The women on the other hand observe the surroundings and notice the small things the men deem unimportant. ... It is the small things that often have the most meaning. ... Wright, the house is not clean, the table is half dirty and one portion of the quilt was sewn together well while the other side was all over the place. ... Hale as they recounted the events that took place. ... The events that took place in Trifles are those of many that occur throughout heterosexual relationships. ...

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Most women who were shown in non-working roles, took place in the home. ... Products such as linens, health care products, and small kitchen items, vital purchasing decisions were made solely by the man. ... It is typical to see boys playing outside while girls play inside, with camera angles pointing up to make the boys look dominant, while they point down and make the girls look smaller (Bretl 604). ... Women and girls were shown smaller than men or boys. ... Throughout history, women have proven they can be successful in the work place while still taking care of her family and completing al...

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Picture yourself as a small child around the age of four. ... As the wounds heal, scar tissue joins the labia and covers the urethra, and most of the vaginal orifice, leaving an opening that may be as small as a matchstick for the passage of urine and menstrual blood. ... In communities where a persons place in society is determined by lineage traced through fathers, female circumcision reduces the uncertainty surrounding paternity by discouraging and preventing women's sexual activity outside of the marriage. ... Desperate attempts to educate the various cultures about the risks of pe...

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In the first place he gave her a pound's weight of gold, to induce her to accept his suit, and he granted her the estate at Street with all that belongs to it, and 150 acres at Burmarsh and in addition 30 oxen and 20 cows and 10 horses and 10 slaves." ... A fabric sash or girdle was often wrapped around the waist, and was used to suspend household keys, small toilet implements such as nail scissors, ear scoops, and tweezers, and beautiful and mysterious objects such as small crystal balls and decorative spoon-like sieves, like those found in the female grave at Chessell Down, Isle of W...

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I had began tapping my finger nails on the desk (first the small finger, the ring finger until the pointing finger, then back to the small one) frustrated to find a solution to my problem. ... Construction consumed most of the campus and roads so I was detoured all over the place and it appeared as if summer school was a popular choice for many college students because there was nowhere to park. ... As I approached the counter, there were two desks place on two opposite corners of a square, one was close to me on the left and the other was far on the right. ... As I opened the door to the offi...

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Tall people can reach high places. Being tall is noticeable to others and contrary to this, being small, vertically challenge, perhaps, has always a connotation of inessential, useless and weak. ... However, even the power of small wins. Just because someone is small doesn't mean that they're any less good. Being small no longer means there are things one can't do, which means that he/she can do anything no matter what size he/she is, one just have to want it bad enough and then go for it just like what Mushu did. ...

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Henry Lawson Henry Lawson portrays the drover's wife with a lot of sympathy, but does seem to imply that the life is unnatural and destructive, even though she can cope with it - the Bush is "no place for a woman". ... Small gaps in the text and lines like "It must be near one or two o'clock" or "it must be near morning now" mark the passing of time and the movement of her mind from the past back to the present. ... The small gaps, for example "it must be near one or two' o clock-, shows the movement of her mind from the past and present. ...

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"The true woman's place was unquestionably her own fireside-as daughter, sister, but most of all as wife and mother, therefore, domesticity was among the virtues most prized by women's magazines" (Welter 5). ... The only proper place for a respectable woman was in the home, providing care, nurturance and comfort to her husband and children. ... But her small boot heel did not make an indenture, not a mark upon the little glittering circlet" (Chopin 50-51). ... That being said, "if it was not a mother's place to look after the children, whose on earth was it...

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Through the study of Abigail Adams, we learned about women and their place in society, if they had a place at all. In the 1700's, a woman's place was to be a wife and mother. ... After all, it was her place to educate the children. ... The Indian tribes were at a disadvantage because of their small numbers, nomadic life, and unwillingness to defend themselves. ... Other wars took place in the West, most ending in tragedy for the Indians. ...

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This story takes us back in time to a place in our history where men and women played very different roles in their lives. ... Hale, a farmer's wife, and immediately we see the high importance she places in keeping an organized household. ... She is a woman of small stature (the direct opposite of her husband) and is described as thin, timid and weak voiced. ... Hale also said "But I don't think a place would be any the cheerfuler for John Wright's bein" in it." ... Women are full of mysteries that even today, men "just don't get", and women will always keep them hidden...

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She was born in Jamaica, a small island but yet, an important mechanism to the growing Empire. ... Elizabeth Marsh was a woman who had a growing awareness of connection between different regions and people.6 In her travels she explored many different places such as the Caribbean, Africa, India and Morocco. ... Linda Colley not knowing the race of Marsh's mother shows readers that social history is taking place in the text because some readers could be prejudice towards the racial background of Elizabeth Marsh. ... In her period, gender history was not only taking place in her society ...

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Some families place such a large importance on that role that it is impossible for a person to achieve his or her life goals. ... After Mama Elena passed away and Diaz was exiled these two events sparked a small sign of freedom and victory from the rebellious, but things still didn't get better. ... It wasn't until the 1900's were the emergence and acceptance of woman came into place. ...

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The studies of past cultures is a good place to start to answer questions about societies and cultures today, and to bridge together the gap between the past and present, and maybe even predict where we are headed in the future. ... Austrolopithicus began as bipedals with a small brain case and large physical features (strong jaw muscles, large thick-enamaled teeth, great muscle mass) which helped them to survive on the ground for a while while vegetation was lush. ... Kung San live together in small groups, in which everyone takes care of all the children, and much of life is not privately sh...

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Between the dates of 2007/2008 to 2008/2009 in the United Kingdom, there was a small decrease of 2% in the number of female arrests from 251,910 to 247,127, compared to the number of male arrests which decreased by 1%, from 1,223,356 to 1,215,012. ... He then uses these findings to place both men and women in particular idealistic roles linking well with Freud's theory of the infantile attraction to the mother, distinctly associating the mother role to the more emotive role. ... However there still appears to be relatively small differences between adult women and men in the likelihood of...

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Victorian society was very strict and women's place was very clear. ... They tried to raise consciousness of the discrimination taking place in society because of the way women were treated. ... She saw and enjoyed the ambiguity and androgyny of "woman- but was smart enough to realize that small changes (moving into "pigeon-houses-) would not be enough to allow a place in society for a new female identity, whatever form it may take.""...

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This is probably why Kingston's aunt committed suicide along with the fact that it was illegitimate in the first place. ... And this is just one small example of the beginnings of women's struggle to fight back, which has just ignited within the last 100 years. ... More specifically, she is giving a voice to her aunt, who never had one in the first place. ...

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(Freud 175) When this disappointment in marriage occurs, the male often times looks other places (to other people) for sexual satisfaction. ... Society's deification of men has educated women to not only accept, but to actually be satisfied and happy with second place. As deBeauvoir points out, it is a "small matter to her to have second place if she has her place - (deBeauvoir 237) It is obvious to some women that marriage should not occur in order to achieve greater social status, but rather in order to fully join two equals in every way. ... (Horney 192) Society will always pla...

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Di Prima goes against the traditional female position as a housewife by enveloping a bachelor's lifestyle yet placing this role upon the main female character. ... The woman in the story spends the majority of her adult days painting, drinking beer, stealing small amounts of food from a local grocery store, and hanging out with what seems to be her lesbian neighbors. ... The Hunger Games takes place in a futuristic society where humanity is separated into twelve districts. ... The lead female goes against the representation of weak twentieth century women, and presents bravery when she ta...

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Mamet graduated from Goddard College, a small liberal school in rural Vermont, with a Bachelor of Arts degree. ... Gould's secretary on this momentous day is ill, so Karen, a temporary worker, takes her place. ... In its place, Gould chooses to co-produce with Karen what has already been determined a failure. ...

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She moved to Gallia County and realized just how male oriented a small town can be. ... There have been laws to increase equality in the work place such as affirmative action. ... The one place that women have never been allowed is the President of the United States. ...

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Stelling's charge, Tom cannot fight physically for his place in the world. ... Lucy's behavior proves that even though she had a desire, though a small one, to break free of the mold, society pushed her back into a pattern of "appropriate" behavior as she matured. ...

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"The Ceremony" where the conception takes place is not a form of rape - "There is nothing going on here that [she hadn't] signed up for". ... Although the Commander part way through the novel appears to be giving Offred some freedom, for example letting her read magazines and play Scrabble, he is in actual fact repressing her further - how much does she owe for this small bit of freedom? ...

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The robust Dutch economy and prosperous citizenry provided an extremely favourable environment in which artists could work, even if their principal patrons were no longer the small aristocratic class and the much-reduced Roman Catholic Church in this now official Protestant land. ... The markedly young housewife on her way, in place of the maid, to refill the wine pitcher is between two scenes, part of neither. ...

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A common and fascinating characteristic of these plays is that they involve small number of characters unlike his earlier plays but in all three we find community personified to play a vital role. ... Society demanded that she must take a place under her husband. ...

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In so doing, we affect not only our lives, but also the lives of others and the social systems in which all of this take place. ... Women have therefore come to believe in sexism and to accept a secondary place in society. ... Such activity is reflected mainly in the sphere of small 4Excerpt from article of Dr.Anara Tabyshalieva "Increasing gender inequality in Central Asia- entrepreneurship. ...

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