In the passage on private speaking, the wordy woman and the mute man, I was able to identify with most of the points of this passage. ... His reasoning to this was because at work he interacted with people all day long, he did not want to have a discussion with my mother first thing in the morning. ... When I ask him what he did during the day or how he is I get the same response of "nothing" or "I"m fine". ... In my personal experiences I think this passage rang most true. Anytime I have ever attended a seminar, or some type of social gathering, the men stood out more for their questions ...

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If a person wants to understand the Christian authority of a man over his wife, he must consider how Christ demonstrated his leadership as head over the Church. ... I also want women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God. ... The teaching that Paul is concerned about here is specifically the truths of the faith while the authority in question refers to women in governing or leadership positions of the church. ... Let's consi...

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One passage that particularly stood out to me was lines 200 -220 on pages 849 and 850. ... In beginning of the passage she spoke about how a person could be judged for being quiet. ... How many times has a Middle Eastern person been labeled as a terrorist? ... Then the great question: will the man we get be bad or good? ... This section also showed how women were viewed as being inferior to men and that once a woman is with her husband, she has no other choice but to stay with him no matter how good or bad he treats her. ...

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The Lady With The Dog In the beginning of the story, Chekhov begins with the simple line, "It was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front - This passage shows that the local residents of Yalta have discovered an outsider, a person they know nothing about. ... The character of the sly womanizer, Dmitri Gurov, also asks these questions. ... "When he was in the company of women he felt free, and knew what to say to them and how to behave; and he was at ease with them even when he was silent."" ... Gurov did not know how to handle long complicated relationships that took work to mai...

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I will argue why, and discuss how, Little Women and Peter Pan fall into this category of educating their respective readers. ... Because Alcott is teaching her young readers what it means to grow up, she must face the question of Jo's fate in the novel: will she remain independent and romantic, or will she conform to custom and marry? Of course we know the answer to this question is the latter, but some critics are displeased with Alcott's decision. ... In this passage, it seems that Barrie is attempting to strike a bit of fear into the reader, with the sudden declaration that Nev...

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If the book was set in American culture with the narrator's view on her body and marriage, I could see how the book would be considered misogynist. ... I read this as being that she has a mutual hatred with her nature in accordance with her country's culture. ... In this passage, she is discovering herself all over again away from the time since she was going through puberty. ... I think that the author intentionally left that other woman out because it shows how few women in her position there are. ... The ending can be ambiguous to people and have them question, possibly even do...

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One significant change, that was fought for was the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ... As a woman studying business at a prestigious college, I often overlook how fortunate I am to be able to be educated and to have the opportunity to work in a corporate company. ... They compel me refer back to my analysis question, are women going backwards? After being faced with this question, I decided to look into discovering why women were so motivated and full of determination in the past. ... I can now see more clearly how our society has changed so drastically over such a short period of ti...

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Notice how Steinbeck describes how Elisa's irritated face has vanished as a result from the stranger's question, which is Elisa's interest. ... This moment in the story illustrates how her attention was diverted away from being resistant and rejecting the man to being engaged and interested because of her emotional relationship and attachment she has with her chrysanthemums. ... "I"ll put them in a flower pot, and you can take them right with you. ... From the passage above, Elisa's action shows that she is horribly hurt to see that her sprouts are lying there on the gro...

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She never questions or philosophizes like many of the male characters. ... The narrator embraces a male perspective and does not endow any of the women with any interesting or redeeming qualities. ... This perspective highlights how little power women possessed at that time. ... Paquette is the only woman who seems to view her situation with any sort of bitterness. ... Voltaire describes her as curious: she is "filled with the desire to be learned. " (5) Upon witnessing a sexual encounter between Paquette and Pangloss, she immediately seeks out Candide to replicate these "experiments. " (5) Th...

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Another annoyance was when her grandmother was telling her she girls do not slam doors, girls keep their knees together and don"t ask questions about things that are "none of girls business." ... She began to conform to society's ideas about women The author is able to depict the hardships and successes of passage into adulthood through her portrayal of a young narrator. ... This shows how the parents were more concerned with their son and that he could do no wrong. This reflects society's notion at the time, how men were always right. ... She would be the one needing to be rescu...

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The studies of past cultures is a good place to start to answer questions about societies and cultures today, and to bridge together the gap between the past and present, and maybe even predict where we are headed in the future. ... Digs have uncovered many clues about the origin of man, and how we can more accurately trace our lineage back to a common ancestor. ... It is interesting to examine how the mechanisms of evolution shape the cultures and species over the passage of time, especially natural selection and the law of competitive isolation. ... In other societies, descent determines how...

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Though conventional patriarchal beliefs seem to perpetuate the dominance of men and subordination of women, Shakespeare and Sophocles seem to question the validity of those beliefs in their plays, Macbeth and Antigone, with their radically heterodox female characters-they neither conform with the loving tenderness nor the acquiescence and tendency to submit to authority commonly associated with women. ... Stop up th' access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purposeCome to my woman's breasts And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring mi...

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The notion of femininity, along with the idea of the female gender role, has substantially changed in the last century. ... (Lady Lazarus, 61-75) In this passage, Plath explains how she is merely an object to her male oppressor; he attempts to create a spectacle of her suicide attempts to the "peanut-crunching crowd" by picking and prodding at her until there is nothing left for him to take from her, as if because of him, she is unable to obtain death and this means that he takes the one thing she longs for the most ("Lady Lazarus 26). By writing this poem, Plath points out ho...

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She also talks about how she could use her more in the house. ... " And when she asked questions the grandmother would reply "That's none of a girls business.... 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. ... During her transition into adolescence, she is trying to make her room fancy with lace curtains, concerned with how she will look when she is older and even divides the room with a barricade between her and Laird's bed. ... It was his rites of passage; he came as one of ...

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This emotional plea with herself helps the readers see her dedication and passion for her writing. ... Dickinson is creatively able to place two different meanings into one poem, depending on how the reader choices to perceive it. ... Due to this, it is interesting that she references and questions woman's roles in society in her poems because she does not need to prove herself to males, or criticize their writing. ... This passage reflects Dickinson's frustration with the role of wives. ... This type of relationship would contradict with Dickinson's freethinking beliefs, an...

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Men cannot dictate what we do with it. i.e wear tudung, cover up, etc. ... When questioned about his "missus" he replies "what about my missus" - preserving his independence was the following line. ... In the middle of the passage, we note that the men take turns to go have a peek at the woman whilst working and they report to one another of the progress that she's made. ... She was on her back, fully visible, glistening with oil". ... Harry further says to Stanley about his wife " How do you know, perhaps she's sunning herself at this very moment?" ...

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• Grade Level: High School