They were men who had wives depending on them at home, cheering them on, sending them provisions, and giving advice; sometimes unwanted advice. These wives were left at home while these men did their jobs to run the nation. ... She is just one example of what these women were like as they were left to their own devices at home. ... They would have stayed at their home of Mount Vernon living peacefully for the rest of their lives if George had not been put in charge of the army by Congress. ... "Drawn away from home by the cause of rebellion against the British, John counted on Abigail to fu...

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Shinto is also mainly seen in the country as something anyone, even a person who is not from Japan, can understand and participate in. ... The majority of rituals that take place inside the home, such as daily prayers and offerings to the kami are performed by women and mainly acted out in the kitchen (Martinez 189). ... Each household can be tied to a different kami than their neighbor and therefore can build its own individual bond. ... How can a woman lead a shrine if on certain days of every month she can't even enter a shrine? ... If you place the kamidana (the alter) in the kit...

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The ideal woman in the Victorian Age had to stay at home, lack any sexual initiative, be selfless, and be morally accountable. She was to be the pillar of the home in both the physical and moral sense. ... Similar to her, most women of the Victorian age had to partake in only their domestic duties and not engage in life beyond the walls of their homes. ... The only way in which she can view the outside environment is via a magical mirror, which represents her separation. ... Consequently, death is the punishment for this fallen woman who chose to break the Victorian ideals and look into public...

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Back in the 19th century a male suitor actually went a-wooing at the home of the young woman he sought as his wife. ... Gifts can be as extravagant as offering to build a home or paying for a college education. ... Their houses were not large enough to do the courtship at home, so working class youth courted in public. ... Through experience with a series of dates and steadies, you can gain awareness that will help you make a better choice of someone you might be able to live withhappily ever after?. ... Instead of spending time in the home, dating was going out and this meant spen...

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The transformation into an urban economy from a rural one opened a new time for women's work.1 The products that women produced at home were now being produced in factories. ... Perhaps the answer can be founded in a concept known as the "glass ceiling". ... If the stereotypes are not confronted, the damage left by them can be irreversible. ... Physical characteristics of a woman can have a major impact at work. ... A woman appearing too feminine or sexy in the eyes of a man can be damaging. ...

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But a dark cloud hangs over their marriage: Maxim's first wife, Rebecca , drowned in a cove near Manderley the previous year, and her ghost haunts the newlyweds' home. ... She feels that she can never compare favorably to Rebecca, who was beautiful, talented, and brilliant--or so everyone says--and soon she feels that Maxim is still in love with his dead wife. ... He and the heroine drive all night back to Manderley, stopping only once, when Maxim calls home and learns that Mrs. ... But their exile owes not only to the physical destruction of their home; a house can be rebuilt. ... ...

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Postwar economic changes in the late nineteenth century resulted in women beginning to work outside the home in increasing numbers. ... The southern ideal held that men had public voices while a lady's influence should extend no further than home and church. ... He also revealed his view of Edna when, after inconsiderately waking her on returning home late one night from gambling and socializing at the local hotel, she did not respond favorably to his desire for conversat...

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Pontellier returns home from his night out and awakens Edna, claiming that one of their sons had a fever. ... Madame Antoine was genuinely hospitable, and Chopin shows how pure and caring a person outside rich society can be. After resting in the country home, Edna felt like she had been asleep for many years. ... When the Pontelliers return home to New Orleans, the Romanticism of the story becomes much clearer. ... Back at home, the extent to which his materialism exists is more obvious. ...

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But to have any hope, certainty or believe we should firstly investigate the current situation that can give us a full picture of what chances we- females do have and do not and then what of them we are expected to get. ... If the results fit the hypothesis it can be considered as proven. ... The aim of paying attention to the observing the opinion of an experts about the emancipation of women rights in our society, about what else the government can provide for women for free access to the political sphere except the formal decrees existing now. ... Starting from this point we can see tha...

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Pretty Woman is an appropriation of the play by Bernard Shaw called Pygmalion, because it's characters, plot and central theme can all be closely linked. ... As she searches for her room-mate Kit, on Hollywood Boulevard, the viewer can see that the area is accustomed to prostitutes, drug-dealers and, as Vivian happens to stumble on, dead bodies. ... This aspiration is also shared by Eliza, for even before contemplating the idea to visit Professor Higgins for elocution lessons to become a flower-girl, she returns home to her squalid lodgings, "dreaming and planning" what to do with her...

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He does not conform to many of the ideals, which his family lives by and therefore has become an outcast at home. ... This argument in itself can be easily argued, but the facts are there to back up the theory. ... You can pick "em as easy as can be" (Cather 963). ... The "stump" on the soldier is another symbolic meaning that can be traced to the cherry tree stump. ... He can remember his father, but not his mother; doesn't know if he has sisters or not, -can remember seeing girls about the house, but thinks they may have been cousins" (Cather 1201). ...

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When Clarissa returns home to the small attic room she is secluded and lonely. ... After a good friend, Evans, is killed, he realises that he can no longer feel. ... Holmes pushes into his home to see him, Septimus throws himself out the window to his death. ... She now can begin to rebuild her life with new values, and can resume her life's work of rebuilding the world. ... We can be empowered do so if only we can open our eyes and see ourselves and world more clearly. ...

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Both females had large families, lived in ghetto neighborhoods and were deprived of a "real home.... According to Freud, "suppression is one of the three factors that contribute to the process of falling ill in hysterical patients because it can produce symptoms that affect the psychological well-being of the individual" (Lectures 14). ... According to Freud, "If a person who is at loggerheads with reality possesses an artistic gift he can transform his phantasies into artistic creations instead of into symptoms" (Lectures 56). ... You stay at home. ...

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Because Mother Savage was known to "have money- she would be assigned four Prussian soldiers to come into her home. ... Is it possible that she wanted the families of the Prussian soldiers to share in the grief that she was in; most likely when the text states: "This one has their names on it so you can write home about them."" ... (http://www.angelfire.com/nv/English243/Society.html) So as we can see, women in this point in time had many chains yet to shake off, and felt more like prisoners than citizens in their own time. ...

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The reader can feel instinctively through the brutal insistence of the man's actions, the humiliation and abuse being committed to the young girl in the poem. ... "No one can take this from him now ever though she is for years a mother and worn, and he is too old to force any again. ... In the following stanza the poet uses sturdy sounding words repetitiously (back to, back to), and words that sound like what they do (pleading, sobbing) you can feel the rhythm of the rape that is occurring (voice-over body over hers). ... A man is king in his own castle, he can still say, having g...

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Women were taught to be both dependent emotionally and financially on men and learned from a young age that beauty comprises their worth to a potential future husband--leading women acting as poor wives and mothers in their homes and resulted in tyrannical episodes. ... This quote shows how men can deceive women and woo them into a manipulative relationship only to just keep them put away and not treat them with a mind and opinions of their own. ... Once women have reason and can handle certain feelings of love and the emotions that carry along with that, they will be able to truly love s...

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Her emotion was influenced by her living environment and was depressed both inside home and outside. ... We can say that without Mrs. ... We can see that under religion's control, Miriam's emotion severely depressed. ...

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However real the representation seems, it can never really offer its audience a true presentation of ideas. ... In the media, advertising was coming into its own, backed by a supportive American society that produced countless products for women in the home as part of an emerging consumer society. ... In the 1990s, many more women were employed and working, rather than staying at home and being a housewife. ... He is a sadistic money-grabbing lawyer who is out for all he can get, and enjoys the attention along the way. ... The audience can therefore relate to this stereotype and the charac...

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His relationship with his wife and even his mother prejudiced his opinion of women, and we can see this in his comedies. ... This masked jealousy can be seen in Act 2, Scene 1, when Kate expresses to Baptista, "What, will you not suffer me? ... In fact, Kate can be compared to a wild animal early in the play. ... When the honeymooners get "settled" in their home together, Petruchio continues to work on "taming" Kate. ... Kate's transformation into an obedient wife can first be seen in Act 4, Scene 5, as the couple is heading back to Padua. ...

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It can be argued that love is the most important aspect of one's life. ... Thusly, there are many different ways one can construe such an immense emotion. ... The representation of kindness in all the characters can be attributed to the Franklin's own kindness, but it can also be criticized for its obvious idealistic connotation. ... All characters are extremely admirable and therefore, no ultimate conclusion can be drawn from the Franklin's question. ... The question must be asked that if a woman must use a man to gain power, how can a woman be truly independent? ...

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How can the harmonious relationship be so fragile and unstable? ... As we can see, in most of the play, Hermione's existence is a perfect icon rather than a character. ... How can men endure the reality that they are surpassed and defeated by a woman? ... Only the "varying childness" can cure in him. ... All the land, Fortune which symbolize the male power can not be compared to a lady. ...

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Now that there are more sports that women can play, men are starting to use that against us by telling women sexism does not exist. Men and others with tell women that there is no such thing as sexism anymore, just by looking at the number of sports women can play. ... People do not believe that women can be capable of doing some of the things men can, but women are never given the chance to prove what they can do. ... Nowadays women can not be a famous athlete because of the sports that they play, but because of the way they look and their modeling pictures. ...

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He is "annoyed- at the woman for being "stark naked- on a roof where people can see her. ... According to the Structuralist, Roland Barthes, there should be the death of the author in the text before any meaning can be constructed at all. ... For instance, without taking into consideration Doris Lessing, we can give her story a multitude of interpretations. Indeed, the extract can be understood as a depiction of men viewing woman as mere objects for display and possession. ... It can even be argued that she did not even notice the men. ...

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The role of the mother in India is considered the ultimate and most important role of the Indian woman and barrenness is considered to be the greatest disaster that can exist for a woman. ... The birth of a girl is considered a headache, especially for the poor as a dowry needs to be amassed so the girl can be wedded off properly. ... She can truly be callled the ardhagini of Nathan, that she is his partner in joys and sorrows. ...

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For example these claims say that women are weaker than men, women are not physically capable of playing sports, or a woman's place is in the home rather than on the playing field. ... With that being said race is absolutely a factor in whether or not women can play baseball with men. ... We can alleviate and erase these myths surrounding the inferiority of women and the superiority of men in the arena of sports. ... With the proper training or practice these differences can be reduced. ... With that being said women can participate in the same training programs as men and receive the sam...

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