Nora pretends that she needs Torvald to teach her every move in order to relearn the dance. ... After he teaches her the dance, he proclaims "When I saw you turn and sway in the tarantella-my blood was pounding till I couldn't stand it"(1009), showing how he is more interested in Nora physically than emotionally. ... On the rare occasion when Torvald gives Nora some money, he is concerned that she will waste it on candy and pastry; in modern times, this would be comparable to Macauly Culkin being given money, then buying things that "would rot his mind and his body" in t...

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As her audience grew with her, she changed her identity to meet the expectations of modern pop culture. ... Most male musicians have exposed women dancing in a sexualized way in their music videos. ... The audience wants to see this because it has become a norm in modern pop culture. ... By wanting more of these artists, it feeds into norms of the modern record industry. ...

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In this essay I will study trends in the modern historiographical trajectory of this once scholarly and socially peripheral demographic. ... " In addition, Bondswomen partook in highly improvised dance and musical performances. In Edward Baptist's book The Half Has Never Been Told, he describes the formation of song circles that would take place during these gatherings, in which women would display their boldness by "dancing down" one man after another in the center. Whether through competitive dance or fashion showcasing, these heterodox behaviors countered the status bra...

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While this distinct way of life seems uncivilized to the modern reader, the balance works for the men and women of Umuofia. ... The women of Iguedo did not meet in their secret enclosure to learn a new dance...young men who were always abroad in the moonlight kept to their huts that night. ... " (p.196) The original roles and customs of the men and women are not fulfilled, such as women learning a "new dance," or men roaming the "village paths....

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At one point in "Battle Royal", a woman dances around naked for the men's pleasure. ... The steps taken by women some forty, fifty, even sixty years ago, demanding equality and insisting on entrance to certain colleges, have allowed women in modern day to pursue any path they desire. ... While the roles and social status of women changed significantly over the last century, I believe that a naked woman dancing around a bunch of drunk men hooting and hollering and even grabbing at her would be just as unacceptable then as it would be today to the majority of all the social classes whic...

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A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half-deserved"" (Austen23). ...

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