To support her claims in this article that god is chauvinist, the author had to look no further than the texts themselves. ... First, when she refers to the texts being misogynistic, I think it is important to note that the texts were written by men, not a supernatural being. ... Any of these texts taken literally can have some extremely negative effects in today's society. ... I think it is unfair to call a religion or god a chauvinist in light of the time these texts were written. ... These texts read literally can be a stumbling block in the relationship dynamics of men and women. ...

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Particularly seen in Antonio's dialogue throughout the play, this scene has a definitive example of the homoerotic themes within the text when Antonio says, "If you with not murther me for my love, let me be your servant."" ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It would be true to say it is not the quality of the texts arguments that makes the text effective, but also the power of its underlying values and assumptions. ... The text begins with an introductory section "The Big Picture". ... His text is intended to be specifically that, so he uses a chatty tone to connect with the reader and make his points. ... By alternating these perspectives he lulls the reader into a false sense of security that he text is completely free of bias. ... In conclusion, the effectiveness of a text is dependent not only on its arguments, but also the values and assump...

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In its annual report, Walmart uses pictures of mother and child to show understanding of motherhood, uses pictures and texts of women in its new Global Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative program to show its involvement in empowering women, and uses pictures and texts of female employees to projecting an image of a female-friendly workplace. ... Walmart uses pictures and text of women from different countries to shows its commitment to empowering women globally. ... Walmart also uses pictures and texts to shows it supports women's advancement in the company. ... The second parag...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A high cut slit on her dress deliberately exposes her crossed, tanned slender legs, leading the reader's eyes down to her shiny silver shoes, which are pointing at the text and product logos at the bottom of the advertisement. ... Next, focusing on the text; the top of the advertisement in a prominent white, bold, font over a dark background states, "How does Hannah Simone like her man's body?"" ... The models right silver shoe points to a photograph of the Fusion ProGlider Styler package accompanied by a feminine looking white text that reads, "The 3-in-1 tool for whatever body styl...

• Word Count: 767
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The text that the company uses in this commercial really works for the group that it is targeting and even those it is not. ... All in all, I thought this commercial was an excellent way to look at not only the entire text of the commercial, but underlying messages that it contains. As before, I thought that the text in this commercial works well, because it relates to viewers and shows them success. ... Text in commercials speak to us in different ways and different styles. ... There is always text in media and there are many ways that it can be explained, analyzed and comprehended. ...

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The representation of characters in print texts reflects the author's views on gender. ... Depending on the text gender appearances, relationships and values vary. ... The next text that will be analysed is Snowhite. ... The characters in the two print texts have stereotypical qualities, appearance and values. ... Therefore, the representation of gender in print texts is similar to gender in society. ...

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Read an essay, analyze the ideas, and write a paper using your analysis to bring the text to a new light. ... Whether it's the style in which ideas are presented, the organization of text, or the ideas itself, all literature contain characteristics that make it unique or just flat out likeable. ... With a picture book like essence, she will even occasionally plug a picture next to her text that visually describes her ideas. ... Besides style and opinion, the way in which a body of text is organized can be crucial to how a reader approaches an author's ideas. ... Favorability may be e...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Question The value of a great text is its ability to speak to responders of different times and places. ... Discuss this with reference to at least two texts. ... Thus in examining these different interpretations, the varying portrayals that mirror the composer's context reinforce why Shakespeare's "Othello" is such a great text. ... The frequent gay attitudes as depicted throughout Parker's Othello elucidates how the theme of homosexuality has been accepted as a common norm in modern society, allowing it to speak to responders in different times and places since the original...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Readers view texts in perspective, to enable them to understand the books they are reading. ... Characters are also helpful in developing the themes of the text. ... The text focuses on many dark themes and symbols, such as; trees and blood are manipulated to understand these themes. ... Discriminating lenses are helpful to view texts in different viewpoints. ... Imagery is displayed in the text the first time the protagonist gets in school suspension. ...

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She expresses these feelings within her text by using such terms as "rebellion" and "revolt" to show that she doesn't agree with the social restrictions of women. She contradicts later texts by Catherine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe in their essay The American Woman's Home, by denouncing domestic feminism and domestic isolation within the home, and encouraging women to go out and stir it up. In the American Woman's Home text, Beecher argues in favor of the "physical and social separation of the population into the female-dominated sphere of home life and the male-dominat...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Thus, simple devices like conversation may surely form part in the superstructure of the text. ... According to the Structuralist, Roland Barthes, there should be the death of the author in the text before any meaning can be constructed at all. ... According to the scholars of Structuralist thought, a text is meant to be studied in the particular period of time in which it is written. ... Roland Barthes further proposes five codes for the better study of text. ... It is the code which determines themes that the text proposes to analyse. ...

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Many female characters in 19th Century texts are caught between a need for independence through working, and a need for security, through marriage and the taking on of domestic duties as a housewife. ... Female characters in 19th Century texts also need intellectual freedom. ... Female characters in 19th Century texts also need sexual independence. ... There are also female characters in 19th Century texts that opt for fiscal security, marrying in order to ensure a protected future for themselves. ... Here, the writers of 19th Century texts show that women were often condemned to discontented ...

• Word Count: 1558
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Cather's characterisation, with effective use of binary oppositions, a male narrative voice and critique of conventional gender/norms and roles allows this lesbian narrative space to be drawn out from the main text. ... Cather swaps the conventional gender roles with the characters of Jim and Antonia, creating a destabilised text. ... Cather challenges "those dualities such as active/passive, mind/body, presence/absence, which ultimately rely on gender dualism, male/female" in the characters of Jim and Antonia with the situations in which she places them, resulting in the defi...

• Word Count: 2062
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The text that accompanies this picture is "baby doll", which carries the connotation of a sexual object or more specifically a sexual "Barbie doll". The accompanying text reinforces the concept of women being mere objects and further creates a social difference between genders. ... On each page she poses seductively wearing garments of small proportion and the interview content is resigned to small corners of each page where the gravitational pull of her body actions creates a passage to the text. ... The discourse is how text and context interact together to form a meaningful relationship, wh...

• Word Count: 1938
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The author, Marjorie Shostak, provides at the beginning of each chapter in her book a short introduction of the subject matter which precedes text in the actual chapters recounting Nisa's life. ... What I noticed particularly missing from the text is that it covers a mainly female viewpoint on life in a !...

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From this primary text, written by the speechwriter Lysias (c.440-380B.C.E.), one can reach a decent understanding of the gender roles within the Athenian society and the aspects of domestic life and public justice in ancient Athens. ... A valuable aspect of the text is found in how it presents women in Athenian society. ...

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According to the text, Emily's father died in about 1894, leaving Colonel Sartoris, the mayor as the male figure in her life. ... According to the text, Emily would not willingly accept charity, so Colonel Sartoris devised a plan. ... As stated by the text, it was accepted because only a woman would believe it. ... All of this may be stated within the text, but during this time period, southern aristocracy existed. ...

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This can be seen in the first advertisement (appendix A) where the text suggests that, 'It just tastes better' and, 'it'll blow your mind away'. The imagery accompanying this text is the face of an attractive woman mouth open with a slight look of surprise on her face. ... Nooh goes further into his research and suggests that, "advertisements can be successful in generating sales without portraying women as things or sexual object, and without perpetuating various weakness stereotypes". (2012 pg.37) This can be seen in the following advertisement (see appe...

• Word Count: 1800
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Elizabeth Marsh's writings of her travels, on no account did it contain any detailed notes compiled at the time of her journey, and no information about the society she was involved with.11 It was also written thirteen years later and submitted anonymously.12 This brings up the question of, how accurate Colley's text is. ... These aspects show that Elizabeth Marsh and Colley's text are examples of social history. Reason being is because, since social history includes ordinary people, Colley's text would allow for ordinary people to create their own social history withi...

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The text presents a society in which the stringent regulations of femininity and sexual chastity were upheld, and in so doing, traces the logical consequence of a belief in and implementation of arbitrary societal constructs that at their very foundation are contrary and illogical: the creation of heroines driven to extreme acts of violence that must be considered heroic rather than repugnant as they are a defense of those same societal constructs upon which the value of a female is precariously balanced. ... Thus, the text reveals the paradox: sexual chastity was not a measure of how truly v...

• Word Count: 1986
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• Grade Level: Graduate

Previously ignored texts gain new attention, even a rebirth, in a more accepting society; more accepting through the efforts of the feminist. ... In her essay "When We Dead Awaken," Rich refers to the astonishment she felt when, while rereading Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, she noticed previously undetected emotions emanating from the text. ... Rich closes by speaking of the mood of "self pity" and "overt woman hating" that she claims pervades masculine poetry, but her essay seems rife with self pit...

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"Where I Lived, and What I Lived For," is a text written by Henry David Thoreau, describing how materialistic and monotonous everyone's lives are, as well as how people waste life's full potential. In order to write such an insight life-changing text, he took a break from the social, busy world he lived in and took refuge in a woodland cabin- depending only on himself. ...

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How can we understand the actual lives of men and women from Hammurabi's code and Ben Zhao's text? ... We can understand about the actual lives of men and women from Hammurabi's code and Ben Zhao's text by imagine each rules and commentary from each reading. ...

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Ideology is important because it enables insight into how a text struggles to construct some meanings whilst obscuring others. ... These concepts are of interest as the effective application of both concepts to the text will work to reveal the structure of the advertisement which are not obvious, nor common sense; exposing how it works and achieves its meaning. ...

• Word Count: 691
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate