Most of the women in "Like Water for Chocolate," are portrayed as mothers and in domestic roles. ... As the film progress, you see this re-emerging image of not only Tita, but her sister Gertrudis, as well. ... Through the movie "Like Water for Chocolate" and The Mexican Revolution you see how big of a role, rebellious individuals play in evoking change. With Tita, you see here not giving up on pursuing the freedom of being able to love whomever she wants, not only for her, but her niece. ... Not only do you see the challenging of authority, but also the changing of gender roles....

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Like Water For Chocolate By Laura Esquivel Laura Esquivel's novel Like Water For Chocolate, explores issues and asks questions about our society, in a way that is a thought provoking and relevant. ... "But if you really want Pedro to get married, allow me to suggest my daughter Rosaura, who's just two years older than Tita. ...

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" Also, she shows her daughter that, "this is how you sweep a corner; this is how you sweep a whole house this is how you set a table for dinner.... As the mother says, "on Sundays try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming," she is demonstrating the fixation that her culture has on a woman's sexuality being the defining line between being a respectable woman, or an unworthy woman. ... Another occasion in which the mother is seemingly accusing her daughter is when she says, "this is how to hem a dress when you see the hem coming down...

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Hal says, "How can I not think about you, you live right across the hall from me." ... Mauricio says, "You don"t? ... His answer is, "I like "em real young, like, uh, did you ever see Paullina when she did her first Sports Illustrated layout? ... But not as skinny as Rebecca, someone a little more meatier like Heidi. ... You know what I"m saying, someone like that." ...

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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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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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Not being the real you was the way to get a man. ... Real rule #1 Treat Men the Way You Want Them to Treat You. ... The right man will like and love us for who we really are. ... Someone that's going to care of you financially, so you won't have to worry about a thing." ... THE OLD RULES are exactly what they sound like, old. ...

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("We'll Kill You If You Cry " p.25). ... ("We'll Kill You If You Cry " p.17). ... Her husband represents a woman like a guardian would represent their child. ... ("We'll Kill You If You Cry " p.17). ... With laws like the International Humanitarian Law, and places like the International Criminal Court, women and girls all throughout Sierra Leone were given a second chance you could say. ...

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If you have, you will notice all of the instant replays. ... Six months after the break-up, at 3:00 a.m. on a Saturday night, he will call drunk and say, "I just wanted to let you know you ruined my life, and I'll never forgive you, and I hate you, and you're a total floozy. ... Men simply can't enjoy some of the simple pleasures in life, like shopping. ... He will have his cart packed tightly and it will look like he is buying food for a small army. ... A man will drive in a circle for hours, all the while saying things like, "Looks like I've found a new way," and, "I kno...

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From the day you are born to the day you die, you are socially constructed to be who you are. ... Are you a boy or a girl? ... If you ask a little girl what her favorite color is, she will most likely tell you pink. ... Barbara Kantrowitz says that machines like the microwave and the dishwasher are meant to be used by females (442). ... Boys tend to get more into video games like Nintendo and Gameboy. ...

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In a poll conducted by a teen magazine it was written that, "Seventy-three percent of you say seeing celebrities and models who dress sexy makes you feel like you need to dress sexier and seventy-seven percent say seeing those images makes you feel like you're not sexy enough" (Khidekel). In addition, TV shows like Pretty Little Liars and Keeping Up With the Kardashians promote provocative clothing. ... The fashion industry also displays expensive designer clothing like Gucci and Prada in magazines and runways. ... Women feel pressured to do whatever it takes to look like publi...

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If you are there in your seat thinking the same way, today is the day for you to change that thought! ... Now, I would like to transition into one of the toughest developmental stages in a woman's life; adolescence! ... For example, looking like models that appear on TV. Girls see beautiful images and are quick to desire to look like what they see because that's what society considers "beautiful.... They think that looking like what's presented on TV is what's ideal to conduct a happy life; when in reality it's not. ...

