"You are unlovable, Lily Owens. ... Whenever Deborah is stated where Lily is not incorporated with unconditional love, Lily creates a fantasy of it being in her way and no one is able to cease it. ... Rosaleen cleans the mess that Lily creates when throwing Honey jars in frustration at The lady in chains, raising Lily from her hour of grievances. Lily gravitates toward Rosaleen because she had been the only one to show true care to Lily. ... Lily learns her mother's true battle and reasoning of why she did indeed left Lily with T.Ray. ...

• Word Count: 1370
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• Grade Level: High School

In Virginia Woolf's modernist novel To the Lighthouse, she explores various themes, and the theme of female gender role is just one of them. Through her deployment of the stream of consciousness style, Woolf dives into the inner world of her characters and expresses these themes through their though...

• Word Count: 1474
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• Grade Level: High School

Stephen and Lily as artists receive vastly different treatment from society, Stephen is confident whereas Lily is clearly not. Lily looks up to Mrs. ... Ramsey does not take Lily seriously and Lily knows that. ... This is the exact opposite of Lily's situation. ... Lily thinks her art "would be hung in the servants' bedrooms." ...

• Word Count: 1274
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• Grade Level: High School

Lily Allen is one musician drawing attention to feminism, as she sings about the stereotypes and discriminations in place against females through her song "Hard Out Here," in a way that is easily understood by the public. ... "Hard Out Here," is a song by Lily Allen with a clear goal: to draw attention to sexism affecting women and promote change. It has an overwhelmingly sarcastic tone as it addresses females' traditional domestic roles, and according to Lily Rothman, "the double standards that affect women when it comes to appearances" (Rothman). ... Lily A...

• Word Count: 2131
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It was Lily's mother who primarily influenced Lily's opinions. ... He hears from countless people gossip about Lily. ... Lily was then greeted by a woman who had known her because Lily financed a trip for her to a clinic when she was ill through a women's club that Lily sponsored with the money she had received from Gus Trenor. This woman allowed Lily to hold her baby. ... Lily as a character was very appealing. ...

• Word Count: 1570
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• Grade Level: High School

The character who was most affected by society was Lily Bart. ... Her jealousy of Lily and her desire to maintain her upscale reputation, Bertha spread a malicious rumor about Lily. Accusing Lily of having an affair with George, Bertha's husband, Bertha caused Lily to become unaccepted in her social circle. ... She was first seen washing the steps of the Benedick, Selden's apartment, when Lily left, and again when she offered a stack of letters to Lily. ... If Lily had this unspoken power over Bertha, if absolutely necessary, Lily could use them to save her own reputation, should...

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Driving across country on a journalistic assignment, Lily met her now‑husband in Wyoming. ... Despite having spent 6 years as a stripper, Lily feels the need to do it right this time. ... Along the way, Lily's thoughts stray to her youth. ... Suddenly, Lily reaches a very different epiphany. ... Having read the book, I regret that Lily never danced in Philly or observed our local scene. ...

• Word Count: 1381
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• Grade Level: High School

The role of the "passive female" is one played by Marian, from Atwood's The Edible Woman, and by Lily, from Choy's The Jade Peony. ... Marian and Lily are two characters that fulfill the stereotypical role of the passive female and in doing so, they both give something up. ... Lily is admirable because she is a strong survivor. ... Marian and Lily may have played passive, relatively non-active roles in the novels but they were also strong characters and overcame great triumphs. ... We see this through the characters of Marian, Lily, Poh-Poh, and Meiying. ...

• Word Count: 1599
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In the following pages I will be looking at the work of Robert Mapplethorpe, in particular various black and white flower photographs titled Lily 1977, Calla Lily 1984, Calla Lily 1986 and Calla Lily 1988. ... She seems lost in its fragrance, even at the expense of a nearby Calla lily" (Celant 1993). ...

• Word Count: 1862
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• Grade Level: High School

Salzman tests Leo by matching him up with a school teacher named Lily Hirschorn, the older, traditional wife that a rabbi would want. This leads to the assumption that Lily represents Lilith, Adam's original wife, a match that was originally too rational for Adam/Leo. ... Sloan points out details such as how Salzman is disappointed when Leo does not fall for Lily. Salzman's push for Leo to go out with the aging Lily was intentional; he wanted to see Leo's reaction to the traditional woman. ...

• Word Count: 1309
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• Grade Level: High School

He is self-conscious about Lily's bitter remarks on marriage and about what he should say in his after-dinner speech. ... Akers explains here that the awkward confrontations with other people of the party such as Lily and Miss Ivors are instilling a form of self-consciousness in Conroy especially when it came to Lily's regards towards marriage. ... Because of the regards Lily makes towards marriage and the love that Michael Furey has towards Gretta, Gabriel becomes self-conscious which leaves him paralyzed and oppressed by his inadequate feelings towards love and marriage. ...

