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Marge Piercy, 2006.
Review of the work of poet and author, Marge Piercy.
1,818 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 58.95
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This paper takes a look at the work of Marge Percy, poet and novelist. The paper reviews one of Percy's most recent books of poetry, 'Colors Passing Through Us'. According to the paper, this book of poems offers a visual glimpse into the joy, sadness, and foibles of present times.
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"Thus, regardless whether Piercy's verse is about something she experienced firsthand in life, or someone else did, she writes in such a way that anyone can identify with the poetry. In the first section of Colors, it is easy to feel close to Piercy's mother in the "good old days," sitting on a tenement step, washing and hanging clothes, ironing her husband's underwear and screaming and looking ashamed and abashed after having an abortion. "
"Likewise, for those readers who are fortunate enough not have lost someone close, they can still feel deeply for the family that Piercy writes about who lost its favorite pet cat, a parent on September 2001, a loved one in a country's violently torn civil war . "
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The Artifice in Marge Piercy's Poem "A Work of Artifice", 2000.
An analysis of the artifice of the poem.
1,122 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 38.95
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"Marge Piercy?s poem ?A Work of Artifice? shows how the artifice of men is used to dwarf and shape objects into designs that they find pleasing and controllable, but that tricks the objects out of their natural growth and destiny, and denies them their individuality. For example, the author uses the bonsai tree as a symbol to show how men control and prune a thing into a small, delicate work of art, but the bonsai has been artfully deceived out of its potential to grow eight feet tall. "
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Women Authors, 2005.
This paper discusses the way women authors, such as Kate Chopin, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Marge Piercy, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Henry James, went against the gender expectations of their time.
755 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 26.95
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This paper explains that women authors from the nineteenth and twentieth century used their literature and poetry as vehicles for the new role and passion of the woman. The author points out that Marge Piercy in her poem "Barbie Doll" articulates the bondage that a woman is under due to the roles and appearances they are expected to maintain. The paper concludes that, from the writings of these women authors, the inner woman bears similar characteristics: Women are consistently making a way through life to gain equality to men and they desire to express their emotions and passions while stepping outside of the societal standards.
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"Kate Chopin creates a female character in "At the Cadian Ball" and "The Storm" that is vivid and defiant. Calixta is the image of hope that an authentic woman dares to embody. Chopin challenges society in her literature. She tests the roles of women. For instance, the female character she depicts in "The Storm" and "The Cadian Ball" is sexually overbearing, an adulterous, and presumptuous. Radek suggest that women of the nineteenth century "were not supposed to have any real sexual contact before their marriage." The characteristics that Calixta possesses are dissimilar to the expected roles of women. The women of this time should be reserved, subservient, compliant, and gentle creatures."
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Science Fiction, 2006.
A look at the literary works of authors Marge Piercy and H.G. Wells and their interpretations of the future.
1,356 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper compares the predictions of Marge Piercy in her book "Woman on the Edge of Time" to that of H.G. Wells in his novel "The Time Traveler". Both authors share with the reader, their perception of what our future holds and how we will evolve.
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"On his second trip, the Time Traveller discovers an underground labor force, called the Morlocks, and likens it to the gap between the rich and poor in his own society, in which the wealthy live in large homes and the workers slave in factories and live in cramped quarters. However, in this world, the laborers have grown strong while the Eloi are now so weak that they have become prey for the Morlocks, thus the Eloi never venture out at night for fear of being captured.
Thus, this future world is a dystopia, and depicts what can happen if society does not stay alert to the consequences of progress. This is a commentary on both communism and capitalism, for although each has its positive points, but if left unchecked, either can become destructive."
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Feminist Utopian Fiction, 1998.
A look at the idea of feminist utopia in fiction, with reference to Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" and Marge Piercy's "Woman on the Edge of Time".
2,636 words (approx. 10.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 79.95
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This paper examines how Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" and Marge Piercy's "Woman on the Edge of Time" conform to Sally Miller Gearheart's statements on feminist utopia in literature. Through an anaysis of both texts, it looks at the ideas of the "woman's role" , motherhood and men as controllers of the "word" and the "world". It also compares and contrasts the future societies of Gilead and Mattapoiset and asks whether either live up to the idea of a feminist utopia.
