Read an essay, analyze the ideas, and write a paper using your analysis to bring the text to a new light. ... As a critical reader, you develop appreciation for certain aspects of literature that you favor to read. ... Like a fingerprint, it's what makes them unique. ... Like Bordo, Butler also attacks the topic of the body early on in her essay. ... If you are the type of reader who can survive a page-by-page read in which you are constantly flipping back to revisit and understand what you just read, then Butler could indeed be the type of author for you. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This essay will examine some of the different kinds of linguistic sexism in the English language, some of the reasons why these forms of language are harmful and finally some ideas of how these forms of language can be changed for the better. ... Graham (1973 in Thorne, Kramarae and Henley 1983, 9-10) conducted a computer analysis of one hundred thousand words from children's schoolbooks and found that "male pronouns outnumbered female ones by almost four to one." ... In fact Wardaugh (1992) believes that the fact that terms like "widower" and "spinster" have died out while terms like ...

• Word Count: 2723
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In an age of female protagonists-like in Disney's newest animated musical feature Frozen-and even male objectification-like the trailer for the new feature Magic Mike XXL-there may be hope that contemporary narrative cinema has found a way to free itself from phallocentricism and objectification of its female characters. ... An analysis of these four contemporary Latin American films provides a way to look at the progression of the female presence in cinema. ... A woman is only appreciated for her 'to-be-looked-at-ness' for she has no importance but a sexual eroticism that dis...

• Word Count: 4301
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate