From the beginning of Stephen's life there was something different about her. ... Her peers treat her horribly and she dreads spending time with them. ... He supported her love for books at a very early age. He understood her sexuality well before her and advised her "I want you to learn to make friends with your books; some day you may need them, because you mayn't find life at all easy, and books are good friends." ... It haunted her presumably for the rest of her life. ...

• Word Count: 2169
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

The play opens with Nora in her house around Christmas time. ... Nora is miserable because she lives her life serving Torvald. ... I know quite well, Torvald, that most people would think you right and that views of that kind are to be found in books; but I can no longer content myself with what most people say or with what is found in books. ... It is your fault that I have made nothing of my life" (Ibsen 66). ... Nora is upset that she wastes her life being a doll in Torvald's house. ...

• Word Count: 1549
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Her father's library was not big, but she still went to it to read books (pg 9). Abigail's favorite books were novels by Samuel Richardson (pg 11). ... Beginning in her teens and throughout most of her life, Abigail devoted a significant amount of time and energy to correspondence with friends and family. ... He describes her life as if she was a woman ahead of her time. ... Although she lead life was an ordinary woman, she had many ideas and most of them heard, but it did not take effect for a long time. ...

• Word Count: 1735
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Abigail didn't have formal education-like most women of her time, but her intelligence was fostered by the many books she read and was reflected in the two thousand letters she wrote throughout her life. ... (Akers 8), as a daughter of a minister and because her family was well-off, Abigail was never short of books. ... (Baker 128) Akers" paraphrase that "only in the mind of God did the discordant notes of life blend into a harmonious melancholy."... In her marriage to Lincoln, "individual expression of power" was part of their union, which was very uncommon to the values of submissiven...

• Word Count: 1568
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Besides various marches, women wrote books and other types of literature to state the ignorance of women in society. For instance, "One the first feminist books was A Vindication of the Rights of Women written in 1762, by the British writer Mary Wollstonecraft. ... In 1990 the Roper Organization found that for the first time since 1980, the majority of women polled - 51 percent - said they preferred to stay home. ... The third of these four reasons was to achieve growth and personal balance between work labor and family life. ... I can now see more clearly how our society has changed so d...

• Word Count: 2200
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Truth overcame things that were unheard of in her time. ... In the end, a majority of the sources I used were books because they seemed to give the most accurate information. ... Because of this I spent a lot of time reading and reviewing books and articles about her. ... I had decided on three claims: Leader's Context, Leaders Contributions, and Life after Leader. ... Although taking some time,putting my final paper together was not difficult. ...

• Word Count: 1936
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Although she spent most of her life in New Orleans, she is well known for her stories of Louisiana and her Cajun and Creole life. ... She began to read a medley of books now from Darwin to Sarah Orne Jewett, she felt it a necessity to help mourn the loss of her husband. ... She wrote very little up to her time of death in 1906. . ... It is an honored literary work as being far ahead of its time. ... She begins to realize for the first time that she is an individual. ...

• Word Count: 1384
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Born in 1735, Elizabeth Marsh was one individual where history was unavoidable in every day of her life. ... Many years later, author Linda Colley explored Elizabeth Marsh's life while researching for her book, Captives. ... Although, it included the means of both men and women, it was still more focused on the dominating gender of that time – men.3 Most histories before the 1960s only speak about powerful white men, without much detail. ... In The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh, Linda Colley incorporates the different aspects of social history in order to explain her life. ... Eliza...

• Word Count: 1708
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

There are many ads in BUST though offering to better your sex life, either with your partner or by yourself. ... The clothes in BUST are affordable and also wearable in every day life. ... Clothes featured are older and have stood the test of time. ... This shows the value of music and books (and to a lesser degree film) for the readers as opposed to clothing. ... The other books reviewed are either all written by or about women. ...

• Word Count: 2194
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Islamic laws and cultural customs impact various stages of a Muslim women's life, particularly the Quran and hadiths, or prophetic traditions based on the life and teachings of the prophet Muhammad. ... This is accepted because of the life of the prophet Muhammad, who had 11-13 wives. ... This idea comes from the life of prophet Muhammad, whose last wife, Aisha, was married to him when she was 6 years old and the marriage was consummated by the time she was 9. ... In the time of Jesus, women did not enjoy the freedoms and statuses they once had enjoyed during the times of the Old Testamen...

• Word Count: 1779
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

" * "Women must obediently submit to their husbands in all situations" So with women being feed theses lie's all their life they are led to believe that they can do nothing more than raise children and live a life that the church wants them to. As time went on the women began to work in factories with very little pay and numerous hours a week. ... Hopkins had been "giving herself wholly to reading and writing; and she had written many books," ("On the Education of Women" by John Winthrop, 1645). ... The women of this time where brought up to believe that t...

• Word Count: 1793
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The many themes and symbols found in Shakespeare's books are numerous and very deep. ... The following passage shows how he uses wit and deception to fool everyone into believing that he is protecting Cassio as a friend, yet at the very same time, he is destroying Cassio, "IAGO - "I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth//Than it should do offense to Michael Cassio.... In a sense, Cassio recognizes the importance of reputation and how it affects his status in life. ... Best shown by Cassio, reputation can be something created through the test of time, and also destroyed in the matt...

• Word Count: 1313
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

It was to prevent it that I was ready to end my life"(964). ... "Hasn't it struck you this is the first time you and I, man and wife, have had a serious talk together?"... I"m not content any more with what most people say, or with what it says in books. ... Nora does not realize at this time how prophetic this statement is. ... She tells him, "All the time Krogstad's letter lay there, it never so much as crossed my mind that you would ever submit to that man's conditions. ...

• Word Count: 1484
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Does she feel better about her own life as she watches? ... Women are not helpless, and it is high time that someone writes a screenplay that portrays a stronger, more effective female personality. ... "When she spills her books in front of class superstar Zach Siler (Freddie Prinze Jr.), his buddies bet that he can't turn the ugly duckling into a prom queen." (Netflix) There you have it, a so-called victim, a girl that needs "help", because she isn't popular, she must be miserable, and so, our hero saves her from her horrid life. ... They see Ariel, of The Little Mermaid (1989),...

• Word Count: 1671
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

She also begins to "rebel instinctively against the narrowness of her upbringing, which has forced her to hide her opinions and criticisms" (MacDonald 2): "At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life "that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions" (Chopin 64). ... She has discovered that she would rather spend time on her art since "she felt in it satisfaction of a kind which no other employment afforded her" (Chopin 22). ... Adele, having shown Edna that they can be open and honest with one another, has given Edna the yearning to be t...

• Word Count: 1307
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Power in the United States" Over the course of the semester we have read three very different books but learned about similar situations, obstacles, and struggles in "minority groups." ... The Indian tribes were at a disadvantage because of their small numbers, nomadic life, and unwillingness to defend themselves. ... "Equality" was almost impossible at the time, so slaves resorted to other methods of freedom. ... The status of women at the nearing end of Abigail's life was better then before, but she wanted it even better. ... Women were capable of performing the relative duties of...

• Word Count: 1646
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Once her evil stepmother sends a huntsman to kill Snow White her fate is in the hands of a man, much like the power in the world at that time. ... She instead charges off to join the army in the place of her father and takes her life in her own hands, rather than sitting around dreaming of romance. ... It could be argued that there has been some progression in the portrayals of female characters in Disney over time. Belle of Beauty and the Beast is far more interested in reading books than in the overtures of the macho Gaston. Pocahontas saves the life of Captain John Smith and averts a war, n...

• Word Count: 2236
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate