Abstract Compliance starts with understanding, and understanding starts with cultural competence. In this study, we focused on compliant behavior portrayed by strangers in a social environment, where consumer goods wereare available for purchase. Our purpose was to determine ... Compliant". There have been other studies that have also tested and analyzed compliant behavior with gender. Ucho and ,Gbande (2012) conducted a study that was designed to assess the role of personality type and gender differences in compliance with safety work behavior. They found that female workers ... levels tha...

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... 's lives. She defines hidden curriculums, as "covert lessons that schools teach, and they are often a means of social control." (Martin, 1998) Martin's (1998) study examines how the following practices contribute to a gendering of children's bodies in preschool: The effects of dressing-up or bodily adornment, the gendered nature of formal and relaxed behaviors, ... which opened the boys up to a plethora of options (Martin, 1998, p. 505). Girls, however, have a limited use of action since their behaviors are likely to be dictated by a teacher who pulls options from a refined manifest. Phy...

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... many events of nearly every character in this story. This period in history was indeed marked with a peculiar fascination for the opposite sex. By briefly examining the role of women during the Victorian Era when these historical events take place, we can better understand how it's importance ties in ... , the term nymphomania was applied to degrees of sexual expression which would be considered quite normal today" (Rosenberg 10). It was believed that sex by nature, was not very natural at all, and that lower-class servants were the only ones to break norms. "Servants represented an intr...

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The Boor by Anton Chekhov has many themes in it pertaining faithfulness and emotions, because of this it relates to real life and how this could actually happen in a more modern setting. The ... 't pay him. He then continues saying, "Woman's logic! That's why I never liked to talk to women, and why I dislike doing it now" (1945). He continues with his misogyny by basically saying that women are illogical. He'd rather converse with men than women because women don't make sense. He then speaks about how women love; he angrily says, "May ... learn to like them despite the fact that they aren't ...

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... and relay this information to the audience. The more narrowed scope of this essay is to inform the audience of how gender roles are taught and perpetrated by the media as a whole, but on television in particular, but also from a more sociological aspect or viewpoint. Thoughts and opinions are expressed, most ... aired on television, not only would this have been pulled immediately from circulation, he would most certainly have been shunned from mainstream media, and by most likely his inner circle of friends and family as well as his business associates during this time period when it wa...

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... products of the culture; we can say that they are socially constructed. We can relate this statement with the novel Written on the Body written by Jeanette Winterson. The novel deals with identity, sexuality and discourse. The author does not focus on an issue to find an answer in her novel ... their gender identity. As Butler argues, "Gender is constructed (...)" (8) and this is exactly what Winterson wants to deconstruct. The story is told by a genderless and outsider narrator, since we do not know any trait of him or her, and also we cannot enter the issue of cliches of gender ... her...

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... questioned in the text are, nationalism, femininity, sexual morality and social standing. In the beginning of the book, we see that the women feel bonded by nationalism. This nationalism has brought them to the front line as ambulance drivers during World War I. Nellie "Smithy " Smith, the main character of this novel ... is sending the younger generation to war, due to what she feels is pride-lead stupidity. World War I was a severe and terrible war, marked by young men dying in some of the most horrible conditions ever possibly imagined. These women, being ambulance drivers, saw this ...

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... what their gender is. What makes them seem to have different abilities is the social construction itself. "Primate Studies and Sex Differences", an essay by Sally Linton, tells about her disagreement of the experience done on primates, the "animals that are most like human beings", to reveal the truth ... that some behaviors reflects innate differences between genders. She defends her opinion by giving the fact that "the female primates who did not receive the proper socialization make very poor mothers." This alone can already tell the fact ... "It is not natural (instinctive) for [the...

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... and physically dominant. He has very big arms, hands larger than the wives whole head, and "powerful knuckles and the veins engorged by the pressure on his arm" (Meyer 164). By describing him such as big and powerful with hair on his hands and arms, the author portrays him as an animal of sorts ... hand is described "offended, reared back and tensed up in the shape of a crab and waited, ready for battle" (Meyer 164). When she is disgusted by this behavior, the hand becomes defensive. This behavior of the hand is a metaphor for the roles in relationships. The male is often abusive or contr...

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... Madrid, Spain. The novel follows an idolized monk, Ambrosio, who struggles between maintaining his monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions after he is tempted by a young woman. The characters must navigate through black magic, incest, rape, and the supernatural as they fall from grace and are faced with ... still dear to [her] and [she] dreads to lose it" so she hangs onto her will power and survives until she is rescued by Don Lorenzo (319). This strength and power Agnes has come from the empowerment that obtaining and realizing her sexuality has given her. Although Agnes has ....

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... face of Roderigo's urgent persuasions, Violenta claims to be "a maidwho knows the the true estimation of virtue" and counters his dramatic claims of death by simply stating, "You very eloquently tell me you shall die if I continue unkind; but I very plainly tell your Lordship, that I must perish ... was not a measure of how truly virtuous a woman is, but rather was an important negotiation tool in securing a husband, getting paid off in a sense by said husband's wealth, and cementing a woman's societal status as a "proper" woman. The follow through of this exchange was considered to be ....

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... butch, and lesbians from their organizations. Jess becomes friends with members of other oppressed groups, including and not limiting drag queens and Black students in her high school. By calling attention to their amicable coexistence, I find that Feinberg is undoubtedly trying to interrogate the relationship between racism, sexism and revolutionary class consciousness. Like gender and sexuality, ... the butch and the femme, and then examines the limited possibilities for resistance outside a supportive community. Even as Jess struggles alone to construct a self amid a social milieu domi...

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... female characters in Haggard's novels turn out to be the very opposite of passive. They are a threat to the masculinity of the male characters by showing their power, beauty, or cruelty. I argue that the stories do not follow the pattern of male penetrating and gaining dominance over a passive ... centres on a Cambridge scholar, Holly, and his adoptive son Leo. Contrary to Holly, Leo is very interested in meeting women who are astonished by his beauty. One day, Leo is unexpectedly placed in Holly's custody along with a box with secret documents which concern tracing of his ancestors ... r...

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... women. Kapshaw himself had addressed Wishkob as grandmother" (64). There was the bwaanug who raced the Frenchman who was "a woman-man called a winkte by the Bwaanag" (153). The Ojibwe saw masculinity in a woman as desirable. Mashkiigikwe was one of Kapshaw's wives, and is hunting when Father Damien ... makes the reader uncomfortable. We do not often think of having a sexual relationship with God, but Agnes does. This border is also blurred by her relationship with Father Wekkle. Father Damien/ Agnes's relationship with Father Wekkle was that of colleagues at first, but then turned sexu...

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... is confident and assertive while the full-face view suggests a retiring sadness; the roundness of the body, which suggests pregnancy, is contradicted by the thick, harsh straightness of the figure's back. In the right-hand figure the two breasts have contrasting green patterns and at the ... painting which ranks with the reclining Venuses of Georgiana and Titian and Velasquez. In "The Mirror" Picasso uses these thick, overpowering lines to convey, by contrast with the lightness of the flesh, a female body aflame with sensuousness. Yet the word "aflame" will not describe it. The painting...

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... The Crying Game" femininity and the gender of characters play a large part when analysing the narrative. The quote originates from "Cloud Nine", which is said by the character Betty. The female gendered characters relate to this quote at the start of the storyline of both pieces and at the closing of the narrative ... but is perplexed when she disrobes her manhood. When her true sex is exposed he feels sick with disgust. He feels his sexual identity is at risk by having feelings for Dil who is really a male and he continuously repeats that she " should have stayed a girl", or " Kind of l...

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... Deborah, a biblical figure, who fought with her people in battle and then wrote her own celebration song. When the poet questions "How (women) are fallen by mistaken rules- (25), the reader is reminded of Woolf's "man-created- history; a history that serves as a "bible- supporting the subordination of the ... is forbidden. She therefore concludes that since "The hopes can ne'er outweigh the fears- (32), the most reliable way to remain "content- is literally, by remaining in the shadows (38). In accordance with the concept of "contentedness, - for a woman to lead a satisfying life, it was ...

