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 "Vesuvius At Home," another of Rich's essays, these borders are even more evident. This essay was written completely on the life and works of Emily Dickinson, anachronistically free in her own writings. ... Indeed, her essay on Dickinson, in which Rich supports her statements with historical evidence, is an extremely strong work. ... But I feel that her portrayal of "man" in this essay, as earlier stated, strays a bit too far into reverse-chauvinism. ... The main idea of the essay, that of re-vision facilitating a s...

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What America Means to Me Essay written by Nevin America is a wonderful place to live, because we are free. ... The freedom of religion in America is another big concept; because that is another reason many people came to America, to break free from the bonds of the designated religion in their country. ...

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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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This shows that women are inferior to men in physicality, and a number of areas throughout the essay, yet through it all she voices her concerns for the rights of women and how well deserved they are. ... Regardless of what women do there will always be men who will continue to degrade and discourage rational, intelligent, and free-thinking women. ... It has been over 200 years since this essay was written. ... Without free thinkers like Mary Wollstonecraft, the mold that men began to form women into would not have been cracked let alone broken. ...

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Percy, in his essay, writes about sovereignty, as the lost creature, and advices the readers, to explore oneself, and struggle to know the object to be known, whether it is oneself or other than oneself, materially or mystically. ... However, A Room of One's Own, thoughts are only a vehicle which Woolf uses, in contradistinction to Percy's mechanism of providing hypothetical examples, to write her essay about woman and fiction. ... In both, a struggle is involved because of the sole nature of sovereignty- to be free from influence of society or such facilities of control. The goal in...

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We pay good money to see movies in the theater, television is no longer free (not the good channels anyway), and then, of course, you can pay extra for pay-per view channels on top of your regular cable bill. ... Susan Isaacs writes about this very thing in her essay entitled, "Brave Dames and Wimpettes". ... What about the movie that Stanley Kaufman critiques in his essay, "Primal Stuff"? ... In Jenn Schreve's essay, "Honor Thy Daughter", she brings new light to my issues with Disney. ...

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"Primate Studies and Sex Differences", an essay by Sally Linton, tells about her disagreement of the experience done on primates, the "animals that are most like human beings", to reveal the truth that some behaviors reflects innate differences between genders. ... From the example given in the essay, it is clearly stated that mother seems to make the biggest contribution because " while the mother keeps their daughter close she unconsciously trains her son to investigate - to become a problem solver." ... For example, I am not allowed to leave the house after 9 pm and must go back safely to t...

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Female comedians have made incredible breakthroughs in the freeing of women's expression. ... Female authors, throughout history, have been fighting for the freeing of women's expression. ... Regina Barreca tells of the struggle that women endured to get their voices heard in her works, Last Laughs: Perspectives on Women and Comedy, and Women and Comedy, both collections of essays on gender and culture. ... Tyler, Bombeck, Austen and Whitcher, freed many women and helped women gain the rights gained in the women's liberation movement. Because of these women, today women are ...

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As Bharati Mukherjee tells us in her essay "Love Me or Leave Me", life in India wasn't exactly a fairytale with a perfect ending. ... Whether she was understood or not, it didn't matter because Doris Day was still in America living the life of a free American woman. ...

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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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Yet she frees herself from this world through her work, which are the tigers that she has created. ... In the beginning of essay Rich sounded like a bitter woman, who blamed the world for her choices in life. ...

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In an essay by Elaine R. ... Though she tries to break free of the overwhelming oppression she suffers, she says the pattern, "slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples on you (Kennedy et al. 431)." ... As the creeping woman violently shakes the bars of the pattern, so too does the author struggle to gain her own identity and break free of the imprisonment of her domination (Short 120). ...

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The literary pioneers of this women's movement included: Abigail Adams who had a genius for letter writing, Mercy Otis Warren who was known as the most productive "woman of the American revolution", with works that viewed history and politics as a struggle between liberty and power, and Sarah Moore Grimke who drove one of the first feminist spikes in her essay Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman. ... In Woolf's essay, she states: "For we think back through our mothers if we are women". ... In order to accomplish this, she would need to break away from t...

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This essay will demonstrate and examine how the selected works of Sylvia Plath, Diane Di Prima, and Suzanne Collins, challenge the standard depiction of the twentieth century's female gender roles by defying the patriarchal belief of women's domestic position within society. ...

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On one side of the hallway are tables and chairs, both inside and outside, where students sit doing homework and on the other are rows of large smudge free glass windows; the first looking down onto a large pool and the other two allowing passerby's to peer into the two basketball courts. ... McComas' weight room which consists of multiple rooms packed full to the brim with weight machines, free weights, benches and extremely buff men flashing off their biceps is a perfect place for guys trying to complete a few sets of bench presses but also for girls who might find most other weig...

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Reading about this essay assignment made me realize that every object existent in this planet possesses a biography, which influences many aspects of the human life. ... It is important to keep in mind that there are organic and eco-friendly eyeliners available that contain toxin-free formulas, but the price of these specific eyeliners is very discouraging to consumers for it's cost is almost twice of a regular one. ...

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In this essay, I will analyze the image of Maud Gonne as being a dangerous beauty as well as a violent political fanatic, through a discussion of Yeats's two poems, "No Second Troy" and "A Prayer for my Daughter" as an evidence of his changing opinions of Gonne. ... However, even though Gonne was aware of this fact, she still insisted that "Ireland could rely only on force, in some form or another, to free herself" (304, Gonne). ...

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In this essay, with the ideas of some of the most important philosophers in the history, I shall investigate the gender roles in society, marriage; even every part of life and whether because of these roles is one gender superior the other. ... He bring up the subject of marriage " This (marriage relationship) is included because rule is exercised over wife and children – over both of them as free persons, but in other respectss differently: over a wife, rule is as by a statesman.....

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In this society, a woman would actually have to turn against her own sex in order to be free, for example when Moira kidnaps and ties up Aunt Elizabeth to escape from the Red Centre, leaving "that old hag Aunt Elizabeth tied up like a Christmas Turkey behind the furnace". ... Angela Carter Essay [1.7 Pages] ...

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In reality Hester is a heroine because she is female, but why there are two different words to describe males and females in this realm is another essay. ... Hester provides Pearl with a childhood full of self-discovery, free imagination, and love that knew no boundaries. ...

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Abigail Adams was a unique woman because she had an education and an interest in politics. She learned how to read, write, and enjoyed reading especially poems. She did all of this at home. She was ahead of her time with many of her ideas. She opposed slavery and believed in equal education for boy...

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In this essay the term media refers to television, films, magazines, books and newspapers. ... Media is "the watchdog of a free society" as it provides receivers with news that is instrumental for their survival. ...

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