Women are complaisant on how they are treated in society. ... Desdemona's tolerance is further shown when she says "Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend" (IV.iii.108). ... Desdemona never stood up for herself; allows everything to happen to her without an insinuation of struggle, including her own death. ... No matter how hard she tries, Othello still smothers Desdemona. ... Unfortunately, Emilia is not able to stop her husband's wickedness and she ends up getting killed by Iago. ...

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We took the tour with the guide, I went up into the building, which is perfectly preserved and paints a very accurate and visceral picture of life in a tenement. ... They set up shop in their home like many other immigrants. ... I picked the iron up to see how heavy it was. I can imagine how hard Sara's work was in the novel "Bread Givers"". ... The windowless kitchen, five people sleeping in one bedroom, and picking up the heavy water bucket, it is hard to imagine how these poor immigrant women carried these up multiple flights daily. ...

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Advertising is how companies introduce their products to the general public. ... Advertisements use family values such as picking a house to raise offspring and women's desires to look young and beautiful and exploits these beliefs to get consumers to buy the companies' products. ... All parents want their children to grow up in a safe and stable environment. ... How is RevitaLift new? ... However, this slight detail is often overlooked as most middle aged women do not look or have skin like the model; so when women look at this advertisement, all they see if how young the model lo...

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With Will Marcus in my opinion looked up to Will in a father figure manner. ... When they began to get to know each other she stuck up for him and he began to fall in love with her. ... Will had never liked children but used them as a way to pick up women that was until Marcus found out he didn't have a child and had been lying. ... Will then went through a stage where he didn't want to see Marcus any more and after time alone he realized how much more fun it was when he was around. ... Marcus was singing killing me softly and it wasn't sounding to good but he did it to ch...

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It is a combination of these hidden messages and the information Esperanza states directly that give the true account of how lower class Latino American families live. ... Esperanza continues to explain how her grandmother entered into marriage because her grandfather forced her to and the rest of her life she lived unhappily. ... This is often how it is in their native culture as well. ... These stories shed light on how living, as a Latino in a Latino American society would be daily. ... The most outstanding ethnic pattern to pick up is that of aggression and power. ...

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The Sterns, Mar-Beth Whitehead, and her husband, Richard Whitehead, met for lunch and a contract was drawn up. ... Whitehead told the Sterns they did not want to give up the baby and they were going to keep her. ... Couples also have the lawyer draw up a contract that helps protect them (Landau 29). ... Lastly the final step before conceiving and giving birth to the baby is picking a couple to help. This is done b looking at profiles f couples that tell their stories and why they need a surrogate mother (How do I begin). ...

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Still, it is mostly women who makes more than the necessary changes when they have children, most man make none, leaving women to do it all and the man to pick and choose. The best solution for mothers that allows them to avoid giving up the job they love or giving up time with your family is by working a part-time. ... "Women put themselves at risk when they trade in a work identity for motherhood. ... A traditional women interviewed said, "not a day does by, when I don't think about what I might have achieved and how that would have felt. ... Recently, Working Mothers Magazine surve...

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The alrena who was paid by the Yoruba man, related messages between the man and women. ... The women usually takes interest in the man the more often he vouches his love for her. ... If his family can agree with him, they then will make an effort to meet up with the woman's family and start a formal gathering. ... The groom's family also picks a spokesperson called Olopa Iduro which starts a lot of the presentations that go on in the household. ... The Olopa Iduro which is one of the speakers, begins to tell the crowd about how the couple met and the story of their courtship. ...

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Kids are brought up with a great sense of family and are shown how to have fun with their family. ... Men and women are looked at differently. ... That is not to say that the women can not go out and get a job, but the majority of the women stay at home and raise the children. ... Men respect women more in Mexico than they do here in the states, and by that I am referring mostly to how guys my age treat girls my age. ... After one gets to know me they are able to pick up on my Spanish comments under my breath and through talking to me one realizes my different mind set. ...

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She successfully becomes a superintendent of a Lewis and Clarke school District, and becomes one of the first women to achieve an elected position (Greybill 164). ... It opened up reader's minds on exactly how people of mixed families were looked upon and mistreated. ... Unlike some historical novels, Greybill has great flow between the Clarkes and show the parallels quite easy for the reader to pick up on. For example, around the time of Malcolm's death the story picks up from his son, Horace Clarke's life (Greybill 104, 105) and he continues to write the life of Horace and in...

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Now, Gwen will put in eight and a half--sometimes nine hours a day before racing back to Spotted Dear Child-Care Center to pick up Cassie. ... In fact, according to Arlie Russell Hochschild's article "There's No Place Like Work," a 1993 study concluded that 56 percent of women with children ages six to seventeen and 43 percent of women with children younger than five work full-time. ... Women work 41.7 hours per week. ... The baby is still up. ... My daughter comes right up to the door to complain about anything her step-father said or did, and she wants to talk about her job. ...

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In the movie, four mothers: Suyuan, An-mei, Lindo, and Ying-ying all grew up in the era of sexism, where women were oppressed in multiple ways from the society and from their loved ones. ... However, in this essay I will have decided to pick four characters to talk about: An-Mei and An-Mei;s mother, Ying-Ying and her daughter Lena. ... The attitudes towards women are discredited, dishonored, women's values are only shined when she gives birth to a son and when she satisfies her husband. ... Growing up An-Mei witness how her mother was being treated by her maternal grandmother and aunts, ...

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The story of the Sarakatsan's family as well as my own personal experiences growing up in a traditional East Indian family illustrate the impact and enormous benefits that social improvements have had on our society, and countries in southeast Asia such as India. ... This form of "us" versus them" approach affected everything from the role of men versus women, to how much individual freedom one had as well as the differences between acceptable and unacceptable social values, and the consequences of breaking taboos. ... It was also socially acceptable for married men to engage in infide...

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So I just gave her another belt in the nose and a couple of turns of the boot and sort of left it at that Ruth: How did you know she was diseased? ... Lenny: (looking up, quietly) why don't you shut up, you daft prat? ... Lenny: (looking up, quietly) why don't you shut up, you daft prat? ... Donny picks up the limp dead cat. ... Moving up the triangle to safety which is prevalent since the characters are the danger, this leads to the middle, the love/belonging aspect, which is clearly absent with the lack of women seen. ...

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She is a sort of recluse from the other mothers and women on the island. ... Robert is a native to the island and he usually picks one woman each summer to hang around with. ... He just expects her to jump up and yield to his every demand, because he thinks she belongs to him. ... Also Mademoiselle Reiz receives letters from Robert about Edna and this makes Edna realize just how much she loves Robert. ... Adele just could not understand, because she was meant to be mother and wife; despite how her husband treated her. ...

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He was brought up Primitive Baptist with an itinerant preacher. ... There were 20 or so people in the choir who sat in more pews up behind and to one side of the pulpit. ... Uncle Ernest told us how the August Meeting was special because it was like a family reunion with dinner on the grounds. ... What struck me the oddest was how they would be almost screaming, shaking their fists and stomping and then all of a sudden say something in a very calm, quiet voice. ... At least three different women prepared a plate for Uncle Ernest. ...

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They have to prove they can not be stood up to. ... By talking it out, you can hear both sides of the story and come up with a compromise. ... After a hard day at work they come home and half to start all over by picking the kid up if required, getting supper ready, cleaning up the mess that was left in the morning and on and on. ... You have to learn how to solve problems and get over them with out ruining your marriage. ... Women tend to stay home more during the week, tending to the children and the cleaning. ...

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They have to prove they can not be stood up to. ... By talking it out, you can hear both sides of the story and come up with a compromise. ... After a hard day at work they come home and half to start all over by picking the kid up if required, getting supper ready, cleaning up the mess that was left in the morning and on and on. ... You have to learn how to solve problems and get over them with out ruining your marriage. ... Women tend to stay home more during the week, tending to the children and the cleaning. ...

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Granpa also states, "Just let me get out to California where I can pick me an orange when I want it. ... When their car breaks down and Tom suggests splitting up temporarily to get things fixed, Ma becomes irrational, afraid that her greatest fear is coming true. ... This shows how Ma is becoming the reckoning force of the group, while the men simply obey. ... As Ma grows stronger, her family continues to fall apart more and more, which makes Casy respond to her as "a women so great with love, she scares me (253)." ... When the family sees a sign that says, "Cotton Pickers Needed," they de...

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Her life, as with the folded towel, is much larger than it is initially perceived to be and Gwen is emphasising how little she knows about her mother but yet how clearly she understands the overall picture. The image of her fabric of marvels' is one not unlike a quilt where each marvel joins to another to make up the whole. ... The line wild young daughters becoming women' implies the how people change when they bear the responsibilities of motherhood. ... A child once quick to mischief' has grown into a contemplative adult who has a greater understanding of life picking the...

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How could a singl! ... How is that possible to do both at the same time? ... I can just get a mental picture of how beautiful these babies looked. ... They literally lit up the village with these bright colors. ... The women are not allowed to pick her own partner. ...

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It has no matter if he was a soldier by choice, or a soldier by pick of the draft. ... Every year thousands of young men and women voluntarily sign up for the army, marines, or air force. ... They are the examples of how we should be. ... This is how they make our country a better place to live. ... The sheer number of casualties from that war show us how many people were affected by this war. ...

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This set the stage for how she felt about children. ... Why would a mother pick a favorite and let it be known who her favorite was? ... Addie repeatedly explains how children violated her quiet time. ... Most women the marriage is very special to them and they would go into great detail about the wedding day. ... This is how this woman can be related to Kurtz from Heart of Darkness. ...

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The feeling of being burdened and the annoyance that comes with it is brought up in other parts of the poem, in lines such as, "and I was embarrassed/by old men standing up to shake my hand/and tell me they were "sorry for my trouble."" ... The father seems to intend to open his son up to a new horizon and the possibility of other occupations. ... Then, just as gently as the father scoops up "new life" for his son, he places it in a safe spot for his son to choose in his own time. ... Yet again, the notion that society's expectations create hurdles to self-identity and personhood comes up...

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When Arnold Friend arrives, she hurries to see how she looks and wonders how bad she looks (696). ... Connie's mother at one time in her life was pretty like Connie, but she grows up and realizes there is more to life than one's looks (693). ... -(693) Connie's mother picks at Connie until she wishes her mother dead (694). ... They are confident, defiant, candid, and poised young women. ...

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