It takes a great woman to stand behind a man; a man who is trying to make a difference, change the nation, or in this instance, create a new nation that would be free of the puppet strings from England. ... They were congressmen who came together to make things better for the people of America. ... These wives were left at home while these men did their jobs to run the nation. ... "They did what all women who went before them and came after them did when it came to raising children and running households, but they were assigned by history to play other roles as well. " (Roberts (1), p.15) E...

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Through sublimation, Cisneros fulfills her desire to free herself from the limitations of traditional gender roles, which allows her to give a voice to all the women who cannot speak up for themselves. ... For example, Esperanza later in the vignette says: They always told us that one day we would move into a house, a real house that would be ours for always so we wouldn't have to move each year. . . ... Both females had large families, lived in ghetto neighborhoods and were deprived of a "real home.... During her childhood, those symptoms were already present in Cisneros when she a...

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The character must return to the true self and break free from the boundaries established by society. ... She is free to bask in the glory and luxury of being a respectable upper class woman. ... Edna is "forced to admit- that they were right (Chopin 655). ... He is young and free and accepts Edna's independence and respects her free will. ... First, we are re-introduced to Leonce Pontellier. ...

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Microsoft Electronic Publishing, 2001) We enter further into the story as the Prussians arrived, and they were billeted with the people of the area, according to their wealth and resources of each family. ... Before we get into the meaning of the story, let's take a look at who Kate Chopin was and what would inspire her to write this short story as well as the time in which it was written 1894. ... The Revolutionary War had been fought so that they could win their freedom from tyranny, but women had yet to be free. They were not allowed to vote, they were not allowed to work jobs ot...

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Women occupied a position less than free. ... At the time, it was not considered respectable for women to speak before mixed audience of men and women but women boldly spoke out and people listened. ... Married women were equated with babies and the mentally ill. Wives were possessions that were cared for and displayed. ... 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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Wheeler to go down to the orchard and pick cherries from the tree when she "persisted rather complainingly, saying that the cherries were too high for her to reach, and that even if she had a ladder it would hurt her back. ... However, his father cut down those desires before Claude had a real chance to experience them. ... His dark, lean face wore an expression of intense anxiety, his eyebrows twitched as if he were in constant pain. ... As they passed him, under the red light of the Armour sign, Claude could see that her eyes were full of tears (Cather 1197). ... Here there were no street ...

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She also tells Emilia if she should die before her to wrap her body using the sheets on the bed. ... On the contrary, women were regarded as the property of their men and thus, could be treated in anyway the husband saw fit. ... During the time of Shakespeare, females were often treated and regarded in society as inferior to men. Presently as a society, we generally feel that we have progressed beyond this archaic attitude and have reached a point where females are treated more equally to males in America. Women are allowed to vote, are given opportunities for careers that were previously rese...

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Although woman were beginning to play more active roles in society, the few who had succeeded were harassed and discriminated by fellow male colleagues and especially the ones who disapproved of their appointments and preferred traditional beliefs that women were inferior. ... As Murphy once said in 1931: "We want women leaders today as never before. ... She believed that women were eligible to do anything that they wanted to and that they were capable of anything that men were able to do. ... Before she ran for parliament she was a schoolteacher, which was an ambition she had since she was ...

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Edward earns Vivian the reverence of the store managers by telling them that he was going "to spend an obscene amount of money, so we are going to need a lot more help sucking up to us". ... Vivian though, we know, is not wealthy. ... Due to Edward's troubled relationships, we can deduce that he would be wary of involvement with a woman. Further evidence is supplied when he "hires" Vivian to be his "employee" for the week, she responds with "I"d love to be your Beck and Call Girl but you"re a rich good looking guy, you could get a million girls for free". ... Despite her awareness o...

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But to have any hope, certainty or believe we should firstly investigate the current situation that can give us a full picture of what chances we- females do have and do not and then what of them we are expected to get. Before the beginning of this sociological research there had been risen a big question of what means the absence of women in a governmental hierarchy of Kazakhstan. ... Mainly, there will be answers on the questions about solving the problems that were highlighted earlier and do we need something to be done, and if yes, then what should be done in order to increase the advanc...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We can alleviate and erase these myths surrounding the inferiority of women and the superiority of men in the arena of sports. To solve this problem we must start early, we must preparing girls early to have the ability and skill to play baseball amongst their male counterparts.  ... It wasn't that women were not physically capable of sharing the field with men, they were afraid of women taking the spotlight. ... They often associate women with weakness with women, as said before with the proper training and skill women are just able as men to play baseball. ... According to the Nationa...

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Products such as hosiery and makeup were marketed as essential for a woman of the modern world. ... Women were pictured changing in everyday lives because of this breakthrough. ... Women were much more respected for who they were, rather than what gender they were. In the 1990s, many more women were employed and working, rather than staying at home and being a housewife. In the media, negative or offensive representations of women were less tolerated because of the way society moved on, as well as the fact that many more women were now working in the media under the equal opportunities leg...

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It has made it possible for the women writers to set the conditions of existence, free from the direct interference of men. ... She spent a few years observing the life of South Indian peasants before marrying an Englishman and settling down in London. ... Before proceeding to the woman characters in Markandaya's novel 'Nectar in a Sieve', let us define the characteristics of the stereotypical womanhood in Indian culture and tradition and as it has been portrayed in literature over generations. ... We note that Rukmani is prepared at an early age to accept her role as a wi...

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