The ladies felt sorry for her and thought no such thing to turn in a dead bird. ... Then when the ladies were gathering up Minnie's items that she had requested to have brought to her down at the police station, they were rummaging through her sewing belongings thinking she might enjoy sewing why she is detained; they found the dead bird that belonged to the cage. ... Hale put the dead bird in her pocket where it would never be found, and hoping that Mrs. ... Wright was dead. ... The dead bird was too relevant to the murder to have not been turned in for evidence. ...

• Word Count: 1347
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• Grade Level: High School

I have longer to please the dead than to please the living here" (Antigone, 85-89). ... She still retains her courage against Creon's death penalty and her confidence that serving the dead was more important than serving the living. ... Even her final act-suicide-was supposedly a demonstration of her unwillingness to submit to Creon, to the mortal world, and to serve the dead. ... I'll soon be there, soon embrace my own, the great growing family of our dead my arrival may be dear to father, dear to you, my mother, dear to you, my loving brother, Eteocles" (Antigone, 978-988...

• Word Count: 1748
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ... Unfortunately, this is not the case in the aforementioned work, "When We Dead Awaken." ... Although, based on "When We Dead Awaken," penises need not apply anyway. ...

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Adrienne Rich and her writing, When We Dead Awaken, argues that writing as a male does is no longer considered to be equal in literature anymore. ... Throughout When We Dead Awaken, Rich brings up several of many historical periods where women began to equal out male and female roles in society and in literature. ... Throughout When We Dead Awaken, Rich is right in saying that women have been subjected to political and social hazing which prevented them from their right of speech and press, but as women gain these inalienable rights, Rich is prying as much power away from literature as she c...

• Word Count: 1531
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• Grade Level: High School

Both her brothers are dead and only Eteocles is allowed to be buried as he was fighting for Thebes. ... Antigone challenges him saying that she obeying the unwritten law of the gods, to give all dead a burial. Although Antigone is seen to been preforming a traditionally female duty in burying the dead, she is also, in a very masculine fashion, defending the interests of her family. ...

• Word Count: 1759
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• Grade Level: High School

The way Milkman and Hagar met was when Guitar who is Milkman's older friend, took Milkman to visit Pilate Dead's home who is a sister to Macon Dead II (Milkman's father). ... He wants Hagar dead. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Popov is persistent on staying faithful to her dead husband, locking herself away in the house and never loving anyone else. ... Popov wants to remain faithful to her dead husband, she has no desire to move on. ... Popov is upset and mourning over her dead husband, so he blames it on the moodiness that women have. ...

• Word Count: 1349
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• Grade Level: High School

There are two dead birds, facing in opposite directions, like mirror images of each other; there are two pairs of vessels on the floor; and there are two living presences, the woman gazing down at her work and the tense, watchful cat. ... Like the coat and sword of the eavesdropper pictures, the hunting rifle propped up against the far wall is a surrogate for a male presence; the dead bird, his hunting trophy, becomes an attribute of masculinity. ...

• Word Count: 1285
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Wright, but as he is already dead when the play starts, I think the men in the play are the antagonists because she is the suspect in the murder they are trying to solve. ... The climax of the play was when they found a box in the sewing basket containing the dead bird, which had its neck wrung. ... The "growing comprehension" means that a few seconds after finding the dead bird, they completely understand what had happened and all the questions that they had earlier were answered. ...

• Word Count: 2006
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• Grade Level: High School

"My poor Eva is dead," he wrote to Gertrude Stein. " It was a great sorrow she was always so good to me." ... This was Picasso second child by a different women. " The baby was given the name of her father's dead sister, Maria de Alfonso 5 LaConcpcion, but on her birth certificate the identity of the father was declared unknown"(Huffington 54). ...

• Word Count: 1477
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Medea, a play by the Greek playwright Euripides, explores the Greek- barbarian dichotomy through the character of Medea, a princess from the "barbarian", or non-Greek, land of Colchis. Throughout the play, it becomes evident to the reader that Medea is no ordinary woman by Greek standards. C...

• Word Count: 1974
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• Grade Level: High School

In china there are many abortions that women are forced to do without their free will. Forced abortions, sterilization and the killing of innocent infants is cruel and unnecessary. The government should find another way of dealing with china's immense population. Even though they need to control the...

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• Grade Level: High School

A Formal Analysis of the Sleeping Hermaphrodite The artist and date of the famous work entitled Sleeping Hermaphrodite are both unknown. The recent public knows this piece as copies of the original done during the Hellenistic Period of Ancient Greece. By chronological clockwork, the...

• Word Count: 1294
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• Grade Level: High School

Yet when the hunters return and tell that the deed is done and her friend is dead, her anger with herself pours forth and she projects her feelings onto the serfs, declaring them murders and wanting to bring her friend back. ...

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The novel "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Attwood tells the story of a near future oppressive society governed by an elite group - men. This society, The Republic of Gilead is at war, blocks external influences, uses propaganda in order to further the ideology of the society, rules by force and op...

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Women are the only oppressed group in our society that live in intimate association with their oppressors which can lead caged, unfulfilled lives. Trifles is a play by Susan Glaspell written in 1916. John Wright, who owned a farm, had been murdered the night before by strangulation in his bed. His w...

• Word Count: 1277
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Nay Masculines, you have thus tax'd us long, But she, though dead, will vindicate our wrong. ... She uses a respected political figure as her defense, saying that even though she is dead, she will still be proof in history that women have worth even in stereotypical masculine roles. ...

• Word Count: 2469
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Beatrice uses her new distorted powers to exact revenge on those who have wronged her and was able to haunt her murderer until, "his heart burst, and one morning he was found dead in his bed totally deprived of warmth and animation" (136). ...

• Word Count: 1567
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Kate Chopin's works, for example, "Desiree's Baby" and "Story of an Hour", contribute to my understanding of the south in the nineteenth century and the treatment of women in society. African Americans were looked down upon in the south during the nineteenth century and were viewed as impure based o...

• Word Count: 1578
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Life Of Medieval Women Was Very Hard Do you agree? I have been asked to write an essay on the subject of the role of women in the middle ages. In this essay I am attempting to out line the opinion that how hard life for women was. There were some ways that women could gain both personal and ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In "Car Crash" around the end after the car crash a woman finds out her husband is dead and she is terrified from hearing this but it is described like it is so glorious: The doctor took her into a room with a desk at the end of the hall, and under the closed door was a slab of radiated as if, by some stupendous process, diamonds were being incinerated there. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In 1916, Susan Glaspell wrote the one-act play Trifles. was originally written by Susan Glaspell as a play entitled Trifles. She wrote the play in 1916, and a year later she rewrote it as a short story. Glaspell was inspired to write the story while covering a murder investigation when she worked a...

• Word Count: 1498
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• Has Bibliography
• 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...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Life Of Medieval Women Was Very Hard Do you agree? I have been asked to write an essay on the subject of the role of women in the middle ages. In this essay I am attempting to out line the opinion that how hard life for women was. There were some ways that women could gain both personal and ...

• Word Count: 1860
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The novella "Heart of Darkness," by Joseph Conrad, takes place in the early 1900's and is about the European colonization in Africa. The story is told through the perspective of a young man named Marlow. The novel starts when Marlow is sitting on the deck of a sailboat recalling his experiences in A...

• Word Count: 1601
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School