... lusts "made public by her illegitimate child "disrupted the social order and threatened the very existence of the village. In times of plenty, notes Kingston, adultery might have been "only a mistake"; when the villagers needed everyone to work together to provide food, however, it became a crime. ... left for America. After her first two children died in China, Brave Orchid decided to use the money her husband sent her to become a doctor. She attended a medical school in the city of Canton. Looking at her mother's diplomas and graduation photographs, Kingston recreates the experience fr...

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... continues to make fun of her and talk badly to her, obviously trying to make her feel stupid about what shes saying, but Sylvia continues on, believing that what he doctor has said is true. The reader can feel empathy for Sylvia as she persists with her diagnosis even when she is rejected harshly by Crystal. In this scene, the softer ... and motherly, when in fact she is simply training her daughter to become just like the rest of the people she despises: herself. At the end of the play, she notes to Sylvia that she has "jungle red claws- just like the rest of the women, making her no d...

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... , 23). Despite Charlotte's choice to encourage Collins being a conscious one, it is a choice that she makes only because of the social inequality women faced in this time. As Hazel Jones notes, there were many women who acted similarly, privileging a steady income and home over the possibility of happiness.6 If happiness was found in marriage it was usually just an added bonus ... seeks to stress Jane's unsuitability as "not rich enough, or grand enough" (116). Jane's beauty benefits her desirability, however, and works to contest her social status. As Jones notes, beauty could greatly a...

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... but typical female behavior. The two friends experience an attempted rape, a shooting, and a murder, a one night stand, two robberies, disrespecting authority (the policeman), a huge explosion, and their adventurous deaths over a cliff. Despite all of this, Thelma and Louise remain polite throughout their adventures. "These codes of politeness are also an essential element in their dealings with the men they encounter on ... ...

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... model. "Well, she's a little young for you," Julia says waspishly, studying the model's photograph. "I guess I don't have to worry about this one...don't forget your asthma medicine." She has taken notes on a script he left for her to read, and promises to put them in his briefcase. As he leaves the room she reaches for the briefcase, but her attention is ... the crowd. Allison comes up and whispers something in George's ear, then departs. "Was it an overdose?" Tibor asks. George says they think it was. "She was incredibly beautiful," he notes. "Perfect body." "She was also a drug addic...

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... her free will. They have fun together and share many close moments. On one of their outings, Robert takes her to rest at Madame Antoine's house in a small village. Edna notes that it felt good to wake up in a bed that had a "sweet country odor of laurel."" But more importantly, it felt good to wake up in a new place, one that ... of her true self. And Mademoiselle Reisz has a great ability to read Edna. She is the only one who really knows how much Edna misses Robert after he leaves. Edna notes that she actually "seemed to echo the thought- which was in her mind (682). And of course, Ma...

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... runs into Dr. Trueman who refers to the soldier as the "star patient" (Cather 1200) from the hospital. Claude learns that the man has mental problems and the doctor said, "it's his recollection of women that is most affected. He can remember his father, but not his mother; doesn't know if he has sisters or not, ... intrigues Claude to the man even more. He becomes jealous of the man because he has lost all the memory of the women in his life. When the doctor brings up that the soldier's memory of women is clearly wiped out Claude replies, "Maybe he's fortunate in that (Cather 1201). In...

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... light, ect building upon his creation making it more spectacular then the day before. Wesley agrees, if not in whole, at least in part to this idea. For in his notes on the bible he writes: That man was made last of all the creatures, which was both an honour and a favour to him: an honour, for the creation was to ... is a shame for women to speak in church." For Wesley this was evidence that women should not be aloud to preach or teach in church. As he writes in his notes on the New Testament, "Let your women be silent in the churches - Unless they are under an extraordinary impulse of...

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... as he observes their speech outside Convent Garden. As he begins to interact with the people in his surroundings, they are able to tell he is a gentleman, as the bystander notes "he's a gentleman, look at his boots". Not only does this statement confirm Higgins" status in the social hierarchy but also portrays the message that in this realm, a person's dress is ... his "first car was a limousine" and his money earns him respect and power with his peers, such as Phillip Stuckey who says "I have pledged my life to you". As Edward notes the influence of wealth when taking Vivian shopping, ...

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... not kill herself, accuses Maxim of the crime. The local magistrate, Colonel Julyan, investigates, and finds that on the day of her death, Rebecca went up to London to see a Doctor Baker. Favell, Maxim, and the heroine accompany Julyan to London; the heroine is certain that Baker will reveal that Rebecca was pregnant, thus revealing Maxim's vengeful motive for murder. But ... magistrate in the region surrounding Manderley Lady Crowan - A local noblewoman who suggests that Maxim and the heroine revive the tradition of holding an annual costume ball at Manderley. Baker - A London doctor wh...

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... refers to our biological makeup, and uses certain biological markers (such as our genitals) to create the distinction between females and males. We are each pronounced at birth, upon the doctor's glance at our genitals, to be a girl or a boy. What is really discovered about each of us at that point is not our gender, but simply our sex. The operation ... generally accepted that there are only two sexes, society has created a two-gender model: which role we are taught to assume is arbitrarily tied to that first pronouncement made by a doctor regarding our sex upon our birth. Thereafter, ...

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... does rebel but she does so silently or through subterfuge.When she finds herself barren, she takes the matter in hand and she submits to a physical examination by the English doctor, Kenny, even though she knows that her husband would be upset with her if he found out about it. Later, she consults Kenny on her daughter, Ira's, behalf, but once ... again she does not let her husband know about their visit to the doctor. She imparts her limited reading and writing skills to her sons thus making it possible for them to make educated career choices when they grow up. When times are hard ......

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... assist, but to restrain the female witches, by withholding the required aid- (Nadel, 1952 p.19). Therefore, men have a certain power over the women even in their "fantasy realm-. Nadel (1952) notes that if there is a case of witchcraft where there is a death or something unimaginable, it is said, "a few evil individuals among the men (whom no one can name) have betrayed ... ...

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... when there was room. The role of the woman was not to be the achiever but to be available to be used by the achiever for his advancement. As Warren notes, "In the American Dream, woman figures not as the dreamer but as an object in the dream" (6). It was strictly for their usefulness to men that women were valued. Postwar ... ...

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... Sho kuru. When a man dies, the personified ancestors or kuru come and take away his soul. They come and sit by his body throughout the night, blowing trumpets, the squeaky notes of which are intended to represent the cries of the ancestors. He also reports that ancestors are represented by stones which are consisted in Mambila's shrine. Supposedly the shrine consists ... ...

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... boyhood innocence is destined to be "destroyed " by the female temptation. The social harmony, as the play suggests, should be built on the basis of reciprocity of women and men. Notes All textual references are from The Winter's Tale, Annotated Shakespeare, Vol. 11, the Commercial Press, Bejing, 1998 ① Patricia Southard Gourlay, " O My most sacred lady" Female Metaphor in The Winter ... ...

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... be different from each other but what imports is that they are all linked to one superstructure, namely sex. In short, the main preoccupation of the story is sexuality. Structuralism notes that much of our imaginative world is structured of, and structured by, binary oppositions. The idea of binary oppositions, brought by the Structuralist thinker, Levi Strauss, is a fundamental way in ... ...

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... the knight gives mastery to the old hag, Chaucer demonstrates how to fix the woe in marriages. Mann pinpoints exactly what is so powerful in the WB tale when she notes, "the anti-feminist elements constitute the force behind the tale's challenge to male dominating. When the knight surrenders to female "maistrye", he surrenders not to the romanticized woman projected by ... ...

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... speaking and conversation. He thus raises women's status in marriage by making her education important to her husband, making a wife a spiritual companion not just a possession. Concerning female education, Leon Morris notes that from the Greek and Roman times until even recently, it was thought that any female education beyond mere household matters was not considered necessary or appropriate "the Jews ... ...

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... taken. For example, West Virginia and South Carolina proposed bills that would ban abortions after 20 weeks gestation. Arkansas recommended a bill requiring women who want abortion inducing medicine to have a doctor present while they take it. Also, Missouri is trying to initiate a bill that expects pregnant women to receive consent from the fathers before choosing abortion, except in cases of rape ... ...

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... creation of the baby. In Italy is only 90 days, Germany from 1995 gives only 3 months too, but with the only difference, that the woman should check-in with the doctor before going through abortion. Ireland is the only place that would have the worst rules about abortion. In this state abortion is definitely not allowed, unless the woman is in ... ...

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... . Group therapy works because majority of adolescents prefer to work in groups because they care more about what their peers think of them than what adults have to say. Having a doctor telling you that you're getting better will not mean as much as a group of people who have gone through the same things and are actually noticing a difference. By being ... ...

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... are thought to form the intellectual elite in Celtic society, and some evidence exists that women elevated to the high status. Traditions relate women in the position of prophet, bard, doctor and even satirist (Rankin 253). Women "seers" emerge through myths and legends, and can be linked to the male druid counter part (292). One instance of a female druidess emerges in ... ...

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... does everything that is expected from her. Mr. Pontelliar lives for his business, social respect, and a decent family. As soon as he seems Edna's behavior changing, he seeks advice of a doctor. He is concerned about the fact that Edna "lets the housekeeping go to the dickens" and about her "some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of ... ...

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... to some cause or cause which you and I needn't try to fathom."" This quote is a good example of the attitudes towards women at the turn of the twentieth century. As Doctor Mandelet and Mr. Pontellier's conversation makes clear, women were considered ill, or even mentally unbalanced, if they dared to defy convention and ventured outside of the domestic sphere assigned to ... ...

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