... against the patriarchal female gender role. Di Prima uses her average character to show a life that is not traditionally suited for a twentieth century woman. In Suzanne Collin's The Hunger Games, a female heroine is created, and much like Diane's role in her story, the reader witnesses as the lead female character flips the traditional female gender role upside-down and questions ... 's common idea of female behavior and lifestyle, oppressive patriarchal ideals of the traditional female are changed. "The housewife's mistake was to be too bossy or to be a free-spending parasite, or both. ...

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... girl to learn. This they said portrayed good manners of a Masai girl. She was not allowed to play careless games like climbing trees or playing football. Those were games meant for boys according to the custom. The importance of these teachings was to make her a good wife or mother ... was supposed to consult a close family elder who can then give permission to slaughter or sell an animal. The only time when she was free to slaughter or sell an animal is when it was sick and about to die. The following extract from one of the Kenya's daily newspaper ... be challenged by anybody. In the r...

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... women in sports dates back to the year 776 B.C. when women were not only not able to participate in the first olympic games but not allowed to attend as well. Within sports, heroes are made, goals are set and dreams are lived. However, up ... today. In the summer of 1996 the United States sent more female athletes to the Summer Olympic Games than ever before. Many will remember Kerri Strug as the symbol of female athleticim in these games. While competing on the vault in the final day pf competition against Russia, Strug injured her ... and power exhibited by female athletes (Olson 1254)...

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... 85 years later, men still had power, but women wanted more in life than high social status and money. The literary world portrayed women who want to be reckless and free to direct their lives. Today's society women strive to be leaders, and to prove they can accomplish and exceed in a difficult environment. Many fictional novels today have leading women roles ... one job, being a perfect housewife and mother. Wholehearted Leaders By the 21st century, feminist views show in many young adult novels. For example, Divergent by Veronica Roth and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. These boo...

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... caring mother. She is also a prize for Torvald because of her beauty and dancing skills. She became what society expected of her, a delicate, childish, "care free" housewife. Nora had no real name for herself. Her husband didn't even call her by her given name, instead he used pet names such as "my little lark ... . She wants to make them happy and give them the best Christmas she can with what little money she has been given. She spends time playing games with them and decorating to make them happy. It is expected of Nora, by society and her husband, that she play with the children from...

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... was judged on the fact that he would rather stay home and help his wife in the kitchen, instead of spending all his free time drinking and gambling like other men did. "A man is expected to spend all his free time outdoors...in the streets, the bars the field-public places where a man is seen. He must not give the impression that ... shouldn't be expected to only cook, clean, and do the daily chores around the house. At an early age women are taught to behave according to what society expects, childish games like playing house and tea is what seems appropriate. If a girl is fascinated w...

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... draw the line. When Petruchio tries to throw away the cap that the tailor made, which she very much likes, she tries to object. She has had enough with these games that Petruchio is playing and tries to establish an autonomous position: I trust I may have leave to speak, And speak I will. I am no child, no babe. I will be ... the uttermost as I please in words. (IV.iii.73-80) Unfortunately, not even this is enough to get her as much as the cap in the end. She may be free in words, but her words now fall upon deaf ears, which is the source of her frustration. However with Kate's obvious ...

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... , secretaries, and nurses, and held various other administrative positions. In reality, the only reason that women were allowed to hold the positions that they did, was so that they could free a man to fight. The US needed as many men on the frontlines as possible, and didn't see a reason that a healthy man should be filing papers when he could be holding ... these environments, it's brains, not brawn that will win battles. A former Navy submariner stated it best that, "On a ship, war is high tech and men aren't any better at video games then women." Lieutenant Colonel Mike Sullivan, who...

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... " drastic statement. To some, hijabi is making a drastic statement about her violent political thoughts. To others, she is a symbol of complete suppression and is in terrible need of "set me free" or liberation. For them, encompassing such women as part of the North American landscape is alarming. She is "the cloaked women," assimilating in an unfamiliar place, an actor on an ... testifying something about what she believes but she is also declaring something about what she rejects. Why is it so hard to understand? She is refusing to play the gender games that are part of every society. ...

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... is if the child is only influenced to act in a specific way, with no exceptions. I was fortunate to have a very balanced childhood. I was taken both to ballet classes and basketball games. The children whose families are very traditional might also take the opposite direction once they are old enough to establish their own ideas. But if morals can be influenced in ... of children and the caretakers of the homestead. Boys are also given more active toys that are played or realized outside of the home, while girls are given toys or games that are better played in a stable "safer" environm...

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... will see an ad of a boy playing Gameboy. In this instance, the message is right in the title of the machine. Boys tend to get more into video games like Nintendo and Gameboy. "Video games involve lots of shooting and dying. Boy Stuff" (Kantrowitz 443). Girls are more involved in playing Barbie. Barbie symbolizes a perfect American woman; tall, skinny, long blonde, silky ... ...

