"I am woman, hear me roar/ In numbers too big to ignore and I've been down there on the floor/ No one's ever gonna keep me down again" say the lyrics of the song "I am woman," by the singer Helen Reddy. ... Temptations can lead to big blunders or just simple little slip-ups. ... Equality has not been the first man, however, to "take no heed of the law which says that men may not think of women" (Rand 41). The burning of one man was caused by the simplistic ideas put into men's minds, such as thinking of women. ...

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In the book "Hondo," by Louis L'Amour, the protagonist, Hondo Lane, is the perfect example of a big, tough guy living in the West; a scavenging gunslinger of the desert. ... Throughout the whole book, Hondo is trying to avoid the Apache Indians, but because the Apache's great knowledge of the wilderness; this poses a big challenge for him. ... It is also their job to teach their sons how to be a man and how to perform a man's duty. ... You don't hear of two females fighting over the man, this is because men were looked at as the big and tough ones that had to fight to prot...

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This included little girls. ... In the 1960s, women were fighting for bigger roles in the churches such as education, more participation, and decision-making power. ... For example, in Geneses 1:27 the bible declares "God created man in the image of himself . male and female he created them." ... In the twenty-first century, women should see a bigger and bigger rise of the roles they play in the church. ... In the more traditional religions, women are having to fight a little harder for equality because these religions have been around so long. ...

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And I hope she"ll be a fool- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ... I really think she is saying a lot and making a big statement that I agree with. ... This created a theme of every man for himself and set each character on a different level. ...

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If a man had a high voice and shook his hips as he walked then that would be considered feminine. ... Butterflies are so tiny and do so little, but a little is enough. A little can go a long way. ... Big, where there is room for everything since she symbolizes the earth and old because the soul is nothing new. ...

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He desperately wants to become a man due to the pressures set on him by his father. This is best illustrated when his father said to him "you got to start actin" like a man if you want to hold down a man's job." ... Her stories would also go a different way because she was also paying attention to the little details. ... Her breaking down and crying was the big moment in the story because it was true, she was only just a girl. ... He seems to be stuck at that point in his life where it is between childhood and man hood. ...

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This can be described as commercial transactions in which a man pays for the bride's virginity just as for any other object of value. ... The latter's biological needs no longer matter since no man has any claim in it and as a result, the Mishnah grants her autonomy. The sexuality factor plays a big role because whenever some man has a propriety interest in the sexual and reproductive function of a specified woman, the Mishnah treats woman as the man's property in all matters that affect his ownership of her sexuality while in all other contexts, the dependent woman is treate...

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During this time period of the novel, women were shown to have gross- like actions, which is not what a man desired in a woman. ... The author uses the knife to symbolize the only little power Grendel's mother had as a woman against man. ... The author exhibits this in the passage because Grendel's mother is fighting for her son with little power against Beowulf. ... The author uses this battle to show that the man always overpowers and wins. In the end, the male is ahead and higher than the female, which paints a bigger picture overall of female's status and how they were perce...

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We as human beings subconsciously place others in one of the two gender categories: woman or man. ... Society plays a big role on what is expected from each gender and in many cases they set very distinct standards for men and women. ... Little boys and girls are exposed from a very young age to the various roles of "man" and "woman.... As boys become young men, they have been introduced into what is expected from a man in society. A man's position in this world is to fit the role of a husband and a father by providing a secure, stable and comfortable home for his family. ...

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"I do not care that your grandmother say it makes me like a man, I like to be like a man," She says. ... A method Cather uses to elevate Antonia is to tell her story through the eyes of Jim Burden, a man deeply in love with her, but as a strange twist, is seen as a younger and more inferior tag along. ... Descriptions of Antonia such as "She would toss her head and ask me to feel the muscles swell in her brown arm," and "Antonia ate so noisily.. like a man." are rampant throughout the book. Even something as hard to notice as "beads of perspiration used to gather on her upper lip like a lit...

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Barry talks about there being a in between of being the macho manly man and being quite the opposite. ... Being a guy signifies that as a male one does not have to choose one of the two extreme personalities of macho man or sensitive feminine man but rather have the best of both worlds. ... In this current time, women have become a bigger part in society that is not just specifically the nurturer and child bearer. ... In contrast, men are supposed to hide their emotions to keep their tough exterior and tend to have little to any moral code. ... Even though males are said to have little to no e...

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The nurse attempts to hide her sexuality, and the schizophrenic Chief Bromden, the narrator of the novel, first brings the reader's attention to this denial in saying, "A mistake was made somehow in manufacturing, putting those big, womanly breasts on what otherwise would have been a perfect work, and you can see how bitter she is about it." ... He's a frightened, desperate, ineffectual little rabbit, totally incapable of running this ward without our Miss Ratched's help and he knows it. ... Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. A man go around lettin' a...

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The girls are also taught to watch what they eat and not get fat, while the boys are taught to eat all the time to be a big strong man. ... The toys in the girl's section of the toy store influence the girls to dress in adorable outfits, learn how to color coordinate outfits onto little dolls, and teach them the basic knowledge of how something would be cooked by giving them little easy bake ovens as toys. ...

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That behavior is just as bad as what they are accusing feminism of doing: painting all feminists as man-hating, victim-playing lesbians is ridiculous and patently false. ... One reason may be the negative connotations and stereotypes, which have become associated with feminism because of the stigma attached to both the term and the movement Labels such as"femi-nazis," "man-haters," and "bra burning crazies" may lead traditional-minded women to shy away from self-identification, despite their agreement with the tenets of the feminist movement.... Feminism became a ...

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She is so beautiful that any man would love to be with her. ... They went through a lot to get their men, but in the end of the movie they have a double wedding and got what they have always wanted, big diamonds. ... Instead of the man being ambitious and successful it is now the women's turn. ... She meets a rich man who pays her to stay with him for a week. ... Although she is a strong woman and she is not supposed to be a sex symbol, she is still shown throughout the movie with little clothing. ...

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For a patriarchal society, women are unimportant and the man is who always excels. Women are like the amulet that man always carries by his side. ... He was to a dot the kind of man who could get himself elected sheriff--a heavy man with a big voice, who was particularly genial with the law-abiding, as if to make it plain that he knew the difference between criminals and non-criminals. ... For men of patriarchal culture women´s work at home is something worthless "Nothing here but kitchen things," he said, with a little laugh for the insignificance of kitchen things.... This behavior belongs ...

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She is young and dizzy to hear so many sweet things in one day, even if it's a bum man's whiskey words saying them." (p.41) In the chapter The Family with Little Feet. ... They find it amusing that all the boys are looking at them, but a homeless man asks Rachel for a kiss for a dollar. ... "She's going to get a real job downtown because that's where the best jobs are, sinse you always get to look beautiful and wear nice clothes and can meet someone in the subway who might marry you and take you to live in a big house far away." ... She doesn't want to have a man th...

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The play "Trifles," by Susan Glaspell shows how a man's perspective is completely different from a woman's. ... Getting all stirred up over a little thing like a "dead canary." ... Peters tries to conceal the box the dead bird is in so it is not discovered, but the box is too big. ...

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With this character, the movie shows that the more violent and muscular a man is the more masculine he is. This causes boys to sacrifice themselves with strict diets, go to the gym everyday to accomplish big muscles and maintain violent personality so that they can be considered manly and be liked by every girl. ... When looking at the girls section we will see Barbies dressed as maids, baby dolls with strollers and beautiful princesses showing little girls that women should be in charge of the chores in the house, be the nurture, and to be recognized by society for their physical beauty. ...

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