Unfortunately, most people picture Marilyn as just a good looking empty headed blonde who happened to make it big. ... A role model is someone who follows the anonymous quote, "If you say it cannot be done, get out of the way of those doing it!... She taught women to be honest with themselves and to the public. ... Icon being another word for role model; a word meaning a strong, admired figure. Today Marilyn Monroe's name is synonymous with beauty, sensuality and sexuality. ...

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Additionally, these individuals have to some degree conformed and adapted to their own group's ideas of "good taste,"" as Kant argued people must do. ... "I should have taken [the coach] at his word and never played the game" (Sabo 428). This quote shows how just because the choice to don football attire with all its associations is socially acceptable and looked highly upon, that doesn't mean it is always the right choice. In his art, Laurent forces us to consider whether the youths' fashion choices are based on short-term efforts to "fit in"" or whether they communicate a deep...

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The term is called Life chances which states, ALife chances refer to the chances throughout one=s life cycle to live and experience the good things in life.@ The good things in life to me refer to 1. money 2. money 3. and more money. With money a person in this word could achieve anything he wanted to, that is if he=s a white male. ... Women hit the Aglass ceiling@ when it comes to pay, but the males seem to pass this barrier with grace while the women get smacked in the face. ... The book quotes that if your parents are poor and you are brought up in poverty m...

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As well as these skills, a woman must possess a natural grace and flawless manner "to deserve the word" (39). ... While, as it is implied by the opening quote, marriage was considered a goal, or duty of women, the power of manipulation was a tool which women could use to their advantage. ... Despite Charlotte's choice to encourage Collins being a conscious one, it is a choice that she makes only because of the social inequality women faced in this time. ... Mrs Bennet tells her husband that he must "come and make Lizzie marry Mr Collins," threatening Elizabeth's a...

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