Early in her essay, Atwood portrays pornography as a backlash against the women's movement. ... Atwood continues this bias throughout her essay and specifically calls out young men ages 16-21 as the primary consumers. I know for myself that females are not free from porn because I personally know women who are deeply involved with pornography. ... Without any mention of women, Atwood's essay focuses on such a small percentage of people in young men that her essay becomes less applicable to the audience. ... Margaret Atwood's essay provides multiple insights about violent porno...

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Newman's critical essay, Portia's Ring: Unruly Women and Structures of Exchange in The Merchant of Venice, focuses on the structures of exchange as they exist Karen in Shakespeare's play. The play, she argues is told in the rhetoric of the commercial world, even, she notes, in Belmont where life is generally free of direct commercial involvement, but the love alliances forged there are a representation of exchange in the commodity of women. ... The first essay Newman names is that of Marcel Mauss who notes that one of the most significant exchanges is that of gift-giving. .....

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In the essay "I Want A Wife," Judy Brady brings out all the different roles a "wife" must fulfill according to society at that time. ... In this essay, Brady herself being a wife wishes she had a one for herself. ... In a word a wife should take care of all responsibilities and let the man be free. ... They stay home because no other person can satisfy all the roles a wife should fulfill according to Brady's essay. ... In the essay "I Want a Wife," I believe Brady is trying to convey this inequality. ...

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Similarly and agreeably, in Katha Pollitt's essay, she claims that "instead of looking at kids to "prove" that differences in behavior by sex are innate, we can look at the ways we raise kids as an index to how unfinished the feminist revolution really is, and how tentatively it is embraced even by adults who fully expect their daughters to enter previously male-dominated professions and their sons to change diapers." To summarize Pollitt's essay, "Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls," she talks about the cause and effect of why boys take the role of being strong and macho, and the...

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I can relate to Sandra Cisneros in her essay "Only Daughter.... In her essay, Sandra wrote about how her father had wanted her to find a great husband and have children. ... Likewise, a woman that desires to be the head of the household and provide financially for her family should feel free and not guilty doing so. ...

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No matter rich or poor, young or old, men and women are born to be free and no one in this whole world by any relations (friendship, marriage, and parenthood) has the right to force, to control, to command any person to do things against his or her free will. ... Sexism inside marriages will end only if we understand that we are not the properties of each other, rather we are life time partners and "There [should] be no powerful will bending [ours] in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature" (Chopin 100), accordi...

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In this essay I will be talking about how women's body shapes have been represented through a number of different trends in society over the last few decades and how these changes have brought different ideas about what society perceives to be a perfect body, and how this has had a massive affect on society, especially at a time when new technology allows us to change our bodies to our desired image. ... They had to look sexy, free and available. ...

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ESSAY II In his 1905 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Freud challenged traditional views of one's sexuality to be an inherent and predetermined fate in relation to one's gender. ... Looked at from the psycho-analytic standpoint, even the most eccentric and repellent perversions are explicable as manifestations of component instincts of sexuality which have freed themselves from the primacy of the genitals and are now in pursuit of pleasure on their own account as they were in the very early days of the libido's development. ...

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In an essay by Frederick Douglass, who began his life as a slave, it is proven that his masters strongly opposed his wishes to become educated, for the very reason that he would begin to see things in perspective. ... Though his early education was the source of his torment, it is what levitated him to higher grounds, and eventually it is what freed him of his chains. ...

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Women's Roles in Society In this essay I will attempt to show you how women's roles in society have changed over the years. ... Acts of free will and liberation were taken as a violation against God and His word. ...

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In the 1960s, the sexual revolution swept the United States, and women felt freer than ever. ... Published literature on the subject includes radical utopian views by some women that picture the ideal society as man-free, reproducing artificially. ... Heroines: Remarkable and Inspiring Women/An Illustrated Anthology of Essays by Women Writers,. ...

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Essay Number 3: Status of Women in the Qur"an For women, Islam is a special blessing; and the Prophet of Islam is indeed the greatest single benefactor of womenfolk. ... This free choice carries with it the responsibility to make the right choices or paying the consequence for wrong ones, best exemplified by Adam and Eve. ...

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My focus for this essay is to explore the uncovered area of psychology. ... You are free to treat your children in several different methods (supporting them, therapy, discourage, punishment, etc.), but its effect on the children ultimately depends on how their mind works, and how they grew up (Hoffman, 2003). ...

• Word Count: 1040
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• Grade Level: High School