Like many other heroines trapped in a limiting social context, Maggie finds a way to escape. She forgets her reality by escaping into her imagination, which is stimulated by literature, and into a daydream state that is induced by the sound of the mill, the river and music. Maggie also considers the conventional escape from mundane and limited home life for women through marriage to Philip or Stephen. However George Eliot will not permit this escape for her heroine and we realise that it would be a mistake for her to marry either, as both are not fully compatible to Maggie. Eventually, this ...

• Word Count: 1369
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Like many other heroines trapped in a limiting social context, Maggie finds a way to escape. She forgets her reality by escaping into her imagination, which is stimulated by literature, and into a daydream state that is induced by the sound of the mill, the river and music. Maggie also considers the conventional escape from mundane and limited home life for women through marriage to Philip or Stephen. However George Eliot will not permit this escape for her heroine and we realise that it would be a mistake for her to marry either, as both are not fully compatible to Maggie. Eventually, this ...

• Word Count: 1370
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Her business provided the Pham family with enough stability and money to move to America thus making it a solution to escape their political and monetary oppression. ... Tuon Bunkong, who wrote an essay concerning guilt and the effects of war, writes that Andrew is guilt ridden due to the fact that, "because his parents had money, his family was able to escape the kind of poverty that seems to permeate Viet Nam," (220). ... While his mother operated a business that treats female bodies as a commodity, Andrew is able to praise her strength and courage to escape Vietnam. ... His uncert...

• Word Count: 2179
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

" However, the narrator eventually secretly disobeys John by writing a journal, which awakens her realization that she desires escape from her husband and the room. The narrator seeks out escape through the yellow wallpaper on the walls of the room. ... By the end of the story, the narrator finds escape when she becomes the wallpaper woman as she creeps along the floor the narrator states "I've got out at last...and I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back" (Gilman p387)! ...

• Word Count: 1068
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• Has Bibliography
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"The Monk" is a horror-gothic novel written in 1796 by Matthew Gregory Lewis, a man who came from a somewhat scandalous background which influenced his work as an author later in life. Lewis's mother, Frances, left his father for a lover and Frances had to leave her children as a consequence of the ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The reader is left to interpret Edna's departure after Madame Lebrun's continued invitations to stay as a necessary escape from being dragged back into the patriarchal shadow of society. ... Edna sees this act as her only means to escape the obligations of a patriarchal society. ...

• Word Count: 1499
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Cinderella is able to escape the horrible life that she lives under the roof of her stepmother, but it is only because of help from the fairy godmother and because the prince chooses her as his wife because of her beauty. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Lesbian woman may think that she is free since she escapes the personal oppression of the individual and they male/female relationships, but unfortunately to society she is still a woman of a visible lesbian. ...

• Word Count: 962
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many immigrants come to the United States dreaming of finding opportunities, and living a successful life. In general, many who arrive here realize that these dreams will be very hard to wake up from. The reality is that life in the United States for immigrants is very, very tough. Many come educ...

• Word Count: 1065
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India's nation-state is widely inhomogeneous throughout history between both male and female social status in society. In order to fathom the extent of gender inequalities, a chronological view over three distinct phases ensues. The Women's Movements; Nineteenth Century Social Reform Movement, Twen...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Mass media is a form of communication that addresses large and diverse audiences that are physically separated from one and another. The media itself is a powerful and pervasive mode of communication and in today's society it not only shapes people's perception of gender but also reinforces the gend...

• Word Count: 1911
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, many old provisions of the Iraqi Penal Code still remain: men can still escape punishment for abduction and rape by marrying the victim; honor killings meet with significantly reduced sentences compared with other forms of murder. ...

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Advertisers bombard their viewers with countless advertisements throughout their lives. An advertisement is a notice or announcement in a public medium promoting a product, service, or event or a possible job opening. One of the largest mediums of oppression to the genders is advertisement. Those ef...

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Abstract Leadership is erroneously seen as possessing the authority and social charm needed to influence others to reinforce and support the completion of tasks. However, leadership isn't solely a matter of authority or talent, but a requirement to invest and inspire people. A leader's calling inclu...

• Word Count: 1954
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Also, immigrant women who suffer from abuse may find it more difficult to access supports and ultimately escape the abuse if they are financially dependent on their male partner who may or may not have sponsored them to be in Canada. ...

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Theorist William Rathbone Greg best summaries the feelings of the Victorian age towards fallen women: "If the passions of woman were ready, strong, and spontaneous, in a degree even remotely approaching the form they assume in the coarser sex, there can belittle doubt that sexual irregularities woul...

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Shelley was born in London in 1797, daughter of famous radical writers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin; both of whom exemplified the ideologies of the French revolution. Shelley's mother was a pioneer feminist writer who had made her name with her revolutionary ideas opposing the patriarchal oppression of the female gender. Her father was made famous by his radical ideologies of political and philosophical anarchism. Thus it is not unusual that, as the product of such revolutionary parents, Mary Shelley would harbour the same feminist and Romantic ideologies and subsequently challe...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate