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"Work Sister Work", 2005.
Report on Shields and Shields's book about the place of black women in the American work force.
2,652 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 1 source, APA, £ 54.95
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This paper describes the content of the book, "Work Sister Work", its focus, and the authors' intended purpose in writing the book. The paper also explains that, in addition to providing useful information about not only black women in the workplace, but about the place of all women in the workplace and the changes in the American work force, as well as government efforts to improve the situation, the paper also focuses on how black women, in particular, can empower themselves so that they may survive and thrive in today's workplace.
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"The idea of many of establishing a work force that reflects the diversity of the nation was one of the underlying purposes for affirmative action programs to bring more women and members of racial minorities into the work force. For most of America's history, much of the work force consisted primarily of white males. This has long been true especially in white collar jobs and in managerial positions. The composition of the work force did not reflect the reality of the American populace--women comprise slightly more than half the population, and a growing segment of the population consists of racial minorities. Even as these other groups have moved into the work force, they have tended to do so at lower levels and not to rise to managerial positions, where the white male continued to dominate."
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Literary Realism and Poverty, 2008.
An analysis of the literary realism in Hamlin Garland's short story 'Under the Lion's Paw" from his book, "Main Travelled Roads" and Theodore Dreiser's work, "Sister Carrie".
733 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 18.95
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The paper examines Chapter XLV of Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" and describes the literary realism that depicts how the character of Hurstwood must survive the grim reality of poverty in the city. The paper also looks at Hamlin Garland's short story "Under The Lion's Paw" from his work "Main Travelled Roads", which uses literary realism to reveal the grim reality of farm life.
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"The first reason why literary realism exists in the work of garland's "Under the Lion's Paw" is the way that he defines the life of farmer's, and the often brutal conditions that they must work within as poor workers of the land. The reality of the farmer's life is apparent in Mrs. Council's narrative:
""Yes, I do my own work," Mrs. Council was heard to say in the pause which followed. "I'm getting purty heavy t' be on m'laigs all day, but we can't afford t'hire (Garland, p.491)."
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Sisters in Literature, 2002.
This paper analyzes the use of sisters as a literary device in Geraldine Jewsbury's novel The Half Sisters, and Christina Rossetti's narrative poem "Goblin Market".
2,670 words (approx. 10.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 55.95
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The paper looks at these two works from the middle of the nineteenth century as they use the device of a pair of sisters for exploring the nature of women and expanding their audiences' understanding of women, their capacities, and the limitations placed on them by convention. The paper brings examples from the writing to illustrate this point.
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"As Armstrong puts it, there is deliberate cruelty in the "way in which the fruit is offered as a saleable commodity and arbitrarily withdrawn" so that "it has to be bargained for, but it belongs to a mystified economy to which both girls are inevitably subject" (Armstrong 349). The world of men is, like the invisible world of the goblins, incomprehensible to women and they are forced to accept the bargain on the terms offered by men. Laura gives in to her own desire for pleasure and accepts the terms of the goblins at face value. The seeming gift of fruit that does not have to be paid for, of course, entails a hidden cost that Laura, if she only paid attention to the example of Jeanie, should have understood. But women also lack full and explicit knowledge and thus Jeanie's example, while it is strong enough to motivate Lizzie, does not really satisfy their curiosity which is the motive that, almost as much as greed, compels Laura to go against her sister's common-sense advice."
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"The Makioka Sisters", 2002.
A review of Junichiro Tanizaki's "The Makioka Sisters".
1,726 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 37.95
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This paper examines how the four sisters in Junichiro Tanizaki's "The Makioka Sisters" are parts of an allegorical account of the decline of Japan's old upper-class merchant families in the face of rising modernism and nationalism. Each of the sisters, largely depending on her age and placement in the family, symbolizes a different aspect of the change in the social order. It looks at how Tanizaki manages to develop these allegorical roles for his principal characters without sacrificing any of their validity or interest as individual beings whose thoughts and actions retain the reader's full attention. It also shows how despite the fact that each sister functions in the allegory in a different way, none of them is a simple character with traditional or modern traits that make it easy to sum up her symbolic meaning in a few words.
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"The principal allegorical function of the sisters begins long before the novel opens, of course, in the simple fact that their father had only daughters to inherit from him. He had also been somewhat careless with money and had greatly reduced what there was to inherit. But even this attitude, which was responsible for the kind of upbringing his daughters had, has an allegorical function in that he had never believed that things could change. Thus, even though the early signs of change must have been everywhere in the first part of the century, his daughters were brought up believing that the pattern of life they knew so well would last forever."
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?Sister Imelda?, 2005.
This paper reviews the short story "Sister Imelda" (1981) by Irish author Edna O'Brien about nuns and students at a strict Irish Catholic convent school.
1,050 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 24.95
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This paper explains that Edna O'Brien's descriptive writing style in the short story "Sister Imelda" is seen in her characterizations of the narrator, her best friend Baba and the seductive but sad Sister Imelda herself and their various interpersonal conflicts. The author points out that O'Brien takes the reader inside the closed and remote world of an Irish Catholic convent school with its myriad rules, restrictions and joyless routines. The paper relates that the themes of the book are (1) Sister Imelda's lesbianism, (2) honoring one's feelings even if doing so should disappoint others and (3) the importance of facing oneself and others with honesty and courage.
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"From the beginning, it is clear that the narrator is fascinated and infatuated with Sister Imelda. All the girls notice her and make comments about her. According to Baba "her eyes were like blackberries" and "with makeup Imelda would be a cinch." The narrator wants to know all about Sister Imelda, especially after they become special friends, more so than the usual teacher and student. As she asks her one day, "Sister, did you ever ride a motorbicycle [sic]?..." To the narrator, Sister Imelda is fascinating, yet not quite real."
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"Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills", 2002.
An examination of the book "Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills" by Emily Honig.
1,957 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 0 sources, £ 42.95
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This paper contains a critical book review of the title, along with a discussion of the personal value of the book. Emily Honig's book is the story of women who worked in the Shanghai cotton mills from 1919 through 1949, but the paper shows how the story is really about the women themselves, and how they survived the harsh working conditions by creating a sisterhood ? working together to help each other while surviving harsh and intolerable conditions.
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"The author's thesis is stated clearly in the Introduction. She hopes to prove that the women of the Shanghai mills were extremely class conscious, and this class consciousness had to be transformed and eliminated before the women could rise up together and demand reform. She notes, "I began my study by focusing on issues that precede the role of women in the labor movement and in the Chinese revolution: the nature of work, social relations within the workplace, the formation of the working class, and the transformations women underwent as they became members of an urban industrial proletariat" (Honig 2). The author also states her beliefs early in the book, when she notes, "Modern industrial capitalism in twentieth-century China, as in England and the United States a century earlier, was built on the intersection of textile manufacture and female and child labor" (Honig 1). She goes on to elaborate on this assertion throughout the book, exploring the exploitation of women in the mills, and its connection to the Shanghai labor movement. "
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Sister Faustina and the Devine Mercy, 2006.
A review of the life of Helena, otherwise known as Sister Faustina.
4,307 words (approx. 17.2 pages), 15 sources, MLA, £ 78.95
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This paper takes a look at Sister Mary Faustina. According to the paper, Sister Faustina was born, Helena Kowalski, a polish child whose parents would not permit her to enter the convent. The paper discusses how after a vision of the Suffering Christ, Sister Faustina finally joined the convent. The paper goes on to discuss her life.
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"One particular confessor helped the confused Sister a lot, for it was he who pointed out the fact that since Jesus Christ is our master, communing with Him is "neither daydreaming nor hysteria nor illusion. Know that you are on the right path." (John Paul II and the Feast of Divine Mercy) When, three weeks after her vision in which she received the image of Divine Mercy from Christ, Sister Faustina met Father Michael Sopocko, and she felt as if she had already met him, for she had seen him in another vision, in which Jesus Christ had promised that she would have a new benefactor, she knew that she was not relay imagining everything. Father Michael was a man, who was highly educated in moral theology and other similar subjects, and even though he did not believe at the outset the extent of his subject's communion with Jesus Christ, he was to prove her benefactor in later years, and also a constant source of encouragement for the discouraged and de-motivated Sister Faustina."
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"Sisters and Strangers", 2002.
This paper introduces, discusses and analyzes the book "Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919-1949" by Emily Honig.
1,682 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 37.95
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This paper reviews this interesting historical period through the eyes of the author and contains a critical book review of the title, along with a discussion of the personal value of the book. It shows how the story is really about the women themselves, and how they survived the harsh working conditions by creating a sisterhood ? working together to help each other while surviving harsh and intolerable conditions.
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"The author states her thesis early in the book, when she notes, "Modern industrial capitalism in twentieth-century China, as in England and the United States a century earlier, was built on the intersection of textile manufacture and female and child labor" (Honig 1). She goes on to elaborate on this thesis throughout the book, exploring the exploitation of women in the mills, and its connection to the Shanghai labor movement (Honig 3). Women's jobs were clearly compartmentalized in the mills, and many of the women were little more than girls, who the mangers found easier to control, and earned less money than men. The author interviewed many people who worked in the mills, and one manager remembered, "'Originally most of the assistants in the mills were child workers'" (Honig 51). Women from certain regions also tended to work in certain sections of the mill. For example, Women from Subei often performed tasks that had originally been performed by men, since they were stronger than some of the other workers. The Subei women usually did not work at weaving, which was considered more skilled and detailed than many of the other jobs. Each chapter is constructed to not only allow the reader to understand what the women went through each day in the mills, but also introduce the surroundings, the history, and the sociology of Shanghai that all played into the women's work in the mills. Each observation by the author either makes a point, or moves the book forward, making the reader eager to find out what will happen next, while clearly focusing on the thesis that women and children were the backbone of the industry, and the backbone of change in the end."
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"The Magdalene Sisters", 2004.
An analysis of Peter Mullan's 2002 movie, "The Magdalene Sisters".
2,389 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 50.95
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This paper discusses Peter Mullan's 2002 movie, "The Magdalene Sisters" depicting the dark side of Irish culture, church and history. The paper explains that from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century, the Sisters of Mercy in Ireland ran profitable asylums for women. The paper claims that the laundry businesses allowed the convents to earn money while keeping socially scorned women behind bars. The paper contends that far from being a place of spiritual refuge, the Magdalene laundries often became torture houses closely resembling concentration camps. The paper explores how Mullan illustrates that spirituality was completely overrun by cruelty, greed, torture and manipulation. The paper states that the brutality shown on screen reveals a chilling behind-the-scenes glimpse of what actually did occur regularly in Magdalene asylum laundries.
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"The culture that supported such institutions was an inherently sexist one, as many of the interred women committed no offense other than having shamed their families or being attractive. Although a fictionalized account, The Magdalene Sisters shows what mental and physical abuse generally occurred behind the doors of Magdalene asylum laundries. "In fact, there are reports that, according to some survivors, the abuses depicted in The Magdalene Sisters actually fall short of the worst that really happened," (Greydanus). The Magdalene laundries, which were operated by the Sisters of Mercy throughout Ireland, were finally shut down for good in 1996. However, during their century of operation, countless women suffered abuses similar to those depicted on-screen by Scottish writer-director Peter Mullan."
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"Lost Sister", 2006.
A description of the poem "Lost Sister" by Cathy Song.
1,283 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 29.95
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This paper discusses a poem "Lost Sister" which is found in a poem collection called "Picture Bride" written by Cathy Song. The paper describes the ways in which the poem collection describes Asian immigrants' concerns with their decisions to migrate to the United States. The poem, "Lost Sister," more specifically compares the contradictions in Chinese and American cultures faced by a Chinese immigrant woman.
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"By acknowledging that jade stone can only be found in several mountains in China and nearby, Song applies the stone to symbolize China, the nation and its culture. Further, by describing the preciousness of jade stone to Chinese people in line 6-9, Song conveys that Chinese culture is very important to Chinese people. They hold their culture so strongly that they pass it on to their descendants and it becomes the family's identity, as stated in lines 3-4. Identifying themselves as Chinese not only shows their pride in being as valuable as jade stone, but also their power to make impossible goals become achievable as they can "move mountains" (line 7). The significance of the word "daughters" in line 3 is an image relating to the intense connection between Chinese women and their identities as Chinese."
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"The Rez Sisters", 2001.
An analysis of the themes of community and empowerment in Tomson Highway's "The Rez Sisters".
2,331 words (approx. 9.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 48.95
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This paper examines how through a group of seven native women, Tomson Highway's "The Rez Sisters" portrays themes of empowerment and community development. It looks at how a group of six native women, all sisters in one way or another, develop from the animosity of bickering "bitches" to a close community, tied together by their gender, circumstances and ancestry. It explores how through their journey to The Biggest Bingo in the World the women are empowered to achieve a common goal, taking responsibility for themselves and for each other.
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"United with a common goal they are then faced with a common problem. Emily points out they "are all welfare cases" and have no money (58,59). They turn to Pelajia, who does have some money, to help (59). Pelajia suggests they apply to the band office to ask the chief for a loan to fund their trip because the winnings could go towards paving the roads and solving all the problems of the band (59). The "grand and ridiculous march" to the band office that encompasses the entire stage, is the women's first surge of communal energy and self-empowerment (60, Pell paper). Again, Nanabush, the spirit of Native Culture, trails merrily along with the women as they march (60). Elated by their newfound empowerment the women are shocked at the chief's refusal (60)."
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The Delany Sisters, 2005.
This paper examines the causes for the longevity of the Delany sisters who lived for over 100 years.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 4 sources, £ 54.95
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This paper explores the example of New York state's Delany sisters who died in the late 1990s, well over 100 years old and how their lives promised their remarkable longevity. The paper explains that they valued their background, they had the stimulation of succeeding as African-American professional women against the odds and had a spirit of philanthropy with which they were raised. The paper shows how they did not just have interests or jobs; they lived their lives, and were each others' best friends through each chapter. The paper offers notes on spirituality and values as sources of mental stability and inspiration, social relationships, family and having pride in one's accomplishments.
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"This paper discusses the late Delany Sisters, as they have become something of an American institution, in the light of recent models of lifespan development. These models ask us to examine aspects of development and periods of adulthood in stages of young, middle and late, as opposed to earlier models that recognized the shift to adulthood rather than a continuum. (Papalia et al: 2000:6f) One sees in the example of the Delany Sisters that different meanings were attached to different stages of their lives; factors that pertained to their gender, to their African-American background, education, health, their family of origin and a philosophical approach to the world."
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Cathy Song's Poem "Lost Sister", 2006.
This paper is an analysis of Cathy Song's poem "Lost Sister" from her collection of poetry entitled "Picture Bride".
1,290 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 29.95
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This paper explains that Cathy Song understands the predicaments Asian immigrants must encounter in American society because she grew up as an American of Chinese and Korean descent, which she expressed in "Picture Bride", a poem collection about Asian immigrants' concerns with their decisions to migrate to the United States The author points out that, in the poem "Lost Sister", Song compares the contradictions in Chinese and American cultures faced by a Chinese immigrant woman because American laws allows freedom for everyone; whereas, the ancient Chinese tradition oppresses women's rights. The paper relates that Song depicts, in this poem, the immigrant woman choosing to adhere to American traditions, leaving her original cultures in order to express herself in spite of her Chinese identity. Many quotations.
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"Ending her poem, Song highlights the immigrant woman's choice to follow the American traditions while disobeying her own culture. Song begins the last stanza with "you find you need China/ your one fragile identification" (lines 53-54) to restate the woman's original identity as a Chinese person. The word "fragile", however, emphasizes the intensity of her connection to her Chinese identification. By saying "fragile," the woman admits that although she cannot deny her ethnicity that runs in her blood, she does not practice her Chinese identity further."
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"Sister Carrie" by Theodore Dreiser, 2006.
This paper reviews and analyzes the use of imagery within Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie."
1,565 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 1 source, APA, £ 35.95
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This paper details Theodore Dreiser's use of imagery in his novel "Sister Carrie." The writer of this paper also provides a brief look at Dreiser's literary career in which the author has been praised for his fidelity to the facts of ordinary experiences as well as his criticism of bourgeois America. This paper details the areas of incidental animal imagery that run through the novel while citing the largest and most obvious group of images are detailed in the clustering around the sea, which for Dreiser was the symbol of modern urban life. These particular images are first introduced at the end of the chapter one. The writer also describes the plot and main characters in Dreiser's novel.
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"The most terrifying quality of Dreiser's society-sea, however, is not the width of the gulf between poverty and success, but the suggestions that those who attempt a crossing are without power to advance or remain anchored, that each traveler makes more perilous the plight of another, and that the port of success constantly shifts. The powerless travelers in this sea drift (the word is repeated at least a dozen times in the novel) on the tide; we are told that Carrie "felt the flow of the tide of effort and interest-felt her own helplessness without quite realizing the wisp on the tide that she was." This is naturally because on could only survive such a sea unaware of their fragility. Drouet, in fact, clowns his way through the whole novel "assured that he was alluring all, that affection followed tenderly in his wake." Whether or not Dreiser consciously intended the pun on Carrie's name, it is clear that he conceives of her as carried along by the sea, not moving by the exertions of her will."
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