Women in Society: Then and Now Women in any society, no matter what the time period, have never been viewed as complete equals. Women did not get to make many of their own choices and a majority of the time; there life was mainly mapped out for them prior to adulthood. ... So it's no wonder as to why she took pride in the things that she did have. ... A majority of the time, love was no factor in the equation of marriage. ... Life was not fair and if you wanted freedom to marry who you loved then you had to run away. ...

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Their Eyes Were Watching God In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie battles to find Individualism within herself. ... Men were looked to as the superior being, the one who women were supposed to look up to and serve. ... They can't be told how to live there lives in order to succeed. ... She didn't want to be there, where there was no warmth. ... "No matter what Jody did, she said nothing. ...

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Cleopatra cannot resist and interrupts him with: "No, let me speak". ... There is the goddess Isis, the queen of the Nile and a whore. ... There is the Cleopatra who is in love with Antony, so much so that she kills herself to be with him and then there is also the Cleopatra who continually sets out to be manipulative and over the top. ... Plays were, after all, the political portraiture of the seventeenth century and often showed the popular views of time. Cleopatra is shown to be no ordinary women. ...

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Men were looked to as the superior being, the one who women were supposed to look up to and serve. ... "Whut Ah seen just now is plenty for me, honey, Ah don't want no trashy negro, no breath-and-britches, lak Johnny Taylor usin" yo" body to wipe his foots on. ... She didn't want to be there, where there was no warmth. ... "She must look on herself as the bell-cow, the other women were the gang." ... "No matter what Jody did, she said nothing. ...

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He comments, "Mah fust wife never bothered me "bout choppin" no wood nohow. ... She then voices Logan's deepest fears that she is contemplating leaving him. ... "But it was no place to show her fear there in the darkness between the house and the store (Hurston 99). ... Then, the dam of a nearby lake collapses, and the couple runs for their lives. ... There he gets progressively sicker. ...

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"Yes, she would love Logan after they were married. ... Janie felt glad of the thought, for then it wouldn't seem so destructive and moldy. ... Tea Cake considers himself a man because he is always there for Janie and he is willing to perform all sorts of politeness for her. ... Ah ain't got no business bein' mad at nothin' you do and say. ... AH be glad if was, 'cause then Ah might do somethin' tuh please yuh. ...

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Yes, she would love Logan after they were married. She could see no way for it to come about, but Nanny and the old folks had said it, so it must be so. ... Even if Joe was not there waiting for her, the change was bound to do her good." and marrying Jody. ... So they were married there before sundown, just like Joe had said." and moving to Eatonville Florida, a small town with homes that resemble shacks, and not much else. ... And then again uh store is good in other ways." making Joe and Janie very wealthy. ...

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"Their Eyes Were Watching God," by Zora Neale Hurston tells the story of a middle-aged black women named Janie Crawford who lives in Eatonville, Florida. ... They then marry where she becomes the wife of a mayor. ... She wants to run away but she knows there was no were else for her to go. ... Joe then dies from a kidney failure. ... Their Eyes Were Watching God was very will written as she gives us an outlook how women was perceived back then and how they was not able to have their own, but somehow the character of Janie Crawford shows us different. ...

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All the time she was about me, listening to me and the cool thing was there is no shouting. ... In no time, all the items ordered were served and she jumped to those and started to gobble. ... Suddenly I noticed that the T.V. men and reporters were also there. ... I run from there. ... Then dramatically I found out the fat giant lady from my second dream there also. ...

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"To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell The first lines of Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress", states, "Had we but world enough, and time, /This coyness, lady were no crime" (1-2). ... He also tries to portray to the mistress that there is no time, and there will be major consequences, and logic must prevail. He states that, "Now therefore, while the youthful hue/ Sits on thy skin like morning dew", he is telling the mistress that there is no better time than now to lose your virginity, and there will be consequences to lose it at a later time in life. This man argues that if life w...

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It was extremely peaceful; there was no sound, no movement, no shape, and no texture. ... And then she thought it was too simple, so she decorated it with some shining things called the stars. ... Soon they had their first kids, Nuovo-Nato-Femmina and Nuovo-Nato-Maschio, they were the first humans; they were so tiny that their parents decided that the best place for them to live would be the Earth. ... She started by creating it with some aromatic colorful things, which she called them flowers, there were many kinds of them, different colors and shape; she also created other kinds of plants th...

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The bride, and then the bridegroom, the two, and then the one, Adam, and Eve, his consort, the moon, and then the sun; The life doth prove the precept, who obey shall happy be, Who will not serve the sovereign, be hanged on fatal tree. ... Then the speaker starts to explain the whole essence of what love's purpose is. ... Paragraph 2 The poem then goes on to talk about how the very soils of the world were meant from the dawn of time for the love of a Man and a Woman, of "damsel, and hopeless swain-. ... Paragraph 3 It teaches that the first Man and Woman were also no differe...