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"It is significant too that present conditions in The Handmaid?s Tale are most strongly criticised by male figures. The third of Miller-Gearhart?s conditions for feminist utopian fiction is that it should ?see men or male institutions as a major cause of present social ills?, but this does not see, to The Handmaid?s Tale, where it is the ills of Gilead, the present of the novel, rather than our present, which are caused by men. The aunts try to convince the Handmaid?s that things were much worse before, showing pornographic movies and telling stories of battered and murdered women, but these scenario?s are not borne out by Offred?s own memory of that time, and the stories appear to be more an instrument of propaganda rather than a reflection of the truth."
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"Women on the Edge of Time", 2001.
A look at this controversial book by Marge Piercy about how a feminist copes with everyday issues and her confrontations with a time traveller.
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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"Woman on the Edge of Time" is a complex novel often characterized as a feminist utopian science fiction in which Marge Piercy tackles an assortment of issues that concern her. This paper looks at how these issues are addressed in the novel and how feminist agendas could possibly not be that different in 150 years time.
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"First published in 1976, Woman on the Edge of Time is a classic amongst fans of feminist utopian fiction. The novel gives us vivid multiple pictures of lives lived in that present time and of possible futures, 150 years hence. A rich book, which can be interpreted on many different levels. Consuelo Ramos is a Chicano woman in her mid-thirties, Connie has, all through her life, contended both poverty and drug abuse together with the restrictions inborn in the stereotypes of her race and sex. While grief-stricken over the death of her good friend and lover, Claud, Connie slips into a phase of drug abuse and is detained and placed in a mental institution for maltreatment of her young daughter. Although Connie is treated in this institution and considered healed she never reclaims custody of her child, nor is she able to get work due to her history as a mental patient. Years afterwards she is put back into an institution for a different violent act when, while trying to defend her niece from an abusive boyfriend, she hits him with a bottle and ends up breaking his nose."
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Feminist Poetry, 2002.
Examines domesticity as restraint in two feminist poems by Adrienne Rich and Marge Piercy.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper compares critical interpretations of two poems: "Living in Sin" by Adrienne Rich and "Work of Artifice" by Marge Piercy (sometimes called "The Bonsai Poem"). The distinction between the two poems, as seen by literary critics, is one of degrees of responsibility. However, both poems describe the torturous prison of domesticity and the loss of power that "feminine" women experience.
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'Barbie Doll', 2005.
This paper serves as an analysis of the poem 'Barbie Doll' by Marge Piercy.
904 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 31.95
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In this article, the writer analyzes the poem "Barbie Doll". The writer argues that in this poem, the poet is trying to show that the union of idealized notions of female appearance and female self-acceptance of appearance can never meet.
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"Marge Piercy's poem 'Barbie Doll' is written in free verse and represents the author's attack on patriarchal construction of idealized female appearance. In the poem, the speaker describes her life as a child, one that was fine, until she learned at puberty she was perceived as having a great big nose and fat legs. Only after she has died from cutting off her nose and legs, do others perceive the speaker as being pretty. In this poem Piercy is trying to ... "
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Anne Bradstreet, 2000.
A review of Josephine K. Piercy's book about the poet, Anne Bradstreet.
1,585 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 1 source, $ 51.95
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"In the book, Piercy?s purpose was to tell the story of an American woman as a historical figure and artist that has not been really explored or acknowledged by historians in the past. "
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The Simpsons, 2001.
This is a review of an episode of the television series, "The Simpsons."
885 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper is an analysis of the popular television series, "The Simpsons." The author looks at the episode "Jaws Wired Shut" in order to illustrate how the characters in this series are a portrayal of many of the families that are found in America today. The author shows how Homer and Marge, the father and mother in the series, give their children a lot of time and attention, which the author feels is one of the greatest problems facing the modern family.
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"The sociological issue is the important role for a family man and how important it is to give time to each member of his family. First thing that is apparent from the episode is that although Homer is incapacitated, but, still he has time for each member of his family: for Marge, when they are discussing Ned Flanders, with Lisa when she is upset, in his own way he tries to lessen her hurt and for Bart. He even has time to sit an listen to his father. The idea here is that today there are no perfect families and especially with the rise in single parent family the role of Homer is not very different from that of other fathers."
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Homer Simpson: American Icon, 2006.
This paper focuses on the pop cultural icon Homer J. Simpson, the patriarch of creator Matt Groenig's animated Simpson family.
1,386 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper examines the phenomenon that is "The Simpsons" which is currently the longest-running animated television series. This paper explores the inspiration behind Groenig's amusing yet dysfunctional family which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie. The writer of this paper contends and explains how and why Homer Simpson should be considered an American icon. This paper proves that Homer Simpson represents America's moral majority. This paper delves into how Groenig's concept of the "The Simpsons" symbolizes cultural America in the 1990s which explains the show's long-running success. This paper analyzes the character of Homer Simpson who according to the writer represents the typical all-American dad and husband.
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"This basic argument of this report is that Homer Simpson represents the typical American father and husband as anti-hero. He makes a lot of mistakes as a character and is no ways perfect, in fact being very much the opposite of perfect in an exaggerated way. He gains the status of icon not through being heroic, but by being fallible and vulnerable to external problems. The rise of the anti-hero in American society was a twentieth century phenomenon. When people watched television in the fifties there was an Ozzie and Harriet ideal that wasn't really reflected in society, and this and other circumstances led to the formation of a new culture in the mid twentieth century which particularly valued the fallible or human hero, or anti-hero, as a sort of shock to the system."
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A Way You Always Were, 2001.
A concise, insightful analysis concerning Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams' character development throughout several of the author's short stories.
595 words (approx. 2.4 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 21.95
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Nick Adams is a man displaced in time. There is evidence throughout the Nick Adams stories that illustrate his character. As a young man, Nick seems to lose sight of the love of hunting and fishing instilled in him by his father, focusing on desires of a carnal nature. In the ?Three Day Blow?, Nick?s friend Bill congratulates him for breaking up with Marge, who is not nick?s social equal. Nick listens to his heart, not an antiquated, bigoted, macho social consciousness. Nick is always uneasy in confrontational situations. If not for Bug?s intervention in ?The Battler?, Ad Francis would surely have harmed Nick. On the European battlefields, Nick comes to realize his true nature. Nick has come to forgive his father, now dead, his shortcomings, as he is grateful to his father for instilling in him the love of gaming and fishing, which served as Nick?s salvation.
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"Nick Adams is a man displaced in time. His stories (as written by Hemingway) are set in the late dawn of the Industrial Age, a time dominated by rugged individualists that spread across America, changing its face to suit them by consuming vast amounts of natural resources. Nick has all the tools necessary to thrive in this new era; he is a young, white male, an educated doctor?s son, and set to make his own mark on the world. It took the fortuitous survival of his adventurism and wanderlust, plus a bout with madness, for Nick to come to terms with himself; to know that he could be happy living in balance with nature."
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Feminine Stereotyping, 2002.
Examples of feminine stereotyping in the popular TV show, "The Simpsons".
3,500 words (approx. 14.0 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 98.95
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This paper concerns instances of feminine stereotyping in "The Simpsons". It covers Marge, the dutiful wife; Patti and Selma, the spinster sisters; and Lisa, the overly moral daughter. Conclusions about each woman and her stereotypes are supported by several examples that have been drawn from episodes from several seasons. Quotes are plentiful. This paper supports the claim that "The Simpsons" provide likeable stereotypes that women can identify with.
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"?I need some liposuction, just enough to make me attractive to this man,? said Marge Simpson. (?Large Marge?) This instance is just one of many in the long running animated series The Simpsons?, which showcases a particular stereotype of women. Although there are undoubtedly many women who share Marge?s fears, most will not resort to such extreme measures as plastic surgery. So despite the fact that most women will probably not go the same route as Marge, they can and will empathize with her character. By providing a likeable stereotype with which women can identify with, The Simpsons? manages to entertain people and ease some of the painful memories women carry of times when they too have been pigeonholed into a particular role."
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