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...

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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, ...

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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...

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• 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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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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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 ...

• Word Count: 2003
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate