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Help me with an "amazing woman"
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Hey guys, wierd question. I have an essay due tomorrow about an "amazing woman" that I know of that has inspired me. Unfortunately... I don't think there are any. I mean, I'm sure there are, but I can't think of any.
(No, I can't use my mom)
So, it's time now to learn about amazing women first. Who are some of the more amazing women you guys know, and why? Has to be someone fairly well known, please. I'm gonna keep brainstorming, but if I fail, I would love to learn about these women you guys know of.
(No, I can't use my mom)
So, it's time now to learn about amazing women first. Who are some of the more amazing women you guys know, and why? Has to be someone fairly well known, please. I'm gonna keep brainstorming, but if I fail, I would love to learn about these women you guys know of.
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I just googled "amazing woman" and at least half the results on the first page are relevant to your needs. As long as you avoid any obvious porn and mail-order bride links, you should be able to find one that you already knew about, then complete your research (using Wikipedia and other sites...) and write your essay.
I really hope no one in this thread gives you actual suggestions for "amazing women" because you don't deserve it.
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Seriously? Relax. I honest to god can't think of any woman who has inspired me. Yea I could write some bullshit about a woman I've heard of who's done something special. Cool. It hasn't inspired me. I don't care. If lets say someone linked me to a woman where I say "wow, I can't believe this," then I have just done two things. One, learnt about an amazing woman who deserves to be known about. Second, I can now write my essay on something that (now) I have some sort of a passion for. I HATE writing bullshit essays, I try hard in school.
Charna Halpern is up there for me, but I'm huge into improv.
You should write about Cloelia. Or Jeanne the Hatchet. Or Calamity Jane, or Jeanne D'Arc, or Florence Nightingale, or Eleanor Roosevelt, or Margaret Thatcher, or you could take a close look at your latent misogynism because seriously, "I've never been inspired by any woman" is kind of a ridiculous thing to say.
So you don't personally know any women that inspire you. That's not entirely strange, I only know two people personally that inspire me and I find amazing. They're both men, who knew I was misogynist?
So, you have to go impersonal - which means what others are suggesting, and either finding a woman from a field that interests you, or just making shit up.
Going the bullshit route is annoying, but that's life as a student. Anyone with any experience in a liberal arts education can tell you how many bullshit essays with topics that didn't interest them in the least they had to write. If I were in your position (and I've been in it multiple times), look around the web for another hour, and if you aren't having any luck, make some luck of your own and just write the essay.
Oh haha yea. It was assigned today. I'm gonna hate this semester in English.
Just fixed that up a little for you.
Personally, I was having a little trouble when I first read the thread. If you're like me, you just don't hear about anybody doing anything that's really inspiring. But I will say that my grade 10 Social's teacher was an awesome lady. She was the only teacher I ever had that was going to fail me because I never did any homework. I did extremely well on tests because I paid attention in class and I guess I have a decent memory. I was pretty mad at having to do all those assignments from a full term in about a 2 week period. I think she had me staying in her class for like an hour or 1/2 an hour a day so I could catch up. I sure wish my other teachers had had the same balls. Maybe I'd have learnt a little earlier about work ethic.
Which brings me to another small point. The way it's phrased in the OP its a woman that you know, and not that you know of. Are you sure its supposed to be someone famous?
Edit: wall of textish. Too bad she wasn't my english teacher.
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Of course, Babbage ran out of money and the Difference Engine was never built and nobody really did anything with computers from then until around World War II, but that's another story.
Or you know, you could stop making fucking stupid snap judgements.
If I was given the same essay, and was told I couldn't include any relatives, then i would have a hell of a hard time coming up with someone. Not because I immediately look at a woman and go "nah, she can't inspire me", but just because I personally have neve been inspired by too many people, and the few that have jsut happen to be men.
OP, do you have any wiggle room in your essay? Because if you truly can't think of any women, then maybe twist it a bit, say something like "I couldn't think of anyone, but after doing some research, this is someone I found interesting, or the like.
And in 1000 words, you can easily write about almost anything. The math teacher idea sounds good. Stretch the truth and say how you always hated math, etc.
Margaret Thatcher was a bitch, don't write on her. I can only think of two woman who have really inspired me and if you don't know them personally you wouldn't know them from Eve so I guess that makes me a misogynist because I'm not inspired by every famous woman in history.
Personally, the one woman who has really inspired me is Linda Melconian. She was the first woman Senate Majority Leader in MA and has had an active career in both law and politics that I admire very much and would like to follow in very similar footsteps. I think you should write about that teacher, it sounds like she did inspire you.
why would anyone?
Personally, I'm sure she's great, but I don't watch daytime TV enough to get an idea of what she's about. But I do know that she started the Dr Phil craze, and that guy's show jumped the shark. I mean, it did a big air shark jump. Man, I hate that guy.
What does that even mean?
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I feel a bit like Bill Hicks dealing with the freebird heckler right now. Yes, I am aware that misandrism is a word, what is eternalbl driving at by editing it into Kate's post? :P
There's no reason to believe that the OP is a misogynist, but the manbashing makes kate look like a manhater. I didn't know if there was a color for hypocrite though.
What manbashing? "You're a damn fool if you can't name a single woman worth admiring" isn't manbashing at all, it's the goddamn truth.
I can't name a lot of men that I think are worth admiring either. I might just be overall a shallow person who finds very little admirable in people (worthy of writing a fucking essay on), but I am in no way a misogynist. I just straight up do not know a lot about people. I know a lot about things, through reading about Marie Curie I realized I was very knowledgeable about her studies, just didn't realize that is was her (or even a woman) who did the studies.
I think you guys might be misunderstanding the word misogyny (this is a lie, I know the members of this forum are smart, but you are definately over exaggerating a little), because just because I don't know any women worth admiring does NOT mean I hate women.
That wasn't the question, though. I'll admit that there were very few women who have inspired me to action in a significant way throughout my life. The list of admirable women is innumerable, but people who have inspired you personally is quite a small subset of any admirable group, women or not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haviva_Reik or anyone in her group.
Lots of people in the class will probably do Amelia Earheart, Harriet Tubman, or Rosa Parks, so those would work.
You could go for Ella Fitzgerald or Billie Holiday, but I suppose that would depend on whether you like jazz.
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The OP posted saying "I can't think of a woman worth writing my paper about, so suggest some for me". That's pretty dickish and shallow, and the accusation of a bit of latent misogyny is completely fair in that context. I'd also kind of point out that the OP ran back and edited his post after Kate replied, I'm remembering it being quite a bit worse before the edit -- maybe a mod could shed some light?
Either way, calling somebody sexist for calling somebody else a latent sexist ("No, you are!") is pretty weaksauce.
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I see what you did there...
Yeah, it's a bad essay question. It makes assumptions about the students that may not be true - ie, that they've ever been inspired at all. Not everybody has. Or at least not in a big, obvious, world rocking way. I mean, I've probably been 'inspired' by this or that - a Nigella Lawson recipe that inspired part of a meal I cooked, a primary school teacher that briefly got me interested in origami for about a week when I was ten, etc. I'm sure I could write a 1000 word essay about one of those - I'm pretty good at spewing words - but you'd have to be something special to make it not seem like you were just ridiculing the teacher and their stupid essay question.
Considering that he's probably completed his essay by now (on Marie Curie?) I don't think this matters anymore but he only edited his OP to clarify that he couldn't think of a woman he knew personally that inspired him and instead was trying to brainstorm some inspirational women that were more well known. There was nothing misogynistic in the OP and, while you could accuse him of trying to pass off his research to others, he most certainly did not come off as a 'woman hater'.
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The essay required him to write about a woman that inspired him, how is it dickish of him to admit there hasn't been one he can think of? If the essay said "Write about a great/amazing woman", and he said that, then yeah, that would be a bit shallow, but dickish? Really? Ignorant would be more of the case. It's not like he was saying "Guys, there's not one woman that's amazing in the world". He simply couldn't think of one.
For kate to automatically jump the gun and start accusing him of being mysoginist seems a lot more dickish and shallow to tell you the truth.