She opposed slavery and believed in equal education for boys and girls, making sure that her own children received a good education. ... (Abigail) Adams shared her views with Mercy Otis Warren. ... She did not meet these people just because of her views on woman's rights; she met them because of her husbands" dealings with these people as he working building a foundation to this country. ... Although I oppose this, he did have good ideas and backed up his statements. ... Yes, people had conflicting views with Abigail and John Adams, but what does this have to do with being an "American ...

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Without rebuttals or opposing arguments, the reader is only presented with one side of the story. ... On page 479, Kaplan does provide a short paragraph of opposing views, but I think that this paragraph should be expanded more thoroughly to enhance her case. ... This article touches on a very controversial topic, but takes a different view, by looking at abortion from a liberation point of view. ...

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In this essay, I answer these questions according to my views and those of Debra Satz. ... Seventy-five percent of full time working women (as opposed to 37 percent of full-time working men) earn less than twenty thousand dollars)" (Pg. 75) These statistics clearly show that women have no any choice but to rely on a man's income. ... It is degrading to women to be viewed as sexual objects. ... In other words, prostitution is viewed as right or wrong according to society's view of women. ... It is no wonder that women who share Satz's views are seen as sex objects. ...

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What I was hoping to find before conducting research, was that women are breaking that preconceived view of where our place is in society. ... Especially with the Master's degree, which surprised me, where in 1960 men earned 51 Master's, as opposed to women's 24. By 2001 men earned 161, as opposed to women's 221! ... And women as a total percentage of the labor force have more than doubled from 1900 through to 1998, and went from 18% As for women's earnings as opposed to men's, although the gap is closing, there is still a large amount of pay difference. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Women at risk for poor post-abortion adjustment are those who do not get the support they need, or whose abortion decisions are actively opposed by people who are important to them. ... The truth is that mainstream medical organizations, like the American Psychological Association, agree that there is no such thing as 'post-abortion syndrome,' yet those who oppose choice continue to tell women otherwise. ... Groups opposed to abortion have attempted to document the existence of "post-abortion syndrome," which they claim has traits similar to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) d...

• Word Count: 2064
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• Grade Level: High School

But upon viewing her works as a whole, her section of the General Prologue, her prologue and her tale, it is well noted that she strikingly contradicts her own call for equality with her story of the knight and the hag. ... The story continues with a description of the sadness around the day of the marriage, all the while opposing the Wife's former views that a women's value lies less in her appearance and more in her performance in bed, that beauty is hardly an important factor in determining a woman's value. ... The Wife of Bath's previous message was so strong and uniq...

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But upon viewing her works as a whole, her section of the General Prologue, her prologue and her tale, it is well noted that she strikingly contradicts her own call for equality with her story of the knight and the hag. ... The story continues with a description of the sadness around the day of the marriage, all the while opposing the Wife's former views that a women's value lies less in her appearance and more in her performance in bed, that beauty is hardly an important factor in determining a woman's value. ... The Wife of Bath's previous message was so strong and uniq...

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The result is a battle of how females feel about their history versus how they allow society to view them. ... Jayanthi, an American Indian woman from Bells interviews recalls "[getting] confused [and] freak[ing] out and feel[ing] [the need] to settle down" (33) when her actions opposed her parents and community's expectations of her. ... A satisfying personal history is useless as well if the view society has on a woman oppresses her. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This society is very much opposed to abortion, thus restricting female freedom of choice, showing man as an oppressor. ... The novel is written in a first-person view through the eyes of a German named Paul Baumer. ... The novel is written in a first-person view through the eyes of a German named Paul Baumer. ...

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This novel is also a prime example of Behn injecting her personal views and experiences into her literature in response to the world around her, which is a common thread amongst her works. ... In the late sixteen hundreds, Britain found itself in much turmoil, divided between two opposing political parties. ... At a time and place when men controlled everything, one could see the hesitancy of audiences in accepting a woman as a valid author or viewing Behn herself as a serious writer. ... Most people view this novel as an anti-slavery effort, however Oroonoko ends with the vicious death of ...

• Word Count: 2238
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

With Murray's strong feminist views and Bradstreet's tenacity to see change for the female role in society, they were able to begin the process of change for all women. ... "Unlike those of her male precursors and contemporaries, Bradstreet's voicing of the humility topos discloses the dilemma of female poetic subjectivity: finding a voice in a tradition that denies women voices" is one possible explanation for what seems to be opposed underlying messages in "Prologue" (Scheitzer 293). ... She isn't trying to completely dismiss the cultures views on wo...

• Word Count: 2469
• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, as more characters warn Petruchio about Kate's harsh tongue, he begins to view wedding her as a challenge rather than simply a moneymaking opportunity. ... She laments, "I must forsooth be forced To give my hand opposed against my heart" (III.ii.8-9). ... Despite her initial resistance, Kate seems to view her marriage as a chance to find harmony within a prescribed social role, ultimately implying that we should find happiness and independence within the roles to which we are assigned. ...

• Word Count: 1693
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• Grade Level: High School

Perhaps, then, our final view ofthe Prioress should be that she was probably sent on a path to which she was ill-suited. ... Opposed to Eglentine's passiveness and subtlety are the Wife of Bath's outspokenness, aggressive demonstration of her instincts, appetites and will power. ... Such an outlook is a reaction to the traditional view of marriage which is imposed by the church fathers and common law. ...

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In her society women are viewed in a stereotypical way, expected to marry as early as possible and then live a domestic life. ... Many people view education as an essential investment for the future. ... Although some may be opposed to universal feminine education, both morally and logically this right should be sought after worldwide....

• Word Count: 1554
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This suggests that males are powerful and dominant and woman are subservient and less than men which is furthers the sexist views of the advertising industry. ... It seems the ideology of the perfect form of a woman is controlled and dominated by the advertising industry and in turn implants itself into the minds of all those who view said advertisements. ... The use a female body to entice men to buy a product as opposed to the perfect male form is far more common. ...

• Word Count: 1800
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Compare and Contrast the representation of female characters in Snow White and Mulan. To what extent can Disney be said to have moved with the times? Disney is an international film company that dominates full-length feature animations. Two feature long cartoons, Snow White (1937) and Mulan (199...

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The terrified, hopeless and grieving expressions that we see on the women's faces, as opposed to the hateful, disheartened and spiteful expressions on the soldier's faces is quite compelling, not to mention the tearful features of the many crying and wounded babes. ... Unfortunately, most people, like myself at first, would view the painting and appreciate it, yet they would not really know the true reasons for why it is such a great work of art....

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Communication and Popular Culture BUST magazine is meant to be an alternative outlet for women who are sick of the images given to them in the more established and conventional women's magazines. BUST offers quite a different set of values than most young women's magazines. BUST values the wom...

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However, Nora is a self-determined woman who opposes society's expectations. ... I know quite well, Torvald, that most people would think you right and that views of that kind are to be found in books; but I can no longer content myself with what most people say or with what is found in books. ...

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This androcentric view of a woman, measured only by her ability to stimulate and satisfy the male's sexual appetite, continues to perpetuate three specific aspects of our modern Western society: male's dominance over females, the phenomenon of eating disorders among women and the increased amount of violence against women. ... This objectification, which manifests itself in the extraordinary emphasis on a woman's physical attractiveness in American culture, as well as in the almost continuous display of the nude or seminude female body in art, advertising, and the mass media,...

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He then goes on to explain that as opposed to the role of a man, his duty being intellectual, "for speculation and invention" and physical, "for war" and "battle", (Para 2), the wife's place is in the home to "secure its order, comfort, and loveliness", (Para 6). ... John Ruskin's lecture, in which he gives his views on how women should behave, (those who he considered to be the weaker sex), and the song which tells the tale, (with the use of irony) of how male dominance, money and selfishness can make an effect on a woman's good name and on her life, are just two examples of t...

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Clearly, Scoop's statements foreshadow the life of Heidi, for she remains faithful to her feminist views, but at the end has to adopt a child to reach the self-fulfillment and happiness that she lacked all her life. In spite of this piece of advice, Heidi still does not let her emotional side to come out completely; she maintains her "reason-ruled- position of rejecting the role that she is supposed to play in society, as opposed to other characters in the play, for instance, Lisa, who explicitly states that she always wanted to have children, or Denise, who says that she "can't imag...

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Rich's radical views to see that women are more equal than men will cause women many unnecessary hardships when women are already equalizing the literary playing field. ... Rich makes it clear to us that women have been the victims throughout history to male writers who could stereotype women without a female literary force to oppose them. ...

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The twentieth century was a century dominated by a patriarchal society; women were viewed as a human subtype and their voices were disregarded and unheard. ... Within "Lady Lazarus", Sylvia Plath presents an opposite depiction of the patriarchal female gender role by posing the woman within this poem directly against her oppressor as opposed to remaining cheerful, enduring, and quiet. ...

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"The exemplary female prototype in advertising, regardless of product or service, displays youth (no lines or wrinkles), good looks, sexual seductiveness, and perfection (no scars, blemishes, or even pores (Cortese 2008, 59)." It's a difficult point to argue; in looking around, what's gleaned is how...

• Word Count: 2240
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate