Margaret Wente

Margaret Wente’s globe and mail article on the plight of “today’s children being overly protected from failure that they’ll never be able to handle the stresses of the adult world” is a highly opinionated and suspect take on how “reality will soon bite” (par. 22) a seemingly oblivious and obnoxious generation composed of “snowflake children” (par. 23), due to “overprotective” (par. 7) and “rescuing” (par. 8) parents who are “stuck to them like glue” (par. 16). While Wente does make an effectively emotional (almost convincing) appeal, the article falls flat for Wente as she lends a voice to “prejudice” and construes a “black-and-white” way of thinking throughout “without acknowledging any gray areas” (Prinsen 4) whereby lacking any rational…

The article "Why treat university students like fragile flowers?" was written by Margaret Wente and published in The Globe and Mail on September 19, 2017. In this article, Wente differentiates the difference between the treatment of institutions in the present than the past few years. Colleges and Universities considered mental health issues as part of a student's disability. It is because there is a significant increase in the anguish of students. Through this notion, students who are…

It was important for Katharine Dexter because she was married to a man with schizophrenia and since there’s a chance that the kids have this mental illness too, even though there wasn’t a physical connection between her and her husband, but since she knew there were people out there that were at risk, she wanted to help them. Also she wanted women have control over their bodies and so they can prevent unplanned pregnancy. For Margaret Sanger, after the death of Sadie Sachs, she was so sad and…

Margaret Sanger helped thousands of women by combating laws that controlled women’s access to birth control. Margaret Sanger’s birth control clinic in New York attracted women from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts (Wardell 740). Now thanks to her efforts women across the country have access to birth control, including myself. Women had many reasons to utilize birth control methods which led to quite a few impacts on society during the early twentieth century. The contraception…

The novel of Oryx and Crake is a science fiction developed by Margaret Atwood in 2003. It describes a possible future of human beings associated with the elements of misusing bioengineering science powers, death of literature and post-apocalyptic scenarios. It can be identified as an anti-utopia novel that believes an ostensibly peaceful society with various kinds of uncontrollable evils inside. The stories of this novel unfold with the two-clued structure associated with the interactions among…

The Struggle of Women In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, the women in Gilead appear to have diminished rights and a limited amount of freedom. These women have lives that resemble a lifestyle similar to the women who lived prior to women’s suffrage, even though this novel takes place in a futuristic time. Some of these women, like Offred, remember the past and long for a time when they can be free again. However, for many of the women, they will never understand what it is…

movements powered by women was the fight for reproductive rights led by Margaret Sanger in the 1920’s through the 60’s. Originally, the men were responsible for providing birth control, with methods such as using a condom, or pulling out. In the event that a woman should become pregnant, it became her job to take responsibility for the baby. A woman’s inability to control her body limited her choices in life and her sexual freedom. During the late 1800’s and through the late 1900’s, the Comstock…

“Fear makes us the instruments of Power. When we fear, we obey” – Anonyms. Fear is the heart pounding, and the knots in the stomach feeling. It is the second thoughts and the reason one limits themselves. Fear is often seen as a weakness. Ultimately, fear controls people. In the highly controversial novel, The Handmaids Tale written in 1985 by author Margaret Atwood, Atwood creates a dystopian society where fear along with ignorance and abasement control the people within The Republic of Gilead.…

any people overlook the privileges we have today, however, these “rights” can be taken away at any time. This is what happened to the people of the fictional city, Gilead, in “The Handmaids Tale” by Margret Atwood. In this dystopian world we follow Offred as she describes the new totalitarian society. Offred compares the new world to how it was previously in a series of flashbacks, describing the fall of democracy and equality. Over time the rights of the people were taken away, stripping the…

theoretical sophistication” during her field work in Bali (Jacknis 1988, 161). That is, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Highland Bali incorporate over 200 unpublished photographs between 1936 and 1939 that the couple took (Jacknis 1988). In addition, both couples were reflexive and combine their methodologies in the research. For instance, Dr. Bateson “preferred just enough observation to supply a basis for his logical and theoretical interests [due to his background in natural history].…