Although Behn writes of Oroonoko's honor as unique among men, her admiration for him seems to derive directly from how closely he mirrors the prime model of a nobly descended, Christian Englander. ... Furthermore, this paper will analyze the texts of Oroonoko and Addison and Steele's The Spectator to demonstrate how certain writers of the time dealt with "the other " via subjective cultural standards. ... However, from Trefry's account we can derive that she spent the majority of her time warding off admirers (including Trefry) and retaining the purity of her body. ... He fear...

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Although this is how Gilgamesh looks from a first glance, he has a drawback of being a king who makes very unwise judgments towards his people by tyrannizing them. ... Unfortunately, when Enkidu dies of disease, Gilgamesh sort of picks up the female characteristic of sympathy, and mourns greatly over his death. ... As the story unfolds, Gilgamesh goes through a lot of character changes, and they show the things that he went through and how he dealt with every situation that he went through. From his position as king of the city of Uruk, to the death of his best friend Enkidu, Gilgamesh has ...

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How can we possibly live a normal life when we think there is always a need for improvement, whether it be to be skinnier, prettier, or just a completely different person? ... I had people sit me down and say, 'You're going to die if you don't take care of yourself.' ... We care about you too much, and we've seen too many people do this,' and I just started bawling. ... Objectification of women is obviously common in mainstream media, we see it in advertising, in pin-ups, calendars, "girlie pictures;" in Hollywood movies, in magazines, we see it everywhere. ... W...

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On a daily bases we see advertisements of all kinds and forms whether it's a build board, a commercial, or a logo on a t-shirt. ... Being Beautiful and perfect is a cultural idea that we need to meet a certain standard in appearance otherwise we will get judged from others which could affect some peoples self-esteem. ... Realizing that failure is inevitable when it comes to trying to become the ideal women can lead to people feeling depressed about how they look. ... Advertisements can also cause depression through showing how each gender role should be. ... Girls and women are trying to ...

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Mutations in higher primates that happen to be advantageous for seeing young through to independence have resulted in what we call Homo sapiens. DNA does not care if the individual lives or dies, or bears young. ... "If we define the sexualization of women as objectification per se, and thereby as degrading and disempowering, we lose touch with an image on a strong female sexuality, we forget what female sexual power looks and feels like, and we create difficulties for women about how to promote themselves as heterosexual beings (Segal 171)." ...

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What are we to make of people who consider themselves as transsexual, transgered, or not any gender at all? If we look at the media, we can usualy see transsexuals represented in only two ways: as sexual deviants on talk shows like The Jerry Springer Show, or as campy drag queens in movies such as Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. ... Before he dies, Jody asks Fergus to look after his "girl-, Dil. ... One of the first interesting questions that this movie raises is how we identify who is a man and who is a woman. ... With this movie, Neil Jordan made a big step in the direction of loosening s...

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Cather however, can be actively seen to criticise the gender norms of society in doing so, as we furtively analyse the characters of Jim and Antonia and the way in which Cather presents them to the reader. Judith Fetterley recognizes how: Jim behaves in ways that mark him as female. On the farm, he rarely leaves the kitchen; he inhabits women's space: "When grandmother and I went to the Shimerdas' house, we found the women-folk alone. ... Antonia's male mannerisms allow this narrative space to be present as she takes on the traditional male role when her father dies. ... De...

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"We ought to fly away from Earth to Heaven as quickly as we can, and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible, and to become like him is to become holy, just and wise.... There shall be the use of verses from major figures in these traditions to augment the arguments put forth and some time shall also be spent in understanding how spirituality, or the quest for release, was and continues to be different for women than for men. ... Now when we talk of spirituality in particular, there is a long path that lies between the stage of a woman's spiritual novice and th...

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Present day wars differ immensely than those we Americans have fought in the past. Today, we are at odds with a culture very different than our own, whose traditions and life-style are of the most extreme conservative in the world. ... How has the military overcome this deadly issue? ... Women are already fighting, being injured and even dying from combat alongside men, but are treated unfairly and denied the privileges and pride of being able to call themselves infantrymen. ...

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As history progressed, major occurrences, namely the rise of the feminist thought cycle, has had heavy influence on this steady process of literary devices becoming conventional in our everyday discourse, in order to define those prevalent changes in the way that we perceive the differences in sexes. ... Pointing out that biology textbooks use only negative words such as "failure" that only produces "waste", and "dying," denuding, " to describe the female reproductive system, specifically the menstrual cycle, Martin forms a juxtaposition against the male sper...

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Whether we are talking about sexism, sexuality, or just plain ol" sex, sports has played (no pun intended) a role in our distinct interpretation of each. ... And while on the topic of tennis, how can we forget to mention Anna Kournikova. ... Open titles during the 20's before dying in 1953. ... Perhaps the most acclaimed gay athlete of our time, Greg Louganis says that athletes in many sports have approached him on various occasions, seeking his advice on how to come out. ... As a final supporting point regarding how much athletes despise being equated with or called gay, Mike Piazza ...

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From the late 1980s, research on gender, crime and social issues, has hugely focused on the study of masculinity, and how there has become a correlation between masculinity and violence. ... I will relate to why violence appears to be associated with masculinity, by analysing these concepts, therefore creating a sustained argument in how these concepts pursue the idea that violence is associated with masculinity. ... Whenever there is a media story in the news about a violent crime committed, we automatically assume that a male is a perpetrator. ... Evolutionary explanations are also another...

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The world can progress immensely if we promote gender equality as several women have the capability to excel in so many aspects in life. ... Girls spend their adolescence learning how to cook and clean instead of getting educated, they are eventually forced into marriage at a very young age. ... Under-five mortality rates are higher for girls than boys as most families prefer having sons therefore girl children are aborted or they suffer and die after birth. ... If we start raising awareness and working towards a solution now, the amount of girls receiving education would increase immensely ov...

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In many ways they are similar to Snow White and became examples of how to act, what to do, and what was accepted and expected as a role model or just a woman. ... It is still clear that men have control over Mulans life, and whether she is to live or die, which could be said to make her conform to being a traditional heroine, still at the mercy of a mans world. ... They do not communicate with each other throughout the film, and it seems the entire relationship is based on appearance, and how sexually attracted to each other they are. ... I would therefore argue that Disney has not moved wi...

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Frankenstein's wife, brother, friend, and father die by the hands of his creation. ... Just as Rousseau remained unmoved by the impact his selfish ambitions had on his mistress and their children, Frankenstein proved knowledgeable only to how his creation would affect himself, not those less deserving of such violent repercussions. ...

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After being found by her husband's family, she was dragged to the funeral pyre, where her husband's body was being cremated, she was thrown onto the fire to die'.8 This is the pinnacle of male expectations for women at the time. ...

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Theorist William Rathbone Greg best summaries the feelings of the Victorian age towards fallen women: "If the passions of woman were ready, strong, and spontaneous, in a degree even remotely approaching the form they assume in the coarser sex, there can belittle doubt that sexual irregularities would reach a height, of which, at present, we have happily no conception" (Greg 10). ... Moreover, the essay would illustrate how these two poems represent the fallen women of the Victorian society who deviated from the feminine virtue of their society. ... "The Lady of Shalott"...

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