We find that Winterson plays with the ambiguity of desire, sex and gender as a parallel of male and female. ... The reader looks for an evidence in order to determine if the narrator is female or male, which we will never know. ... This can be related with the idea of cultural stereotypes giving meaning to a body and being associated with female or male gender. ... We can argue that Winterson's definition of identity being a human being rather than a man or woman can also be seen as a celebration of the female body and, at times, a condemnation of the male body. ... According to Butler, &...

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Males and females provide balance in a society that is so dominating when it comes down to the male figure. Normally, society labels males and females as being opposites where as the law tries to provide the same rules to a male as it does to a female. ... Males have a vast advantage compared to women. Males were born to have a stronger physical structure. ... They see themselves having to be a strong body structure and tough on the inside by not showing their emotions. ...

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The male fossil showed that the pelvis was big enough to pass a newborn baby of today's size through its canal. ... Both the male and female were about the same height of that of today's people but that they were much heftier. Scientists were able to determine the body weight of a male to be about 210 pounds and the female to weigh about 170 pounds, obviously much heavier than the average man and woman of today. ... From all these fossil findings, anthropologists went back and carefully looked at other fossils that showed some of the same traits in their body size. These were mad...

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XYY syndrome is a genetic condition where a male homo sapien is born with an extra male (Y) chromosome, giving a total of 47 chromosomes verses the usual 46. ... Males are particularly affected by XYY syndrome. ... The DNA molecules give specific instructions to form either a healthy body or an abnormal body, such as XYY males. Because males with XYY syndrome have an extra chromosome containing extra DNA, there is an error in the DNA code for how the proteins should fold, and the body produces an abnormal protein, thereby producing an abnormal phenotype. ... This disease is caused by the pres...

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Both males and females experience adolescence. ... Early in adolescence, both males and females begin noticing changes in their bodies and their ways of thinking. One change in their bodies is their height. ... Adolsecencs for males usually begins around the age 14. ... Males begin to grow facial hair, as well as hair on other body parts, such as their chest, legs, and arms. ...

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In these passages, Albert subtly hints at how "man, the most perfect of all animals#" has a definite social hierarchy inscribed in the body. ... "# This description conforms to the traditional gender roles held still to this day, with the male being the decisive, "operative and formative agent", and the female provides support and sustenance. Albert notes Galen's observations that the male sperm acts as a necessity, a power, and an agent, while the colder female seminal fluid serves as nourishment of the male sperm.# This sexism is also seen in Albert's passages concerning the d...

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When the public speaks of male robots or cyborgs, Robocop and the Terminator are often the first to be talked about. ... "(95) Male cyborgs are usually given physical characteristics as aggressive with bulging bodies, almost identical to Robocop. ... "(99) The male body in a cyborg may be undermined by a sequence or narrative that interferes to make him seem like a suspect or criminal. ... Only his brain was biological; all other parts of his body are completely robotic. ... "(114) Eve 8 also has a complete circulatory system (although, it doesn't work,) and flesh to cover her body, as o...

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Not only were there a female and a male, but a third, a unified androgynous creature that possessed both female and male genitalia. ... The Gods took pity on these creatures, and in so doing moved their genitals from the back to the front of their bodies. ... Aristophanes points out that this feeling of fulfillment and happiness did not only extend to the female and male unification, but also could be achieved thought the fruitless unification of a male with another male. ... The male child of the sun would seek out his other male half, the woman in turn would hunger for another woman, and fin...

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In fact, males are so much more muscular than females, that muscle makes up over 38% of their body composition, in comparison to just under 27% in females (Dixson, 2009). ... While females tend to be less muscular than males, they also tend to have a much higher production and storage of adipose/fat, with women having a body composition of 43.6% fat, in comparison to men who have just over 28% (Dixson, 2009). ... This deposition of fat, as well as the expansion of the pelvic bone, creates an hourglass figure for most women, which is very distinctive from a male's more muscular body shape ...

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Sounds, songs, scents, and waving a hand/paw/claw (body language) are all examples of signals. ... Also, elephants can be seen rubbing their bodies against each other as a sign of affection. ... However, most of their communication is done through body language and facial expressions. ... Even if the male performs this dance for 100 minutes, there is no guarantee that the male will get to mate with the female or live. ... They also display a variety of body language.. ...

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Definition Klinefelter's Syndrome is a genetic condition that occurs when a male child is born with an extra X chromosome. ... For adolescents and older males, the syndrome has noticeable effects on growth and appearance. ... Teens may have less facial or body hair, be less muscular than other boys, or experience enlarged breast tissue (gynecomastia), and a small penis. ... In females, both sex chromosomes are X (written XX), while males have one of each X and Y chromosomes (written XY). ... Testosterone therapy is often used to increase strength, encourage muscular development, grow faci...

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Along with males competing with one another, females carefully select their male mate. ... The romances between male and female elephants begin when they rub their bodies on each other and wrap their trunks together. ... The female elephants use their scent that attracts males. As stated above, the romances between a male and female elephant begins when they rub their bodies on each other and wrap their trunks, but, the female often resists from the male for quite some time. ... "Males compete for females, and this leads to strong selection for traits that either attract females or allow ...

