Using the play As You Like It and the characters portrayed within it one might be able to see how our concept of gender may well be challenged. ... By carefully going through the text of As You Like It (Greenblatt, ed., PP1591-1657) one can try to "dig in" to the characters portrayed and discover any challenge to our views of gender identity. ... We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, And wheresoe"er we went, like Juno's swans Still we went coupled and inseparable." ... Rosalind seems to confirm this in the line (Greenblatt, ed., p 1654,...

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Money would write this off as Brenda being a tomboy and trying to act like her brother, which would happen a lot when you had twins. ... David best sums up what he felt when he said " you know generally what a guy is like, and you know generally what a girl is like. And everyone is telling you that you are a girl. But you say to yourself, I don't feel like a girl. ... He thought his experiment worked; it wasn't the way you were born but the way you were brought up. ...

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As I read over Ernest Hemingway's short story, Hills Like White Elephants, there is one powerful theme that clearly stands out. ... The man then goes on to say, "And if I do it you"ll be happy and things will be like they were and you"ll love me?" The woman then replies, "I love you now. You know I love you." ... The woman comments on the hill looking like white elephants. ...

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Bend it Like Beckham, directed by Gurinder Chadha in (2002), and Billy Elliot, directed by Stephen Daldry (2000), are movies that share common themes and ideas. ... In Bend it Like Beckham, Jesse, the younger of two girls, is from a Sikh family living in Hounslow, West London. ... Billy on the other hand, isn't supposedly acting like a real man. ... For example, in Bend it Like Beckham, Jesse is sent to go buy shoes to wear to her sister's wedding. ... Whether if it's breaking your cultural barriers or differing from your gender role causing yourself to be overlooked at, if you ...

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You go to a bar one night and you see this pretty lady across the way, she doesn't see you, so you think of making a surprise move on her; see how her nights going, maybe more. ... As you approach the woman she turns and you smile saying "Hey there," she frowns at you, as though she's disgusted you even made the move, she's not impressed with your gray beard, she walks off to be with a much more youthful looking man. ... They know what men like, men like sports, men like women, and men like any hair color but GRAY! ... The text in this particular commercial uses underlying me...

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Traditionally when you think of a place like this the things that come to mind are booze, sex appeal, and people just having a good time. ... Well when you mess with Pink you have another thing coming. ... That even in a place like that the woman can still prevail. ... You get act like you don't care while exuding sex appeal and its perfectly acceptable. That as a woman nothing can hurt you and you'll never need a prince on a white horse to rescue you. ...

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When looking out into a suburban street or city you might see different types of behaviour in males and females. These types of different gender behaviour are called gender construction or how you are brought up as a child according to your gender. if you like blue for boys or pink for girls. ... It shouldn't matter what other people think, it's how you feel that should count, but in this modern world people judge the society on the "typical" stereotype of male/female. ... People should be able to do what you want without people criticising you. ... The main character in the novel ...

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If your sex is male, but you feel as though you are more of a woman, you may choose to live as a woman so that you will be perceived as a woman. Or you may be more comfortable with people thinking of you as a woman than having people think of you as a man, who acts like woman. ... They choose for her to be a girl so therefore she believed that she should like males. ... She chose to change to a man and be with this woman so she would look more like she fit in with the society around her. ... They can't possibly feel like humans if they are being the puns of people's jokes. ...

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"My Grandmother, she was a horse woman too, born like me in the Chinese year of the horse- which is supposed to be bad luck if you are born a female- but I think this is a Chinese lie because the Chinese, like the Mexicans, don't like their women strong."... You will always be Esparanza. You will always be Mango Street. You can't forget what you know. You can't forget who you are." ...

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When looking at the similarities between Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and As You Like It, the most obvious connections lie in the manner in which the two main female roles both disguise themselves as men within the plays. ... When Rosalind decides to cross dress as the shepherd Ganymede in Act I, scene 3 of As You Like It, she highlights the conceptions of gender as a central theme of the play. ... This can be seen in As You Like It act II, scene 4, when Rosalind breaks down and cries [unlike a man]. ... Like many of Shakespeare's plays and poems, As You Like It explores a variety...

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You admit your guilt. ... You learn not to do it again. ... He kills lions, like Hemingway; or he hunts ducks, like Nathaniel West...." ... "Everyone is aware of how few in number are the athletes who behave like gentlemen," Theroux says. ... But in my opinion, adult males who do not behave like gentlemen, in all instances, are not men. ...

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I know it may be hard for some of you, but think about it. if you grew up, knowing nothing about the stereotypes that are played out all over the world, would you have the same perspective on you sexuality? Love knows no gender. you can tell me that you are as straight as a ruler, but then the next day meet someone of the same gender that you find can contaminate you with their every being, to turn their dreams in to your and make every waking and breasting moment you spend apart torture for you. what if you grew up knowing nothing about 'girls and boys' and who is supposed to like w...

