King David's Daughter: Tamar In The Bible

Rachel found her mother’s journals and other writings as well as many hours of taped conversations. She has merged her own words and her mother’s into a unified story with a unique voice. This book is the journey of a generation fighting against discrimination and using spirit as their medicine for healing and transformation.

It is encouraging to see how powerless women can come together to build an empowering impact. The beginning of the paper showed how people from all backgrounds came together to honor the late Sister Mary Irene. This single individual was able to use her life to create an organization for women and children. It was said how history books tend to leave her out as a public figure, but her achievements should be recognized worldwide. This subject matter relates back to our class discussions where we talked about the privileges women were deprived of.

Women are viewed as fragile and delicate, but strong enough to keep a house clean, kids in line and a happy husband. Women are expected to be stay at home moms and depend on their husbands for everything while having no opinions of their own. However, there are women who have overlooked those expectations and proved that women are capable of doing anything. Deborah Sampson and Elizabeth Van Lew are just two women who have helped break the norms of women’s roles in society. Sampson’s impressive braveness and loyalty to fight for her country against all odds have proved that women are capable to endure harsh horrors.

This book, can relate to people who don't usually believe that they can make a change. That they have no effect on the world. This book, tells you straight up, that if you change yourself, you can change the world around you. This is very motivating, and a very awesome

She gets beaten for screaming and yelling all night long in the cattle cars when others are trying to get as much rest as possible. She’s worried for her two sons and her husband after being separated. A quote that shows the Jews don’t support her anymore is when one says “She is hallucinating because she is thirsty, poor woman…. That’s why she speaks of flames devouring her.” Another quote that shows the Jews all ganging up on her is when Eliezer describes “A few men forced her to sit down, bound and gagged her.

The book Poisonwood Bible, written by Barbara Kingsolver, is about gender roles put on men and women and the oppression of women, in the Congo and in the American culture. This is shown throughout the book when Reverend Nathan Price believed women had to be conservative, and if they were not, God would punish them. Women and young girls do most of the work while men and boys can hunt and play. Both the Congolese and the American culture believe women do not deserve and education.     From the time the Price family had landed in the Congo, Nathan Price had portrayed that the Congolese were sinning and needed to be converted.

Over the decades, women have progressively moved towards embracing independence. The role of women has transformed as females everywhere are breaking the social stigma and the stereotypical obligations the world has put on them. From the duty of housewife to the position of CEO, opportunities for women have grown into a plethora of possibilities that is never ending. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston prolifically displays Janie’s metamorphosis as a female in the Post Civil-War era.

She couldn’t leave the planation, take free time to relax, or anything she truly had passion for. She was able to discover herself despite the lack of equality. She found strength, wisdom, and friendships. She also discovered the importance of family after losing all of hers, but ended up creating friends so close, it was her

This made me rethink how I look at my life because this story of a triumphant young boy showed me that you can do whatever you want to no matter how much people doubt you. I like the way the author has written this heart wrenching yet

She takes her life, as well as her children 's lives, to escape it all. She was heard singing a death-song going down the Mississippi River with her children in a canoe headed toward their untimely deaths. she implies how society can be influential on a woman’s life in a negative way. Hemans expresses the social restrictions from an Indian woman’s point of

And Abagail, who calmed David when the temptation of murder was prominent in his mind. In my opinion, these women were valiant in their actions. From marching into battle eagerly with faith in the Lord to coaxing

As one can see, many mothers in today 's society would not be nearly as picky and constructive as the mother within "Girl" written by Jamaica Kincaid. Young girls almost always look up first to their mother for guidance and instruction on how to be a woman. Although the advice used in this story was used to help the young girl, it was also used to scold her as well. The mother 's strong belief in a woman having domestic knowledge is what drives her to preach the life lessons of a good woman to her daughter. It is through these lessons that she hopes for her daughter to be respected within her own home and by her community as well.

LOSS, GRIEF AND HEALING As human beings, we suffer losses of many kinds and sizes in our life time. While some of these losses are small and do not hurt much, some are big and hurt deeply. Those that are accompanied by pains that are difficult to bear include the loss of a loved one through death or divorce, cheating or unfaithfulness in a trusted relationship or loss of good health when a diagnosis of a terminal illness is made. In all these instances of loss, pain and grief are experienced and an emotional wound is created which needs healing.

Life or Death Who chooses death over life? Sometimes we have to make this decision over a loved one when there is no hope for their recovery. It would be incredibly hard to make this life or death decision on another human being and twice as hard when it is someone we love. The author discusses the argument of this controversial topic of sustaining life at any cost or dying peacefully as an ethical issue. An ethicist, a person who specializes in or writes on ethics, can provide valuable discernment with respect to right and wrong motives or actions.

She has no friends or company: “while I at dawn am walking alone” (35) , and she most likely has an economic crisis due to “the lack of her lord” (32) which “seizes her cruelly” (33). I suppose that people didn’t want to provide her with a job for infidelity was some kind of unforgivable crime which was dealt on a harsh way. Furthermore, the woman was not only outlawed but also ostracized. She was forced to live “under an oak tree in a den in the earth” (28), just like a witch. I make this parallel since both were social pariahs and it’s reminiscent of an Anne Sexton poem called “Her Kind” which deals with the different situations women were placed in.