I will argue why, and discuss how, Little Women and Peter Pan fall into this category of educating their respective readers. Little Women is first and foremost a girl's novel "it is written by a girl, about girls, and for girls. It has been said that Little Women has in it the universal theme of human nature (Meigs, 213). ... Nevertheless, Little Women is a story about teaching and educating young women about maturation, and Alcott effectively uses her characters to relay her messages across to her readers. ... In Little Women, Alcott accepts this inevitable changeover with the...

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Medically women could be a huge advantage in the war. They could even draft women to be nurses. ... In The New York Times it states that approximately a little over 60% of the United States army are males and not females. ... Cause sometimes women think of things that men don't, which goes to show how important a women can be in the time of war. ... The reason he left out women in his great speech is because women were to busy picking and choosing what they want to be equal in. ...

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Advertising For Little Girls: Is It For Fun or Domestication and Sexualization? ... All of this goes with women's self-esteem and confidence with herself. ... In Barbie commercials, little girls are the main characters. ... It is not about choices, but determining the subconscious of who these little girls will become as women. ... Little girls become immune to the treatment women receive from those advertising around them, and therefore they accept this treatment as okay for them to succumb to when they grow up. ...

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Throughout history women have been mistreated as the second sex in an abundance of aspects. ... Evidence has shown that at the times when these programs are struggling to work, the weight of the declining economy falls intensively on women, creating a rough issue and a further problem in the simple effort to make life more tolerable for women of this caliber as well as women in general. Another global organization set to heighten the standards of women is the Women's World Bank, which sways small banks to lend money to women who are otherwise short of credit. ... Leahy writes: Where sig...

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Despite the odds, women can overcome all obstacles. In the past, women have desperately struggled because men belittled them. ... In The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, several women were extremely mistreated by men. ... Through the collection of letters that Celie wrote, the reader could see the development of a frightened young woman who had little regard for herself and of another, Shug, who struggled to become a successful woman. ... When she was only a little girl, her stepfather sexually abused her. ...

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In our society we see a girl as "beautiful" as thin and pale with little to no blemishes. ... Magazines such as Playboy claim to be "celebrating women's beauty." ... Although these false advertisements of women are usually in advertisements, one very incorrect depiction of women in which is very impactful is the Pornography business. ... Once you have learned to see a class of human beings as objects, or in ways that effectively reduce them to objects, it becomes much easier to use them as one would an object, with as little, or less, regard. ... The result of all of these subli...

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The Women's Advantage It seems that in times before the women's movement, women weren't thought of by men to be capable of being self sufficient. ... At the same time two women, Mrs. ... Hale, were pointing out little clues about Mrs. ... In "Trifles," the whole time the Sheriff and the County Attorney were making fun of the ladies pointing out, what seems to them to be pointless little things, but are actually big clues. The women pay more attention to it because they are women looking from a woman's point of view. ...

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If men or women engage in unethical moral behavior, both men and women will receive the same punishment. ... "Unto men (of the family) belongs a share of that which parents and near kindred leave, and unto women a share of that which parents and near kindred leave, whether it a little or much- a determinate share" (Qur"an 4:7). ... Women also have rights as wives. ... (Al-Bukhari) Finally, women have legal rights in Islam, allowing women to give witness. ... However, people who have little understanding of the background of Islam tend to draw their own conclusions concerning the rights of w...

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There is only one group of women who suffer from heart attacks. These women have "low-paying clerical jobs with many demands on them and little control over their working place, who also have several children and little or no support at home" (Barnett, and Rivers, The Myth 185). ... This fact gives a feeling of safeness for women. ... Women are more capable of handling stress. ... Patriarchal society is trying to protect women from hard labor and does not imagine that while doing so it actually harms and insults the women. ...

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The role of women in society is very different today compared to the role of women in Victorian society, in the 19th Century. ... Little by little the myth according to which women had to stay at home to carry out their "natural mission" of raising children, bearing children, and serving as an instrument of pleasure is dying out. ... However these changes in attitudes towards women have not been shared across the world, countries such as Afghanistan still treat women with little or any respect and authority. Women were extremely restricted in the 19th Century. ... Maggie is often read as El...

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Many women were jailed, fined, banished and if the offense great enough executed. ... Often it took little evidence to convict a woman of witchcraft; any woman could easily be accused of the crime, even for forming an opinion. ... The expectations of women were very clear during this time period. ... Some women rejected these ideas and left to play bigger roles in society. ... Regardless of the fracturing of Christianity, the debate of women's roles was a mean to unite all Christian denominations against the crimes of which women commit....

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Women were viewed as property. ... Women were servants to the guys. ... "The Vindication (defense) of Rights of Women called for the liberty to women and urging that equal public education be made available for men and women. ... There are many examples of women in high positions and women holding power. ... These cases of women in power have little occurred in history. ...

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Most accounts of women living in the Elizabethan Era present them as members of society who were designated to do little more than take care of their homes, raise children and tend to the needs of their men. ... City women worked in shops, while women of the suburbs worked on farms. ... Despite the preconceived ideas we have of women in the Elizabethan Era, it's a little known fact that it was possible for them to hold positions and and occupations of high esteem, even though they continued to be viewed as inferior to men. ... While the 16th century allowed women to work, there were job...

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Women during this era were considered the "weaker" sex in both physical and intellectual terms. ... Kristeva recites Torvald's line to Nora when he says "is that my little lark twittering out there?... In the quote, "my" refers to possession, "little" refers to dependency, and "lark" refers to name-calling. Kristeva argues that "the symbolic language is the language of power, associated with patriarchy, such expressions, 'my' and 'little' are the preferably adopted lexemes of the male gender" (Kristeva). ... Al...

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We are seeing and hearing about the women from the Middle East. ... There were, however, a few women had made their mark. ... They were held in very little regard or value in their society. ... The women are still judged by their men peers for their actions although it does not seem to phase some of the women. ... It appears as time goes on women get a little more freedom and rights. ...

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Other accounts of women enlighten this negative view of women. Sarah, Abraham's wife, is depicted as having little faith in God, since she doubts that she at her age could bear children. ... Paul's writings actually subordinate women to men. ... Paul's writings actually subordinate women to men. ... Paul's writings subordinate women to men. ...

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Many women purchase Glamour,Mademoiselle, and Cosmopolitian all famous women magazines that women live by. ... Most women go to any length to become what these magazines offer. ... Many women strive to become smaller not wiser. Women magazines can make an image easy to achieve. ... Very little do these articles deal with women's occupations, but more about how they should portray themselves. ...

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The women characters in Julius Caesar are not themselves instrumental in the plot and therefore have little importance as characters in their own right. ... Portia is the more fully described of the two women and provides a portrait of a woman of above average strength and quality. ... Women are supposedly weak physically and intellectually. ... Cassius is especially prone to making such equations between women and weakness and less worthy qualities of character. ... (I.iii.82-3) Portia is an example of a woman who does not conform to the prevailing idea of the limitations of women in general...

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Men and Women What influences a person's identity? ... One child's nature might make a little girl act like a boy, also called a tomboy. ... in the women would not be cheating on them. ... Whether you hang around wall street all day or you work on your farm all day, may tell a little about your identity. ... It is observed for men to be strong and women to be weak. ...

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The role of women in society is very different today compared to the role of women in Victorian society, in the 19th Century. ... Little by little the myth according to which women had to stay at home to carry out their "natural mission" of raising children, bearing children, and serving as an instrument of pleasure is dying out. ... However these changes in attitudes towards women have not been shared across the world, countries such as Afghanistan still treat women with little or any respect and authority. Women were extremely restricted in the 19th Century. ... Maggie is often read as El...

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" * "Women should never work outside the home... As time went on the women began to work in factories with very little pay and numerous hours a week. ... If not for women like Hutchinson and Mrs. ... Women such as Lucertia Mott and E.C. ... Women won the vote. ...

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When women are educated then they can help to educate the children too. ... Rousseau and Gregory felt that women were all fake and useless in society, Rousseau felt that women should not even be citizens. ... Wollstonecraft continues to engage a great deal about power in terms of the status quo, in regards to women's position in society, but ultimately what Wollstonecraft wants for women is to have power over themselves, not men. ... Many times in our society people are a little hostile when it comes to a change that affects their comfort zone. Ultimately, all Wollstonecraft wanted was f...

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Today, women experience freedom and opportunities that were thought unattainable by their female ancestors. ... In a time when women had very little freedom and were "chained" to the running of their homes, Louisa Ellis' rejection of Dagget's marriage proposal symbolizes the emergence of women and their growing sense of autonomy. ... This further fuels the notion of women's independence. ... Then she went out into the garden with a little blue crockery bowl, to pick some currants for her tea. ... When Joe walks into Louisa's house, "a little yellow canary that had bee...

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According to the Quran, men and women have the same spirit; there is no superiority in the spiritual sense between men and women. ... Muslim men, however, are allowed to marry women from different faiths. ... In Christianity, women are viewed and treated with a little bit better dignity than women who are in Eastern religions, however women are held accountable for the first original sin, which separated man from God. ... Women are to be the helper to man. ... Jesus held women to a very high standard, even having women be the first be witness that he had rose from the dead after his crucifix...

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This song demonstrates the position women are submitted into and advances a notion of having the women's role as an instigator for change. ... The novel maintains that "women are forbidden to take notice of men" (Rand 38). The role of Liberty displayed throughout Anthem restricts and limits the viewpoint that men have on women. ... Temptations can lead to big blunders or just simple little slip-ups. ... 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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