From that moment on, his attending the bazaar and retrieving some Eastern treasure back to his love pervaded his thoughts through every daily activity. The boy's life of sitting in class, going through the motions of monotonous activities seem to stand between "Araby" and his love. ... As young love can be a long, painful waiting until that love erupts to fulfill his promise to the girl, the boy finds that the activity of the waiting almost unbearable. ... He was driven by his romantic dreams of the exotic brown girl and to join him in his fantasies by giving the girl a piece of that roma...

• Word Count: 1460
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Much like my first love, she was consumed by this love. She allowed Martin Collingwood, her love, to consume her everyday life. ... As I think back to my first love, I remember how that love dominated my entire existence. ... Therefore, when you find happiness and love you feel so liberated. ... For example, Prue (the character in the second story) had almost the same type of dependency on a male romantic figure, as did the young girl in the first story. ...

• Word Count: 1285
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Through the Helmers' loveless marriage, marrying without love is shown to be empty' and meaningless', a sham. However, these writers clearly have sympathy for women who married for reasons other than love, portraying them as being victims of circumstance, and of the materialistic society in which they lived. ... Tatiana chooses security, knowing full well the fleetingness of romantic love, and the quickness' with which it can dissipate. ... Linde, however, chooses to marry so that she can have someone to live for', in this action both capitulating to society&#x...

• Word Count: 1558
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

From a woman's perspective, the advertisement is stating that Tom Ford will instantly enable the wearer to find their true love or just a very attractive partner. ... It can be taken as the two being partners in any romantic or sexual basis. ...

• Word Count: 1771
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography

In comparing the films The Blot by Lois Weber and The Wild Party By Dorothy Arzner both films challenge the established discourses that privilege the male and help develop the patriarchal feminine discourse. Through the close study of these two films I found similar narrative lines such as transport...

• Word Count: 2149
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I pulled the next ad out of another women's magazine, Glamour, and it is a promotion for Paris Hilton's perfume line, "With Love.... [They] are independent and successful; liberated, yet feminine and romantic; modern, yet traditional (Goldman 1992, 107).... "Cultural ideology tells women that they will not be desirable to, or loved by, men unless they are physically perfect," writes Cortese (Cortese 2008, 59). ...

• Word Count: 2240
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate