Before Mulan was created Disney's Beauty and the Beast' and The Little Mermaid' had already marked a significant change in the portrayal of women, but it can still be argued that behind the audacious, attractive, and determined characters they are still happy homemakers just waiting to settle down. ... Snow White represents the submissive women before the feminist revolution and agrees to keep the house, cook, make beds, wash, sew and keep everything neat and tidy. ... It is still clear that men have control over Mulans life, and whether she is to live or die, which could b...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

But the body of Polynices, who died miserably- why, a city-wide proclamation, rumor has it, forbids anyone to bury him, even mourn him. ... Die I must" (509-512). ... Antigone is willing to die by the gods if she must, although she believes that they shall hold her in high reverence for her actions. ... She goes on to say that, "And if I am to die before my time I consider that a gain" (514-515). ... She showed herself capable of insolence then, going beyond the laws put before her. ...

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Female issues have been represented through art before any women's movements were ever established. ... Most of the symbolism was in reference to an historical event that led to a lesson in acceptable behavior. ... In the story, Sir Lancelot is in love with someone else and Elaine locks herself in a tower on the of Shallot and dies of a broken heart. ... Another artist associated with Realism is Honore Daumier, however he painted in the realistic style before Realism was officially recognized. ... Modern art requires its audience to observe carefully in order to get s...

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"...but all her womanly skills she would keep away from me, keep to herself until she died"(Choy, 35). ... Norma Goodrich states that heroines "give us one lesson after another in how to survive humiliation and discrimination"(Goodrich, 2). ... A heroine " Must have proven fearless before strictures which she has adjudged unfair or wrong"(Goodrich, 8). ...

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Although Wes Moore's father died when he was very young, and was not around to parent him, the few memories he had of him gave him an idea of what it meant to be a good man. ... Wes's father taught Wes an incredibly important lesson that day, that helped him keep his cool in future situations and not react with violence. ... Tony, the other Wes Moore's brother became involved in the drug game long before Wes, but wanted Wes to have nothing to do with it. ...

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• Grade Level: High School