... their schoolwork when emotionally stressed. Both parents also generally decided that the male child had superior intelligence, specifically the ability to think logically. Mothers claimed that their sons had a higher confidence, intelligence and motivation when compared to their daughters. Fathers suggested that their sons worked harder and were innately more capable than their daughters. Also, mothers judged that their daughters had high interpersonal intelligence, while ... fathers did not reach the same conclusion (1973). In Britain, the difference in estimates of intelligence was no...

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... works, Shakespeare presented women as either terrified or idealized. They were either a whore or a virgin. This can be seen through the characters of Kate and Beatrice: hardheaded, outspoken women; and Bianca and Hero: two subversive, obedient, and easily swooned women (Packer 123). One can take a closer look into women's roles in Shakespeare's comedies by focusing on women's roles in Shakespeare's England ... in Shakespeare's comedies. While Kate and Beatrice's characters empower the feminine, Bianca and Hero's characters mirror the English Renaissance's cultural desire for a disarmed w...

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