The opposing view that men's contribution to household chores should be minimal has showed their less importance to social responsibility. ... The opposing views of men domination at work reflects the commercial idea that men are more competent at generating paper work, making salaries, receiving promotions, improving effective skills, and are more seen as the figure of implementing fortunate strategies to the world. ... Most women in the work field have created a general opposing view by the society that since most of their time is spent at home with the nurturing roles, their potential ...

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This is seen in a recent advertising campaign created by 'NZ Pork' which is a prime example of how genders are often viewed in society and media. ... Such roles include: Men are expected to be physically and mentally strong, providing money or 'bringing home the bacon', and are often rejected for opposing roles such as looking after their children7. 83% of single parent families have the mother looking after the child opposed to 17% being fathers; in the court system the gender is looked at rather than the person, opposing males and favouring females for parents8. ... If ...

• Word Count: 2056
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Billy Elliot is a movie based in the 1980's where we see a typical English family transitioning from traditional family views to modern family views. ... But with the modern change in gender roles in society, our current views allow us to "switch camera angels" and just focus on the talent. ... When watching the movie, we realize that Tony in hardly ever seen alone in a scene, he is always with either Billy or his father, and is usually opposing the familial value of the person in the scene. ... He also shows us the difficulty of maintaining this balance, in how he is always on...

• Word Count: 1889
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In the documents, women of different nations individually speak out on issues such as equality, social responsibility, and the traditional cultural views on women. One group of documents - #1, #4 - relates the view that the participation of women in their country's liberation enables them to achieve equality in their standing with men. ... The opposing argument outlined in documents - #2, #5 - states that in the aftermath of liberated nation-states, the role of women reverts back to that of inequality in social and political standing. ... Her view is substantiated by the similar acc...

• Word Count: 882
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Dolce & Gabbana, a brand-name company known for luxurious and expensive products, launched a thirty second video advertisement for their perfume, "Light Blue," in 2001 targeting young adult to middle-aged men and women. On the surface, their campaign portrays a passionate afternoon in the beautiful ...

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Bud, though originally opposed to altering their "pleasant" way-of-life, commits man's first sin when he accepts a bite. In this scene his girlfriend is very literally viewed as a parallel to Eve and an instrument of corruption. ...

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When children view advertisements on the television a change is taken place in their minds and they adapt to what they are exposed to most, which is advertisers showing boys playing in the blue section slightly more aggressive, but having fun, and girls playing in the pink section smiling and also having fun. ... Due to stereotypical views I noticed that the packaging for girl's toys were a lot bigger than most boys toys and they appeared to even so, have more toys in their section rather than boys. ... Probably leading to the fact as to why women in general have low self esteem in op...

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The result is a battle of how females feel about their history versus how they allow society to view them. ... Jayanthi, an American Indian woman from Bells interviews recalls "[getting] confused [and] freak[ing] out and feel[ing] [the need] to settle down" (33) when her actions opposed her parents and community's expectations of her. ... A satisfying personal history is useless as well if the view society has on a woman oppresses her. ...

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Amelia Lanyer, like Isabella Whitney, uses her talent as an author to attempt to change the view of women in society, and she uses radical thoughts for her time to make her works empowering. ... Looking at the situation through this view, Lanyer suggests that one could not persecute woman with persecuting man, considering that it's at least equally sinful, if not more so for man. ... While Whitney strives for women to take responsibility for themselves and attempt to make and follow through on decisions based on what they desire and want, Lanyer takes the opposing perspective and by using...

• Word Count: 1037
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He tends to devote parts of each chapter to the opposing sides and the chapter, Job Security, is no exception. ... However his use of tone and language changes almost imperceptively when he explains the male's point of view. ... Through this section of detail, Mackay conditions the reader's response towards agreeing with his point of view. ... As I have displayed, expository text writers such as Hugh Mackay certainly use techniques to persuade the readers to agree with their point of view. ...

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In order to fathom the extent of gender inequalities, a chronological view over three distinct phases ensues. ... 'Indian women's movement in the nineteenth century grew out of a cultural and nationalistic response to the British colonialist condemning of the treatment of women as barbaric and directly connected to Indian religious practices'; a big reason for Women engrossment was Mahatma Gandhi.10 His arrival back in India was a turning point for the freedom struggle, as he opposed programmes such as the 'Rowlat Bills' that 'prevented public protest and suspen...

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Jim's killing of the snake can perhaps be viewed as a way to confuse boundaries. ... Killing the snake is perhaps the only act of bravery the reader witnesses from Jim, which as aforementioned can be viewed as a strategic symbol. ... Jim's character perhaps opens up a territory of a possible lesbian narrative space in "My Antonia," because of his feminine nature and idealistic view of Antonia. ... "Lena opposes the image of a woman-identified woman whose hidden agenda is to rescue her mother" says Judith Fetterley, showing how Cather deconstructs society's feminine att...

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With Murray's strong feminist views and Bradstreet's tenacity to see change for the female role in society, they were able to begin the process of change for all women. ... "Unlike those of her male precursors and contemporaries, Bradstreet's voicing of the humility topos discloses the dilemma of female poetic subjectivity: finding a voice in a tradition that denies women voices" is one possible explanation for what seems to be opposed underlying messages in "Prologue" (Scheitzer 293). ... She isn't trying to completely dismiss the cultures views on wo...

• Word Count: 2469
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Compare and Contrast the representation of female characters in Snow White and Mulan. To what extent can Disney be said to have moved with the times? Disney is an international film company that dominates full-length feature animations. Two feature long cartoons, Snow White (1937) and Mulan (199...

• Word Count: 2236
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In said texts the composers both depict women as beautiful and important, however they are characterised in two opposing lights. ... Similarly, Baudelaire discusses the theme of religion in his poetry, however conversely he takes an atheists view of Gods importance. ...

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After deciding he cannot accept his wife's behavior to oppose his wishes he orders her to, "come in the house instantly" (Chopin 65). ... Edna realizes that her actions will directly affect how society views her children. ...

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These women's rights are deprived, as these Islamic females are seen as objects as opposed to equal human beings. ... Society in western culture might view veiling as an oppressive, degrading act, however it is not seen as oppressive in the eyes of Islamic women. ...

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Clearly, Scoop's statements foreshadow the life of Heidi, for she remains faithful to her feminist views, but at the end has to adopt a child to reach the self-fulfillment and happiness that she lacked all her life. In spite of this piece of advice, Heidi still does not let her emotional side to come out completely; she maintains her "reason-ruled- position of rejecting the role that she is supposed to play in society, as opposed to other characters in the play, for instance, Lisa, who explicitly states that she always wanted to have children, or Denise, who says that she "can't imag...

• Word Count: 1473
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These women's rights are deprived, as these Islamic females are seen as objects as opposed to equal human beings. ... Society in western culture might view veiling as an oppressive, degrading act, however it is not seen as oppressive in the eyes of Islamic women. ...

• Word Count: 1808
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Asian American as in Chinese-, Japanese-, Filipino-, Korean-, Asian Indian-, Vietnamese- and Laotian- American are one of the fastest growing populations in the America and one of the most diverse in terms of class, culture, political orientation, and social experience. Among their populations are s...

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This reveals that although the sex industry in Vietnam is viewed admirable because of the sacrifice, Andrew recognizes it as degrading for the women involved, although he constantly engages with them. Andrew's opposing reactions to this sex industry mirror his confusion about his own identity. ... He engages with prostitutes and views women for masculine consumption to overcompensate for him feeling emasculated. ...

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The view that the experience of war re- defined traditional sex roles is one that is echoed in the fact that when War on Germany was declared, many women were turned in to hostesses for evacuees, which meant that they carried out tasks such as housekeeping and caring for children, who were often not their own. " For these women the war reinforced their traditional role." ... Conscription was an issue which allowed class ideology to shape views on public issues. ... Fragmentation of tasks was commonplace, and managers implemented new technology as opposed to allowing women to do the male t...

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The twentieth century was a century dominated by a patriarchal society; women were viewed as a human subtype and their voices were disregarded and unheard. ... Within "Lady Lazarus", Sylvia Plath presents an opposite depiction of the patriarchal female gender role by posing the woman within this poem directly against her oppressor as opposed to remaining cheerful, enduring, and quiet. ...

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"The exemplary female prototype in advertising, regardless of product or service, displays youth (no lines or wrinkles), good looks, sexual seductiveness, and perfection (no scars, blemishes, or even pores (Cortese 2008, 59)." It's a difficult point to argue; in looking around, what's gleaned is how...

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The affective processes in which people 's coping abilities are effected due to their view on an environment fraught with danger increased as male employees became increasingly apprehensive. ... But times past had shown that the Shelter was viewed as being a male dominated domain. ...

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