June Flaum Singer: A Critical Analysis

Mason McCabe Period 1 Mango Street Essay Thingy On the topic of ‘gender’ in relation to House on Mango Street (by Sandra Cisneros) is quite the fiery one, as Esperanza, along with other women in the book, faces the problems of sexism-related depravity quite a few times. In ‘My Name’, pg. 10-11, Esperanza talked about how her great grandmother was kidnapped and forced to marry her grandfather, having her whole life shut down in the process. She mentioned that she ‘doesn’t want to inherit her place at the window’, because her great grandmother looked out of the window of their house sadly for the rest of her life.

She is a beautiful women who does not want to accompany Odysseus to her palace as she does not want to seem unfaithful to her pending husband. “For already you are being courted by all the best men”, here Athene is showing us that the princess has many potential suitors, yet she has remained loyal to her chosen man (Homer, 1967:5.34). When Odysseus meets Princess Nausicaä it is one of the few times that Odysseus himself shows sexual fidelity for his wife Penelope (Cliffnotes, 2016). Although, Odysseus acknowledges that the princess would make a lovely bride, he declines the offer of becoming her husband as he says that he would like to return home to his own wife. The goddess Artemis is one of the few goddesses known to be chaste and protect the virtuous countryside, she is a symbol of sexual fidelity (Homer,

In their first and only conversation at Harvard, Janet attempts to establish a connection between them as women professors, who face the same judgments and unreasonable demands; she complains about being mistaken for a lesbian after being found in the bathroom with Luellen May, replicating misogynist sentiments when she admits to thinking that “those women in overalls and boots are horrible” (49). Janet herself did not dare to defy social conventions or her family's expectations, which are revealed to Kate by Janet's brother Bill. He claims that Janet would not have killed herself had she been content with the “life of a normal woman” (145), had had children and given up her work. At the same time, he recognized that “Janet wasn't made for marriage” (146), a sentiment he shares with Moon, who tells Kate about how much Janet struggled to embrace traditional femininity, wanting to be 'ladylike' but being too smart to not be opinionated (130). This can be read as an indication that Janet is by nature more androgynous than she would like to be; being a wife did not come easy to her, and in the end the marriage did not

Despite the ideology of her time, Gilman never resisted expressing her thoughts and feelings through her writing. By the early twentieth century, she had become an extremely influential women’s rights advocate, and author. Contrary to her doctor’s orders, she decided to reflect on her horrible experiences in her short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (U.S. National Library of Medicine). At first, Gilman tried to have her story published in The Atlantic Monthly, but the editor declined because the story made him “miserable” (Straub 1). After being rejected, The New England Magazine agreed to publish Gilman’s story.

Take a look at the Eastern Asian cultures – they are expected to marry and start a family in their twenties. If they are thirty and still single, it is very frowned upon. They will be told to settle for less, or that they are too

After several dates with George, Alice gets pregnant. Meanwhile, George falls in love with another lady, Angela Vickers, and tries to end his relationship with Alice. Feeling deserted and deceived, Alice tries to blackmail George, and he finds that her death will end his suffering. He plans to take her in a boat and drowns her. Although he fails to go on his plan, Alice falls in the water and drowns.

At the beginning of Armand and Desiree’s love story, Chopin creates a reference and foreshadowing to predict the sad ending the couple will have later in the story, “What did it matter about a name when he could her one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana?” (1). In this quote, Chopin makes a reference to Romeo and Juliet, by referring to when Juliet did not care about the family rivalry between her and Romeo. However, the family rivalry between Romeo and Juliet won the relationship by forcing the couple to commit suicide at the end of the story. This reference foreshadows Desiree and Armand’s relationship since Armand only paid attention to his love for Desiree and not her origin.

In the novel The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald set in the 1920s, a man named Jay Gatsby who became rich through illegal means tries to win the heart of a woman named Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan’s wife. The wife of a garage owner named George Wilson, Myrtle, is also having an affair with Tom. Throughout the course of the novel, Tom and Wilson run into similar encounters. Both of them discover that their wives have been cheating on them and have comparable reactions. These discoveries and related events reveal their attitudes toward women and become violent.

Suggesting back to when the speaker called her father a fascist, believing all women love one, maybe this was the speaker falling for her very own fascist. The speaker continues on and described the man as a “vampire" who drained her for not only one year, but seven, suggesting that she did go on to marry the model of her father, and thus being in an unhappy marriage. The girl could have been drawn towards the man because he remembered the girl of her father, and her father died when she was young maybe she was left with a need to have someone like her father around. The speaker falling for a man whose actions mirrored her father 's behaviors suggest that though she had already begun acknowledging who her father truly was, the memories of him still had a control over her and some of her life decisions.

The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is the tale of two rival families, the Montague and the Capulet. The son of the Montague family is Romeo and the daughter of the Capulet of Juliet. The two meet at a party hosted by the Capulet family and eventually fall in love. Romeo and Juliet agree to get married the following day, but the Capulet king is arranging for Juliet to get married to a kinsman named Paris. In order to prevent this, Friar Laurence gives Juliet a sleeping potion to make it seem like she had died.

Thomas Cole (1801-1848) was an American artist who was the founder of the Hudson River School of romantic American Landscape painting. Cole was well known for his work a being realistic and had a meticulous depiction of American landscape which featured themes of romanticism. Cole was born in England but at 17 years old his family immigrated to Ohio where Cole learned the foundation of his profession. Landscape art was not Cole’s only skill, he also was known for doing sketches, which produced some very skillful and well known pieces. Cole’s personal life was full and enriched with 5 children one of which passed away at birth, and he was married at 26 years of age to the niece of the studio he worked for in New York.

Charles Perrone, also known as Chaz, was married to his wife, Joey, until he threw her overboard from the side of a cruise ship. Chaz failed in his attempt of murdering his wife, Joey, but he believes that she is dead at sea. Hiaasen uses the setting of the couple’s house to influence Chaz’s emotions. Chaz is a man who values physical attraction over emotional interest, therefore it is fitting that being in the house that he once shared with his wife would trigger his sexual desires. After entering the house, Chaz recalls the details of his wife that he loved the most, thinking that “The place smelled lightly of Joey’s favorite perfume, a scent that never failed to arouse him,” (70).

The film than jumps ahead with John Reilly (Jeffery Combs), who has inherited the castle from the Duchess as he is her last living relative. The Duchess being his aunt. John is accompanied by his with wife Susan (Barbra Crampton) and his daughter Rebecca (Jessica Dollarhide). John and Susan marriage is on bad footing, with Susan blaming John for he death of the son in a car accident that also left their daughter blind. This is because John was drunk, but it was also super stormy and he was distracted by his son crawling around out of his car seat.

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a tragic love story between Gatsby, an army man who fell into the world of crime, and Daisy, a married woman. Daisy’s cousin, Nick, moves in next door to Gatsby and they almost instantly became friends. When the two lovebirds fall back into each other 's life, it was all smooth sailing until Daisy 's husband got suspicious of her relations with Gatsby. When Daisy runs over Myrtle, Tom’s mistress, Gatsby finds himself in a sticky situation. Willing to take the blame, Gatsby, enjoying his last days of freedom decides to go for a dip in the pool.

Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded Hannah Hart is an online creator, mainly focusing on her popular YouTube segment My Drunk Kitchen among other projects, some partnered with Barilla and The Food Network. My Drunk Kitchen is a segment where Hart drinks while cooking and includes a plethora of food-related puns and life lessons along the way. I highly recommend checking it out. In addition to her growing fame starting a few years ago, Hart released a book late last year titled Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded.