This included honesty, reputation, heroism in battle, social status, and male camaraderie. ... In Much Ado, a comedy, the war is over and the soldiers are returned having honoured their country and not lost many men ("of name", at least, i.e. no one of a high status, or importance). ... He greets Desdemona, a virgin with high social status, by saying "You men of Cyprus, let her have your knees. ... This suggests an inconsistency in the idea of female honour, which is clearly dependent on social status. ... Her worth has little to do with her own actions, but those of her father...

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• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

Both Professor Higgins and Edward Lewis come from affluent and high-ranking social classes, where respect and power is earned through their education and high socio-economic status. ... 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. ... Edward's social status is displayed by his ability to reside in the exclusive Regent Beverly Wiltshire Hotel. ... This portrays her as having very little wealth and a low socio-economic status as she i...

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These relationships were developed through his use of charm, his royal status and his good looks to pry into their hearts. ... Although men could practice polygamy, they were to be married to women of the same social status. ... In other words it would be a bad idea to marry someone of lower status than you. ... What is known about this particular relationship was that it was secretive and that Rokujō should have been treated better because of her social status. ... When his father learned of his son's affair with Lady Rokujō (called Lady because of her social status), he was ve...

• Word Count: 2745
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It also fails to provide the correct social direction for the development of a society and its democratization. ... The politics until today remains the destiny of men; family defines the status of women in most cases. ... Shortly, all 103 respondents were people of both sexes, different ages and social status. ... The totalitarian society tried to construct true equality and improve the political status of women; the reforms of socialism could have a breakthrough effect in the development and resolution of this issue. ... Thus it undertook the functions of main official conductor of social...

• Word Count: 5989
• Approx Pages: 24
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The myth of the natural inferiority of women greatly influenced their status in society. ... A woman's appearance and her ability to acquire the proper social graces were considered of vital importance. ... The majority of women longed to be of some use in the world, but social pressures held them back. ... They recognized their ability to make an impression through social reform (Green 10). ... Conforming to society's expectation of a woman of her social status, she married and had children. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

There are four other agencies under the administration of the Ministry of Women, Family and Community, Department of Women Development (DWD), the Social Welfare Department of Malaysia (JKM), the Board of The National Population and Family Development (LPPKN) and Social Malaysia Institution (ISM). ... It is also a drastic step to increase the number of women at the decision-making and encourage synergies of various sectors to improve the socio-economic status of women. ... The first one is developing potential of women from various walks of life and in all sectors as agents of change to the co...

• Word Count: 2598
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Witchcraft? Witchcraft is a sensation that has captured the minds of people since the beginning of time. I think it important to first discuss some history of witchcraft. The World Book Encyclopedia (2002) describes some of the history as follows: The term witch comes from the Old Englis...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

She taught them to change their social status and enter the Middle class through Knowledge and will, so the children became Mrs. ... Paul was a pure male chauvinism, so he never took the status of women into account, even if he thought about it, it was from his own point of view. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The final plight I have to offer to support Hester's status as a heroine is more of an opinion I have formed on my own of Hawthorne's tale. ... Not only would she witness the ridicule and social downscale of her mother but her father's persecution would have also taken its toll on her. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Mother Savage In the short story of Mother Savage by Guy de Maupassant, we learn of what life was like for a widowed mother whose only son goes off to war, the setting taking place in Virelogne, France during the Franco-Prussian war. Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) lived during this time and participated in the war himself. Through Historical, Biographical, and New Historical critical analysis of the author, and the time period, we will see that the effects of the war and how it greatly influenced this piece of literature. Formally known as Guy de (Henri René Albert) Maupassant, ...

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• Grade Level: High School

From dog-fighting in Mexico to issues of transsexuality in Cuba, contemporary Latin American cinema covers a diverse array of topics. Lauren Mulvey, British feminist film theorist, uses pyschoanaylitics to offer a feminist critique of all classical narrative cinema. She establishes that narrative cinema is viewed from the male gaze and women are coded for their "to-be-looked-at-ness". She offers that female characters add nothing or very little to actual elements of plot and character but rather are subjected to male scopophilia, the fetishistic and voyeuristic, due to phallocentrici...

• Word Count: 4301
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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 c...

• Word Count: 5174
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• Grade Level: High School