Another pivotal stage in her awakening comes when she realizes that she cannot live dually awakened and oppressed by gender roles; she needs to choose one path and commit herself fully to it. ... In search of direction for her life Edna seeks guidance from Mademoiselle Reisz. ... She will never be able to live truly free from society's patriarchal influences in pursuit of her dreams and desires, and thus she will never be able to be her true self. Thus, Edna's ultimate awakening is to the realization that her object of desire is to live in a world that doesn't exist. ... As...

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Many immigrants come to the United States dreaming of finding opportunities, and living a successful life. ... The reality is that life in the United States for immigrants is very, very tough. ... There is no denying that women have advanced and play powerful roles in society; but in fact this has been short-lived in the U.S. ... Living in poverty and under parents who still live in their traditional customs may hurt the progress of women. ... Indeed, language is knowledge, and knowledge is fundamental to progress and success in life. ...

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When Dougherty first started building a life for herself she was interviewed and asked who she was and what her purpose in life was for. ... An individual named Marra James explains why society needs each other to live, we must co-exist with one another. ... The reason is we are all social animals and we must live and interact and work together in the community to become fulfilled" (Bellah et al 68). Marra James explains how as a community we must function together to become successfully fulfilled and live a meaningful life. ... This is viewed both through Marra James's life and thr...

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Rent, based on Puccini's La Bohème, is about a group of young bohemian artists who battle to make a life and make due in New York's lower east side. ... For example, in the song "One Song Glory", Roger expresses his passion on how he still wishes to live a meaningful life despite his fear of death. ... However, the relationship between Mimi and Roger, a couple that consists of a male and female, last until the end of the musical, because she comes back to life seconds after she dies. ... Despite these different types of groups and everything going on in society, he g...

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Because of this people are limited in life and feel they need to be a certain way to be accepted. ... If society continues to look at the gender of a person how can we expect to be free and live in a world where people feel comfortable in who they are and what they're doing? ... Both women and men are often stereotyped and subjected to an unrealistic body image and are put under gender roles and expected to live and think a certain way to appease society. ... The whole meaning to life is to move forward; individually and together; as a society. ... Currently, the media is filled with idea...

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Whenever I heard the word "Lesbian", I would always cringe a little inside because to me that is not a normal life style. ... Throughout my research, I realized that being a lesbian is a life style, and even though being a lesbian is a life style, we are all humans that deserve a fair chance at life. Just because lesbians might act differently, dress differently, and talk differently, that doesn't mean that they should be excluded from a normal life in general. ... All lesbians are now in revolt because all Lesbians define themselves in terms of a woman and reject the male definitions ...

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Thus it is not unusual that, as the product of such revolutionary parents, Mary Shelley would harbour the same feminist and Romantic ideologies and subsequently challenge the ideologies of the patriarchal society in which she lived. ... Just as Rousseau condemned his own children, Frankenstein abandoned his own creation -- the monster, similarly condemning his "child" to a life of ostracism and social rejection. ... However, unlike Rousseau's happily lived existence, absent of consequence or judgement of his irresponsible actions, Frankenstein is subsequently punished for ambitious pursui...

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Advertisements of unrealistic images of women are being seen as the level of beauty in which society must live up to. ... Advertisers stereotype women and men with gender roles, however the effects are more on women causing them to have depression because the idea that they must live up to the stereotype that women need to follow what the advertisers say to be a good wife. This is not only an outdated concept of marriage and the view of men and women, but it can cause depression because no one can live up to these extreme expectations of women. ... Advertisements make it difficult for people t...

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We already get used to the way we live now but maybe some people will have such doubts: what kind of society that is before the modern society and how did the ancient people live? ... Try to imagine that, if you living in a family in traditional society, since everyone in the family is working together to survive, no one has the time or energy to learn how to read and write or learn something new, you just repeat to do the same work from day to day, year to year until the end of your life, what's the meaning of that life? ... But the significant meaning for women is that family is not the...

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Topic 1: Write a paragraph about the importance of music in our life. ... In conclusion, music produces many positive effects on our life, so it is necessary that people listen to music everyday. ... Finally, studying in other countries cultivates students' ability to live independently. ... It is the life-skill developed through their living abroad that makes students become more mature and confident. ...

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Lawrence Cohen has explained the gender differences and its effects in his article hunters and Gatherers in the Classroom he concentrated on the young children and how gender role starts in their life and affect their life by using certain words and behaving in a certain ways. ... In that case they will have almost the same choices in everything in their life. ... This case is not considered normal in our life because the gender is drifted away whether he is a boy or girl. ... Cohen tends this difference to the lack of chances for women to live like men because of the culture or the environm...

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Women: Role in Society The world today has changed in many aspects of gender related life style. ... Our family structure creates a great impact on women's behavior in society, family life and the labor force. ... On the same note, a labored woman of these groups would completely shutout the life of leisure. ... It is said that feminists are the blame to life getting worse. ... The Origins of the Feminization of Poverty The United Nations Development Fund for Women reports that women are still the poorest of the world's poor, representing 70% of the 1.3 billion people who live i...

