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"Housekeeping"--A Book Review, 2007.
This book review examines the role of women in Marilynne Robinson's novel "Housekeeping".
1,198 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 60.95
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This paper explores the roles of women in their lives as mothers, wives and housekeepers as portrayed in Marilynne Robinson's novel "Housekeeping". The paper gives a brief description of the story line and introduces the main characters. It then further examines how Robinson infuses her characters with the characteristic of housekeeping both literally and figuratively in each of their lives.
From the Paper
"Many women in our culture have learned everything about how to run a household, but very little about their own inner nature. Increasing numbers of women find that living culturally standardized roles of housekeeper, wife, and mother is not enough for them. The novel Housekeeping explores the different feelings connected with the word housekeeping such as loneliness, hope, and love. Author Robinson masterfully delves into the nuances of these elements and infuses the characters with the characteristic of housekeeping both literally and figuratively in each of the characters' lives."
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Response of Housekeeping, 2006.
An analysis of the novel "Housekeeping" by Marilynne Robinson.
1,087 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 54.95
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This paper studies the book "Housekeeping". It reports that the author tries to convey the message of how lives change radically when nothing seems to be happening. The paper further discuses how the author's lively and illustrated language floats and flows out of the main character's most secret self, as a reminder to all of how difficult and unattainable it is to get under another person's skin. The conclusion is that this book is a great addition to the genre of entertaining literature.
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"The novel is critically and commercially acclaimed for its beauty and elegance. Many writers and critics have praised not only the worth of the story but the lyrical style of writing which has given the book a new form of existence. Robinson's exquisite expression and eloquent use of words has made this book a treasure of its own in the library of English Literature and there is no doubt that any praise given to this writer and this book is undeserving."
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?Housekeeping?, 2002.
A review of the book ?Housekeeping? by Marilynne Robinson.
1,079 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 54.95
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The paper analyzes the book ?Housekeeping? by Marilynne Robinson, set in Idaho during the mid 1900s. It is not only a study of a women, the times and loss, but also highlights some of the beautiful natural areas where the novel is set, on the shores of Fingerbone Lake. It discusses how the two sisters Ruth and Lucille begin to be distinguished from each other somewhere in the middle of the book and identifies the point at which this differentiation occurs. It will also describes the differences in personality and behavior that emerges between them and explains how we as readers, are supposed to interpret these differences.
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"Lucille leaves the family to live with the "sensible" home economics teacher, while Ruth stays with Sylvie, a woman least known for her housekeeping, but always known for her itch to travel. Here the reader really begins to take sides, just as Robinson was intending. Lucille is "taken over" by the other side, the side that does not approve of lifestyles like Sylvie's, and the two sisters are now on opposite sides of the fence, and so is the reader. Lucille becomes less and less appealing, and less important in the book, and in the reader's mind, but not completely. "Robinson plays the perfect mother, refusing to abandon Lucille, and her departure remains a real loss for the characters of the novel, who forgive and regret and search" "
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The Theme of Conformity, 2008.
A comparison of the theme of conformity in "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy and "Housekeeping" by Marilynne Robinson.
2,170 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 98.95
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This paper compares the themes in two novels - "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy and "Housekeeping" by Marilynne Robinson. It focuses on the themes that these two books share - those of the restrictiveness of conformity and what happens when these confinements are broken. The paper then looks at the negative consequence on the characters in the novels as a result of breaking out of their confinements.
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"It is apparent through these two books that once rules and conformities are broken, chaos or some sort of disorder ensues. What is similar from these two books is that it is always the community around them that gives the families grief. Whether it be death or separation, it has been acknowledged that "it is a terrible thing to break up a family." The consequences for breaking laws and conformities in God of Small Things is the death of Velutha, banishment of Ammu, and separation of Estha from his mother. This all result in the breakup of an entire family. The consequence for breaking conformities in Housekeeping is the threat of having a family separated and the wipeout of one's identity. Sylvie and Ruth are dead to the people of Fingerbone now because they have chosen to live a life of their own. Perhaps these two authors are suggesting that society will always win regardless. It is useless to fight the rules because doing so will result in tragic endings."
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Gender and Identity Formation, 2006.
This paper studies gender and identity formation in Robinson's "Housekeeping" and Baldwin's "Blues for Mister Charlie".
3,105 words (approx. 12.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 131.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that both the novel "Housekeeping" by Marilynn Robinson and the play "Blues for Mister Charlie" by James Baldwin deal with coming of age identity, conflicts amongst marginalized peoples and long-simmering community conflicts that come to a boil after the homecoming of one of the protagonists. The writer describes how Robinson's text is framed around the coming of age of young women growing up in rural Idaho in the mid-1900s. The girls experience a crisis of feminine identity after they are deprived of their mother, who commits suicide at the beginning of the book. The writer also looks at "Blues for Mister Charlie", that deals with the Black experience of isolation in America. The play centers on the difficulty of young Black people, men and women, who must force their lives and souls to conform to the norms of the White 'Mister Charlie.'
From the Paper
"For Black women, however, Baldwin has slightly less concern in terms of how the norms of their identities are formulated, even though women have a powerful stage presence over the course of the play. Thus Baldwin tends to reduce the importance of the Black female experience of marginalization in America for the Black community as a whole. It is how Black men formulate their new identities within oppressive structures that the author claims as his play's main concern. Continually, "Blues for Mister Charlie" stresses the commonality of all Black oppression and the investiture Black men and women have in creating a positive Black masculine ideal.
The play was written in response to the Emmett Till lynching of real life, a lynching spawned by a Northern Black youngster whistling at a White Southern women. Finding a way to create Black male sexuality in a way that is empowering, and will not bring the wrath of society down upon its head is Baldwin's concern."
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Women?s Magazines, 2004.
A look at the dieting and advertising trends in women's magazines from 1980 to the present.
1,573 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 8 sources, MLA, AU$ 75.95
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This paper describes a study to analyze the frequency of diet ads in two popular women?s magazines, "Good Housekeeping" and "Seventeen". It looks at how an archival study was done to record the number of all diet ads and/or articles in the two selected magazines over a time span from 1980 to 2003. It concludes that the results indicated that there was not any significant difference between the number of diet ads between the two selected magazines and also did not support a significant relationship between the number of diet ads and the decades.
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"The projection of the desirable woman, particularly in North America, in mass media is an unrealistic, and for many women, unattainable body type (Harrison, 2003; Koff, & Benavage, 1998). Since the post-war era, there has been a significant increase in eating disorders (Harrison, 2003; Koff, & Benavage, 1998; Polivy & Herman 2004). Large or overweight women are generally stigmatized in respect to how sexually attractive they are, and in courtship (Wiederman, 2000)."
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Women's Magazines, 2002.
This paper discusses the relationship of women?s magazines to today?s women.
2,900 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 11 sources, AU$ 155.95
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This paper analyzes whether the women's magazines McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, Woman's Day, and Better Homes and Gardens are a friend to the liberated woman of today.
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Women in 19th Century America, 2008.
The paper discusses how women were treated as second class citizens in America in the latter half of the 19th century.
1,302 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 63.95
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The paper looks at how, by 1863, women in the US were beginning to influence the economy due in large part to the Civil War and the shortage of male labor. The paper looks at how many men, however, endorsed the societal norm of the time that a woman's rightful place was in the home. The paper describes how women starting their own businesses found it very hard to secure adequate credit to start and expand their businesses. The paper portrays how even resourceful women were relegated by societal norms to the role of glorified housekeeper.
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"One has to only look at the Declaration of Sentiments issued at the end of The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 for historical proof that women were treated as second class citizens in America in the latter half of the 19th century.1 If women were in fact treated legally, politically and socially as men's equals, there would have been no convention, no one hundred and fifty plus year feminist movement in America. Women may well have made only limited progress in the subsequent half century in elevating their status, but there is ample evidence that it was not for lack of trying."
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The Color of the Past in the Present, 2008.
A discussion of human behavior, focusing on Black women and how we can best provide them assistance.
1,099 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 1 source, APA, AU$ 56.95
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This paper examines the human behavior towards Black single mothers. The paper explains that giving a hand to poor or needy Black women, particularly Black single mothers, requires knowledge of Black history and welfare and an understanding of their experience in that context. The paper looks at how while White society confined its women to the home as housekeepers, Black women in the South did not have that option even if their husbands could support them. The paper then points out that in 1996, US President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, which created the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Act to replace the AFDC. It allowed women to work and controlled their reproductive ability which mostly benefited Black mothers and their children. The paper concludes that genuine assistance to any specific group should be drawn from the history and experience of that group. In the case of Black single mothers, the social worker needs to know and understand their long and painful history.
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"Masters of Black slaves bred them as livestock, pairing Black men and Black women with the intention of producing the best offspring, which would perform the best labor and bring in the greatest economic gain (Prince 1999). With their emancipation as full citizens, laws passed to modify and improve their condition. These laws protected them from physical abuse, allowed them to travel, build their own schools, buy land and learn useful skills, which later made many of them succeed as entrepreneurs. Emancipation may have eased but sexual discrimination remained, as neither White nor Black women were allowed to vote."
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Women of "North of Boston", 2003.
An analysis of some of the female characters in Robert Frost's book of poetry, "North of Boston".
2,140 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 96.95
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This paper discusses how Robert Frost's female characters in poems such as ?The Death of the Hired Man,? ?Home Burial,? ?A Servant to Servants,? ?The Housekeeper? and ?The Fear? in his compilation "North of Boston" present a complex representation of women. It examines how not only does Frost depict women as they experience and explore such difficult emotions as grief, fear, and despair; his women also serve as advocates of mercy and compassion and figures of courage and strength. It shows through a review of some of the poems, how Frost looks at women in many difficult situations trying to cope with what life has given them and what emerges is a composite picture of both the negative and positive aspects of women that reveals Frost?s unusually accurate understanding of the opposite gender.
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"The first female character, Mary from ?The Death of the Hired Man,? in Frost?s book North of Boston serves fundamentally as the voice of mercy. She personifies the very essence of mercy and human compassion. When Silas, an old, virtually useless farmhand, comes to Mary and Warren?s home seeking a place to stay, Frost places the ?generosity and kindness of Mary?(Walcutt) in opposition to Warren?s position advocating justice. Mary argues that they should take Silas in out of the goodness of their hearts, even though he doesn?t deserve it, whereas Warren says that Silas is not their responsibility; furthermore, he is not worthy of their hospitality, having taken advantage of it too many times in the past. "
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"Singapore" and "In Creve Coeur", 2006.
A review of "Singapore" by Mary Oliver and "In Creve Coeur' by Rosanna Warren.
897 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 46.95
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This paper reviews and discusses the poems "Singapore" by Mary Oliver and "In Creve Coeur' by Rosanna Warren. According to the paper, the overall theme of "Singapore" expresses the "excesses of civilization" through a narrative which describes an airport housekeeper or maid caught washing metal ashtrays in the bowl of a toilet in an airport stall. The paper also reports that the tone of Warren's poem is one of death, symbolized by the unconscious baby taken from a burning house by a fireman.
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"The imagery in this poem is quite similar to that found in "Singapore." First of all, the focus is upon a fireman of Creve Coeur who is photographed by the narrator ("an amateur photographer") as he brings the lifeless and naked body of a baby from a burning house. Oliver compares this baby to laundry "pulled too soon from the line," meaning that like wet clothes, the baby is limp and rag-like ("rag of body"). The image of the baby cuddled in the arms of the fireman is a "huge, dark, crumpled embrace" and the baby itself, although unconscious, presses its "doll-like fist" to the chest of the fireman. "
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"Pride and Prejudice"--an Analysis, 2007.
This paper analyzes the role of women as seen in Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice."
1,416 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 69.95
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This paper examines the role of women in 19th century England as presented in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice." The paper defines these roles as mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts, housekeepers, matchmakers, imperious controllers, and practical acceptors of their lot. These women fit into the picture Austen paints of middle class social life in England at the beginning of the 19th century. The paper further suggests that Austen is poking fun at and mildly criticizing some of the ideas expressed about what women are and should be.
