She feels that she can never compare favorably to Rebecca, who was beautiful, talented, and brilliant--or so everyone says--and soon she feels that Maxim is still in love with his dead wife. ... When divers swim near the grounded ship, they find the wreckage of Rebecca's sailboat, with Rebecca's dead body in the hold. ... Van Hopper said about Maxim's dead wife: her name was Rebecca, and she drowned, accidentally, in a bay near Manderley. ...

• Word Count: 3026
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

In her poems, A Castle In Lynn and To Judge Faolain, Dead Long Enough: A Summons the reader becomes acquainted with this poet's experiences of her father as he dominates much of her writings. ... Reading her poems A Castle In Lynn and To Judge Faolain, Dead Long Enough: A Summons, whether or not you have personally experience such horror, the very core of your being is moved. ...

• Word Count: 3020
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 3406
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography

As she was standing there watching, she was "armed with a gun, her dead son's rifle, to make sure that none of them could escape."" ... Gwyn page 65 paragraph 2) This was all she had left of her family, her dead son's rifle that she used to remember him often. ... They were not allowed to vote, they were not allowed to work jobs other than teaching positions, and in the eyes of the law, "married women were legally dead". ...

• Word Count: 2584
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 2824
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"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. ...

• Word Count: 2675
• Approx Pages: 11

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...

• Word Count: 2628
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Pretty Woman is an appropriation of the play by Bernard Shaw called Pygmalion, because it's characters, plot and central theme can all be closely linked. Both Vivian Ward's and Eliza Doolittle's transformation into society's "ideal women" undertakes the same central journey, with pivotal moments in ...

• Word Count: 3802
• Approx Pages: 15