Essays on American Woman

Imperial, Dominant, and Hegemonic Feminism

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Introduction

The term feminism emerged in the contemporary socio-political discourse as an important movement encompassing ideological frameworks that seeks to establish and define a common goal to achieve equal footing in the political, personal, and economic sector. Since the emergence of the feminist movement, several notions of feminism was developed to create a greater understanding of its role in establishing equal rights and opportunities of women. In this discussion, the different notions of feminism will be explored by highlighting the concepts of each theoretical model. The discussion includes definitions of imperial, ...

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 ...

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 ...

21.2 Theodore Roosevelt, from The New Nationalism (1910) 1. What does Theodore Roosevelt want the federal government to do in order to address problems created by business monopolies? Answer. Roosevelt professed the notion of progressivism to be implemented in the federal government’s action by increasing its participation in the socio-economic features, regardless of the constitutional regulations on the same (Theodore, 1910). He wanted the federal government to have an authoritative control of the capitalization of all the government and private corporations who were working within the state. Roosevelt implied that the government should take corrective and punitive actions ...

It has taken women a long and tough journey to achieve their rights. This started many years ago in 1848, when women stood for their rights and since then, there have been several changes though some changes are yet to happen. These include changes in politics and government where women wanted to exercise their right to vote, in employment they wanted equal pay for the work done, they fought for reproductive rights and changes in religion (Greenberg & Watts, 2009). All these changes came due to efforts of very dedicated women who never gave up the struggle. Struggle for changes ...

Fresh from actively taking the place of the men during the second world war, women during the 50s have to revert back into the traditional role that society has for them. Despite wanting the women to be educated, they are encouraged by societal ideals to get married at an early age, thus most of them are married and starting a family by the age of nineteen. The American culture, then wanted to portray their women being content and happy homemakers. However, the stereotype attached to American women and the conservative times of the 50s was challenged as people became enchanted ...

Nursing

Health Benefits of Low-Income Hispanic Women: A Disparity in Mammogram Use Introduction Breast cancer is among the deadliest and common forms of cancer that occurs among women. The manner of detecting the presence of such cancer is through a mammogram test, which is considered as fundamental medical screening procedure often included in healthcare coverage. Despite the legislative guidelines concerning the coverage of the said procedure in healthcare plans, disparities still emerge as a real problem that mostly Hispanic women are facing. The barriers to mammography screening include low income, lack of access to available facilities, cultural and language difference, ...

Gran Torinao is an American drama film that was directed and produced by Clint Eastwood. The story of this film revolves around a Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski. Who aspires to reform his neighbour a young teenager who is apparently a thief who stole Kowalski’s high valued possessions (Curi and Mario 15). By definition, the American dream is a life that exemplifies happiness, material comfort and the accomplishment of one’s desires as sought after by the American citizens. Apparently, the plot, themes and particularly the characters of this film reflect the achievement of the American dream in many apparent ways. With ...

Rhetorical Analysis of Cofer

Judith Ortiz Cofer believes that the combination of her gender and ethnicity is the perfect storm to create a very specific type of discrimination, which is often accidental as her anecdotes show. Cofer makes her argument through anecdotal evidence and then lays out her conclusions in plaintive language at the end of her essay, “For them life is a struggle against the misconceptions perpetuated by the myth of the Latina as whore, domestic, or criminal.” As an analysis of her essay “The Myth Of Latin Women” yields, Cofer does not go outside of her personal experience to make her claim. She ...

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Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, who was born in 1876, was an educated and very influential Native American woman. She belonged to the Yankton Sioux tribe and was sent off to study in a missionary school at the age of eight. The writer struggled and faced many hardships at the time when prejudice prevailed towards the culture and traditions of the Native Americans. The women were the ones who suffered the most. When she began to write, Gertrude adopted the name ‘Zitkala-Sa’ as her pen name. She began to publish her work criticising The Carlisle Indian School from the 1900s. Her ...

Toni Morrison’s Sula and Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” are two texts that explore the African-American woman’s quest for sexual and social autonomy, in that both texts contend that the African-American woman’s construction of a sexual identity is primarily shaped by the women who raise her, as well as societal expectations and traditions. The process by which an African-American mother or mother figure teaches a young African-American female about sexuality is often laden with religious indoctrination, accusations of licentiousness, personal anecdotes about male duplicitousness, and fearful warnings about chastity. Both texts illustrate how the enforced standards and multiple instructions ...

