In an argument over a hat, Kate demands, "Love me or love me not, I like the cap, / And it I will have, or I will have none" (4.3, 84-85). ... This strong will is changed around, however, when Beatrice "overhears" Hero and Ursula talking about Benedick's love for her. ... However, Beatrice continues to mask her desires for Benedick, and uses his love for her to get her way. She persuades Benedick to kill Claudio, asking him to, "use it (his hand) for my love some other way than / swearing by it" (4.1, 325-326). ... Thompson did a great job portraying Beatrice's over confident p...

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• Grade Level: High School

The first part is the story about Leonte's jealousy which brings the destruction to his royal family. ... The love between Florizel and Perdita, the reunification of Leontes with his lost daughter and wife bring to the play a perfect ending. ... All the persons representing love and kindness to him disappear one by one from the play. ... He loves his child, Florizel. ... Here we read a balance in their true love. ...

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In most divorced families, it is common that the mother receive custody of the child/children. ... A study was done on intact families (non divorced families) and families of divorce. ... However, most of the research on boys" adjustment fails to consider the quality or quantity of father-child contact or the availability of alternative difficult to assess the impact of changing family structure on boys" behavior (Journal of Marriage and The Family, vol.50). ... Journal of Marriage and The Family says that girls of divorce are most often fearful of issues regarding commitment and love and o...

• Word Count: 2872
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• Grade Level: High School

It's called "Mr and Mrs Turner: an exchanged-role family". ... The Turners are a example of an exchanged role family, and one that shows how gender doesn't mean anything anymore. ... But this family goes to show you that nowadays more men are doing housework. It maybe isn't proof but it is a real family out there, so there are probably more of them. ... Joseph Pleck ("79) examines the sharing of family work by three views. ...

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Body In the black patriarchal society, the role of women was not limited to their households for most black women would have to work and earn a livelihood to feed and clothe their families. ... From being sexually molested by the white colonizer to serving as a maid in a white man's family, nurturing their kids while her own kids were starving and were being neglected, a black woman would be constantly socially manipulated and physically ravished. ... Womanist theology challenges all repressive forces that impede the struggle of black women to survive and to develop a positive, productive...

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The gender category woman (that is, the so-called "feminine" gender automatically assigned to members of the female sex) carries with it certain expectations about how to act, what to do, who to love and so on: Women are generally expected to be more passive, submissive and dependent than men. ... Women are expected to love and marry a man and to become mothers. ... Men are expected to love and marry a woman and to become fathers. ... But the essential fact is that our gender roles are taught to each of us, and are rigidly enforced, through families and friends, educational institutions, t...

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• Grade Level: High School

The poster in figure 2 was concerned with exploiting male pride in the face of family expectations. ... My father was no coward, but had been reluctant to leave his family. ... It would seem to show a mother and her young daughter who is probably not that long married, both have sacrificed love the mother her husband, and the daughter her father and husband also. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Theorist William Rathbone Greg best summaries the feelings of the Victorian age towards fallen women: "If the passions of woman were ready, strong, and spontaneous, in a degree even remotely approaching the form they assume in the coarser sex, there can belittle doubt that sexual irregularities woul...

• Word Count: 3387
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

According to Barling and Macintyre (1993) and Parasuraman and Greenhaus (1992) they reported significant relationships between work-family conflict and various dealings of psychological distress in women leading to depressive symptoms and a decreased life satisfaction. The research sited that of women with at least one adolescent child self-efficacy, work and parental roles proved to be significant predictor of work –family conflict. The concept of conflict among women focused on the individual's attempts to meet both general family life and employment obligations. In more recent ...

• Word Count: 3820
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I believe he read this because the gender role has been reversed and he was not the elder man marring a younger wife who is less experienced then he; he was not the provider of the wealth in the family. ...

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