additional reading for chapter 4 for 1st semester for KU's BBA of english

Additional Readings

Group members

• Shrijana Bhattarai• Sesiliya Tuladhar• Bishwamber Sharma (Group Leader)• Aayush Paudel• Prachanda Neupane• Kiran Mainali

Contents

• Women Have What It Takes• The Androgynous Male• The princess and the admiral• The Greater God

Women Have What It Takes

-Carol Barkalow

About The Author

• A graduate of the U.S. military academy at west point

• Served as a colonel in the non combat army unit in Kuwait during the gulf war

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• Author’s interest in military career

• Changing attitudes of men and women

• Old attitudes regarding women in combat

• Women have what it takes to kill an enemy face to face

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• Men will be overprotective of women

• Pregnancy –seen as non availability

Conclusion

• Reasons for allowing women to serve in military combat units

-share nurturing relationship based upon respect and hardships

-handle mental and emotional stress -competent, capable and committed

Opposing View Bill Norton

• Women should never be in combat units• Overarching reason

-fear of destruction of cohesion among infantrymen

• Three reasons for destruction of cohesion-differential standards-consensual liaisons-physical inferiority

Conclusion

• Feminists view as a career opportunity• Central issue- combat readiness of a warrior

class

The androgynous male -Noel Perrin

About the author

• Born on September 18, 1927• Professor of English at

Dartmouth College.• Books for adults and

children.• This essay was published in

the New York times in 1984.

When he was 16

• Encountered most interesting quiz “how masculine/feminine are you?”

• The quiz consisted a large no. of inkblots; scored 1.2 out of 10.

Masculine Feminine

Looked like manmade objects Looked like natural objects

Looked like things capable of causing harm

Think of innocent things

How Can they be compared?

Realization after the quiz

• Androgynous(having characteristics of both male and female)

• Being Androgynous doesn't mean a gay• ‘he-men’ have great dominance.• Men who are not he-men seek to imitate them.

Some facts about androgyny

• Balance between masculine and feminine gender.

• Spiritual androgyny is a kind of freedom

Conclusion

• Masculine equates with machinery • Feminine with art and nature • God neither masculine nor feminine

The Princess and the Admiral

-Charlotte Pomerantz

About the author

• A US author of over thirty books and plays• Won a literary award for “its contribution to

the dignity and equality of all”

Story begins like

• Small patch of dry land called Tiny kingdom• Poor as its people• Never had a war• Ruler of the kingdom-Princess Mat Mat• Anniversary of hundred years of peace• Planned for celebration• Three advisers informed about war

Continued….

• Approaching of flagship of the Admiral with twenty ships of war

• No ships, soldiers, and weapons of war• Court astrologer informed about the position of

the new moon• Princess planned to use tides as a weapon to

fight• Hammered dozens of tree poles into the muddy

bottom of the river

Continued……

• Fishing boats were chased by enemy ships• Flagship of the Admiral and other ships were

in command of river• When the tide was low, boat got stuck on the

poles• Admiral became stubborn and felt humiliated • The princess let the admiral go

Conclusion

• Men should not underestimate women• Women are more calm, kind and gentle

The Greater God

Rakesh Ratti

Content

• Introduction• Author’s view• Conclusion

Introduction

• Writer – Rakesh Ratti• Psychologist and writer.• Born in 1959 in Punjab, India.• Migrated in 1968 with his family to California.

• Poem: -The Greater God • Appears in “Growing Up Male(1998)”• Is collection of essays and poem by various

writers named Bollywood

Author’s view• Shadow of greater-male• Powerless than male• With sandhur-chain of subservience• Servant in all houses• Words are unspoken

Continued….

• Wear camphor & coconut• Has soft voice & seriously looking kind eyes• Sometime timorous & sometime towered• But always see husband in eyes

Continued…

• Absorb pain and sorrow• Radiate light and nourishment• Crack words express the flow of love• Now she is the greater god

conclusion• Women are greater god• They can hold sorrow and pain• Can radiate happiness • Tie the house in single central chain