Essays on Maid

Gender equality is an issue that has persisted throughout history and pervaded the same on one level or another. Throughout much of history, men have used religion, power and influence to subjugate and limit women. One might think that such a pattern would be tapering off and going away in the 21st century and within modern times. While many countries, including the one mentioned throughout this report, have been able to advance and progress in major ways, there are still a ton of opportunities to learn and grow.

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Introduction

The story that had impressed me in my recent readings is ‘Heal,’ written by Ankit Raj Bachchan on a short story website, because of its simple, concise, direct and clear narrative. The story was selected as story of the month in July 2012 and had been listed as the Editor’s pick. The theme as the name suggests is about healing. The story is about the narrator, a lady, whose name is not specified, bereaving the loss of Adi, her husband. The story opens with her standing at a seaside home, with coffee in her hand. It is then ...

Paternalism is defined as a relationship between authority figures and their sub ordinates that are dependent on them for their basic needs in the context of their relationship between white employers and their Negro slaves. This relationship signified that the slaves were the responsibility of their owners. The employers were not just responsible to ensure that the basic requirements of their employees were made. Their responsibility includes that the welfare and well being of their sub ordinates were also taken care of and any advice or suggestions that they gave were for the best interest of the slaves . Before ...

Movie Review: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying

and Love the Bomb and The Long Walk Home Two history-elucidating films, which are so different at the first glance, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb and The Long Walk Home, shed light on the peculiarities of the epoch that followed the Second World War. The events shown in both of them send us back to the middle of the XX century, when people bred hopeful expectations about their bright future in the brand new United States of America. This period was marked in the history as the years of progress, which ...

The first image is from the famous Chinese calligrapher and painter Zhao Zhiqian entitled “Flowers” (Wikimedia Commons). The second image is from a contemporary Minute Maid ad in Chinese their line of “Super Milky” fruit flavored milk drinks (Advertising Age). The most striking difference between the images is calligraphy/characters. In Zhao’s picture, the characters are set off from the picture, almost framed by it. Accordingly, in observing the piece, a viewer is forced to make a choice, either read the characters or view the picture. In other words, one cannot do both. The effect is to allow for ...

Mergers and acquisitions are business strategies taken by companies, that involve either merging two companies or operating them together or a company taking over operations of another company. Multinational corporations tend to acquire full ownership or a certain percentage of a company’s operations to incorporate others services within its objectives and to some extent, it can be seen as a business move to reduce speculated competition. This step is essentially used to improve the financial performance of the company and to lessen the risk that the corporation is likely to face. Mergers are common in many areas of ...

Water is an important element in this world that brings with it freshness and purity in the lives of human beings, animals and plants. Its importance in the lives of human beings cannot be underestimated. In Robinson’s novel, Lila constantly comes into contact with water. The author has used the transformative healing characteristics of water to depict change in the life of Lila. Through the characters and scenes, the reader is able to learn the varied struggles of Lila with fear of love; faith, family, and domesticity with clarity through water which symbolizes change all which Lila interacts ...

Gender roles have undergone dramatic changes in modern China during the 20th century, particularly since the rise of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. There are three main ancient philosophies that have substantially influenced and deeply rooted in China for a long time. They are Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Among three philosophies, I believe Confucianism has influenced China the most and still have a lot of remains when closely looking at every aspect of the Chinese culture. Confucianism is defined as every human relationship has superiority and inferiority and a superior person should take care of an ...

At 4:00am, my alarm clock begins to go off. Still exhausted from the night before, I begin to rise out of bed. In the middle of winter, it’s dark outside. The house is freezing. I take a deep breath and get out of bed to begin my day. As a single mother raising three children, I work two jobs just to make ends meet. I am due to report to my first job, at the local hotel, at 6:00am sharp. It’s minimum wage and physically grueling work, but it’s a job that puts food on the ...

According to Nietzsche, pain is an essential element of the emotional growth of people. Without pain, a person would be incapable of feeling happiness because it is pain is an integral part of living. People grow through pain and they appreciate happiness more after they have been through difficulties in life. In the book Ingenious Pain , the protagonist, James Dyer, is incapable of feeling pleasure or pain and he chooses to become a surgeon and the lack of emotions makes his profession easier for him. The story is set in 1771 in England where James Dyer is working as ...

Persepolis is an autobiographical graphic novel about the life of Marjane Satrapi. The story talks about her growing up years in her native Iran, where she witnessed the changes it went through as part of the “Cultural Revolution” (Satrapi 4) which was a result of the Islamic revolution. The book started when Marjane or Marji was only ten years old. Her stories during that time were based on her recollection of the events the way she remembered them, such as how they were forced to wear a veil in school (Satrapi 3), or why they were separated from their ...

This essay is the comparison and the contrast of two romantic comedies. In this essay, we are supposed to show all the similarities and differences of these movies (Roen, Glau and Maid). This goal is achieved with the help of relevant sources. One of the films, which is compared and contrasted, is called 500 Days of Summer. The main characters of this movie are Tom and Summer. Summer works as the assistant at the greeting card company. Tom works at the same job and when he sees her, he understands that Summer is the most beautiful girl he has ...

Racial discrimination is a problem that has been in the society for a long time. It is the worst discrimination present in the world today. Racial discrimination is where an individual is unfairly treated because of their color, descent, race, and ethnicity. According to Broman, Mavaddat, and Hsu, racial discrimination in an unlawful act that should be confronted (2000).

Racial Discrimination in the family

We are African American; therefore, we had a black maid in our house whom we loved so much because she took good care of us. Everything was okay until we got a white neighbor. She never liked us plus our ...

INTRODUCTION

Coca Cola Company (CCCL) was established in the year 1892 in the Atlanta state of USA. The company offers a range of beverages as the world’s largest beverage provider having around 500 variants being served to its customers. Coca Cola is a global company with its foot prints across 200 countries of the world in given below proportion: (Coca Cola)

Some prominent players of the Coca Cola portfolio are as follows:

The share of Minute Maid in the revenue of the Coca Cola was 7.27% in 2009 which grew to 7.88% in the year 2013 (Trefis, a). According to the Report Linker’s analysis, Minute Maid is one of the leading ...

“Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits” was written by Suki Kim in 2004 and is an extract from a wider publication by Roen, Glau and Maid, (2010). In her work, Kim noted how difficult it was for her as a young girl to adjust to a completely different lifestyle following the bankruptcy of her previously wealthy father and a subsequent escape to America. This is her most important point because it is the most repeated theme in the article. Other main points in the work are summarized in the ensuing paragraphs. Kim stressed on the mishaps she faced regarding racism. ...

Pepsi versus Coca Cola

Coca-Cola Coca-Cola is a US multinational beverage company, manufacturer, marketer and retailer of alcoholic-free drinks. The company has it’s headquarter in Atlanta. A pharmacist known as John Stith Pemberton in 1886 invented the Coca-Cola drink. In 1889, Coca-Cola formula was bought by Asa Griggs Candler, who used it to found the Coca-Cola Company in 1892 (Bodden, 2009). Under Cander’s leadership, the company grew and increased its distribution beyond Atlanta. In 1894, due to high demand for the drink, the company, through Joseph Biedenharn, installed bottling machinery that enabled the bottling of the drink.

Large scale bottling of ...

Introduction

The movie ‘The Help’ is a period drama set in the 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi. It is a story brings out the vast cultural differences and the frustrations they cause during that period due to the separate lives that the white community led as compared to the life the black American community was forced to lead at the time. The movie successfully showcased the cultural divide and the plight of the people who tried to rise above this. The story revolves around Skeeter Phelan, a white woman, who is a budding journalist and Aibileen, a maid who has worked for white families and ...

Socialist realism ideally refers to a realistic style developed in Soviet Union and which over time has become a dominate among the socialist states. In a broader sense, the style embraces the role of the working class in the society and the meek. It further glorifies the emancipation struggle. In the articles, the author gives a succinct and articulate review of the characteristics of the socialist realism in China. According to him, it is inconceivable that China, a socialist state is not controlled by peasants, workers and peasants, who collectively are regarded as the masters and creators of the country’s history. It is ...

Visual art is painting that has been brought to life, and which can be perceived by the human eye to form meaning. Visual art contains paintings, sculptures, photography and filmmaking, and decorative arts such as ceramics and interior design. My subject of discussion is “The Milkmaid.” The painting was created in the year 1658 by the famous painter called Jan Vermeer. According to Liedtke (p. 2), though the painting is called the milkmaid it actually shows a housemaid at the time referred to as a kitchen maid. A housemaid was in charge of taking care of the house doing dishes, ...

Over the past few decades, social inequalities such as class, gender and race have been the leading cause in our world's societal problems. What leads one to believing that an individual is inferior to him based on his or her possessions or appearance? Emma by Jane Austen reflects upon the norms of nineteenth century’s England. Austen has always tried to address the social issues in her works such as Pride & Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Emma. In order to have a clearer understanding of the social conflicts criticized in Emma, one has to look closely at the social structure ...

The definition of family is not restricted to heterosexual couples in a marriage or people who share the same genes. Those criteria of defining what a family is would lock out adopted kids and foster children. It will most certainly leave out lesbian and gay couples and very close friends that people might consider family. Judith Stacey a sociology professor points out that lesbian and gay families are here to stay and therefore people should not be narrow minded and embrace this new family setup. The homosexual families are there in large numbers and are fighting for their rights just like other ...

Door and Windows as Barriers and Passageways to Truth in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Hyde” is a story about a successful and respected doctor who has a dual personality. He is Dr. Jekyll, a respected doctor with a stellar reputation. However, when he drinks a potion he created, he becomes an evil murderer. A major motif in the story is doors and windows. Doors and windows lead to new places. Doors are for hiding behind, and they also represent a passage, a geographical point of no return, and a journey into the unknown. Windows expose truth and reality. They ...

Introduction

The readings on the celebrated Somaly Mam showcase impeccable writing skills that are evidenced in the works of the author. Somaly is credited for her story in Abby Sher’s book.” Breaking free: true stories of girls who Escaped Modern Slavery,” highlights her struggle with sex slavery and tells the story of two other women. The book was subsequently followed by criticism by Simon Marks, “The Holy Saint (and sinner) of sex trafficking. “It was replied by Mam in, “Somaly’s Story: I didn’t lie.” In both accounts, she gives the story of her life and reaffirms that ...

Imitation of Life is a drama film directed by Douglas Sirk in 1959 and recognized as one of the pinnacles of classic Hollywood melodrama. The plot is set in New York. The main character is a young widow Lora Meredith, whose dream is to become a Broadway actress. So she saves money and comes to New York with her six-year-old daughter Susie in order to try her fortune in acting. One day at the beach the paths of Lora and Susie cross with the paths of Annie, a colored woman, and her light-skinned daughter Sarah-Jane. Lora resolves Annie to live at her apartment, ...

The Help came on screens in 2011 directed by Tate Taylor after the novel by Kathryn Stockett that was written under the same name in 2009. The Help is devoted to the relations of African-American maids with their employers. The main characters are: two maids Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson that are having different fates; the third character is Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, who has recently graduated from university and has a fresh look at the events happening, and the last one is Hilly Holbrook, the biggest racist in town. According to the plot, Skeeter returns home and finds out that ...

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Hospitality has played a great role in the ancient Greek society, and this is highly evident in most of the classics written during those times. Homer’s Odyssey is a classic example of this fact. The Odyssey is one of the greatest masterpieces of Greek Literature. It is dated written between 750 and 650 B.C.E. (Notes, 1968) According to Fagles and Knox hospitality is understood to be a major part of the moral code. One of the most important factors that can be heavily noticed in this work of Homer is hospitality, with ...

The novel Girl with a Pearl Earring which was written by Tracy Chevalier is an inspirational feature that easily passes for the one of the best of a kind in the world for all time. This story is aimed at instilling the notion and principle of hard work, perseverance, humility, patience, beauty from within, understanding amongst many others. The character is a sixteen year old who goes through what many people do not go through in more years compared to the years that the character, sixteen year old Greet had lived Work Cited (Chevalier, 6). All these values would come in ...

The story “The sculptor Funeral’’ is about the funeral of Harvey Merrick who unlike the people of his town who are driven by greed chooses a different life and becomes a teacher in another town. Most of the people in his town view him as a failure. Many forms of critical approaches can be used to analyze this story. This paper has concentrated in two critical approaches in analyzing this work of literature the two are Marxist criticism and the reader response criticism.

Marxist criticism

The story “the sculptor’s funeral has demonstrated perfectly the Marxist criticism. The story is set to have taken ...

While visiting the sweatshop in Accra, which belong to one of his business partners, Ghana President’s nephew saw Imoida as she was minding her business sewing buttons for masculine jackets. As he glanced the beautiful sewing girl, the President’s nephew, Oroonoko, was blurred. He starred at her as if he was asking himself “how did the Queen of the Night end up working in a sweatshop?” He asked his friend who owned the sweatshop for a personal favor, requiring choosing a girl from his employees, pretending that he needed a new maid for his Accra residence, where he lived with his ...

Book Review: Sexual Politics by Kate Millett

Introduction The published dissertation for Millett’s PhD in Literature from Columbia University was a book called the Sexual Politics by Kate Millett. In 1970, Millet finished her dissertation however she started it way back in 1969 but successfully defended the dissertation and published it almost ten years later. The book was known to be a master piece and also looked at as being very much successful and notoriousduring the time it was written. Research shows that Sexual Politics and economics was a piece that assisted influence and inspiring the move of feminism. Millett’s controversial thesis in Sexual Politics and ...

Each year an increasing number of hotels, both in the United States of America and abroad, as well as facilities and services for tourists, take one of the first places in the formation of tourist infrastructure. Accommodation is an important element of almost any tour. Often the motivation for choosing the hotel tourist is decisive. Therefore, today hospitality is one of the most promising and fastest growing industries, generating worldwide multimillion profits. Hospitality has a great potential to generate a steady income. From a business perspective, the hotel is now in production and the provision of services of commercial hospitality that offers ...

Introduction

The coca-cola company is a multinational company dealing with manufacture and retail marketing of nonalcoholic beverage and syrups. Incorporated in 1892, the coca-cola company has its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Over 31,000 around the world work in the coca-cola company and its subsidiaries. The company offers a myriad of coca-cola brands across the world. According to the company’s report, more than 500 coca-cola brands are distributed over 200 countries. The company’s first attempt to manufacture soft drinks was in 1963. Tab was the first soft drink to be manufactured by the company with the use of saccharin in ...

The Coca-Cola Company

Introduction The Coca- Cola company is a multinational company dealing with manufacture and retail marketing of nonalcoholic beverage and syrups. Incorporated in 1892, the Coca- Cola company has its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Over 31,000 employees around the world work in the Coca- Cola company and its subsidiaries. The company offers numerous brands across the world. According to the company’s report, more than 500 Coca- Cola brands are distributed over 200 countries. The company’s first attempt to manufacture soft drinks was in 1963. Tab was the first soft drink to be manufactured by the company with ...

Introduction

Pugs and pigs refer to animals kept at home as domestic pets especially when they are young. The two kinds of animals boast of several similarities such as appearance and behavior. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the similarities as well as the dissimilarities that exist between pigs and pugs. Both pigs and pugs are small in body size and have curly tails. Pugs usually weigh between 20 to 24 pounds. However, most of the pugs are susceptible to becoming overweight or obese. The two closely related animals also snort and both have wrinkles ...

Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat is a poem written by Gwendolyn Brooks and published in her famous collection of poems known as The Bean Eaters in 1960. Set in Bronzeville, where the poet is believed to have grown up, the poem narrates of the experiences of a black woman looking for a job as a housecleaner. The Bronzeville lady undergoes humiliation at the hands of a white family, and this is what the poem is all about; exposing some misconceptions the society might have on some of its members. On the other hand, Telephone Conversation is a poem written by Wole Soyinka, and it depicts a ...

Introduction

Death penalty debate has been around for quite long. Arguments for and against have provided platforms for justifying decisions taken. Adherents for death penalty have had their various reasons for supporting their positions. Efforts to determine public opinion on death penalty has been based on opinion polls. There has been little or scanty research methodologies on death penalty which has limited substantial research on capital punishment. After the Furman vs Georgia case in 1972 in which justice Marshall ruled against death penalty citing violation of U.S constitution’s 8th amendment (Cruel & Punishment clause). Based on justice Marshall’s judgment, ...

Marjane Satrapi’s book Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, published by Pantheon Books of New York, NY in 2003, tells the author and artist’s own story of her childhood in Iran during the 1970s and 1980s during revolutionary times in her home country. Told in graphic novel or comic book form, Satrapi’s book illustrates what it was like to be a young girl growing up in Iran as regimes and social standards underwent monumental change. Presented from a young girl’s point of view, she navigates not only the typical hazards of growing up, but also encounters the violence ...

(The Beautiful Maid of the Mill) A song cycle is a several group of songs performed in sequence as a single entity after a romantic period and is usually written by one composer (Knopoff & Hutchinson 75). The songs normally have a unifying subject or ideas which are normally set to the words of the same poet. The unity of the cycle is achieved by a narrative that is common to the different songs and underlined using a musical instrument (Neumeyer 93). An example of this is in the case of Franz Schubert and his song-cycle Die Schoene Muellerin songs (The Beautiful Maid of the ...

Introduction

Almost every year, there are thousands of individuals that decide write movie scripts actually hoping to get them produced and then also to make some serious cash flow. What people do not realize is that a lot of these scripts are never even looked at or even bought. The reason for Th is that movies are costly to make and basically only the best scripts are ever actually get produced. When they are made into movies it is important that a film analysis is done in order to see what was done correctly and what was not. Often, students that do ...

- New Coke Coke is thinking of partnering with Monster Beverage which is an energy drink manufacturer. Coca-cola intends to partner with the company or possibly invest in the company. The Purchase of Glaceau’s Vitamin water cost Coca-cola $4.1 billion. Coca-cola has 15 billion dollar products. Some of the products include coke, fanta, sprite, minute maid, dasani water and powerade. Coke is the number one soft drink in the US. Diet coke is the number two drink after ousting Pepsi out of that position. Coca-cola Company restored its bottling operations in North America. ...

Movie Review: Maid in Manhattan

1. Brief Review and Summary of the Movie The movie entitled “Maid in Manhattan” stars Jennifer Lopez as Marisa Ventura, the hotel maid, who was mistakenly thought of as a socialite by a senatorial candidate played by Ralph Fiennes and whose role was Christopher Marshall . The hotel maids were depicted as Latinas and the possibility of rising beyond their positions were deemed slim, if not out rightly impossible. 2. Assessment of the Overall Message/Intent of the Film The overall message that was intended in the film was that despite being typecast as a hotel maid, through exemplary performance, they ...

Introduction

Organizations use strategic management to assess their external and internal environments to develop their strategic objectives, directions and strategies as well as how to implement them (Canella, Pettigrew and Hambrick, 2001). The strategic management of the organization that has been analyzed is Coca Cola Amatil Australia. The corporation is one of the largest bottlers of non-alcoholic beverages in Asia Pacific region and has its headquarters based in Sydney, Australia and is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Apart from bottling beverages, the company also produces, distributes and sells a diverse product range. The most prominent products that it distributes include ...

Setting

This year on Valentine’s Day my boyfriend took me to a romantic restaurant for a candle light dinner. My boyfriend is a kind of shy person so he booked a table at a corner of the restaurant, so that people around us won’t be staring at us and consequently we will be able to have a memorable dinner. Luckily we got a table reserved as per our requirements but the only problem was that the glass of the window was transparent through which the pedestrians walking in the street were able to see us. Although I was fine with this situation because nobody ...

Gender relations and the experience of African American women under slavery

The period of slavery is perhaps one of the hardest periods that ancestral African American women ever faced. The hardships that African Americans faced as a result of slavery raise the question of why their white masters treated them with such cruelty and violation of human rights. This paper seeks to analyze some of the hardships that African American women faced under slavery. The analysis of the gross violation of human rights and freedoms will be analyzed critically to highlight the importance of respecting the fundamental rights of women and humanity in general. In an effort to understand the ...

Medical ethics refers to moral principles usually applied in the medical practice to ensure that professional, ethical, and religious concepts are utilized effectively among health care practitioners. Health care practitioners should use medical ethics during the analysis of medical cases. This is to make sure that physician’s or nurses’ professionalism is promoted while protecting the well being of the patients. The practice of medical ethics in the health care setting can be traced from the time of Hippocratic Oath and the first code of medical ethics in the 5th century. Over the years, physicians, lawyers, theorists and doctors ...

Muzeum Narodowe, Poznan, Poland

The painting depicts three young women (girls) gathered around a chessboard with an older appearing woman looking on. The two girls in the utmost foreground appear to be playing each other in the chess game. The girl on the left, the tallest one, is staring straight at the viewer and smiling. The girl on the right, middle height, is looking at the girl on the left and has her hand raised, perhaps conceding the game or questioning a move. The way her mouth is represented suggests that she is speaking. The question of why the girl on the right has her ...

Kathryn Stockett's novel The Help tells the story of several women living in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960s. The novel centers around Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson, two hardworking African-American maids who constantly struggle with discrimination and racism as a result of their environment. With the help of a young white woman named Skeeter, these two women (and many other black maids in the area) get to tell their story while challenging conceptions of their intelligence and worth as human beings. Throughout the novel, racism is shown to be a deeply entrenched part of Southern life, and the difficulties these maids ...

Feminism in Movies: Just Wright

Introduction

Decades after Mary Wollstonecraft began the suffrage movement, women’s liberation is in its third wave and has changed its style with feminists shedding the image of bra-burning activists to one of “the woman on the top” (Britannica Encyclopedia). According to prolific feminist studies writer Susan J. Douglas, as advocated by the British female pop group, Spice Girls, feminism has become a dirty word, and girl power has become the acceptable way to think and speak of strong women (2010). Feminists are no longer women clad in baggy clothes striving for better recognition and respect for their gender. In the ...

The article is about the report of the death of the late former Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi in the Guardian media. In the article are allegations about the location of killing of Gaddafi, the possible killer and the likely time when he was killed. The allegations came from different sources around the world. In one source, it was said the Gaddafi had been killed by a NATO strike on his escape from his loyal home town of Sirte. Another report from a representative of Libya in the United Kingdom claimed that Gaddafi was captured alive when on an escape from Sirte ...

SUMMARY

Hero begins the plan to bring Beatrice and Benedick together by holding a conversation with Ursula and Margaret about how Benedick is in love with Beatrice, with Beatrice overhearing – they attempt to guilt her into having feelings for Benedick. They talk him up, stating that he is a catch, and Beatrice decides that it might be a good idea to “take pity” on poor Benedick and give him a chance.

On the other side of the coin. Benedick is being teased by Leonato, Don Pedro, and Claudio about opting to never marry. Benedick says he has changed his mind, but will not say ...

Question Number 1

The title of each image contains three main aspects of a painting meant to communicate vital information about the image. The title contains the artist name, the image name and the year on which the painting was done. The image viewers can obtain the theme and the intentions of the painting since individual artists are renowned of communication on various themes for instance infidelity. The images are named according to circumstances and individuals so; the appreciators can depict the meaning of the image with the name. The years mentioned shows the artistic period on which the image painting occurred. The ...