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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"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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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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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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"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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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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He's saying that nobody else can have you because you belong to me. Helmer often chastises Nora when he feels like she is getting beside herself. ... She tells her friend " It was almost like being a man"(1005). ... All right, you little goose, I know you didn't mean it like that. ... I"ll make all of the decision and you except it, I will provide for you and the children and you will cook, clean, and have babies. ...

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"I do not care that your grandmother say it makes me like a man, I like to be like a man," She says. ... You know you ain't right to kiss me like that. I"ll tell your grandmother on you!" ... Antonia's sibling-esque love is then displayed when Jim's protest that Lena Lingard allowed him to kiss her was met by the response, "If she's up to any of her nonsense with you, I"ll scratch her eyes out! ... Cather also throws in minute details, almost like subliminal messages, to achieve the full effect of her emphasis on feminism. ...

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Perhaps you feel there is still a chance to keep things together. ... But you should know that while things may get better for a while, unless he gets help the abuse tends to get worse later in most cases" (What Can You Do If You Are Abused?). ... Some of the female roles depicted in this story are, "wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap...this is how you iron your father's khaki pants so they don't have a crease; this is how you grow okra far from the house...this is how you sweep a corner; this is how you sweep a whole house; this is how you sweep a ...

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"unleash the inner you" "diva" "glam" . ... Moreover, I felt like the only things that girls are allowed to build are castles (of course with a beautiful princess), fashion stores and bakery. ... Technically Barbie is all about body image, make up sets "the real you!"... There were some games that demanded intelligence like solving puzzles, counting cards and doing some math problems. ... The more aggressive you are, the more masculine. ...

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Even when she takes care of her child you see her in cotton pants and a tee-shirt. The only time noted that you see her in a dress was her wedding day. ... This could also be due to the difference in their jobs, but even if Darren was a handy man like Leo, you would probably see him in dickies and a never jeans. ... I think this would be too much for Darren who liked having Samantha at home and he all but forbid her to work. ... With any other matter like home, word or children she did as Darren said. ...

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However it's been in my best interest to conclude that the ideal family is whatever you make of it. ... I've been taught to always be a gentleman and have learned that the way you present yourself can undoubtedly determine the outcome of your future. ... Opening doors for ladies and making them feel like they are the only thing that matters have instilled a long lost sense of chivalry in my personality. ... Just being able to deal with situations like these has undeniably given me impeccable patience with women. ... Though at times tedious, being the man of the house taught me ...

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However it's been in my best interest to conclude that the ideal family is whatever you make of it. ... I've been taught to always be a gentleman and have learned that the way you present yourself can undoubtedly determine the outcome of your future. ... Opening doors for ladies and making them feel like they are the only thing that matters have instilled a long lost sense of chivalry in my personality. ... Just being able to deal with situations like these has undeniably given me impeccable patience with women. ... Though at times tedious, being the man of the house taught me ...

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It shouldn't matter what gender you are. You should have the same rights if you are a man or a woman. ... They need to stop making it look like figure skating and gymnastics is the only thing women can do. ... The world has this picture drawn up of how men should be and if you aren't like that picture then you are not a man. ... They feel like they have a standard and if they fall below it they are worthless. ...

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Here you see a woman who goes against the laws of man to do what she believes is right even though she knows she will die. ... Nora is caught in a situation where in order to save her husbands life she has to borrow money and throughout the play you see her evolve as a character and a woman. Like Nora, Antigone is in a situation where she is left with the choice to bury her brother Polyneices who is denied burial or leave him to rot. ... I might not know much about law, but I feel sure of one thing: it must say somewhere that things like this are allowed" (933). ... Nor did I think your edict ...

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In this story, it showed that people judged you as being masculine or feminine solely on your appearance. ... All his life, he was known for being the man that looked like a woman. ... They were threatened by the fact that now Mademoiselle was just like them. ... Throughout the whole story, it really seemed like the joke was on them. ... When you read this whole story then think about what Mademoiselle was trying to do, you see humor in the way that we act towards people with gender issues. ...

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Turn on the television and at any moment you are overwhelmed with a countless images that market everything from food to clothes and anything in-between. ... Mass media continues to dictate and sadly subdue lives along false gender identities by making those who watch these commercials or see these ads in magazines to believe a set of false ideals that try to make you think that you must be like this, have this, or look like this, in order to be seen as successful or appealing person. ... The ad focuses on a woman with her mouth open, in an oddly blow up doll like pose awaiting a phallic shape...

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Michael was a boy who liked dressing up in dresses. ... She was expected to become a ballerina however she doesn't like ballet. ... Through this theme we see that gender expectations are just words and you can over come them if you believe in what you are doing, There were many difficulties which Billy had to overcome. ... "I forget everything I feel like electricity" Billy faces his problems by dancing in front of Jacky. ...

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If you're in denial about this you clearly haven't paid attention to advertisements like the low-rider magazine, burger king commercials, herbal essence, and the most popular one of them all, the AXE commercials. ... So you think the men will purchase this? ... Providing a since of appeal that manipulates your emotion or how you feel about something specific. ... You want to be treated equally with the respect in society. ... Like I mentioned before, women in our society are specific targets in these advertisements and shouldn't have to be degraded or demoralized just to help ...

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Characters in the play put too much faith in appearances, as shown by Hamlet and Gertrude's dialogue: Queen: To whom do you speak this? Hamlet: Do you see nothing there? Queen: Nothing at all, yet all that is I see. 135 Hamlet: Nor did you nothing hear? ... This quick exchange passes by quite inconspicuously and can seem like it simply reveals a plot detail: Gertrude cannot see her husband. ... It might seem like an insignificant difference but considering the time period in which the play was written, it is not. ...

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Spivey, who Dale Harding says is, "'exactly like the rest of us. . .completely conscious of his inadequacy. ... I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. ... First thing you know he'll begin to think she's tougher than he is. . . ... When his mother tells him he has plenty of time to accomplish things such as going to college, and Billy reminds his mother that he is thirty-one years old, she replies, "'Sweetheart, do I look like the mother of a middle-aged man?'" ...

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When a commercial for a Barbie doll comes on, you don't see a boy playing with it. In fact you don't see a boy in the commercial at all. ... When I was a kid, I watched cartoons like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and my sister watched ones like Care Bears. ... The cable TV stations Oxygen and Lifetime are for women, and have shows just like Oprah. ... Once again if you look at television talk shows, you can see how many single mothers there are. ...

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The play Twelfth Night was nothing like the last play that we had to attend for this class. While You Can't Take it with You was action packed, easy to understand, and very funny, this play didn't come close to entertaining me as much. ... This may be because he has some of those qualities himself, but I"m sure if you ask him it's because he has talent. ... The blocking was done really well, as it seemed that everyone had a set thing to do at all times, and no one was left standing like a stick. ...

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If you don't fit into a group's clothing style than chances are you can be excluded from it. ... Your friends could simply reject you, because of the look of your pimpled face. ... Now days, it would be highly unlikely for boys to become more like girls. ... Remember, that the true beauty always lies within you....

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