She is to blame for eating the forbidden fruit and the separation between her and Adam in Book Nine. ... In the Bible, 1 Corinthians notes that a woman's hair is her glory. ... Milton frequently notes how Eve is inferior to Adam. ... In Book 5, Eve awakens Adam from a deep sleep to tell him about a dream she had. ... Milton notes Eve as a woman who is solely beautiful but is destined to sin. ...

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I chose this book to review because it contains valuable text that is useful for all humans to read. ... The most interesting parts of the book will be summarized in this essay. ... Overall the book provided me with a lot of useful information, which I will attempt to convey in the following essay. ... One must note the different kinds of relationships that exist in different cultures: monogamy, and polygamy describe forms of marriage; "gamy" in Greek means marriage, not mating. ... Another word that was commonly used in the book was "promiscuity." ...

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Written and set in the late 19th century, Bram Stoker's epistolary novel, Dracula, is a pivotal book in the horror/gothic literature. ... Victorian culture basically revolved around suppressing women and this is quite obvious in many scenes parts of the book. ... Thus the real fear in the book is not darkness and vampiric nature but the loss of female innocence, a trait apparently extremely valuable and important to men. ... One example would be Harker's first encounter with the three sisters early in the book. ... " (Stoker 86) With all of this, it's important to note th...

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Harris explains these terms in his book, I'm OK You're OK, based on Eric Burne's ideas called Transactional Analysis. ... One can see at the beginning of the book that the woman is not too far gone. ... She eventually notes that the "dim shapes- skulking behind the overlaying pattern are getting clearer; they have begun to resemble a woman, stooping down and creeping. ...

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Harris explains these terms in his book, I'm OK You're OK, based on Eric Burne's ideas called Transactional Analysis. ... One can see at the beginning of the book that the woman is not too far gone. ... She eventually notes that the "dim shapes- skulking behind the overlaying pattern are getting clearer; they have begun to resemble a woman, stooping down and creeping. ...

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Lily Bart is a protagonist. The book follows her as she tries unsuccessfully to marry Percy Gryce. Mrs. Trenor, who was helping match Lily and Mr. Gryce, is furious with the way Lily ruined her chances with him. Lily accepts the rebuke and goes to pick up Mr. Trenor from the train station. On the wa...

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She got a lot of her ideas from reading Richardson's novels, especially the book Sir Charles Gradison. The book "gave the woman of innocense the sheltered environment necessary ....realization of her full potential" (pg 12). ... I just do not understand why this has to be in the book. ... Why didn't more people make a note of her letters? ... Book: Abigail Adams: An American Woman by Charles W. ...

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She may take a nap, talk to a friend on the phone, watch her favorite show, read a book, or even take a relaxing bath. ... Show her by writing a love-note, and make sure to include all that you feel inside. ... Go to the library or bookstore and get a book on sensual massage. While you are out, look in the book and find what oils are used in sensual massage and go to the nearest novelty store and buy them. ... If you do not know how to do this, while you are at the library or bookstore, get a book on how to please a woman. ...

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Many years later, author Linda Colley explored Elizabeth Marsh's life while researching for her book, Captives. ... Colley's book The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh is solely based on an interpretation of a female captive. Elizabeth Marsh's self-written book The Female Captive was a product of its time and also one of Colley's main sources. ... Furthermore, George Marsh's Family Book also provided some insight to Elizabeth Marsh's life and why she is an important figure of social history. The Family Book helped Colley to not only look at Marsh herself but also at h...

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This virtue is just one I will focus on, in consideration of length restrictions, but it's important to note that Little Women deals with a broad spectrum of emotions and ideas. ... In Little Women, Alcott accepts this inevitable changeover with the four March sisters maturing as the book progresses. ... Whereas Alcott seeks to grapple with the hardships of everyday life, putting her characters through common situations and conflicts, Barrie writes to escape from reality (class notes, 4/3/03). ... I would argue that he did not have this guide, as his relationships with the other childr...

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The Mishnah, a book of legal rules compiled by Jewish sages in the second century Roman Palestine, depicts a society in which the adult Israelite male is the central character. ... It would be interesting to note that the absence of a Division of Men reflects the fact that in patriarchies, men make rules about women, but women do not make rules about men. ...

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Wendy Martin and Ann Stanford each note the subtlety with which Bradstreet has to write and practice feminism to avoid Puritan censure. ... The Poem "The Author to Her Book- shows the struggles of the first American writer. ...

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Wendy Martin and Ann Stanford each note the subtlety with which Bradstreet has to write and practice feminism to avoid Puritan censure. ... The Poem "The Author to Her Book- shows the struggles of the first American writer. ...

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Another instance where Bradstreet spoke her mind like this presents itself in, The Author to Her Book. ... The offspring she speaks of is none other than the book she wrote, and she states this because even though people may think her book is crap because she is a woman it is still her book and she loves it much like she would her own child. ... In this statement Rowlandson's words almost portray a suicidal note. ...

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The World Book Encyclopedia (2002) describes some of the history as follows: The term witch comes from the Old English word wicca, which is derived from the Germanic root wic, meaning to bend or to turn."" ... Around A.D. 700, Christian religion saw witchcraft as denouncing the Catholic Church and began to question "heresy-, a rejection of the church, and, "began a long campaign to stamp out heresy [and] [b]eginning in the 1000's, religious leaders sentenced heretics to death by burning- (World Book, 2002 p. 372). ... Although, according to The World Book Encyclopedia (2000), "histo...

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After returning to her "pigeon house- Edna finds a note in place of Robert, he has left her and will not be returning because he loves her so much. ... Here is a quote from the book right before Edna kills herself, "The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in the abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. ... The public was shocked by the book's seeming support for Edna and ostracized for the open discussion of the emotional and sexual need of women. ...

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Song of Solomon In Toni Morrison's book, Song of Solomon, Toni created a theme of unhealthy male/female relationships and false standards of beauty. ... Milkman goes to the office and writes Hagar a good-bye note, which ends with a "thank you" for all she had done for him. ... It was not really that note that drove her crazy, but it was seeing Milkman at Mary's bar with a woman from the Honore crowd. ...

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When I open my eyes she's down the hall about to turn into the glass Nurse's Station where she'll spend the day sitting at her desk and looking out of her window and making notes on what goes on in front of her in the day room during the next eight hours. ... At the end of the book, after McMurphy has proved resistant to her previous three "treatments", she lobotomizes him, ultimately stripping him of his identity and causing him to become nothing more than a mere Vegetable. ...

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Strengths of a Woman Through the Looking Glass with Maya Angelou's Poem "Phenomenal Woman". As we go through life, we have many experiences such as reading poetry. It may not be fun all the time, but it is one of those things that, whether we can admit it or not, is a good experience for all of us...

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However, it is important to note that she is one of the characters who followed gender roles almost perfectly as an adult. ... Maggie reads every book she can get her hands on and gives herself a sort of "self-education". ...

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The Yellow Wallpaper, "Explanations of Insanity." "The Yellow Wallpaper", written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a story of a woman, her psychological difficulties and her husband's so called therapeutic treatment of her aliments during the late 1800s. Gilman, who writes from her own personal ...

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After looking through and carefully organizing my notes, I was able to decide on my claims. ... I had to repeatedly check my citation handouts because I could not remember the proper way of citing a book. ... After taking the notes from my index cards and imputing them into my writing, all I had to do was reread it to myself, fix any noticeable mistakes and turn it in. ...

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In Summa Theologica, Aquinas expands Paul's argument for female inferiority even farther: "As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active force in the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of woman comes from defect in the active force or from some material indisposition" (Source Book 211). ... WB's awakening occurs as Jankyn reads to her from his "book of evil wives". Why would Jankyn read from this book? ... He is behaving like a medieval cleric but like an inexperienced medieval husb...

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In Jeanne Halladay Gouglin's published book, The Rise of Women Entrepreneurs, she depicts the four major and distinct economic motivations for female entrepreneurs. ... William's book, Working Women, she writes that "mother-infant bonding is a myth."" ...

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In a personal note to this writer, she adds that the theory "also looks at male stereotypes but always paralleled with the female stereotype." ... Sylvia Estrada-Claudio, M.D., PhD of the Department of Women and Development Studies of the University of the Philippines College of Social Work and Community Development, and author of the book Love, Rape, and Sexuality: The Construction of Woman in Discourse, in her feminist study of fictional love letters, rape stories and a feminist text on sexuality, has deduced two male stereotypes. ...

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