Die I must" (509-512). ... She goes on to say that, "And if I am to die before my time I consider that a gain" (514-515). ... Antigone's intrepid actions affect how the play represents gender struggle and feminism. ... Here we see how strong-willed Antigone is through the relationship with her feeble sister. ... Her second insolence, after she had done it, was to exult in her deed and laugh that she had done it. (487-500) Here we see just how much Creon values his power. ...

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How many times has a Middle Eastern person been labeled as a terrorist? Or how many times has it been assumed that all Asians are good at math? ... I want to die. ... When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as a possessor of our body. Then the great question: will the man we get be bad or good? ...

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Several times throughout the movie, she describes how she loves how strong and rough a man's hand is, and how Roy's no longer feels this way. ... Many times we hear her telling her daughter to put something more feminine on. ... We first see Wayne interact with Roy during the holiday when he came home. ... Throughout Roy's life we are told that his father is very disappointed in him because he isn't masculine enough and didn't want to take over the farm when his dad died. ... Roy's mother decides it would be a good idea to hide from him the truth about Roy...

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In this essay I am attempting to out line the opinion that how hard life for women was. ... The real difference only came though when we look at the middle class, as they would probably would have worn whatever they could have got their hands on. ... Whereas if a noble women's husband died she would inherit all his money and the rich had less power over their wives because of this. ... We can see by this that the rich did lead a life of luxury, as the poor would have had to work and look after many children due to the high death rate. - Source 10. ... How Did Medieval Women Live Fo...

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In this essay I am attempting to out line the opinion that how hard life for women was. ... The real difference only came though when we look at the middle class, as they would probably would have worn whatever they could have got their hands on. ... Whereas if a noble women's husband died she would inherit all his money and the rich had less power over their wives because of this. ... We can see by this that the rich did lead a life of luxury, as the poor would have had to work and look after many children due to the high death rate. - Source 10. ... How Did Medieval Women Live Fo...

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It is something that we created yet also it creates us whether we mean to or not and it can have the power to add or detract from the person who we are trying to be. ... These different traits help mold our view of what it is to be masculine and feminine as we grow up. ... This clearly showed how Walker felt about what being a black man was about. ... She cared enough about the man and still helped him to live because she had some nurturing qualities in her that would not let her allow a man to die no matter the circumstance. ... We can assume that her message was feminine in a way beca...

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The roles of women in ancient times have changed a great deal in some aspects and remained the same in others in present day society. I the narratives read that include female characters such as Antigone, Ismene, and Sita, each portray a somewhat different reservation for women. Antigone g...

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Although Behn writes of Oroonoko's honor as unique among men, her admiration for him seems to derive directly from how closely he mirrors the prime model of a nobly descended, Christian Englander. ... Furthermore, this paper will analyze the texts of Oroonoko and Addison and Steele's The Spectator to demonstrate how certain writers of the time dealt with "the other " via subjective cultural standards. ... However, from Trefry's account we can derive that she spent the majority of her time warding off admirers (including Trefry) and retaining the purity of her body. ... He fear...

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During the pregnancy, her twin brother and mother die. ... She teaches herself how to become a chief behind his back. ... gender identities- the conceptions we have of ourselves as being male or female. Pai's gender identity had very little to do with how she felt about being chief. ... When Pai's mother dies, the grandparents take on the role of parents for Pai. ...

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Although this is how Gilgamesh looks from a first glance, he has a drawback of being a king who makes very unwise judgments towards his people by tyrannizing them. ... Unfortunately, when Enkidu dies of disease, Gilgamesh sort of picks up the female characteristic of sympathy, and mourns greatly over his death. ... As the story unfolds, Gilgamesh goes through a lot of character changes, and they show the things that he went through and how he dealt with every situation that he went through. From his position as king of the city of Uruk, to the death of his best friend Enkidu, Gilgamesh has ...

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From the day you are born to the day you die, you are socially constructed to be who you are. ... "Video games involve lots of shooting and dying. ... This commercial shows what we think beautiful hair should look like and what we think we are going to get if we use this product. ... Television ads not only construct the public as a whole, they know how to target the right audience. ... They are not looked at for who they are, but on how society perceives them. ...

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Macklemore states, "A world so hateful some would rather die than be who they are.... "Man, that's gay" gets dropped on the daily We become so numb to what we're saying" When we analyze these lyrics we can notice how we misuse this word without even realizing the meaning behind the word and how what may seem silly to us may be spiteful to others. ... So in reality we are responsible for such negativity and discrimination, yet we want to advocate for what we do ourselves. ... Macklemore is not homosexual, however he talks about how he, himself, is affected by gender roles and ...

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In the movie A League of their Own, the women on the baseball team were required to be physically attractive to be on the team, and must wear a skirt to be on the team, They were taught how to act like women, and had to be lady-like. and Women were not seen to get jobs and provide for themselves and their family. ... Men are also stereotyped as having a dying thirst for sexual attention at all times. ... This is how men have been stereotyped for years, and it probably will not subside for many more years. In conclusion, society allows our gender to define who we are, even though it is not wh...

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The Wife of Bath has married five times, all rich men, and then when her husbands died she inherited their wealth and fortune. ... This shows how badly the Wife of Bath needs to have a man and feels incomplete without one. ... And yet he was to me most brutal, too; My ribs yet feel as they were black and blue, And ever shall, until my dying day." ... Another great example of the Wife's blissful ignorance in her last marriage: "We women have, if I am not to lie, In this love matter, a quaint fantasy; Look out a thing we may not lightly have, And after that we'll cry all day and cra...

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Leelah's blog says that when she came out to her mother about how she felt about herself, her mother reacted extremely negatively and said that "God doesn't make mistakes" because she thought how Leelah saw herself was a mistake. ... She died at the scene.... Alcorn's mother responded to the criticism in an interview saying that "we loved him unconditionally. We loved him no matter what. ... One tweet with the trending tag "We are trending I'm sure Leelah would be proud right now. ...

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Women were considered inferior to men and were not allowed to have the same rights and equalities that men had, which is what we call feminism today. ... The only way a woman could own property and assets is if the husband died. Chopin experienced this in her life when her husband died in 1882. ... Gilman was married and had a daughter and after giving birth she had what we call postpartum depression. ... The woman in the paper is uncovering truths about how bad the wife's life is. ...

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On this magazine cover she is wearing a see-through, tight shirt with a head of hair that many women would die for. ... THIS is why it takes so long for my date to get ready when we go to the movies. ... Physical beauty is so ingrained in our culture, that most readers wouldn't bat an eyelash when looking at what they are about to read; taking a step back, however, it's obvious that media says, "We HAVE to be this, or we HAVE to be that". ... Hopefully we can think that they are doing it for themselves. But how did that look they are going for get engraved as something they want? ...

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This film demonstrates to the viewer how the modern men of today feel their power and purposes are fading and highlights the extreme men will go to in order for them to regain their important masculinity. ... Having been told she only has a short time to live she confesses her last wish to have sex with a man before she dies, at one of her support groups (www.garnetsigma.com/fightclub/chole.html). This can imply that without any form of masculinity one could just fade away and die. ... This was in a way inevitable for the viewers to predict as there has been a distinct pattern throughout the m...

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For example, the movie Thelma and Louise tells the story of how sexuality between male and female controls the emotional health of individuals. ... When the young lover dies, Mr. ... Humbert and Lolita demonstrates how sexuality interferes with making the right decision. ... Also, sexuality impacts relationships between family, spouse, and friends; it is an essential element to who we are. ...

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Paula represents all women, because how Anson treats her is how he feels about women in general. ... "Three days before she sailed Paula Legendre Hagerty died in childbirth. I was with him a great deal then, for we were crossing together, but for the first time in our friendship he told me not a word of how he felt, nor did I see the slightest sign of emotion."" ... (Paula dies in childbirth). ... This is how he gains the trust of women before he spoils the relationship. ...

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Then the camera glides forward and we see the crew in a sleeping state of rest. ... It is not what we are accustomed to because it is Kane who gets impregnated. ... This is showing how pregnancy can mirror parasites. Ultimately, Kane dies while giving birth. ... We see Ash with a semen like surface running down his face in this reverse shot. ...

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Mutations in higher primates that happen to be advantageous for seeing young through to independence have resulted in what we call Homo sapiens. DNA does not care if the individual lives or dies, or bears young. ... "If we define the sexualization of women as objectification per se, and thereby as degrading and disempowering, we lose touch with an image on a strong female sexuality, we forget what female sexual power looks and feels like, and we create difficulties for women about how to promote themselves as heterosexual beings (Segal 171)." ...

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What are we to make of people who consider themselves as transsexual, transgered, or not any gender at all? If we look at the media, we can usualy see transsexuals represented in only two ways: as sexual deviants on talk shows like The Jerry Springer Show, or as campy drag queens in movies such as Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. ... Before he dies, Jody asks Fergus to look after his "girl-, Dil. ... One of the first interesting questions that this movie raises is how we identify who is a man and who is a woman. ... With this movie, Neil Jordan made a big step in the direction of loosening s...

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"We ought to fly away from Earth to Heaven as quickly as we can, and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible, and to become like him is to become holy, just and wise.... There shall be the use of verses from major figures in these traditions to augment the arguments put forth and some time shall also be spent in understanding how spirituality, or the quest for release, was and continues to be different for women than for men. ... Now when we talk of spirituality in particular, there is a long path that lies between the stage of a woman's spiritual novice and th...

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As the years have gone on, we have seen many changes in the differences and roles of gender. Little have we thought of seeing cars taking a role of gender, in this case an SUV. ... "A strong animal has a big jaw, that's why we put big fenders, 'Rapaille says." ... "My theory is the reptilian always wins,' he said, 'If there's a crash, I want the other guy to die. ... Men" was very humorous yet informative unlike "Reptile Dreams" by Keith Bradsher, whereas he used a different strategy by pointing out how certain features of an SUV are linked with the characteristics of ...

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