When examine other female characters, such as Fantine and Eponine one can see how Hugo actually portrays women as proactive characters who fall throughout the spectrum of femininity and break out of the typical one dimension shell. ... When Valjean pickes up Cossette from the Thenardiers and is forced into running from Javert, Hugo depicts Cossette as a strong little girl. ... Hugo goes into great detail about how "slavery still exists, but now applies only to women's and its name is prostitution" (180). ... After her dismissal Fantine does not give up. ... Hugo portrays how hor...

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Men, on the other hand, might play a pick up game of basketball or baseball. ... Women worry that they are not going to impress their date. ... Many women dream of a man picking her up in a convertible, having a candlelit dinner, and watching the sunset on a beach. ... Men are not as interested in talking about their dates or in hearing how their friends did on the date. ... When it comes to the perfect date, men and women's thoughts differ dramatically. ...

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The ad has a headline saying "Picks up five more women than a Lamborghini. ... The ad as illustrated in figure 1 suggests that having the Hijet MPV, a man can be able to pick more women than another man who has a Lamborghini which is known to accommodate a one passenger seat which is not friendlier to a group of women. ... With the Hijet MPV van, a man will be able to drive around picking more women as one wishes like a magnet. ... It also says that the Hijet MPV "Picks up five times more women than a Lamborghini" which is made in Italy. ... It is humorous how the ladies in th...

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He wanted to know how to be a ladies man and I told him how. ... Instead of having to listen to hundreds upon hundreds of corny pick-up lines used by males, they would prefer to be asked out properly. The women want the males to walk up to them and introduce himself. Saying stupid pick-up lines such as, "Congratulations! ... A real ladies man doesn't have to use pick-up lines because he is confident. ...

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Men can learn how to act more properly during conversations like women. ... She specifies how she behaved during an interaction with her professor. ... Men can learn from women how to be clean and tidy. ... The one who will end up picking up after the man is a woman. ... Ehrenreich states that "women could learn how to get tough" (253). ...

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Though the mainstream press has been quick to distill this debate into statements such as "females... seem to think that machines were meant to be used, like the microwave oven or the dishwasher," (Kantrowitz 50) this debate opens much more complex issues as how available computers are to girls and how are they encouraged to use them. ... Stories of continual pick up-lines, put-downs, and sexual threats are common and have gained the attention of much of the mainstream press. ... They will never have to look the person they insult or threaten in the face, their family and co-workers will nev...

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It showed several aspects of what men and women find attractive. In general, women are sought out to have slender waists, perky breasts, and a youthful glow. ... Physical appearance was at the top of the list, but also mentioned were things like how a person carried themselves, how they spoke, body language and so on. ... I think it was in Italy where it was pretty normal and accepted for young males to ride around females on their bikes and pick them up. ... It also stirred up questions about if opposites or likes attract. ...

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Today, women make up 57% of all college students and more women than men receive their master's degrees. ... Mann is also the author of the article "How We Raise Boys and Girls Differently "And Why It's Wrong-. The article gives the reader pointers on how girls should be treated. ... When asked for other reasons why women do not progress as fast as men, one was given that women do not pick jobs that have room for promotions such as secretaries, waitresses and teachers. ... But still women are underrepresented in politics: in 1998, 12% of the House seats and 9% of Senate wer...

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Violence against women is clearly a problem and the public should be made aware of it, but has anyone ever asked how often men are abused by women? ... This is a reason I believe men are afraid to pick up the phone and call the police. ... Men have always been taught not to hit a woman, but on the other hand women have always been taught, "If he acts up, let him have it." ... He would end up telling himself, "How could a big, strong man like me, be getting abused." ... Look how they have all of these shelter homes for women. ...

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Some disagreements include; different definitions of the interrelationship of man and woman, views of how nature has envisioned that relationship, and views on how the relationship should work. ... How can Rousseau propose that it is natural for women to educate children about virtue and life, if they themselves have not been taught why it is necessary to be virtuous? If women are taught to inspire love and lust through coquettish means, how are they to teach the virtues of respect, reason, and knowledge? ... There is however, a double standard that Rousseau is setting up; men must be inde...

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Again the women are often crossing their arms and legs as if to say stay away from me. ... Bruce is showing his audience how gender roles of the 1960"3 were changing, becoming freer and demonstrating an equal relationship between man and woman. ... When the other guys pick her up then put her down Bruce shows how they just use her and the other girls block her out by always being in a circle with their backs facing her. When the guy picks her up and takes her off- finally she is accepted by at least him. ... When the four males enter they pick her up and carry her a lot. ...

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Back when I was growing up I have lived in a mixed neighborhood. ... I liked the statement "just prepare yourself, for someday the doors of opportunity will open up. ... If a person is qualified no matter how they look they should get the position. ... I am not judging all women but most of them are. ... I would pick a male boss over a female. ...

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This leads back to my thesis that men in the 1940's felt that if they were the dominant members of any relationship they could push women into their beliefs. ... The author is allowing the reader to choose how the story will end. There are several clues and hint throughout the story, which readers may or may not pick up on that could determine her decision. ... The American says, "Just because you say I wouldn't have doesn't prove anything", I believe he is telling the women that what she thinks doesn't matter and his take is final. ... I think Hemingway made the wa...

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We have talked about how the movie denotes an anti-stereotypical angle, yet reinforces gender stereotypes as its final word. ... Overall, the status of women in the show is shown to be more powerful and dictatorial too. ... Sam-jong-jido: women mustserve three males: the father, husband and son.B .Ch'il-go-ji-ak women mustnot do the seven evils (disobedience to parents in law, infertility, adultery,jealousy, bad illness, talkativeness and stealing)C. ... Source: Chung Sei-wha;Challenges for Women Seoul: Ewha Woman's University Press Scratching beneath the superficial, Jih Yun, far...

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In his short story "A & P" John Updike utilizes a 19-year-old male to show us how a boy gets one-step closer to adulthood. ... He describes her as being " One of these cash-register-watchers, a witch of about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows, and I know it made her day to trip me up," sarcastically conveying his chauvinistic attitude toward women. ... He is a simple checker at a small town A & P, not moving up in his job or down, simply stagnant. ... The queen answers, "My mother asked me to pick up a jar of herring snacks." ... Sammy comes to this realization wit...

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This is useful as it gives a comparison between how each is affected by their social conditions. ... It is important to see how women are treated in each text and to evaluate the mistreatment of women. Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith are brought up under the same social backdrop. ... She explores how female and male differences are countered by images of androgyny. ... And she felt that she had been given a present, wrapped up, and told just to keep it, not to look at it- a diamond, something infinitely precious, wrapped up, which, as they walked (up and down, up and down), she unc...

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Dickinson illustrates the subtle femininity change of females from women to wives. ... Consequently, Dickinson calls the state of marriage as "comfort" and "That other kind-was pain"(line11&10;), in the last stanza, but end up with a flippant tone, as if violently quashing the questions and challenges from herself as well as others. ... Pick out the last word of each line, that, state; looks, eclipse; so, now; then, pain; compare, there; obviously the entire poem is in slant rhymes. ... In the first stanza, she comes up with a pro-marriage opinion, in the second one she cr...

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Everyone has a sexual nature, everyone has a need for sexuality, and everyone has a sexual personality that has been formed by home, schooling, the trial and error of life experience, and whatever they pick up along the way from the subtle and not-so-subtle influences of the society in which they live. ... Simply by looking into your own mind and noticing how much of your time it spends thinking, fantasizing, dreaming, wondering, feeling depressed about people of the opposite sex and so on. Both men and women have entire sections of their anatomy devoted to sex and reproduction. ...

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The setting inevitably contributes to how they respond to these situations and ultimately how the next generation will. ... "Instead of just standing back and watching Alma get beaten up, as [the girls] usually did when the boys were after someone, the girls rushed right in to try and help her." ... "But all their picking on and bullying did was to keep [the girls] together." ... The effects of the dilemma permanently changed how the classroom was to operate in the future. ... Today, women are allowed to work at many jobs formerly dominated my men. ...

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Women, have tried to make themselves heard and seen in society without being discriminated against. ... She raises the position of women as creatures who can stand the heat! ... Harry further says to Stanley about his wife " How do you know, perhaps she's sunning herself at this very moment?" ... In this paragraph, Tom's imagination is building up. He had imagined that he was close to her, close enough to touch her "Tom imagined himself at work on the crane, adjusting the arm to swing over and pick her up and swing her back across the sky to drop her near him". ...

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