Abstract The systematic disenfranchisement of convicted felons in Florida and other states is examined in this paper. The practice is deemed undemocratic and racist, and its manipulation by the parties in power is discussed.
From the Paper "The disenfranchisement of convicted felons in the United States is a racist tactic used by those in power to dilute minority voting and rig elections. As such it is morally reprehensible and profoundly undemocratic ..."
Abstract This paper looks at the role of the patriarch with two specific examples. It focuses on Anzia Yezierska, a writer and Langston Hughes a poet. Both were from poor minority families. The writer gives a background to the authors? families and their work. The paper explores how the experiences of their youth and patriarchs shaped their futures. It examines the four elements of patriarchal influence. Through the two examples, the paper argues that a persons self assurance and confidence begins in family. In conclusion, the writer argues that fathers play a crucial role in the upbringing of their children.
From the Paper "Langston Hughes and Anzia Yezierska were as different from one another as the cultures which they called their own. Although each started their life as a member of poor minority families, Anzia lived in the ghettos of early 20th century Manhattan, and Langston sought refuge amidst in the conflict between slave owners, bigoted whites, and abolitionists of the Midwest. Anzia's father lived in her home, and her family had a strong heritage as Russian Jews who had immigrated to the US."
Abstract This paper will discuss two broad areas of inquiry: the way in which gender roles within patriarchy may oppress both genders; and the gains and loses a patriarchal culture hands out to both genders. While some of the more notorious effects of a patriarchal culture are obvious enough, the thesis here is cautious and argues that a patriarchy alone is not sufficient to explain (or subsume) all human ills.
Abstract Janet Lewis's novel, "The Wife of Martin Guerre," takes place in the isolated French village of Artigues. The writer discusses how the novel is set in 1539, a time in which the patriarchal system was still to be found operating in villages, such as Artigues. It looks at this system, which was designed to give collective security to a household through obedience, though it meant relinquishing individual independence. This system, though comfortable at times and secure, was inhibiting, and the restrictions and limitations for both the men and the women play an important role in developing the central characters in the novel, Bertrande and Martin, as well as influencing and controlling their actions and decisions.
From the Paper "The man Martin Guerre, firstborn son of the Guerre household is a good example of the ways in which the patriarchal system influence characters lives. From birth his role in life is defined for him. He is to unite the houses of de Rols and Guerre, work under his father, contributing to the prosperity of the household and eventually become the cap d'hostal. Unfortunately, although Martin is said to "be capable of all that is required of a man" he finds the restrictions of the patriarchal system more than he can stand to live with. From a young age we can see that his born power of women gives him a childish arrogance, demonstrated with the assault on his new wife at their wedding ceremony. His feeling of superiority, encouraged by the tradition of male dominance develops into a stern dislike for authority. Bertrande notes soon after the birth of Sanxi that Martin sometimes felt "impatience at this inferior position." Martin finds the authority of his father so stifling that he appears unable to resist following his own whims on two notable occasions. This first, the bear hunt, results in a severe physical punishment from his father, which though Martin accepts it unquestioningly, appears to have little effect on his independent streak. To continue to live under his fathers rule while continuing into manhood provokes Martin so forcefully that he appears unable to help himself when he defies his father once again, this time escaping punishment. The restrictions imposed upon him by society further influence him to remain absent from his family, as he apparently "found the experience of liberty sweet' and preferred power over his own actions to the company of his wife and child."
Tags: arnaud, bertrande, france, guerre, martin, patriarchal
This paper compares the patriarchal moral values in the film "Ten Things I Hate about You" by Gil Junger and "The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, 2005, $ 44.95
Abstract This paper explains that, in the play "The Taming of the Shrew" by Shakespeare, the message of morality is presented through the patriarchal traditions of family, which also are represented in the modern family as depicted in the contemporary film "Ten Things I Hate about You". The author points out that both fathers are seemingly absent to uphold their authority due to the nature of their professions. The paper assumes that this lack of fatherly presence in the family unit is what makes both Katherine and Bianca choose their own suitors whether it is for dating or marriage.
From the Paper "This drama analysis compares the play "The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare and the film "Ten Things I Hate About You" by Gil Junger. In the play "The Taming of the Shrew" by Shakespeare, the message of morality is presented through the patriarchal traditions of family. Through the overwhelming power of Baptista to preserve Bianca's marriage status below her sister Katherine, the film "Ten Things I Hate About You" relates a similar set of moral principles in the patriarchal traditions within modern families."
Abstract This paper discusses the gender roles of women in the films "Red River" and "My Darling Clementine". The paper describes the ways in which the films show some strengths that woman are capable of, but directors Ford and Hawks never really present these women in a serious manner. The paper suggests that the patriarchal domination of the male roles in these films always seem to make laughing stock out of women, as the few women with any kind of power are diminished.
From the Paper "Film Studies: Understanding the Patriarchal Domination of Women in the Western Genre In this film study, the role of women within a patriarchal pioneering society is portrayed within the films My Darling Clementine (1946) and Red River (1948). By evaluating the historical background of the old west through cinema, women are often portrayed as submissive to the gun slinging and often more aggressive male roles in these films. By analyzing the way that the women characters are filmed in these westerns, one can realize how misogynistic the overall plot and character construction is presented through their actions and behaviors. In essence, the patriarchal construct of diminishing the power of women is evident within these two films. The role of many westerns in the 1940s reflect the growing family values that America chose to adopt in Hollywood after World War II."
Abstract This paper examines how in Chinua Achebe's novel 'Things Fall Apart', the main character Okonkwo, believes that the measure of a man's success is based on two elements, material acquisition and growth, and physical prowess. It discusses how this is ironic for Okonkwo since his people's typical idea of success seems to be constructed of a complex, strong spiritual culture, seemingly able to deal in traditional ways with any challenge in nature and human experience. Further, the paper analyzes how it is this basic dichotomy between Okonkwo and his own culture that directly lead to the tragic fall of Okonkwo and his ultimate disgrace. Additionally, the paper examines how Okonkwo represents the patriarchal values of Igbo society.
From the Paper "Okonkwo was a man driven by with success. This manifested itself in many materialistic ways. First, he started out with nothing since he inherited nothing from his debt ridden father. He was forced to borrow seeds from a wealthy man. This was something he hated doing, but realised it was completely necessary become the man whom he wanted to be. "I began to fend for myself at an age when most people still suck at their mothers' breasts. If you give me some yam seeds I shall not fail you." (Achebe 1996:16). Here we can see that Okonkwo started adulthood, in fact supporting his family, at a very early age. He began to cultivate his farm before many of the other townspeople. "
Compares the depiction of the life of women inside the patriarchal society in Rebecca Harding Davis' 'Life in the Iron Mills" and William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily".
Abstract This paper explains that the female protagonists in Rebecca Harding Davis' 'Life in the Iron Mills" and Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" are very different. However, the two women are markedly the prisoners of the patriarchal society that has caught them in its net. The author points out that both women focus all their energy on their male companions, being almost obsessively preoccupied with them. The paper describes both stories.
From the Paper ""Life in the Iron Mills" is the somber story of the grey, empty life of a worker in the iron mills, Hugh Wolfe. In the midst of his brutish life, he has an artistic vision: he is able to model figurines out of the waste materials left at the mill. His aspirations are thwarted nevertheless, and he dies in utter misery. His fate obviously symbolizes the terrible destiny of the working-class people, who had no perspectives outside a barren, instinctual life. The secondary character of this story, Deborah, who is Hugh's cousin, is however an even more interesting figure which perfect the realistic picture drawn by Davis."
Abstract The paper examines how Kathleen M. Brown's work "Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs" reevaluated the development of racism and slavery in colonial Virginia from the perspective of gender. The paper then shows how this book did much to strengthen the arguments presented in Edward Countryman's collection of articles concerning slavery in colonial America, entitled "How Did American Slavery Begin?". The paper asserts that although frequently verbose and sometimes unfocused, "Good Wives" as a whole did much to supplement the readings found in Countryman's explication of how slavery became institutionalized in colonial America.
From the Paper "In keeping with the trend of revisionist historians who aimed to write women into key roles in history, Kathleen M. Brown's work with Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs reevaluated the development of racism and slavery in colonial Virginia from the perspective of gender. The book, divided into three parts, provided extensive information regarding the role of gender in shaping race and class relations in colonial Virginia. The bulk of the information regarding gender's involvement in the development of racism could be found in the second section of the book, "Engendering Racial Difference." The central argument of this section was that elite white men used discrepancies between gender roles of white women and African American women to deepen the disparity between the two races and thereby validate both social disdain and legal sanctioning against African Americans as a whole."
Abstract This paper explains that the human collective shadow is traits, which represent the collective experience of people's alter egos or darker sides that become the collective cultural shadow. The author points out that the archetypal, which is the antithesis of the collective shadow, is the way in which the collective culture tends to perceive itself without being aware of the dark shadow. The paper describes the archetypal of Western culture and the ways it has changed over time.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Collective Shadow
The Archetype
From the Paper "It is from these unrealistic archetypal images that, during the 1960s, the darker shadow side of American culture began to clash with. The result was the counter cultural revolution of the 1960s, wherein young people went to seemingly great extremes to look and behave opposite the archetypal image, which soon became known as "the establishment." At a point in American history, during the years of the Vietnam Conflict, it would have served Americans well to have found a way to blend the archetypal with the new; but that did not occur. "
Tags: psychopathic, alter egos, disenfranchisedpatriarchal, counter cultural revolution
An important feature of the Mexican Revolution was its broad base of support. Revolution was brought about because, after more than 30 years in power, Porfirio Diaz succeeded in disenfranchising almost all socioeconomic groups who were not members of the
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, 1999, $ 47.95
Abstract "An important feature of the Mexican Revolution was its broad base of support. Revolution was brought about because, after more than 30 years in power, Porfirio Diaz succeeded in disenfranchising almost all socioeconomic groups who were not members of the power elite. Revolution occurs when individuals are pressed to the limits of their endurance
From the Paper "An important feature of the Mexican Revolution was its broad base of support. Revolution was brought about because, after more than 30 years in power, Porfirio Diaz succeeded in disenfranchising almost all socioeconomic groups who were not members of the power elite. Revolution occurs when individuals are pressed to the limits of their endurance; such a situation existed in Mexico under Diaz, which explains why so many segments of society risked personal safety to participate.
Diaz pandered to foreign influence to such an extent that being a Mexican became a disadvantage, particularly the more than ninety percent mixed breed Indian population. The government regarded itself as superior to the common people: "The government must be an aristocracy, an aristocracy of brains, technicians, wise and upright elders, scientists" (Brenner, 1971 ..."
This paper discusses the use of the U.S. Supreme Court, from the end of the Civil War through 1917, to support the beliefs that truly all men are created equal.
Abstract This paper discusses the use of the U.S. Supreme Court by Blacks, Chinese and others to end discrimination, segregation and disenfranchisement by initiating and challenging regional legal decisions. The paper describes important U.S. Supreme court cases of this period: Roberts vs. the City of Boston ("separate but equal" doctrine), Ho Ah Kow vs. Nunan (discrimination against Chinese), Plessy vs. Ferguson (state's rights to enact its own laws) and Buchanan vs. Warley ( states cannot officially segregate African Americans into residential districts).
From the Paper "For example, the Chinese, who comprised a critical element in building the fortunes of the West, were denied many of the rights whites freely enjoyed. The Chinese persevered in this hostile climate and succeeded in broadening the definition of "American." The Chinese achieved Constitutional rights and led the way for other immigrant groups yet to come. In Ho ah Kow vs. Nunan, Ho Ah Kow sued a San Francisco sheriff who followed a racially-motivated law that decreed all prisoners have their hair cut at the uniform length of one inch long upon entering jail."
