Statements like ethos – "If I should need to move, I can pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area I can afford and which I want to live," logos – "I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a super market and find the staple foods that fit with my cultural traditions, in to a hairdressers shop and find someone who can cut my hair," as well as pathos – "I can go home from most meeting or organization I belong to feeling somewhat tied in rather than isolated, out-of-place, outnumbered, unheard, ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After years of staying home and living only to feed the mouth that anxiously demands, "Where's my dinner?... With newfound enlightenment Betty is able to follow her once suppressed desires, beginning an affair with the soda-shop owner, Mr. ...

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A woman who did not wish to marry could find work outside the home as a missionary, ironically though, many religious orders required women missionaries to be married. ... The latent benefit to this was the demise of sweat shops which used many woman (and children) in the east but subjected them to unbearable conditions. ... Women were excluded from higher education and became more and more confined to the homestead regardless of whether the home was in a rural or urban area. ...

• Word Count: 1651
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At the beginning of the film there is a scene which depicts Mr Olsen (the shoemaker) coming home with a new car for his family. ... The women in The Blot are nearly all depicted within the home setting. ... The main action in the film is orientated around Mrs Grigg's everyday routine, cleaning, cooking and shopping for the home. ... 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. ... (Kaplan 137) However it is in...

• Word Count: 2149
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It has been noted by some historians that the war reinforced traditional values in women, on the other hand it is argued that such an experience must have altered the lives of the women on the home front considerably. ... They are important to consider as even when the conflict was at its highest, in terms of the volume of woman power involved, there were 8,777,000 women working at home. ... This is due to the trend that after marriage, women gave up working to look after a home, so it is plausible that a large proportion of these "new" workers were indeed those women returning to employment ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Girls are offered courses such as Home Economics and boys are offered Shop classes. If a boy decides he wants to take Home Economics he is made fun of as being a "sissy" boy or if a girl wants to take shop she is called a "she-man". ...

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According to functionalist theorists, it is efficient for society when one spouse remains at home and performs domestic duties while the other spouse works outside the home. ... The mother comforts children when they are hurt, gives a birthday party for the father, or does the Christmas shopping. ...

• Word Count: 2301
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate