Whether or not Person is calling Hawthorne a chauvinist is left to opinion. ... Without her mother's unselfish love Pearl may not have lived the life she did. ... Only a selfless hero can resort back to a life of solitude and confinement for the sake of her child's wants and needs. ... What she did want was for Pearl to be able to live a life of joy. Had Hester told her lover's identity from the start of the ordeal, Pearl's life would have been much more complicated. ...

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The common assumption of women, in the past, is that they are inferior to men, that their role in life is to cook, clean, take care of children, sew, and knit "housework. ... The Persons Case was a substantial event in Canadian history. ... She had a strong career as a well-known author under the pen name "Janey Canuck- and she wrote many books and articles for magazines and newspapers mainly about Canadian life. ... Women are persons- (Status of Women Internet). ... (Evans 31) As Canada's first female judge and as the person to lead the Persons Case she helped lay seeds for wom...

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The people of Japan are all members of several different traditions and each person may be more religious in one area at different times in there life. ... Shinto is also mainly seen in the country as something anyone, even a person who is not from Japan, can understand and participate in. ... And ultimately it is part of what life is about, rooting yourself in society but more importantly your family. The Shinto tradition is basically glue that binds the women to their new families for life. After a look at the Shinto tradition a person may assume that they can fully understand the gender...

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Friendship is defined as " a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard, a person who gives assistance, and a supporter- (Random House, 2000: 525). ... This is not only the power that it gives one person over another, but also the power that it has in changing the mentality of the possessor. ... This theme in the movie successfully communicates to the audience that power changes a person's mentality and behavior. ... Louise, too, risks her life to save Thelma's. ... Thelma helps Louise to realize that being dominated by a man is no way to live life (...

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It can be argued that love is the most important aspect of one's life. When a person is brought into the world, it is by the means of love. A person is raised in love and hopes one day to fall in love. ... However, although love may be an instrumental part in life, the true meaning of love is uncertain. ... Although both deal with the topic of love and what life in love should entail, two entirely different perspectives are presented. ...

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Not only does this statement confirm Higgins" status in the social hierarchy but also portrays the message that in this realm, a person's dress is used as an indicator of their position in society. ... , obviously indicating that she dreams of a better life for herself. ... Henry and Edward share the same viewpoint of women's positioning in their life. ... Higgins is comfortable as a "confirmed, old bachelor" and the presence of a woman would "upset everything", so he would also prefer to have no romantic hassles in his life either. The introduction of Eliza into his life does no...

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It is not the first quote in which a husband gives credit to his wife for making him a better man; a better person. ... Eliza herself once wrote to a friend about her daily life as the person in charge of three plantations: "I have the business of three plantations to transact, which requires much writing and more business and fatigue of other sorts than you can imagine. ... Eliza worked hard to make her life on the plantations a good one. ... Martha Washington led a slightly different life than Eliza. ... "As a young, attractive, wealthy widow, Martha Dandridge Custis probably enjoyed more fr...

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The common characteristics of what was expected of a woman hundreds of years ago was someone who acted as if they had no cares, uneducated, dependent, and only cared for the petty things of life. ... "This feeling of resentment of women's treatment as a subservient person for a man to do with as he pleases and expects nothing more than a mother to his children and keeper of his house. ... It gives women a chance to grow as a person and then, as a result, potentially share the good works with the family. The importance of education of women, to develop reason, is so important and crucial...

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Kamala Markandaya's acquaintance with Indian life is as authentic as her understanding of the Englishman and their character. She spent a few years observing the life of South Indian peasants before marrying an Englishman and settling down in London. ... Even woman in life and literature herself voluntarily surrendered to the ideal of self-sacrifice. ... Rukmani is reconciled to the vagaries of her life. ... She accepts the blow and moves on in life. ...

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Despite the encouragement of the house overseer, Frank Crawley, and Maxim's sister, Beatrice, the heroine struggles in her new life at Manderley. ... This discovery prompts Maxim to tell the heroine the truth: Rebecca was a malevolent, wicked woman, who lived a secret life and carried on multiple affairs, including one with her cousin, Jack Favell. ... Rebecca - In life, Rebecca was the beautiful, much-loved, accomplished wife of Maxim de Winter, and the mistress of Manderley. ... The only person to whom she could speak of it, we realize shortly, is her husband, whose name we have not yet...

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We never have seen god in person but the image we have of god is as a man. ... The National Women's Political Caucus is the only national organization dedicated exclusively to increasing women's participation in all areas of political and public life. ... it is amazing that throughout the bashing she receives over her choices in life she still is a influential woman in today's society who has built and trademarked her brand. ... But Janice Dickinson and these other women who choose to slut shame Kim most likely have the same type of sex Kim had in her sex tape or they are just e...

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His troubles carry on through the story and become especially apparent in his sexual life. ... The reader gets a good picture of what kind of a person Mr. ... The cherry tree meant more to Claude than anything in the world at that point in his life. ... He becomes jealous of the man because he has lost all the memory of the women in his life. ... In that one short sentence Claude defines what kind of person he is because he sees this other man's disability as fortunate. ...

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Apparently the royal life in Sicily kingdom is peaceful and harmonious. ... Apparently, Polixenes" interference destroys the balance of Leontes and persons surrounded him. ... All the persons representing love and kindness to him disappear one by one from the play. From the moment he decides to expel Hermione, his idyllic life is pushed into disorder. ...

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Feeling Poetry Linda McCarriston shapes feelings of anger, rage, contempt and healing in her poetry through narration, metaphors with detailed sensory language as she unfolds the painful story of sexual abuse and family abuse at the hands of her alcoholic father. In an interview with Bill Moyers, Linda McCarriston states that "poetry allows the individual experience to strike like lightning through the collective institutional consciousness and to plumb the depths of actual communal experience so that what people don't want said in fact get said". (Moyers p. 272). Her simplest defini...

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In the past courting was meant to find your mate for life; that was no longer the case with dating. ... Whyte Rather, through dating, which provides an opportunity for explorations into romantic intimacy without requiring rapid escalation toward marriage, you can acquire knowledge of what sort of person you are attracted to and what sort of person you might be suited to when it comes time to eventually choose a martial partner. ...

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This situation shed a bad light on Genji, but another affair he had brought his life style into a different perspective and turned into a special relationship. ... Genji's womanizing life style obstructed his view of the true love he could have possibly had with Murasaki. ... Pekarik stated in his book that the affairs with Fujitsubo and Rokujō were the "two most improper loves in Genji's life- (220). ... At this point Genji's father became very displeased with his life style. ... In fact he was constantly being referred as a "mamebito- or "mame-person-. ...

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The role of women in Shakespeare's own life was also a great influence in his writings. ... She even speaks in the third person, signifying that she is not longer number one, but second to her husband. ...

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Introduction A. Reasons for Undertaking Research. Today, during these democratic transformations, women are becoming more active in many spheres and trying to compete with men and take their rightful place in a new society. Historically the administrative structure is comprised of men and does not reflect the developing level of public potential and therefore on the opportunities or influence of women on affairs of a society, state and family. It also fails to provide the correct social direction for the development of a society and its democratization. ...

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Chopin shows glimpses of a woman who is living a life that she did not want. On the surface, she seems to have the ideal life. ... She was so far away from the life she had always known and felt good about it. Madame Antoine was genuinely hospitable, and Chopin shows how pure and caring a person outside rich society can be. ... But it is also significant because she lost the only person who embraced her new self. ...

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Despite being a fictionalized character, Esperanza's life greatly resembles Cisneros' upbringing. ... According to Freud, "If a person who is at loggerheads with reality possesses an artistic gift he can transform his phantasies into artistic creations instead of into symptoms" (Lectures 56). ... Cisneros had a different account of what barrio life was for women then her contemporaries when she says, "To me barrio life was a repressive community. ... If you do get somewhere, you take your life in your own hands" (Satz 2). ... They did not want their daughters to ...

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Girls were made to understand early that the only door open to a respectable life was that of marriage. ... She was content and did not question her station in life. ... From a young age, Edna lived a "dual life -that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions" (Chopin 277). ... Her life, up until the summer at Grand Isle, was driven along by mere habit. ... Inwardly, she wished to break from the traditional Victorian life that society had designed for her. ...

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Morel, is his "soul" support and is the most important person in Paul's life, but appears to be viewed as her husband's property". ... And looking ahead, the prospect of her life made her feel as if she were buried alive ". ... Morel dominated her son so much so that her existence became the only support to Paul's life road to become an artist. ... Morel's life. ... Since she was very young, Miriam sincerely believed in religion, which played a major role in her life. ...

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Title IX has had an major impact in schools and for many women. Title IX was an act passed that allowed women to play sports. It was also used to create more opportunities for women, and ensure fair treatment. Without Title IX being passed, it is likely that the opportunities for women in sports tod...

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She was completely isolated from public life, which was primarily a man's domain. While the men were active participants in social life, women were not to participate in any kind of social life since there was a belief that it would taint their pure virtue (Lawrence 281). ... The poem represents the isolated Victorian woman as a submissive person that has agreed to her place in the home by running errands such as weaving: "She weaves by night and day/a magic web with colors gay" (Tennyson Stanza II, Line 45). "The Lady of Shalott" demonstrates the ideals of the Victori...

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She illustrates the humanity lacking in a sane person and the depth of emotion possessed by an insane character, unlike the stereotypes that plagued them both. ... She thinks that her true self is not revealed in this life; it will be in the next. ... She felt it was a good point in her life to die. ... He claims he will take his own life to be rid of society's grip on him and does at the end. ... She now can begin to rebuild her life with new values, and can resume her life's work of rebuilding the world. ...

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