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Money is an essential factor of people's life. ... They live honourably in high social class and their descendants enjoy great subsidies. ... Poverty prevents them from life prosperity. ... Although improving equality is the main part of Thai political agenda as the government honestly intends to tackle inequality, no any evidence of a good quality of Thai people's life in the countryside appears apparently. ... People live peacefully with a cognition of their basic human rights. ...

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However, our health should be a focus in our lives because our daily life has an affect on our health. ... Statistics have shown that women have higher rates of morbidity but men have shorter life spans. This means that although women live longer than men, those years are not healthy years but rather are filled with illness. ... The stress of everyday life can also affect health. ... These various stressors of everyday life caused by gender differences and differences in socioeconomic status can have a more profound affect than they seem....

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Her vivid letters describe her life in times of Revolution and reflect the many roles that this woman undertook before and throughout her function as the second First Lady of United States. ... Abigail Adams and Mary Tod Lincoln both lived in times of national change and crisis and therefore their accounts are significant windows into the past American societies. ... (Baker 128) Akers" paraphrase that "only in the mind of God did the discordant notes of life blend into a harmonious melancholy."(Akers 11) reflects Abigail Adams" attitude of rational acceptance of life and its polarities while...

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Worldwide it is women rather than men who gather and prepare the food, run the household and tend to life on a physical level, including looking after the sick, the aged and the children. ... It is clear that in this scenario men are regarded as the norm or standard women had to live up to. ... Nevertheless, both groups regarded those qualities that were previously the reason for barring women from public life and politics as their strong points. ...

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Images that are used in advertising often set the standard which society feels it must live up to. ... Presently, that gender role has lessened, but still remains in some advertisements such as those concerning meal preparation, cleaning supplies and family life. ...

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Aboriginal women are more likely to live below the poverty line, than Caucasian women or Aboriginal men (Morris, 2014). ... In particular, Filipino women are typically employed through the Live-In Caregiver Program. These women often work as "live-in caregivers" or "nannies.... Many are unable to speak their native language or practice their culture as they live in other people's homes. ... Cool (2010) further supports the idea that the gender wage gap is largely due to women's imbalance between family and work life. ...

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Daldry, 2000)material consumerist concerns such as trainers are low on the main patriarchal characters list of priorities and The Full Monty is centered on five men who do something extraordinary in order to gain the means to simply live. ... Lovell discusses this when he states "The spate of writings set in the traditional Northern working class community was a nostalgic affirmation of the values and a way of life whose imminent passing it lamented" (Lovell in Higson, 1996, Pg160). ... Firstly it means that many characters in the north will be deprived of many material effects and objects a...

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Life for the Irish women crossing the Atlantic in search of better means of living was treacherous to say the least. ... By the nineteenth century, industrialization was in full swing, as were the gender roles inaugurated by the historical turning point; but those gender ideals were short lived as female Irish immigrants flooded American streets in search of "men's" work. ... Diner, Diner paints a picture of what life was really like for these immigrants, and how the Irish and American cultures clashed. ... This is how most Irish families lived in the United States, a good porti...

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Today, and more prevalently in the past, gender stereotyping takes place in many aspects of everyday life, such as the media and normal social interactions. ... Women have the same mental capacity and ability to succeed in life as men do, and physical differences do not affect those qualities in any way, shape, or form. ... Doubting that the media will ever stop giving the people what they desire, gender roles first need to be eliminated within the minds and hearts of the people striving to live a life of prosperity all around the world....

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Freeman also suggests to the reader that a man in a woman's life signifies chaos, as the canary goes crazy every time Joe walks into the room. The typical stereotype at that time was that a woman needed a man to fulfill her life and provide her with a necessary lifestyle, and Freeman is telling us the exact opposite; a man in a woman's life does not necessarily give her the peace that she desires. ... Perhaps an older and wiser Louisa would have been capable of recognizing that she is better off living an independent life, which is something that she realizes at the end of the stor...

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The media is presenting an image of our lifestyles that each male and female are supposed to live up to throughout their daily lives. ... Men and women's responsibilities in their daily life are actually switching. ... But what they do not realize is that not even the people in televisions or in ads look the way they do in real life. ...

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In her poem titled "Lady Lazarus," Plath exploits the viciousness of her male dominator as he makes a spectacle of repeatedly pulling her back to life after her suicide attempts. ... The narrator does not show the slightest want or need for a life where she would become the ideal American housewife. In Just a Housewife by Glenna Matthews, a housewife life is defined as "suburban housing patterns (which) reinforced a woman's isolation from most of the world of adults. ... Di Prima uses her average character to show a life that is not traditionally suited for a twentieth century...

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With the shift in the composition of society, people are looking towards a more individualistic life style, moving away from their families, divorcing their spouses to live alone, or choosing not to get married. ... Billy, as a character, is a representation of the individualistic life we live today. ...

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