In its annual report, Walmart uses pictures of mother and child to show understanding of motherhood, uses pictures and texts of women in its new Global Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative program to show its involvement in empowering women, and uses pictures and texts of female employees to projecting an image of a female-friendly workplace. ... Walmart uses pictures and text of women from different countries to shows its commitment to empowering women globally. ... Walmart also uses pictures and texts to shows it supports women's advancement in the company. ... The second parag...

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A high cut slit on her dress deliberately exposes her crossed, tanned slender legs, leading the reader's eyes down to her shiny silver shoes, which are pointing at the text and product logos at the bottom of the advertisement. ... Next, focusing on the text; the top of the advertisement in a prominent white, bold, font over a dark background states, "How does Hannah Simone like her man's body?"" ... The models right silver shoe points to a photograph of the Fusion ProGlider Styler package accompanied by a feminine looking white text that reads, "The 3-in-1 tool for whatever body styl...

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Many female characters in 19th Century texts are caught between a need for independence through working, and a need for security, through marriage and the taking on of domestic duties as a housewife. ... Female characters in 19th Century texts also need intellectual freedom. ... Female characters in 19th Century texts also need sexual independence. ... There are also female characters in 19th Century texts that opt for fiscal security, marrying in order to ensure a protected future for themselves. ... Here, the writers of 19th Century texts show that women were often condemned to discontented ...

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This can be seen in the first advertisement (appendix A) where the text suggests that, 'It just tastes better' and, 'it'll blow your mind away'. The imagery accompanying this text is the face of an attractive woman mouth open with a slight look of surprise on her face. ... Nooh goes further into his research and suggests that, "advertisements can be successful in generating sales without portraying women as things or sexual object, and without perpetuating various weakness stereotypes". (2012 pg.37) This can be seen in the following advertisement (see appe...

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A significant change has occurred in the representation of women in the two texts, A Gathering Light and The Devil Wears Prada. Discuss this statement about the two texts remember to comment on the techniques used to represent women in the texts. ...

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And while poor treatment in Islamic cultures can be attributed to radical regional customs which are easily debunked by the words of the Koran, Hindu culture, with its lack of an offical religious text, has little to govern the treatment of women by, thus opening up the door for tradition and public opinion to serve as Hindu law. ... Hindu cultures, on the other hand, have no excuses as they have no defintive text to govern their behavior. ... According to traditional Hindu texts, there are three values relating to a girl when she is born: wedding gift, dowry payment, and abandonment. ...

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To try to deconstruct the character of Lara Croft and to process this analysis using gender critique is quite a feat. The complexity of this virtual character does not even conform to conventional modes in which the "Real Woman" per se is based. Upon examining the different images of Lara Croft, i...

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I chose this book to review because it contains valuable text that is useful for all humans to read. ... I found it out of the ordinary when the text discussed human societies in relevance to mating and marriage and at times failed to discuss the cultural implications of such things. ...

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1. Literature presents insights into many aspects of life but is also a conveyor of values, naturalising certain ways of understanding ourselves and the world. This is especially true of "The Whole Town's Sleeping" by Ray Bradbury. Built on the dominant ideologies of the time, the text through its r...

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Advertisements often reflect cultural, gender or common stereotypes that are well-known within society. The objective of advertisements is to sell the product that is portrayed to the target audience and this is accomplished through the use of technique, symbolic and written code. An example of a ty...

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Shakespeare's Othello presents several resistant readings, including feminist and post-colonial readings. These alternative readings are also apparent in Norman Gunston's representation of Othello and a dominant reading is evident in Orson Welles" version. These resistant interpretations of Othello ...

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Christina Rossetti's poem, "A Rose Has Thorns As Well As Honey," does not fail to provoke an interpretation of the ideal woman as each flower she introduces to the reader represents a type of woman. This botanical garden filled with various flowers translates into a colorful social world in which we...

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Furthermore, this paper will analyze the texts of Oroonoko and Addison and Steele's The Spectator to demonstrate how certain writers of the time dealt with "the other " via subjective cultural standards. ...

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There are many times in our life it happens that we completely change our mind just because we get so much influenced by our surroundings. Cultural influence, social expectation, plays a huge role in people's growth and development. Now a day's television medium also plays a very important role when...

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The Wife of Bath's Views on Love, Marriage, and Female Supremacy The Wife of Bath, as introduced in the General Prologue, is a professed authority on love and a firm believer in the rule of man by woman, and in her own precedence generally. Chaucer describes her as being somewhat deaf; she wa...

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When one thinks of traditional gender stereotypes, women are often thought of as submissive, passive, dependent, and gentle, and men as dominant, active and decisive. Through these gender roles are being challenged today, these characteristics have been seen as the appropriate gender identities for ...

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"The Epic of Gilgamesh" an collection of old Sumerian poems, is filled with the dramatic interactions of gods and men, rulers and peasants, humans and beasts, and men and women. When reading this epic and looking closely at the relationships therein, a clear message surfaces; women represent a civil...

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In Whitney's text "Last Wyll and Testament", which describes her possible compulsory choice to leave London, she depicts the city as a place that is filled with economic misfortunes and injustices surrounding women. ...

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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 charac...

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The notion of femininity, along with the idea of the female gender role, has substantially changed in the last century. During the early twentieth century, women were subjected to stay within household and were apart of society to clean, raise children, and prepare meals for their families. Any woman noticed pushing the domestic convention of the period was harshly ridiculed and always reminded of her inferiority within the "man's world". The twentieth century was a century dominated by a patriarchal society; women were viewed as a human subtype and their voices were disregarde...

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Another particularly damaging symbol I found came in the form of written text: the word "change," which of course implies the message that the viewer of this ad is in some way imperfect, in need of "changing" her appearance or lifestyle if she ever wishes to attain the beauty of the woman pictured in this ad. ...

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Theorist William Rathbone Greg best summaries the feelings of the Victorian age towards fallen women: "If the passions of woman were ready, strong, and spontaneous, in a degree even remotely approaching the form they assume in the coarser sex, there can belittle doubt that sexual irregularities woul...

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