Men may have been driven to superiority by the constant feeling that they were inferior (Stearns 15). ... In the play, Walter pleads with his family for support and states, " I got me a dream" (Hansberry 33.) ... Walter can see this prestige coming with the dream of the liquor store. When he explains to his son Travis that one day, "you name it , son and I hand you the world!"... The liquor store is his dream to break away from that and be on his own. ...

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In game shows, women frequently have a minimal role. ... Growing up as a child I often wondered why there were hardly any female super heroes that I could emulate. Now that I am older I still ask myself that question, in fact I also ask why is it that the few female superheroes are portrayed in the manner that promote their sexuality. ... They fail to realize that this is often an illusion as these women have been prepped and have had their make up professionally done. ... Women of the dream media world never speak about matters that are important and worthwhile. ...

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Kinnear at Richmond Hill, she is surprised that he allows her to sit up front with him and she states, "I was quite embarrassed, as I was not used to sitting beside a gentleman" (242). ... Even Grace herself finds herself in what appears to be a dream. ... She keeps this dream to herself, as she awakes with a wet nightdress covered in Earth. Perhaps it was no dream at all, and that Grace had indeed slept with all of these men. ... The only woman I believe him to truly love in this story is his own mother. ...

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Some of the most interesting female characters in Shakespeare's writing are Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Viola and Olivia in Twelfth Night, and Gertrude, the Queen of Denmark and Hamlet's mother, in Hamlet. ... In A Midsummer Night's Dream, the reader recognizes right away that Hermia is not ordinary woman. ... "I know not by what power I am made bold," Hermia begins thoughtfully but not tentatively, "But I beseech your grace that I may know the worst that may befall me in this case.... Until this early point in the play, Hermia is an admirable and ev...

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The father says that she is the new hired man and he replies, " could have fooled me," "I thought it was only a girl. ... (pg 457) Then she replied by saying " I continued to slam doors and sit as waywardly as possible, thinking that by measures I kept myself free." ... From a Freudian point of view, in his Intrepation of Dreams, the narrator dreamed up stories of saving people, her courage, boldness and self-sacrifice. ... As the story goes on she continued to dream of stories which started the same way with some sort of danger lurking, however, things would start to change. ...

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Refering to the left figure which I find to be female, however, her head resembles the head of a penis and the figure as a whole suggests an erect penis. ... We cannot divide up its effect into the erotic and the psychological dream-world. She dreams but of what precisely we cannot know. ... We have noted how Picasso played around with the texture of his figures in earlier works. ... It is essentially, I think, an amalgamation of the expressive outline technique of the "Woman in an Armchair" of 1929 and the glowing, white psychological shapes of the "Seated Woman" of 1927. ...

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Everybody has one, it guilds your decision making, your thoughts, ideas, and dreams. ... Everyone feels, acts, thinks, and dreams differently. ... As people's dreams are dreamed and goals are accomplished their identities will change with the individual. ... A man might be a man but have feminine traits. ... People live en all kinds of homes and I do not mean a ranch or a cabin. ...

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Everybody has one, it guilds your decision making, your thoughts, ideas, and dreams. ... Everyone feels, acts, thinks, and dreams differently. ... As people's dreams are dreamed and goals are accomplished their identities will change with the individual. ... A man might be a man but have feminine traits. ... People live en all kinds of homes and I do not mean a ranch or a cabin. ...

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At this point however, Jack is being more rational, "You know what I have got to say to you." perhaps implying there is no point in formally asking her, as she already knows what he is going to say. ... This however, could be seen as Gwendoline simply anticipating what she was educated to look forward to, so in order to get the perfect proposal she dreamed of, she had to lead Jack in the correct direction as he seemed very nervous and unsure of himself. ... She immediately coerces Jack into an interview of his character and personal life, "And now I have a few questions to put to you, Mr. ... ...

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Here I follow the approach of Weeks, who has argued that gender is the 'social condition of being male or female, and sexuality, the cultural way of living out our bodily pleasures and desires' (1986: 45). ... I agree with Gottlieb and Wald when they argue that 'rock can provide a means by which women can actively create distinctive female subcultures' by using the example of Riot Grrrl. ... One quote that agrees that rock is male, is made by Julie Burchill (1994) where she states that "I know it's a sexist thing to say, but women aren't as good at making...

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To what extent can Disney be said to have moved with the times? ... Snow White is portrayed, at the beginning of the film, as an innocent obedient, domestic child, who dreams of finding the man she will marry, but is inactive in doing so. ... She instead charges off to join the army in the place of her father and takes her life in her own hands, rather than sitting around dreaming of romance. ... I would therefore argue that Disney has not moved with the times, if Disney had we would expect mothers (older women) to have a more prominent influence and be role models as they often are in rea...

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Due to stereotypical views I noticed that the packaging for girl's toys were a lot bigger than most boys toys and they appeared to even so, have more toys in their section rather than boys. I feel like this may be factual since it is often said that women have more materialistic things growing up, therefore they need more toys. ... Probably leading to the fact as to why women in general have low self esteem in oppose to men. ... I also noticed that in some cases boy's toys challenged the mind and were not so aloof as girls toys were. ... I personally think that if society did not...

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Maybe this novel will give some identity to the nameless, faceless women in burqa walking down the street, so that the reader will now sense that these are real people who have dreams and hopes and disappointments. ... "You try this again and I will find you. I swear on the Prophet's name that I will find you. And, when I do, there isn't a court in this godforsaken country that will hold me accountable for what I will do."... To him having a son means he would be immortalized as his name would be carried on to other generations. ...

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I have never seen a live palm tree in anyone's house to my recollection. ... I get the sense as if this curtain is revealing something spectacular. ... Having no women in the background, it depicts a male dominated work environment. ... Making men want to pursue their dreams and achieve this impressive status. I have chosen Ronald Marchand's "The Parable of the Democracy of Goods" to refer to my two advertisements. ...

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She reveals a lot about herself to this complete stranger and I believe that she is trying to fulfill one of her fantasies with this man. ... In the first essay "Rape Fantasies", Margaret Atwood, the author, discussed woman and how they make up fantasies to fulfill their own dreams. ... I think that woman have more to say about this topic because they are smarter then men in that subject. ... I think that not having many women write an essay about them says a lot about what these men were writing about woman. ... Females have power over males, but at the same time males have power over wom...

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Introduction How hard can it be to find Prince Charming, that one person who is everything you ever dreamed of? ... Through research I have found that the degree of characteristics desired in a romantic partner fluctuates when considering a long term versus a short term relationship. ... The survey asked students, "When I am looking for a romantic partner, this is important to me." ... I claimed that women and men will differ in their desired relationship preferences. ... In conclusion, the psychology 205 students at Syracuse University have found that men and women have look for a lot of t...

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Back then, I would never have witnessed any of my boy cousins engaged in doll playing. Likewise, I would never have felt the need to play with the "boy" type" of toys as they never appealed to me. ... It is evident that I loved the concept of having a baby and being a mother and this can relate to social variables that I was brought up to believe in. ... Likewise, I was brought up always having a baby doll beside me and I knew from an early age that I wanted to be a mother. ... "Disney's power lies, in part, in its ability to tap into lost hopes, abortive dreams, and utopian potential of ...

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Women, I have also found, are very competitive with one another, because they have to fight their way up corporate ladders and prove their intelligence everyday. ... Take myself for example; I have grown up in a family with only a female role model. Speaking for myself, I think I have become a very, strong, and independent female even without a male role model. Although, I do believe it is nice to have both mother and father figures within a household I think that you can still get along fine with one. ... A young member of the Gilead secret police, like Offred Nick is a subversive rebel a...

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Both males and females have a distinct general role, generally the female is the character that is in danger and the male is the character that saves her. ... Instead he chooses to follow his heart to find the women of his dreams, Cinderella. ... She is so pure of heart that the hunter could not kill her, as the text states "You must ran away and never come back, I will kill a pig and put its heart in a box instead". ... Her personality is also shown by the use of "that night Snowhite made the dwarves supper" because she didn't have to but her kindness is her natural part of her per...

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Most effectively, he sympathetically points to the massive pressures that have been placed on the female. ... These pressures are the expectations of women that have not replaced those of the past, but added to them. ... This inevitably changed my reading of the text, as I recognised that the author does not want us to give up on Australian society into not hoping for the idea society or as he states, the "dream scenario", but wants to motivate us to change our attitudes and actions. ... However, there was a new depth and understanding the second time I read The Big Picture, as I took a differ...

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Through the research I have done, I have found no set pattern or no right way in going about the whole process. ... It is because he/she is not really doing what their dreams tell them to do, but rather doing things just to please someone else or to please some other cultural standard. ... Through my research I have found that men and women try to live up to gender roles and issues of class, and that this process negatively effects everyone. ... Some research that I have found to back this up is,Teens who give birth are much more likely to come from poor or low-income families (83%).? ...

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So I used to see Corpses. ... The effects of war have caused Sassoon to undergo a serious internal conflict. ... He says," I don't mind in the least. ... You see what I find so difficult is I don't think myself as a person who breaks down. And yet time and time again I"m brought up hard against the fact that I did" (Barker 106). ...

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The differences between the sexes have long been debated in the scientific and social arenas. ... In anthropology the definitions of sex and gender differ: sex divides between men and women genetically - women have two X chromosomes, men have an X and a Y chromosome. ... "Many feminists have been dreaming of mass culture moments like this since feminism came into being" (Donna Minkowitz, p. 300). ... I chanced upon a woman who is a fashion director in a very prestigous firm, and has made a very fulfilling career for herself. ... I couldn't help feeling that this situation and these feel...

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Women, Comedy and Change Women have been suppressed in many aspects of life. ... Madge states in one part of the skit, "Every evening I se the white night coming in my dreams. ... Marge replies, "I don't want to say I"m getting attached to my vibrator, but last Valentine's Day I sent it two dozen roses." ... "I told you that you were trying to put too much into this model." ... "I didn't put it there." ...

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After reading this compelling play about a failed American dream of an ordinary man, a careful examination of characters reveals an aspect of the play that cannot be ignored. ... They appear to have inherited only Willy's flawed teachings of life. ... Then we have the generic mistress character. ... "I went and ruined her, and furthermore I can't get rid of her... Can I accept the c...

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