The generation gap has undoubtedly led to some different thoughts concerning sex that are noticeable in the text. Firstly, there is something to be said about the insatiable female desire depicted in the text. ... Throughout the text women are continually being unsatisfied by men and are being overtaken by lustful desires. ... There have been three different worlds in the text; the authors, the storytellers, and the characters within the stories. ... The ideals of the plague, cultural norms, and the beliefs of Boccacio have all worked hand in hand in producing a very sexually laden text. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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

Desdemona Shakespeare's sweetest star A Outline of the role of Desdemona in the text : Desdemona is the sickly sweet innocent in Shakespeare's play Othello. ... C ) My impressions of Desdemona : When Desdemona first appears in the text she is defending her love for Othello to the senators. ... I changed my mind again by the end of the text to her being just plain stupid. ... E ) Text Analysis : 1) " l know't ; l thank you. ... It does not really let us see any other side of Desdemona's personality we have seen it all before. 2 ) " Alas the hea...

• Word Count: 1595
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• Grade Level: High School

Abstract "The Book of Margery Kempe" will be discussed in such a way that the unfamiliar text will become familiar to the reader. This is an informative paper discussing the language and poetic form of the text, the author's background, and the social/historical context of the work. Further information will be conversed about the plot, setting, characters and other important information pertaining to the text as a whole. ... The rest of the text has Kempe recalling events and telling them in a fashion of bragging. ...

• Word Count: 1321
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We see examples of this in the text when we read from Link's perspective, "And he thought he had never seen one quite so beautifully put together - like a swimmer or a racehorse or an airplane, all the essential parts in the exact right place. ... The text states, "He looked back at Number Six and saw a pink light upstairs where the Powthers lived, dimly, through the branches of The Hangman. ... The text states "She had a long thin senseless scarf pale green in color, shot through with metal threads that glinted in the dim light."" (70) and " the pale yellow hair that had a silky shimmer...

• Word Count: 1612
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• Grade Level: High School

And while poor treatment in Islamic cultures can be attributed to radical regional customs which are easily debunked by the words of the Koran, Hindu culture, with its lack of an offical religious text, has little to govern the treatment of women by, thus opening up the door for tradition and public opinion to serve as Hindu law. ... Hindu cultures, on the other hand, have no excuses as they have no defintive text to govern their behavior. ... According to traditional Hindu texts, there are three values relating to a girl when she is born: wedding gift, dowry payment, and abandonment. ...

• Word Count: 1848
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I chose this book to review because it contains valuable text that is useful for all humans to read. ... I found it out of the ordinary when the text discussed human societies in relevance to mating and marriage and at times failed to discuss the cultural implications of such things. ...

• Word Count: 1322
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This word could also have a double meaning in this text. ... I do understand that the text could be taken as gentle advice to Ophelia out of pity for her compliance with her father's demands, but I find the anger more interesting and I think it ties in with his acting insane. ...

• Word Count: 2206
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

For instance, in Romans 1:26-27 and Biblical Sexuality, the New Testament Scholar, Thomas Schimidt give the examples of biblical text : "Humanity created male and female." ... He gave example of the text from the Bible: "You shall not lie with a male as with a women; it is abomination" (Leviticus 18:22). ...

• Word Count: 2042
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Many Rivers to Cross" The story I chose to write about for this essay is "Many Rivers to Cross" by June Jordan. I enjoyed reading this story. This story seemed like it was once a book, but they shortened it down. There was a lot of information in just five or six pages, so it was sort of tough ...

• Word Count: 1319
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• Grade Level: High School

Ancient Greeks and Family Values In the days of the ancient Greeks there were many things in their way of life that different from ours. Today it seems that morals, family values, and marriage are not much of a concern in todays lifestyle. The Greeks on the other hand, valued very highly things...

• Word Count: 1328
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Cultural Anthropology Under the Kapok Tree The ethnography, "Under the Kapok Tree: Identity and Difference In Beng Thought", was in my opinion, a very excellent detailed description of the daily life, rituals, customs, and traditions, and religion of the Beng. The Beng are from a West African ...

• Word Count: 1299
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• Grade Level: High School

Yet in Erika Feucht's chapter on Egyptian women in the 2003 Ancient Civilisations Handbook, she states that Egyptian wisdom texts urge the husband to treat his wife well and avoid fighting with her. ...

• Word Count: 1560
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Any piece of literature may be better understood through a thorough analysis of the work. Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour-, written in new modern feminism, is an exciting short fiction mainly expressing the possessive, rather than loving relations between a husband and wife. The reader is fir...

• Word Count: 1471
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• Grade Level: High School

The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories, which are told by different characters to serve as entertainment on their journey to Canterbury. The characters that arise during the different tale, and those who tell the tales, play an important role in understanding th...

• Word Count: 1605
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• Grade Level: High School

As a little girl growing up, I spent a lot of time with a Hispanic lady because my mother worked all the time. She was like a grandmother to me. I loved to hear her speak of her late husband and how much she loved him. Her voice would change when she spoke of him. She described how she would sit and...

• Word Count: 1336
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

As readers, we try to relate to the characters we read about. We are always more intrigued with a book when we have something in common with one or more characters. When Bronte created the main character of the book, Heathcliff, she had no interest in creating a character we could relate to. Yet we ...

• Word Count: 1378
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• Grade Level: High School

In a sense, "Pride and Prejudice" is the story of two courtships - those between Darcy and Elizabeth and Bingley and Jane. Within this broad structure appear other, smaller courtships: Mr. Collins's aborted wooing of Elizabeth, followed by his successful wooing of Charlotte Lucas; Miss Bingley's un...

• Word Count: 1738
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Canadian literature is different from other literature it deals with inner lives of a person. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields is an example of great Canadian literature. The Stone Diaries is the story of the life of Daisy Goodwill Flett. We see her witnessing her birth and her death and everyth...

• Word Count: 1810
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• Grade Level: High School

The Lady With The Dog In the beginning of the story, Chekhov begins with the simple line, "It was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front - This passage shows that the local residents of Yalta have discovered an outsider, a person they know nothing about. Chekhov asks the reader to co...

• Word Count: 1592
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• Grade Level: High School

(Alberti 1), That text from the 15th century legitimately states that women were property, like cattle, so developing feeling for said property was a preposterous thought; indeed there were claims of Giovanni developing deep feelings for Lusanna but these were only claims by others. ...

• Word Count: 1704
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• Grade Level: High School

Our text book reverberates Justice Robert's logic behind his dissenting argument when it states: "The federal courts have used the Fourteenth Amendment to increase national power over the states in several critical fields, especially with regard to civil rights, criminal law, and election practices (34)....

• Word Count: 1936
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Growing up, I only had interest in guys that were African-American. This reason is because I knew I would feel uncomfortable dating someone who had lighter skin, and spoke differently from me, so I wouldn't even bother thinking about dating someone outside of my ethnic circle. It is so much easier d...

• Word Count: 1895
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This document includes theories in regards to marriage in the modern age. Many young people today are no longer making the choice to marry. Young people today, especially woman, have more opportunities and getting married has become more a matter of personal choice as opposed to an expectation. There are a number of social, physical, and financial benefits that have made the case for remaining single one that young people have found more appealing than the alternative. Studies from a number of experts in the field of health, social sciences, and finance are cited with specific examples as ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In America, same-sex marriage is a widely debated topic in which opposing viewpoints decide whether it is ethical to allow or deny couples to marry. Under the terms of which same-sex marriage is debated the choice is to be made but as for the reasons given so far, children, adoption, religion, medic...

• Word Count: 1956
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography