America is a free country, where "all men are created equal", people do not have equality. ... Why does this happen in the land of the free, this place we call home, this America? ... The American dream denotes an economy in which the parents can work to get ahead in life so that their children have the advantages that were not laid before them by their parents. ... During the time that this show was made, women were expected to be the "trophy wives" who supported and were subservient to their men. ... Women were expected to care for and love their husbands and take care of his needs befor...

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They were also supposed to be passive responders to men's decisions, actions, and needs. ... Among the female writers who devoted their work to defying their views about the woman's place in society were Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Kate Chopin. In looking at "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin and "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Gilman, we will consider the tone and narrative structures in each story. ... I shook and she pulled, and before morning we had peeled off yards of that paper" (541). ... Connected to their husbands, marriage became prison to many women; the only means...

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Wright was much happier before she was married to her husband and was forced to give up things that she loved to live a more domestic life. ... YOUNG WOMAN: To be free. JUDGE: To be free? ... They were not happy with their lives and wanted a way out. ... Wright and the young woman murdered their husbands not out of hate for them, but hate for the way they were forced to be because they were with them. ...

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Mallard's overwhelming response of "free, free, free!" ... Body and soul free!" ... The "trees were all a quiver with the new spring life" and "there were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds." ... Mallard is "free" that we find out that her name is Louise. ... Mallard does in fact finally escape the restrictions of her old life, not merely upon the hour before Brently Mallard's arrival but in the end for eternity....

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Kate and Louise were both living in a time in which women were not given any kind of rights. ... We are told that when she is notified of her husband's death "she wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms" (Chopin 1). ... She feels like she has been set free from her cage after many years. ... She wanted the freedom she felt just moments before. ... She was the wild animal set free once more and she would rather die then go on living her life as she had previously. ...

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Kate and Louise were both living in a time in which women were not given any kind of rights. ... We are told that when she is notified of her husband's death "she wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms" (Chopin 1). ... She feels like she has been set free from her cage after many years. ... She wanted the freedom she felt just moments before. ... She was the wild animal set free once more and she would rather die then go on living her life as she had previously. ...

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Kate and Louise were both living in a time in which women were not given any kind of rights. ... We are told that when she is notified of her husband's death "she wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms" (Chopin 1). ... She feels like she has been set free from her cage after many years. ... She wanted the freedom she felt just moments before. ... She was the wild animal set free once more and she would rather die then go on living her life as she had previously. ...

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Kate and Louise were both living in a time in which women were not given any kind of rights. ... We are told that when she is notified of her husband's death "she wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms" (Chopin 1). ... She feels like she has been set free from her cage after many years. ... She wanted the freedom she felt just moments before. ... She was the wild animal set free once more and she would rather die then go on living her life as she had previously. ...

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Acts of free will and liberation were taken as a violation against God and His word. ... Women were again being taught that silence is golden. ... Due to Europeans thoughts during the colonization of America, many of the early politicians did not think twice before ratifying the 14th Amendment in Congress in 1868. ... We no longer look down on those women that wish to learn. In fact, we do the complete opposite and respect them for having the drive and the determination to become a lawyer, a doctor, a politician. ...

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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. ... Before males took the role of being dominating because of gene...

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To demonstrate this, I would like to cite two quotations from the book: "Your mother and I, when we were children we had never control over anything. ... Her ten fingers had been named for even before she was born." ... If we ask or try to find a reason Haitian women commit and follow the tradition maybe we can get an answer from a quote in the novel: " "I did it," she said "because my mother had done it to me. ... Here we see how the practice of testing goes from Ife to Martine and then to Sophie. ... Sophie has to "double" during the test and even with her husband to free her mind and bo...

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Up until more recent times women were not encouraged to understand their own sexuality. ... Michael sees his actions as though it were as harmless as viewing ornaments in a Christmas shop, he may want them but that doesn't mean he is buying them. ... From the moment they meet, Jim experiences things he hasn't experienced before. ... On a road trip to free Thanksgiving turkeys Jim quickly realizes that Alena's passion is not only for him. ... As Alena leaves for her next adventure and nonchalantly frees Jim, he slowly comes to see how his expectations of love had gone sour an...

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These women were jobless, surviving off the paychecks of their egotistical significant others, living with the sole purpose to cater to their mates and offspring. ... Will she embrace the womanhood so many before her have or will she fight to preserve her own dignity no matter how rough the journey may be? ... Plath uses the imagery of certain phrases such as the words "electrocuted"" and "burned"" to help generate the picture of death; regardless, it's only later that we see the effect of Greenwoods fascination with heat. ... This of course, as referenced before, ties into the idea of Es...

