Tomonobu Itagaki created the game franchise Dead or Alive. ... Mortal Kombat and Dead or Alive alike, the roles of women in gaming was never too huge of an issue until Ubisoft, a game development company, announced that it would not be including any playable female characters in their newest Assassins Creed game. ... Ill admit that I like looking at the women in Dead or Alive because they are women and they are attractive to me. ... It isnt necessarily like Dead or Alive where its a fighting game, but for no reason theres this blonde haired woman dressed as a skimpy cowgirl. ...

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Abstract The research question of my extended essay is "How patriarchal and colonial oppression is expressed in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple?" The essay explores the themes of colonial subordination, gender oppression and the representation of gender relations of the male dominated early 20th century in the novel, The Color Purple and how these can be related to postcolonial feminist criticism. The novel can be looked upon as a strong censure of the bigotry and sexism that defrauded African- American women in the American South. The novel declares that the American culture is a b...

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From the time of her birth in Japan, a women, will have a much different religious experience than one of her counterparts from another society. This is partly due to the rigid and strict society in which she lives, but also due to the rich and generous blend of religious traditions that make one entirely unique experience. Japan is a country without a truly native religion. The people of Japan are all members of several different traditions and each person may be more religious in one area at different times in there life. The blend is mainly made up of Shinto, Buddhism, Confucius, Taoist...

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In Leontes" mind, Herminoe's eyes are stars, and "all eyes else dead coals". ... Her mock dead is inevitable because in a masculine society, she acts too active and too witty to be accepted by the masculine world. ...

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Webster's College Dictionary defines feminism as "a doctrine advocating social, political, and economic rights for women equal to those of men; a movement for the attainment of suck rights- (Random House, 2000: 484). The act of doing whatever is necessary to attain equal treatment and the ability to live independently without a man in one's life are definitions that society has come to know feminism by (Humm, 1997). While many women wish to be equal, they also demand a certain degree of chivalry and politeness from the men that cross into their lives. Chivalry and feminism are not...

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"She", a song of Tommy James (1966), compared to "Woman", a song of John Lennon (1978) - and its relevance towards the position of women in the society. The 1966 song of Tommy James pictures a subservient woman who loves her man unequivocally. She serves her man, telling how much she loves him anyway she can. When she thinks, she thinks only about her man. Even when she stands alone, she trusts her man. ...

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Shelley was born in London in 1797, daughter of famous radical writers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin; both of whom exemplified the ideologies of the French revolution. Shelley's mother was a pioneer feminist writer who had made her name with her revolutionary ideas opposing the patriarchal ...

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From the late 1980s, research on gender, crime and social issues, has hugely focused on the study of masculinity, and how there has become a correlation between masculinity and violence. Feminists have researched extensively on all types associated with gender, including gay and lesbian, thus acting towards the literature on masculinity slowly increasing within the past 20 years due to the pressure from feminist works. In this essay, I will begin by reviewing theories on masculinity, and evaluating why such ideas create the assumption that violence appears to be associated with masculinity. I ...

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