A book review on“Rich Dad Poor Dad” Author: Robert T. Kiyosaki Title: Rich Dad Poor Dad Theme: The importance of the financial literacy Thesis: What the Rich teach their kids about money – That the Poor do not. “Rich Dad Poor Dad” by Robert T. Kiyosaki is very popular book on finance on the market today. This is a true story from the author’s life. Robert Kiyosaki refers to two fathers: one is Roberts’s real father (Poor Dad)‚ a highly educated but poor professor‚ who always asked
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Adrienne Cecile Rich was an American Poet and feminist born May 16‚ 1929 died March 27th 2012‚ was born in Baltimore‚ Maryland and the oldest of two sisters from a middle class family‚ Rich was educated by her parents until she entered public school in the fourth grade. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Radcliffe College in 1951‚ the same year her first book of poems‚ A Change of World‚ appeared. That volume‚ chosen by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award‚ and her next‚ The Diamond
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population. One of those influential women‚ author Adrienne Rich‚ published an essay that talks about how women are treated differently. In the essay‚ “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as a Re-vision”‚ Rich argues that a stereotypical and prejudiced male society represses women. She demonstrates these views through the use of literary history‚ her personal experience towards women’s discrimination‚ and the potential women have to empower themselves. Rich believes that women endured the unfairness and inequality
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Although the United States is established on the idea of equality‚ women continue to be oppressed and face inequality. In Adrienne Rich’s commencement speech‚ “What Does a Woman Need to Know”‚ she talks about what women should understand‚ in order to prosper in the “real world.” The same perception occurs in an excerpt of Ariel Levy’s book “ Female Chauvinist Pigs”; Levy grabs your attention about how women have learned to adapt to male qualities in order to succeed in their prestige. Both authors
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In [insert essay name here] Adrienne Rich stresses the importance of women taking advantage of the opportunities of education in America. Since the beginning of time‚ education has been determined by white men who decide what we should and should not be learning about. When we hear about “great issues” it’s what white men decide is important enough for the western world to know about. Most of the time we only hear about issues that relate to us or an ally of the U.S. For instance‚ when the tragedy
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you want the details. Chapter One - Rich Dad‚ Poor Dad In Chapter One Kiyosaki lays the groundwork of the story then ends it with the poem “The road not taken” by Robert Frost to give you the idea that you are about to learn how to do things differently‚ and that will make all the difference… Of course the irony is that since you are reading a NY Times best seller‚ by reading the book you are actually taking a path very much traveled by. Chapter Two - The Rich Don’t Work For Money The book begins
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AUNT JENNIFER’S TIGERS By ADRIENNE RICH SUMMARY OF THE POEM: The poet is a feminist and she addresses the difficulties of a married woman. She spends good amount of time in embroidering panel of tigers prancing across the screen. The tigers are fearless creatures pacing elegantly and majestically. They symbolize the spirit of freedom. Aunt is a victim of male chauvinism (male domination). Aunt Jennifer is so oppressed and terrified that she finds it hard to pull the needle. The “weight of Uncle’s
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Richard Rich- Personal Reflection A Man Of All Seasons The smell of rain drifted through the ajared window wafting into my nostrils. As the heavens opened up‚ the tears of sorrow fell from the angels above over Mores death sentence. The grey heavy clouds were concealed by the sinister evening sky. Everywhere I turned‚ every sound I heard‚ reminded me of the terrible act I had committed in court this afternoon. I Richard Rich had given up my soul and my conscience for an unworthy reward; Wales
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"Prospective Immigrants Please Note" Adrienne Rich Either you will go through this door or you will not go through. If you go through there is always the risk of remembering your name. Things look at you doubly and you must look back and let them happen. If you do not go through it is possible to live worthily to maintain your attitudes to hold your position to die bravely but much will blind you‚ much will evade you‚ at what cost who knows? The door itself makes no promises
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family and religion interfere? I will focus in this essay on Michel Foucault‚ Adrienne Rich and Catherine Mackinnon who all indicate that sexuality is socially constructed but argue on the source of construction. While Foucault believes that sexuality is historically constructed by genderless power‚ knowledge and discourse; Mackinnon assumes that sexuality constitutes gender and is a social construct of male power; Rich‚ instead‚ claims that there is no innate desire toward the opposite sex but rather
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