Many men and women alike love sports, and to discriminate against a certain sex by not providing them with the opportunity to participate in the sport(s) that they are interested in is wrong. ... (Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to the 1964 Civil Rights Act) This law has done wonderful things in the promotion of women's sports and is a great law in its original intent; however, the enforcement of this law has terribly perverted its spirit. ... Big time football usually carries the most in a schools athletic program, the most expenses, the most players, but also the most re...

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He tells us that with the woman's protection and her constant love of all that she cherishes around her in the garden, her home, she can make everything " bloom" and repel the bad things in life. ... Novelist Dinah Mulock wrote of Victorian girls when they have completed their education, they "come home, and stay home" she adds that they have "literally nothing to do", (A Woman's Thoughts About Women, 1888). ... Failing to get married, the girl had to turn to prostitution and "Entertain(s) a sordid guest", (verse 6), whilst the man could carry on with his wealthy existence without ...

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It is partly the intolerable insensitivity and brutal pride of Agamemnon, who sacrifices his daughter's life to help carry on his political scheme, which drives the Queen to plot the murder of her husband. ... Although the Elders of Argo do not trust Clytemnestra, they do not foresee the impeding murders. ... Clytemnestra is confident in her strength and feels cheated when she is forced to stay and home and take on an undesirable domestic role while Agamemnon carries on his adventures in Troy and returns as a hero and conqueror. ... She concludes her trial with a plea to bargain with the ...

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People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. ... In fact, when Cather introduces Alexandra, Cather states, "She wore a man's long Ulster (not as if it were an affliction, but as if it were very comfortable and belonged to her; carried it like a young soldier), and a round plush cap, tied down with a thick veil". ... In a time where male privilege ran throughout the culture, Oscar felt entitled to things such as land, which was owned by Alexandra. ... , as a critique of American society, demonstrating the strength women could gain if they were given the same o...

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And if they fail to attain such an expectation, they are taught to feel ashamed and guilt-ridden until they go out to the store and purchase the necessary products capable of altering their misguided self-image. ... Paris Hilton is a lot things, including but not limited to a relatively attractive young woman, a recognizable name, a hugely successful celebrity, and a female figure of which many young women aspire to be. It's her status as a celebrity that carries the bulk of the message, not the product itself. ... They are supposed to appear desirable to men, so that they can in turn rem...

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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. ... George Orwell, a profound literary figure in his own right, said: "the worst books are often the most important because they are usually the ones that are read earliest in life- (Hunt, 1). ... With this, a children's a...

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Many women do this because they feel that if they make themselves incredibly pretty, or abnormally skinny that they will get more attention from their friends and even guys. ... " Lohan says, "They sat me down, literally before I was going to do the show and they said, 'you need to take care of yourself. ... These young girls see this and have the thought that if they cannot be like these models, then they simply are not pretty enough for the world. They can end up isolating themselves from others, avoiding school, and other social activities due to the way they feel about them...

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I think that almost in every aspect of her life La Senora was a bit superficial, and even her affection for Eva reminded me of the way she treated that Spanish doll that they kept on the bed in the apartment. ... But hiding away and even leaving the country with the help of her powerful friends did not take away the only stir of feelings that La Senora was to have in her life: imprisonment of Melesio did not let her sleep at night or carry on her revolutionary activity in the sex-care industry during the day. ... Above I was examining struggles of individual female characters from the novel, b...

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How women behave, their roles in society, their roles in a marriage, what types of freedom they have, how they spend their time, the education they receive, and many other things have been debated for hundreds of years. ... The common characteristics of what was expected of a woman hundreds of years ago was someone who acted as if they had no cares, uneducated, dependent, and only cared for the petty things of life. ... This was the way things functioned and operated and women were supposed to accept it and be content. ... A chance for women to develop their minds with education and expand th...

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However, up until the last forty years women were being deprived of these things. ... The media swarmed her as she was carried by her coach to the podium to accept the gold medal. ... Things such as ticket sales, jersey sales and other promotional products often cause the large discrepancy between male and female sports. ... Often female athletes feel they must stress the fact that they are still "real women" despite their athletic ability. ... Today, female athletes still feel they must remind the public that despite their athletic prowess they are still women. ...

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This leads us to Cohen's third thesis of category crisis, "[Desdemona's] refusal to participate in the classificatory 'order of things' is true of monsters generally: they are disturbing hybrids whose externally incoherent bodies resist attempts to include them in any systematic structuration" (6). ... Iago claims that all women are the same, that women deceive men because in public, they act as models of virtue, yet in the comfort of their own home they make noise like bells. That they act as animals in the kitchen, act as saints when they complain, and act as ...

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I have used an extensive range of sources, whether they are journals, books or articles. ... However the validity of a source is dependant on whether the information resourced is really measured on what they say it's being measured on. ... This is because of the role in which females have been given and carry out in society can determine the leniency of male officers. ... Even with increased rates in crimes pertaining to fraud and theft, the crimes women commit are extensively related to their typical household duties, things that may either help and benefit their families or crimes they ...

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