Knox contended that "the head hath [God] joined with the body, that from it, doth life and motion flow to the rest of the members" the extended metaphor continued, encoding the head as male, and the kingdom as female, thus when a King became ruler he was symbolically married to the realm. In traditional gender hierarchy, the male leader dominates over the female state, when there is a female head of state, the symbolic body is inverted, "For who would not judge that body to be a monster where there was no head eminent above the rest, but that the eyes were in the hands, the tongue and mouth b...

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Historically, differences between men and women have usually been ascribed to biology; that is, men's bodies appear with penis, no breasts, no hip, no body hair, and short hair. Women's bodies, oppositely, appear with vulva, breasts, hip, no body hair, and long hair. ... This restriction on women's reproductive freedom may be understood in the broader context of patriarchal control of women by the "maternalization of the female body". ... The separation between public and private normalizes the male preponderance in the public sphere of politic, the higher value placed on mal...

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The results of the experiment were males selected the more aggressive way to play by pressing B more than the female BPD patients. PSAP aggressive responding by pressing B was higher in the male patients than the controls in both non-provoked and provoked patients; this shows that BPD patients have reduced rGMA. ... This is what raises the suspicions that male BPD patients have low activity in the striatum. ... There are four different dimensions that the model refers to; time, thought, body and emotions. ... Patients with BPD tend to distort neutral images or ambiguous pictures or videos of f...

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Thus, in order to maximize the total labor accrued from a slave woman, she "had to be annulled as [a] woman, that is, as [a] woman in her historical stance of wardship under the entire male hierarchy". Therefore, she was schematized similarly to her male counterpart (in regards to gender identity), giving her supposedly "equal" authority to him. ... " Morgan writes that this beastly description represented to Ligon, and similarly-minded Europeans of the time, the sole utility of the black woman's body as a producer of crops and more laborers. Additionally, their...

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This has led to an increasing amount of criticism argued upon the speculation of biased opinions presented by professors and authoritative bodies that manage the English Canon. It also consists of predominantly white male figures, the canon did not mean to do this but simply reflected cultural context. ... Despite the criticism over the inequality faced by writers that are not classified as the white male figure, many strive for the honour of being included in the English Canon, accompanied by the privileges. ...

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But Baudelaire moves slowly into the interior of Dorothea in terms of her body and her interior space - first he hints at the shape of her body underneath her dress and lifts her skirt to reveal "a shining, splendid leg," then he penetrates her "little cottage so coquettishly arranged," and finally the speaker pierces her physical exterior and enters her mind, letting the reader enter her thoughts and frustrations: "she"d be perfectly happy if she were not obliged to save, piaster by piaster, to buy her little sister." ... Both Baudelaire and Delacroix create a mundis muliebris where a male v...

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An example from my controversial essay mentions, ''These steroids are related to larger probabilities such as getting heart attacks and strokes in addition to undesirable body changes such as women looking more masculine (masculinization of the body of the woman) or decrease in genital size amongst men.'' ... To put these concepts into better visual understanding I shall provide two illustrations from my controversial analysis, '' an example of an irreversible change during steroid abuse can be gynecomastia, which happens because of abnormal hormone balance'...

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As age affects the different types of phobias you will be more likely to gain, your gender has been seen to change your odds as well: if you are female you are more likely to gain a phobia and demonstrate anxiety, unlike a male who is more likely to hide his anxiety and not accept that he has a phobia. ... If phobias are truly caused by traumatic experiences, it could be seen to be due to our survival instincts striking note into your brain for the body's survival. ... From this paper I feel as though I agree with the latter, in which after one suffers a traumatic situation, their brain s...

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The Athenian democracy had three main political bodies and these were the assembly or ecclesia which met ten times in a year, the council of 500 (boule) and the courts. Thorley (2005) posited that, of these three bodies it is the assembly and the courts that were the true sites of power since the assembly and the courts were regarded as the people and that no power was above them. ... Athenian democracy was limited to only male citizens of at least twenty years, for this reason the central event of the ancient Athenian democracy where the recognised Athenian citizens gathered to deliberate and...

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They do virtually everything they do in real life except they leave their bodies behind. ... Moreover, any individual could be, for example, a male heterosexual in real life but may interact in a net community as a single female, a teenage boy in another, or even a homosexual male in another (Lewis 2002). ...

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Although the male characters generally fail to notice or refuse to acknowledge women's authority and influence openly, they are affected by it. ... It is clear that this is a bold statement to make and the reason why this is so enervating is that she is openly refusing to offer her own right to make decisions to authority simply because it should be respected because it is a male-based authority. ... In the rest of the play, however, Hermia reveals other aspects of her personality that confirm how complex every human being is, whether male or female. ... First, it is important to point o...

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A Spanish humanist educator, Juan Louis Vives, reflects the views prevalent among male humanist educators at that time when he writes in his book Instruction of a Christian Woman that Renaissance women can please their husbands by reading the classics to learn good manners and should focus on the holy scriptures to learn moral philosophy. ... On the whole, a Renaissance education achieved its goal to develop the mind, body, and character of the pupil to produce the ideal Renaissance man....

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Violenta's fall from a reputed paragon of feminine virtue and subsequent turn to violent measures is portrayed as a fatal consequence of a flawed social system rather than, as was the belief of the time, a violence innate to the female body. ... The novel suggests that female violence is a direct cause of a weak social system that refuses women viable alternatives when the vaunted male protection fails them. ... Rather than punishing her own body for her loss of virtue, as again was the expected norm, Violenta stabs Roderigo with "undaunted resolution and heroic spirit," "...

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The Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917 and the Rice Riots of 1918 energized radical thought, and there were movements calling for universal male suffrage1, the social, economic and political liberation of women, and the end of the existing social order entirely. ... The lower, elected house of the Diet was given less power than that of the House of Peers, to which membership was hereditary or gifted by imperial will, and this upper house managed to block initiatives from the elected body on several occasions2. ... This 'political landmark'13 appeared to be a victory for democ...

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An extensive review of the literature suggests that LGS usually develops between the ages of 1 and 8 years, affects more males than females, with half having no known cause and the remainder having various aetiologys (causing factors) affecting the brain and directly causing epilepsy. ... Tonic seizures: may be diurnal (during the day) or nocturnal (at night); are usually symmetrical (affecting both sides of the body in the same way and at the same time) in effect; may go unnoticed if only short in duration and reduced to only an alteration in breathing rhythm and eye turning (common during...

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Hitler would go on to murder millions of lesser able bodied people and any so called 'racially impure' in order to try and create this new perfect race of strong and 'racially pure' Germans. ... The propaganda induced the Italians, spellbound by the myth of the Duce, to believe that Mussolini, with the strength of his ideas, the force of his actions and the power of his 'ever young' body would ransom them from the past and drive them on to a glorious future.9 This also emphasizes to a great extent Mussolini trying to enforce his Fascist ideologies with sport be...

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In Becoming America, author Jon Butler persuasively argues that the late American colonial period of 1680-1770 was one of monumental change, the end result being an essentially "modern- culture. He defeats the notion that the period was one of economic and cultural dependence on the English, and he ...

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In its broadest sense, popular music is an umbrella term referring to a vast range of commercially mass-marketed musical genres contrasting with classical or art music and intended to appeal to the masses (e.g., rock, rock and roll, hip-hop, grunge, heavy metal, rhythm and blues, punk, soul, techno,...

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