Sunday, May 6, 2012
Introduction
My name is Kimberly Hallows and I am an English Major with an emphasis in Professional Writing at The University of Texas at San Antonio. I have compiled eight samples of my work from English courses in this blog. This collection includes four research papers with the works cited. I have also included excel documents, a memo, a business plan, and a professional letter. Thank you for taking the time to review my work.
Breeding in Toni Morrison’s Beloved: The physical and psychological affect empire left on the flesh of women
Kimberly Hallows
Professor Hurtado
English 3133
8 May 2012
Breeding in Toni Morrison’s Beloved:
The physical and psychological affect empire left on the flesh of women
Examination of Toni Morrison’s Beloved demonstrates how empire is written on the flesh of African American women that are enslaved. The slave owners psychologically and physically scar the African American women in this novel. The women’s bodies are marked by over breeding, physical scars left when the women are raped or resist rape, and the psychological scars caused by this abuse. The empire written on these women’s bodies causes them to lose their sense of self-worth and become numb to occurrences that many people are emotionally disturbed by, such as the murder of a child.
Research of Toni Morrison’s life and her personal feelings towards her novel gives insight to what influenced the birth of the novel, while sociohistorical information provides further evidence of the ill treatment of women in slavery. Enslaved women in America were treated just as Beloved exposes, with women having no choice when it comes to how their bodies are used. The psychological scarring caused by this ill treatment is uniquely examined by Kathleen Marks, who claims that the characters in Beloved, mainly Sethe, resist the evil they encounter by embodying evil themselves.
Pride and Prejudice: A Fairy Tale
Kimberly Hallows
Professor Karen Dodwell
English 3113
10 April 2011
Pride and Prejudice: A Fairy Tale
In Daryl Jones’s critical essay on Pride and Prejudice, he asserts claims that the novel is in fact a fairy tale,
in which opposites attract, and in which a feisty, intelligent heroine in financially strained circumstances overcomes the opposition of a backward-looking tradition and authority, as well as the preconceptions about class and money to which her own skeptical intelligence has initially predisposed her, to win the hand of a man who is effectively the richest man in England. (Jones 149)
Other critics however, such as Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, claim that the women in Austen’s novels are simply submitting to authority, allowing themselves to began marriages that lack any free will or emotional involvement. I have to argue with Jones that while the aforementioned is sometimes true in Austen’s novels, there are exceptions in Pride and Prejudice; The women in this novel, for the most part, are hoping to not only marry for security, but also hope to be swooned by a respectable suitor, making Pride and Prejudice a fairy tale.
Female Ambition and Refusal of Paternal Figures in Charlotte Bronte’s The Professor
Kimberly Hallows
Professor Dodwell
English 3113
February 10, 2012
Female Ambition and Refusal of Paternal Figures in Charlotte Bronte’s The Professor
In The Professor by Charlotte Bronte, William Crimsworth describes a chain of events that lead him to marry a student of his, Frances Henri. Williams’ account of the story leads the reader to believe that Henri solely accepts him as a paternal male figure, however, “Both her pronounced independence and her unmistakable emotional separateness from him do not correspond to Crimsworth’s portrait view of her” (Tromly 116). Henri is a very intelligent, independent young woman, whom I argue marries William Crimsworth in order to fabricate a life that she could not, as a woman in the nineteenth century, create on her own.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
The physical and psychological affect empire left on the flesh of women used for breeding in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Kimberly Hallows
Professor Hurtado
March 9, 2012
English 3133
The physical and psychological affect empire left on the flesh of women used for breeding in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Examination of Toni Morrison’s Beloved
demonstrates how empire is written on the flesh of African American
women that are enslaved. The slave owners psychologically and
physically scar the African American women in this novel. The women’s
bodies are marked by over breeding, physical scars left when the women
are raped or resist rape, and the psychological scars caused by this
abuse. The empire written on these women’s bodies causes them to lose
their sense of self-worth and become numb to occurrences that many
people are emotionally disturbed by, such as the murder of a child.
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