Both Updike's A&P and Joyce's Araby provide a similar theme that conveys a boy's infatuation for a girl and the hardships he has to go through, in order to acquire more experience in the complicated area of love. ... Sammy uses a very graphic choice of words when describing his lover's legs when expressing them as "long white prima-donna legs" (Updike 27). ... According to Updike, he used the color green because it can be looked at in different ways, from meaning "go," as in a traffic light, or having a connotation of "money." ... After mentioning that she is unable to a...

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According to Aristophanes, this original primeval man had a round body, his back and sides formed into a circle from which two pairs of arms and legs protruded, he had two faces, and most importantly, two sets of genitalia. Aristophanes goes on to say that there were three different kinds of these original human beings, all of which were differentiated by their gender. ... Once their desire for unification had been thus fulfilled, these beings could then go about their business and be able to once more be productive, thrive, and multiply so as to better please the Gods. ... In fact, he goes ...

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And if they fail to attain such an expectation, they are taught to feel ashamed and guilt-ridden until they go out to the store and purchase the necessary products capable of altering their misguided self-image. ... " 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. ... ...

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Accidentally she climbs into the wrong space, Gils bed, his reaction is to hush the panicked Stella by explaining "Go quietly so as to not wreck your reputation, or myn" automatically Stella is turned into a sexual object, one that could ruin everything, by creating chaos in a public space. ... If Mrs Griggs was to break out of the home and go to work her and her family might not have to suffer so, however the patriarchal insistence to have women in the home and not in a professional space does not permit it. ... Mayne captures the moment perfectly when she states " presented in a hilariou...

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From dog-fighting in Mexico to issues of transsexuality in Cuba, contemporary Latin American cinema covers a diverse array of topics. Lauren Mulvey, British feminist film theorist, uses pyschoanaylitics to offer a feminist critique of all classical narrative cinema. She establishes that narrative cinema is viewed from the male gaze and women are coded for their "to-be-looked-at-ness". She offers that female characters add nothing or very little to actual elements of plot and character but rather are subjected to male scopophilia, the fetishistic and voyeuristic, due to phallocentrici...

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In the article, "The Effect of Experimental Presentation of Thin Media Images on Body Satisfaction: A Meta-Analytic Review" Lisa Groesz, Michael Levine, and Sarah Murnen explain, "This perfect body has flawless skin, a thin waist, long legs, and well-developed breasts" (2). ...

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