As Aisenberg states, "women's voices and developmental experiences differ from those of men. The heroine substitutes moral courage and a moral voice for the hero's physical courage and sense of predestination"(13). ... Both of these women are similarly passive in that they don"t play an active part in the stories; in other words they receive actions from characters . ... Marian eventually overcomes her fear of life and she takes an active role in it. ... Marian and Lily may have played passive, relatively non-active roles in the novels but they were also strong characters an...

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Therefore women did not have a voice or a vote regarding religious matters. ... Wheeler mentions that Winthrop called Hutchinson a person of "nimble wit and active spirit and a very voluble [fluent] tongue" (Wheeler and Becker 33). ...

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OxiClean is presented and provides effective and active tablets to wash away the grime. ... A female's voice is used to play with men's emotions and try to encourage them to buy the product so they will catch the attention of an attractive woman. ...

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Plaskow focuses her presentation on how to make women voice their opinion and be heard. ... Plaskow presents a five-stage plan that advises and guides women on how to be more active in their own communities. ...

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Likewise, the gender category man (that is, the so-called "masculine" gender automatically assigned to members of the male sex) carries with it a very different set of expectations about how to act, what to do and who to love: Men are assumed to be more active and dominant than women, and are seen to be rational, objective individuals. ... More and more women are recognized as active, participating members of the public sphere, while men are increasingly assuming care-giving roles. ...

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" Yan pretended to be very sad and replied by modifying his voice accordingly: "Yes.... The boys chose the leading roles because they were more active and dominant in that particular group. ...

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They can create a greater sense of security and an environment in which women's voices can be heard.vi Soon after the US-led war in Iraq in 2003, the country descended into violent social and political turmoil that deepened existing splits between religious, ethnic, and gender groups. ... In contrast to Iraq the post-conflict reconstruction in Sri Lanka has demonstrated a greater degree of gender sensitivity and women's leadership has been actively considered and incorporated.xi After the Sri Lankan civil war came to an end in 2001 following 26 years of violence and turmoil, there ...

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Shelley was born in London in 1797, daughter of famous radical writers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin; both of whom exemplified the ideologies of the French revolution. Shelley's mother was a pioneer feminist writer who had made her name with her revolutionary ideas opposing the patriarchal oppression of the female gender. Her father was made famous by his radical ideologies of political and philosophical anarchism. Thus it is not unusual that, as the product of such revolutionary parents, Mary Shelley would harbour the same feminist and Romantic ideologies and subsequently challe...

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The Merriam-Webster Dictionary states divorce as " an act of legally dissolving a marriage" (Merriam-Webster Dictionary 1998). Divorce is a very highly rated problem among married couples in the United States. " Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce and sixty-seven percent of all second marriag...

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