Write a paper discussing the benefits of Working Women in the US Reflection.
Submit all of your essays as one document; leave a few lines of space between the essays.
This Midterm Reflection is worth up to 40 points.
You may use your textbook and Blackboard course materials. That’s it. Nothing else.
Do not use any other sources, including any search engines. The purpose of the assignment is for you to reflect on what you have learned, not to see how much you can look up. All the ideas and conclusions in your essays must be your own. I will be checking for plagiarism—PLAGIARISM WILL RESULT IN A FAILING GRADE.
VERY IMPORTANT: Be sure to reference specific historical moments from Out To Work that coincide with your observations for all three essays and quote directly from Out To Work and the literature to support your discussions. Provide specific page numbers in parentheses after your quotations. BE SURE THE TIME PERIODS MATCH UP—do not, for example, discuss a story written in the middle of the nineteenth century in conjunction with a quotation from our textbook that is discussing the early eighteenth century. Out to work book link (first 60 pages) https://books.google.vu/books?id=UOmCpB0wtjsC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_vpt_read#v=onepage&q&f=false
Your essays will be graded based on your demonstration of a comprehensive understanding of the course material. I am specifically seeking to see you make connections between the stories we have read and how they reflect the lives of historical women as discussed in our textbook. Because you will have plenty of time, I expect correct grammar and coherent organization as well. Use a traditional MLA style, with one-inch margins and Times New Roman 12 point font.
Essay 1. Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I A Woman?” –See pdf attachment of story
Discuss the ways in which this speech succeeds in exposing, critiquing, supporting, and/or subverting the rules of the Domestic Code. Be sure to begin with a definition of the Domestic Code and how it developed in your essay, and use specific examples from Sojourner’s speech to highlight her response to it. Especially consider the importance and/or relevance of race and class in any consideration of the Domestic Code.
This essay should be approximately 400 words. 10 points
Essay 2. Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience: the character of Rachel / Letty
Alcott’s novel reveals the different ways women of Alcott’s era “lived” women’s roles, including but not limited to women doing wage work. In what ways does the character of Rachel / Letty embody the experiences of women in Alcott’s era (the middle and late nineteenth century)? Choose at least three specific incidents in the novel that involve this character and directly compare them to historical women’s experiences as recorded in our textbook Out To Work. The strongest essays will be those that consider Rachel at different times in the novel. Be sure to refer to specific page numbers in Out To Work and chapters in Work. This essay should be approximately 600 words. 20 points
Link to free ebook: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4770
Essay 3. O Henry, “An Unfinished Story” -see pdf attachment of story
O Henry’s story exposes the living conditions for many wage-earning women at the beginning of the twentieth century. Choose at least two specific aspects of Dulcie’s life in the story and directly compare them to historical women’s experiences as recorded in our textbook Out To Work. Be sure to refer to specific page numbers in both.
This essay should be approximately 400 words. 10 points
