The great nation today known as the United States of America, has not always existed in its current state of glory. It too had to start from the bottom of the chain, and work its way up to the greatness of today. ... Another instance where Bradstreet spoke her mind like this presents itself in, The Author to Her Book. ... The next important woman author of this time is Mary Rowlandson. ... So, in conclusion these two prominent women authors did not overall place a direct challenge on Puritanism. ...

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In the 50s, feminist activist and author Simone de Beauvoir, suggested in her book that the term "women" we use in everyday life today is different from the same term "women" used in her book. ... "Why are there no great woman artist?" ...

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.　In the part, the author points out the many things about shopping that retailer do not know: In some stores, buyers spend three to four times longer than non-buyers, get them to shop longer - talking to employees helps, and we can determine where shoppers will walk in a store... ... Author's important messages As the title of the book presented "Why we buy: the science of shopping" the author proposes that there is a method to shoppers when it comes to shopping. ... Also by using demographical approach, the author presents the behaviors or patterns of shopping from children t...

• Word Count: 1653
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Through her works of prose and poetry, this author presents herself as "a woman of learning" who clearly obtained some means of schooling in her past [ CITATION Gel12 l 1033 ]. ... At a time and place when men controlled everything, one could see the hesitancy of audiences in accepting a woman as a valid author or viewing Behn herself as a serious writer. ...

• Word Count: 2238
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Yeats experienced marriage rejections from her over and over again, which resulted in a great contribution to Yeats's beautiful and sentimental poems. ... Yeats recalled his first glimpse of Gonne: "Her complexion was luminous, like that of apple-blossom through which the light falls, and I remember her standing that first day by a great heap of such blossoms in the window" (Jeffares, 120). ... " (1, Yeats), which establishes an emotional connection in between the author and the readers, so that the readers can sympathize with the speaker's grief caused by Gonne. ......

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I have often consulted my great grandmother about her experience and I find her historical perspective enlightening. ... It seems Blatant that society is bent on putting women in their places, this is evident when author Fetzer states I found a scolarship for veterans and asked my father to sign proof that he was a veteran. ...

• Word Count: 733
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This parallel between the author and the protagonist's childhood is an indicator that Esperanza is a surrogate for Cisneros because she is a manifestation of Cisneros' previous adolescent experiences and desires. ... As the author, Cisneros, "sits inside the mind of the hero[ine] . . . and looks at the other characters from the outside," while the heroine, Esperanza "plays a very small active part; [s]he sees the actions and suffering of other people pass before [her] like a spectator" (Freud, Day-Dreaming 149-150). ... Both Cisneros and Esperanza's mother wanted their daughte...

• Word Count: 2834
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During the infant stages of America's development throughout the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, settlers came over not knowing what their futures held or all the hardship they must first endure before finally building colonies that would grow and flourish. With the harsh environment and ...

• Word Count: 2469
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The authors, Ehrenreich and Fuentes, are pointing out the positive efforts of women, and that men are not capable of doing such labor-intensive and specific work. ... "Women are impeded by the extreme conventionality of the other sex men sensibly allow themselves great freedom in these respects, I doubt that they realize or can control the extreme severity with which they condemn such freedom in women" (868). ...

• Word Count: 1090
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(Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to the 1964 Civil Rights Act) This law has done wonderful things in the promotion of women's sports and is a great law in its original intent; however, the enforcement of this law has terribly perverted its spirit. ... Gavora, an expert on the Title IX debate and author of the book "Tilting the Playing Field," the key to restoring equality of opportunity to Title IX lies in making the actual interest of the students rather than their representation in the student body the benchmark for apportioning athletic opportunities (Gavora). ...

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When she does finally allow herself to share some of her thoughts, Edna experiences a great feeling of relief, the sound of her own voice like, "a first breath of freedom" (20). ... The title of The Awakening may refer specifically to one facet of its plot, intended by its author. ...

• Word Count: 980
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate