She is a representative figure, one of the "gaunt and haggard women who live alone and work like men" - alone, that is, except for their children and the livestock they have to care for. ... Henry Lawson intelligently compares the children and the drover's wife to the environment. The creek is "narrow, almost waterless- which also describes the "ragged, dried up children-. ... The Loaded Dog is located near a river, on a goldfield. ... It is important for Lawson to detail the words picturing the campsite and the species of fish in the river to develop the plot. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Claiming to have no money, this rich, elegantly dressed woman demanded once more to be taken down the river. ... She is in no way a good example of out district, nor a model for us citizens or our children for that matter. Out children should not go about the rest of their lives, thinking that actions such as hers is still honored and respected. ...

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Dolly shows an inability to act as a maternal figure to her children, instead she regularly gets drunk and offers sexual favors to many and varied random men. Dolly's ignorance of her role as a mother, to be at home nurturing her children, leads Rose to feel a bitter hatred toward Dolly, "Hating you is the best part of being alive." ... Military like imagery surrounds Oriel: "Sergeant Major", sleeping in the tent, referring to the children as "troops" etc. ... We see each have opportunities taken away from them as children. ... The river is a traditional feminist symbol. ...

• Word Count: 948
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• Grade Level: High School

Over this period of time, pioneers from all across the "Old World" decided to embark on a journey to the "New Country", a land of unending farmland, furs, and rivers in the newly acquired California and Oregon Territories (Schlissel, 19). ... The majority of women making the journey were married, about 70%, and the rest were either unmarried or were children. ...

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Women had scored some social victories as well, particularly the Law on Maternity, which provides for family planning, the recognition of consensual union as equivalent to marriage, equality of children whether born to a wedded or unwedded couple, and a cabinet office to promote women's development. Little by little the myth according to which women had to stay at home to carry out their "natural mission" of raising children, bearing children, and serving as an instrument of pleasure is dying out. ... She forgets her reality by escaping into her imagination, which is stimulated by lite...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Women had scored some social victories as well, particularly the Law on Maternity, which provides for family planning, the recognition of consensual union as equivalent to marriage, equality of children whether born to a wedded or unwedded couple, and a cabinet office to promote women's development. Little by little the myth according to which women had to stay at home to carry out their "natural mission" of raising children, bearing children, and serving as an instrument of pleasure is dying out. ... She forgets her reality by escaping into her imagination, which is stimulated by lite...

• Word Count: 1370
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As a working woman, Jane would be expected to remain unmarried, or leave her job if she did decide to marry, and marry a man of a similar social status to herself, such as a clergyman like St John Rivers. ... By comparison, his own children wear "silk and fur". ... Interestingly the more likeable women in the novel are in positions of servitude (Mrs Fairfax, Mrs Temple, the Rivers sisters), whilst the women with money and status (Blanche Ingram) are disliked by the protagonist and therefore the audience. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Anthropology The Kayapo The Kayapo Indians are a Ge speaking tribe that lives along the upper tributaries of the Xingu River in Brazil. ... When the children of both sexes reach puberty it represents a time of change. ... It is used as a means of social stratification among the tribes" men, woman, and children and also representing a boy and girls rights of passage to adulthood through different piercing, paintings, and hairstyles. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Actions such as strolling by the river, or riding up a hill in a carriage were out of place for women; instead women were expected stay home, serve their husband, and raise children. ... The reasons of her departure are various, it could have been neglect from her husband, or that she had bound feet however she had no children. ...

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Their jobs were to take care of the family, cook, clean, and educate the children. ... After all, it was her place to educate the children. ... In return, the Indians promised that their tribes would vacate much of their land north of the Ohio River and restrict themselves to reservations within the area ceded. ...

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Betty knows and respects she has her duties to stay at home to bring up the children but doesn't fully accept this as she"d rather be dangerous. Harry and the adventure of his jungle explorations infatuate Betty but her desire clashes with Harry's idealization that women belong in the home, "I need to go up the rivers and know you are sitting here thinking of me". ...

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While Helen and Hanna would influence who Nel and Sula would become as adults, both girls did initially rebel against their mothers as Children do. ... Just because she did not throw Chicken Little into the river does not mean she is not at fault because, as Eva points out, "You watched". ...

• Word Count: 1910
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School