The Shirt – Shelly Niro

The Shirt by Shelly Niro is a great example of work, in which we see how all its elements work together to create the right impression. Such productive element as a sound design works here to allow us to immerse ourselves in the culture of the Native Americans. Thus, the music used in the film is as important as settings, costumes and acting. Sound design in The Shirt is meant to support the message of the film. It does not work separately from other elements, but is used to help in telling the story and creating the images in the ...

History

History of women’s rights in the United States goes back nearly 70 years before Jeannette Rankin’s entry into congress . The reforms were concerned about broad range of issues before focusing on franchise for women. The first gathering in support of their rights was health in 1848 in Seneca Falls, NY. The movement carried onwards in waves, and concentrated in addressing social and institutional barriers. In 1869, the movement divided into two factions: National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA); and American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). The next turning point came in early 1890s, when United States experienced surge in ...

In the history of the United States, racial and gender injustices have been a common thing among the people. There has been unequal treatment based on skin colour and sexual orientation. African Americans are one of the groups that have been on the receiving end of these discriminations. In addition to this, the manner in which African American men and African American women have been perceived in the American society is different from how the Native Americans have been perceived and handled. Scholars have taken time to look into these differences based on race and gender, how these differences have ...

Introduction

In the past, the place of women in the society was only recognized as that next to the man. Her roles and responsibilities clearly defined as that of being a home-maker, the support for her husband, a mother to her children, nothing more, nothing less. Girls that eventually became women grew up with these facts as they were taught and instilled in them from a tender age hence did not expect any more from life. However, there are those that challenged these societal expectations. Questioned these roles and responsibilities that they were expected to live by. These individuals went against the grain ...

Introduction

The right for vote was very important for women in all ages, as it proved their significance and made them feel like the worthy members of societies of their countries. There is no doubt as well that not every woman could put all at stakes and choose the path of struggle in 18th or 19th century. These were difficult periods for many countries of the world, and specifically for the USA, when people were fighting for their freedom to express what they think and what they feel. However, some women had courage to put everything at stakes and sacrifice ...

Plan / Outline

In order to reflect the challenges that has been faced by the African-American literature, the paper plans to compare the content of two poems. One poem is written in the 1950’s era which was a difficult and crucial period for the African Americans, while the other one has been written in the contemporary era to highlight the work of the poet of that poem and how African American literature survived in Amercia. The essay has also quoted examples from the essay to make it more simple and explainable. - Introduction - This paper aims to compare and ...

Introduction

Empowerment can be defined as the process of increasing or raising the capacity of an individual to make choices that will help them realize their goals or outcomes. Empowerment can take the role of a whole organization where the different individuals’ capacity is increased to make better choices that will transform to better lives and desired actions. Increasing the efficiency of an individual to perform a task better means empowering the named individual to realize his/her set out goals. Fairness in organizations is one of the means of empowering the individuals as there is collective improvement in service delivery. Monitoring the ...

Introduction

A Raisin in the sun is a play written and directed by an African American woman and produced on stage. The play was produced for the first on stage in 1959 to depict the struggles of African American in the struggle to claim the American dream of the 1950s. The cast is made up of a young family living in Washington Park of Chicago’s neighborhood. The main characters in the play are Walter Younger, Ruth Younger, Travis Younger, Lena Younger, Beneatha Younger, Joseph Asagai and George Murchison among many others. The plot is a mixture of African American culture and the ...

Introduction

With women earning 77 cents for every dollar earned by their male counterparts, one cannot help but wonder why the equal pay act was enacted in 1963 (Rodgers, 2006). On average an African American woman is paid 63 cents for every dollar a male counterpart receives. On the other hand, a Latin American woman receives just 54 cents for every dollar a man earns. Even if the national average stands at 77 cents for every male worker’s dollar, the situation does not seem to improve (Rodgers, 2006). Gender based wage discrimination has been one among the top vices in the country’ ...

English 111

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is an effective instrument that will be able it analyze and determine a person’s strong points without having to cause a damaging impact on the undesirable characteristics of well-known people, whether they are still living or dead. Rosa Parks is a famous civil rights activist who was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913. She became a legendary symbol of civil rights when she refused to relinquish her seat to a white passenger inside the bus that was on its way to Montgomery, Alabama which sparked a boycott. Based on the Myers-Briggs, Rosa fits into an ISFJ personality type appropriately ...

Women’s Right to Vote in the U.S. Women’s right to vote in the U.S. The movement for women’s right to vote began intensely in the decades preceding the Civil War. In the early 1820s and 1830s, for instance, majority of the states in America had extended the permission to every white man, regardless of his income or property owned. At around this time, there were all sorts of reformation groups proliferating across the U.S. These included temperance clubs, moral-reform societies, religious movements, and anti-slavery organizations. Women played prominent roles in many of the organizations. ...

In Toni Morrison’s short story “Recitatif”, the experiences of American American women are explored through the comparison of a white female and an African American woman. It is never fully explained which woman is of which race, but because of the cultural differences the reader is led to believe that the white woman is of higher social standing than that of the African American woman. Although the story takes place in a more modern setting with laws are in place to protect the rights of minorities, the story suggests that even in today’s world racism still exists. This ...

The right to vote for women in America was not anchored in the law by the 18th century and they were disenfranchised just like the black men. Suffrage for American women came about in gradual fashion following the agitation by a number of women suffragists. This happened both at the state and at the local level in the late 19th Century and in the early years of the 20th Century and finally being firmly anchored in 1920 with the enactment of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. This research paper shall examine the history of the development of ...

Classic English Literature

Introduction Getting nominated for the “Hall of Fame” is a great recognition and honor for any American. The origin of its conception has great relevance in the context of equality, justice, freedom, and respect for human values. It is in the 1890s, that the Rev. Henry MacCracken, president of New York State University, took it upon himself to build a Hall of Fame. It was the brainchild of this visionary who had concerns for prostitution, democracy and the Roman Empire that culminated in a "Parnassus" - a centre of importance.

Background Information on the Hall of Fame

The Hall of Fame, Mac Cracken reasoned, was intended to attract prospective ...

Introduction

The recent threats by North Korea to launch a nuclear assault on the US and other friendly nations’ has led to conceited discussions on the possible impact of such an action on world peace. Analysts believe that the opposition by the US and south Korea of the launch is based on the need for world peace, while others believe that the US has taken the role of supervising other nations on their nuclear activities. The common thread on all these discussions is the impact of war on world peace and the human society. This paper seeks to discuss this issue, ...

Pocahontas is a Disney animated feature that follows the story of a Native American Motoaka. She is the daughter of the Powhatan Confederacy chief in the early 17th century. It is the 33rd film in the Walt Disney Animated Classic series following known hits like Beauty and the Beast, Alladin and The Lion King. It was released in theaters in 1995 and is the first film based on a known historical character. However, it did not follow the actual historical account of the Native American’s encounter with the British settler John Smith who had sailed in search of gold in the “ ...

1. In essence, I believe that abortion should be an issue left up to the mother, and that it an acceptable practice if it is needed. In a perfect world, abortions would not be necessary - every pregnancy that would occur would yield a life that could be given a good life and be loved by parents who are ready and capable of taking care of them. However, this is not a perfect world, and pregnancies happen every day for less-than-ideal reasons: rape, incest, unplanned pregnancies despite initiatives to use birth control methods. Furthermore, there are complications in pregnancy that can affect the ...

ABSTRACTThis paper explores the many general similarities between Alice Walker’s "The Welcome Table" and Nadine Gordimer’s "Country Lovers", and the ways in which racism is presented by both writers. Both stories condemn the hypocrisy and attack the injustices of racist societies. Both stories have a symbolic element which is examined and discussed and the fact that both stories are set in very different societies and, therefore, have very different contexts and settings is always at the heart of the paper’s argument. Each story is also discussed and explored separately in order to focus on its individual qualities. ...

Conclusion and Summary of Results

The focus of this study was to explore a Black woman’s resiliency after her exposure to a physiological and psychological toxic work environment. The work environment surrounding an African-American woman can often be a source of distress because of the way her colleagues and others treat her. For example, many Black women are treated as if they are a stereotype; a caricature of what people assume is a “black woman.” Micro-aggressions experienced each day become magnified as emotional assaults on the woman increase; or, as her ability to deflect the inappropriate behavior decreases or as the intensity of both becomes greater. The stereotyping and ...

