Originally posted on The Rainy Day Kid:
Yesterday was my first last day of school. I know, this is a cliche topic, but it must be documented in some way. Yesterday was the first time I’d have to stress out about finding my classes, receiving a bunch of syllabi for those classes, and all of…
Originally posted on GenTwenty:
In this time of graduation and thoughts of “Oh wait, I’m in my 20s, wasn’t I supposed to find a job or something?”, it may be time to get your rear in gear and start the application process. More and more, twenty-somethings are applying to companies far away from their homelands.…
No Name Woman Essay with sources to come.
For this close reading of Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel Fun Home, I’m going to focus on pages 20 – 21 in chapter 1. She’s discussing how embarrassment and shame are very present in their house, but carefully hidden behind all the old knick-knacks, mirrors, and lamps. “His shame inhabited our house as pervasively and invisibly […]
This video (done by someone on YouTube for a class) could fit into my group’s Prezi as we’re discussing women’s roles as part of our presentation. It is a little long though and doesn’t represent our theme of family influence over aspects of one’s life so it might not fit perfectly into our presentation, but […]
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For our first choice reading of “House on Mango Street,” founded on the vignette “Hips” about how they suddenly bloom, unfolding like rise petals. The chapter itself also mentioned the many uses for hips and they prove your womanhood. As we look report into the vignette and compare it to others, it simply seems to […]
While Woolf, Rich, and Walker focus on gender, class, and race respectively, there is a missing piece. I feel that missing piece is an essay on education. And not just education, but education despite gender, class, and race differences. Those of us in academia are all different. With respect to gender, while there are […]
I’ve read Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street before, in high school. I must say, it’s interesting coming at it from a different perspective. I’ve chosen to focus on my close reading on the chapter “Hips.” A curvy lady myself, it’s interesting to see hips through the eyes of younger girls. The first image the narrator […]
I wrote this ode to my legs last February. As I didn’t have a car last year, I did a lot of walking, sometimes long distances and sometimes in the middle of the night. One particular night I was walking home from a friend’s house and was terrified, but my legs just kept pushing on, […]
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