It depicts a doll made to look like a "typical" or stereotypical American black woman, but strangely carrying a broom in one hand and a shotgun in the other. ... Betye Saar inspects her roots by looking at popular representations of the black female in America and incorporates her own ideas by turning the woman (Aunt Jamaima) into a warrior with modern western weapons in her hands. ...

• Word Count: 3101
• Approx Pages: 12
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She was known as the "Beloved Woman" of the Wolf clan. ... Warrior captives were sometimes forced to endure torturous forms of mutilation, such as having a foot or limb cut off so that they were unable to escape while also serving in a sort of grief ritual for those lost in war (Burton). ... As male warriors began to interact more with European colonial men and their societies which were dominantly patriarchal, they began to seek control over captives for their own compensation as well as for trade. ... Their warriors began completely disregarding and disrespecting women's pow...

• Word Count: 2752
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Within this novel Alexie manages to merge together the mythical and romanticized view of Native Americans (although Alexie "has been at pains to deflate just such romantic myths, whether steward of the earth, stoical warrior, shaman or savage") with a more realistic, and perhaps somewhat depressing, account of Native Americans regarding matters such as racism, religion, the commodification of Native American culture and life on the reservations including alcoholism and health services. ... Also Alexie writes that "Indian women had never paid much attention to him, because he d...

• Word Count: 2551
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A Cross Cultural Perspective of polygyny As an institution, polygyny, the social arrangement that permits a man to have more than one wife at the same time, exists in all parts of the world. From our present knowledge, there are very few primitive tribes in which a man is not allowed to enter into...

• Word Count: 3116
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One can easily imagine the state of mind of a warrior or any freeman whose condition through defeat in war radically changes from one day to the next, as he becomes a slave: as in classical antiquity, prisoners of war were automatically subject to being sold. ...

• Word Count: 5359
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Achilles as the son of Thetis has a special relationship which allows him to communicate with the gods by way of Thetis's favor in the eyes of Zeus (Il. 1.490) Both characters are headstrong warriors; the epics do relate their preeminence in battle. ... Enkidu undergoes a process of civilizing when he sleeps with the woman Shamhat, and is then disturbed by Gilgamesh's right at weddings to be the first to sleep with the new wife. ...

• Word Count: 4256
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Normally the Bildungsroman is decisive; contrastingly Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit remains open and ambiguous as Jeanette wishes to be saved by 'a woman in another place' and this possibility leaves the novel in a state of limbo because the reader doesn't know if she finds it. ... Feminists may disagree with this view that women are the weak, gentler figures and therefore are unable to cope with their own emotions thus having to lean on each other, however I would argue that without these shelter figures both men and women would struggle as in my opinion this ability to supp...

• Word Count: 3018
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The titular heroes of the first three are Njáll, a man of outstanding intelligence and wisdom, though not a fighter; Egill, farmer, warrior, adventurer, thug and outstanding poet; and Grettir, whose combination of extraordinary strength, stubbornness and ill fate leads to outlawry and death. ... Sparked off by a seemingly trivial affront " a versified insult, a brawl over the rights to a beached whale, unsanctioned wooing of a woman, or one party allowing livestock to graze a neighbour's land, " conflict generates highly complex structures where at every point there ar...

• Word Count: 3249
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The pilgrims bring Kurtz out of the station-house on a stretcher, and a large group of native warriors pours out of the forest and surrounds them. ... A beautiful native woman, apparently Kurtz's mistress, appears on the shore and stares out at the ship. ...

• Word Count: 3088
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

From the late 1980s, research on gender, crime and social issues, has hugely focused on the study of masculinity, and how there has become a correlation between masculinity and violence. Feminists have researched extensively on all types associated with gender, including gay and lesbian, thus acting...

• Word Count: 3847
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1. Introduction India is one of the G-20 major economies and a member of the five major emerging national economies (BRICS). The economy of India is the seventh largest in the world. In 2015, the International Monetary Fund reports that in the last two decades, the average GDP growth rate over 5.8% ...

• Word Count: 4443
• Approx Pages: 18
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate