He recommends a variety of distractions that can be place strategically in order to change the perception of how much time is being spent waiting. ... We can infer all sorts of things from this. ... I can understand why we do what we do, notice what we notice, ignore what we ignore and buy what we buy, and why women won't linger to shop in narrow aisles, why the Internet cannot replace the shopping mail, how hardware stores are learning to adapt to women and how men are beginning to shop like women, how working women have altered the way supermarkets are laid out and why the person in ...

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Several times throughout the movie, she describes how she loves how strong and rough a man's hand is, and how Roy's no longer feels this way. ... I do not think that Roy's transition really changed this view she has of gender. ... In one scene, we see that Irma would not even let him make his own breakfast, when it is as simple as something like oatmeal. ... She wants to dress masculine and maybe thinks that if her father can dress and become a woman, then why can't she at least dress like a man. ... I do not think that Roy or Irma's sexuality changed because Roy...

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Assumptions are things that we hear, see, think, or believe are true about people and situations that we often have little or no evidence to back up. ... Another example of assumptions can be made in relationships. ... Its ridiculous how much meaning is behind a single name and we didn't even get to choose it ourselves! I never realized before how much people are judged just by the name they go by. ... Becoming more educated about gender inequality in our society and also being more aware can help change the attitudes of complacent people. ...

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The Hobson family are oblivious to the hold that she has on their lives and how essential she is to their well being until she leaves. ... This can be shown by the way that she acts towards the men in the play specifically Hobson and Willie. ... Throughout the play we get the feeling that even though Hobson thinks that he is the master and has control of all the girls, in the case of Maggie he has very little control. ... Earlier in the play we see Maggie talking to Willie about her marring him not the other way round this is a sign that she dominated him "I thought that you were axing me to w...

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Step by step we are getting closer to the idea of objectification of women, and as we get closer to that we see how society and culture have given rise to the sexual objectification of women. ... She did not even care about how those stereotypic ideas "to be skinny in order to be attractive" could devastate her health and psychological condition. ... Then, she started to change her diet routines and went on "juicing.... At some point during that time she could not even walk, and that is when everyone else started to think that we were going to lose her. ... During this time, I...

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Everybody has one, it guilds your decision making, your thoughts, ideas, and dreams. You may think something is terrible while someone else does not even care and yet another person may laugh, why? ... Their aspirations and values will change, causing their identities to change with it. ... Identity can be seen in even the youngest of children as soon a a child is ready to make their own decision, no matter how trivial the decision might be, the child is starting to create his or her own identity and define their own nature. ... Also it is in the mentality of the person who is making the compa...

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Everybody has one, it guilds your decision making, your thoughts, ideas, and dreams. You may think something is terrible while someone else does not even care and yet another person may laugh, why? ... Their aspirations and values will change, causing their identities to change with it. ... Identity can be seen in even the youngest of children as soon a a child is ready to make their own decision, no matter how trivial the decision might be, the child is starting to create his or her own identity and define their own nature. ... Also it is in the mentality of the person who is making the compa...

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They are very much alike in their actions and thoughts even though they never actually meet. ... Even though Clarissa is effected by Septimus' death and is bombarded by profound thoughts throughout the novel, she is also a woman for whom a party is her greatest offering to society. ... This relates how society expects men to be brave and not show any feeling that can be scarred by a destructive experience. ... In those other plays, there is a sense that the world can be changed, that we here in order to change things. We can be empowered do so if only we can open our eyes and see ourselve...

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The images that the song "U + UR Hand," by Pink, bring to mind thoughts that aren't exactly "G" rated. ... Ladies we can give men a run for their money. ... Alright lastly we can address the setting. ... That even in a place like that the woman can still prevail. ... Well my thesis tells you that women who are strong(what) can have men at their feet using confidence and independence(how.) ...

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I will make a personal reference to this argument, so that you can see how powerful it is. ... The girls didn't think they were good enough compared to boys, which is exactly how many of us have felt in the past. ... Isn't incredible how mental health is at risk even in the early years of childhood?! ... I hope that you all can agree that it's necessary to understand the female gender at each stage so we can avoid these things. ... If you are there in your seat thinking the same way, today is the day for you to change that thought! ...

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Similarly and agreeably, in Katha Pollitt's essay, she claims that "instead of looking at kids to "prove" that differences in behavior by sex are innate, we can look at the ways we raise kids as an index to how unfinished the feminist revolution really is, and how tentatively it is embraced even by adults who fully expect their daughters to enter previously male-dominated professions and their sons to change diapers." ... Looking at the way we raise kids, we can determine how incomplete the feminist revolution really is. ... Therefore, how kids turn out to be are the affects of how adul...

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Where we can vote, work outside of the home, and be educated? ... Because she did not conform to the role society thought she should play, she introduced the idea that women had a say in things and that women were smart enough and able to think for themselves. ... Other women of the past resolved to take over "men's work" though society thought they should not. ... Today many of us don't think twice about how we got a right to vote, those of us who are eighteen, just vote. ... But it should not deceive us; this struggle was waged every bit as seriously as any ...

