The ancient system of "Swayamyara" amplifies the right of free choice for a female, portraying equilibrium of sorts between man and woman. ... Medieval India was the foundation for inept gender relations within India. ... If she is unable to bring sufficient dowry, this woman is therefore harassed and all control is issued to a husband. ... Medieval India was responsible for widening the gap between man and women, as each of these customs diminished women in some form. ... Despite the frailness of their role in society, to overthrow the British Empire nationwide efforts were essent...

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Sparked off by a seemingly trivial affront " a versified insult, a brawl over the rights to a beached whale, unsanctioned wooing of a woman, or one party allowing livestock to graze a neighbour's land, " conflict generates highly complex structures where at every point there are many options for resolution. ... SETTING Most of the action in the Sagas of Icelanders takes place in the isolated settlements and sweeping landscapes of medieval Iceland. ... Unable to vent their anger or hurt by physical means, their classic role is as 'female inciter', goading their menf...

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Today Behns work is heralded as feminist, a strong commentary on womens role in her society and how women were viewed by men during the Restoration period. ... In the tradition of medieval morality plays and Tudor interlude, restoration comedy characters name personify them, fixing them in one dimension. ... For example Helena is the saucy, uppity girl who provides the britches role in the play. ... He frankly asks both Helena and Angelica to sleep with him when he first meets each of them and declares to Belville, "Thou know'st there's but one way for a Woman to oblige me" (I.ii: 2...

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To answer the question, it is essential to clarify the definition of She: the curator/keeper, list to her tasks, the recent changes and the main role as a mediator in the beginning. ... (Patrick, 2004) However, the role of curator has kept changing through different periods. Like Paul (2012) mentioned that being driven by the market by the 1980s, the object-based art shifted in the exhibition-makers' role from curator-as-mediator to curator-as-author. ... Besides, there can be an overlap with the exhibition manager's role. ... Fine artists were regarded as mere skilled workers durin...

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In 1788 she published a pamphlet expressing the hope that women would play a key role in the forthcoming work of national regeneration, and invited women to make financial sacrifices to help bring about political reformation. ... The Declaration of the Rights of Woman was Gouges's most important contribution to advancing woman's rights in the Revolution. ... The cahiers des doleances also demonstrated how a woman's social class determined which issues she chose to embrace and fight. ... The market women demanded protection of their professional rights through the reestablishmen...

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The story, mentioned in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, tells of a woman who anoints Jesus with an expensive perfume. ... Only in the Gospel of Luke, however, is it intimated that the woman is a sinner, and with the Pharisee's comment about "what sort of woman this is," one might be inclined to believe her sin is lust.2 In conjunction with the other three Gospels, Bourgeault remarks that this prompted the belief that "since this woman is also identified as Mary of Bethany, Mary Magdalene and Mary of Bethany must be the same person."3 This image of Mary Ma...

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The Clerk's Tale and The Franklin's Tale address the social convention of marriage with reference to the role of obedient women and conventional versus unconventional marriage. ... McCall's perspective on the tale is simple; a woman who is devoted to her husband and abides by the social conventions of marriage of the time period. ... The Clerk's Tale acts as a response to the The Wife of Bath's Tale in terms of ideals and the role of women in marriage. ... The role of women in The Clerk's Tale is restrictive, whereby they should obey their husband and never questi...

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There was a famous renaissance in Europe during the transition from medieval times to modern times that is still taught today. ... Claude McKay's volume of poetry, Harlem Shadow (1922), Jean Toomer's experimental novel combination of poetry and prose, Cane (1923), and Jessie Fauset's novel about a middleclass black woman, There Is Confusion (1924) were among the first books written by Blacks to be published. ... He sought to destroy commonly held myths through his writings and by identifying, selecting and promoting a talented group of well-educated African-Americans to bec...

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For the last twenty years or so, the issue of sexual harassment has received considerable attention especially since the inception of the feminist movement and the glaring examples of the Impeachment of President Clinton, the Senate's confirmation hearings for Anita Hill's charges against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, among others, has heightened nearly everyone's interest in the topic (Mcafee1). Despite, widespread publicity about the perils of sexual harassment, surveys demonstrates that many businesses operating in the United States have yet to address the problem a...

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Crime surveys also have a role to play in the over-representation of males since statistics of crime have been collected from members of society in the British Crime Survey, as well as official policing statistics released by the Government. ... Hatty (2000) argues that men, particularly in this age bracket can be more violent than woman due to social issues such as employment, class, social bonds, and family environment. ...

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Built upon this vision of blasphemous creation and its hideous results, the dream itself grew out of the mind of a strange, yet remarkable, woman who could see the relationship between the potential of man's newfound industrial powers and the awful destructiveness hidden within the self. ... Victor was Percy Shelley's pen name and Victor Frankenstein's family also resembles Percy Shelley's in both the father is married to a woman young enough to be his daughter and the oldest son has a favorite sister named Elizabeth. According to Mellor: Victor Frankenstein embodies cer...

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Under initial ideas in a series of transformations birth - dedication - death - birth, etc. is associated with birth involving a woman who turns personal-social principle of world shadow to the living world. ...

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Different authors use various figures of speech to present their characters in plays or poems. For actors, figures of speech usually help to determine the most prominent traits of characters. The first part one of this paper analyzes the character of Doctor Faustus who is the protagonist of Marlowe's play who was overwhelmed with the desire to possess power and the presentation of the character as a pure villain in the play. This will be compared with the character and the figure of Richard III in the eponymous play by William Shakespeare, while identifying the significance of his figure...

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