... Literary Theory. This theory, according to Carol Pajaron of the Ateneo de Manila High School English Department, compares and contrasts females in literature with common female stereotypes. In a personal note to this writer, she adds that the theory "also looks at male stereotypes but always paralleled with the ... text on sexuality, has deduced two male stereotypes. She claims that the first is a man who, in brief, is aggressive (usually in a sexual sense) and exploitative towards women. The second stereotype is a man who professes unconditional love for a woman while doing away with the...

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... other signifiers to produce a chain of recognisable connotations. It is the code which determines themes that the text proposes to analyse. In a general sense, it is that which enables meaning to be constructed. In Doris Lessing's story, agents such as sexuality, including femininity and masculinity and non-verbal ... writer very much embedded within the complexities and the turbulences of the contemporary British culture where items such as sexuality, masculinity and femininity are very common. In this extract we have this sunbathing woman who is no ordinary kind of woman. She is a woman...

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... illuminates the ridiculousness of their opinions and the nobility of Elizabeth's actions. Her determination to see her sick sister shows a moral consciousness and sense of virtue which neither the sisters nor Emma have. Her 'inferiority' of accomplishments is contrasted with the frivolity and rudeness of the Bingley ... this society, Austen's satirical approach to the romance genre critiques "established forms and the attractive men who embody them."24 In this sense, Elizabeth's use of irony as a defence against nineteenth-century society replicates that of her author's. After her i...

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... Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, and Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" are taken from Perrine's Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry Tenth Edition, copyright 2001, Harcourt College Publishers, Toronto.) One needs not look deep into the text to find the first ... found in youthful embraces. Appeals made by the speaker become more intense the further he gets into his rhyme, however, always maintaining the necessary sense of civility. In the opening lines, the speaker tugs at the strings of the women's mentality, and now, in the final stanza, unleashes ... ...

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... (Rahman and Toubia 3). A Daya, or traditional birth attendant, who is usually not medically trained, carries out the operation with a special razor called Moos el Shurfa (Dorkenoo 8). Although it is less common and only practiced among the Sudanese nomads, a procedure can also be carried out on a newborn female (Dorkenoo 10). Regardless of the age at which FGM/FC is performed, the question ... hepatitis B. Long-term consequences may include lack of desire and stimulation during sexual intercourse or severe complications in pregnancy and labor. Psychological damage may also occur. This mig...

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... (Rahman and Toubia 3). A Daya, or traditional birth attendant, who is usually not medically trained, carries out the operation with a special razor called Moos el Shurfa (Dorkenoo 8). Although it is less common and only practiced among the Sudanese nomads, a procedure can also be carried out on a newborn female (Dorkenoo 10). Regardless of the age at which FGM/FC is performed, the question ... hepatitis B. Long-term consequences may include lack of desire and stimulation during sexual intercourse or severe complications in pregnancy and labor. Psychological damage may also occur. This mig...

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... to overcome this we must become more aware, sensitive and be sincere when interacting with foreigners. We must have patience, willingness to learn, respect for other cultures, and generations, a sense of humor can go a long way. We also must be prepared for the future of technology as it relates to communicating with other countries. Cross Cultural Communication It is very ... . Awareness, sensitivity and real sincerity can go a long way to avoid embarrassing situations when interacting with foreigners. Patience willingness to listen, respect for other cultures, behaving on local knowled...

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... oral heritage of her mother and explains how they both transcend the everyday. Through identifying with her mother, Marshall finds that they have things in common because they both express their creativity in an art form: one in the oral tradition and the other in the written tradition: The role ... life and she takes refuge in the positive. If there is anything of value to Delia, it is her hard-earned home. She has acquired a sense of independence in knowing that she has a place that is nobody else's but her own: "Hurston endows her fiction with a consciousness of space ... has handed...

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... into a dangerous sexual passion and then is cast out by her village "is likened to the struggle of Kingston herself, who is attempting to make sense of the old customs and traditions "which she knows only from her mother "in a vastly different country. Kingston, to illustrate this struggle, ... surround her like "ghosts" and her new, permissive American environment. (Note that for Kingston's mother, the word "ghost" is used in the opposite sense, to refer to the Americans themselves.) Kingston's struggle is especially difficult because she is effectively forbidden from talking about it wi...

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... groups of people may lead to conflict. One of the more interesting issues in communication, which has received considerable attention, is the issue of gender differences in communication. It is common knowledge that the two genders, male and female, engage in communication in slightly different ways. Yet what exactly are these differences, and how do they arise? Equally important is the ... as being more appropriate candidates for advancement than more capable females - these stereotypes, then, help the advancement of males, but hinder the advancement of females. This is a problem in th...

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... such force and charm that interest in her eventually takes over the play, even though her fate is not an important aspect of the original plot. A common theme in the two plays is a contrast of characters. In these works, Shakespeare presented women as either terrified or idealized. They were either a whore or ... in her famous last speech, "Such duty as the subject woes the prince, / Even such a women oweth her husband" (5.2, 159-160). In a sense, Kate has acquired power through surrendering. Elizabeth Taylor did a great job representing Kate in the 1966 UK film The Taming of the Shrew, ...

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... woman, the heroine (whose given name we never learn) travels across Europe as a companion to Mrs. Van Hopper, a wealthy American lady. (It was a common custom in the 19th and early 20th century for wealthy, unmarried older women to pay young girls to travel with them, as both a servant and a friend ... what Mrs. Van Hopper said about Maxim's dead wife: her name was Rebecca, and she drowned, accidentally, in a bay near Manderley. Commentary A sense of loss hangs infuses the opening pages of Rebecca. The narrator and her husband, neither of whose names we know yet, find themselves in exil...

