Living the traditional American dream, to some, entails embracing this collectivistic state and becoming a part of a larger family unit. ... Billy is seen dancing in the middle of a long line of girls who are all dressed in white, with the lighting of the scene being bright and almost angelic. ... This scene is a two-point perspective of the traditional American dream versus its modern version. ... But with the modern change in gender roles in society, our current views allow us to "switch camera angels" and just focus on the talent. ... This tactic serves as the easiest and most eff...

• Word Count: 1889
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Americans against homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s had strong opinions that have kept many gay composers from coming out about who they really are. ... The musical involves both a gay male couple (Angel and Collins) and a lesbian couple (Maureen and Joanne). ... This also includes sexual and gender expression, which is shown when Angel and Collins (a transgender character and a male) kiss on the table as well as when Maureen (who is bisexual) kisses Joanne. ... In Rent, the audience is exposed not only to transgender characters, but also same-sex relationships (for example, the relationsh...

• Word Count: 1633
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In America as well as most Western cultures abroad, women's place in society was valued little above the livestock, slaves or other property that men owned. ... In nineteenth century America, small groups of Americans were involved in great conflicts and arguments in regards to the inhumane treatment of many of their brethren. ... American literature was entering its renaissance era and "struggling for recognition and credibility (McQuade 1305). ... Fuller's fundamental ideal throughout this work is that man's (meaning man and woman) destiny is to "fulfill the law of h...

• Word Count: 2090
• Approx Pages: 8

Aunt and Wives are how they are referred to, whereas the male Commanders, Angels, Eyes, and Guardians do not reduce individual men to their sex. ... Women in a North American society have the same opportunities as men. ... However, when the Eyes arrive to take her, Offred is convinced that Nick has betrayed her, "You shit, I think my suspicion hovers in the air above him, a dark angel warning me away."...

• Word Count: 1487
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Understanding the situations current African generations are living in allows us to determine the quality of our own lives and the substance that makes us who were are, as Americans, today. ... Just as mid-twenty- first century America called for women to leave the household and situate themselves in the workplace, so rings the call of modern African liberals. ... This obsolete phrase brings wretched offense to the ears of modern American women. ... Because for the past century American women have fought to earn the right to vote, make their way into the exclusively male workplace, and develop...

• Word Count: 1254
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The movement has come a long way, and women in the United States of America enjoy so many rights virtually unheard of in regions such as the Middle East. ... Women, from the way Angier condemns men, are probably angels who could do no wrong. ...

• Word Count: 1987
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

(Cited in Payne 2000) Thus in just the same way as women are expected to be the "angel of the hearth" (Walsh 1997) men are socially expected to be hunter gatherers, providers and so the breadwinner. ...

• Word Count: 2379
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography