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TASK ONE Article #1). “Professions for Women” by Virginia Woolf The articles main argument is the entrenched societal male domination that has impeded the growth of women in various professional fields. As the author opines, she only easily became a journalist and a writer because there were no material obstacles on the writing career. As the writer puts it, the family peace was not broken by her writing quest, and neither was any demand asserted on the family purse (Woolf, 1942). The author asserts that in order to truly excel as a woman, the phantom of the angel in the house must be killed. She attributes the angel in the house with sympathy, charm, utter unselfishness, daily sacrifice and excellence in the arduous arts of family life. Article #2 )“Behavioral Study of Obedience” by Stanley Milgram The author sets to confirm through experimental studies whether the act of Obedience is an innate behavioral determine that is innate and may thus conflict with one’s conscience inclination. In the wake of the trial of one of the Nazi leaders Adolf Eichmann, the experiment asserted the fact that submission to orders which were obviously harmful to other human beings was ingrained in the structure of social life, and perhaps the people who perpetrated Nazi crimes were only submitting to authority as they were cognizant of the harm they were committing (Milgram, 1963).

Article #3) )“On Seeing England for the First Time” by Jamaica Kincaid The author, having been born in Aragua an erstwhile British colony that was still under the British rule at the time of his birth, recounts the adoration and reverences that was accorded to the Queen and England. Any reference to the queen or England is near mythical, particularly her description of England as a special jewel that only special people got to wear (Kincaid, 1991). Clearly, years of colonization and loss of identity had built within her a pessimistic attitude towards England as evidenced in her opinions that when at last she saw it her intentions were to tear it into pieces and then crumble it as if it were clay. Article #4) We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families” by Philip Gourevitch The author delves into the heinous atrocious massacres that punctuated the Rwandan genocide. The author further explores the nature of the Rwandan conflict in which a state-planned annihilation assumed collective criminality with a majority of the populace weaponized along tribal demarcations (Gourevitch, 2015). According to the author, the Rwandan genocide went by the bald name of Hutu Power and was characterized by the systematic extermination of persons of an entire tribe that seemingly was unresisting. Moreover, blood lust is a significant driver of massacres, but the key perpetrators of the Rwandan conflict arguably did not find the barbaric killing, and haphazard maiming pleasant there only aim was the death of the victims. Article #5) “The Unrepentant Whore” by Michael Harris The author looks into the targeting of women in downtown Vancouver by serial killers and the lethargic reaction of the police force to abate such violence meted on women. Moreover, the struggle for women to attain societal visibility is highlighted in the essay through the account of Hamilton, an aboriginal transsexual sex worker who hails from one of the destitute neighbourhoods (Harris, 1998). Her fearsome reputation as an activist stems from her ability to whether any form of embarrassment and addresses each situation with vigour and takes any opposition in discourse. The societal silence on the plight of women and particularly sex trade survivors is exemplified by the mayor's incessant decline for a meeting with Hamilton.

Article #6 )“ “The Sasquatch at Home: Traditional Protocols and Storytelling” by Eden Robinson The author explores the intricate relationship between culture, family and geographical connection. After winning prize money in a literature competition, she gets a suggestion from her mother to visit Graceland, a place which holds much cultural and historical significance to her family (Robinson, 2011). It was the place where she and her sisters received their Indian names. Further, the author through a conversation with her father disabuses the notion that that is held that the sasquatches are extinct when her father opines that the sasquatches are building and running malls, busy driving around or up in the mountains perhaps writing to be engrossed on the contemporary opinions that they are long gone. TASK TWO The articles explore the concept of marginalization in society. The marginalization in the articles is mostly presented through violence, which women, in particular, bear the greatest brunt. Oppression and loss of cultural identity is another key theme in the articles in which cultures of marginalized aboriginal or colonised communities are disregarded on the societal level. The articles propose the significance of cultural respect and mutual understanding of the needs of marginalized groups in society so as to ensure that they accorded equal prominence in society.

References Gourevitch, P. (2015). We wish to inform you that tomorrow, we will be killed with our families (Vol. 24). Pan Macmillan. Harris, M. (1998). Unrepentant whore. Kincaid, J. (1991). On seeing England for the first time. Transition, (51), 32-40. Milgram, S. (1963). Behavioural study of obedience. The Journal of abnormal and social psychology, 67(4), 371. Robinson, E. (2011). The Sasquatch at Home: Traditional Protocols & Modern Storytelling (Vol. 4). The University of Alberta. Woolf, V. (1942). Professions for women. The Death of the Moth and Other Essays, 235-42.