He was found in a handbag on a railway line, and as such feels less at home in aristocratic society than does Algernon. ... Young and pretty, she is favored by Algernon, who pretends to be Jack's brother, Ernest. ... After she leaves, Lady Bracknell learns from Jack that he was an orphan, found in a handbag on a railway line. ... Jack tells Algernon what happened, and says he will kill off his brother Ernest later in the week. ... She tells him his brother is in the dining room; Jack says he doesn't have a brother. ...

• Word Count: 3629
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

Her brother also has a talk with her that night. ... Bounderby but will marry him because it will make her father and her brother happy. ... James Harthouse, a brother of a Member of Parliament, comes to Coketown. ... Bounderby and then Louisa and then her brother Tom. ... She tells him that she is also worried about her brother, who soon appears. ...

• Word Count: 3472
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

Two altars, one smaller than the other, have been found at archaeological sites in the Near East, and some scholars believe these represent Yahweh and his consort, Asherah. ... In every major archaeological excavation in Palestine small naked clay female figurines have been found. ... As the serpent was an ancient icon for goddesses, it appears that the biblical authors found it necessary to severe Eve from the snake.ii This step was also necessary to have only one god. ...

• Word Count: 2927
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

The debate over, "the use of contraceptives is not a new controversy," (Locke) says Journalist Laura Locke, this means that contraceptives have been used for years, in fact, "scrolls [were] found in Egypt, dating to 1900 B.C., which describe ancient methods of birth control that were later practiced in the Roman empire during the apostolic age; wool that absorbed sperm, poisons that fumigated the uterus, potions, and other methods were used to prevent conception," (Brom). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Some societies also observe the custom of levirate, making it compulsory for a man to marry his brother's widow. ... Polygyny has been found to be a feature of economic systems where potential female contribution to subsistence is high (such as in gathering and agricultural economies). ... The practice has also been found in economic systems, however, where potential female contribution is low (such as hunting and fishing economies). ... Women play a crucial role in this process, since they gather and control other women as wives and companions for brothers, sons, and husbands. ...

• Word Count: 3116
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Importance of Being Earnest (A Trivial Comedy for Serious People) Oscar Wilde said "We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality." This essay investigates how far "The Importance of Being Earnest" reflects thi...

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• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

However, in traditional India, the woman is restricted in a patriarchal society as her existence is confined only to her relationships with the man; a daughter to her father, a sister to her brother, a wife to her husband and a mother to her son. ...

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Preface Marriage and families founded through marriage constitute the basic cells of the society. ... It demolished the feudal elements in traditional marriage and founded the principles for freedom and monogamy of marriage, and adjusted the family relationship dominated with rigid distinctions of status and feudal elements. ...

• Word Count: 9974
• Approx Pages: 40
• Grade Level: High School

In One of Ours the main character, Claude, is confronted with life changing decisions in his social and personal lives. He does not conform to many of the ideals, which his family lives by and therefore has become an outcast at home. However, Claude's personal struggles do not reside strictly within the confines of his household. His troubles carry on through the story and become especially apparent in his sexual life. At times, Cather portrays Claude as man who is crippled in his sexuality and is this act is demonstrated with the way he handles himself with women. ...

• Word Count: 5298
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Old writings within the 'Vedas and the Upanishads' label women as 'maata (mother) or Devi (goddess)', denoting worth and preciousness for women.1 It was male responsibility to look after women, brothers and husbands would look after their women by any means. ... After being found by her husband's family, she was dragged to the funeral pyre, where her husband's body was being cremated, she was thrown onto the fire to die'.8 This is the pinnacle of male expectations for women at the time. ...

• Word Count: 2806
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The main character in the novel Jane Eyre is a strong, ambitious, self-sufficient woman by the name of Jane Eyre. From very early on Jane struggles to find her place in the world amongst a society who places a high value on social status. Despite three major challenges throughout her life, Jane Ey...

• Word Count: 2948
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Life in Traditional India Imagine a place where a caste system rules the life of its people, where no matter how hard one works the caste one is in decides their life and where cow dung is considered a magical healer. That place is India. Within a country so far from the modern world, people live ...

• Word Count: 3553
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

Money and Marriage----The matrimonial value orientation in Pride and Prejudice [Abstract] Pride and prejudice, the most popular of Jane Austen's novels, deals with the five Bennet Sisters and their search for suitable husbands. It is read widely all over the world and was written in 1813. That spe...

• Word Count: 4276
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

While they were getting ready, Ann received a telephone call from Columbus. her brother, George phoned her and said that he would come to her on very important business. ... When he found out about them, he called Keller on the Dhone and told him about those defected heads. ...

• Word Count: 3955
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School