Female Genital Mutilation Female genital mutilation is one of the most horrific and painful things that a young girl will ever have to go through. ... Recently, due to immigration to the west, increasingly young females in the United States and Canada are being sent back to where their parents came from under the disguise of going to visit relatives, while they are there, they undergo female genital mutilation. The origin of female genital mutilation can be traced back to the ancient Egyptians; scientists have found female mummies where this procedure took place. ... One account for fema...

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As the lights go down, thousands of girls scream with anticipation as they wait for the worlds "pop princess- to take center stage and explode into dance. ... Fans know that along with the more mature clothing attire Britney's music will also mature, emphasizing subjects and experiences that can only come with age. ... Wearing just enough cloth to keep herself off HBO, Britney moves with perfectly placed unclothed male back-up dancers while removing articles of clothing during her sets. ... She falsely promotes the notion that sexiness equals independence and maturity, causing young ...

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The ad features a close-up of a beautiful brunette woman with perfect, pink lips and a revealing white tank top, staring directly back into the eyes of the viewer. ... " The ad also goes a long way towards perpetuating the "superwoman myth" seen across so many of today's advertisements. ... This ad asks all women to go out and purchase this company's product so they will come to appear as beautiful and desirable as the woman pictured in this ad, and in turn become as noticeable to men as they've always wanted. ... Without these products, they are nothing (not th...

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Women worldwide are held back from equality due to their social responsibilities, including marriage and caring for a household, the lack of appropriate funds also holds many back from education. ... She comes from a small mining town, and after her father became unable to work the rest of her family began working in order to escape poverty (Robbins 2013). ... Universally, women are subjected to extreme social practices which often lead to them not going to school. ... Matt Forney goes on to argue that women who attend college are more likely to be sexually assaulted (Forney 2013). ... Million...

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Hemingway's short story dates back to almost ninety years ago, initially appearing in a collection titled "Men Without Women" in 1927. ... The American wants Jig to have an abortion but tells her she does not have to go through with it if she doesn't want to, though believes it would be for the best. ... Initially, he entirely avoids discussion of the conflict at hand, but later goes on to oversimplify the operation and persistently pushes Jig to go through with it; patronizing her and failing to provide the kind of support and understanding she needs. ... Jig's remark...

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It is through this struggle that one goes beyond the conventions, which creates a person, of being an "authentic" person. ... But unless he also struggles for himself, unless he knows that there is a struggle, he is going to be just what the planners think he is." ... Societal entrepreneurs are the creators of the "package" that an object to be known comes with. ... Virginia Woolf draws on the same aspect of experiencing "authentic" thoughts, by incidents that she comes across while she experienced different incidents in the boys" college and later on in the girls" college. At one point, she ...

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Unlike writings of similar nature, the biases of society are placed so indiscriminately in every aspect that it is easy to lose track of what is really going on. ... The second instance of hatred appears when Angela Carter goes into the description of the werewolf. This being of "menace" comes across as the typical monster; fangs barred, ready to strike with its menacing appearance. It's safe to say that if "Red" has her way, the wolf would die on the first page, but the story goes into detail how the young girl began hunting the wounded animal. We can relate back to the "coming out" exam...

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The novel, O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather, conveys several ideologies about American society from the time frame it was written. Cather's characters, through the main character Alexandra, and everyone she interacts with is evident demonstrations of the type of historical context the novel entails. Th...

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With the sexual revolution, thousands of mothers were going back to school so they could have a career doing something they love to do or that directly competed with men. ... The advertising industry could easily claim its social agenda for maintaining the realization of society and its subsequent shift back to the value of family and the importance of a parent being in the home is a safeguard for the children and the community as a whole. ... Then to come home to clean, cook and to still look amazing for her husband and children. ... All of this goes with women's self-esteem and confid...

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Dating back to the wonder eras of the 1950's through the 1970's, rock and roll was predominantly written and performed by male musicians, ultimately creating a void of female artistry. ... Looking back at the 1970's, some of the most influential female artists of that time included Donna Summer, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Barbara Streisand, and Stevie Nicks – who are still listened to and widely appreciated almost 40 years later. ... Burger Records, an independent record label based out of Fullerton, California, has proven themselves as feminism friendly as they have host...

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Thesis statement: Eva Luna by Isabel Allende is an example of a novel that depicts a great variety of women characters that come together in their struggle to survive in a politically torn and male-dominated country. ... Her commercial attempts were stamped as untraditional, and La Senora turned to the industry with traditions going back to the dawn of mankind - she started an upscale ladies escort service by catalog. ... She comes back to the country to save her only friend, a socially rejected homosexual. ... Mimi, originally Melesio, comes into the picture almost at the sam...

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Women back in the 17th-19th centuries were raised in a manner that is very shocking to how females are raised in the present day. ... It leads back to the idea that men really do not want women to have an education because they do not want their women to either appear as a threat or to not obey them because of the knowledge they have attained. ... The Pairing Family is simply where one man lives with one woman, but the relationship stands where polygamy and a few infidelity moments remain part of the man's rights; relating back to men believing they are superior to women and not strictly...

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He also talks about how we see her go down a vicious of path of self-destruction and self induced vomiting or bulimia, which ultimately leads to her demise. ... "Ballet is the illusion that a body is not performing grueling labor, and the more convincing the illusion, the more brutal what's actually going on (what better dancers are doing is harder and looks easier)". ... Jen also briefly mentions the various disorders that many ballerinas go through alike when she refers to Nina as a bulimic and frigid white girl. ... This article offers a brand new perspective on my take of what essenti...

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This time period is extremely important to the birth of American Literature, and it was thanks to many settlers coming to this New Land, now the United States, that we have great literary works to refer back to when speaking about the beginning of our nation. ... In this section of her poem she is placing a challenge on the Puritan ideal that women can't have a public voice since she is freely speaking her mind when it comes to what women can do during this time period. ... In this instance Rowlandson states, I had often before this said that if the Indians should come, I should choose ra...

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Similarly, nine years later, Scoop insists on the way in which he visualizes Heidi's life in the future: "you are going to be one generation of disappointed women. ... In spite of this piece of advice, Heidi still does not let her emotional side to come out completely; she maintains her "reason-ruled- position of rejecting the role that she is supposed to play in society, as opposed to other characters in the play, for instance, Lisa, who explicitly states that she always wanted to have children, or Denise, who says that she "can't imagine (her) life without (her) husband or (her) ba...

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The house still looks old and ancient, yet it comes to represent a new idea and so it has made the shift, along with the community, to welcoming powerful women as a new part of their world. ... Emily can not let go of the old beliefs that are ingrained in her mind, the belief that she needs a man to be complete. ... Taking on the whole town, no one can make her pay taxes, go into her home, or put numbers on the house for free postal delivery. Even the druggist illegally orders arsenic for Emily, who "just stared at him, her head tilted back in order to look him eye for eye-(78). ...

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Hence, in an interview with Martha Satz, Cisneros admits "I was going through some traumatic experiences at the time, I chose to write about my past-my childhood experiences, my mother, and especially the women in the community" (3). ... Esperanza's adolescent voice enables Cisneros to regress back to her childhood where the satisfaction of playing was plentiful. ... Esperanza you go to school. ...

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He also feels that Catholic moral thought does at times conflict with our most basic human intuitions "and seems to consider insufficiently the fact that the "nature" we know is disordered and cannot be equated with "creation" as it comes from the hand of the Creator." ... As for the financial plans for young mothers, the truth is there is obviously not enough money to fund every young mother's first year with her baby so it is then put back into the hands of the pro-life funders to decide whose life is more important, a stance in which they are used to arguing against. ... It is a deba...

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While men were able to go about their business and indulge in politics in public, women faced exclusion from any social and public participation. ... The fate of "The Lady of Shalott" comes to fruition when she touches land. ...

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While it is generally agreed that the rights granted to women in the Koran and by the prophet Mohammed were a vast improvement in comparison to the situation of women in Arabia prior to the introduction of Islam, Mohammed's death marked a gradual deterioration of the condition of women, as it began to revert back to pre-Islamic ways. ... Non-Muslims also have come to beleive that in Islam, it was taught that women had no souls, but Muslims themselves have never actually believed this. ... Forcing women to cover their faces and preventing them from going outside the home are practices tha...

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However, at other points in the play the female characters display very stereotypical female behavior, so would go against the concept of them resulting with the upper hand. ... At this point however, Jack is being more rational, "You know what I have got to say to you." perhaps implying there is no point in formally asking her, as she already knows what he is going to say. ... ", as this quote shows that despite all of her education she continues to act dimly, as she finds the name Ernest to be the most important variable in marriage, so is reducing herself to less than she is worth, and is ...

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One particular gender code that is propagated by mass media is, as professor of English at XXX, Robert C.Nazar puts it, "Our culture is quite happy with a woman who is sexually available, but not when she is a sexual aggressor "men encouraged to sow their wild oats'-, suggesting that a woman's source of power comes from her sexuality. ... Looking back at Mind, Body and Spirit Fitness magazine, it is seen that advertisers exploit the power behind the female sexual figure to sell their products, which would "help- them to achieve that "Ideal- figure. ... It also neglects to tak...

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However, "the fortune had been made in fourteen years, and he had come home now to marry the woman who had been patiently and unquestionably waiting for him all that time" (656). ... She is advocating for women's freedom through the death of her family, when Louisa comes to recognize the great path of independence, and becomes a strong symbol of the strength of a woman as she is able to thrive on her own. ... After the currants were picked, she sat on the back door-step and stemmed them Louisa was slow and still in her movements; it took her a long time to prepare her tea; bu...

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Putting contact information on the advertisement shows that the company wants the readers to take the time and explore what their products have to offer and can go into more detail with the Libman Freedom Spray Mop. ... Many times, what we consider right, wrong or believable can be connected back to our culture and what we were taught to be true. ... It might also come across as offensive to some women since the idea of being at home cleaning does not ring true for all and is very stereotypical. ...

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