Edna's character was slowly awakened to being pulled in four archetypical directions: these archetypes include the marriage of the work-orientated and "bread-winning" husband and the ideal mother, the outcast "quasi-intellectual" feminist, the high-class society, and the true love. ... The blending of the typical male, bread-winning husband who is consumed with business with an atypical wife who rejects the role of the perfect mother who stays at home caused an inevitable breakdown of the Pontellier's relationship. ... Seeing her being pulled in two quite different directions by th...

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It is believed that the ancestors use him to communicate to the family and give instruction. ... After marriage ceremony was over being with my husband, I was put under great pressure to give birth to a son. ... Due to these privileges, I, by giving birth to a son makes myself appreciated more than when I give birth to a daughter. As a result, my husband has always put me under pressuring to give birth to a large number of children since I have more daughters than sons. ... The job does not pay quite well and hence forcing me to depend mostly on my husband as the bread-winner for my family. ...

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MA. KATHRINA TERESA T. ALCALDE AUGUST 7, 2003 ENG2 - W THE PRICE OF BEING A WOMAN Clock ticks. Time passes. Different generations of life begin. And yet a "contagious disease" had not been treated. From the earliest tradition of the anc...

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I strongly feel over the course of time and somewhere along the evolutionary highway, gender became far more complex then we deemed fit and due to technology developing so copiously over the last ten years, more than it has in the last fifty, (thus giving people an abundant amount of information and accessibility to said information on a dubious level), has now in fact, created a backlash, a backlash effect that people just aren't ready. ... Not only are men taught to be strong, and to avoid emotionality, they are also foreseen as natural bread winners and expected to take care of house...

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A couple of points he makes here are: many stores do not provide opportunities for shoppers to touch and feel the merchandise, and yet this sensual experience can be very influential in making the sale in fact, Underhill devotes an entire chapter (Chapter 12) to the 'sensual shopper', where he emphasizes the importance of engaging the senses in the shopping experience (a prime example he uses here is the smell of freshly baked bread that greets one upon entering some supermarkets, which he can correlate directly with increased spending) Lines and time spent waiting at the checkou...

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Kurt Vonnegut once said, "Enjoy the little things in life because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things." It is often that things deemed inessential and trivial become overlooked, getting tossed aside. "Trifles," a one-act play by Susan Glaspell, is a simple story of little...

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