• Word Count: 1621
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Lily, the caretaker's daughter, first confronts Gabriel after unintentionally making a comment pertaining to her love life. ... Gabriel's paralysis from Lily's response, coupled with his generous tip and rapid departure, speaks to his character. By leaving Lily a large tip in the midst of confrontation, we learn that Gabriel would rather buy off an individual, using wealth to solve his problems, than undergo a human interaction that would require some level of psychological intimacy with another individual. ... Gabriel's lack of expressing identity, shown by his inability t...

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This series of water lily paintings supplied the motif for Monet's last works. ... He contemplated the daily opening and closing of the lily blossoms and watched the reflections of the clouds drifting on the pond's surface. ... Paintings of the pond and water lilies occupied him until the end of his life. ...

• Word Count: 1342
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Art critic, and writer John Ruskin wrote the article Sesame and Lilies, it is a primary source published in 1865 to use as a lecture, which was given in Manchester on December 6, 1864. Deborah Epstein-Nord described in her edition of Sesame and Lilies that it is a "classic nineteenth-century statement on the natures and duties of men and women", (Epstein-Nord, 2002). ... Addressed to the women of the audience, Ruskin gives a contradictory and enigmatic description of the role of a woman; in the first paragraph of Sesame and Lilies he states that both sexes are equal but not alike, and that ...

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These same changes occur within Lily's character and her thought process. ... This transformation of Lily's character, and how she now knows not to stress about small issues when things could be much worse. ...

• Word Count: 1421
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Plath's "Yadwigha, on a Red Couch, Among Lilies " is an incredibly vivid poem that uses visual imagery to describe the scene of Henri Rousseau's "The Dream. " The painting itself is bizarre, with the main focus being a nude woman, dubbed Yadwigha by Plath, lying on a red couch in a jungle, and Plath seems to recognize and appreciate this oddity for what it is. ... The snake charmer is found standing under branches of the same kind of tree in both paintings, later described by Plath as "heart-shaped " and "like catalpa leaves " ("Yadighwa, on a Red Couch, Among Lilies, " 6). ...

• Word Count: 1428
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Stereotypes have long identified what is "male" and what is "female". These stereotypes, designated by society, determine what type of role each gender fulfills in society. But male and female roles change over time, and as traditional stereotypes begin to fade, so do gender roles. Today, women experience freedom and opportunities that were thought unattainable by their female ancestors. Stereotypes and gender roles had a strong hold on society in the late 1800's, and because many women silently desired independence above all else, their wish for equality was a common theme in literature...

• Word Count: 2223
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It was a lily with tiny little rose colored dots on the edges of the petals, a long forest green stem, and yellow dusted stamens. ... Love, A friend of your Uncle's 0000 4th street Paris, France 000000 (000) 000-0000 (In case anyone wants to know) I went to Christopher and handed him the card and the beautiful lily I received from the old lady. ...

• Word Count: 1830
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• Grade Level: High School

Dursleys sister, and Lily, James, and Harry Potter (there only son) where about as unDursleyish as you could imagine. ... (teacher at Hogwarts) Dumbledore and McGonagall where waiting at number four private drive for Hagrid to drop of young Harry Potter because his parents (Lily and James) had just been killed by Lord Voldermort. ...

• Word Count: 1378
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Early in "The Handmaid's Tale", Offred says, after having seen a group of Japanese women wearing short skirts, rather than the typical, compulsory dress of Gilead: We are fascinated, but also repelled. They seem undressed. It has taken so little time to change our minds about things like this This...

• Word Count: 1662
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The reality is that Aloe Vera is a member of a lily tree family known as Aloe Barbadensis. ... Some of the most common names for Aloe Vera are aloe, burn plant, lily of the desert, elephant's  gall. ...

• Word Count: 2075
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Tademy, Lalita. Cane River. New York: Warner Books, 2001. Cane River is a familial saga that tells the story of the author's ancestors. The story begins in 1834 with story of Suzette, the author's great-great grandmother. She is a slave living in the Cane River area of Louisiana. Tademy te...

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Non-working students, who like the biblical birds of the air and lilies of the field that neither toil nor spin and are yet provided for, quote ample time to 'freak out' as a major advantage. ...

• Word Count: 1275
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With expansion possibilities limited domestically, companies go in search of opportunities abroad. This increased globalization of companies worldwide has made cultural awareness a necessity. Many businesses, like Yahoo!, have adopted a marketing system that integrates their product with a local cul...

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Role of Women in Islam The actual role of a woman in a particular Muslim community may vary according to the part of the world she lives in; nonetheless all Muslim women abide by the same fundamental rules and regulations that the religion clearly defines (Badawi.) Both the Quran and the Hadith ...

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• Grade Level: High School