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Racism and Sexism are a major issue today as it was before. ... She likes how the pants feel and how they were comfortable. She didn't care if they were for men or not. ... Celie went through a struggle to turn into an independent, free women. ... Do we know how to appreciate life or are we just letting life pass us by? ...

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Now this may sound somewhat contradictory to what was stated before but women censorship and how it is wrong. ... Women are deprived of their rights to be free even if that means to be topless. A current protest against women censorship is known as the Free The Nipple movement. ... We teach women "how not to get raped" when in reality shouldn't we be teaching men not to rape? ... This is why women are fighting, to prove that we are no less because we are women and we deserve to be treated as an equal especially if women are the ones who make up the majority. ...

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In Act I, scene 3, we again see the feminine presence through the witches. ... Just like a woman would do, she begins to put her own interests before the well-being of her husband. ... Going back to the story of Adam and Eve, we see such an example... "... his liberty of free choice is determined more and more by evil inclination and that he can not choose the better course..." ... His actions were controlled by his wife, and this led to their downfall. ...

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We know he is married and has children. ... He asked her "Where shall we go now? Shall we drive somewhere?- to which her replies were mere silence. ... These were the things that he had tried to occupy himself with before. ...

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In Leonor Park it shows how Hispanic culture in New Mexico was male-oriented and macho during the early part of the twentieth century and before. ... There were too many problems that went with keeping the family going. ... No questions were asked and his orders were followed. ... In Rebeca's childhood all the girls have certain chores to do and had no free time to just relax and be by themselves. ... This further shows how women serve as the literary images to suggest both the continuing presence and yet the transformation of history and culture in New Mexico and South Texas as we have u...

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Before we discuss specific issues concerning women in worship, we should consider principles derived from the relationship of Adam and Eve as described in Genesis chapter one. ... But, before making conclusions on a Biblical truth it is important to see if the truth holds fast throughout the whole of scripture. ... In Galations 3 verse 28, Paul states: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." ... First of all, there were prophetess's. ... We can only surmise that she played a significant part in the growth of this ...

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Their wedding was held on October 25, 1764, a month before her twentieth birthday. ... Unfortunately, this would take John farther away from his family and for a longer time than ever before. ... Most politicians were out away from their family. ... If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice or Representation." ... But she was among the first women in the new country to begin to question a woman's rights and role in a free society. ...

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It takes a great woman to stand behind a man; a man who is trying to make a difference, change the nation, or in this instance, create a new nation that would be free of the puppet strings from England. ... They were congressmen who came together to make things better for the people of America. ... These wives were left at home while these men did their jobs to run the nation. ... "They did what all women who went before them and came after them did when it came to raising children and running households, but they were assigned by history to play other roles as well. " (Roberts (1), p.15) E...

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In Ancient Greece, freedom and rules were structured and very strict. Antigone, being her own free spirit, could not stick to these limits. ... Says Creon: We must defend the men who live by law, Never let some woman triumph over us. (757-756) Creon's desire to triumph over Antigone is brought about by his pride. ... She also tries to gather the chorus" support before her death. ...

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This is shown not only through the cruel way in which Hero is treated, but also through the way that weddings were carried out. At the start of the ceremony Claudio asks Leonato "Will you with free and unconstrained soul Give me this maid your daughter? ... This shows how in Elizabethan times women were thought of as little more than possessions. ... It shows us that if a woman loses her virginity before marriage the shame it brings to her and her family is so extensive that she would be better off dead. ... This shows just how much women were objectified, their only use was to be married and ...

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(p.29) Nel is confined, Sula is free. ... The point of interest here is not so much the emotional bond formed between Nel and Sula by watching the boy die, but their symbolic play before hand. Before Chicken Little appeared, the girls had been playing in the mud digging separate holes. ... (p.83) Both Nel and Sula's conjoined personalities return to what they once were - individual. ... Without Nel, Morrison makes clear, Sula no longer has a complete self: "She was completely free of ambition, with no affection for money, property or things, no greed, no desire to command attention or c...

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Instead of creating a tolerant society, they created a theocracy, a government in which the church and the state were one and the same. ... Puritans had strict moral discipline and religious values, and traditional family values were a big part of this. ... There, we experience the juxtaposition of the Handmaid (Offred) used for procreation and the Prostitutes used purely for sex. ... The first epigraph, before the story starts, is taken directly from the Old Testament in the Bible, and sets the patriarchal context into which the novel is put. ... "This is supposed to signify that we are one f...

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