As towns sprouted up, women started specializing-- one doing the soap making, another the cheese and butter churning, another the weaving. ... "They did what all women who went before them and came after them did when it came to raising children and running households, but they were assigned by history to play other roles as well. " (Roberts (1), p.15) Eliza Lucas Pinckney, at the age of sixteen was left in charge of her families three plantations in South Carolina. ... "One prominent woman from the town described the visit where she found her hostess "knitting, and with a speckled apron on!....

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• Grade Level: High School

Aside from pressure in our local lives, young girls are receiving pressure from today's media. ... With the way our society has changed, not everyone looks the same, like we all did in the early 1900's. ... Our society has changed since the last century, some people, mostly women and young teenage girls, look at themselves and feel that their specific body type is not right. ... It could be as simple as sending a word of encouragement to a girl in your life or supporting self-esteem education in your town. ... At the end of the video, a slogan came across the screen and stated "...

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She employs the heroine as a companion while she travels from one European resort town to another. ... "We have come through our crisis," she asserts, and exile is the price they must pay for their triumph over the forces that once oppressed them. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Pretty Woman is an appropriation of the play by Bernard Shaw called Pygmalion, because it's characters, plot and central theme can all be closely linked. ... Men begin in Kentish Town with 280 pounds a year, and end in Park Lane with a hundred thousand. They want to drop Kentish Town; but they give themselves away every time they open their mouths". ...

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Representation is a way of re-presenting certain events or stories to the audience. However real the representation seems, it can never really offer its audience a true presentation of ideas. In this way, the media uses representation to simplify a text allowing their audience to consume it in a clear and manageable way, allowing them to enjoy it more. Representation is a very important idea when looking at films that portray women in different societies, because they therefore have different ideologies to live up to. Stereotypes are also used in film; they are not real people, but widely ...

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• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School