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But no matter who it is, they will be the people who take care of you when you are sick or aid you when you need help. ... A person's nature might also influence a person to act like a man or a woman. ... This means that the girl just like to play with boys and doboy? ... Not all people like all the same things or people. Joe may be friends with Larry, and Larry may like Bob, but Joe may not like Bob. ...

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But no matter who it is, they will be the people who take care of you when you are sick or aid you when you need help. ... A person's nature might also influence a person to act like a man or a woman. ... This means that the girl just like to play with boys and do "boy" things. ... Not all people like all the same things or people. Joe may be friends with Larry, and Larry may like Bob, but Joe may not like Bob. ...

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But you don't see women right activists fighting for the right to get drafted do you? ... Like one great leader of my people said, "All men are created equal." ... A woman wants to be treated like a woman, but if they truly want to be equal they should be treated like a man. ... Concluding this document I would like to state that women can be a major part of the war through many aspects. To the woman who is reading this paper, are you really satisfied with the rights you have? ...

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And it"ll be like replacing a circumcision. ... It would be like making fun of yourself if you did. ... Now if you"re gay, you never have to hide it and wait to come out of the closet. There is no better solution to this problem, but some people just like to argue. ... They think you can teach it in schools. ...

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Have you ever heard someone say "You throw like a girl!... Have you ever felt like you had to obtain a certain role in your life because of your gender? Have you ever been discriminated against due to something you said or did because it was not socially accepted by society due to your gender? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you have experienced the inequality of today's gender role issues. ... Women do tend to stereotypically play the victim, but men also are ridiculed and put on a standard and are compared just like women are. ...

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So, she thinks way too much into what is wrong with him and turns the situation around to make it seem like he doesn't like her anymore and that their relationship is failing, when in all reality, it isn't. ... You might say she's pretty silly, right? Well, all women act exactly like that, even when they say that they don't. ... The world will always be unfair to you. ... If you use your feminine qualities the right way, you"ll get further in life. ...

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"Its too big its too wide it don't fit, he walks like this cause he can back it up, he's got a big ego, such a huge ego.... Also, the lyrics can be what most feminist would see as degrading, for example: "Ego so big, you must admit I got every reason to feel like I'm that bitch", I believe that this is saying that the stronger the man you have the more woman it makes you. ... It also gives the female a more submissive role by saying that a woman was created for the man when Beyoncé expresses these lyrics, "Some women were made but me, myself I like to ...

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""I think I"d rather just talk," I say-What would you like to talk about?" ... Well, you for instance."... It's like that first time you take your girlfriend to meet your friends. ... You"re trying to make her feel really good, and if you make an ass of yourself, at least you tried. ... You can hardly do business without it You can overhear things too; information. ...

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The lighting was poor, the colors were dark, and it smelled like a locker room. ... Men like this smell because they can relate to it. ... Women on the other hand, do not like this smell at all. ... Take a store like Victoria's Secret for instance. ... The women who work at this store are treated just like they are "one of the boys." ...

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She was very lady-like and beautiful which helped her to use her image and personality in a way to receive certain things. ... Brigid said to Sam, "You've been playing with me, just pretending you cared to trap me like this...you didn't care at all, you don't love me." ... Gutman said to Sam, "I am a man that like stalking to a man that likes to talk." ... In some ways, Sam was like a actor because he acted in many different ways. ... He would have looked you up and down and licked his lips and have gone grinning from here to ear and you could have stood as close to him as...

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Do you ever really think about the connotation of the words you are using or whom they may offend? ... The answer to that question can vary, but most individuals do not recall choosing to like the opposite sex rather the attraction is just there. ... You can choose heterosexual or homosexual sex however you can not choose to whom you are attracted to. Sexual orientation is the same as eye color you get it and like it or not that is what you have. ... Children do not make words like this up themselves they have to come from somewhere and often times reiterate points that parents make in thei...

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They follow orders swiftly and obediently; somewhat like cadets taking orders from their commanding officers. ... Do you want to go? I don't think you'd like it, but I'll take you if you really want to go" (248). ... "It's the budding that takes the most careIt's when you're picking off the buds you don't want. ... She can tell immediately and "she crouched low like a fawning dog" (247). ...

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Have you ever wondered why women are different from men? ... Maybe men are the ones acting like ninnies. ... Men can learn to act like ladies. ... Men can learn to be tidy like women. ... This is one of Ehrenreich's persuasive messages: "if you take the credit you deserve, you"re letting people know that you were confident you"d succeed all along, and that you fully intend to do so again" (255). ...

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