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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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 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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Calude's two main goals in this book are his quest for achievement and his quest for sexual fulfillment. ... Claude "wished he could do something to help that boy; help him get away from the doctor who was writing a book about him, and the girl who wanted to make the most of himself; get away and be lost all together in what he had been lucky enough to find" (Cather 1201). ...

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ANALYSE Doris Lessing's A WOMAN ON A ROOF IN LIGHT OF STRUCTURALISM Structuralism concentrates on elements within work of literature without focusing on historical, social and biographical influences. The term structuralism' contains the crucial word structure', which refers to the units that m...

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Maxim treats her coldly, but later that day he sends a note to the heroine, apologizing for his rudeness at tea. ... At the end of the drive, the heroine notices a book of poetry in the car, and he insists upon giving it to her. ...

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