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... sarcastic; In the first chapter, for example, when the narrator is denied the opportunity to enter the library she says: "That a famous library has been cursed by a woman is of complete indifference to a famous library.... Never will I ask for that hospitality again." (Woolf, 8) Woolf's technique is to create a ... of women & fiction. In A Room Of One's Own, Virginia Woolf, is a woman who makes fiction and creates a fictional woman: " Call me Mary Beton, Mary Seton, Mary Charmichael or by any other name you please-it is not a matter of ant importance.""(Woolf, 5) who tells how she came t...

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... underlying belief about Eve remained. Furthermore, it is interesting that Murray chose to defend Eve based on her ambition and did not use the Virgin Mary as a redeeming factor at all. The thought that it was okay for a woman to ambitiously seek knowledge was revolutionary. In her poem & ... (Bradstreet 549) This line in particular highlights her radical views; she looks honestly at her own abilities and then notes that the culture she lives in will disregard her success by calling her a thief, which is slander, or saying she just got lucky. She calls these proponents of such ... rationa...

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... work is, although you may not do it. Forget you. This is about waiting, shifting from one foot to another."" Thus Levine begins his poem by throwing the reader into the midst of an un-employment line and does so very bluntly and confrontationally. It is obvious that his feelings towards those ... not journeys. Society, family, etc. have taught the speaker that it just doesn't matter what has to be done to get a stable, worthy job. Judging by the expression, these men don't necessarily want to be where they are. (Both literally and figuratively.) However, some notion has been placed in th...

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... Generally, then, life for men is like a contest, a struggle to preserve independence. Communication at mid-life Because each gender tends to operate by a different set of rules, when men and women come together in conversation, problems may arise - because the two genders are, in effect, ... humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second." The beginnings of these differences, Tannen notes, can be seen in childhood interactions. Boys and girls tend to play in same-sex groups and, though some play-activities are similar, ... different c...

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... single link" (Aristotle in Cooper 155). Leaving out information allows the audience to fill in the blanks of the syllogism and draw their own conclusions. Scholar M.F. Burnyeat expands Aristotle's study of enthymemes, and investigates the relationship between enthymemes and generalizations. Burnyeat argues that enthymemes must also work in cases where the premises do not necessarily lead exactly to their conclusions ... complete facts, they result in likelihoods, which are still "a respectable thing to believe" (Burnyeat 107). Although less expansively, Aristotle and other scholars also ...

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... of our personal history or from convergence of these? Is it for that matter a choice rather than a compulsion? Chances are no one factor or study can alone explicate and clarify the human sexual orientation. However, there are evidences that prove being gay is not a choice. The nature of homosexuality ... not found the gene that makes some men gay but the Xq28 is one of the possibilities of the gay gene (Begley, Sharon, Hager, Mary) If homosexuality is inherited and the male homosexual gets the gay gene from the X-chromosome of his mother, then aren't that twin brothers and ... the ho...

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... of our personal history or from convergence of these? Is it for that matter a choice rather than a compulsion? Chances are no one factor or study can alone explicate and clarify the human sexual orientation. However, there are evidences that prove being gay is not a choice. The nature of homosexuality ... not found the gene that makes some men gay but the Xq28 is one of the possibilities of the gay gene (Begley, Sharon, Hager, Mary) If homosexuality is inherited and the male homosexual gets the gay gene from the X-chromosome of his mother, then aren't that twin brothers and ... the ho...

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... the very least, on television. Considering music videos to basically be ads, their portrayal of women affects the viewing audience in a similar manner as television ads. Kilbourne (Knutsen, 2000), p.1) notes in her first book that advertisements influence adolescents for three main reasons. One is that their money is more likely to be spent on what they want, not necessarily what ... However, advertising's influence is cumulative and primarily unconscious. The less consciously we watch the ads, the more deeply we are affected" (Knutsen, p.1). Girls are especially more prone to be affecte...

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