The author emphasizes Gurov's manipulation, his hatred for women and his lack of morals. ... Is it confirmed when Dimitri surprises her with a visit, that they love each other and will go to great lengths and sacrifices to be with each other. ... By using third person omniscient, the author allows the reader to identify what both characters are thinking. ... It also serves as a romantic backdrop for their affair. " while in the street the wind whirled the dust round and round there was a great many people walking the festive crowd began to disperse" (219). ... Here, the author suggest...

• Word Count: 1275
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The author of Beowulf shows Grendel's mother as a strong and combative monster. ... The author also reminds the readers that she is a member of the weaker sex and places her to her proper position behind the king. ... She is thought of as a terrible monster, but shows she has great compassion for her son by vowing to avenge her son's death. ... The author makes it known that during this time period male superiority and suppression of females was acceptable. ... In Beowulf, the queen makes her appearance and the author speaks ! ...

• Word Count: 1539
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Within the play the author gives numerous examples of how the family is bitter and not caring. ... The author takes it upon himself to direct many of the symbolic objects within the play toward the mother. ... The beam is another example of symbolism the author tries to use to show how the mother is hurt. ... I think that the reason why the author made Matias act the way he did, was because it showed how the family was falling apart, and how they had different views on many topics. ... In the novel Like Water for Chocolate, there is also a great deal of symbolism throughout the whole story...

• Word Count: 1481
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The author is telling a story about a period in her life. ... The author begins with a tragic story of her child Adam, who suffers from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. ... This shows us her love for this child, which is so great and must be from a special bond she has with him. ... One can feel the emotion going through the author's body. ... However, the author now shows this point through a different view. ...

• Word Count: 1685
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In this paper, I will and explain how the economy has a great affect on family divorce rates, how it leads families into poverty, and how the economy also leads to a father leaving his family. ... Mavis Hetherington, the editor introduces us to many other authors and their theories on these subjects. The author, Sara S. ... I believe both of these authors are trying to say that some of the female-headed families are poor due to their previous conditions; they are not poor because the family is headed by a female instead of a male. ...

• Word Count: 1325
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Eric Klinenburg, a NYU sociologist and author of the book Going Solo, finds that not only are there many more single people than anybody thought (one in two adults lives alone in Manhattan), but that they are thriving. ... Without the pressure to attract a new mate, the authors say, newlyweds can get complacent about their appearance. ... Bella DePaulo, a researcher at the University of California Santa Barbara and author of Singled Out: How Singles are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored and Still Live Happily Ever After, "Many single women and men care about their health and their w...

• Word Count: 2121
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

To do this, it must convey a great deal of information in a short space of time. ... This author's style of writing is unique in that her work is comparable to the bible. ... Also, the ways this author describes snowdrifts are like that of snakes. ... To do this, it must convey a great deal of information in a short space of time. As a result, the short story usually leaves a great deal of its content open to interpretation and examination by the reader. ...

• Word Count: 2012
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Sofia is great to the family. ... Harpo is a great example. ... The author shows how gender and sexuality are not what we believe. ... His real name is Alfred but we never know what his last name is until the end because the author doesn't want to classify the women as property of a man. ...

• Word Count: 1740
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

She was raised by her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother who were all French Creole descendants. ... She longed for being a great mother, wife and neighbor and she did succeed although her outlook on life soon died along with her husband. ... The Awakening was reissued and Kate Chopin finally received the credit she rightly deserved as an author in 1964. ... At the time of the publication of the book, desire for another person while you are married was morally wrong and considered a great sin. ... Edna realizes this, but she cannot help the way she feels for Robert and has a great pas...

• Word Count: 1384
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Author Carl Lowe writes, "It has now been established that children will imitate behavior they see on television moreover it has also been established that they younger the child, the more likely he or she is to believe the commercials, to confuse them with programming fare" (Lowe, 1981, p. 118). ... Thus, the subject of sex and television and its potential effect on children has been a source of great controversy. ... Author Win sets forth one theory: all the hours that disturbed children spend involved in a television experience dull the boundaries between the real and the unreal (Wi...

• Word Count: 1703
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These questions came to Judith Wallerstein, author of the book The Good Marriage. ... One fifth of the couples in the study fell into the category that the authors call a rescue marriage. ... Here, with the rescue marriage is a direct confirmation that people who have suffered great pain can put it behind and have a stable, rewarding marriage. ...

• Word Count: 1730
• Approx Pages: 7

Anson's alleged superiority to women leads him into his final predicament: having an affair with a random woman that is not even named by the author. ... Anson and Paula fall in love, and have what the author describes as a successful engagement'. ... I was with him a great deal then, for we were crossing together, but for the first time in our friendship he told me not a word of how he felt, nor did I see the slightest sign of emotion."" ...

• Word Count: 1512
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

American author Kate Chopin has written two published novels and over a hundred short stories. ... The females in her stories, such as Calixta in "The Story of an Hour" experience great feelings and experiences rather than men. ... Web. 27 Apr. 2014 Kate Chopin is the author of some of the boldest stories written in American before the 1960's. ...

• Word Count: 1852
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

To a great extent, it still is. ... The words authors choose are arranged to express the feelings of the characters in a way so that we can relate. ... This is a good example how even a death theme in a poem can speak for love and romance and leave the reader not sad because there has been a death, but delighted in the thought that love this great exists. ... The women at this time knew a great change was coming, it was only a matter of when. ...

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Charlotte's argument that she is neither a girl with a great fortune, nor is she pretty looking; so if she doesn't take a chance and get married, no matter how much the marriage is going against her ideals, she will remain forever a spinster indebted to her family. ... Great emphasis was laid on mutual esteem as suitable basis for marriage, as reflected in the introduction of this essay. ...

• Word Count: 2459
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Often times when one reads a collection of philosophical writings on a subject, one will find authors who are usually associated with another field. ... Therefore, he will not be able to be intimate with those women who he has great respect and affection for, since they will effectively remind him of his mother. ... I stated above that a man chooses to marry someone whom he has great respect and affection for. ... This results in a great overvaluation of his wife. ...

• Word Count: 1940
• Approx Pages: 8

In the late 1960's John Perkins, author of "Spirit of the Shuar" was volunteering in the Peace Corps, helping to bring civilization to undeveloped" areas of South America. ... Once he arrived to the house, he sat with the father and drank chicha (a fermented drink made by Shuar women, it is the most important and sacred Shuar food) and showed great respect for the older man. ... Finally the father of the boy would ask with great sincerity, "Will you give me your daughter to join my family as though she were my own? ... I believe that John Perkins was a great medium in getting across the p...

• Word Count: 2139
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Musical troupes consisted of both male and females but the leading role known as "the great one of the troupe of musical performers" was always a female. ... Some poems have been found that were supposedly to have been written by women, but it is questionable whether the author was actually a female or a male impersonating a women. ...

• Word Count: 1560
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

John Pinsent, author of "Greek Mythology" wrote, "At some stage Io was tethered to an olive tree in the grove of the Mycenaeans and guarded by the All-seeing Argus, who himself wore a bull's hide and had eyes all over his body, and two faces. ... She herself symbolises vengeance/revenge better than any other god/goddess as she has gone to great lengths to prevent her husband's infidelity and when they could not be prevented, punish his mistresses (and their children). ...

• Word Count: 1427
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

After months and months of suspense, love has finally been discovered. Love was not discovered by anyone in the classroom. Two characters in Chekhov's "The Lady with the Dog- fell in love. It is such a romantic way to end the semester. Well, enough about school and on to the facts. In every sh...

• Word Count: 1555
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Meyer, author of We'd be free: Narratives of Life Without Homophobia, Racism, or Sexism, calls the less studied minority stressors. ... The quote comes from a comic strip from a mans point of view in a society which doesn't agree with him being "weak. " This view forces men into the picture of what society views masculinity to be as much as it forces married couples into the roles of docile wife and recently calmed husband behind a white picket fence in the "American Dream. " Forcing people to play certain roles because it fits the view of society is what stops the world from moving ...

• Word Count: 1956
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

According to John Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey, the authors of a surprising new book entitled "Time for Life," Americans have more leisure time as many of them are retiring younger and having fewer time-devouring children than they did in the 1960s. ... The reasons may be in great part economical but also psychological. ...

• Word Count: 1873
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School