The Portrayal of Females in Society: Sex Sells You have to wonder who exactly Pepsi is trying to sell to when they put Britney Spears in a half shirt with suspenders and low-slung, ripped jeans in a commercial with Bob Dole at the end staring lewdly at the television screen. ... But Pepsi is just one of many advertisers who think that sex, or women dancing around in slinky clothing, sells their product. ... So why do these advertisers use women and sex to sell their product? ... The ads might appeal to a specific social class or to a specific sex. ... In this particular insert the...

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She is at work with her co-workers and is listening to each one of them tell their rape fantasy stories and then goes on to tell hers too. ... When you are just a nude picture, in a sense, you are a sex object. ... I believe that if you do decide to engage in that type of business, where you are posing nude for pictures, stripping, or selling your body for sex, then yes, you are a sex object. ... Margaret Atwood believes that woman are very powerful human beings and that these stories that we create are for ourselves and to show others how woman interpret the true meaning of sex. ... This ...

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According to Judith Butler "[i]f gender is the cultural meanings that the sexed body assumes, then a gender cannot be said to follow from a sex in any one way" (6). ... The author does not focus on an issue to find an answer in her novel; she focuses on the idea of telling a story in a different way. ... This character shows the typical stereotype of feminine and she also, represents the heroine of the story. ... Although when she becomes ill in the second part, it is necessary makes a revision of the story and the narrator objectifies her. ... And also, we have to separate sex, gend...

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The trend of the time, based on Sax's story, seems to be a focus on gender-neutrality. ... Research on differences in sex is not new. ... In an example of how this difference in sight can play out in the classroom, Sax tells us a story of how Ms. ... This example of a universal sex difference is just one of many that Dr. ... The aspect of sex has not been taken advantage of in the classroom. ...

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Each author tells a different story, but the authors agree on a common theme: "that too much emphasis is placed on the roles of the sexes in today's society." ... The story concludes in the office of a team of therapists analyzing X. ... Kanner employs an informative essay structure, a bias tone, and a third person perspective in depicting the roles of women in today's culture as molded by both sexes. ... Everyone is caught up with the fine line distinction between what separates each sex. ... In Gould's article she claims that gender bending is over dramatized and that peop...

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Of all the stories collected, 79% reflected the woman at first feeling ambivalent towards having sex (Beres, 769). ... In all of the situations of ambivalence, however, whether the act of sex occurred or not, the females' ambivalence was resolved by both parties before engaging or not engaging in sex. ... While many of these men fitting somewhere on this spectrum would not consider what they did to be rape or coercion, they make no reference to the woman changing her mind about intercourse in their stories. ... It is said that men think about sex every seven seconds. However a study by ...

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Feminists recognized this and pushed for equality within the sexes. ... In Ortiz Cofer's essay, "The Story of My Body," she illustrates the hardships she dealt with growing up as a "white" person in Puerto Rico, and a "dark" person in America, being the daughter of a Puerto Rican mother and Caucasian father. ... This can be seen as the most primitive notions of the sexes; the woman is after security and the man is after sex. ... Career women have also been big supporters of the equality of the sexes. ... Feminism's goal was to establish equality amongst the sexes. ...

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During this time, Cary regurgitates stories, which have influenced her core. ... The story was told to her by her Grandfather, being that the moral of the story was to trust no man, it's interesting to see that a man would be tell this story. By a male telling the story one might connect that a man would know best about not trusting their sex, this too could have influenced the author's view on men. ... (Cary, 132) When this story is told, Lorene Cary is talking about herself. ... But that's not the only evidence that shows Cary's uneasiness with the male sex. ...

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Actually, everyone knows about the story of the famous sheep named Dolly, which is the first cloned creature in the world. ... Consequently, all these components are made from cells, and the nucleuses of these cells contain a total number of forty-six chromosomes; twenty-two pairs of somatic chromosomes and two sex chromosomes. Now concerning human reproduction, it consists of mixing a man's sperm with a woman's egg, and since they are sex cells they contains only twenty-two somatic chromosomes and one sex chromosome. ... It could be employed in cases of homosexual parents, where...

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Throughout the story she is determined to battle the typical stereotyping and is in all aspects of the word a "tomboy". ... The name also symbolizes the difference between the sexes when this story took place. ... At the time of the story, society did not consider men and women equal. ... As the story goes on she continued to dream of stories which started the same way with some sort of danger lurking, however, things would start to change. ... Laird is the lord, as a male he is deemed as the more important of the two, simply because of his sex, while the narrator cast into her womanl...

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Tools such as word processing software are less sex stereotyped than say computer games, and are commonly used by women. ... As research and communication tools through e-mail, newsgroups, and the World Wide Web have increased in popularity and efficiency, women have overcome sex stereotypes and social stigmas about computer use and begun to become active on the Internet. ... Stories of continual pick up-lines, put-downs, and sexual threats are common and have gained the attention of much of the mainstream press. Newsweek compiled many common stories of harassment on the net for a controversia...

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"This sex-biased division of labor leads necessarily to gender stereotypes and sex differences in behavior" (Lippa 112). ... Dan Savage writes about a story which relates to both nurture and nature that has an impact on identity. "It Gets Better" talks about different stories about the lives of homosexual and straight men that commit suicide because of their environmental pressure of them getting bullied that caused a tragedy. ...

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Whitman vows in "Children of Adam" that "Without shame the man I like knows and avows the deliciousness of his sex.... The poem tells a story that includes the phases of life from the creation of life after death. ... Many seem to think Whitman's poems is the story of his life. ... These two poems contain very different themes, but use his unique free-form style and structure to tell his stories. ... These two poems "Song of Myself" and "Children of Adam"by Whitman would not have the love, beauty of expression contained in them if they were written in an...

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In order to explain how this story might shed some light on Aristophanes idea of love, and what he believes are the characteristics of love; we must first acknowledge the difference between physical sexual love, and a deeper spiritual love that emanates from the soul. "No one would think it is the intimacy of sex - that mere sex is the reason each lover takes so great and deep a joy in being with the other. ...

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Instead "the whole diversity of lived masculinities can be understood as specific realizations of a vague set of ideas and demands, images and stories that are defined as masculine, adapted to the concrete situation an individual or group has to cope with"(Peterson 1998: 126). ...

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Through this narrative she brings into the story the poor professor and clergymen who are both male, the wealthy shoemaker, tailor and butcher who are also all male and the University students who appear in the first scene, whom of which are all male. ...

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