Both women come from disadvantaged backgrounds, and through the help of their male counterparts, in the text, achieve confidence and self worth. ... At their introduction into the texts, Edward Lewis and Henry Higgins both have no intention of "letting a woman into their life" but the major difference in the two texts is the transformation of the men's opinions. ... Edward Lewis, moreover, is introduced in the text Pretty Woman, as a successful asset stripper who "buys companies and sells off the pieces". ...

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According to Richard Sharpe (2012) "Reception theory is a version of reader-response literary theory that emphasizes the reader's reception of a literary text" and is broken down into three types "Preferred, negotiated and oppositional reading". These readings identify the way in which different audiences can or cannot relate to the encoder's message within the text. The preferred reading will be those who can successfully decode the text and will believe in the intended dominant, hegemonic message that has been created by the institution; for instance, consumers who...

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Over the years this world has become more and more technologically advanced. From the start of electricity to having our whole day planned out in a click of a button. Social media has become a way of life nowadays. Everything we touch, think about, talk about can now be read or "tweeted" anywhere on...

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Although the term anomie is not original to Durkheim (he borrowed the word from one of his contemporaries and a fellow French man Jean-Marie Guyau) he uses it extensively in his text Le Suicide (1897). This book is a canonized text in sociology that still remains relevant in the study of suicide. ...

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Eagleton's definition of literature involves a text that is written in a language that sounds different from the reader's one: "If everyone used phrases like 'unravished bride of quietness' in ordinary pub conversation, this kind of language might cease to be poetic" (5). ... Bakhtin "[views] language-especially literary texts-in terms of discourses and dialogues. ...

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He stated in his principles of criminology text "The ultimate objective of the sociologist should be to make universal propositions about society. ... Before authoring his first version of his book Principles of Criminology in 1924 Sutherland had a numerous amount of influences for creating his text (Sutherland, 1924). ...

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Chapter One ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF CASTE It seems necessary at the outset to point out the specific features of the caste system, in order more clearly to bring out the difference in social structure which has always existed between Europe and Africa. The originality of the system resides in the fact that the dynamic elements of society, whose discontent might have engendered revolution, are really satisfied with their social condition and do not seek to change it: a man of so- called "inferior caste" would categorically refuse to enter a so- called "superior" one....

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The juxtaposition of these two statements reveals obvious similarities, further emphasising the influence that the historical condition of scientific advancement had on the construction of the characters in the text. ...

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Title: An Investigation into Sexist Language. Name: Andrew Verrijdt One of the most important political and social movements of the twentieth century has been the drive towards achieving complete equality for all people regardless of race, colour, class, gender identity, mental state or physical impairment. One area that has remained resistant to change is language. While it is has been widely accepted that some aspects of language are clearly sexist, for example the use of "he" as a genderless pronoun (Cameron 1998, Wardaugh 1992, Pauwels 1998), there is still argument as to whether or n...

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After consulting a criminological text such as The Fence: In the Shadow of Two Worlds, one comes to find that common criminal theories are not only evident in criminal society but also tie closely with criminal beliefs and values. ...

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One cannot understand the problematics of gender violence solely by referring to the relationship of power or authority between man and women. Rather one needs to consider the problem by relating it to the specific social formation. In this context, the role played by the state, both its coercive and ideological apparatus, is thus to be considered as well. In order to clarify our perspective on the problem, it is also important to note that violence against women is to be considered as being essentially related to the more general problems of women's oppression. So instead of conceptually...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate