In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie battles to find individualism within herself. During the time of "Their Eyes", the correct way to treat women was to show them who was in charge and who was inferior. Men were looked to as the superior being, the one who women were supposed to look up to and serve. ... "De day you puts yo" hand in mine, Ah wouldn't let de sun go down on us single. ... "To Janie's strange eyes, everything in the Everglades was big and new." ...

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The commercial not only catches the eyes of women but also of men. ... Watching the numerous Axe commercials, prompted me to go out and buy my boyfriend Axe products, because, of course, I wanted him to smell like the man on my television set. But how did just watching that commercial get me to buy its product? ... The intense look in the beautiful angels' eyes and the breaking of their halos all added to the style that rhetors were trying to portray. ... Axe wants to influence men and women to think that their product is better than other brands and to go out and purchase it. ...

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I was recently watching a movie titled Somethings Gotta Give staring Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson. ... Harry is sixty-three never married but "if he were a woman it would be considered a curse.... Dines gives examples from the HBO series Sex and the City and points out "In their desire to get a man and keep him, they were willing to do anything, even if they felt uncomfortable" (Dines). ... I can not even go into to detail how much I do with my make-up. ... Most of those morals get washed away after a few hours of watching television. ...

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This paper is my biography as a woman living in the era regarding the historical background of China, through my eyes and encounters, from the perspective of the Ming dynasty. ... I had very limited access to education as women were regarded as inferior human beings, a famous saying goes ˜a girl is virtuous if She has no talent'. ... I remember my legs were broken which was quite painful for keeping myself in the name of beauty in men's eyes. ... The large number of children in my family is also a barrier for me to staying domestically instead of going outside. A lot of time ...

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The dying man opens one eye and only glares, watching the moves they are making. ... It [ glares] at them a moment and then . . . [ goes] out (Daughters 467). ... Now the woman's hair, face and eyes have all faded and are as white as the faded fur (2). ... Both women are still trying to live in the days when both of their treasures were still fashionable. ... She can not see the world through her own eyes and can not explain what she is going through because she does not even know. ...

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The name that the author chose for the narrator's brother symbolized how the male child was superior in the parents" eyes and in general. ... Mothers had traditional roles, which means that they"re jobs were strictly around the house, while men also had their roles, outside of the house. ... This shows how the parents were more concerned with their son and that he could do no wrong. ... They said to me, "Why weren't you watching him?" ... As the story goes on she continued to dream of stories which started the same way with some sort of danger lurking, however, things would start to...

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Only through her eyes can we see the true reason for her manifestation. ... John has made her a prisoner in their marriage. ... I don't sleep much at night, for it is so interesting to watch development, but I sleep a good deal in the daytime."" ... These women were denied their own lives in most every real term imaginable. They were controlled, manipulated and coerced into following the advice, orders and demands of other without regard for a single one of their own desires. ...

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She had the idea of independence in her head, but no matter what she did to try to attain that goal, nothing she did was right in the eyes of the society around her. ... She could have kept her children around and not had to watch them all the time; she had so many servants that they could have done most of the work for her. ... After all, they were hers, she created them, and they were something that was her own. When she went to visit them in Iberville on occasion, she seemed to live vicariously through their youth. ... The same line of reasoning goes into why she moved out of her large ...

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Janie's Quest for Identity Throughout much of history, many women have spent a significant amount of their lives in search of their own voice and ways to represent themselves and their lifestyles. ... In Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston disregarded the typical gender conventions of her time when she created Janie Mae Crawford, the main character in her book. ... Janie refuses to adopt the role of the traditional black woman of this time, ignoring the wishes of her grandmother and going against all odds, Janie attempts to fulfill her dreams and aspi...

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Their roles are so commandeering of their lifestyles that the narrator says "It was an odd thing to see my mother down at the barn.... The grandmother says to the narrator "Girls sit with their knees together.... Once the execution of Mack happens the narrator says her legs were shaky then immediately wants to look for new born kittens in the barn, as if to cleanse her visual palate of what she had just watched. ... Henry and the father get into the truck to chase Flora down, on the way out of the gate Laird, once again, is yelling excitedly "let me go too, let me go too!... The...

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Image one, Alexander McQueen campaign picture was published on their web page on 29th July 2014 as part of their autumn winter campaign. ... Her eyes are closed. ... According to ancient storytellers, the Amazons were female warriors. ... Klein captured the essential qualities of a human face and animal posture as they are both arrested it their movement. As a viewer, I can see just the flash of their spirit. ...

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Madonna and her brothers and sisters were sent to live with various relatives until, after a couple of years her father Tony married their housekeeper Joan Gustafson. ... Before the 1980"""'s, those that openly articulated their views about sex were thought of as promiscuous and perverse, unless they were male. ... This sense of independence has opened the eyes of growing Americans, especially the younger generation that listens to her music, and had inspired them to live lives more open to sex. ... Madonna"'s videos very much confuse many, but influence the thoughts of people who w...

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Though conventional patriarchal beliefs seem to perpetuate the dominance of men and subordination of women, Shakespeare and Sophocles seem to question the validity of those beliefs in their plays, Macbeth and Antigone, with their radically heterodox female characters-they neither conform with the loving tenderness nor the acquiescence and tendency to submit to authority commonly associated with women. ... Yet she still goes on to proclaim her iconoclastic notions: "Make thick my blood. ... When Lady Macbeth is plotting with Macbeth over the execution of their evil deed, her sinister, evi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate