{"id":9920,"date":"2022-12-12T20:09:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T01:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2022-conway\/?p=9920"},"modified":"2022-12-12T20:09:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T01:09:01","slug":"tamar-abelson-final-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/2022\/12\/12\/tamar-abelson-final-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamar Abelson Final Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This semester\u2019s reading that had the most meaning for me was the story \u201cWhere Are You Going, Where Have You Been?\u201d by Joyce Carol Oates. This story is very powerful and well-written in a way that shakes your core. As women, we can still experience situations like this one or at least hear about it on the news and it makes us think about male-female relationships. In the story, Connie puts a lot of weight on her physical appearance, and in the end, gets punished because of the way she looked. Would it be different if she looked different? should women hide their sexuality in order to be safe? Also, In our modern society, with the internet and higher education, it\u2019s sad to see how people still stay in their primitive point of view; in which men have the power in a relationship and make all the decisions while women need to obey. Same as in sexual situations where women \u201close\u201d their power because they feel weak, and do things they don\u2019t want to just to satisfy the men\u2019s desires.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This semester\u2019s reading that had the most meaning for me was the story \u201cWhere Are You Going, Where Have You Been?\u201d by Joyce Carol Oates. This story is very powerful and well-written in a way that shakes your core. As women, we can still experience situations like this one or at least hear about it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-final-discussion","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9921,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9920\/revisions\/9921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}