by Rebekah Taveau https://padlet.com/taveaursmccd_ed/w5df4x4cdme3 en-us 2014-10-16 00:01:05 UTC 2026-02-17 05:32:20 UTC hello@padlet.com http://d262le4z25sx36.cloudfront.net/portraits/notebook.jpg Margaret At taveaursmccd_ed https://padlet.com/taveaursmccd_ed/w5df4x4cdme3/wish/38249938 2014-10-22 23:21:26 UTC https://padlet.com/taveaursmccd_ed/w5df4x4cdme3/wish/38249938 Margaret Atwood's 1971 poem, "You Fit into Me" seems to be a shocking critique of a marriage or love relationship, or perhaps of marriage in general. In the first line, Atwood proclaims, as if to a spouse or a lover, "you fit into me." In the second line she declares, " like a hook into an eye" suggesting that the union is as perfect as a thread and needle, or as practical as an anchor to a boat. Then Atwood unveils a jarring twist in her third and fourth lines as she elaborates,"a fish hook,"  "an open eye." Together, the lines of the poem convey an image of violence and pain; the fish hook cuts the fishes' eye and carries it away from the water where it can breathe. With this image, I believe Atwood is alluding to a marriage or partnership that began as a good match but turned into a destructive union.  It is also possible that she was critiquing marriage in general as women in her generation,  who were entering more and more into the workforce, were becoming liberated from their dependence on men.  I understand that the 1970's, when this poem was written, was one of the decades with  taveaursmccd_ed https://padlet.com/taveaursmccd_ed/w5df4x4cdme3/wish/38249940 2014-10-22 23:21:26 UTC https://padlet.com/taveaursmccd_ed/w5df4x4cdme3/wish/38249940 Quote Sandwiches on Readings for Gender Essay https://padlet.com/taveaursmccd_ed/w5df4x4cdme3/wish/38374417 2014-10-23 17:49:01 UTC https://padlet.com/taveaursmccd_ed/w5df4x4cdme3/wish/38374417 :) :):):) https://padlet.com/taveaursmccd_ed/w5df4x4cdme3/wish/38374470 2014-10-23 17:49:18 UTC https://padlet.com/taveaursmccd_ed/w5df4x4cdme3/wish/38374470 Guyin and Zucely <i>with additions from Dr. T in italics</i> https://padlet.com/taveaursmccd_ed/w5df4x4cdme3/wish/38385681

We can relate to Anna Quindlen's 1990 article, “Between The Sexes, A Great Divide.” The author concedes, “I’ve spent a lot of time telling myself that men and women are fundamentally alike(…) women should not only be permitted but welcomed into a variety of positions and roles that only men occupied.” We agree that Men and women are alike; the only difference between us is gender. Women should have the same rights and be able to occupy different positions like men. And men should also be involved in the roles that women are “supposed to play” like cleaning the house and taking care of children.

]]> 2014-10-23 18:41:04 UTC https://padlet.com/taveaursmccd_ed/w5df4x4cdme3/wish/38385681 Heqing, Jelver and Felipe <i>with additions from Dr. T in italics</i> https://padlet.com/taveaursmccd_ed/w5df4x4cdme3/wish/38887151 "Love is not all" is a wonderful poem in 1931 by Edna St. Vincent Millay. The main idea of this poem is that love is an important part of our spirit it functions as the nutrition of our mental world. In the first line, she declares "it is not meat nor drink, nor slumber nor a roof against the rain", and points out that love is different with any kinds of object that provides practical sustenance. However, in the second line, she explores the difficult process of life without love. "Yet many a man is making friends with death. Even as I speak, for lack of love alone. It well may be that in a difficult hour." These words clearly indicate how essential love is. Last but not least, she highlights that love is not worthless and that she would not give it up, even for other necessities. She notes, "I might be driven to sell your love for peace, or trade the memory of this night for food. It well may be. I do not think I would".

]]> 2014-10-28 17:23:42 UTC https://padlet.com/taveaursmccd_ed/w5df4x4cdme3/wish/38887151 Cavit, Sinan, and Jose <i>with additions by Dr. T in italics</i> https://padlet.com/taveaursmccd_ed/w5df4x4cdme3/wish/38889199 In 1987 essay “The Men We Carry in Our Minds,” from The Paradise of Bombs, Scott Russell Sanders remarks that his boyhood vision of male occupations were soldiers and heavy workers. However, by watching television, reading books, and having a few male teachers he realized that these are not the only destinies for male occupations (Paragraph 5). This point is significant because people mostly choose their jobs based on the influences and social life around them.


]]> 2014-10-28 17:33:07 UTC https://padlet.com/taveaursmccd_ed/w5df4x4cdme3/wish/38889199 Marisol Nava,  Angeles Perez,  Cristhel Gomez Quote Sandwich <i>with additions from Dr. T in Italics.  </i>  Bernard Cooper who was born in the 60’s wrote the <i>article,</i> <i>Clack of Tiny Sparks</i> in 1991. The following quote reveals that he knew what he was but instead of admitting it he was trying to change himself. “Instead, I emulated Grady in the belief that being seen with him, being like him, would somehow vanquish myself-doubt, would make me normal by association.” The author means that he was scared of admitting that he was gay.  When he found out that he was gay, he didn’t have someone who could help him, so he didn’t know what to<i> reveal it.</i> After that, he decided to be friends with the guy who he was in love with. He found out that he has feelings toward the same sex-gender. He tried really hard to change that. He even tried to be with girls so people would think that he was heterosexual instead of homosexual.  https://padlet.com/taveaursmccd_ed/w5df4x4cdme3/wish/38890337 2014-10-28 17:38:16 UTC https://padlet.com/taveaursmccd_ed/w5df4x4cdme3/wish/38890337 Jasper, Raghad, Magnolia and on-the-Mexico-plane Tania <i>with additions from Dr. T in Italics</i> https://padlet.com/taveaursmccd_ed/w5df4x4cdme3/wish/38890527 In the article, "A Clack of Tiny Sparks, "Cooper explains that he did not tell people about his feelings for other guys; he was afraid of coming out as a person who has feelings for people of the same sex. He however realized he couldn’t feel the "feeling" of kissing girls. Therefore, Cooper found out that he was different from the average guys. As he claims, “My attraction to members of my own sex became a matter I could no longer suppress or rationalize.” He says that he reached a stage where he cannot deny the fact that he is attracted to people from his own gender. Because of bias and other factors in society, people will think automatically that homosexual people are nonconformists and abnormal. This leads homosexual people to feel it shame when they find out their sexual orientation. Some of them live with this kind of shame for their whole lives, while some others overcome society’s prejudices. Bernard Cooper is an example of the latter—he denied that he was a fag in his childhood, but he stated “I have few regrets. But one is that I hadn’t said to Theresa. ‘Of course I’m a fag.’”. This regret is a reflection of his regaining his confidence and not feeling pain for being gay.

]]> 2014-10-28 17:39:16 UTC https://padlet.com/taveaursmccd_ed/w5df4x4cdme3/wish/38890527 Cecilia Rodríguez, José S, Saranya Sundaramani "No Name Woman" <i>with additions by Dr. T in italics</i> https://padlet.com/taveaursmccd_ed/w5df4x4cdme3/wish/38891480 We disagree with Maxine Hong Kingston’s mother’s point of view in her 1975 essay. She states, “Do not tell anyone you had an aunt. (....) She has never been born” (24).  In our opinion we believe that nobody has the right to judge people action. At the end the most affected was the aunt. We think that her real punishment was not the raid that was inflicted by the villagers, nor her family. Her conscience was her real hammer. For this reason, she killed herself and her baby at the end.

]]> 2014-10-28 17:43:52 UTC https://padlet.com/taveaursmccd_ed/w5df4x4cdme3/wish/38891480   Maxine Hong Kingston wrote Women Warrior in 1975, and in chapter 1 “No Name Woman" she mentioned a story that her mother told her about a family tragedy when her aunt killed herself and her baby. She had committed adultery and back in the day felt a lot of pressure from the society, which today some cultures still suffer.  One of Kingston's passage emphasize “Don’t let your father know that I told you. He denies her. Now that you have started to menstruate, what happened to her could happen to you. Don’t humiliate us. You wouldn’t like to be forgotten as if you had never been born”. Back in that  time women were supposed to stay home and take care of the kids and household, and this was the only responsibility they had. For this reason the mother scare her daughter for  everything that could happen to her, if her daughter gets pregnant will be her problem. How come women had to go thru all these alone without any support, while men were able to live their life with no regrets and consequences. https://padlet.com/taveaursmccd_ed/w5df4x4cdme3/wish/38892049 Ofelia, Benito, Raphaela,Irene and Coco.

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