At the same time, the movie depicts the social issue of the oppression of women and power of men, a long history in China and as racial minorities in America. ... Their daughters: June, Rose, Waverly and Lena are born in America and the mothers raised the daughters with hopes of future, no accents, no discrimination and independent. ... One day, An-Mei's mother was invited by the second wife of a wealthy merchant named Wu Tsing to spend time at their house. ... Hence, I benefited from hybrid identity as the daughters in the movie are facing. ... Ying-Ying's daughter Lena learned t...

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Particularly when focusing on the relationship between parent and child at the time of adolescence. ... This fact alone largely contributes to the void that grows between fathers and daughters and sons and mothers. ... This may cause young boys to demand freedom from their mothers and young daughters to grow distant and indifferent towards their fathers. In essence, relationships become vulnerable to drastic change in this short period of time. ... Television not only impacts our societal values; it also has a great impact on the relationships between fathers and daughters and mothers and...

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The relationships between the women of Ibo society is extremely important, it ensures stability in the social structure of the families and shows just how strong the bond between mother and daughter can be. ... Ekwefi's relationship with her daughter Ezinma is not just of paternal love, it is almost a "companionship of equals". ... The cure and procedure surrounding the character, even though at the time was considered by colonists to be superstition and foreign can be seen to be aligned to the practices that have been adopted by many Western cultures. ...

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In The Blot the representation of transport depicts important elements in the main narrative, and at the same time reveals a patriarchal control over public space. ... The reason that Juanita is represented driving a car is because of her class status, something that the poor professor's daughter Amelia has no right to. ... At the same time Arzner depicts something else, the idea of the new women and her access to public space. ... Throughout the film Mrs Griggs's "motherly love" shines through as she makes sacrifice after sacrifice to see her daughter married well. ... In this s...

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It could be that traditions are keeping children home instead of being in school, or traditions which mean that diet is inadequate which can also lead to health problems and hence missing out on school time. Also cultural deprivation theorists argue that lack of motivation is the cause of failure for many black children as they are socialised into a subculture that instils fatalistic views, and present-time orientation that does not value education and leaves them unequipped for success. ... In contrast, however, Asian nuclear families that tend to be quite numerous could also have a problem a...

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Not only were the themes highly controversial but Richardson's film is an exception to other social realist films of the time because the main character is female. ... These changing roles are addressed and characterized through the mother Helen and the daughter Jo. ... Struggling to sustain herself and her daughter financially, she lives off a series of male friends prioritizing these relationships and sexual gratification above the needs of her daughter. ...

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Through Bertrande de Rols, learn about how surprisingly fair the law was towards women: 'The testaments in the area around Artigat rarely benefit one child but instead provide dowries for the daughters.... (If there are only daughters, the property is divided equally among them)' Contrary to that, in order to lay the proper social foundation, the tragic tale of the title character was saved until last. ... The idea that someone of so high a rank embraced the new religion shows that its influence at the time cannot be ignored. ... During this period was a time of transformation...

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The story opens as the narrator, Mama, and her youngest daughter, Maggie, await a visit from Dee, the oldest daughter, and a man who may be Dee's husband. ... The political climate of the story reveals a more respectful Dee in light of acceptance of hardships of African-Americans in the period of time the tale takes place. Everyday Use is set in the late sixties, a time when African-Americans were struggling to define their personal identities in cultural terms. ...

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Time is recognized like a resource that could be respected and used well. ... For example, in Asian countries, although parents tend to make decisions for their children and impose traditional rules on their sons and daughters, when they get older, they do not want to receive any supports form their children and dependent on them. ...

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However, despite the initial contradictions to their associated stereotypes, they all gradually regress into the social moulds and assumptions of the dominant social system of the time, making the play all the more tragic. In Othello, the main character after whom the play is named is presented as an honest, kind and respected black man, in service to the Venetian state, who recently married Desdemona, the Venetian senator Brabantio's daughter. ... This insulting reference to Othello's race, while seemingly frank and shocking to the contemporary audience, would have been less so ...

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His absolute attainment of power was potently communicated through the utilisation of a microphone as he spoke of dividing his power between his daughters. ... When Gloucester talks of the "ruinous disorders- of the time, he projects them through the lens of this quaint astrological theorising. ... Lear's daughters Gonerill and Regan sabotage the power structure of the monarchy by falsely professing their love for their father in order to gain power and inheritance. ... The women of the time were tainted by their sexual capacity, whereas men were empowered by it, reinforcing the patriarch...

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Mrs Bennet's determination to marry her daughters is a direct result of financial concerns. ... "5 Once an attraction has formed between Bingley and the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane, Mrs Bennet manipulates the situation and sends Jane to Netherfield on horseback during a storm, hoping she will catch a cold. ... Despite Charlotte's choice to encourage Collins being a conscious one, it is a choice that she makes only because of the social inequality women faced in this time. ... When he continuously ignores her refusal, she is forced to show her position as different to "thos...

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Through this, it is demonstrated that the values and ideas of religion endures important to today's society as its relevance in Shakespeare's time. Moreover, the gender inequality Portia faces, remains an influential issue in the modern society as well as it was in Shakespearian time. ... She challenges the patriarchy placed upon her by her dead father, mainly through his power and control over her, as she feels it's unfair that 'the will of a living daughter is curbed by the will of a dead father'. ... In conclusion, the relevant values and ideas of religious discri...

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He was raised in Prague until 1938, at which time his Jewish German family escaped to England. ... This was an early example of his love of controversy and how he enjoyed being famous and notorious at the same time, further guaranteeing that he would be widely read. ... He is survived by his wife, Susan, who shared the fieldwork in Morocco with him, and by two daughters and two sons. ...

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Even female characters onscreen are questioned all the time just because they female. ... For example Buffy from "Buffy the Vampire" was criticized so much at the time that it underwent major revision between two texts, because it was not what everyone was used to of seeing. ... In some poor families, there are double standards of just educating their sons and not daughters. ...

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Most interpretations summarize that its meaning is about a father grieving over the death of his young daughter. ... During the time Pearl was written, merchants did not truly fit in with a social group. ... So, this "new social group" argument correlates with both the poem and fourteenth-century society because the Jeweler is a tradesman that deals with wealthy aristocracy all the time, but is not a part of the group. ...

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Desdemona's loyalty represents the role of women in the male-dominated society of the time. ... Their marriage is described to Brabantio as one which "an old black ram is tupping you white ewe", and "you"ll have you daughter covered with a Barbary Horse", highlighting that Iago sees Othello as an inferior being. ...

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Another negative result of the dowry system was that women were expected to give birth to sons, not daughters since sons would not only carry on the family line, but also bring in a dowry, thereby increasing the family wealth, and daughters would have the opposite effect. ... Social services for military veterans have improved vastly since the time of my parents and grandparents as well. ... I myself was very fortunate since by the time I served in the military, treatment for PTSD was mandatory for all soldiers in the country I served for before coming home as a result of social services becom...

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Another negative result of the dowry system was that women were expected to give birth to sons, not daughters since sons would not only carry on the family line, but also bring in a dowry, thereby increasing the family wealth, and daughters would have the opposite effect. ... Social services for military veterans have improved vastly since the time of my parents and grandparents as well. ... I myself was very fortunate since by the time I served in the military, treatment for PTSD was mandatory for all soldiers in the country I served for before coming home as a result of social services becom...

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Shakespeare addresses the issue relevant to his time as the notion of misguided power throws society into chaos. The values of responsible use of power and the natural order still hold significance to different audiences over time. ... The use of a trolley piled with the corpses of Lear and his three daughters acts as a visual metaphor of the domestic holocaust, forming contrast with the opening scene of the family table. ... Shakespeare reflects the social and religious issues regarding Christian ideology which were of concern in his time. ... "Interpretations of texts can shift & change...

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Author Francois-Marie Arouet better known as "Voltaire" grew up in a middle class family in Paris where most of the people at this time were living in poverty. During his upbringing the French Aristocracy ruled with an iron fist, but at the same time the Enlightenment Movement was spreading ideas about the equality and basic rights of man and the importance of reason and scientific objectivity. ... (Page 19) Candide's origin is discussed, and it is stated that his mother and father did not marry because his father, "could only claim seventy-one quarterlings, the rest of his family tree ha...

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The way an audience reads the play is shaped by the time, place and culture in which they live. ... Another social belief of this time that shaped the Elizabethan reading of the play was that natural order could only be maintained if reason ruled over passion within the mind of individuals. ... When Lear banishes Cordelia saying, "Here I disclaim all my paternal care, propinquity and property of blood, And as a stranger to my heart and me, Hold thee from this forever" (Act 1 Scene 1), he is denying his responsibility to as a father offer unconditional love to his daughter. ... When Lear curses...

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During Austen's time in which Emma was written, society was based on a hierarchy of social birthright in an orderly system of strict proper etiquette, gentility and formal addresses. ... In Emma, Mr Woodhouse is a fussy invalid who is obsessively concerned with his and others' health while Mel Horowitz loves fattening food, is indolent and aggressive when he wants to be, "anything happens to my daughter, I got a .45 and a shovel-. ... In Austen's time, manners were important so only situational humour and irony were the main forms of humour. ...

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Shelley was born in London in 1797, daughter of famous radical writers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin; both of whom exemplified the ideologies of the French revolution. ... Shelley uses these characters to challenge the male orientated values and attitudes of the time by creating them as stereotypical constructs of 19th century European society. ... The early 19th Century was a time of great technological and scientific advancement. ... This scientific discovery, and others similar to it, would have had a significant impact on society at the time. ... In creating a character, which ...

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Women like La Madrina and Elvira demonstrate the conformity of women during the time of Eva Luna. ... Eva was able to adopt a role according to her own desires, growing away from the phallocentric values which existed during that time. ... In the house of Professor Jones, Eva, as the daughter of a servant, was expected to limit her mind to the dark domestic world in which she was born, but her imagination allowed her to create an alternate reality characterised by light - "One word from me and abracadabra! ... Here Allende tries to convey the values of oligarchy in society during that ...

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