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Germaine, her sister Rose and their friends consider that working in the night club is a filthy job from a social perception, so they cut their relationship with Pierrette and do not talk to Pierrette. The older generation thinks that it is very cheap for girls to work at the nightclub and working there is only to be picked up. On many occasions, Germaine tells Pierrette that she does not want to talk to her. Even in the end, Pierrette was the only one on Germaine’s side, but still she doesn’t want to talk to her and asks her to leave the house. This is because of their contradicting opinions on going to the nightclub as they both are brought up in different generations.

Some of the comparisons brought about in these writings were that both groups were oppressed, controlled and unheard. African Americans worked for low wages and housewives worked for no wages at all. The skills of the African American were not available to help the common good since they were often times stuck in menial jobs or never given the chance because of their skin color. Housewives didn’t get a chance to help the common good because they were taking care of the household, children and a husband. Both groups would like to have been recognized and treated as an equal, but they were unheard voices in a world all too busy to listen.

6700 Engwr 300 Essay 3 Dr. Jordan WC: Reframing Feminism for Black Women Beautiful gardens and handmade colorful quilts are not often the symbols of rebellion, however, in Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, these are the pictures of defiance. As she speaks of resilience, spirituality and the need to create, Walker explores what happened to our mothers’ minds when they were placed in systems of oppression unable to pursue higher learning and ‘refined’ art. One overarching theme in Walker’s essay is the idea of a legacy for women and the ability to create art; a theme which is paralleled in the book A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, which Walker quotes several times within her essay.

The work was also dangerous with not much supervising by the government. Workers, on the other hand, had little or even no bargaining power to leave the unsafe conditions. Nowadays, When Americans only pay attention when extreme work strike, levels of abuse are the norm hidden in the factories around the globe. Although the condition seems much improved, consumers don’t know the true fact- “Today, American citizens simply cannot know the working conditions of the factories that make the products they buy.

Criterion A: Miller is in shopping mall and began to feel extremely anxious, and anxiety was accompanied by sensations of choking, smothering, and a sudden sense that the people and stores around her were unreal and unfamiliar to her. Criterion B: Despite the strange thought (e.g. she might feel she is going crazy) and sensation miller is experiencing, but she is not psychotic means that she is excludes the possibility of a psychotic disorder. Criterion C: Miller symptoms are exceedingly distressing which is affecting interpersonal and social life. For example, she is being anxious all the time and not discussing her disorder with her husband and has not visited the doctor for the checks up.

Moreover, Nora treats her children as dolls, by only using them to show off with visitors. This is one case of situational irony, where Nora treats her children the same way Torvald treats her, even when she explicitly criticizes that

With news of Mr.Scott’s death, Laura becomes hesitant to host the party, however, Mrs.Sheridan remarks on her daughter’s ridiculousness and absurdity. She states, “People like that don’t expect sacrifices from us” (Mansfields, 6), dismissing the need to be civil towards the low-class. It is not merely just that she refuses to express courtesy to the lower classes, but also that she believes it impossible of such people to possess expectations for the wealthy. Her mother’s impervious behavior stuns Laura and she becomes conflicted; where is the fine line between respect and power? In addition, Jose mindlessly assumes that Mr.Scott had been drunk and her insensitive comment visibly agitates Laura.

She was treated as if she had a lower social class than the rest of her family. Her step-mother “could not bear the good qualities of this pretty girl, and the less because they made her own daughters appear the more odious.” This jealousy led to taking power over her, overloading her with chores in the house and treating her as an object rather than human. They were so cruel to her, as they even mocked her, with her name originally being “Cinderwench.” She couldn’t tell her father about the cruelties that she dealt with, since if she did, her father “would have rattled her off; for his wife governed him entirely.”

Nora is a married woman and has children to take care of. She really has little freedom because of the way Torvald treats her. She is not even I feel as if deep down she knows she is not free and wants something more in her life then to be a entertaining puppet for Torvald. She realizes at the end of the story that Torvald is not good to her because of the way he acted when she told him about forging the signature. When Torvald called her a criminal and other harsh words she realized that she had no true love from Torvald and wanted to be free from him.

However like Harris mentions in his article “the traditional view of the women in Beowulf as weak, extraneous characters used only to pass mead and worry about their children is patently false.” This epic oversimplifies the women’s roles in a household especially when they were from a noble title, since many of them had to take care of all household matters, especially when the men were gone to war, or even were peacemakers (Yewdaev). This is mostly due to the lack of presentation women have in this epic. On another hand, by lacking the mention of women they are showing that women aren’t seen as any where equal to men. It is arguable to say that at the same time the women are still being represented as having a big part in society, since it they found it necessary to give small parts to two

Because of her realization that she is not in upper class anymore, she had to take on the role of a proletarian by cooking and cleaning for the dwarfs. Snow White is now struggling again with her life because she has no choice but to work for them. If she did not listen to the dwarfs, she would have no place to live, and the evil queen would kill her. Because of their economic struggle of not being able to afford a large home, an additional member to their house, it is a new problem for dwarfs because they have to feed her. Therefore, in order to let her stay there, she has to work for them.

No, it is not normal or just unfortunate. It is totally unacceptable that women can’t walk in peace, that there is always a reason for us to be scared. Our society has made it so normal that people don 't care about it. We don 't feel safe walking down the streets, or wearing what we want, or even acting as we want. Getting complimented on the streets is not flattering.

Classism is a major issue that plagues American society. Classism separates groups by their economic status in society. America is perceived to be a middle class society, however in reality the middle class does not hold majority of the nation’s wealth. Most of the nation’s wealth is held by 1% of the population in America which consists of 34% of the nation’s wealth, meanwhile “the richest 20% of Americans hold nearly 85% of the total household wealth in the country” (Adams et al, 2013, p. 151). American citizens that are a part of the upper class are privilege because they have access to majority of the resources.

Yes, concerns about major social and political revolution were justified at the time of the Great Depression. After the stock market crashed, banks failed as well as a result of millions of Americans withdrawing their money. Unemployment ensued because of the rapid decrease of consumer spending. These all mostly affected the working class, since they were the ones who went out of work when the Depression hit. Additionally, the big disparity of wealth between the rich and poor encouraged the Depression; 32% of the country’s wealth went to the richest 5% of people, while only 10% when to the poorest 42%.

The most important theme in this novel that is apparent throughout the entire book is social inequality. This sets the tone for the book and most events are based around this common theme. Throughout the book, the characters learn about the real world through the racism and unbalance of social power that takes place during this time period. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee represents the struggles for social equality in the 1930's through two young characters that grow up around people that are pushing racism and segregation. For example, it was known throughout the whole town that Atticus “won’t win, he can’t win” (Lee 246) in his trial defending a black man.