The list of symptoms that has been applied to hysteria is too long by any measure to recount here, but practically it could be almost anything, as long as the patient was a woman. ... Consider one of the only other characters in the story, Jennie (who is defined by her relationship to a man, and called John's sister or the sister as often as by her own name). ... As such, John does not represent all men, or even privileged white men (though they are the principle perpetrators and beneficiaries of patriarchy. It may be more accurate to say he does not represent just men). ... He represen...

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One of the ways characters are presented as disturbed, is through their violence. ... The way Heathcliff treats Isabella seems gratuitously cruel to a modern day audience, but in the 1800s, due to the prevalent patriarchal society, it was not uncommon for men to exert their dominance over their wives through beatings. ... Her powerlessness and rage are likely to have been brought on by the patriarchal society that she lived in (as in the late 1700s, women had not yet gained their rights meaning men were still superior), so along with her naturally sadistic character, this added to the causatio...

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Not all men were created identical and these men were slaves. ... Women usually worked in the home, cooking and cleaning, whereas men were sent out into the plantations to farm. ... Jefferson as the third president of the United State of America was a man of a supreme ethical character who has been excoriated consistently over the last 30 years by historical revisionists and presenters. ... On January 14, 1774, after he present at birth slaves from first his mother and then his father-in-law, Thomas Jefferson wrote his list of 187 slaves. In his last list, taken 50 years later in 1824, Thomas ...

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McCullough also sheds new light on how the war went down by focusing on minor, for lack of a better word, characters in the armies. ... "Tall and rather handsome, with clear blue eyes and a generally cheerful expression, George III had a genuine love for music a good eye for art avidly collected books" (5) the list goes on. ... This quote really does describe how the Continental Army was able to win- not with the above thing listed, but with the strength, intellect, and passion of the commanding officers. Washington himself believed regarding Greene and Knox that he "had found t...

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The ad ends by charming the viewer to and appealing pathos by showing the three main characters together. ... The advertisement begins with a scene of men in wheelchairs playing basketball. ... However, the video begins to appeal to ethos as the narrator of the commercial begins to list qualities such as, "Dedication, Loyalty and Friendship". ... This also allowed for a new demographic to be reached by Budweiser through the use of such characters. As beer is normally drunken by men, showing a puppy appeals to women and younger (of age) drinkers. ...

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There is a long list of many more problems that can develop but the most extreme concern is death. ... To begin off, the image of the overweight person seems to always be depicted as the lazy or grouchy character, where as the skinnier or active person seems to be the more desired or popular character of a story or show. Teens are constantly exposed to this idea which causes a fear of gaining weight as if they will become this undesired character. ... For example, NBC's "The Biggest Loser," is a game show about overweight men and women competing to lose weight. ... Fitness m...

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The figures that seem the most interesting to me were La Senora, Mimi, and, of course, Eva Luna (I hope I was allowed to include Mimi in this list). I think that in the lives of these three women the struggle for personal and social success and fulfillment took especially dramatic character on the background of political chaos, financial hardships, and society controlled by men. ... She is more of a survivor than many men. ... Commercial magnates and the biggest political figures were on the list of her regular customers, as La Senora says with delight " there is enough corruption for ever...

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The list of determinants that I believe to define ethnic identity includes language, geographic location, and tradition. ... The main character's family in this novel was Chinese and represented the first generation of immigrants for this family. ... In this novel, the main character spends much of his life on an Indian Reservation. ... Many slaves, and freed slaves that maintained the same duties with pay when awarded their freedom, were fed up with working for men that had treated them so poorly in the past. ...

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She talks of her inner mystery and explains, to those who can't see it, why men notice her. ... Men themselves have wondered what they see in me. ... While the Victorian concept of "true womanhood" defined white women as possessing unquestionable moral character, African American women were defined as immoral and sinful. ... It is not only a simple hierarchy of men over women, but it is one where white women are found to be more credible than African American women. ... These types of materials may exist in specific collections such as those listed below, but ephemeral and popular mate...

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However, according to Marx and Engels, "the working men have no country" because "we cannot take from them what they have not got.... By "working men," Marx and Engels are referring to the proletariat, or the "wage-earners.... While most people probably view the typical working class as an important part of society, in the world that Marx and Engels describe, the working men are essentially a nuisance. ... Only when "class distinctions have disappeared, and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, will the ...

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This type of propaganda is easily noticed in Band Of Brothers' as the main characters truly portray brotherhood. ... His is also renowned for other Second World War films, Schindlers List being a very important to him. ... In the television series there is a reoccurring format, every episode having a lead character where the audience sees the war from their point of view. ... Also, men in the 1940s were shorter, on average, than men today. ... A third criterion of realism is the logic or plausibility of the plot or characters that appear appropriate to the texts terms of reference. ...

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In fact, many of the characters within the novel are direct representations of the South, each portraying a different aspect or view of the South in the eyes of the author. ... Eventually, a massive battle is fought amongst the two factions and all of the men in Grangerford family are killed. ... Twain points out the barbaric ways of these people, as men hunt young boys, violently murdering them in battle that does not involve them in any other manner than by right of birth. ... Twain uses a character, Sherburn, who has no effect on the outcome or actions of the book apart from two chapters...

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An epithet is a phrase that is presented alongside a character's name in order to describe and give a fuller picture of that individual within the larger framework of the poem. ... There is a definite structure to this list that serves to help the memorization of the catalog as well as provide quite a performance for the audience. ... For example, "As when rivers in winter spate running down from the mountains/throw together at the meeting of streams the weight of their water/out of the great springs behind in the hollow stream-bed,/and far away in the mountains the shepherd hears thei...

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An epithet is a phrase that is presented alongside a character's name in order to describe and give a fuller picture of that individual within the larger framework of the poem. ... There is a definite structure to this list that serves to help the memorization of the catalog as well as provide quite a performance for the audience. ... For example, "As when rivers in winter spate running down from the mountains/throw together at the meeting of streams the weight of their water/out of the great springs behind in the hollow stream-bed,/and far away in the mountains the shepherd hears thei...

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The advertisement coordinates her outfit with the green theme of the brand's packaging and looks very similar to the familiar female character from Kill Bill. ... Nothing in the ad represents men besides the company name, Libman, which has the word "man" in it. ... By using a female character, similar to the Bride in Kill Bill, the ad is depicting a strong individual in a weak position. ... It could let woman see that, if such a strong powerful character can use this mop to defeat the dirt, so can they. Although, having a woman as the main focal point makes a stronger point on ...

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The pilot episode ran for 45-minutes focused on introducing the audience members to the shows main characters. ... Charlie introduces each character by sharing a brief summary of each of their lives before entering the hospital. ... Charlie does this by switching between introducing each character and narrating the events of the current day. ... This message is portrayed clearly through two of the main characters; Nurse Jackson and Kara Sounders. ... During this emotional scene, Kara cries quietly to herself as she overhears the nurse explain to her parents just how is sick she tru...

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Like Petrarch, he gave accurate depictions of real life characters and situations. He described a group of men and women fleeing from a plague infested Florence to the countryside. ... These humanists began to develop ideas about the proper conduct of courtiers, or the noble men and women of the courts. ... He produced many fine frescoes with characters that showed real emotions and had realistic settings. ... The list of his achievements are endless, although he is most recognized for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. ...

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Chandler's inability to be the personification of men like Gallaher, an ideal archetype that Chandler has a need to feel in close and personal interaction with, becomes manifested in various forms that become evident to the reader through the story. ... This is symbolic of Chandlers detachment from an outside, inspirational world, that holds lines of poetry by men that could touch life and feel passion. ... They are the creations of respected, and worthy men, holding an order of importance in life that Chandler will never have. ... It is the reader that realizes Chandler's true rea...

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J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1904) circulates in the popular imagination as a happy tale for children that, through the adventures of Peter and the other children in Never Land, celebrates playfulness. As Mark Twain commented, "It is my belief that Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age; and the next best play is a long way behind- (qtd. in Jack 158). Tellingly, Twain's comment that Peter Pan is uplifting seems to depend on ignoring the fact that each of the "lost- boys is a baby who has fallen out of his pram "when the nurse is looki...

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Humanism was initiated by secular men of letters rather than by the scholar-clerics that had dominated medieval intellectual life and had developed the Scholastic philosophy. ... Its predecessors were men like Dante and Petrarch, and its chief protagonists included Gianozzo Manetti, Leonardo Bruni, Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, Lorenzo Valla, and Coluccio Salutati. ... He produced many fine frescoes with characters that showed real emotions and had realistic settings. ... As time went on into the 1400's and 1500's, three men Michealangelo, Rapheal and Leonardo da Vinci do...

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In the first month of the war, half a million men were recruited, while by February 1916, 2,631,000 men had volunteered for active service, while conscription, begun by the Derby scheme, placing all men aged 18-41 on a call-up list, led to only a further 2,339,000 being conscripted. ... It may be argued however, that recruitment posters really weren't needed, that men would join up anyway, from a variety of reasons from boredom, hope that conditions in the army were better than their current situation et cetera. ... It is impossible to prove a fact until we are 100% certain and in the...

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He was happy that she would be the community standard-bearer, for "nobody can doubt the height of her character.... Another sample of an appeal to logic the author utilizes is his listing of several monumental achievements the politics assisted in attaining. ... "At no point has there been more reason for young black men and women to be hopeful that investing in themselves will pay dividends in the future. ...

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The Hudson River artists were men, who believed in the glory of nature, which they thought was an evidence of God's power. ... Until 1983, the only things that evoked its existence were a note in Cole's list of topics, an entry in the Cole memorial exhibition catalogue and the existence of a small draft and a few drawings. ...

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In fact, since most American men rarely used their new tools, the possession of a "fetishistic tool" often served as the object of the hobby (57). ... Although her Picture Cook Book, first published in 1950, remained a best seller throughout the decade, the Betty Crocker character aged rapidly in the 1950s "a new makeover transformed her into an older and wiser, more mature and motherly figure. ... The Ed Sullivan show brought Lincolns and Mercuries into the homes of Americans, and in 1956, GM was on the Top Ten Advertisers list. ...

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Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will allow the characters to withstand the outer world, a world awash with dangers to personal fulfillment and identity. ... There i...

• Word Count: 4675
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