Tags: Roberts, vs., the, City, of, Boston, disenfranchisement, separate but equal, doctrine, Plessy, vs., Ferguson, Buchanan, vs., Warley
Abstract This paper analyzes Ahern's article in terms of the main theme, which is how, through subjugation, society disenfranchises women because of the potential power and great influence that they wield over the society. This stance is supported by Ahern's article and two articles discussing the same theme in Gary Seaman's "The Sexual Politics of Karmic Retribution" and Margery Wolf's "The Woman Who Didn"t Become a Shaman?.
From the Paper "Ahern, through the article, discusses three important facets that illustrate women oppression in the Chinese society: physical/natural/biological image of women, social reasons supporting the prevailing women image, and response of the people to justify norms that are implemented against women. In ?The Power and Pollution of Chinese Women,? images of women in their society connotes a negative idea, portraying them as dirty and undesirable in their community because of one important woman characteristic that men do not have: blood released through menstruation and during birth-giving. According to Ahern, ?[i]n Chinese society women are regarded as both ritually unclean and dangerously powerful? bodily effluvia associated exclusively with women are unclean: menstrual blood and postpartum discharge?? (269-270). Because of these beliefs, women in Chinese society are considered unclean and powerful, opposing qualities that reflect the society's fear in women. This is because through women, society, especially men, can see that they have the power to create and maintain social ties with other people, which men perceive as women's way in reversing the social order in the society, i.e., men as the outcasts and women are put in a higher, more dignified, and desirable status and role in the society."
Abstract This paper examines the lives of the authors James Baldwin, Edward Said, and Gloria Anzaldua. It attempts to find commonality between authors, noting that that none is a white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant living in America, and none of them ever was. It shows how, despite the fact that Said is the only immigrant from foreign shores, all can be said to view their own native culture in relation to American culture, at least to some extent, and how each is a stranger to American mainstream culture in his or her own way. It also looks at how the common thread between them is being an outsider and an observer of the mainstream culture and how all three are eloquent in describing their disenfranchisement.
From the Paper "Said is a stranger of a different sort. Of the three writers, only he was not born in the U.S.A., but rather chose to come here as an adult. And Said's homeland is not a multicultural hodgepodge as is the United States; in fact, at this point it might fairly be said that his homeland doesn"t exist, except in the hearts and minds of the various Muslims, Jews and Christians who at one time"in this generation or the last?might have called themselves Palestinians, referring both to a culture and to a set of national boundaries. Of the three, Said can most easily be seen as a stranger in a strange land, no matter where he is. This is a difference from the status of the late James Baldwin and Gloria Anzaldua. Both Baldwin and Anzaldua claim estrangement only from one native land."
This paper uses Owen Dodson's poem, "Black Mother Praying" (1943), and Martin Luther King's "The Importance of Vietnam" (1964), to discuss the issue of war and the African-American community.
Abstract This paper explains that African-American men and women quite often are exposed to war not because of their patriotism and love of military life, but rather because of economic desperation and political disenfranchisement from the American dream. The author points out that Martin Luther King's speech upon the nature of the Vietnam War called for an end to the war and the draft because it was disproportionately waged upon the backs of America's desperate, poor black men, who could not afford a university education to obtain a deferral and did not have the political connections to obtain service in the National Guard. The paper relates that, in Owen Dodson's WWII poem, "Black Mother Praying", the great post-Harlem Renaissance poet's last poem in dialect, Dodson's fictive mother weeps for a son whose death is only for a nation that hates him.
From the Paper "Early on in his speech, King highlights the dangerous divide that America is causing by going to war in Vietnam, stating that the war was doing far more than ?devastating the hopes of the poor at home. It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population. We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem. So we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools."
