I noticed that in regards to Father Benito he would not like to hear Huitzitzilin mention her fornications and sexual encounters and when he would, he would seem to condemn her only for the sin and make no regards to the men in the act. ... When Huitzitzilin experienced the loss of her son and thanks to the disease that the white man brought, I felt the pain of a mother. The first son Huitzitzilin had was from Zintle her only true love this indeed made it harder to bare with, the fact that you lost someone who connected you with the love of your life and the loss of someone who came out of y...

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Many poorer Asian families think that having a son is more helpful than a daughter. Not only will their sons preserve the family name, but also the poor often say that men are more intelligent than women. Even many of the educated classes put higher expectations on their sons than on their daughters. ... The mother comforts children when they are hurt, gives a birthday party for the father, or does the Christmas shopping. ... The father provides income for the family, deals with financial matters, and makes the major household decisions. ...

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She was a part of a prestigious, "major family network of Boston's South Shore"(Akers 3) and her father was a Congregational minister in a society that held its clergy in highest regard. ... Critics also accused her of unpatriotic lavishness in her entertaining while after her son Willie's death in 1862, they criticized her of avoidance of her social duties. ... Her father preached a more softened form of Puritanism that reflected the growth of more diverse religious practices of the Great Awakening period of early 1740s. ... (Baker 114) And while Abigail Adams concerned herself ab...

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This is spoken to quite clearly when Jeremy Goldberg stated that marriages "would be a business transaction in which the girl was merely chattel transferred from the patriarchal authority of her father to her husband " (Goldberg 26). ... However, her sons " another example of how low even the writers of the time thought of women " saves her candidacy by bringing aboard the ark. ... As a youthful, incredibly beautiful girl working for her father, Griselda lives a life of service. She is arranged to marry the lord of the region she lives in by her father and the lord himself, Walter....

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Growing up Wollstonecraft was forced to watch her father, the prominent male figure in her life, exude violence and injustice towards women. Wollstonecraft often had to protect her mother from the drunken frenzy of her father, the son of a master weaver from London who tried unsuccessfully to set himself up as a gentleman farmer1. ...

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In the mid-Victorian period women have been represented in many different ways, using various forms of literature, for example through poetry, novels, and newspaper articles and also in visual form through paintings and etchings, they show how women were represented, how fathers, husbands and society treated them in general. ... In paragraph 13 Ruskin then goes on to represent the woman as a "Queen" in her household, to rule in her own home and to care for, "feed and clothe" and to morally guide, "direct and teach" her husband and sons. ... Ruskin's tone of voice changes from didactic to...

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Women were assumed to have the same interest and opinions as the men who represented them, and they were repeatedly assured that their husbands, sons, and fathers would always have their best interest at heart. ...

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In reply to Claudio's question Leonato says "As freely, son, as God did give her me ". ... Leonato telling Hero to die and saying that he will "strike at thy life " is perhaps the best example of the importance of virginity in Elizabethan society as it is where we see a father defy all paternal instincts and order his daughter to die. ...

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First, modern family has decreased in the areas of family size; the family usually has two generations consisting of father and mother and their children. ... The only responsibility to women is produced more and more sons. ...

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