My Final Stand

It is finally here. My last post of the semester. Being my last, what should I say? There are so many topics that I could touch on, after so many interesting readings. There was one that came up in class that I have been ruminating on however, and I have decided to make it the topic of my last posting of the semester.
In class, we discussed the subject of prostitution during the Renisance age, and if there was anything else that those who did so could have done. In our readings, we were presented with two very different sides of the coin, so to speak, with Mrs. Warren(Mrs. Warren's Profession) and Sophia(Crime and Punishment). We are told the story of both of these women, and how they came to be what they were. In the end, it came down to money. However, Sophia admitted, even though she was doing it for money, it wasn't a steady income. Mrs. Warren, however, was rolling in it, and yet did not stop because she enjoyed the money that it brought in too much. These two women seem to contradict one another so, and yet, they are both involved in the same profession. And, both claim it was the only profession that they could have. Was this really true? Could it really be that there was a time in our nation that the only way a woman could make it was to become a prositute? It seems inconcievable to us today, but that shows just how far we have come. In a world where the laws are focused on fairness betwixt the sexes and races, so many of the topics that we have covered this semester seem extrodinary in the fact that our nation once struggled with them. We have so much to be thankful for. The fact that we don't have to be Mrs. Warren's to make it today makes it hard to decide if the way that these two women went was indeed their only choice. But in the end, I suppose that is not such a bad thing not to understand.