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... had to stay at home, lack any sexual initiative, be selfless, and be morally accountable. She was to be the pillar of the home in both the physical and moral sense. Femininity during the Victorian Age was secondary to masculinity. The submission of women to men represented the enduring feature of the Victorian Age. This was in line with Victorian theorists ... a bid to hide the fact that there are problems in his society in general (Tennyson and Roberts 56). In his poem "Mariana" Tennyson attempts to review and challenge a common male literary custom by taking cue from another writer, n...

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... explicitly a part Jesus' inner circle. Second, Mary is described as " first among the apostles" not for being the first witness to Jesus' resurrection, but first in the sense that she alone understood Jesus' teachings completely. Third, she was Jesus' "beloved disciple," "for Jesus used to walk with her and kissed her frequently upon the mouth ... ."36 Early orthodox Christians would sneer at and scorn the suggestion of these blasphemous disparities. It is entirely possible then to perceive the temptation and sense of urgency felt by those of the early church to eradicate any such belief...

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... people's obsession with narrative cinema. She claims "the mass of mainstream film portray(s) a hermetically sealed world which unwinds magically, indifferent to the presence of the audience, producing for them a sense of separation and playing of their voyeuristic phantasy so that the  osition of the spectators in the cinema is blatantly one of repression of their exhibitionism and projection of the ... a cab and ends up giving her his Yankees cap, the symbol of his being an outsider and not belonging, something he now realizes he has in common with this transgendered ...

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... -harm that most girls take part in is cutting. Girls that do engage in nonsuicidal self-injury complete this act in order to be able to relieve tensions and gain a sense of control. The amount of adolescents and young adult's people who have considered nonsuicidal self-injury has a dramatic increase; some researchers are calling it an epidemic (Richardson, Surmitis, Hyldahl 121 ... ). Skin cutting is the most common type of self-harm, between seventy percent to ninety-seven percent of individuals having ever caused self-harm to themselves openly admitted to the harm they have caused to th...

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... . Any degree of political, social, or economic power that women possessed varied throughout assorted societies. These ran the gamut from what arguably could be called "political equality" to the more common assignment of value determined only by the ability to bear legitimate children. Even under historical constraints, women of history did not accept total un-autonomous control of their fate. The ... by Mary Wollstonecraft: " that is she be not prepared by educations to become the companion of man, she will stop the progress of knowledge and virtue; for truth must be common to all, or i...

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... the handsome prince by endearing through pain and suffering, while omen who are assertive and strong in either the mental or physical capacity are shunned. In fairytales it is most common that the princess is associated with weakness and helplessness, she is often to be found waiting for the prince to save her. It is uncommon that she takes the initiative ... charming. Beauty doesn't choose the hero or the man who is her father's choice. She makes her own decision. All the happy ever afters can lead women into a often devastating sense of false security, the morality in Beauty and the b...

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... of the novel, Paul ends the three relationships and moves on. He has proven himself to be a patriarchal, self-centered, and sadistic male chauvinist. What the three women have in common, however, is a type of control over Paul. And ultimately, this ascendancy leads to his destruction. Paul's mother, Mrs. Morel, is his "soul" support and is the most important person in ... , but this achieved his own spiritual growth and the pursuit of human nature. At this point, Mrs. Morel, Miriam and Clara should be responsible for their own tragedy. In this sense we can say that Lawrence aimed to illu...

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... exhausting excitement. Pests, turn into classmates, turn into friends, turn into crushes, which turn into boyfriends. The first real interaction with the opposite sex is not based on respect and common interests, instead, first wanton relationships are based on popularity and cuteness. The expectation of having a boyfriend supercedes the desire for one. Jennifer Scanlon addresses the motive in most adolescent aged ... off the wrong message. From childhood, women "proceed to become womanish in a subtle power game in which she learns to be sexually indispensable, socially decorative and a...

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... self worth in such a way that no one else has ever done. Through many struggles in these women's lives, they are able to overcome because "when women are together in a common bond they can overcome the males who mistreat them" (Allan). In the novel The Color Purple, Walker portrays female companionship as a way for women to defy the cruelty and control ... so Celie believed Nettie was dead. Later in the novel, Celie finds Nettie's letters and realizes that Nettie is alive and that she is in Africa. "The letters strengthen Celie's sense of self by informing her of her personal history an...

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... of authority is the task of time which cannot overrun the historically based "power tradition" or in other words: "power should be understood as a vector of strength in the broadcast sense of the word, as that which belongs to the male sex, as compensation for their inability to give life, to bring a new person into the world". And that became a slogan ... male-type political actions (harsh, aggressive and violent) with female-type flexibility, reserve and mobility. Much depends upon women themselves, upon whether or not women, especially civil servants, can find a common ground to intr...

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... of human, who, obviously, include both male and female. His/her sex transformation grants him/her great power to overcome all the obstacles in the life, raises him/her above common people, and enables him/her to find the true self, the nature of a human being. By creating this hero/heroine, Virginia Woolf successfully expresses her idea of androgyny. 2. Androgyny in ... , at last, she finishes the long poem, The Oak Tree, which takes her three hundred years to write, and has it published. The achievement gives her great satisfaction and the sense of self-fulfillment. Also from the gloomy...

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