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Sarah Sch

A Room of One's Own - 0 views

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    "The conclusion of A Room of One's Own puts forward Woolf s famous idea that the mind of the artist is androgynous, which means that there is a little bit of the masculine in every feminine brain, and vice versa."
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    "Victorian mores had, at least until the turn of the century, dictated the "proper" female roles of wife and mother, dutiful daughter, and overall gentle angel in the house."
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    This article discusses the main attributes of "A Room of One's Own" such as plot, themes, and authorial purpose. At Woolf's time, society perceives men as the superior gender and therefore society grants them more opportunities than women to succeed. Woolf's issue with this unfair treatment is the driving force in her piece of writing. Woolf also introduces the idea of the balance of feminism and masculinity in both genders. A person is not able to write great literature when their gender is pervading their writing.
Sarah Sch

Feminism - 0 views

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    "In addition access to education has brought about a large increase in the number of women students, such that women now outnumber men in many nations' schools."
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    "Upon achieving greater educational and employment access, women entered both of these spheres in record numbers."
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    This article deals with the feminist movement throughout history and the changes that the movement brought about. Since "A Room of One's Own" is a composition imbuing feminist ideals, a feminist article provides insight to the leading causes of the feminist movement and the state of the feminist movement in Virginia Woolf's time. The article expresses the changes that the various women's movements have brought about including equality in education and careers.
Zaji Z

Video: Money Makes a Woman Go Round - 0 views

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    This is sad. What Woolf describes in her essay, that a woman must have means and money to be able to think freely, one would think that a woman in a modern society, where no continent is neglected of technology and accessible tools for the creative space, is able to share her own thoughts and words to express her mind. No-- her concerns nearly a century ago ring true today, women are commodities, sold to slavery, prostitution, forced marriage, social censorship, many women of the world are trapped in a system constantly exploited by men. 
Emily S

At Issue, Womens' rights - 0 views

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    This article covers the debate over whether or not women should be allowed to participate in combat in the military. Like In a room of one's own, it is a matter of social inequality. At the time a room of one's own was written, women we're considered not good enough to be writers. Perhaps in the future, women will be considered good enough to participate in combat.
Vivas T

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Document - 0 views

  • Fitzgerald's book mirrors the headiness, ambition, despair, and disillusionment of America in the 1920s: its ideals lost behind the trappings of class and material success.
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      This quote illustrates the affect of the corrupt and "dissillusioned" state of society in the 1920s on workers and individuals due to their "trappings of class and material success". This clearly hinders individuals of a lower class status from achieving happiness and wealth, or the American Dream, due to the corrupt and greediness of society.
Evan G

SparkNotes: The Great Gatsby: Themes, Motifs & Symbols - 0 views

  • era of decayed social and moral values, evidenced in its overarching cynicism, greed, and empty pursuit of pleasure. The reckless jubilance that led to decadent parties
  • newly rich as being vulgar, gaudy, ostentatious, and lacking in social graces and taste.
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    Discusses the impact of setting on the plot and purpose of the novel, and how the various rich groups have corrupted the American dream from an innocent, ambitious hope for fortune into greed, debauchery, and misbehavior
Evan G

Analysis of Corruption in Nick Carraway of the Great Gatsby. Essays on Literary Works - 0 views

  • the American Dream has transformed from a pure ideal of security into a convoluted scheme of materialistic power.
  • Jay Gatsby, who epitomizes the purest characteristic of the American Dream: everlasting hope.
  • depravity of the modern dream to wealth, privilege, and the void of humanity that those aspects create. Money is clearly identified as the central proponent of the dream's destruction; it becomes easily entangled with hope and success, inevitably replacing their places in the American Dream with materialism.
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    Discusses the conversion and corruption of the American dream, which becomes more materialistic and greedy than ever. Even Gatsby, the eternal optimist, an archetypal dreamer, makes his fortunes through underhanded, sneaky ways with his partner Wolfsheim.
Vivas T

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Document - 0 views

  • In the end, it is inherited wealth and social standing that determine much more of one's destiny than is determined by talent and individual initiative
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      This article illustrates the obvious class barriers within society in the early 1900s and displays the need for one to have money or "wealth" in order to amount to anything, similar to the claims of Virginia Woolf in AROOO. In addition, this article also explains the affect of these social barriers in society which do not allow lower class individuals to gain wealth or happiness, thus exterminating the hope toward the American Dream.
Connor P

Gale Power Search - Document - 0 views

  • The color green represents not only Gatsby's dream of winning back the idealized Daisy but also the broader American dream. The valley of ashes that lies between Long Island and New York City
  • symbolize both the moral decay of U.S. society and the plight of the poor people (including Myrtle and her husband)
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    This shows the symbolism of the color green in which Ftizgerald uses colors to express his themes and the setting which symbolizes the social classes on a larger scale
Connor P

Gale Power Search - Document - 0 views

  • There was also F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose masterpiece The GREAT GATSBY (1925) told of a man in search of the elusive bird of happiness, fatally beguiled by America's materialist Dream.
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    This quote discusses the reality of the american dream and how it appears to those in search of it. It shows the connection between the jungle, and grapes of wrath
Connor P

Gale Power Search - Document - 0 views

  • His repeated emphasis on the theme of corruptive wealth—present even in the notes for the unfinished parts of The Last Tycoon—and his depiction of the melancholy implications in the dream of the social aspirer—these represent the core of his commentary on our experience.
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    this quote discusses the american dream and how fitzgerald but emphasis on its corruption to show the time period. it shows how people try to grow socially but then cannot reach their goals
Vivas T

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Document - 0 views

  • Part of Fitzgerald was realistic, aware of the rot festering beneath the glittering surface of his era.
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      This article reflects the reality of the time period which the author describes as rotting beneath the "glittering surface". This portrays the theme of apperance versus reality in the novel which symbolizes the corruption and greed which lie under the surface of the beutiful city.
Evan G

The Great Gatsby Setting - 0 views

  • Nobody’s concerned about politics or spiritual matters – but everybody cares about how they are perceived socially. The social climate demands respectability; it asks people to conform to certain standards
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    Talks about themes such as setting and appearance vs reality. Clearly, people aren't focused on internal qualities such as politics or religion; the rich care only about how they are perceived and how they appear. The need for social acceptance gives way to the appearance vs reality theme
Vivas T

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Document - 0 views

  • Bootlegging grew into a vast illegal empire, in part, because of widespread bribery
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      This article talks about the evident corruption in society in the early 1900s through "bootlegging" and "bribery". This illustrates the power of these corrupt individuals, represented through Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby. These people, as Fitzgerald illustrates, destroys those underneath them, symbolized by Meyer's cuff of human molars, which also ties into the theme of class distictions, which ultimately undermines the American Dream.
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    i think this is pretty humorous how wrong you are, you are like a little baby
David D

In Virginia Woolf's footsteps, a room of one's own - 0 views

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    Virginia Woolf talks about how a woman needs a room of one's own in order to write. But what about the room that Virginia Woolf wrote in herself? This source talks about the house that she lived in when she wrote the book and how it is getting sold by her family.
David D

Sexual Harassment Fact Sheet - 0 views

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    While this site is called feminist.org, it brings up an extremely pressing issue in society today, sexual harassment. Women may make up about half of the workforce and are not legally allowed to be discriminated against, but they still face hardships. The feeling of superiority that many men have over women leads to them sexually harass them in a number of cases that is ridiculous.
Connor P

Gale Power Search - Document - 0 views

  • She herself lectured only to women and working-class people. She gave lectures to women students and fellow professional women, to the Workers' Education League, and to the Working Women's Cooperative Guild.
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    This quote here shows Woolf's target audience which combines not only women but also working-class people. This shows that her ideas of oppression and the need to rise up can be intertwined in both groups of people as they are completely differnet yet united by a set of beliefs. Therefore, the workrs of The Jungle, Fast Food Nation etc. can follow Woolf's principles
Connor P

Gale Power Search - Document - 0 views

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    Virginia Woolf ties in the two classes of women and low wage workers. She understands the full comlpexity that workers esp. women are taking advantage of and used for their labor while compensated for with lousy pay. Knowing the the bosses are cheap with their money as seen in the other novels read, they know they can get away with stiffing heir employees as there are many other people wanting for jobs to open up
Connor P

Gale Power Search - Document - 0 views

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    This shows how men dominate women in society which juxtaposes the bosses domination of their low class employees. The author uses words like dominate, tyrannize, choose, or reject to show the power and contol that lies in the hands of the upper classes . Therefore, Woolf and other authors like Sinclair and Steinbeck speak out against the upper class and urge the lower classes to unite and fight.
Willie C

Images of Enslavement and Emancipation in Virginia - 0 views

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    "By appealing to her readers' senses, Woolf liberates deep emotional responses while at the same time exposing a host of related impressions too cumbersome to discuss in full but too persuasive to ignore"
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    This source shows how Woolf's descriptions are vivid and she gets her point across using strong diction to evoke an emotional response and sell the reader on her ideas.
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