia Taft of Massachusetts was the first woman to be allowed to vote in town meetings during 1750s (Bridgman and Mills 1994). New Jersey had a law that restricted a person from voting on the basis ofa minimum level of wealth. Sexual ...

Pornography is, ironically, one of the messier topics related to women and gender issues to discuss; the existence of pornography has a tendency to divide those within the gender studies community. Is it a symbol of the objectifying, male-dominated, sex-focused culture in which we live, or is it an opportunity for women to express their sexuality and take ownership of their bodies? Pornography is a much more diverse industry than one might expect, with varying companies and individuals creating and distributing it in different ways, making it a mistake to discuss porn as a monolith. Instead, the complex intersection of feminism and pornography must ...

The issues of gender discrimination are witnessed across different cultures, and especially those that are still coming to age. The gender issues represent some of the feminist issues that emanate from the discrimination of women. Such issues include the hindrance of women from exploring the world, discrimination on expression of their sexualities and barring women from social interactions. Many authors talk about these feminist issues with the use of literary devices that tend to showcase their magnitude. The confab below purposes at emphasizing how different authors have used the literary device of metaphors in elucidating the issues of gender ...

Literature Review

Obesity is associated with a higher risk of cancer death, specifically deaths caused by cervical cancer. According to Wee, Phillips, & McCarthy (2005), there are about 4000 deaths every year that are caused by cervical cancer leads despite the availability of outstanding screening tests that are available in the market to detect the disease. The article of Wee, et al., (2005) is important for the study since it will explain the fact that despite early stage detection screenings that were conducted, there is no guarantee that the preventive treatment will improve the survival of patients with cervical cancer (Wee, et al., ...

There are several similarities between the assertions that professors Kuhlman and Woodworth-Ney makes about women suffrage. The two of them contend that different regions achieved suffrage at different times in history. However, Kuhlman has a global focus while Woodworth-Ney focuses on the USA for their discussions on women suffrage. Nations acquired woman suffrage in different times in history. There is also evidence to absence of patterns because when women were granted suffrage in different nations whether east or west. Kuhlman notes that there are female second-class citizens in different parts of the world. African countries mostly granted woman suffrage in ...

The enslavement of African people is a dark period in American history. It was a system in which individuals were treated as they were property, and of a lesser status, because they were foreign and of a different color. Slavery so profoundly affected the nation and the two colliding cultures that racism still runs deep in America today because of it. Many Americans today brush off the idea of slavery, believe that it is in the past and does not matter. However, it still matters very much to a large portion of the country, and is still an important part of the country’s ...

Beauty, sexuality, gender, and race have always been inextricably tied to one another. This was especially true in the 1950s in America, when all these elements merged into a single whole, a fantasy version of the ideal woman. These concepts are strongly illustrated in Barbie dolls, beauty pageants, and the icons of the time including Marilyn Monroe. If one examines the three in conjunction, one is granted a disturbing insight into the norms of gender and race as they applied to physical perfection. Further, one can see elements of classism and class bias intermingling with gender and racial prejudice. The appearance ...

First of all, the readings showed that the understanding of same-sex relations were completely different in the United States and European countries. Rupp presents more tolerant attitude to romantic and intimate relations of same-sex people. In the article, the author provides an insight to a historical phenomenon of romantic friendship and the peculiarities of its development with time. He describes how the “sexual system” worked and provided some factors that can be a reason for it transformation. One of the most vital points was that the family’s role as an economic unit became less important. The other was that urban ...

The enslavement of African people is a dark period in American history. It was a system in which individuals were treated as they were property, and of a lesser status, because they were foreign and of a different color. Slavery so profoundly affected the nation and the two colliding cultures that racism still runs deep in America today because of it. Many Americans today brush off the idea of slavery, believe that it is in the past and does not matter. However, it still matters very much to a large portion of the country, and is still an important part of the country’s ...

Introduction

This narrative condemns the laws that got laid out for slavery and the political argument that condemns such laws. "Incidents in the life of a slave girl" has incidents that have helped reshape the slave narrative as a genre. Harriet Jacobs has represented slave narration from a woman’s point of view. Her focus mainly was to look at family and constitutes of womanhood. Their sexuality and other issues that often got told differently from the perspective of a male narrator. She replaces fiction with the truth; she was strongly against human enslavement. She says that the laws of slavery sought to deny ...