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Female and Male need each other. ... Female and male mentality is totally different. ... This can explain why males usually always make friends so easily. ... By hunting, males had to be hardened to survive. ... Gathering requires less physical work and has less strain on the body, which makes females weaker and smaller, but they are the child bearer. ...

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Later 13 more body remains of Australopithecus afarensis were found and are now known as the First Family. ... We both have a bicondylar angle that is typical for today's human bipeds that serves to place the leg under the body's center to support when walking (Stern 1983:279). ... If we take a close look at the male and female from the First Family remains, it is evident that males were almost two feet taller than their female counterparts, the male stood at a height of 5.5 feet whereas Lucy was only 3.5 feet tall. Because we are a polygynous species, Anthropologist have observed t...

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But how could both male and female beings be made in the physical likeness of God? ... Could it be possible that God is both male and female? ... Man's spirit resides in his physical body. In James 2:26 it states that the body without the spirit is dead. The Bible also states in Genesis 2:7 that God breathed the breath of life into the body and it became a living soul. ...

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The difference between male and female humans begins genetically. ... Males are generally larger which is thought to be due to evolution and the males being the protectors of the group. ... Females have greater body fat and mature faster, they are more sensitive to touch, pain, smell, and hearing. ... A male has more facial and body hair than females. ... The amount of hair or body parts covered is all aspects of where you live and what you believe to be sufficient or intolerable. ...

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Sperm is defined by the American Society For Reproductive Medicine as male sex cells or "spermatozoa" that are produced in the testes (ASRM,1996-2015). ... Hormones, such as testosterone and estrogen, tell the cells in the human body what to do, differentiate males from females and regulate reproduction. ... These foreign hormones influence the human body either by ingestion, absorption through the epidermis layers and into the bloodstream, or by prenatal exposure. ... Prenatal exposure to these compounds cause multiple male sexual dysfunctions. ... The scientific explanation for this reductio...

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Looking at the male and females you can tell the sex because the male is huge compared to the females and especially the 9 month old baby. ... This is a helpful way to distinguish male from female, because you could clearly see the silver on his back making him male. ... Maybe you could compare him to a body builder, because I also noticed how muscular he is. ... For this exhibit there are three females and one male. Just like the gorillas you can tell the difference between the male and female because the male was huge compared to the females. ...

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I counted out a total of sixteen females and eleven males. ... This process was repeated for the males. ... (Fig. 1) Even though there were five more females than males, the males still had a greater active pulse rate. To make my results more accurate, I could have made the body weight and height of the students a control. The male heart rate moves faster than a female's when their heart rate is active....

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Stages from loving a particular body, to loving all bodies, to loving wisdom, from wisdom realizing particular beauties, to loving Beauty itself, thus finally attaining truth. ... Through this process, young boys are supposed to be educated, learning that all bodies are relatively similar and that it is foolish to love only one body in particular. ... Beauty will not appear in certain bodies or in certain forms of knowledge or anywhere in particular: it will appear in itself and by itself, independent of everything else. ... He tells the story of how there was once three genders: male,...

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The male were the offspring of the sun, while females were born from the earth and androgynous were the progeny of the moon. ... The males went off in search of other males, the females in search of other females, and the androgynous sought the opposite sex. Several of the beings were successful in finding their other halves but obviously they could not simply "reconnect" their bodies. ... Instead it was a failed attempt by humans to "reconnect" our bodies. ... It is important to remember that the soul is greater then the body, and while sex provides the method for two people to temporarily re...

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As I walked into the small room I shared with three other students at the male hostel, I wanted to slam the door behind me to signal my frustration. ... I felt sore all over my body and felt numb in muscles I never knew I had. ... So, as I stepped out of the gate to Male Hostel II, the sheer size of the crowd moving around in various directions slammed into me with the force of an unexpected body tackle. This wouldn't have lasted for too long if not that I have an issue with my height (although scientifically incorrect, I believe I am the shortest male specie of the homo sapiens) and havi...

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There is a major different of belief about male and female, female subjectivity and male objectivity. ... Women thoughts are not considered because they are closed out of the law making bodies of society. ... Female has the subjective thought and male has the objective thought. ... Male and female have the different kind of thought. Female subjectivity is much better than the male objectivity. ...

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Women in the world have become "fatphobic" that is, they are becoming obsessed with ridding their bodies of fat. ... The best explanation is that we have allowed the pursuit of a lean, fat-free body bloom into a religion. ... Body ideals in the early history of our world differed much from ours today. In centuries before, a slightly larger body was actually desired among the elite of society. ... Male standards are not as extreme or too far off the normal male body, while women's are. ...

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Otherwise, their bodies are strikingly modern. ... Flower pollen found in the grave suggests that medicinal plants were scattered over the body as well. ... Modern humans are typically much less robust in body form and skeleton than Neanderthals. ... The male on the left has a stake driven into his hip; a larger male on the far right lies face down. The male skulls were adorned with circles of arctic fox and wolf teeth and ivory bands. ...

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