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Write a response, either agreeing or disagreeing, with Mina Loy’s revolutionary suggestion that women should undergo “unconditional surgical destruction of virginity”  Virginity as a construct is a fact of innocence. The convolute qualities of this can mislead people to objectify and or interpret virginity with weakness, vulnerability and subservience. Mina Loy was a modernist poetContinue reading “Virginity is a construct. Critiquing Mina Loy “Feminist Manifesto””

WALKER Does Alice Walker believe that the “Everyday Use” of the old quilts is protecting or destroying tradition? Remember from the Introduction that we are told that Alice Walker resembles each of the characters in her narrative.  “Everyday use” can be used a metaphor for how African American cultured is practised in every day lifeContinue reading ““Every Day Use” preservation or participation?”

CRITICAL and CREATIVE  Week 4 Blog 1 Choose a sentence/s from Emerson’s essay “Nature” that really struck you as being accurate to your own experience of nature. Write a paragraph that captures an experience of nature of your own that supports what you understand to be Emerson’s vision of nature.  Emerson highlights the importance and sacrednessContinue reading “Unity of Nature and the Mind. Referencing Emerson’s Nature Essay (1836)”