Christina Hoff Sommers Essays

after all the centuries of girls being left in the dark concerning schooling they have not only caught up to the boys, they have surpassed them. The article, “The boys at the Back” by Christina Hoff Sommers, talks about how girls now receive better grades than boys and the implications that come with it. Christina Hoff Summers is a Scholar who studies the relationship between gender, sexuality, and politics. As an expert in gender, sexuality, and politics she is very knowledgeable about this topic

The aim of this paper is to draw out the implications of liberal feminist framework for the analysis of education. Doing this paper will discuss its conceptual basis, its typical educational objectives, strategies for change and criticism of the approach. Feminist theoretical framework addresses the question of women’s subordination to men: how this arose, how and why it is perpetuated, how it might be changed and (sometimes) what life would be without it. Middle range theories may be less dramatic

Things fall apart is a tragedy novel written by Chinua Achebe. Okonkwo, who is the protagonist of the novel and one of the most powerful men in the Ibo tribe often resorts to violence to make his points understood. Down in his heart, Okonkwo is not a cruel man, but his life is dominated by his internal conflict, the fear of failure and of weakness. He hated his father, Unoka, because he was a lazy debtor. Okonkwo made it a point in his life to set himself apart from his father by being well known

In most fairy tales and novels a humble male role is used to dictate the normality of writing. In “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo, a strong male role is not only that, a lead character, but he is also cruel and prone to violent tendencies In the novel Okonkwo experiences harsh changes when the white men first came and at the beginning of colonialism. In “Things Fall Apart”, Achebe uses Okonkwo to display the negative change in everyday Igbo culture after colonialism. In this novel by

Fear is the core cause of the dramatic shift of lifestyle for both Okonkwo and Nwoye. Through the management of reputation and the avoidance of their father’s likeness, Okonkwo and Nwoye built new lives for themselves. Okonkwo sought power and authority to prove his masculinity and make up for Unoka’s reputation as a weak man. He did this to the point where manliness became his character. Fearlessness and violence were masculine qualities that in Igbo culture signifies strength and influence. Okonkwo

Lilleonna Woods Mr. Mostov HLA 8 26 February 2023 Winnie the Pooh is a very well known character who has not only taught many valuable lessons, but still does to this day. Winnie the Pooh is a yellow bear from a children's show. He is significant in relation to the book Warrior Don’t Cry because of some of his quotes, especially “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh. This represent the main idea of

152074 Lit 14 – Introduction to Poetry and Drama Memory of Yesternight: Analysis of Sorrows of the Moon In Charles Baudelaire’s Sorrows of the Moon, the moon is imagined as a woman. With this attribution, the moon is given the privilege of being seen and treated as a lady throughout the poem thus referring to it as a “she” rather than an “it”. In the first two lines of the poem, This evening the moon dreams more lazily/As some fair woman, lost in cushion sleep, the moon is at once

In Mary Shelley’s iconic gothic novel, Frankenstein, Romantic themes are strongly represented in order to propagandize Romanticism over the elements of knowledge and the Enlightenment. In her novel, Shelley uses gothic nature settings to foreshadow dark events that are about to happen. She also uses nature to intensify the effect that is brought during significant scenes, a strong example being, when Victor Frankenstein’s monster approaches him after a long period of time. Nature and its use to influence

In “the Raven,” by Edgar Allan Poe, he perpetuates a sense of gothicism throughout the poem by using literary elements along with structure in both his stanzas and setting. In the poem, the narrator is grieving over the death of his beloved, Lenore; as a result, produces a sense of melancholy carried across the poem. As the poem develops, it is suggested that he has little desire to mend his sorrow and would rather consume himself in melancholy. Poe carries out the gothicism throughout the poem by

Laura and Lizzie and the goblins’ haunted glen – can stand for a number of opposites: rural/urban, the domestic/the public, masculine/feminine, heterosexual/non-heterosexual a critic argues. Ultimately, although all of these could be true – the poem is widely known as a gothic, proto-feminist poem. It’s known that Rossetti became devoted to high Anglicism at a young age, and so as an audience we can understand that she had strict religious beliefs and values, which was also motivated by the era she

Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is a piece of fiction written in the nineteenth century. The protagonist Edna is a controversial character, Edna rebels against many nineteenth - century traditions, but her close friend Adele was a perfect example in terms of a role of a woman, mother and wife at that time. Chopin uses contrast characters to highlight the difference between Adele and Edna. Although they are both married women in the nineteenth century, they also exhibit many different views about what

A cause of corruption, discrimination and inequality, the cause of death of many innocent lives. Throughout the long history, racism has been a subject of much debate, most notably in The United states of America. There have been numerous actions that suggest that racial inequality might still be intact with America’s modern society, such as the extreme violence shown by the police that has been roaming all over social media recently. This has eventually led to the creation of the controversial “Black

“You express the truth of your character with the choice of your actions.” A quote by Steve Maraboli explains how the choices you make affect the way you show off your character to other people. Many people these days character is not very good or they don’t show all the pillars of character. Well, my very close friend named Rosie shows that she has a good character and the way she acts follows the pillars. The reason Rosie is such a great person is that she follows the six pillars of character which

Cecelia Clubb Professor Jeffery Wallace ENGL 1102 SO4 23 April 2023 Seeing Freudian Theory Through Goblin Market This beautiful poem by Christina Rossetti emphasizes the sin and sacrifice that is in the lives of the twin sisters Lizzie and Laura. The certain personality traits that they each have can be seen as a representation of the subconsciously alter egos, superego, and id. Lizzie is being the moral superego, sess a bit like her sister's conscience. Lizzie's voice is the voice of reason

In contrast, it has a Christian theme in the ‘Goblin Market’ it is based on religious, the two sisters Laura and Lizzie. Laura commits sin when eating the fruit, But Lizzie refuse to not eat it. But in ‘Lady of Shalott’ doesn’t base at all on religious beliefs. The Lady of Shalott ventures to explore Camelot and the outside world, this is what leads to her fatal demise. Her attempt to traverse societal lines and explore what a woman should not explore is the ultimate deviation from the strictness

Plop! A rain drop dripped from the ceiling crack and splashed onto Simon 's nose. School children whooped with laughter outside his window. It was time to wake up. The smell of Mrs. Chapelle 's fresh biscuits filled his room and made Simon 's stomach rumble. He hoped she saved some for him! Simon grabbed his metal cup and followed his dog Gus through the front door. He wondered what he would see today. The air outside was wet and warm. The trolley car was buzzing and thunder was

The author and main character of this book is Chris Kyle. Chris is a SEAL team sniper who has been awarded the title of the most lethal sniper. Chris was born and raised in Texas where he learned to shoot guns with his dad. He later became very interested in joining the military after the 9/11 attacks. Chris went on four tours to Iraq where he became a very successful sniper. If there were a song that explains Chris it would be “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue” by Toby Keith. One line that

The texts Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, explore the tensions between individual desires and social or institutional regulations. All three of the texts suggest that societies use regulations to protect individuals, from their own desires that may be harmful to them. The first example of this can be seen in the Goblin Market, with the character Laura. Laura’s desire to eat the goblin fruit, although forbidden, endangers

Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” depicts two sisters’ experiences with the goblins and their marketplace of fruits. Laura gives in to the temptation of curiosity and exchanges her “precious golden lock” (Rossetti 126) for a taste of the fruits, while Lizzie represents the conventional female who obeys gender roles, never making eye contact with the goblins. Rossetti criticises the unfairness of gender roles in the Victorian society, as well as how society is civil only to females who fit into

Known as the "Princess of Pop," Britney Spears is a famous American singer and songwriter. She entered the entertainment industry as a youngster. She was born in Mississippi in 1981. With the release of her debut album...Baby One More Time in 1999, she became the best-selling teen artist of all time after signing with Jive Records in 1997. Oops!... I Did It Again, Britney, In the Zone, Blackout, Circus, Femme Fatale, Britney Jean, and Glory all followed suit and were all commercial successes for