When reading this epic and looking closely at the relationships therein, a clear message surfaces; women represent a civility in that society, making the entire region of Sumeria dependent upon it's women. ... Without his mother there to guide him, Gilgamesh would most likely not even understand why he had to go on this trip and how he would do so. ... While keeping the bond between Gilgamesh and Enkidu in mind, it is important to remember just how this bond was formed. ... Gilgamesh and Enkidu as forces of good for the society, are often controlled by women, once again showing the fo...

• Word Count: 1389
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Though the mainstream press has been quick to distill this debate into statements such as "females... seem to think that machines were meant to be used, like the microwave oven or the dishwasher," (Kantrowitz 50) this debate opens much more complex issues as how available computers are to girls and how are they encouraged to use them. ... Stories of continual pick up-lines, put-downs, and sexual threats are common and have gained the attention of much of the mainstream press. ... They will never have to look the person they insult or threaten in the face, their family and co-workers will nev...

• Word Count: 1797
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Magic Johnson spoke out to Barbara Walters shortly after the world learned of his contraction of the HIV virus in 1990, saying that he has had sex with up to 8 women at once on occasion, which is why he cannot be certain exactly where, when, or from whom he got the disease. ... If a female athlete replicated such exploits, the public would swiftly chastise her, making her into a "slut" and anything but someone to be looked up to and admired. ... And while on the topic of tennis, how can we forget to mention Anna Kournikova. ... As equally unfair as the commentary of women's sporting ev...

• Word Count: 2200
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 2223
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this paper, I'm going to take a look at how marital status effects the relationship between healthy women and non-healthy women. ... Here is the relationship of initial health to likelihood of getting married during the follow-up interval, for women who were never married initially. ... Considering women who had the same marital status at the beginning and end of a follow-up interval, women who were never married and divorced and separated women had more health problems. ... For the second follow-up interval, women who were never married had higher levels of physical impairments. ...

• Word Count: 1625
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

But how would black readers attempt to distinguish own race? ... The story picks back up eight years later with Twyla working behind the counter at a Howard Johnson restaurant near Kingston, New York. ... The narrative picks up twelve years later at the Food Emporium in Newburgh, New York. ... Bonny's, which eventually brought up a curious absence in Twyla's memory. ... I didn't make that up. ...

• Word Count: 1383
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• 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
• Approx Pages: 6
• 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
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Advertising is how companies introduce their products to the general public. ... Advertisements use family values such as picking a house to raise offspring and women's desires to look young and beautiful and exploits these beliefs to get consumers to buy the companies' products. ... All parents want their children to grow up in a safe and stable environment. ... How is RevitaLift new? ... However, this slight detail is often overlooked as most middle aged women do not look or have skin like the model; so when women look at this advertisement, all they see if how young the model lo...

• Word Count: 1260
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Shoppers need the use of their hands to touch, feel, pick up and examine merchandise - if they are burdened down with a coat, several other items that they have picked up, a toddler, etc., they will spend less time in the store than if they had a shopping cart, access to a coat check, strollers, baskets (placed inside the sore interior where they could actually be useful to someone who has already accumulated a few items) . providing convenient and strategically located seating areas for customers will, again, keep them in the store longer and thus increase the amount sold. ... Women shopping ...

• Word Count: 1653
• Approx Pages: 7
• 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. ...

• Word Count: 1633
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this discussion, one of the issues covered will include the idea of how women of every race have internalized these stereotypes of themselves and have begun to believe they are true. ... The article goes over how strictly white feminist movements were criticized and fought to include women of every race. ... I think many of us know how obnoxious this attitude can be in men." ... At this stage, they are prone to learning and picking up many false stereotypes and will carry these misconceptions with them for the rest of their lives. ... Then she demonstrated how to make a common dough called ...

• Word Count: 1950
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He supports this claim by illustrating how England treats its own colonies and how corrupt its government is. ... Foner illustrates how America took this so-called right, "Indeed, a sense of spatial openness, of the constant opportunity to pick up and move when the pursuit of happiness seemed to demand it, became in these years a central component of American freedom (50)."" ... Douglass is an example of how men will come up with different versions of this concept for the sole purpose of bettering their lives and the lives they care about. He briefly mentions women's right to suffrage,...

• Word Count: 1973
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This essay is going to look at how the experiences of those unemployed in interwar Britain varied with age and gender in particular. ... The younger worker on the other hand may have no or very limited experience in the job, however, employers would be more willing to hire them because they were usually fitter and healthier, they did not demand such a high salary and they could also pick up new skills quicker than the older worker. ... The majority of them tended to be women and young workers. ... One must be very careful when interpreting just how much statistics actually tell us and ...

• Word Count: 1787
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the first minute, the scarecrow enters the food factory; he picks his tools in a methodic way, as he approaches to the main factory plant, a black machine crow with red eyes sits on his left shoulder. ... The meals are label as "100% beef-ish", and the last step of the assembly line is the outside world, where in the video an animated kid picks up the single meal with a smile; right after, an animated women picks up a package that automatically drops into her shopping cart. ... Next, the scarecrow is in some sort of public transportation with big windows, on the way out of the ci...

• Word Count: 1902
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• 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...

• Word Count: 1293
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the movie, four mothers: Suyuan, An-mei, Lindo, and Ying-ying all grew up in the era of sexism, where women were oppressed in multiple ways from the society and from their loved ones. ... However, in this essay I will have decided to pick four characters to talk about: An-Mei and An-Mei;s mother, Ying-Ying and her daughter Lena. ... The attitudes towards women are discredited, dishonored, women's values are only shined when she gives birth to a son and when she satisfies her husband. ... Growing up An-Mei witness how her mother was being treated by her maternal grandmother and aunts, ...

• Word Count: 2268
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Lawrence is a writer who excites great passions - which is entirely appropriate, since that is how he wrote. ... In the various relationships that make up The Rainbow, women tend to dominate men in whom there is an imbalance between the male and female principles and as a result none of the relationships in the novel is fully satisfying, the male characters failing to measure up to the challenge presented by the women. ... His later experience of a purely sexual desire for a girl he picks up in Nottingham represents a temporary turning away from the spiritual towards the sensual and he also ...

• Word Count: 1985
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The story of the Sarakatsan's family as well as my own personal experiences growing up in a traditional East Indian family illustrate the impact and enormous benefits that social improvements have had on our society, and countries in southeast Asia such as India. ... This form of "us" versus them" approach affected everything from the role of men versus women, to how much individual freedom one had as well as the differences between acceptable and unacceptable social values, and the consequences of breaking taboos. ... It was also socially acceptable for married men to engage in infide...

• Word Count: 2249
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This form of "us versus them" approach affected everything from the role of men versus women, to how much individual freedom one had as well as the differences between acceptable and unacceptable social values, and the consequences of breaking taboos. ... It was also socially acceptable for married men to engage in infidelity, whereas the complete opposite was true for women. In traditional standards, women were treated as second-class citizens in traditional East Indian society, which was very patriarchal. ... Consequently, I was able to break away from the cycle of violence which I witnes...

• Word Count: 2066
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• 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 ...

• Word Count: 2003
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One thing Wendell picks up on is the idea that it is important not to get too broad with the definition. ... This mindset can be a problem as well, as it is easy to see that if an entire society of women cannot read there certainly is a problem even if it is the norm. ... The authors also discuss how society uses race as a means to learn who a person is. ... One quote which sums up their theory is "Comments such as, 'Funny you don't look black,' betray an underlying image of what race should be. ... This brings up the same mindset discussed within disabilities as to the issu...

• Word Count: 1608
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• 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

Finally, it is suggested that the official actions of the juvenile justice system should be understood as the major force in girls" oppression as they have been historically served to reinforce the obedience of all young women to demands of patriarchal authority no matter how abusive and arbitrary. ... Child saving was also a celebration of women's domesticity, though ironically women were influential in the movement. ... These institutions isolated women from all contact with males concerned with their "precocious sexuality." ... I figure if a girl is about to get pregnant, we"ll ...

• Word Count: 1850
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate