... amount of "sexy" women. This is to drive the commercials towards men. Why would a commercial want to gear itself toward men? Why not women? Its questions like these that brought about the production of the film Dreamworlds 2. Music videos in fact are just commercials designed to sell an artist. What does sell? Sex sells ... Then, in turn, the men approach the women and get what they want. Very rarely do they want a long-term relationship. It's all just meaningless one night stands where the woman is removed of her person as a whole, and turned into an object for men. Men look at a woman ...

• Word Count: 867
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... American to aspire to high attainment and material success". If we look at this definition piecewise we can make certain assumptions about the American dream. The definition states that the U.S. promise to provide equal opportunity to all of its citizens. This is one of the most basic principals ... equal rights. Women have entered the workforce and hold responsibilities equaling or exceeding the responsibilities of men. This is part of the new American dream for women. Women should have equal rights to everything and not be judged by stereotypes, but these rights are not always respected...

• Word Count: 1718
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... . Then, issues of sexual development and education are passed through generations with obvious negative and traumatic consequences. One of the novel's most controversial aspects is the process of "testing". The "test" consists of inserting a finger into a vagina to make sure that the hymen is not broken and the mother will be sure about her daughter's virginity. The act is again a proof ... and then to Sophie. This passage implies a tradition coming from a long time ago that had been inherited. Horrible and traumatic consequences are the only things that "testing" can bring. The "Test" w...

• Word Count: 651
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Demons Don't Dream by Piers Anthony The story begins in a small house when Dug, a young teenager, had a phone call from his friend ED. In the call he told him on his new idea of a bet. The bet is about a new computer game, if Dug will like these computers game his friend ED will go out with Dug's...

• Word Count: 495
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

In her story "The Night Nurse- Joyce Oates demonstrates her talent in developing a subjects character with the creation of Grace Burckhardt. Grace is a strong, prideful woman, who is quite judgemental - not just of others, but ... embarrassed, determined to minimalize her condition.""(p. 656) As the day draws to a close Grace finds herself alone, cold, in pain, and prays silently to God to help her through the night, but only for an instant, and then rage takes the place of the prayer and injustice again sets in, "that she, a good person, a woman known for her intelligence and her ... split...

• Word Count: 970
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

While Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is known to be a Shakespearean comedy, the play really is about love. Every character is somehow involved to complete a love story throughout the play. There are many instances where the ... intrigues me most. He is the most persistent, but one has to wonder what his real motives actually are. "If music be the food of love, play on" (I.i.1). The Twelfth Night opens with Orsino talking about his love for Olivia. Orsino speaks of his love for Olivia, so right in the beginning of the play, we know all about Orsino. However ... ...

• Word Count: 840
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Why Does Desdemona go so Gently into That Good Night? In Othello, William Shakespeare's tragic heroine is represented as a keen, battle hungry, adventurous and feisty young woman. Yet, at the end of the play she submits passively to her demise ... ...

• Word Count: 1219
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... banishes Medea and her children from his kingdom. Medea begs the king for forgiveness and asks that he allows them to stay but one night to ponder where they will go. The king being kindhearted granted Medea one night to gather her thoughts and plan her next move. Satisfied with this Medea then begins to plot her revenge, when she is approached ... tragi-comedy. His First being the play Alcestis and then later writing other such plays like Helena. A similar style of writing was used later in the writing of the play A Midsummer's Night Dream by Shakespeare. All together Euripides was bel...

• Word Count: 1606
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... of what is feminine often intertwine throughout "Epicoene." The actors genders, and the roles that they play are embedded by every nuance of character and their outcomes. Shakespear's Twelfth Night does not conclusively equate the fear of femininity to the fear of theatricality. He uses theatricality as a comedic device but in the character of Malvolio, Olivia's somber servant, which ... duped by the very thing he loathes -Dauphine profits handsomely for this mastery (5.4.190-200) of theatrics and Morose succumbs by the embracing of anti-theatrics. In Shakespear's "Twelfth Night" the po...

• Word Count: 852
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... Adele was everything that Edna was not. From a young age, Edna lived a "dual life -that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions" (Chopin 277). She viewed her marriage to Leonce as an accident of fate. Edna did not love him but was initially flattered by his love and ... where she resists Leonce's controlling demands, realizing for the first time how she had theretofore submitted to his every command. Another significant occurrence of that night was the realization, for both she and Robert, that desire had entered their relationship. As the object of Robert's atte...

• Word Count: 3206
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... eyes came to rest on a woman. Yes, this was my prey" (36). The word "prey" implies his active role in her destruction. He says, "The city has changed into a woman" (39). For Mustafa, in order to quell his desire to travel, he has to feel as though he has conquered the world. In order to feel he has conquered the world ... with his outrageous stories of lions and elephants walking down the streets of the cities. "...when I'm lying on my bed at night I put my hand out the window and idly play with the Nile waters till sleep overtakes me".(39) Is this an image of colonization in reverse? I...

• Word Count: 2060
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... a young woman as a source of power in this patriarchal system. The strong characterization of The Woman Warrior demonstrates the empowerment of women. The mountain test is a rite of passage for her, as she becomes a stronger person. The dragon that The Woman Warrior encounters symbolizes the role of women in ... in an overwhelmingly opposite world, the author shows that perseverance and willpower can prevail. The protagonist goes through a rite of passage during the mountain test sequence when she is left in the wild to fend for herself. The Woman Warrior compares herself to a ghost, "W...

• Word Count: 1005
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... shows a bit about her strong, self-improving personality. Another look at this trait are seen in her attempts at learning. "Norma Jean is going to night school. She has graduated from her six-week body-building course and now she is taking an adult-education course in composition at Paducah Community College. ... they sometimes feel awkward around each other, and Leroy wonders if one of them should mention the child. He feels that they are waking out of a dream together- that they must create a new marriage, start afresh." Leroy is pretty observant of how his wife is feeling. He knows th...

• Word Count: 1902
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... . He is searching for the perfect woman, yet she does not exist. "Was I searching for a dancer whose name I did not know or was I searching for the dancing part of myself."(39) Once again Jordan shows that he is more similar to the female gender then the male gender. Women have always dreamt about the perfect man; handsome, romantic, dazzling, and most ... . Although we might think we are living in the present, we can actually be dreaming all of this in another time frame. For instance, humans sometime know they are in a dream yet can't do anything about it. Jordan says, "I had a childhoo...

• Word Count: 1556
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... the future. Men wish for things like "ships at a distance." Some of them realize their dreams, and some of them don't, but they all dream. Women, according to Hurston, "forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget." They force themselves ... to be content with their situation and romanticize the reality, thereby avoiding disappointment. "The dream is the truth." While there is something practical about contentment, it is natural for women and men both to "dream," to desire something beyond themselves, something that will cause th...

• Word Count: 688
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... and perhaps it is not as perfect as it seems. The first indication of her unhappiness is shown in the scene where Mr. Pontellier returns home from his night out and awakens Edna, claiming that one of their sons had a fever. In a way, Mr. Pontellier is punishing his wife for not being a more ... attentive mother, but he does so in a cruel and condescending manner. This sends Edna out into the night to cry. The reason for her tears is unclear, even to herself. Is she mad at herself for being a bad mother? Is she upset because her husband makes ... , as the other mothers at Grand Isle do....

• Word Count: 4173
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

... lover. Another important ideological shift noted while watching the film is the difference what dancing represents to the young woman. To Sara to dance is a life- long dream. Hip-hop not only represents sexuality to Sara, it also represents acceptance into a community of her peers. Young women of 2000 are more independent of men, ... relationship, as he is angry with her about the abortion, the borrowed money, and her lying to him. When she reveals that she spent the night with Johnny in order to give Johnny an alibi for petty theft, her father refuses to speak to her. But she confronts ...

• Word Count: 2813
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

... okay to impede aging? Are we popularizing this notion that getting older is not good and youth is?- I became rather immersed in the quest to find the answers to my questions as I was reading one of my favorite poets, Sylvia Plath. I stumbled upon "Mirror- and became rather interested because the poem possessed congruence to my ... questions. I think that the poem has to do with a woman who is yearning for a better way of life. She see something in the mirror that is distasteful to her and she ... Barbie's plasticized -- and idealized -- proportions were virtually impossible for girls ...

• Word Count: 1119
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... she is living the way God would want her to, but it is hypocritical because God has the only authority to judge any human being, according to the bible. At night, she occupies herself by classifying groups of people into a survival pyramid. She uses cliches that clearly show how she views herself compared to others. "On the bottom of the ... anymore. You can't get the white folks to pick and now you can't get the niggers because they got to be right up there with the white folk" (Paragraph 39). This demonstrates her hypocrisy. She claims the girl has no manners, and yet she is the one w...

• Word Count: 742
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... by Joe=s uncultivated perception that A . . . unmarried girls . . . @ (34) are in need of A . . . protection . . . . @ (34), and Ainsley=s belief that AEvery woman should have at least one baby.@ (41), Marian had a disturbing dream that she was beginning to dissolve. The imagery used to describe Marian=s feelings imply that she is being eaten, specifically the word dissolve, like saliva dissolves cotton candy in someone ... living up to societies expectation of a woman, nobody notices her. When it was announced that she had become engaged at the office Christmas party, the ladies wanted...

• Word Count: 2155
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... keep her from working with her father. Another annoyance was when her grandmother was telling her she girls do not slam doors, girls keep their knees together and don"t ask questions about things that are "none of girls business." (pg 457) Then she replied by saying " I continued to slam doors and sit as waywardly as possible, thinking that by measures I kept ... represented the horses freedom, and her need for freedom. After that, her father, Henry, and Laird went after the horse and eventually caught and killed it. At dinner later that night Laird told her father that she had let the ...

• Word Count: 1491
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... technology we have today, the flaws of even the beautiful would show, stretch marks and all! Some women do not take their dreams of being "perfect" to anything higher than a dream, but others take it to the extreme. This is where eating disorders come into play. Anorexia, by dictionary definition, is "a prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite." ("Anorexia ... disorders are linked to low self esteem which is linked to the fashion industry. "...seven million American girls and women, according to Dr. Vivian Meehan, suffer from eating disorders" (Zimmerman 39) . The extremes t...

• Word Count: 631
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... their escape, they had to stock up on supplies which Rawicz hid around behind the ski shop and around the barracks. Then the night came. The escape worked well, and the seven men were off. The journey south was a test of these men's courage to be free. The men went days without eating, and walked miles without breaks. They had to hunt ... and Kristina found themselves in the Gobi Desert. This hard time consuming and boring trek through the desert, makes the men and Kristina test their wills to survive. The desert was hot during the day, and cold during the night. Kristina began to get s...

• Word Count: 1095
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... image to be the sheriff's wife. Glaspell in her story: "she didn't seem like a sheriff's wife. She was small and thin and didn't have a strong voice"[CITATION Sus p 39 l 5130 ]. In this extract from "A Jury of Her Peers", it can be seen how women are being evaluated or judged according to her husband's position. For a patriarchal society ... man with a big voice, who was particularly genial with the law-abiding, as if to make it plain that he knew the difference between criminals and non-criminals. [CITATION Sus p 39 l 5130 ]. The woman was being minimized in terms of image and personal...

• Word Count: 1016
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... his entire life. He wants the same thing everyone else wants; her money, her beauty, and her name. Portia does indeed have many suitors, and all are fooled by her "test". It is significant that Portia is a strong enough character that she can confront he situation and know exactly what she wants. She not only wants someone worthy socially, but intellectually ... moves [him] more than eloquence" (3.2.106). His decision is then made, and he is correct. So, it is noted that Bassanio has true feelings for Portia. He has passed her test with no difficulty, and she is rejoiced in the fact. Sh...

• Word Count: 979
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School