Women College Essays Samples For Students

Business: Customer Relations

I had been working with the Valero Gas Station for about three years as a customer service attendant. This position gave me the exposure I needed owing to the fact that I had to attend to several customers in a day. Actually, the management of the Valero Gas Station took the initiative of taking me through a 3 months training program so that I could acquire the necessary skills to relate with customers. Therefore, from the time I took over the position of a customer service attendant I was braced for the challenges that came with the position because of the training I ...

Communication

- BBC News about Gender Role
“Japanese Astronaut changes gender roles; her husband is back to home to look after his daughter.” This news is published by BBC in the topic on gender roles. The four women are orbiting the earth on the international space station. Among the four, one is the Japanese astronaut, and her space flight questions the gender roles between men and women. Mrs. Naoka Yamazaki is the second Japanese women astronaut in the space; her husband gave back his job to look after his seven- year old daughter Yuki, and his husband wants to ...

SUMMARY AND ATTONATION

The writer from page 150 begins by saying that sojourners hailing from New Orleans who used to drive in the afternoon would on several occasions spot two or three houses which had a beautiful and fantastic architectural features that helped them draw the attention of the public. Then there is also the aspect of religion whereby Creole is defined as a religious and also true to issue facing her and also fearless in expressing his empathy and sorrow for the an American invader who had been born in horror only to find himself sandwiched by hatred and a world of discrimination. The ...

Summary of Articles

- The Wit of Saul Steinberg
The article on Steinberg is a discussion on the effects of drawings and pictures in relation to written words on the same subject matter. The author of the book ‘Art and Illusion’ is also the author of this article who critiques and analyzes Steinberg’s paintings as a mode of communication. It is indicated in this article how pictures and drawings play an important part in articulating messages. In fact, the author describes Steinberg’s pictures as more precise in portraying a message better than his words ever could. The pictures presented in this article ...

The point of this paper is to trace the origin of the maasai through their stories in order to find out if they were myths or legends.The Maasai is a group of plain Nilotes mostly living in the east African region. Their culture, mostly surrounds nomadic pastoralists that move with their cattle in search of water and pasture. Their creation myth surrounds livestock and mainly cattle which they hold sacred. They attribute their way of life to a myth in which Enkai sent them with cattle from heaven to look after them.

This story does not fit the outfit of ...

“Should I choose my major for interest or money?” – that is a struggle that every college student will probably face when he/she enters the university. According to the article “Choosing a College Major: For Love, for the Money?” now college students have to overstep a high pressure while choosing their major. Because education becomes needed and widespread all over the world, lots of them are baffled by necessity of taking such an important decision, because in modern world it is hard to stay objective and combine your heart will with voice of reason.

I have faced ...

The government is not only beneficial to the Americans in more ways than one, but also necessary. There are undertakings within the county’s setting that require the government’s oversight. The government is important as it ensures there is military control and protection of its citizens. Through the government, the country is provided with a defense system through which it can defend and or deter attacks within its boundaries. Government is important as it ensures the citizens therein are protected from other forms of worse or adverse power structures, which have the ability to form in the midst of ...

Anthropological analyses prove that there are many cultural practices in the globe that use different forms of body art and ornamentation such as tattooing which is either permanent or temporary, scarification, and piercing for different reasons such as, ceremonial religious rituals, and tribal identification. The body art and ornamentation process represents a figurative death, as well as rebirth involving painful experience as a method to push for self-discovery, and establishing one’s position in the society. This paper will focus on different aspects of body art and ornamentation across certain cultures. The cultures to be analyzed are the Yoruba’s of ...

Although the image referred to in this text is often called Your Body is a Battleground, the original image, created for a pro-choice march by artist Barbara Kruger, was untitled (Drohojowska-Philip). The image, created in 1989, is a photographic silkscreen on vinyl, and shows a black and white image of a woman overlaid with red and white text (Drohojowska-Philip). The original image is a perfect square, and a relatively large piece, measuring 112 inches by 112 inches. The woman’s face is split down the middle, with the left half a black and white image of the woman and the right half showing the negative of the ...

Schmidt’s tenets majorly described as the Ahimsa principle focus on the need to shun violence in our society. The principle primarily means not to cause injury or circumvent behaviors or activities that lead to pain on human beings as well as the animals. Though the principle pays more attention to the Hinduism religion, it is multidimensional and applicable to all regions. The principle assets that a human being possesses the divine spiritual energy, this means causing pain on fellow human being is tantamount to hurting yourself (Maschike 109). The principle went further to admonish the nation that violence on ...

The book, “Venus in fur,” tells a story about love, dominance and slavery in a person’s feelings. It is based upon the imaginations of Server in, who is weirdly in love with a statue of Venus, the goddess of love. The fur in this case symbolizes power and dominance, where the narrator identified with the cruelty and power in a woman. The character meets Wanda, with whom he falls in love. The character is in love to the point of delivering himself to become a slave. At first, he does not look at Wanda in a sexually taken way because he still has the ...

Organizational identification can be defined as the significance of the organization in the individual’s self-concept. It is the adoption of identity by either the person in the context or by others. Organizations regulate and control members’ identity in different ways. One of this way is by conceive control where members watch and control each other’s actions. Another way through which organization regulate and control members’ identity is by setting up some rules and procedures to govern the identification. Also, member’s identity can be regulated through the setting up of strong organizational values. Organization identification is a legitimate organizational ...

Gender is defined as the activities, roles and behavior assigned in a social place with reference to women and men. Though it is normally confused with sex, it is not. Sex is the biological issue of whether a person is male or female. Gender on the other hand is the society’s code of behavior as to how a man or woman is supposed to behave and act. These distinct given roles are what give rise to inequalities. This difference is that which gives systematical favor to one group and disfavors another. This may occur in terms of health services, job opportunities, ...

Women of today are stronger. Their status is changing from the past to the present. Years ago, women are considered responsible only as wives. Simply listened to their husbands, became fulltime wives; they never enjoyed life and focused on how to serve their husbands, and no freedom to express themselves as women. Men believed that women have no right to pursue their career other than being homemakers and mothers; looked down by men. At present, women are more active in their role in the society, conscious about their status and they progress in view of their rights as well. ...

Usually family traditions and rules are passed from generation to generation. However, now young families have the opportunity to separate from their parents. At first glance, it seems right. However, life apart from older generations deprives young families from the benefits of the knowledge and wisdom in matters of child rearing. This way the influence of the older generation on children decreases with the strictness of the rules. Personally, I was raised in tough boundaries, I was taught to behave in a certain way and even now I can not cross some of behavior laws that were declared by my ...

The work of Art, which is discussed in this essay, is a painting of Emile Jean Horace Vernet – “The Scene from the French Campaign of 1814”, created in the 1826. Now, this masterpiece is located in the Legion of HonorGallery 16. This picture was created with oil on canvas.(Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.Emile Jean Horace Vernet › Scene from the French Campaign of 1814.(n.d.)) This work is truly considered to be a piece of World Art: as it may be seen, all objects, depicted on it, are quite realistic. On this point it is appropriate to go to the ...

One artist captures you with his subtle strokes while the other captivates with the sheer drama that happens in the canvas. Vermeer and El Greco-artists with completely different styles yet united by the magic they bring about in the emotions of their figures. In the two paintings of Vermeer, ‘Study of a Young Woman’ and ‘Young Woman with a Water Pitcher’, there is a certain sense of stillness and serenity as opposed to the paintings of El Greco which is rather dramatic. Perhaps it is the setting and theme of the paintings, but the two works of El Greco, ‘Opening of the ...

Tobacco became the success of Jamestown, Virginia when export to England began in 1619. With the income produced, the city decided to arrange for two imports: 20 black men for manual labor and 90 women from England as brides. Thus America began its history of slavery (Innercity.org 2014). Photographs, art, journalism, and literature displayed its brutality. The public was informed of families torn apart, beatings, murder, and rape. The general theme was inhumanity, but there were many owners of slaves that treated them well. history remembers beatings, rape, murder, and splitting families apart.

The indignities ...

The movie The Educators by Hans Weingartner puts forth all the struggles of the post-unification in Germany. In Berlin, consumer and proletarian societies have eventually been forged together, and thus the film mainly struggles appropriately to find a stable balance between the issues. The movie mainly represents a trio of three very rebellious liberals, who decide to break into the homes of wealthy capitalists to rearrange their belongings and furniture rather than stealing the precious items. Additionally, this trio decides to leave a note passing a certain message such as notifying them as well as warning others. As the movie proceeds, the trio ...

The “Family” deserves special attention not only as being the first novel written by J. California Cooper, but also because of being extremely undervalued by critics and researchers (Cooper 1991). At the same time, the other neo-slave narratives received much more attention of the public and they have been properly evaluated within multiple analyses and critical reports. The novel tells a story of three children of slave Clora that commits suicide but is still “living in the novel as a narrator that follows her children during their lives.
The most interesting and appealing is the character of Always, Clora’s ...

The setting is very important in any work of fiction. Often, the setting in the work of fiction carries a symbolic meaning that helps underscore the central theme of the work of fiction. In light of this, this paper will consider the symbolic function that the settings in A Worn Path and I Stand Here Ironing by Eudora Welty and Tillie Olsen respectively. The central theme in Eudora’s A Worn Path is the triumph of human love. This is seen through the protagonist who endures everything to make a journey inspired by the love for her grandson. Although she is ...

Life is sometimes about taking care of others. Taking care of others is about nurturing, loving and showing compassion to others. Many people dislike taking care of the old persons as they are difficult to deal with due to their physical and emotional problems. As a result, many people will always run away from performing this responsibility. In order to have a detailed perspective over the sandwich generation, the conducted interview involves a man that is caring for his young siblings and his old parents, and whose responses constitute the details of this essay.

The first question is about when the ...

The society develops, progresses in all spheres of activity, however, at the same time, produces certain behaviors and related stereotypes, corresponding to a popular worldview. Gender relations during each cultural epoch formed an appropriate worldview, producing and perpetuating gender stereotypes, using feminine and masculine personality characteristics. So, antiquity formed a patriarchal worldview, which is still relevant to the present day, however, the democratic tendencies in the modern society have led to the emergence of gender studies, which help the society to overcome certain gender conventions and stereotypes that prevalent in the minds of the society for centuries. Therefore antiquity is an ...

The sexual anomaly in this book is masochism. This was a new category in the sexual perversion. This kind of sexual perversion was very rare during the time of the writing. The writer had various published writings that helped him understand the various sexual cherished fantasies among people. People were able to recognize their secret desires as described in his writings. There were several cases in his book, which described the strange sexual desires. People however related to these strange sexual desires (Leopard, 1).

One such case described a man who wanted to be a slave to his lover. The other ...

The Wife of Bath is undoubtedly one of the most interesting characters in the entire collection of Canterbury Tales. She is interesting not only to the readers, but also to the writer himself, Geoffrey Chaucer. The Wife of Bath is the only character to have a prologue longer than their tale. The wife of bath begins by saying that what she is about to say is all meant for entertainment and that no one should take offence. Throughout her tale, she consistently and repeatedly reveals that she is a sly and crafty liar. The reader may question the authenticity of her ...

Ernes Hemingway is known as perfect stylist within the field of modern American literature that is demonstrated though such example as the current story. The ‘Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” includes such themes as fear, courage, emancipation and the statement of manhood. This story is written from the third person and it has three separate parts. The story has a lot of mystifications and the hidden mystery that reveals itself only in the final part of the story.

The first section introduces the three main characters: Francis Macomber, his wife Margaret that is referred to as Margot and ...

The laws of femme covert were formulated in order for the women in the society whom had been married, had to ne submissive to their husbands. This means that the control of their lives were under their husbands. In the law, the women who were unmarried is claimed to have every right to own a piece of land. This law was formulated during the colonial era. The women’s role in the society was perceived to be oppressive especially during the colonial period they were regarded as homemakers and nothing else. The Revolution War that occurred in the 18th century ...

John Updike’s ‘A&P’ and Tillie Olsen’s ‘I Stand Here Ironing’ are two short stories that seemingly do not have anything similar, yet share some themes that form the central core of the stories. Although there are more differences between the two short stories the themes of conflict, feminism and self-analysis runs through both the stories.

Updike is multifaceted and was a novelist, an art and literary critic and a poet. He was a proliferate writer and is one of the very few writers who won the Pulitzer Prize more than once. Most characters in his works go through a personal ...

- All socioeconomic groups have common needs and desires. However, according to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs physiological needs take precedence over all others. The strain theory states that societal pressures cause defiant behavior by individuals in pursuit of socially acceptable goals, such as money. Every socioeconomic group puts pressure on its members to succeed in making money but that the pressure is higher in lower income groups. If you have everything that you need already the pressure to have more is reduced and our most basic needs change.

- In today’s job market it is much ...

Introduction

Apart from the aesthetic value that literary works bequeath humankind, they are of great importance since they help in socio-cultural construction and analysis. The novels, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Pariah exemplify this reality.

Question 1: Analysing How the Concept of Intersectional Identity Is At Work

One of the socio-cultural themes that have been explored in the two novels The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Pariah is that of intersectional identity. Intersectional personality refers to an overlap of fusion of intersections of biological, cultural, social, political or economic categories in an individual. In most cases, these categories may involve sexual orientation, class, ability, gender, race, caste and even identity. In both films, the concept ...

Question one

Liberal feminism is the approach that seeks to achieve equality of men and women in all aspects. Proponents of these theories argue that if subjected to the same conditions, female and male are equal in terms of intelligence, strength, and professionalism.

Early liberal feminist such as the late philosopher Auguste Comte has come out strongly arguing that women needed to be protected by men and not subjected as slaves. He further installed the adoration of women as the pillars of his ‘religion of humanity’, which he had explained in his school of thought. In his sentiments about women ...

The Robber Bridegroom is a fairy tale written by Eudora Welty in 1942. Eudora’s story is based on the original The Robber Bridegroom by Grimm Brothers. The story is about the life of Rosamond, a beautiful woman who was raised by an evil step mother after the death of her mother. The novel opens with Mike Fink meeting the robber Jamie Lockhart, who later on kidnapped Rosamond. As it progresses, it follows another character, Clement Musgrove to his home where he stays with his second wife Salome and Daughter Rosamond. After Rosamond was kidnapped by the robber Jamie Lockhart, they ...

The most powerful economy of the world USA is battling against inflation and health issues like obesity; on the other side Africa faces hunger and malnutrition. I recently read an article about the Ebola scare in Africa; it faces shortage of gloves meant for doctors. The disease is spreading as basic healthcare amenities’ are scarce. Many organizations are doing their bit to help the needy in Africa. I have always wanted to do something for the poor in Africa and am associated with a nonprofit firm in USA. God at times hears and answers your prayers instantly. The next day ...

As one of the seven founders of La Leche League International, Marian Tompson is an inspiration to women around the globe, especially those involved in early childcare and infant feeding. Born in 1929, she was given no support when attempting to breastfeed her children, and in fact found more opposition than encouragement in choosing breastfeeding over artificial baby milk, or formula. She, together with six other women founded the premier breastfeeding support society in the world. She is an inspiring figure because she found ways to advocate for women, create a global community, and unite women together for a common goal ...

Although there are some similarities between the attitude of Daniel Orozco in Orientation and Jamaica Kincaid in Girl, there are austere differences in their attitudes towards their audience. In the short story Girl, Jamaica Kincaid portrays a mother imparting advice to her daughter as she prepares to face life as an adult. The short story by Kincaid shows the demeanor of a mother who admonishes and advices at the same time. On the other hand, Daniel Orozco explores the premise that all workplaces have secrets and gossips upon which people judge others. In his presentation, Daniel Orozco has the speaker in ...

There are numerous similarities between the plot developed in Mrs. Dalloway and The Hours. For instance, the two plots were set at a time when the World Wars were taking place. Consequently, the author had to develop characters that took part in the war. Additionally, the effects of the war on the family setting are depicted in both plots. The role of the wives after their husband are away at war is also a shared similarity. In both plots, there is the role of Clarissa. In addition, the role played by Clarissa in both plots is similar.

One theme shared in ...

Responsibility refers to a duty to control something or someone. It is another word for accountability. It is such an all-encompassing word that no one can claim to be free of any kind of responsibility. Everyone is accountable to someone, for someone or for something. Every person has several responsibility circles around him/her. In every relationship, the concept of responsibility is inherently built. This includes the relationship with family, state, pets, and the public in general.

The father is responsible for his household. He has to carry out his responsibility towards his wife and his children. He has to provide ...

Schmidt’s tenets majorly described as the Ahimsa principle focus on the need to shun violence in our society. The principle primarily means not to cause injury or circumvent behaviors or activities that lead to pain on human beings as well as the animals. Though the principle pays more attention to the Hinduism religion, it is multidimensional and applicable to all regions. The principle assets that a human being possesses the divine spiritual energy, this means causing pain on fellow human being is tantamount to hurting yourself (Maschike 109). The principle went further to admonish the nation that violence on ...

Wild Bunch (1969) and Pat Garret & Billy the Kid (1973)

There are different similarities and differences between the two movies. Firstly, they both depict a Western setting in which the place resides in a sand dunes and desert setting or in barren lands. Interaction with the settings can be seen using the landscape as protection against the enemies and a sanctuary for outlaws. The village scenes are places of authority, which present a stark contrast compared to the predominant desert landscape. The story also progress as the authority is chasing the outlaws while their efforts have been constantly undermined with the ability ...

I remember when I was a little kid, I always wondered what it meant to have a successful marriage like my mom and dad. There were things about the concept that I did not understand and I wanted to know because even though I never saw my parents make out like other couples, it still made me wonder what it took to get to that point. My father would often tell me about what it took to make a relationship work and the sacrifices that couples had to make in order to make each other happy, it was more of an obligatory ...

Inside and Outside: Moral Goodness In Three Short Stories by John Updike

John Updike’s early short fiction written during the period between the late 1950s and mid 1970s confronts the issue of morality in post-World War II America. Updike wrote in his novel Rabbit, Run, “Goodness lies inside, there is nothing outside. . .” (325). Updike’s fiction shares in common the theme of inner goodness confronted with a world where morality is empty. In three of Updike’s short stories, “The Happiest I've Been,” (1958), “A&P,” (1960), and “Problems,” (1975) the author treats the subject of morality in three different but connected ...

I belong to a very rich heritage, my husband is from Croatian and I am a Serb. I must say it has not been easy for me trying to fit into the two groups but then the journey I have taken to participate in social activities of the two groups has been fulfilling as that makes me happy. One of the groups where I belong is the a Croatian Kolo group where for the last fifteen years I have been part of the social and cultural activities. I have always taken my children there to participate in those activities from where they ...

Thomas King’s 1993 novel Green Grass, Running Water is not written like a typical narrative novel, with a beginning, middle and end. Instead, the work functions as a strange, compelling mixture of myth and fictional anthology, with a series of concurrent stories being told at once. King’s incredibly deft handling of this mixture of stories, which runs the gamut from outright myths to Judeo-Christian creation stories to tales of the everyday, creates a style that sits somewhere between Indian oral tradition and Western fiction literature. This allows for a unique exploration of the way these two cultures mix, the yearning of Aboriginals to ...

