Through Historical, Biographical, and New Historical critical analysis of the author, and the time period, we will see that the effects of the war and how it greatly influenced this piece of literature. ... The author himself also volunteered to fight with the French army. ... The author inserts an interesting thought "She liked them well enough, too, those four enemies of hers; for country people do not feel patriotic hatred-those feelings are reserved for the upper classes."" ... (http://www.online-literature.com/maupassant/ Literature Network) As is evident with the short story of Mo...

• Word Count: 2584
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Bailey, author of From Front Porch to Back Seat, writes: At first her mother or guardian invited young men to call; in subsequent seasons the young lady had more autonomy and could bestow an invitation to call upon any unmarried man to whom she had been properly introduced at a private dance, dinner, pr otherentertainment?. ... Harry Collis, author of 101 American Customs, talks about how in America it is more likely for the bride's parents to pay for the wedding costs. ... Martin King Whyte, author of Dating, Mating, and Marriage, writes: Dating is an activity with a variety of ...

• Word Count: 2701
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This parallel between the author and the protagonist's childhood is an indicator that Esperanza is a surrogate for Cisneros because she is a manifestation of Cisneros' previous adolescent experiences and desires. ... As the author, Cisneros, "sits inside the mind of the hero[ine] . . . and looks at the other characters from the outside," while the heroine, Esperanza "plays a very small active part; [s]he sees the actions and suffering of other people pass before [her] like a spectator" (Freud, Day-Dreaming 149-150). ... Both Cisneros and Esperanza's mother wanted their daughte...

• Word Count: 2834
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A closer look at how Honrby accomplishes this will give readers a better grasp of the writing style of a contemporary author whose works may be considered classics in due time. ... Sylvia Estrada-Claudio, M.D., PhD of the Department of Women and Development Studies of the University of the Philippines College of Social Work and Community Development, and author of the book Love, Rape, and Sexuality: The Construction of Woman in Discourse, in her feminist study of fictional love letters, rape stories and a feminist text on sexuality, has deduced two male stereotypes. ...

• Word Count: 2791
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They have recently been through a period of great suffering, connected to the destruction of Manderley, but the heroine does not reveal the nature of their predicament. ... Van Hopper invites him to tea, but shows her most vulgar and crude side, to the great embarrassment of the heroine. ... The narrator and her husband, neither of whose names we know yet, find themselves in exile from Manderley, a place of great beauty that now lies in ruins. ...

• Word Count: 3026
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Lessing starts off the story with a description of three men at work on the roof during the week of the hot sun. I believe Lessing wanted to emphasize the characteristics of men of the construction class. These guys were tough, they were constantly exposed to heat, hard headed, domineering and egoistical. The scene is set where there were buildings and roof tops which symbolizes hardness, coldness, both of which reflects the characteristics of men. In the middle portion of the paragraph, Lessing brings us to a part where the men see a woman sun bathing in the nude at another part of the buildi...

• Word Count: 4111
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

From the time of her birth in Japan, a women, will have a much different religious experience than one of her counterparts from another society. This is partly due to the rigid and strict society in which she lives, but also due to the rich and generous blend of religious traditions that make one e...

• Word Count: 3406
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In America women and African Americans have been the oppressed group. The lack of equality between men and women is based solely off of the difference in human anatomy. While the lack of equality for African Americans are solely based off being of African descent in other words being "black" or havi...

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Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in the era known as the Middle Ages, an era resembling kings, castles, and knights. Behind the famous kings, magnificence castles, and shining armor were the women. In the shadows, a step behind, and not as enchanting, one can find the tale of the medieval woman. Chaucer takes the woman out of the shadows and into the spotlight in the Canterbury Tales, especially in the case of the outspoken Wife of Bath (WB). The apostle Paul writes to Timothy, "Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness" (1 Tim. 2:11). ...

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In author Ann Llewellyn Barstow's book Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts (1994), a typical witch was usually described in this way: "women which be commonly old, lame, bleare-eied, pale, fowle, and full of wrinkles- and "[like] a bitch far more hideous to look at than all the others- (p.16). ... An example of this is the case where a Nupe man's body was found in a river, but instead of assuming he may have drowned, they blamed an elderly woman with whom the man had spent a great deal of time (Nadel, 1952). ...

• Word Count: 3282
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

She had a strong career as a well-known author under the pen name "Janey Canuck- and she wrote many books and articles for magazines and newspapers mainly about Canadian life. ... Under Section 24 it stated that: "The Governor General shall, from time to time, in the Queen's name, by Instrument under the Great Seal of Canada, summon qualified persons to the Senate - (Cochrane 46). ...

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