This further fuels the notion of women's independence. Either her father was not significant enough to mention, or she grew up without one. ... Then she went out into the garden with a little blue crockery bowl, to pick some currants for her tea. ... This symbolizes how Louisa feels caged in Joe's presence. ... Freeman interestingly describes Cesar as a chained prisoner, which symbolizes how Louisa has been a prisoner of Joe through their engagement. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As Jean Kilborne so states in her film Killing Me Softly "Women are trying to achieve a body type that represents only five percent of all women."" ... Most advertisements feature scantly clad women in sexually provocative poses. ... Hence this pushes women to want to achieve beauty through sexuality. ... Articles titled "Expert weight loss tricks- and "No more cellulite- and other articles dealing with weight loss rather than wellness and fitness, make up almost half of the articles in the magazine. ... Women pick up a magazine from the news stand hoping to get advice on how to be "Fit- b...

• Word Count: 1428
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The YMCA, which stands for Young Women's Christian Association, helped the engagement of women's war-related work, and the Red Cross, which admitted thousands of women volunteers to provide most of the health and sanitary services to military and civilian casualties of the war, together played an important role in the development of women's rights and position. ... The posters did a great job on recruiting women as well, that they have shown the exact images of working women and how valiant and heroic can women be, therefore calling and attracting more women to join the groups, ...

• Word Count: 835
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Even though times have changed and women are starting to be the breadwinners and responsibilities for men and women are flip-flopping. ... The media is presenting an image of our lifestyles that each male and female are supposed to live up to throughout their daily lives. ... Also the media portrays this image that men have to be this big muscular figure that repeats the famous phrase "I pick things up, and pick them down.... Advertising involves all sorts of interconnected relationships, the relationships between objects and people, how we use certain symbols to show that relationship, t...

• Word Count: 2353
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It has opened Broadway up to a new social issue, confronting the AIDS crisis directly for the first time in a Broadway musical. ... This is an emotional song that starts off slow with the tempo gradually picking up along with more instruments coming in. In operas during earlier times, it was usually the women who would sing emotional love songs with a high range. However, in "One Song Glory", Roger does not conform to these specific gender expectations; his range gets higher as the tempo picks up. ... This musical shows how society can come together through shared hardship. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Kohlberg (1966) believes that once a child has learned their gender is fixed, he or she will pursue information on how to behave accordingly. ... This type of evidence is disturbing as children who see gender stereotypes on television are assimilating the information they observe and picking up cues about how they should behave and act, unaware that what they are observing is a biased and distorted view of the world.  ... Since women are the carriers of babies and have the ability to breastfeed, it is not strange that women should be assigned the role of the caretaker of the home, while men, ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This is purposefully done in order for us to quickly pick up on the contrast between the two gender roles. ... Men are seen doing things considered to be for women, and vice versa. ... This is the basis of a collectivistic up bringing where whatever the family needs will always come before your own personal needs. ... All the individuals are "getting ready" for the day, to the same up beat soundtrack yet the music shows strong contrasts between the scenes. ... With Tony, the music serves as a "pick-me-upper" he's happy, and dancing in his scene getting ready for the da...

• Word Count: 1889
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In "Sexuality", Jeffrey Kripal explains just how important sex was to many different religious rituals; whether it was too much sex (ritual orgies), or the lack of sex (asceticism or celibacy), sex played an important role in religions throughout history. ... This is the first time I actually thought about the fact that "female" and "women" have "male" and "men" in them. ... Women were absolutely inferior to men in the Middle Ages. ... Kripal makes a fascinating point when he writes that he would pick food and sex as the two things that most define the structure and dynamics or religion. ... T...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Usually people can see McComas filled to the brim with both men and women running, lifting, and sweating and is busy during all hours of the day. ... One of the reasons many students prefer to hang out and go to the gym at McComas is because of how nice the building is in general. ... Furthermore the split between gender norms and feeling out of place in the weight room also plays into women's hesitation to lift weights. ... While you can find most men on the bottom floor in the weight rooms amongst the sounds of clashing metal and grunts and groans or on the court playing a pick-up game ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although women's rights movements took force during the latter half of the twentieth century, women still face the sad reality of unequal political, economical, and social treatment. ... This essay will demonstrate and examine how the selected works of Sylvia Plath, Diane Di Prima, and Suzanne Collins, challenge the standard depiction of the twentieth century's female gender roles by defying the patriarchal belief of women's domestic position within society. ... (Lady Lazarus, 61-75) In this passage, Plath explains how she is merely an object to her male oppressor; he attemp...

• Word Count: 2160
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate