They are shown having a seductive or entrancing way about them, large eyelashes, attractive bodies and large breasts. ... This scene suggests to viewers that women can use their bodies to manipulate men in order to get what they want. Other ways women are portrayed in these films are vulnerable, weak, and always needing to be rescued by a male. ... They do receive help from male characters throughout the movie, but Ana rescues Elsa all on her own by defeating another male character. The fact that a woman is shown to be triumphant over a male is an improvement as well....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Using phrases that describe her body help her to show that self-assuredness. ... After the advent of slavery, women continued to be regarded equally by black males. Caretakers of the family, they also worked in the fields along with the black males. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When Americans traveled to Africa to buy its people they did so because African's had strong bodies that will provide the labor plantation owners needed to sustain the American economy. ... Black males are pulled over often, along with Mexicans and minorities alike, by law enforcement for simply being a person of color. ... They believe African American males from the ghetto are the wrong doers in this country and that is a result of the slave trade because, as mentioned earlier, the mental illness of racism has managed to trickle down over the generations. ... As stated by the male par...

• Word Count: 2862
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The US Bureau of Justice Statistics concludes that the chance of a black male born in 2001 of going to jail is 32% or 1 in 3. Latino males have a 17% chance and white males have a 6% chance. ... The US rate of incarceration is five to eight times higher than other highly developed countries and black males are the largest percentage of inmates. ...

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The Bottom community's also deal with the absence of male characters and describes the underlying issues of male/female relationships which are presented. Male protagonist are mostly absent in the Bottom community because they are trying to gain economic success and to win their manhood back in the patriarchal society of the United States. ...

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In 1933, President of Harvard University James Bryant Conant, implemented a new scholarship program for academically gifted males. ... The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) is the Commonwealth's coordinating body for higher education. ... When reviewing testing scores among the gender population, recent studies indicate that males, regardless of ethnicity, do better on the SAT I than their female counterparts (refer to Chart 1). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although Asians and Asian Americans have been present on American television screens for decades, [1] few television series have featured Asian or Asian Americans in starring roles. Kung Fu (Warner Bros, ABC, 1972-1975), starring David Carradine as Kwai-Chang Caine, featured a white American actor as a bi-racial Shaolin priest in the Old West. Originally conceived as a vehicle for martial arts adept Bruce Lee, the series went to an actor with little physical ability, but with a knack for embodying a Hippie pacifism along with a reluctant, but devastating aggression On the lam from the la...

• Word Count: 9463
• Approx Pages: 38
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Statistics show that more than one-fourth of all black males and 16% of Latinos can expect to spend time in prison during their lifetime, while only 4% of white males will ever go to prison. ... In addition, a third of all African American males aged 20-29 are right now either locked up, on probation, or on parole. ... Witnesses and forensic evidence suggest that the officers fired a second round of shots after a brief pause and that Diallo's body absorbed a majority of the bullets after having hit the ground. ...

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In car commercials, women are usually tall, skinny and blonde and are shown sitting on top of the car showing off their body. ... In a Verizon advertisement, a young Caucasian male is the customer, showing that he has money and is higher than the Asian man. ...

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Dubois explains this perfectly when he stated: "One ever feels his two-ness, -am American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strengths alone keeps it from being torn asunder......

• Word Count: 3543
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate