Genie Wiley was a girl known as “the most isolated girl in recorded medical history”. For the first 13 years of her life, she was confined to a bedroom and isolated from normal human interaction. Due to Genie’s lack of stimuli, she was not capable of language. After an MRI scan, Genie showed the necessity…
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Global Issue Focus: Stereotypes of masculinity Literary Work: Delilah by Carol Ann Duffy from ‘The World’s Wife’ collection, 1999 Overview of collection: Duffy’s poetry collection The Worlds Wife recontextualizes stories from literature, history, and popular culture from the female perspective in order to portray human nature and the truths of femininity and masculinity. Duffy’s poems…
Delilah
Duffy’s retelling of the story of Samson and Delilah offers Delilah’s perspective of how she had to forcefully remove Samson’s power and strength in order to allow him to love her.
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Thetis
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Liza Donnelly
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