About the theoretical model, I am going to relate to the text of Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth, which appeared also in Between Worlds. ... So, the text Adding Weight to an Image of Beauty of Catherine Pigott is a well representative real story that underlines the impact of the dominant culture we live in on our perception of beauty. ... That is why I chose the second text Bodily Harm by Pamela Erens to complement the first one and come up with a generalized thesis. ... In her text Bodily Harm, Evens too tried to find out causes of eating disorders and proposed some solutions including the pre...

• Word Count: 1647
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• Has Bibliography

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
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She expanded the possibilities for black-and-white photography in a number of ways, the best known of which are her combinations of images and text. This technique forces viewers to conceptualize both text and photography. ... Although there is still usually text in the pieces, it is visually difficult to understand her idea. ... Having the text forces you to think. ...

• Word Count: 1301
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• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1699
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• Grade Level: High School

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
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• 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...

• Word Count: 1708
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• Grade Level: High School

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
• Approx Pages: 8
• 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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A significant change has occurred in the representation of women in the two texts, A Gathering Light and The Devil Wears Prada. Discuss this statement about the two texts remember to comment on the techniques used to represent women in the texts. ...

• Word Count: 1463
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Composers develop distinctive voices within a text to invoke reactions and create experiences that the audience experience as they read or view the text. ... This is both the ideal characteristic of the typical masculine detective and it shows us that Claudia may be a woman but in the text, she is expressed with the typical characteristics of a male detective. ...

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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

Brominade, the Infidel Queen whose husband is eventually defeated by Charlemagne, appears only towards the end of the text, and is given comparatively little to say. ... Examining the texts of Tristan and Roland and the women that are presented in both stories there can be found little change in their status in the time that separates the two stories. ...

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This text is one of Kate Chopin's most famous stories and one of the shortest. ... By the time The Story of an Hour was written, like most of her other short stories, it was rejected from different publications on moral grounds because editors noticed in the text an improper interest in female self-assertion and sexual liberation. ...

• Word Count: 2447
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• Has Bibliography

The typical text found in women's magazines are not found in BUST because they would further perpetuate the stereotype set up in our society of women as dependent on men and only interested in domestic work and obsession with the physical self. ... BUST offers its women reader's reviews of cultural texts that are not available in other women's magazines. ...

• Word Count: 2194
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• Grade Level: High School

It is important to recognize that passages in 1 Timothy 2 and all the other passages of the Scripture are not isolated texts that fit poorly with the rest of NT. ... God does not hide the meaning of His word, and it's a dangerous step not to take it at face value but rather to impose theories on the text that the author never intended. ...

• Word Count: 2488
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• Grade Level: High School

Like Water For Chocolate By Laura Esquivel Laura Esquivel's novel Like Water For Chocolate, explores issues and asks questions about our society, in a way that is a thought provoking and relevant. It is presented in such a way that the novel flows with pace and does not impend on the book. Sub...

• Word Count: 1309
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• Grade Level: High School

The role of women in Afghanistan in A Thousand Splendid Suns: Khaled Hosseini Women throughout the years have been dominated by men and struggled to make an impact in their very own lives. In fact only during the women's suffrage were women only acknowledged their rights as people. However even to...

• Word Count: 1256
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"The Epic of Gilgamesh" an collection of old Sumerian poems, is filled with the dramatic interactions of gods and men, rulers and peasants, humans and beasts, and men and women. When reading this epic and looking closely at the relationships therein, a clear message surfaces; women represent a civil...

• Word Count: 1389
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Due to the lack of interaction the narrator has with people, she begins to find comfort in the wallpaper; it becomes the text that she is unable to write due to it being the only stimulating object left for her to interact with. ...

• Word Count: 1298
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Small gaps in the text and lines like "It must be near one or two o'clock" or "it must be near morning now" mark the passing of time and the movement of her mind from the past back to the present. ...

• Word Count: 1266
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• Grade Level: High School

The story "The Yellow Wall-paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman shows the binary relationship between oppression and freedom for women in the late 1800's. Set during a time of growing political tensions regarding women's rights, this story shows the struggle for and realization of freedom. "The Yello...

• Word Count: 1426
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• Grade Level: High School

THE AWAKENING- as a comment on the 19th century American feminine predicament At the center of THE AWAKENING is Edna Pontellier, a woman of the 19th century who rebels against social constraint of that time and acknowledges her sexual desires. She does even more than just acknowledging she has...

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In 1963, James Brown declared, "it's a man's world."" Playwright and director David Mamet would suggest that maybe the world is not entirely men's anymore, but the business world certainly is. Moreover, when women enter the male domain of business, they do not understand the basic rules of this ma...

• Word Count: 1694
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• 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
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School