Likewise, the novel, Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, focuses on these social issues during the Great Depression. ... Lennie is not wanted in the activities that other men do and is usually left behind. For example, the men does not include him when they play horseshoes; "From outside came the clang of horseshoes on the playing peg and the shouts of men, playing, encouraging, jeering" (p.84). ... Curley's wife feels lonely because Curley prevents her from socializing with any other men on the ranch. ... When the men are having a conversation about her, they refer to her as a "j...

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Possessions of Men "The fact is, that women are in chains, and their servitude is all more debasing because they do not realize it." ... Women find themselves being treated as if they were only a multi-function robot and only as a mere possession for men. For example, in the vignette "Alicia Who Sees Mice," Alicia, whose mother died and has now inherited her mothers obligations of being the maid of the house, has to wake up at the crack of dawn to make tortillas for her father's lunchbox. ... The worst part is that women don't realize that they are being oppressed so they continu...

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The instructions included everything from "touch your nose four times with you left finger," to "tap dance while singing three blind mice." ... According to Maureen Earl, women generally follow directions better than men do. ... Jim Davis, on the other hand, thinks that men and women follow directions equally, but do so in a different manner. "Men usually think "Okay, I go to Highway 27, then I go north to Hwy 88, etc." he remarks, "but women remember "Okay, I go along the road where the dairy is until I come to the quilting place, and then I turn left until I come to the three grain silos, e...

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"The Storm" Since the beginning of time, men and women have felt passion for each other. ... Men and women both partake in long business trips, making their separation more routine. ... Another example can be the separation of men and women in social gathering. A woman might tell her husband that she is going out with her friends while she is actually going out to meet other men. These examples give meaning to the proverb, when the cats away, the mice will play. ...

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The men are generally dominant over the females and act accordingly as heads of the households if they even stay with their families. ... The first example of the power men have in this book is when Esperanza comments, "The Chinese, like the Mexicans, don't like their women strong (p10)." ... On page 32 it says that Alicia only fears mice and fathers illustrating this theme of dominance that begins at home and escalates through Latino women's lives. In accepting this however, they create dependence later down the road for men even if they are overly aggressive. ... Ethnicity goes...

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In addition, they are less attractive to male mice (Gorman 60) Related to Gorski and Allen's study, Simon LeVay, a British biologist and neurologist at San Diego Salk Institute, who is also gay, performed another study for Biological Studies, in 1990. ... LeVay conducted an experiment on the hypothalamus in autopsy specimens from nineteen homosexual men, all of whom died of AIDS and sixteen heterosexual men, six of whom had also died of complication of AIDS. ... In some gay men, this group altogether nonexistent; this is statistically proven in 1 in 1000 gay men. ... There was ...

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In addition, they are less attractive to male mice (Gorman 60) Related to Gorski and Allen's study, Simon LeVay, a British biologist and neurologist at San Diego Salk Institute, who is also gay, performed another study for Biological Studies, in 1990. ... In some gay men, this group altogether nonexistent; this is statistically proven in 1 in 1000 gay men. ... There was no such similar sharing in the same region among heterosexual men. ... Why are most gay men relatives are gay on their mother's side of the family? ... "The random pooled data for men show that about 57% of identical ...

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