... more appropriate during a business interview. However, the most revealing aspect of the conversation between these people was not spoken at all. The nonverbal communication was undeniably definitive. When they first sat down the woman put her hands under her legs on the chair and hung her head to read the menu. She didn't look up at him when he made recommendations ... time. In fact, her eyes were buried in the menu until the waiter took the order and took it away. After that (when there wasn't food being eaten), the woman sat back in her chair with her arms folded across her chest. He ...

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... the building. The tenant, Mrs Pritchett was a smart blonde, of about thirty, she had an eye for the handsome sharp eyed Stanley and the two teased each other while Harry sat in the corner, watching indulgent, though his expression reminded Stanley that he was married. And young Tom felt envious of Stanley's ease in badinage: felt, too, that Stanley's getting off ... is apparently suffering from sunstroke. Harry had left to look for the site foreman. Tom proceeded to slip into the building where the woman laid sunbathing. Upon his coming, she sat up, pushing back her black hair with both...

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... she would eventually have to disclose her occupation. This would occur one Sunday afternoon when Xia asked her if he could accompany her at her job. On this Sunday, she sat in the café waiting for him and thinking about what the outcome of their meeting would bring. If history would repeat itself and the same thing would happen that ... ...

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... to the edge of the river and this could remind her of how they used to walk on the edge of the river on those nice, warm, nights. Maybe they sat out by the river on full moon nights and had some candle lit dinners. This poem deals with the emotion of love. The lady lost her husband or boyfriend and ... ...

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... in a very long time. " Denver stood at the bottom step and was suddenly hot and shy. It had been a long time since anybody (good-willed whitewoman, preacher speaker or newspaperman) sat at their table, their sympathetic voices called liar by the revulsion in their eyes. For twelve years, long before Grandma Baby had died, there had been no visitors of any ... ...

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... future was in her own hands. At the beginning of the book, she repeatly stated that she was "young" and "did not know enough even to beg" (55). So she sat at home, starved while waiting for her husband to bring home money to feed her. But she turned from a young woman who thought that she knew nothing, to a workingwoman who ... ...

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... ;you'll get cold- (Gilman 1139). Gilman also writes "And dear John gathered me up in his arms, and just carried me upstairs and laid me on my bed, and sat by me and read to me till it tired my head- (Gilman 1138). Also indicating more types of baby imagery is the use of the words "creep- and "cry- in ... ...

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... laugh at her and think her powerless. Milkman had noticed Guitar looking at Pilate with complete hatred as they dropped her off at her house. On the way home, Pilate sat in the front seat and told Macon the story of how she went back for the bones. She said she had waited a day and a half to come to the entrance ... ...

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... when it comes down to sex. A sex object is referred to a lot throughout his essay and this is a key point, as you will see. When Sanders was in college he sat in his room and watched his roommate hang nude pictures of woman, maybe from Play Girl, up on his walls and he says " For the instant of the photograph, they ... ...

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... story. "Professor McGonagall was again different. Harry had been quite right to think she wasn't a teacher to cross. Strict and clever, she gave them a talking to the moment they had sat down in her first class." (Rowling, p100) Professor McGonagall who happens to be a woman, portrays the confidence and control that a great wizard must have in order to be successful. Harry ... ...

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... in a very long time. " Denver stood at the bottom step and was suddenly hot and shy. It had been a long time since anybody (good-willed whitewoman, preacher speaker or newspaperman) sat at their table, their sympathetic voices called liar by the revulsion in their eyes. For twelve years, long before Grandma Baby had died, there had been no visitors of any ... ...

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... , her tears were sudden with wild abandonment expressing the love and disappointment she felt. She then went to her room to continue her grief or so she thought. As she sat sobbing, she fearfully realized that she was feeling good, not about her husband's death, but rather about her newly found freedom. She felt freedom from oppression, freedom from the indignities ... ...

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... , ignoring the attendant's and nurse's rude comments and inquires. It was not until the nurse asked if her grandson was dead that Phoenix spoke, she made up the excuse that "I sat and forgot why I had made my long trip" (Welty 287). Many critics seem to believe that this "suggests her psychological dilemma" (Bartel 289). Bartel thinks that Phoenix's grandson has died ... ...

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... not have the ability to leave as she chooses. "And dear John gathered me up in his arms, and just carried me upstairs and laid me on the bed, and sat by me and read to me till it tired my head" (3). It sounds as if a father is reading a bedtime story to his daughter, not a normal relationship between a man and a woman ... ...

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... expressed in this quote, "The high gray flannel fog of winter closed off the Salina's valley from the sky and from the rest of the world. On every side it sat like a lid on the mountains and made of the great valley a closed pot"(260). It seems obvious with this atmosphere, especially with "no sunshine in the valley" would have a negative ... ...

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... women because their socialisation to docility and passivity makes them like targets for social control. Therefore, by using non-verbal communicative tools- ignoring, smoking, reading a book, shifting body positions, "She sat smoking and did not look up when Stanley let out a wolf whistle."" she indeed shows that she is the one who has power over them. In fact, she is so ... ...

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... current reigning "Miss Greenville" - Miss CC Dupree. CC gyrated her hips in choreographed moves which seemed to match those of Christina Aguilera's while she lip-synched and performed "Dirty". As I sat in the dressing room before the show had even started, Scott admitted to me that some of his acts have become "a little monotonous" but that he hasn't yet tired of ... ...

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... she is now on her own and an individual. She has only herself to answer to. She went to her room where she found herself sitting in a chair. While she sat that she had a feeling that "haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul" (Chopin 1). These show how deep her feelings for her husband really went. She was so ... ...

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... she is now on her own and an individual. She has only herself to answer to. She went to her room where she found herself sitting in a chair. While she sat that she had a feeling that "haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul" (Chopin 1). These show how deep her feelings for her husband really went. She was so ... ...

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... she is now on her own and an individual. She has only herself to answer to. She went to her room where she found herself sitting in a chair. While she sat that she had a feeling that "haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul" (Chopin 1). These show how deep her feelings for her husband really went. She was so ... ...

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... she is now on her own and an individual. She has only herself to answer to. She went to her room where she found herself sitting in a chair. While she sat that she had a feeling that "haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul" (Chopin 1). These show how deep her feelings for her husband really went. She was so ... ...

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... am I not supposed to have an opinion/ should I be quiet just because I"m a woman/ call me a bitch cuz" I speak what's on my mind/ guess it's easier for you to swallow if I sat and smiled." (Aguilera, lines 1-4) Christina opens the song with these lines to give people a direct example of modern day inequality. Some men in this world still do not give women ... ...

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... . Instead, they agreed to hold a convention and form a society to push for women's rights. (Millistein 50) Eight years later, Stanton and Mott carried out their plan for a woman's convention. They sat at a table with Martha Wright, Jane Hunt and Mary Ann McClintock and called for a "Woman's Rights Convention" to meet the following week in the Wesleyan Chapel at Seneca Falls. The ... ...

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... bought a slice of honey-cake at the baker's. It was her Sunday treat but today she passed the baker's by, climbed the stairs, went into the little dark room and sat down on her eiderdown."" She doesn't let anyone else know that she's sorrowful she just goes to her room to be by herself. She takes her fur off and puts ... ...

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... a woman. An old lover, who promised to write, promised her fine things in show business. She never got letters, and blamed it on her family, and left home. "An" I coulda sat in them big hotels, an" had pitchers took of me," (89). She had that chance, but it was taken away from her on several occasions. But she still has hope ... ...

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