In the blue box to the right of the page, under the title "Mexico", is a short sentence about the number of female associates at Walmart Mexico who completed its Taking the Stage program. ... Each box has photo of the woman, her name, her job title, and short story on how she benefited from the program. ... Underneath the title features the story of Rosalind Brewer, the current CEO of Sam's Club, who is the first African-American woman to take this rank in the company. In the middle right of the page, in a pale blue box, is a photo of female store manager in De Queen, Arkansas...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Kate Chopin's "The Storm," it shows her creative use of theme and symbolism throughout which is what makes it such a descriptive and detailed short story. ... Chopin's title refers to nature, which is symbolically feminine; the storm can therefore be seen as symbolic of feminine sexuality and passion, and the image of the storm will be returned to again and again throughout the story. ... Symbolism is another important element of "The Storm," because it is used many times throughout the story. ... The importance of nature symbolizing femininity throughout the story is that femi...

• Word Count: 356
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the short story, the patient is slowly driven mad by her cure, prescribed by her physician husband, and is cut off from any intellectual pursuits whatsoever. ... The narrator initiates the story by describing a beautiful, but prison-like house, run by the protagonist's husband that both realistically and symbolically confines his wife. ... This story allows the reader to understand the sexist culture of the time and the struggles a woman had to endure. ... Charlotte Gilman may not have even fully understood the principles of psychology her story portrays; nevertheless, her story doe...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the short story, the patient is slowly driven mad by her cure, prescribed by her physician husband, and is cut off from any intellectual pursuits whatsoever. ... The narrator initiates the story by describing a beautiful, but prison-like house, run by the protagonist's husband that both realistically and symbolically confines his wife. ... This story allows the reader to understand the sexist culture of the time and the struggles a woman had to endure. ... Charlotte Gilman may not have even fully understood the principles of psychology her story portrays; nevertheless, her story doe...

• Word Count: 873
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Teena Brandon was a young woman who used to bind her breast, cut her hair short, stuff a sock into her pants, passed as a man, renamed herself as Brandon Teena, and was later raped and murdered by her friends when her identity was discovered. The movie "Boys Don't Cry," narrates the true life story of Teena (AKA Brandon), which clearly shows that gender and sexual orientation are independent of biological sex. ...

• Word Count: 364
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Male dominance and female complicity in "Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding" Katherine Mansfield's "Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding" is a short tale dealing with the relationships between husband and wife in late 19th Century German society. ... However, the story widens to bring in several other relationships, which the reader is invited to judge in the light of the first scene. ... The description of him eating it, as he: "broke the bread smeared it round and chewed greedily" is a prolepsis of the unseen sexual act that takes place after the story finishes. ... The women in ...

• Word Count: 1523
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Diane Di Prima presents feminism through the use of her female character living out the unique, atypical female life of a bachelor in her autobiographical short story "Dinners and Nightmares" and "What I Ate Where". The uniquely styled short story primarily focuses on a woman living in what seems to be a one-bedroom apartment, jumping from job to job, eating anything she can to survive. ... The woman in the story spends the majority of her adult days painting, drinking beer, stealing small amounts of food from a local grocery store, and hanging out with what seems to be her...

• Word Count: 2160
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A bothered and isolated Elisa Allen in the story "The Chrysanthemums," finds herself subject to this phenomenon and is persistently mistreated and in a sense, unnoticed by her traditionally productive, yet dull and dismissive husband. ... Elisa Allen isn't as lucky as most women in this sense, and many factors in the story The "Chrysanthemums" exhibit Allen's frustration and impatience towards her and her sexual desires, including the fact that her and Henry share no children together. ... The story clearly shows how desperate she truly is when she is sexually aroused ...

• Word Count: 1174
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," is a story about a new mother suffering from a temporary nervous depression. ... In this story, Gilman uses symbolism to reveal some themes associated with "The Yellow Wallpaper.... By the end of the story, the narrator finds escape when she becomes the wallpaper woman as she creeps along the floor the narrator states "I've got out at last...and I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back" (Gilman p387)! ...

• Word Count: 1068
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Comet and Aye and Gomorrah are two science fiction short stories that discuss racism and sexuality in post-apocalypses, respectively. ... Additionally, both Du Bois and Delany make use of apocalyptic language and set stories in post-apocalyptic situations; however, their apocalyptic language is presented differently and used for different purposes. ...

• Word Count: 2007
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many changes occur in behavior, attitudes, and feelings in a relatively short period of time during adolescence. ... The short story Boys and Girls, by Alice Munro, demonstrates this point excellently. ... In essence, relationships become vulnerable to drastic change in this short period of time. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

All men fall short of ideal manliness. In the chapter style of Manhood, Chabon told us four stories about his experiences of acting masculine and he also defended himself for cooking for his family and carrying a "murse." ...

• Word Count: 644
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Wilkins Freeman's story, "A New England Nun.... This foreshadows how Louisa chooses the path of independence at the end of the story where "serenity and placid narrowness had become to her as the birthright herself.... Freeman writes, "It was now fourteen years since, in a flood of youthful spirits, he had inflicted that memorable bite, and with the exception of short excursions, always at the end of the chain, under strict guardianship of his master Louisa, the old dog had remained a close prisoner" (658). ... Perhaps an older and wiser Louisa would have been capable ...

• Word Count: 2223
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In turn, some intersex adults that have never undergone any kind of surgery strongly believe that for cosmetic purposes, this surgery is "nothing short of mutilation" (Pifer). In The Rolling Stone (1997) John Colapinto writes an article titled The Story of John/Joan describing how other intersex adults protest against any form of surgery on newborn infants with ambiguous genitalia expressing them as medically unnecessary treatments where the newborns are not in a position to authorize surgery that may inflict substantial psychological repercussions in their future and may also have an irrever...

• Word Count: 1646
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Instead "the whole diversity of lived masculinities can be understood as specific realizations of a vague set of ideas and demands, images and stories that are defined as masculine, adapted to the concrete situation an individual or group has to cope with"(Peterson 1998: 126). ...

• Word Count: 2296
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From dog-fighting in Mexico to issues of transsexuality in Cuba, contemporary Latin American cinema covers a diverse array of topics. Lauren Mulvey, British feminist film theorist, uses pyschoanaylitics to offer a feminist critique of all classical narrative cinema. She establishes that narrative cinema is viewed from the male gaze and women are coded for their "to-be-looked-at-ness". She offers that female characters add nothing or very little to actual elements of plot and character but rather are subjected to male scopophilia, the fetishistic and voyeuristic, due to phallocentrici...

• Word Count: 4301
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Adults tend to speak to babies in what is called infant-directed speech or "baby talk" and this form of communication is made up of short sentences with high-pitched, exaggerated expressions, clear pronunciation, distinct pauses between sentences, clear gestures to support verbal meaning (including sign language), and repetition of new words in a variety of contexts (Berk, 2013, p. 369). ... Play then starts to become more complex turning into socio-dramatic play where children make-believe play with others and then by age 4 to 5 they start to build on one another's play ideas ...

• Word Count: 2833
• Approx Pages: 11
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate