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- 481: Alice Walker
- ... show through in her writing of poetry and novels. Alice Walker writes through her feelings and the morals that she has grown with, she writes about the black woman's struggle for spiritual wholeness and sexual, political, and racial equality. Much of Walker's fiction is informed by her Southern background. She was born in Eatonton, Georgia, a rural town where most blacks worked as tenant farmers. At the age eight ... Walker has focused more on her writing and has taught at various colleges and universities. Walker is one of the most prolific black women writers in America. Her work consistently reflects her concern with racial, sexual, and political issues-particularly with black woman's struggle for survival. She explained, "The black woman is one of America's greatest heroes….Not enough credit has been given to the black woman who has ... far off, miystic land of…miraculous. Walker's central characters are almost always black women; the themes of sexism and racism are predominant in her work, but her impact is felt across both racial and sexual boundaries. The first novel written by Alice Walker "The Third Life of Grange Copeland" (1970), again carries many of her prevalent themes, particularly the domination of powerless women by equally powerless men. In this ...
- 482: Lysistrata
- ... the younger men are out on campaign. When their husbands return from battle, the women refuse to have sex with them. This sex strike, which is portrayed in a series of (badly) exaggerated and blatant sexual innuendoes, finally convinces the men of Athens and Sparta to agree to a peace treaty. The Lysistrata shows women acting bravely and even aggressively against men who seem resolved on ruining the city-state by ... modern America. Their culture was such that each gender had very defined roles, and there really wasn't any room for leeway. Women were property. Something beautiful to own, to gaze upon, to fulfill your sexual needs and desires and to bear and raise your children in the appropriate cultural aspect. Except for sex and the family element, women really didn't have any redeeming social values. To even consider putting ... out started to become a serious internal conflict. The women started to mutiny. They started making up all sorts of reasons and excuses to leave the Acropolis. All through the play there is a heavy sexual connotation, but here the excuses are as phony as any pick up line in any modern singles social scene. Woman #1 I must go home and spread my fleece out onto the bed! Woman # ...
- 483: The Impact And Outcome Of Pain
- By: robbert verwaayen The impact and the outcome of pain The impact of sexual abuse reaches all levels of Childs emotions. Confusion: This is usually the first reaction of the child. They will usually question, “What is going on?” and “ Is this right or wrong?” For a young child ... his mental and emotional being. You could also say that this individual, unlike Dorothy Allison, has not fully recovered from his emotional wounds. Now comparing the healing process of a death camp survivor and the sexual abuse of Allison is worth a whole study. Not only because the environment is totally different, but also because each individual deals with emotional wounds differently. Dorothy Allison struggles with love and her need to ... put them in the same situation with the same emotional wounds, the outcome of the effect on their identities and the possible healing is probably very different. Healing emotionally from a death camp experience or sexual abuse takes time, a lot of self reflecting and talking or writing about it. In some cases people come to grips with it and some cases people don’t, like the baker. There are ...
- 484: Rasputin The Mad Monk
- ... communities. Nikon's rapid persecution of these sects weakened the Orthodox Church and gave rise to groups such as the Khlysty, which Rasputin is said to have taken part in. Their secret rites were extremely sexual and orgiastic in nature, and it was believed that through sexual sin, one could gain repentance. It has been said that Rasputin strengthened his powers through sexual acts performed while taking part in the Khlysty.(Kwapien 1-2). Rasputin's greatest feat in spiritual healing was the aid he provided the Tsarevitch Aleksei, a hemophiliac, in 1912. Aleksei had inherited the ...
- 485: The Portrayal of Women in the Novels "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Marquez and "The House of the Spirits" by Isabel Allende
- ... One Hundred Years of Solitude empowerment comes only through age, for instance Ursula Iguaran, the matriarch of the Buendia family and to some extent Macondo, or through strength of sexuality, for instance Pilara Tenera the ‘sexual matriarch' of Macondo. This is in contrast with The House of the Spirits where empowerment comes also through force of conviction, as seen with Nivea, and also through commercial enterprise as seen with Transito Soto ... is portrayed as the temptress. She fills Jose Arcadio's bones with: "…foam, a languid fear, and a terrible desire to weep." Where Ursula is portrayed as the matriarch of the town Pilar is the sexual matriarch of the town. She bears two children from Aureliano Buendia and Jose Arcadio . She also has sexual relationships with Aureliano and Arcadio. This shows her power in the novel manifests sexually, it seems that the attraction to her is passed on th rough the generations , and even after marriage they always ...
