The Awakening opens in Grand Isle, a summer holiday resort where Edna is vacationing with her family. ... She depends on her family, not herself, and is notable for her beauty. ... Chopin explores the female-female bond, a feminist feature, in connection to Edna and Adele. ... The woman gives up her family in exchange for a much-desired independence, but she gets involved in a new relation, which suffocates her independence. ... Robert awakens her senses, and she begins to break with some of society's conventions, but she is still consumed by a romantic need for a bond with a man. ...

• Word Count: 1837
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography

In today's modern American society, the family and taking care of the family have become separated from the role of breadwinner, or supporter. ... This makes home and family, two completely separate aspects in an individual's lifestyle. ... Family and work coexisted and this blending of their family and work life helped achieve their desired balance for a wholesome lifestyle. ... She also informed me that she feels that emotional bonding with a child and his or her mother is the corner stone for the child's discipline and morals. ... William's book, Working Women, she write...

• Word Count: 2200
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

___'s house, she goes to Africa with a family of Christian missionaries. ... Together they share a bond and she finds comfort in Nettie after her husband dies. ... One of the themes of The Color Purple is love redeems, hate kills and for Walker, redemptive love requires female bonding. ...

• Word Count: 1257
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Abigail, with the help of her family grew a very religious bond between each other and a long lasting friendship". ... The whole Adams family, of course, supported the colonists' cause. ... Unfortunately, this would take John farther away from his family and for a longer time than ever before. ... Most politicians were out away from their family. ... Writing letters to her family, especially her sisters. ...

• Word Count: 1735
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

But mattie then loses the house when her son, Basil, jumped bail after Mattie used their home as collateral for his bond. ... Kiswana is Really the only woman at Brewster Place who chooses to be there.Kiswana moves from with her Black family living in a middle-class neighborhood, Linden Hills. ... The second generation inhabitants were the family members of those world war one and the Ones unable to leave. ... she has a live-in boyfriend, Eugene, and they have a child, Serena. shehas dreams of a family and of Eugene one day becoming a wonderful husband as well as a loving fathe...

• Word Count: 1933
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Other family members have to serve him. ... Not her individual dreams or expectations count but her loyalty to the male and, thus, the family. ... Marrying implied also living within the family-in-law and the provision of a dowry. ... In the Belgian matrimonial legislation, for instance, married women were expected to take over the husband's family name. ... First within the family were children are raised to function in well-defined roles. ...

• Word Count: 2675
• Approx Pages: 11

A woman's own expectations were meek because neither her family nor society expected her to prepare for a future other than that of marriage and motherhood. ... The male had absolute control over his family. ... As an early sign of rebellion against tradition, Edna chose to marry him against the will of her family. ...

• Word Count: 3206
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Abstract After introducing the topic and describing the research methodology, this paper, about Sojourner Truth, a Woman's rights activist, runaway slave, and devote Christian presents the context for the leader, her contributions, and the effects she had on others. The paper concludes with personal...

• Word Count: 1936
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Their bond came through secret night-time reading lessons that Sarah gave to the waiting maid. ... Although, acquiring the vote would enable women to continue working for the benefit of others as well as their own families, there was still the obstacle of the opposition from both men and women who did not see women voting as a means to improving society. ...

• Word Count: 2702
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Their bond came through secret night-time reading lessons that Sarah gave to the waiting maid. ... Although, acquiring the vote would enable women to continue working for the benefit of others as well as their own families, there was still the obstacle of the opposition from both men and women who did not see women voting as a means to improving society. ...

• Word Count: 2704
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Webster's College Dictionary defines feminism as "a doctrine advocating social, political, and economic rights for women equal to those of men; a movement for the attainment of suck rights- (Random House, 2000: 484). The act of doing whatever is necessary to attain equal treatment and the ability to live independently without a man in one's life are definitions that society has come to know feminism by (Humm, 1997). While many women wish to be equal, they also demand a certain degree of chivalry and politeness from the men that cross into their lives. Chivalry and feminism are not...

• Word Count: 2628
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School