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To make her feel like she is in fact an individual and that she was not like everyone else. ... Ah wants to see you married right away." ... Brother Logan Killicks, he's a good man.......You answer me when Ah speak. Don't you set dere poutin" wid me after all Ah done went through for you!" ... The struggles with marriage pressures from inside the family, the struggles with finding that special someone that treats you like a person rather than a possession. ...

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The look you get when you have just committed an act of deviance. ... While another title read, "87 Sex Secrets You NEED to Know". ... Why look like that? ... As if you were responsible for what someone else puts on wh! ... You could look at this two ways however. ...

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Then it hit me, like a kicked ball directed towards my balls, I should go to the source, the statistics department. ... The chairs gave the impression of being old but they did not look like they were ever used. ... You are sitting in class and you have just raised your hand and answered the teacher's question, now you are awaiting the teacher to tell you if you were correct. ... I walked for what felt like an hour in the heat and scolding sun. ... It felt like to me se came back in 30 seconds and explained that the class was open only to junior and seniors. ...

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I set the houses at this house, its one o"clock dinner because I say it is and not because you do". ... Earlier in the play we see Maggie talking to Willie about her marring him not the other way round this is a sign that she dominated him "I thought that you were axing me to wed you", "I am". ... An example that shows that Willie has been changed by Maggie's hand to fit her perfect world is "you"re the man I made you". ... Maggie's stage presence in this scene should be one where she is in-between the two men like in a boxing match of words Willie and Hobson fight it out but ultima...

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This makes her feel even more like a child. ... She speaks about the "bulbous eyes" (161), and says that "it slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you" (165), if you try to follow its pattern. ... For God's sake, what are you doing!' ... 'I've got out at last,' said I, 'in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!'" ...

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Playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote "A Doll's House" in 1879 as a way to creatively, yet powerfully, make a critique of 19th century society. At the time it was written, the play was considered controversial due to its subject matter; the advocation of women's rights. The play opens with Nora in her ho...

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Like riding horses, she picked up fencing very rapidly. Mademoiselle Duphot, her tutor watched her fence and remarked "She fence like a man, with such power and such grace." ... Like many lesbians, Stephen feels that she is an outcast of society. ... He understood her sexuality well before her and advised her "I want you to learn to make friends with your books; some day you may need them, because you mayn't find life at all easy, and books are good friends." ... Make the world respect you, as you can do through your work." ...

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Why do I feel insecure around someone who looks like that? ... How can you look good if you don not even feel good about yourself? ... Even when you learn to become okay with you insecurities it always takes one person to bring you back down to reality and tell you you are wrong. ... It makes you feel dumb. ... Usually, women have a little more tradition to deal with than men, like remaining a virgin or remaining a virgin until you get married. ...

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This country prizes things like individuality, self-help, hard work, success, and self-control. ... As Cindy Crawford once said, "Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford". ... "Only eight out of every three million women actually look like supermodels. ... Its dictating the idea that you are what you wear, or how you look. ... Though at one point I too was swept up by that message, I have learned that you are not what you wear. ...

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Just get me a dress like that and I"ll put ion - it would be a very amusing disguise." ... So if you decided to live with him, you needed unusual strength an unusual maturity to find your part in his play and improvise the text"(Huffington 60). ... You pretend that you are unusual , then let's really lead an unusual life, instead of playing hide-and-seek with the truth." ... "He"d like to put those around him in competition with each other. He was masterful at using one person like the red flag and the other like the bull. ...

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It seems like the only way to connect her story is through loyalty. ... She felt like he wasn't doing his job as a husband. ... He didn't cheat on me but it felt like he let me down in the same way. ... In the same song she says, "This is your final warning, You know I give you life, If you try that shit again, Your gonna lose your wife.... This is just like with my brother and me. ...

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In all the Axe commercials it is basically implying that if you use Axe products, then you will gain the attention of very attractive females and have them falling for you. ... Just like the commercial that I described, it was implied that if men use the Axe Excite product then they will have angles falling from heaven for the man. ... It was saying that if the Axe product was used, then a man would have girls falling for him, even angels, just like in the commercial. This commercial affects men emotionally, because it is basically suggesting that if you don't use Axe:Excite or eve...

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