After examining chapters 6 and 39 of Kate Chopin's story The Awakening, one is able to see that the author planned to depict the final scene to be tragic yet triumphant. Like Edna's final act in chapter 39, the first half of chapter 6 allows the reader to understand that Edna is lost in her search for individuality and freedom in her life. Perhaps the most apparent connection between the two chapters is the symbol and role of the sea which allows Edna to find the light that she has been searching for. In the end, the reader is able to see that all of Edna's thoughts and acti...

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Although the book contains chapters such as "The Evolution of Animal Mating Systems" and "The Biological Basis of Human Patterns of Mating and Marriage" I chose primarily to devote much of the focus of this essay to the latter chapters of the book ("The Social Anthropology of Marriage and Mating" and "Mating, the Family, and Marriage: A Sociological View"). ... The chapters presented some interesting variations of mating and marriage patterns and meanings in different cultures. ... Today, females have removed the tendency to give sexual signals at the time of ovulation only, and replaced it ...

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In Nancy Chodorow's chapter, Pre-Oedipal Gender Configurations, she states that "mothers are and have been the child's primary caretaker, socializer, and inner object; fathers are secondary objects" (Chodorow 470). ... Later on in Chodorow's chapter, she writes that daughters copy or imitate many features of their mothers' personality characteristics (Chodorow 476). ... Her father is mostly absent in her life and tries to make up for it by giving her whatever she desires. ...

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A couple of points he makes here are: many stores do not provide opportunities for shoppers to touch and feel the merchandise, and yet this sensual experience can be very influential in making the sale in fact, Underhill devotes an entire chapter (Chapter 12) to the 'sensual shopper', where he emphasizes the importance of engaging the senses in the shopping experience (a prime example he uses here is the smell of freshly baked bread that greets one upon entering some supermarkets, which he can correlate directly with increased spending) Lines and time spent waiting at the checkou...

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However, there are two distinct groups within the Awlad" Ali society that contradict this idea and reassert the proposition that there is indeed a defined structure that separates groups, and gives some groups power over others - namely, the power of men over women. ... Men are given much leeway with their behaviour and it is generally expected that a man is to pursue a woman to request marriage, in an effort to procreate and give the community much-loved children. ... However, as depicted in the chapter in question, only the boy must utter the religious phrase associated with slaughtering. ...

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Addressed to the women of the audience, Ruskin gives a contradictory and enigmatic description of the role of a woman; in the first paragraph of Sesame and Lilies he states that both sexes are equal but not alike, and that one is not superior to the other. ... It is a safe haven for the man; an escape from the horrors of the world outside the home; greed and murder are some of the examples Ruskin gives. ... He then quotes from chapter 2, verse 15 of the Song of Solomon again to confirm the woman's role in life, and that is for her to protect her family against the horrors of the wo...

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Christianity, for example, offers women a role, in which the first step is the baptism, where women not only are name Christians, but also received an identity (their name, Christian name which already gives them a sexual identity and the next step would be the Communion, Confirmation, and Marriage (known as The Sacraments). ... Even the Bible devotes a Chapter to impurities of menstruation. ...

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But to have any hope, certainty or believe we should firstly investigate the current situation that can give us a full picture of what chances we- females do have and do not and then what of them we are expected to get. ... To make it easier to observe and understand the levels of authority that are meant here and the theoretical explanations of rights and liberties that have been already given to the "weaker sex", the chapter Theoretical Framework was provided with the theories, written laws and norms. ... In the following chapters the work will be based on the objects to compare the level...

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