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The thought of getting rid of what could be her son or daughter must be crushing. ... People say that women can just put their child up for adoption, and yes they can. ... It's a horrible thought, but if the unborn child is unwanted, then how could the mother be persuaded to take care and even nurture the child when she could very possibly resent that child for ruining her life. ... That's one of the few things that we really have control over these days. However, that seems to be changing. ...

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As you read on about my journey you will see how this change has affected not only me but also others around me. I will begin with how I became involved in the firehouse and how it has affected my life dramatically. ... When I started my training I thought I would not be able to handle it, but boy was I surprised and I think mike and everyone else too. ... - any parent thinks about that but not in the double sense that we do. ... In conclusion you can see how my being a firefighter not only affects me but others around me. ...

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It was thought that if you were a man; you would be strong, aggressive, and tough, where as, women would be polite and soft; so men can work harder than women. ... But now days in America, everything is changed; women and men get equal position in society. ... We all know that girls are more spoiled in their families than boys. ... They only think about businesses, jobs, and the ways to earn more money. Even though today's wives also work; women still take care of kids. ...

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They both look at these contrasts of experiences and also look at relationships with women and how they change people in the stories. ... But the reader can always identify with them some how. ... With both Carver and Johnson's work we see this incredible experience, it can be a wonderful experience or a depressing experience. ... The characters all feel that the women will change the universe and that they are so wonderful, they will meet women and think they are so wonderful and marry them, they stay together with them due to the past memories of great love. ... The main characte...

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On the beginning of the road journey with Louise, we see that Thelma is reverted to a teenager, "How much longer is it gonna be? ... She can not take any responsibility, this can be seen when she doesn't think it's her fault that the Harlan was shot. She bought many tiny bottles of alcohol, which she could have bought much cheaper for just one big one, we can see that she doesn't take into mind the situation that she doesn't have a lot of money to waste. ... "You be good to your wife, my husband wasn't good to me and see how I turned out!?... When we get to the en...

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Through Historical, Biographical, and New Historical critical analysis of the author, and the time period, we will see that the effects of the war and how it greatly influenced this piece of literature. ... The soldiers more or less helped dig their own graves without even knowing it. ... As it was discussed in class that even today, we are affected one way or the other by the tragedies that took place on September 11, 2001 in New York City, and Washington D.C. ... (http://www.angelfire.com/nv/English243/Society.html) So as we can see, women in this point in time had many chains yet...

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This was shocking, as the opposite would tend to be thought to be true. ... But how would they get people to look? ... But this is also changing. ... But when can we push those boundaries? The answer is sooner than you think. ...

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How does one emit or achieve this phenomenon we call "power"? ... So when she sees this woman, she has no idea what to think. Felice changes Cleofilas" whole concept of what a woman was capable of: "The fact that she drove a pickup. ... In spite of all the previous impressions of "male superiority" Carmen proves that women can have their share as well thus denoting the third implication of this entity we call "power". Although power can be thought of as physical strength or out right force, these women show that power also has to do a lot with "the school of hard-knocks", self-assurance, or ...

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In addition, we see that women can cloud reality, thus causing deceptiveness in the "fog and filthy air." ... How would the witches know of their future? ... Macbeth would not have even thought of killing Duncan, if it were not for the influence of the witches and his wife. ... "... her blood thickened, her milk changed to gaul - into the inhuman, the distortion of nature..." ... The women in this play distort Macbeth's intuition so much that he thinks he is doing the right thing...

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How will this affect younger girls? ... Often thoughts are less clothing is what makes women sexualized but this isn't fully true. ... It may not be something we can change right now but it is something we must try to change because it is awful to set standards on someone's body. ... We teach women "how not to get raped" when in reality shouldn't we be teaching men not to rape? ... I don't think it is fair to put the blame on the victim and make seem as though the rapist had no fault. ...

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It governs the way our society operates and how we view each other. To know how gender plays a role in the American Dream, we must give thought and analyze the motivations and roles that men and women play in our society. ... If we look at this definition piecewise we can make certain assumptions about the American dream. ... They are expected to act a certain way, do certain things, and think a certain way. ... The American dream should not require that we change who we are in order to succeed in our lives. ...

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At first, Emilia thinks this is only "talk", but Desdemona begins to tell her about the song she learned from her mother's maid (Barbary). ... All they can do is confide in each other. ... How can we believe any of Iago's statements regarding Bianca when he is unreliable throughout the play? ... Even Othello, the one character who truly loves his wife, mistreats Desdemona. ... He states to Iago "Alas, poor rogue, I think i' faith she loves me....

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He says, "The city has changed into a woman" (39). ... Until the narrator tells us, we don't have hardly an inkling of his feelings for Mustafa's widow. ... We know nothing of his treatment of his wife, his feelings. ... The city has changed into a woman. ... Are these characters merely playing out the only roles they can, given the circumstances? ...

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