- 486: Kelly Flinn
- ... life began to completely fall apart. On November 24,1996 the base security police began an inquiry into Flinn’s alleged affair based on charges of a male junior officer who was under investigation for sexual misconduct. In two sworn statements Flinn denied her relationship with Mark Zigo was sexual. On the other hand, Mark Zigo first told investigators that they had had sex on just two occasions. He later acknowledged they had sex numerous times. In December, Kelly was again ordered to stay away ... was overly sympathetic to Kelly and understated the severity of the charges against her and painted the military justice system in the worst possible way; as an unfair, faceless bureaucracy intent on rooting out illicit sexual behavior. But Kelly did not see things that way. She felt as if her whole life was falling apart just because she had fallen in love with the wrong man. She found out Mark ...
- 487: In The Beginning
- ... whites, and finally the African Americans. First, the Indian women were covered. The Englishmen as promiscuous thought of the women living with their tribes. They came to this conclusion because they were allowed to have sexual relations with different men, practice polygamy and they noticed that the children had lighter hair than the Indians. This said that the people the women were having sex with were people from other than their ... property and could be sold, given away, abused, or whatever their master could think of and it didn’t matter. Slavery for blacks first came big in Virginia. These slaves were not permitted to have sexual relations with one another and the masters and the masters wives were not supposed to have sexual relations with their slaves. This, of course still happened happened, which was proven by all of the illegitimate children. Some of the things in this article was pretty upsetting and it’s hard to ...
- 488: Bram Stoker's Dracula: Anti-Christian
- ... not concentrating on God as the source of life. As Dracula feeds on the blood of the living he creates followers as Jesus had disciples. Dracula has evil ways and spreads his evil not by sexual reproduction as God meant it to be but he takes the living and makes their lives evil destroying their souls. As it can be said that you must let God into your heart Dracula may ... of getting rid of the vampire ladies. He is restrained from his terrifying task by the beauty of the women, though he knows they are a curse on the world. Another seen which depicts the sexual desires of vampirism is when Lucy is Un-Dead. While Van Helsing, Arthur, and Dr. Seward are spending a vigil outside Lucy's tomb she appears and while standing there in amazement she tries to lure Arthur to her. Vampires reproduce through the biting and sucking of blood from someone's neck. This is an abstruction of how reproduction of humans is ment to come forth from sexual reproduction. Throughout the book the Un-Dead attack the opposite of their sex. This somewhat proves that vampires can be sexually aroused constantly which allows them to attract their victims. These events and aspects ...
- 489: The Beauty Myth
- ... the picture. Wolf discusses the effect that these standards are having on women in the workplace. A woman’s beauty, or lack of it, can be used against her. In 1986, Mechelle Vinson lost a sexual harassment case. “Vinson was young and ‘beautiful’ and carefully dressed. The district court ruled that her appearance counted against her.” (Wolf 38) “In Hopkins v. Price-Waterhouse, Ms. Hopkins was denied a partnership because she needed ...
- 490: The Color Purple: Real Outcome of Economic Achievement and Alternative Economic View
- ... citizens, Celie is ironically rewarded for following in her family's entrepreneurial interests. Celie's shift from underclass victim to capitalist entrepreneur has only positive signification. Her progression from exploited black woman, as woman, as sexual victim, is aided by her entrance into the economy as property owner, manager of a small business, storekeeper - in short capitalist entrepreneur. The Models (Manners and Customs, Historical and Empirical Data) of representation in the ... production, signaled in the narrative repression of the class element in the lynching of Celie's father. The profit motive killed her father and, indirectly, her mother; it made Celie vulnerable to her stepfather's sexual imperialism and almost resulted in her disenfranchisement from her property. The Color Purple's strategy of presenting an alternative (Celie's economic success) to the real, (lynching of Celie's father) had indeed aimed to ... providing the black nation with the right and the opportunity to own land, to participate in the free market, and to profit from it. Indeed The Color Purple is a fairytale; a world in which sexual exploitation can easily be overcome; and a world of unlimited access to material well being (Hooks 223). By emphasizing on the letter dealing with the lynching of Celie's father and the last letter ...
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