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There are those who fall in love so deep that their very being becomes that love - no more, no less - but I know our love had to be much more than just love. ... We exchanged numbers and texted here and there and then I realized, I have absolutely nothing to say to this boy, we were a couple of years apart and each experienced different things and with this in mind it began to dictate what I had to say in conversations. ... It began with him doubting if we were going to make it because of all the stories he heard from his peers in the military but I was there fighting for us. ... I forgave him...

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There are so many things I liked about this movie that I don't even know where to start. ... He loved her so much that he was happy with the little time he spent with her, even though she died at the end because he would rather have had that then an eternity without feeling her kisses or her touch ("cause angels have no senses and don't feel anything). I also liked the fact that the movie didn't just end there like most movies would. ... If there were any week points in this movie it would be the little holes in the script and the story. Many times, Meg Ryan was told that ...

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We talked about going out for a month and then on January 24, 2000 he finally asked me if I would go out with him, as boy friend and girl friend. ... No one could ever split us apart and no one ever saw us with out each other, unless we were at own houses, which was 45 minutes away, so that wasn't easy for us to see each other on the weekends. ... I would have to be brave and not go back to him no matter what! ... We are the best of friends now, but I know if I would have gone back with him I would be in more danger then I was. He knows that he needs help and I know I will always "l...

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Up until there last few days together there love grew stronger then ever, he provided all he could making the best life for their children and setting such a good role model, he became not only there father, but idol. ... This made him a great companion and close friend; never were there a dull moment around John. ... A leader, yet a noble man, there was no evil side, or a greedy part in John, he knew his role and never took advantage of that. He once said this to me, and in turn, it is fitting that I, Salem would be a better place if there were more people like John Proctor. ... Yes he ...

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The story tells about how he carries her letters, and though there are no signs of romantic feelings in the letters Cross projects love and fantasy into them. ... "They had no sense of strategy or mission. ... The soldiers felt they had no purpose or reason for being at war. ... Afterward, when the firing ended They would touch their bodies, feeling shame, then quickly hiding it."... He then burns the letters and pictures from Martha and accepts that she did not love him. ...

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I no longer looked at my mother as a cheater. ... On the other hand there was another guy in my life that did have time for me. ... I loved Steve, but we were no longer in love with him. ... Then one night when Brendan and I were hanging out it happened. ... Brendan and I were more intimate with one another then Steve and I were. ...

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In the beginning, according to Aristophanies, there were three types of people instead of the two we know today. ... Following the split there were obviously twice as many people as there had previously been, and thus the number of sacrifices was also doubled. ... Zeus saw this and became concerned because if these creatures died there would be no one to offer him sacrifice and praise. ... Zeus hoped beings would have sex then return to tend to the things in their lives. ... It is important to remember that the soul is greater then the body, and while sex provides the method for two people...

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There really is no fine line in between the two. ... George and Lennie were best friends ever since they were little. ... There dreams was what kept them going. ... If George hadn't killed Lennie then Curley would have tortured. ... No, Curley wanted revenge. ...

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But there were also times when I lose my confidence, but then they are always there to boost it up. ... Since then going to school is no more fun. ... No one can easily say that he or she is in love. ... I was very thankful that my friends were there with me. They told me that there is nothing wrong with me that we were better as friends than lovers. ...

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"Evidently it did not matter whether I was there or not." ... " There, darling. ... No, by God, I don't think; I operate." ... There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. ... Then the truck stopped. ...

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Of those who were attending the Symposium, the majority of the men were homosexual or like Socrates bi-sexual. ... Physical and emotional attractions were the two main sources of Love. ... If the person being loved no longer acts in a manner that is attracting to the person doing the loving then it is possible to fall out of Love that is emotionally based. Those who attended the symposium believed that there were two types of Love, Common Love and Heavenly Love. ... No matter how someone's appearance is, if someone loves another person's mind then Love exists. ...

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And he thinks that if these two talented people talk together for a while then their problems may be solved. ... She's not a social butterfly and she has hardly no friends. ... Because if you do then I think you"re the one that's disabled. ... And it was very emotional because there were sad parts and there were LOTS of happy parts and others were depressing. ... There both good at peer counseling. ...

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Comparing the short story "Killings" by Andre Dubois and the movie "In the Bedroom", there are many differences, and some similarities. Overall the whole plot of the two stories were the same, they were just gone about in being portrayed in different ways. ... Strout, in the book, shot Frank with his boys sitting right there. ... Love was a big part of both these stories, no matter which way you look at it. ... That is, more then simply his love for his late son, which is really what it was all about. ...

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