Readers view texts in perspective, to enable them to understand the books they are reading. ... Characters are also helpful in developing the themes of the text. ... The text focuses on many dark themes and symbols, such as; trees and blood are manipulated to understand these themes. ... Discriminating lenses are helpful to view texts in different viewpoints. ... Imagery is displayed in the text the first time the protagonist gets in school suspension. ...

• Word Count: 1774
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This severe family disharmony is something that is implicitly challenged within the text by Aboriginal values. ... Contrast the way the novelist presents men and women in the text. Link this to a feminist reading of the text." ... She seems to be the most "feminen" woman in the text. ... Oriel has had many experiences by the river.The women in the text face a number of problems. ...

• Word Count: 948
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• Grade Level: High School

From this primary text, written by the speechwriter Lysias (c.440-380B.C.E.), one can reach a decent understanding of the gender roles within the Athenian society and the aspects of domestic life and public justice in ancient Athens. ... A valuable aspect of the text is found in how it presents women in Athenian society. ...

• Word Count: 599
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• Grade Level: High School

How can we understand the actual lives of men and women from Hammurabi's code and Ben Zhao's text? ... We can understand about the actual lives of men and women from Hammurabi's code and Ben Zhao's text by imagine each rules and commentary from each reading. ...

• Word Count: 822
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By carefully going through the text of As You Like It (Greenblatt, ed., PP1591-1657) one can try to "dig in" to the characters portrayed and discover any challenge to our views of gender identity. During this essay I will point out some of the texts and criticisms that I would suggest lead to the Shakespearean gender identity and this will show how it has altered over time. ...

• Word Count: 1317
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• Grade Level: High School

The play Twelfth Night was nothing like the last play that we had to attend for this class. While You Can't Take it with You was action packed, easy to understand, and very funny, this play didn't come close to entertaining me as much. Most of that is do to the fact I hate Shakespearian plays. Th...

• Word Count: 525
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

This also reflects upon the male dominance in dramatic texts such as, A Doll House, in the way that Torvald Helmer treats Nora as another of his possessions which not only gives him power but it also diminishes her rights to an almost indefinite level. ...

• Word Count: 627
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• Grade Level: High School

It is important to recognize that passages in 1 Timothy 2 and all the other passages of the Scripture are not isolated texts that fit poorly with the rest of NT. ... God does not hide the meaning of His word, and it's a dangerous step not to take it at face value but rather to impose theories on the text that the author never intended. ...

• Word Count: 2488
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The role of women in Afghanistan in A Thousand Splendid Suns: Khaled Hosseini Women throughout the years have been dominated by men and struggled to make an impact in their very own lives. In fact only during the women's suffrage were women only acknowledged their rights as people. However even to...

• Word Count: 1256
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The North American writer Susan Glaspell, in her short story "A Jury of Her Peers", tells about the female characters' situation involved in the resolution of John Wright's death, John is the husband of one of the female characters in the story. Even though the female characters are able to solve th...

• Word Count: 1016
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Every culture, race, and society has traits specific to itself and to the people who embody it. The Latino American culture portrayed by this book is no different having prominent themes and traits seen in the characters and repeated throughout the novel. Much underlying plot can be taken and inte...

• Word Count: 1127
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• Grade Level: High School

There are a lot of things we miss even when we close read, but by applying a theoretical lens like feminism, we can have a deeper understanding of the text and sometimes even see things that he average reader would gloss over as unnecessary....

• Word Count: 954
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Gender and the Media In this essay I will discuss the types of images presented by the mass media of men and women. I will use examples and insights from the text, video clips and lecture, and my own media experience to support my observations. Mass media presents something called gender ima...

• Word Count: 1358
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Munro uses oxymorons like "hopes of disaster" (Munro 353) and "bright and cold" (353) showing the text's subversive disposition which, the river invading the town, also threatens to overflow the boundaries of its authority. ...

• Word Count: 1050
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• Grade Level: High School

It is true that feminism has brought a positive change in the world. Women now, at least in westernized countries enjoy equal political opportunity, increased economic independence and lesser social stigma from promiscuity. The resounding motto of today is "what men can do, women can do better" or s...

• Word Count: 953
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• Grade Level: High School

"Egyptian Literary Feminism" What is Literary feminism? What is feminism? By general a definition, feminism is a philosophy in which women and their contributions are valued. It is based on social, political and economic equality for women. Feminism can also be described as a movement, a revoluti...

• Word Count: 1095
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The critique hopes to be faithful to the principle of Feminist Literary Criticism in that it will be "an academic approach to the study of literature which applies feminist thought to the analysis of literary texts and the contexts of their production and reception" (Goodman xi). ... Sylvia Estrada-Claudio, M.D., PhD of the Department of Women and Development Studies of the University of the Philippines College of Social Work and Community Development, and author of the book Love, Rape, and Sexuality: The Construction of Woman in Discourse, in her feminist study of fictional love...

• Word Count: 2791
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Yet in Erika Feucht's chapter on Egyptian women in the 2003 Ancient Civilisations Handbook, she states that Egyptian wisdom texts urge the husband to treat his wife well and avoid fighting with her. ...

• Word Count: 1560
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

When most people think of performing, they think of an artistic show like a ballet or a concert. In reality, however, performance exceeds the "mainstream" definition that is that it is an act of staging or presenting a concert, play, etc. I agree with many philosophers who claim that performance ...

• Word Count: 1456
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A Heroine in Hiding Historically, throughout literature, there has been a genre in the way that authors portray the roles of women, a genre that has almost no association with women playing the role of the hero. Through further analysis of some stereotypical female roles from Wayson Choy's T...

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• Grade Level: High School

With the advent of the feminist movement, the role of women in all parts of society has come under increasing scrutiny. One area of recent controversy is the role of women in the Christian Church. Some churches whose traditions and practices are less rigidly tied to Biblical doctrines have ...

• Word Count: 1918
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School