In my culture it is certainly the case that communication between genders plays a role in communication. But some of these cultural understandings might come from the genetic make—up that separates the sexes. It is not always easy to know where culture begins and natural differences do. A communication research Susan Sherwood has identified ten different ways that men and women communicate differently. Her research did take into account that culture does play a role in these different communication styles, “This differentiation in youth leads to dissimilar communication styles in adulthood. Women communicate through dialogue, discussing emotions, choices and ...

In Ayn Rand’s version of ethics, called objectivism, the individual is motivated by morality to place his/her individual interests above any others. Rand states the highest moral principle is the attainment of happiness, and that any endeavor that elevates someone or something that the individual does not value is irrational. Sacrificing something or someone of value to self in order to preserve something or someone not of value to self is an act of immorality.

In an example of objectivism, Rand tells the story of a man who has the option to save his wife at the expense of ...

Women Studies (or at times referred to as feminist studies) is a holistic, interdisciplinary academic field that taps issues both from the past, current and even future that concerns women. The course is interdisciplinary because it tackles different professions including politics, societal, psychological and historic through the point of view of feminists. The main reason behind the subject is not to make women superior, but to promote gender equality and eradicate oppression, discrimination and the misleading stereotypes against women. The subject is a timely answer to the growing cases of women discrimination in different areas of society. Although there has been a ...

The progressive era is a historical period of political and economic reforms from 1900 to 1918, which transformed the American society. The various movements during the Progressive era focused on major areas, such as equality, individual rights, economic justice and many others. In the gilded age, there was inequality in many segments of the American society, such as the African Americans, women and immigrants. Advocates of the Democratic Party, Republican Party and members of the third parties focused on specific issues of the country and developed various political, social and economic reforms, which have been influencing the American society until ...

The agreement between Cato and Isabella is what is known as a gratuitous promise. A gratuitous promise is an agreement between two parties, a promissor and promisee; that places an obligation on the person accepting the promise but the person making the promise does not receive anything in return (Blum, 2013). In this case, Isabella (the promissee) is obligated to graduate from State College in order to receive the US $40,000. On the other hand, Cato (the promissor) receives little, if anything, of value in the agreement. The answer to the question of whether or not Isabella can enforce Cato’ ...

Question 1:

In working with client, one must always be mindful of the cultural background from which they come. To this end, one must be culturally sensitive, and aware of the ways in which those cultures may differ from one’s own (Cioffe, 2002). In one instance, I was wondering with Hmong woman who had just had a baby. I needed to assess the way the infant was being fed, and the ways in which the infant was being cared for. As such, I had to ask a variety of probing questions, to establish if the baby was properly fed and nurtured. I ...

Persepolis is a comic autobiographical novel written by Marjane Satrapi. Marjane writes about her life from childhood to adulthood during the Islamic revolution in Iran. The novel is about the protagonist’s life and the challenges she faces into adulthood and how these hardships changed her identity. As the main character in the novel, Marjane is depicted as a tough and intelligent girl who followed in her parents footsteps. She was a young Iranian girl who had to overcome great obstacles in her childhood in order to become a great person in future. Marjane grew up in a difficult and complicated setting in Iran ...

1. Like everything in Pecola’s life, her being pregnant is packaged with her ugliness. Instead of seeing compassion for Pecola, as a young girl in a difficult situation, they use this fact to criticize her. Morison includes a number of fragments of conversation on the issue. Some say that it is Cholly, her father. They imply that even though she is twelve, she is to blame for the pregnancy: “But you never know. How come she didn’t fight him?” (Morison, 189). Others use it to remind themselves how ugly Pecola is, “Ought to be a law: two ugly people ...

Morales, Rosario. "The Day it Happened." 2008

The story’s plot revolves around the protagonist’s witnessing of a woman leaving her husband on the grounds of domestic violence. Violence within marriages is common with a majority of the reported cases showing women being on the receiving end of different forms of said aggression. However, despite the existence of laws against violence in marriages, some cases go unreported and it is only when matters worsen that people see the need to involve the authorities. It is important to note that violence need not be physical. Rather, one can cause harm on another by words that lead to a constant ...

Question 1

The future of nay society is vested in their youth. Their health is an integral prerequisite for this future. The responsibility of improving the health of the children and adolescents rests on the children and adolescents at the individual level, the parents and relatives at the family level and the community at the community level (Nies & McEwen, 2013). It is the responsibility children to report cases of ill health to their parents for immediate action. However, parent shoulder more responsibility in improving the health of the children and the adolescent compared to the individual children.

Firstly, it is ...

The fact that Juli can smoke weed shows that she is really the care free woman that any guy would want. This is because every guy would want to have a woman who is easy to talk to and fun to be with. The gypsy lady is very sexy,but is only after material possession. This we see when she spikes Daniel’s drink only to rob him of his possessions. Juli on the other hand, wants nothing from Daniel but his affection. This is evident when we see her give Daniel a declaration of love to say to the woman ...

Abstract 1

The subject of discussion of Mark Gerzon’ book A Choice of Heroes, in Midlife Quest, is the question of masculinity and its influence on contemporary man. Gerzon says that men, in their effort to emulate their heroes before their women, do so, unconsciously (p.414). This behaviour, he says, is largely a part of their childhood conditioning. All those who do imitate or try and act like their heroes don’t do so because they know them personally, but do so because of the influence the celluloid world has over them. Many people fall victim to the influence of the celluloid ...

Introduction

A theme as related to visual art is an idea passed on by a certain art work. The work may vary from a play to a picture and many others. So basically a theme is in a certain piece of work is identified as like the common idea being expressed in a certain piece of art. The choice of the theme of an artist would basically depict as a certain kind of life at some point. Caution needs to be taken into great care as we may want to associate a theme as the main matter of an art piece. Various ways to address a piece of would ...

Frederick Douglass, born in Talbot County, Maryland, was a social reformer who escaped slavery to become the leader of the abolitionist movement. In his narrative, he describes his unhappy and troubled childhood as he experienced slavery firsthand (Gates, 328). He was raised up in the home of slave masters where he grew up seeing how cruel slavery was. Frederick Douglass’s mother was black and his father was white; of whom he did not know. Douglass was separated from her mother at a very tender age, a very common practice among the slave owners. Douglass believed that this was done so as ...

1. Find one good website—other than Wikipedia—about Toni Morrison or The Bluest Eye. Give us the link and explain why you think the website is useful or interesting. What new information did you learned from the site?

Biography.com provides basic information about Toni Morrison and her career (http://www.biography.com/people/toni-morrison-9415590#synopsis). Their entry includes that Morrison won both the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer Prize fro literature, the two most prominent writing prizes that a novelist can win. The book we are reading now, The Bluest Eye and also Song of Solomon and Beloved are her most popular novels. According to the entry, Morison has also won, “Nearly every book prize possible.”

Her father was a blue-collar welder but had to work, other jobs in order to support his four children. Given the situation of Claudio in The Bluest Eye, ...

Expatriates face a myriad of cultural issues as they conduct their business internationally and employ certain adjustment mechanisms. In general, expatriates face cultural and identity issues of temporariness, uncertainty, gender inequality, differing language skills, alienation from the corporate culture, “nomadic” family issues. This view has been supported in the works of McNulty and Inkson (2013), Hocking, Brown, and Harzing (2007), and Benson and Pattie (2009). Cross-cultural adjustment necessitates traits, skills, and capacities such as open-mindedness, cross-cultural awareness and sensitivity, flexibility, patience, and a sincere interest in other cultures. Those who may not readily adjust to new cultural surroundings may need ...

Introduction

The poems Janice Mirikitani’ Suicide Note, and Frost’s Out, Out are both about the pain of death. In Suicide Note, Janice Mirikitani writes about a young Asian American girl student who takes her life by jumping out of the window. The poem comprises the thoughts and feelings that she relays through her suicide note. This format allows the reader to get a sense of what causes an individual to commit suicide. The poem Shows the despair of a college girl, who feels insufficient or “not good enough” (Mirikitani in Huang 233, line 8). The suicide note is directed to the ...