Hemingway's short story dates back to almost ninety years ago, initially appearing in a collection titled "Men Without Women" in 1927. ... " The majority of Hemingway's short stories overly demonstrate masculinity, but "Hills Like White Elephants" displays a much more rational viewpoint from that of a woman. ... The white hills in the background of the train offer the most significant example of symbolism in this story. ... Finally, the last example of symbolism Hemingway portrays in this story is the train station itself. ... Hemingway's short story is ...

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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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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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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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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. ...

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In 1995 Laura Kaplan wrote The Story of Jane, a compellation of personal stories, including her own, about Jane, an underground abortion counseling service during the late 1960s and early 1970s. After reading a short excerpt from it, I feel that Laura makes a strong, effective argument that persuades the audience abortions should be placed in the hands of the woman. ... Laura wrote this personal story about her involvement in Jane, and other women's accounts, to remind both men and women about the abortion issue during the women's rights movement. ... Without rebuttals or opposing ar...

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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...

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Her poems, short stories and novels permitted her not only to emphasize her beliefs for herself, but also question the ideas of individuality and autonomy during the turn of the century. ... The events she experienced, along with her female insight, provided a cornerstone for her stories and a fresh outlet for the perspective of other women; perhaps becoming a voice for women of her generation. ... "In short, Mrs. ...

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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 ...

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Reality and illusions are easily confused with each other; however, individuals seem to create an illusion of people by the characters in stories they read, or by the politicians in society, and by television shows they watch. In Maupassant"s short story "The Necklace," Maupassant writes about Madame Matilda Loisel, a woman who appears to live in a world of fantasy. ...

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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)! ...

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Didactic Fiction in Alcott's Little Women And Barrie's Peter Pan On the surface, children's literature appears to be very straightforward and light-hearted, failing to carry within a particular story any deeper inherent meaning "the language is simplistic, there's a limited viewpoint, and characters oftentimes are portrayed as caricatures. ... Nevertheless, Little Women is a story about teaching and educating young women about maturation, and Alcott effectively uses her characters to relay her messages across to her readers. ... In short, both novels, in their re...

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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 ...

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Abigail Adams" account stands as a testimony to the birth and political maturation of the U.S while Mary Todd's story gives insight into the more factional nation of Civil War years. ... (Akers 8), as a daughter of a minister and because her family was well-off, Abigail was never short of books. ...

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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...

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