In Kate Chopin's "The Storm," it shows her creative use of theme and symbolism throughout which is what makes it such a descriptive and detailed short story. ... This quote shows an example of sex being made enjoyable "When he touched her breasts they gave themselves up in quivering ecstasy, inviting his lips. ... Symbolism is another important element of "The Storm," because it is used many times throughout the story. ... The importance of nature symbolizing femininity throughout the story is that femininity is often seen as an analysis about nature. Here is one occurrence, of when natur...

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The story of Beecher, who believes women should stay home and take care of the household. ... (p. 314) This quote showed that Louisa Cheves McCord believes men are superior to women. This quote also points out the fact that women are treated disrespectfully by men. ... This quote explains women having no choice but to serve and be under the male's shadow. The story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who believed women, should have the right to be free from the slavery and be given the same opportunities as men are given. ...

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Her works are all fictional stories but they represent the stark realities of life. ... The female characters in her stories defy the conventional role of women in her time. ... The ironic situation Chopin uses in the story is the reaction Mrs. ... This quote captures Chopin's un conventional attitude. ... Baroda's character in the story challenge the conservative role of women in her time. ...

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There is a famous quote from the television show Friends where the character Rachel tells her partner, "No uterus, no opinion" (Kelly). ... She then gave the implication that the governor stood by these allegations with the quote, "the fact that one of the actor's defenses was that he didn't realize that this was objectionable, otherwise the governor-elect of California wouldn't be a guy who thinks it's 'playful' to grab and grope, and the voters wouldn't ratify that attitude" (Quindlen 2-3). ... The article was full of studies and quotes...

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In this short story Andy is a little girl becoming a woman. At the beginning of the story Andy is clearly a tomboy, but gradually she realizes the significance a doe has to do with her own womanhood. ... Andy is clearly a tomboy throughout the beginning of the story. ... Further in the story, Andy remembers a time on the beach when her mom's top falls off, which embarrassed Andy to great extent. ... The magnitude of this quote shows the embarrassment Andy had towards her mother being a woman. ...

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In the beginning of the story, the author continuously talks of the wallpaper as being a hideous creation. ... Obviously the main theme of this story was about equal rights between men and woman; and in the story there were some key symbols, which led you in that direction. ... This quote shows that the two patterns, men and women, move in different frequencies and they do not always connect. ... In the time that this story was written, treating women as John did would be considered reasonable, butpresent day? ... homework I found that the women in the time that this story was written were s...

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William Shakespeare - (excerpted from Hamlet, Act I, scene 2) This quote made by Stanton in 1890 shows many of the feministic beliefs held by the women of today. And the quote made by Shakespeare holds many of the same thoughts shared by men. ... The story Tales Out of Medical School, written by Adriane Fugh-Berman, which is an account about a woman that chose not to ignore the differences that faced her, shows another side to the superficial harmony. ...

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The film was more than a story, but a story that explored the ideas of the detective genre and the different characteristics of femininity and masculinity. ... Effie possessed many masculine qualities and this quote helped to reinforce the idea of it all. ... This quote described the suspicions that Effie had about Iva on the night that Miles, Iva's husband was murdered. ... The male characters took on their position as masculine characters as the feminine characters came into the story. ... Through this many things were accomplished such as portraying the genre of detectives, the ...

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Every element of this story adds up to a work designed for propaganda from an era where the call for women's rights filled the streets of America. ... Its no wonder that Cather describes the scenery so extensively, with quotes such as "The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up." ... A method Cather uses to elevate Antonia is to tell her story through the eyes of Jim Burden, a man deeply in love with her, but as a strange twist, is seen as a younger and more inferior tag along. ... Jim Burden tells the ...

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She is known for two of her most popular works The Awakening and "Story of an Hour-. ... Another one of Chopin's works is "The Story of an Hour- where Mrs. ... In this story it reveals women has no rights and has to satisfy their husband's needs. ... Mallard in the story. ... Chopin expressed what she was dealing with in "The Story of an Hour."" ...

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is Jacobs" own story of what it was like to be born and raised in slavery. ... The story is very much interwoven with the "cult of true womanhood"(where is this quoted from?). ... In Linda Brent's narrative, her two children cannot be ignored in the story of her bondage and freedom. ... Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the story of a woman who claims her own identity. ... Her story ends with freedom; not in the usual way with marriage. ...

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The testimony of Euphiletus is a significant document, depicting, life during the Greek "Classical" era. The source reveals inner workings of a Greek home as it pertains to husband and wife. From this primary text, written by the speechwriter Lysias (c.440-380B.C.E.), one can reach a decent understa...

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In both short stories Cinderella and Snowhite gender is portrayed differently. ... In the story, Cinderella is represented as a woman who moves from powerless to powerful, from sadness to fulfilment. ... As the story progresses the setting changes from confinement towards freedom. ... In the story of Snowhite, she is portrayed as being innocent, good and pure. ... Sadness and respect is also shown from the prince as the quote states " the prince knelt down beside the dwarves and the animals and bowed his head in silence". ...

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Through the progression of "No Name Woman," Kingston details a story of her aunt who commits adultery. ... After her heroic story of the great swordswoman, Fa Mu Lan, she leads into a story of her own life and an incident she had with her boss. ... By using her story telling to illustrate what she would like to do to the boss she uses her story as a way to act on the possibilities that Fa Mu Lan had, but because she is living in a male dominated world has no chance. ... In the duration of these two stories there are different aspects of the ideologies that our shown. ... Kingston writes a...

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Throughout history, there has been a class of men that truly epitomize the core of masculinity. These men are fighters, sportsmen, and hunters; Wilson is the latter. Wilson, from the story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," is the essence of masculinity that Ernest Hemingway idolized. Hemin...

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(The Rosie the Riveter Story) These women made a big impact even though they only amounted to about four percent of the skilled industrial workers during the war years. ... The story of this woman is as follows. ... (A Mouthful of Rivets pg 130) A quote from Douglass Airview at the announcement of women's entry to production jobs at Douglass Aircraft seems to sum up the spirit behind women on the home front during WWII. ...

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This quote explains that using nurture by the influence of gender roles relate to Storm being able to choose his gender. ... Dan Savage writes about a story which relates to both nurture and nature that has an impact on identity. "It Gets Better" talks about different stories about the lives of homosexual and straight men that commit suicide because of their environmental pressure of them getting bullied that caused a tragedy. ...

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For this reason, most outside experiences were learned through the eyes of a woman's mother, hence Woolf's quote "For we think back through our mothers if we are women". ... Here in the plays of William Shakespeare, poems of Edgar Allen Poe, the stories of Jonathan Swift and/or other predominantly male literary forms, that she encountered would she experience her first taste of true literary art. ...

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The following quotes describes the kind of comments Alfredo received from others, perhaps because he didn't live his life the way everyone else did. ... An example is having a woman get promoted and another one making stories about how they earned their promotion. ...

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He worked long hours in school and at his jobs to achieve his rags to riches story. ... This would have completely changed David's character throughout the story and his good natured hard working personality would have been replaced with someone who possessed upper-class manners and abilities and education and laziness. ...

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Ida Lupino's body of work explores a realistic scope of human emotion both in the lives of men and women. Her movies Hard, Fast and Beautiful and The Bigamist are no exceptions. Rather than focusing on gender issues, Lupino chooses to investigate the delicate balance that common people walk between...

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While searching the American Psychological Associations (APA) website I found a great article that showed that there are several variables of sexual orientation that affect the classroom experience and academic achievement of K-12 students. Population being studied in this case is jr' high and high school students. First students can be at a disadvantage to pre-dispossed biases by teachers. As we've learned already to this point everyone has bias and there is no way around it. If you have an accepting teacher and one that will make the situation a good thing instead of unconformable ...

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Many people in our society feel that they have become so immune to the media that they no longer realize the actual affect it has on them. Many of them see it as their only way to discovering the world. Meaning that they get to see, hear, and perhaps feel things that they would never feel, had it no...

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