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... in order to maintain proportionality, not only with participation but with use of funds. However, if rosters where trimmed and perks like hotel stays for athletes on home games, and chartered jets for away games, were cut, there would be more funds and opportunities for other male athletes (Conniff). While better, more responsible budgeting is a very practical, necessary solution, it fails to ... ...

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... , some one is always one up and someone is always is always one down. Competition defines your place. For men, language creates independence. Young girls tend to play non-competitive games. Even when there is competition between them it is not the essence of the game; it isn't terribly important who wins and who loses. Their focus is on the connection ... ...

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... , then let's really lead an unusual life, instead of playing hide-and-seek with the truth." He did not like idea of Francoise trying to put and end to his games, but at the same he was intrigued by the . possibilities that would be opened up by such an encounter" (Duncan 68). He finally agreed for Maya to meet Claude and ... ...

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... , then let's really lead an unusual life, instead of playing hide-and-seek with the truth." He did not like idea of Francoise trying to put and end to his games, but at the same he was intrigued by the . possibilities that would be opened up by such an encounter" (Duncan 68). He finally agreed for Maya to meet Claude and ... ...

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... , some one is always one up and someone is always is always one down. Competition defines your place. For men, language creates independence. Young girls tend to play non-competitive games. Even when there is competition between them it is not the essence of the game; it isn't terribly important who wins and who loses. Their focus is on the connection ... ...

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... asset and value it. It is no surprise that these societies respect both men and women as one and the same. This is portrayed by the Mbuti's tug-of-war games between the men and the women in which neither side dominates the other, and the game ends in a truce with laughter on both sides. This is to teach the children ... ...

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... indicates that the high seriousness of these traditional topics has suffered a diminishment. The "contests" Pope alludes to will prove to be "mighty" only in an ironic sense. They are card-games and flirtatious tussles, not the great battles of epic tradition. Belinda is not, like Helen of Troy, "the face that launched a thousand ships", but rather a face that--although also beautiful ... ...

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... chivalrous men of the court. It almost seems as if women at the time had so much power over their lovers that the men (mostly young) were pawns in their games of love. These women could use the men to their advantage, making them vie for attention at all times and they possibly even threatened to find a new lover if the ... ...

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... bait. He creates a personality through embellishments that he knows to be irresistible to the curious mind. I'm not sure what drives him or how much enjoyment he gets out of his games. "I would do everything possible to entice a woman to my bed. Then I would go after some new prey. My soul contained not a drop of sense of fun."(30) The professor who ... ...

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... sports, there are different standards for men and women for what kind of behavior is acceptable on the courts and playing fields. On many occasions, fights break out in baseball games and the crowd often cheers the male players on. Aggression appears to be expected in male athletes, but if a female athlete shows aggression, she is viewed as "too intense," or ... ...

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... but instead she symbolically enters a world where she could finally be liberated, at least for awhile, from her husband. While I can be free my entire life, Mrs. Mallard can be her own self only in death. Whereas most people would feel lost and devastated when they discovered ... women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance " (439). Mrs. Mallard has already begun to anticipate her new, free life without her husband before the hour had passed. My own experience dictates that love and marriage are sacred institutions, and if my significant other died ....

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... was restricting and Edna found the confines of both, especially the latter, to be much too inhibiting. At this moment, standing naked, alone and free, Edna was empowered, first by trepidation, but then by her own strength. She knew she was unlike other women who seemed satisfied Edna's death ... recognition of the inescapable limitations of her life that continue to stifle her creative and sensual endeavors" (Magill, 389). The reader wants Edna to be free and happy. Edna represented every woman who existed at that time, in the possession of a man who she felt no passion for, and was ......

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... in a sense acted like an angle. (Chopin 473) While most women indulged calmly in this role, Edna Pontellier objected. Edna wished to act upon her own free will. Unlike Madame Ratignolle, Edna lacked the grace and charm of a "mother-woman". Madame Ratignole was beautiful in every sense of the word. Edna admired the ... feeling reproach or regret (Chopin 533). When Edna is within her home, she is free from the pressures of being the "mother woman." In actuality, the pigeon house fuels the flame of Edna's drive to fly free. It is questionable to say whether or note Edna would have ever awake...

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... side of the hallway are tables and chairs, both inside and outside, where students sit doing homework and on the other are rows of large smudge free glass windows; the first looking down onto a large pool and the other two allowing passerby's to peer into the two basketball courts. One of the ... variety of machines that meet the needs of both genders. McComas' weight room which consists of multiple rooms packed full to the brim with weight machines, free weights, benches and extremely buff men flashing off their biceps is a perfect place for guys trying to complete a few sets of bench ...

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