... 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 ... She has childlike tendencies and is very immature; Mrs. Linde says to her, "Nora, Nora, aren't you sensible yet? Back in school you were such a free spender," (Ibsen 1573). Nora has not changed her ways at all since her days in school, when she was a child. Immature as she is though...

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... have three moral imperatives: first impregnating one's wife, second, provisioning dependents; third, protecting the family." (Gilmore 285) Gilmore's term may be apply to Adrienne Rich's essay "Women and Honor: Some notes on Lying" because it contains similar ideas about how women are expected to behave according to the society they live in. According to society's expectations women's role should display femininity ... 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 ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... in all kinds of ways to combat it. Eleanor Jane is Miz Millie's daughter, who loves Sofia like a mother and will not stay away from her even after she is free from her mother"s service. This incident with how the white community was furious that she could lower herself to be employed by an African-American shows that the long history ... Africa. She doesn't know if Celie is receiving them but writing them gives Nettie strength to live through the years she spends in Africa. During Nettie's time in Africa, Samuel notes to her that the Olinka women have a strong relationship between each ...

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... classes, but it is clear that struggling parents who work minimum wage jobs are forced to apply for Food Stamps, TANK, and other welfare programs. According to charts in the notes, a family of four needs an annual salary of $37,66l in order to get by without using welfare. If both parents are working in full-time, minimum wage jobs, which ... institutional racism and white privilege did not exist, the difference between unemployment rates of blacks and whites would be significantly lowered, and more blacks would have jobs. We have no free choice if a situation will lead to racism and pr...

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... an undesirable subject because of her sexual position. Jim is after perceived as a local hero and describes how "The great land had never looked to me so big and free. If the red grass were full of rattlers, I was equal to them all." Jim's feeling towards the landscape at this point reflect an essence of freedom which can be interpreted ... and choice to be a lesbian. Cather also perhaps expresses how her sexuality does not make her unequal to men or heterosexual relationships in this particular line in the novel. Farwell notes how "Feminist literary theory has been eager to recognize t...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... to live through the years she spends in Africa. Sofia claims that her ability to fight comes from her strong relationships with her sisters. During Nettie's time in Africa, Samuel notes to her that the Olinka women have a strong relationship between each other. That's how being married to a man which already has other wives make it bearable because of the strong ... name is Alfred but we never know what his last name is because the author doesn't want the women to be the property of a man. Celie turns into an independent, free women but went through a struggle to get where she ends up. ...

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... "technoscience" we are simply problematizing the distinction with this term. Technoscience is the act, process, and culture of discovering as well as the objects, methods, and things we produce (Class notes, October 21, 2003). Society constructs ideas, perceptions and evidence that shape the way we think and apply knowledge to almost every area of our being how we interact. This can ... individuals or simply feel they are psychologically different from their biological assignment. Technoscience and social construction build so many barriers and rules that inhibit the opportunities for p...

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... Moore. "The files consist of both family and professional correspondence." (# 3) A letter written by Master Kenneth Burke to Dear Mom and Lewis on August 8 1908 is the earliest of nearly 1,100 notes and letters by Burkes himself. Also of interest are the tiny spider like summaries in margins or on in margins or on the versos of letters, where he used to ... informal and figurative or discussing some minor point that seemed little relevant. Burkes seemed to let everyone around him know that he was a perfectionist. A perfectionist might seek to evolve terms free of ambiguity and inconsist...

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... have. In addition, she has views about what women are like and how it affects the fiction they create. She also has views about what women writers are like. She notes at one point, for example, that the great 19th century ones were all childless, and she is prepared to consider how things like that affect their fiction. Woolf also gives ... even today. Woolf critiques of what women's fiction should and should not be are a tool for any writer and/or reader for critical thinking and the basis for gender/bias free literature. Literature of this quality shows true talent, creativity, and wh...

• Word Count: 1699
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• Grade Level: High School