Dimmesdale's health is quickly going down the drain and he is having heart trouble, not to mention various other health complications. ... And that is exactly what Hester does, she becomes his third leg to help him stand through all of his turmoil and pain. She recommends that he escape to Europe, but he feels that he is not strong enough to go alone, so Hester agrees to go with him. ... Hester's strength goes far beyond what was expected from women in that day and age. ...

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Jeff sees Lisa as the better one of the two of them, which goes against both his and society's view of the male and female relationship where the male is the dominant factor. ... Lisa then begins to question Jeff, starting with polite conversational questions "How's your leg? ... In the final scene after the mystery of the murder has been solved the camera pans Jeff's apartment where we see Jeff with now two broken legs, and Lisa reading a book entitled Behind the High Himalayas, Lisa looks over to Jeff who is asleep and she immediately picks up Harpers Bazaar. ... Jeff is no...

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I think when Manly told Joy-Hulga that she was very brave because she had a wooden leg he got her attention. ... When he takes her leg from her she is left helpless. I think O"Connor uses Joy-Hulga's heart trouble and wooden leg as a symbol. ... She gets all dressed up to go to a weight loss class, wearing gloves and a hat. ... For example, she still thinks of black people as slave, so he goes and sits next to them on the bus. ...

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Wearing short skirts, low cut tops, high-heeled shoes, and, god-for-bid, a combination of all three is not the most tactful way to go about getting attention. ... Sadly, when a woman wants to dress sexy and obviously takes it to far she is no longer noticed for her facial features, intelligence, and personality, but for her breast size, leg shape, and hourglass figure. ... Regardless of whether this woman is a decent human being with morals and a conscience, men feel they are permitted to gawk, touch, or blatantly go for the sexual assault. ... It is all because of stereotypes that society has...

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The 169 cm woman in Rome seems to be in pretty good condition, yet she is missing the bottom portion of her left leg and from images, she doesn't appear to have been restored in any way. ... The back of the piece shows womanly legs and torso topped with the apparent head and hair of a woman, even a breast, yet surprisingly enough the figure has the sexual organ of a male! ... The artist has done a lovely job at carving the forms features so that when the sculpture in lit, it's face and legs are dramatically lit or shaded. ... The model goes from being a perfectly lovely and normal...

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The protagonist of the play (The African American woman), goes on to say, "My lover told me: Shush, we have too many stories to carry on our backs like houses, we have struggled too long to let the monsters steal our sleep, sleep, go to sleep". ... I have not been with anyone else's husband...I want to squeeze my baby's legs, see her turn into a woman like me" This woman just wants to live her life just like anyone else she dreams of watching her child grow and live carefree, but that never happens. ... Go away, hooded ghosts from hell on earth..." The protagonist...

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The lottery enforces an unfair distinction in class status between men and women. Women are subordinate in the social power structure of the village, as shown when Mrs. Hutchinson's family is chosen in the first round. Objecting that her daughter and son-in-law "didn't take their chance," (562) Mr. ...

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While it was considered totally safe and normal for men to go out alone at night, women only belonged in the day, and with darkness were expected to lock themselves away from awaiting threats. ... Though Lavinia tries as hard as she can to conceal her inferiority, she is still very much a woman, and is thereby vulnerable ("The heat pulsed under your dress and along your legs with a stealthy sense of invasion."). ... Lavinia, despite her strong appearance, gets frightened (Lavonia felt her heart going loudly within her and she was cold too) when she sees the dead body, and can only try to forge...

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The ideal woman's figure emphasized busts, legs, and the full curvaceous form typical of Marilyn Monroe. ... The famous Barbie doll was introduces in 1959 with her long legs, big breasts, no hips and tiny waist. ... (Wolf) The public knows that body types go in and out of fashion. ...

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Also, she almost touches his legs in the greasy black trousers, but she hesitates. ... She hurries to the house so she can go get ready for dinner with her husband, Henry. ... While on their way to dinner, she asks if they could have wine tonight and if women ever go to watch fights. ... She doesn't cry because they aren't going to the fight, but how it is doubtful that she'll ever find fulfillment. ...

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She shows her attentiveness to her husband by suggesting they go to the museum, something Michael mentioned earlier in the week. ... We don't often like to think of a fourteen year old being satisfied to spread her legs for any boy who approaches her in the right way. ... She says that you can open your legs but can't, or don't dare anymore, to open your heart. ...

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She is quite conservative with her upper-body very well concealed ; yet, she also wears a skirt baring her legs indicating she is confident. ... This ad is targeted for women in their mid-twenties to thirties and they are probably going to be single given the fact that they want to stand out and therefore attract someone. ...

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I did not even mention the position she was in standing with her legs spread and slightly bent while leaning over and showing some cleavage. ... It is with this observation that I realize these magazines are not going anywhere unless there are people buying them and the products the ads represent. ...

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She is free to go about as she pleases, and is not ashamed to engage in "Men's work", the plowing of fields and other hard labor. ... Although Antonia is described as a beauty, she is an unconventional one, "She has such fine brown legs and arms, and splendid colour in her cheeks - like those big dark red plums," described Francis, upon first seeing Antonia. ...

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She does this because he might be in a bad mood, or maybe his day didn't go right and he isn't as "happy go lucky" as usual. ... Women are not going to get anything accomplished in this world by pissing and moaning about how things in this world aren't fair to them. ... Would you be fair to yourself if the point you were trying to make was how women should be able to go topless on beaches because men can? ... However, these Neo-feminists just have to go. These bra-burning, man hating, no leg shaving women, just can't be here. ...

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They are the shoppers of the household, only in pairs, they go out of the property, but they never leave the careful watching eye. ... They go about their day and fill it with little activities they enjoy such as gardening and knitting and try to make their lives have some meaning. ... The commanders go about their lives, attending formal events and fulfilling their duties. ... To symbolize that the wives are a part of this and that they will be the mothers the handmaids lay between the wives legs as they have sex. ...

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She was clearly exhausted from the arduous walk, her legs shaking like the ones of a newborn trying to stand. ... Instead, I saw a deep sadness that went beyond her amber eyes, going into a place never before known of. ... " "How is the treatment going?... To look her straight into her beautiful amber eyes, and tell her everything was going to be okay. ...

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Going with the flow is a big part of life. ... Though she attempts to defy these expectations by cutting off her "great big nose" and "fat legs," in her death, the woman is displayed in her casket with cosmetics painted on and a beautiful turned-up putty nose. ... When the time came for the baby to be born, did the villagers go after the real criminal; the man who raped Kingston's aunt? ...

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He injured his leg in a high-way accident and he will probably not be able to drive again. ... On the contrary, there are cases in which, as the times goes by, one of them may feel that there is nothing else to say. ...

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No matter what was going on, she could get me to smile. ... Sarah had the longest legs I had ever seen; there was not one blemish on them, it was as if fate had not wanted to harm such wonderful elegance. ...

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I had very limited access to education as women were regarded as inferior human beings, a famous saying goes ˜a girl is virtuous if She has no talent'. ... I remember my legs were broken which was quite painful for keeping myself in the name of beauty in men's eyes. ... No member of the family can dare go against the will of the ancestors due to the long time tradition of respecting the elder and the fear of the unpleasant consequences. ... The large number of children in my family is also a barrier for me to staying domestically instead of going outside. A lot of time is requ...

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Then it hit me, like a kicked ball directed towards my balls, I should go to the source, the statistics department. ... I knew right from the beginning that it was going to be an outrageous experience. ... She told me to go down to the registers office, which was completely on the other side of campus, and they should help me out with my problem. ... Sweat, not only ran down my face, but my back and legs too. ... On my way there, I was practicing what I was going to say. ...

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Browsing through the advertisements published in the magazine, one is immediately aware that almost every single ad features an attractive looking woman with generously endowed breasts, a slim waistline, a healthy tan, long flowing hair, luscious lips, pearly white teeth and gorgeous smooth legs. ... It also neglects to take into account any dressing that may go into the salad containing almonds. ...

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And if they fail to attain such an expectation, they are taught to feel ashamed and guilt-ridden until they go out to the store and purchase the necessary products capable of altering their misguided self-image. ... " The ad also goes a long way towards perpetuating the "superwoman myth" seen across so many of today's advertisements. ... This ad asks all women to go out and purchase this company's product so they will come to appear as beautiful and desirable as the woman pictured in this ad, and in turn become as noticeable to men as they've always wanted. ... ...

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The day the narrator's father is going to shoot Mack, who is the horse to be used as feed for the foxes; she wants to see how it happens. ... Once the execution of Mack happens the narrator says her legs were shaky then immediately wants to look for new born kittens in the barn, as if to cleanse her visual palate of what she had just watched. ... Henry and the father get into the truck to chase Flora down, on the way out of the gate Laird, once again, is yelling excitedly "let me go too, let me go too!...

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