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"The role of the economy and its effects on women's roles is introduced from the very first lines of the novel. Austen says, "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife...[and]...he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other" (Austen 1) of the daughters of the neighborhood. Economy and financial matters is an appropriate way to begin the novel because it addresses a central problem for the main characters and for women in general in the early 19th century. Ownership at the beginning of the 19th century was denied to women. According to The Historical Context of Pride and Prejudice, "titles and property usually passed along a male line. Women were usually left something in securities, but such inheritances were often pittances that would not comfortably provide for a woman. While women of the highest classes managed to keep more control of their money and thus of their lives, women of the gentry, with few acceptable job options, had to secure their livelihood by marrying a man of means" (Shepherd xii). The five daughters of the Bennett household are of marriageable or near marriageable age and they are highly motivated to marry because of their financial condition. The fact that their father's estate is entailed away on their nearest male relative, Mr. Collins, will make their situation desperate upon the death of their father. Women could not own property, so they fell under the protection of a father and then a husband. Certainly, poverty and homelessness is not a romantic reason for matrimony, but it is a strong practical inducement to wed."
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'Alias Grace' by Margaret Atwood, 2005.
A discussion regarding Grace Marks femme fatale and surviving injustice and inequity in the late 19th century.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, AU$ 64.95
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In reference to the novel, 'Alias Grace' this essay explores examples of historic inequities for women in Victorian society and how one women Grace Marks may have survived by utilizing the penal system as an unlikely refuge. According to the paper, on the surface, the novel 'Alias Grace' is a unique present-day exploration of a Victorian murder mystery. The novel is the story of Grace Marks who was convicted of murdering her employer and his housekeeper.
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"Alias Grace is Margaret Atwood's fictionalized biography of the infamous murderer Grace Marks, who, in 1843 was convicted of a double murder in Kingston and served her sentence at Kingston penitentiary and the Lunatic Asylum in Toronto. On the surface, the novel, Alias Grace is a unique present-day retelling of a true crime story complete with dramatized news headlines, sex, violence, a bias judicial system and duplicitous Victorian morals. On a deeper level, this novel tells the story of how one woman may have exploited the very society that oppressed her in order to survive systemic bias and gender inequities. "
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The Success of Single Parent Families, 2006.
A discussion regarding the struggles facing single parents in the USA.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 38.95
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This paper discusses how historically the concept of the single parent family in the United States has led to the belief that when one individual attempts to raise a child there will be hardships and family failure. This is contended because of the reliance of the family on one income and the dual roles that many single parents are forced to play in raising their children. Single mothers act as caregiver disciplinarian financial head of household and housekeeper. The paper further discusses how in addition to these responsibilities most single moms have full-time jobs, and statistics indicate that the majority of single mothers in the country receive no financial support from fathers. Yet, despite the abundance of negative elements that may be possible in the world of the single parent, there is an absolute possibility of success for the single parent to raise a family in this country.
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Inequality in Literature, 2006.
This paper reviews and examines the themes of racial and gender inequality present in William Faulkner's "That Evening Sun" and Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat."
1,877 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 88.95
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The writer of this paper focuses on Nancy and Delia, the main characters in "That Evening Sun" by William Faulkner and "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston, respectively. This paper analyzes how both authors deal with issues of gender and racial injustice in America in the early 1900s and show how two different solutions to a similar problem can lead to two very distinct outcomes. The repression of women by men is prevalent throughout both novels and clearly cited in this paper. This paper reviews the plots of both novels, while at the same time detailing the many similarities between Delia and Nancy, which underscore the role that race, gender and social class play in each of their suffering. Nancy is a housekeeper while Delia is a wash-woman. Their jobs are similarly menial. The writer discusses the manner in which both Nancy and Delia essentially share the problem of social injustice toward black women as well as how each woman resolves the situation she's in. The writer contends that Faulkner lets the reader see the silence, acceptance of inequality and re-activity in Nancy's solution while Hurston shows speaking-up, denial of inequality and pro-activity, which leads to a better life for Delia.
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"The many similarities between Nancy and Delia underscore the role that race, gender, and social class play in each of their suffering. Nancy is a housekeeper; Delia is a washwoman. Their jobs are similarly menial. Such jobs were typical for black women in the American South at the time, and, for most black women. In most cases, this was the only kind of work they could find. Faulkner and Hurston each choose black women as main characters in order to illustrate how black women in particular were treated by men at this time. Nancy and Delia have one very serious common problem: each is violently abused, and violently repressed by her husband. Delia works very hard to own her dream home, but Sykes still feels that because he is the man of the house, he has the right to control Delia. Jesus and Sykes each act as leaders of their households, not because Nancy and Delia want to be followers, but because they, as men, insist on dominating their wives."
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