Tradition in writing has always played a key roll in the originality and success in the literary arts for both men and women. ... Furthermore, a women's tradition in writing to this point, had only just reared its head, thus women were generally viewed with skepticism in contemporary society as true literary artists. ... To achieve this goal of freedom and to pursue, develop and nurture her writing skills the women writer would need life experience, which had since been unattainable to most women in their times of literary depression. ... While growing up an aspiring women writer would...

• Word Count: 1471
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate

I became interested in this subject when writing a paper on reverse discrimination, when writing this paper I noticed that many cases of affirmative action have turned out helping other people and at the same time upset people. ... I spent approximately one days writing the questions, two days finding the people to give the surveys to and one day recording all my data. I collected data from four main sources books, Internet, journals, and surveys. ... Using books and journals definitely helped in my research. 4. ...

• Word Count: 2239
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Although she uses her story to reveal what the ideology of gender roles mask, she knows that her writing is a tool which brings success to her, "When I visit my family now, I wrap my American success around me like a private shawl; I am worthy of eating the food" (Kingston 52). ... Her writing has allowed for her, in her own eyes, to go against everything that she was raised to believe through her family and through society. ... A memoir is something such as a journal, something to look back on in the future and remember the times. ... Throughout her writing she had undoubtedly written of ...

• Word Count: 1870
• Approx Pages: 7

In 1840, the Transcendentalist journal The Dial was founded by Emerson, Fuller and others. This journal was basically a vehicle in which these new visionaries could share with each other their rhetoric and ideologies. ...

• Word Count: 2090
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The story is about a young mother's mental deterioration, postpartum depression, in which she is advised, based on medical theories that her husband, as a high standing physician, gave to her, "to abstain from any and all physical activity and intellectual stimulation", which included reading, writing or taking care of her new baby ("The Yellow Wallpaper" 277). ... The story is written in first person, for the unnamed protagonist is the narrator telling the story through her journal that she was hiding from her husband because it was against the "rest cure"....

• Word Count: 2447
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography

Readers view texts in perspective, to enable them to understand the books they are reading. Gender roles have been prevalent in our communities for centuries now and they are unfortunately still common; in today's society. The novel Speak , by Laurie Halse Anderson paints a vivid image on gender rol...

• Word Count: 1774
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School