The pressure that today's media is trying to administer to young girls is forcing them to look down upon themselves and question their body image, causing them to consider self-harm things like starvation, binging and mutilation; it also takes a toll on the young girl's mental health, which could lead to things like self-esteem and anxiety issues. With the way our society has changed, not everyone looks the same, like we all did in the early 1900's. ... From this girls feel like the way they are, is not worth it. ... With all the influences of media surrounding these young girl...

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The following two poems strike like lightning; readers experience extraordinary power as they encounter each poem. ... A very structured poem necessary to create the sense of boundaries and parameters like the ones that boxed in the violence in her household and contained it there. ... In the following stanza the poet uses sturdy sounding words repetitiously (back to, back to), and words that sound like what they do (pleading, sobbing) you can feel the rhythm of the rape that is occurring (voice-over body over hers). ... The unacceptable claim "a man is king in his own castle" gives lice...

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This portrays her as having very little wealth and a low socio-economic status as she is not able to dress like or look like a lady. ... Edward later admits that he doesn't get emotionally involved in business; so his relationship with Vivian is seen in his eyes to be a purely business-like partnership. ... Vivian retorts " Well I"ll meet you in the lobby but only because you"re paying me to". ... She tells him "you"re not my pimp . You don't own me. ...

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They could see she was just like them but she was a woman and they couldn't accept that. To them she was inviting trouble, sunbathing like that, in a public place, in the nude. ... Harry reminds Stanley : "If she's married, her old man wouldn't like that " he says. ... In this paragraph he answers Harry "if my wife lay about like that, for everyone to see, I"d soon stop her". ... Probably he knows that she is not a woman who would expose herself in public like the woman on top of the roof. ...

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Just like the character Dinah in Naomi Wolf's "The makings of a slut" Kim is being considered a slut and ostracized by many people especially by other females. Dinah was having sex just like most of the girls in her school who where considered young ladies but Dinah gets labeled a slut because her circumstances are different then theirs.  ... Janice Dickinson who is a world renowned supermodel has called Kim Kardashian a slut just like many other women label her. ... Dinah from "The makings of a slut", Kim Kardashian an other women can be victims of rape but be...

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Eliza herself once wrote to a friend about her daily life as the person in charge of three plantations: "I have the business of three plantations to transact, which requires much writing and more business and fatigue of other sorts than you can imagine. But least you should imagine it too burdensome to a girl at my early time of life, give me leave to answer you: I assure you I think myself happy that I can be useful to so good a father, and by rising very early I find I can go through much business"" (Roberts (1), p.2). ... She is just one example of what these women were like as they were ...

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By definition, these safe women tend to be older in age, unattainable and have mother-like qualities. ... Wheeler eventually comes back to the kitchen and instructs his wife and Claude that "Cherries won't give you any trouble. You can pick "em as easy as can be" (Cather 963). This is a peculiarly strange point in Claude's story because at first glance it seems like Mr. ... He was an old settler in Frankfort County, but from his frock-coat and courtly manners you might have thought he had come from Kentucky yesterday instead of thirty years ago" (Cather1126). ...

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Petruchio sets out to "woo this wildcat" (1.2, 195), and vows to "tame you, Kate, / And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate / Conformable as other household Kates" (2.1, 273-275), (Marvel 86). ... Kate responds, "Well ta"en, and like a buzzard" (2.1, 205-206). ... But sun it is not, when you say it is not, And the moon changes even as your mind. ... Beatrice is much like Kate in her quick wit. ... So, like Kate, Beatrice stops the charades, and reforms to her role as a wife. ...

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While at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Cisneros felt out of place and did not like the work of her peers so she resorted to developing her own style. ... You stay at home. If you do get somewhere, you take your life in your own hands" (Satz 2). ... For example, in a "Smart Cookie," Esperanza's mother says, "I could've been somebody, you know? ... Esperanza you go to school. ...

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Clara is a woman who makes Paul feel like a real man, but he is only able to see he physical attributes and nothing more. ... Morel's tragedy, like all the other women, Lawrence shows her as a sufferer of the Victorian morality. ... Morel who came from a little capitalist class, aloof and cultured, was a Victorian woman who had knowledge like Lawrence's own mother. ... Like Mrs. ... Miriam actively tried again and again, but Paul said: "You are a nun you are a nun ". ...

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For a long time, the woman has assumed a secondary role in the first generation of Indian English male writing such as R.K.Narayan, Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand. Indeed, R.K.Narayan's heroine, Rosie, in his novel 'The Guide' is viewed only in relation to the main protagonist, Raju and Raju's mother is ...

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The novel, like Trainspotting and Bridget Jones", is another potential cult classic. ... Don't you know how sweet and wonderful life can be. I"m asking you baby to get it on with me. ... I won't push you baby. ... Even modern liberal women who espouse gender equality may not appreciate men like Rob. ...

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What do you think led to the development of female dominated sports? ... That is why you do not see men in female dominated sports, because men have always had the chance to play "their" sports. ... Some say, "you play like a girl." What is so bad about playing like a girl? ... "To become an athlete, you have to have a pretty face first. ...

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He greets Desdemona, a virgin with high social status, by saying "You men of Cyprus, let her have your knees. ... " (II.i.84), on the verge of worshipping her like the Virgin Mary. ... Women like Hero were easily slandered as, in Elizabethan times, female sexuality was something feared by men. ... She is an honourable wife and accepts Othello's choice to kill her, saying, "[My sins] are loves I bear to you" (V.ii.40) - her only sins were out of love for her husband. ... Although she is a chaste and virtuous woman, who calls herself a "maiden", Beatrice disagr...

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She is transported back to the present and is able to forget the past: "And then opening her eyes, how fresh, like frilled linen clean from a laundry laid in wicker trays, the roses looked; and dark and prim the red carnations" (P. 16.) ... Everyone seemed unreal and dreamlike: "it was possible to say things you couldn't say anyhow else, things that needed an effort; possible to go much deeper. ...

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And like the society of Japan itself, its religious traditions have specific gender roles that maintain the separate spheres of men and women. ... If you place the kamidana (the alter) in the kitchen you can kill two birds with one stone. ...

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This especially regards to the perception of what a woman and equally a men should be like. ... Number five - a "tomboy" - a girl who behaves like a stereotypical boy. Number six - a "sissy" - a boy who behaves like a stereotypical girl. ...

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Gwyn Page 65 paragraph 3) These soldiers appeared to be like second sons to Mother Savage, doing what her son would be doing if he were there. ... Gwyn page 66 paragraph 1) She liked the four soldiers as sons of her own as well, yet she saw them also as the enemy. ... Gwyn page 67 paragraph 6) She then states "Now I'm going to do something for you- (Fiction A Pocket Anthology R.S. ... Gwyn page 68 paragraph 9) Could Mother Savage have felt like she was fighting the war and doing a justice by killing the soldiers, or was she just vengeful and vindictive? ... Is it possible that she ...

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Summary of Rebecca Rebecca's narrative takes the form of a flashback. The heroine who remains nameless, lives in Europe with her husband, Maxim de Winter traveling from hotel to hotel, harboring memories of a beautiful home called Manderley, which, we learn, has been destroyed by fire. The story begins with her memories of how she and Maxim first met, in Monte Carlo, years before. In her flashback, the heroine is working as the young traveling companion to a wealthy American named Mrs. Van Hopper . ...

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It is my contention that pressures of a changing society, a time when women were struggling for selfhood, a time when some women, like Edna, found themselves totally lost, played a pivotal role in Edna's decisions and ultimate demise. ... As Chopin aptly described it, she presented her "fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world" (Chopin 323). ...

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In an age of female protagonists-like in Disney's newest animated musical feature Frozen-and even male objectification-like the trailer for the new feature Magic Mike XXL-there may be hope that contemporary narrative cinema has found a way to free itself from phallocentricism and objectification of its female characters. ... A woman is only appreciated for her 'to-be-looked-at-ness' for she has no importance but a sexual eroticism that disrupts the narrative (like a musical number) that has to be worked in seamlessly even though she adds nothing to the film. ...

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In other words it would be a bad idea to marry someone of lower status than you. ... It may be possible that he did not like this law code and rebelled against it. ... Although he was unfaithful like his counterpart Genji, Kaoru took his duty of love very seriously. ... The women he was involved with were protected from scandal, which showed that he had some compassion like Genji. ...

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"As a film about the way in which unlikely and innocent people can be caught in a catch-22 with the law, Thelma and Louise asks viewers to consider what they would do if caught in a situation like that- (Sturken, 2000: 18). ... M'Lynn informs Shelby that "You're special There are limits to what you can do."" ... While this may not seem like the traditional behavior of a group of feminists, one may also see feminism as the act of absolutely embracing one's feminin...

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When he first meets Amos to discuss money it is shown the type of man he is when he says "Look, I don't like to blow my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today and had $5000 and came to me, things would have turned out differently."" ...

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We can imagine that WB puts aside the more "lady-like" style of riding at her own convince while traveling the road to Canterbury (Biebel 64). ... She also refers to other texts like Valerius and Theophrastus and Jovinian, which are anti-feminist texts, in a way that was backwards in order to suit her own use of the works. ... He is behaving like a medieval cleric but like an inexperienced medieval husband too, for the book is his version of the deportment book, with the conventional age relationships of husband and wife outrageously reversed. ...

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