In the first vignette, "The House on Mango Street," Esperanza states, "throughout her childhood, she moved frequently from one Chicago barrio apartment to the next because the residence had become too small for her growing family of six or inadequate for living" (Cisneros 3). ... It was a small house with crumbling bricks, small windows, no front yard, no trees, hallway stairs, one washroom, and everyone had to share a bedroom. (4) The house on Mango Street did not live up to Esperanza's standards of her dream house. ... Living in a small house in an underprivileged s...

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For once during the seven years that the tale takes place Hester embraces her womanhood again, but this is cut short as Pearl cannot handle what she sees. The child "burst into a fit of passion, gesticulating violently, and throwing her small figure into the most extravagant contortions" (Hawthorne, 164). ... The fact that it is Hester who helps Dimmesdale up the steps to the place where he confesses and then dies, escaping the direct ridicule of the community, just reinforces my belief that she deserves the title of hero. ... Hawthorne created in Hester a woman who sins, faces her conse...

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For example these claims say that women are weaker than men, women are not physically capable of playing sports, or a woman's place is in the home rather than on the playing field. ... Individuals opposed to women sharing the field often use the excuses that women are not as strong as men and smaller them as well. ... (Ring, 2006, p 148) In addition, critics of baseball often claim that a woman's naturally small stature in comparison to most men will inhibit their success in baseball. ... Women who are smaller than men are just as capable if not more of performing well in the sport. ...

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Manderley traditionally hosts a costume ball each year, and it is soon time for the gala to take place. ... She despises the heroine for taking her mistress's place. ... Together, the couple is traveling through Europe, staying in small hotels to avoid meeting people they both know. ... He shows warm and courteous demeanor--except at one place on the road, a place with a particularly striking view, where a bad memory seems to trouble him. ... The narrator and her husband, neither of whose names we know yet, find themselves in exile from Manderley, a place of great beauty that now lies in...

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Grand Isle is a place for relaxation and escape, and it becomes the perfect setting for Edna Pontellier's Romantic Journey. ... Chopin slowly offers the answer by hinting that Edna is stuck in a marriage and family that binds her to a place where she does not want to be. ... On one of their outings, Robert takes her to rest at Madame Antoine's house in a small village. ... But more importantly, it felt good to wake up in a new place, one that had not been corrupted by the order and conformity of society. ...

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To them she was inviting trouble, sunbathing like that, in a public place, in the nude. ... Surprisingly though we find one of the men, Harry saying "small things amuse small minds" when Stanley let out a wolf whistle!! ... He lied to them apparently because "he wanted to keep what he had seen to himself: he had actually caught her in the act of rolling down the little red pants over her hips, till they were no more than a small triangle. ... Paragraph 3 (lines 10 - 15) Here a conversation takes place between the men, in which they are angry and presumptuous. ...

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Condorcet was the largest male advocate of women's right in the Revolution; his arguments embodied what women were striving for and his actions helped ensure a place for women in political societies and in demonstrations. ... A small delegation of women- four to six- were permitted to approach the king who gave them reassurances that there would be no hold-ups of grain deliveries to the city. ...

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She cannot afford to pay her rent money for her small, run down, apartment and prefers to escape seeing her landlord by using the fire escape ladder. ... Pinned up on the wall of Eliza's small room is a portrait of a popular actor and a fashion plate of ladies dresses torn from newspapers, an example of Eliza wanting articles to aspire for to decorate her life. ...

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"Behind every great man, there is a great woman." Meryl Frost first said this in 1945 about his wife. It has since been said countless times over the years, and in countless languages and variations. It is not the first quote in which a husband gives credit to his wife for making him a better man; a better person. It takes a great woman to stand behind a man; a man who is trying to make a difference, change the nation, or in this instance, create a new nation that would be free of the puppet strings from England. ...

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When Clarissa returns home to the small attic room she is secluded and lonely. ... Clarissa enjoys the moment-to-moment aspect of life and believes that a piece of her remains in every place she has visited. ... The world is a very scary and dangerous place for Septimus: "The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames" (P. 18.) ...

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World is made of men and women. They are the two pieces of a puzzle without which life would be impossible. What is it exactly that makes the division between men and women? Scientifically, one responsible factor is a proper chromosome. But the truth is that it is not so much the matter of...

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"It was believed they [women] lacked strength and stamina, that their brains were small, that the feminine perspective and sensitivity were liabilities in the marketplace."4 However, during the early years of industrialization, men focused on farm work. ... Thus, a slow but steady inclusion of women in the work force took place. ...

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In the play "Othello," Shakespeare presents us with another male dominated society where women are inferior. Desdemona, Emilia, and Bianca are rejected by their partners, but love them completely and unselfishly. All three women are in unbalanced relationships, feeling more for their self-centered m...

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And indeed, in a time period such as the one in which this story takes place, males are considered far superior to females, and comments such as the ones made by the men in this extract would not be viewed as shocking. ... We are told that the woman is "stark naked- "rolling down the little red pants over her hips till they were no more than a small triangle. ...

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