- Bibliographic Discussion of the Author Gloria Naylor is an Africa-American literature author. She was born in the 1950’s in the city of New York. She graduated from the University of New York with an English degree in 1981. Her Literature authorship was inspired by the ideas of African literature writes such as Alice Walker and Zora Hurston who had been authors to different literature works between 1980’s and 1990’s. Despite having written the master piece Mama Day, Gloria Naylor has had an interesting history in the field of authorship. Her first work was a novel ...

Great Black Women of the World

Part I: (Please Add where in your textbook to find the appropriate topic: Slavery, racism, women’s issues) I have written about two African women sold into slavery Abina and Ama and about Mary Church Terrell. Terrell is a great African-American woman who not many people know about. I did not know about her until I started browsing the web links that were suggested for this assignment. Ama and Terrell show the same strength and spirit as Abina. They are all women with a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong in the world. Two were born in Ghana ...

This was a succession which involved a Black American woman being appointed CEO of a company. Her name is Ursla M. Burns. Apart from being a woman she was from the African race and the process of succession involved other competent and top personnel who were also fit for the job. This succession was considered historic because Ursla Burns became the very first Black American Woman to head a key corporation in the United States of America. She got this job at a time when America was experiencing economic hardships. Xerox is a large company in America and to be led by a woman especially from ...

The virtual exhibit dedicated to the life of African-American women I found was on the website blackiowa.org and was titled ‘Unsung Heroines’. Even though I thought that I would find the exhibit in a matter of seconds after typing a few simple key word searches on Google, this turned out to not be the case. Finding a good virtual exhibit turned out to be quite a task and took up half an hour of my time and this is quite a long period considering that Google finds you millions of searches in just a matter of seconds. The exhibit I found is quite interesting and ...

The case concerns an African American woman, 26 years old who is working but has no kids. She was the only child in the family who was brought up by her mother since her father died while she was 3 years old. The woman had a problem of expressing herself to her mother, so she could tell her grandmother the love feelings she had towards her mother. The three lived together.

Theory for treatment plan

Understanding an individual’s behavior is a complicated task, which requires a learning experience. Human behavior is unpredictable and complex and trying to understand it requires a high degree of accuracy. Different ...

The case concerns an African American woman, 26 years old who is working but has no kids. She was the only child in the family who was brought up by her mother since her father died while she was 3 years old. The woman had a problem of expressing herself to her mother, so she could tell her grandmother the love feelings she had towards her mother. The three lived together.

Theory for treatment plan

Understanding an individual’s behavior is a complicated task, which requires a learning experience. Human behavior is unpredictable and complex and trying to understand it requires a high degree of accuracy. Different ...

The American women of the twenty first century have traded their cook books for the briefcase and taken to professional lives. The modern woman has undergone a revolution to become more engaged in professional lives to accommodate career, education and other skills. This is a culmination of years of effort put towards improving the state of the girl child. This transition has ultimately changed the state of the society shifting the notion of the society. The beginning of the changes in the women starts with education. The education system offered by the state has been broadening. Women not only learn ...

For a very long time and in fact since civilization of man, a lot of speculations have been made concerning the position of women in the society, and in fact many societies across the world still hold the notion that women come secondary to men, and for this reason they should be accorded secondary and less demanding tasks in the society. While men handle the difficult and demanding tasks, women should on the other hand handle the more sensitive issues such as domestic chores and humanitarian tasks. This has been the view point for as long as civilization can be ...

In Search of Henrietta

There are certain events in human life that might change the course of one’s life. There are also some human lives that might change the course of history and evolution of human civilization in general. Speaking of such people, some might imagine famous warlords, rulers of Ancient kingdoms; other would think about inventors, scientists and geniuses who were shaping their epochs and forthcoming generations; some might think of political leaders who lead their countries to prosperity and victory in global wars. In most cases, no one would have thought of an ordinary Afro-American woman in her thirties, who ...

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

Racism has been dismissed as a vice of the past by many leaders; indeed some of them argue that the end of apartheid in South Africa marked the end of racism in this era of civilization. However, to any one who lives in a racially diverse community such as America, racism is not yet a vice of the past- it is still existent. It may not be well pronounced like was seen in South Africa or even during the Jewish Holocaust but it is still existent in our various social structures. In America, racial connotations such as the words ‘nigga’ and ‘ ...