... abusive relationships such as sexual assault, substance abuse treatment, health care services, academic and vocational education and parenting skills. The lack of addressing the special needs of female offenders is a predictor for recidivism. Research demonstrates that criminal behavior can be reliably predicted when the predictions are based upon objective, empirically based assessment instruments. Summary ... Prior studies exploring recidivism have documented specific inmate characteristics. Yet, female recidivism has not acquired as much attention as have studies of male recidivism. F...

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... have specifically only one role that was what made them who they were. In Beowulf, one can see how women were looked down upon by the roles that the few female characters played. The author uses Grendel's mother, especially, to portray women to have aggressive and vicious characteristics. Along with these characteristics, he also uses Grendel's mother to portray the idea ... Beowulf in this scene to show the contrasting gender roles. Although one may think the position of Grendel's mother would be played by a male figure, the author uses a female to underlie the female's status under me...

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My journey to become a female firefighter and what it has entailed; why my life has changed dramatically since I joined the firehouse 7 ½ years ago. There is no difference between the way females and males are treated. ... a burning car. It is something you do not forget; the smell will stay with you for a long time coming. Now, I am going to explain that there is no difference between a female firefighter and a male firefighter, and we are all equal. When I started my training I thought I would not be able to handle it, but boy was I surprised and I think mike and everyone ... . I will not...

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... within this paper I intend to explore the issues of gender as it is portrayed in the film whilst depicting the confines of the 'female character' and how it is 'stipulated' within specific works of Shakespeare. Shakespeare in Love, directed by John Madden and written by Marc Norman ... circumstances that the powerlessness of women is exemplified in the film (Author Unknown, 2006). According to Dall (2000): "Shakespeare does give female protagonists power within many of his plays; yet these plays do not address the role of women royalty; as concern about the sovereign's gender ....

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... what he does. She is the only reason why he reacts. As a result, it can be concluded that the unknown and unlimited sexuality of the female is the core and foundation of medieval literature. In medieval literature, it is guaranteed that you find women portraying evil characteristics. In medieval text, especially ... lady out of the window at the exact moment that she decided to physically fight her husband. Lady Hateful strayed away from medieval concepts of the female sexuality, but at the same time fulfilled some of those character traits. She was definitely a chatterbox and Sir Hate's...

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... and literary roles over men. Throughout When We Dead Awaken, Rich brings up several of many historical periods where women began to equal out male and female roles in society and in literature. Each period was a breakthrough and yet another win for the feminist movement. During the 50's and 60's, rapid ... of the atmosphere among all of these events, accumulating over time, easily leads to the mass feminist movement. It is during this revolutionary movement that the female worker and writer begin to be accepted into society and the literary realm. On page 634, Rich writes: Well, you ar...

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... development as a character, and thus the way she is represented to the audience. As exemplified in Jackie Stacey's article "How Do I Look?-, Satine's character has great influence over the female spectator. Women view themselves through spectatorship, and it is characters like Satine, with her exotic image and sexual behavior, that influence so greatly a women's self-perception. Satine's image is represented ... continually demeans Satine through his use of language and action, calling her, "Pumpkin-, "My Love-, and "Sweetheart- among others. With the Moulin Rouge, Zidler has created a c...

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... your life be like then? Well, I am about to give you a few insights on what you may experience in your new lifetime as a college female. My first feelings of being a woman would be pretty interesting, because every man out there has dreamed of being a woman at some point in their life ... circumstances. These thoughts would soon get old, and I would start to witness the real challenges of my new life and how I was going to cope with being a female. My college years would appear to become easier in some aspects. As a woman, I would practice the "traditional style" of behavior and make a g...

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... It is through these men's masculine views of the world that enables Steinbeck to celebrate humanity and community mate ship. The absence of female characters is not to suggest that woman had no roles in society instead it is to portray that females are stereotyped to be companions. ... Malloy." She is with the absence of a first name and thus is presented as a back drop to her husband. She is the stereotypical female who is without personal qualities or an identity. However a man's view of females being materialistic and the way they react after quick fortunes is ... intelligent, sof...

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... , Charmed. Bewitched and Charmed can be used as a compatible comparison because these shows are built on the same general storyline. Both have strong female characters that are mothers, sisters, wives, and witches. Also, the shows have equally strong male roles that show husbands, in-laws, and strong ... plays in their television family. Finally we can compare their relationship with their husbands and vise-a-versa. The clothing of Samantha, the lead female role on Bewitched, shows the version of the classic house wife and mother we have all grown up with as a standard. Samantha is ... ma...

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... types. One is the wicked slut."(Bigsby, Christopher) Miller's depiction of this woman fits our generic perception of a stereotypical mistress character. In the same manner as the other female characters in the play, Miller depicts Miss. Forsythe as gullible and vain barfly characters that lack utter common sense. Does intelligence gap between genders contribute this unlikely behavior? Of ... characters, Miller forces us to accept this marginalized version of Miss Forsythe. Miss Forsythe's character seems more probable in soap operas that dominate our daytime Television.. Again as with o...

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... job choices, and discrimination. In conclusion, this article states that, "So for women with equal experience, working the same kinds of jobs, the 27 cent female-to-male wage gap shrinks to 12 cents. "The Gender Gap: Women Paid Less Than Men, Even in High-Tech Jobs" is another article I found ... wage gap is seen at all education levels. Women who are high school graduates typically earn about 71 percent as much as comparably-educated men, female drop-outs earn 74 percent as much as male drop-outs. Women with college degrees earn considerably more than the less educated females, but fare ...

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... she is talking about and does not realize the truth until much later. Sylvia represents the typical male character and Truman symbolizes the stereotypical female character in cinema; Sylvia is the active male and Truman is the passive female. While Sylvia's character challenges Mulvey and the other authors' assumption that women are the objects of men, the character of Meryl extends these ... begins to realize that his life is not what he thought it was, he grabs Meryl and acts as if he is going to hurt her. Meryl, being a passive, underpowered female, is helpless and cannot fight back;...

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... and Antonia and the way in which Cather presents them to the reader. Judith Fetterley recognizes how: Jim behaves in ways that mark him as female. On the farm, he rarely leaves the kitchen; he inhabits women's space: "When grandmother and I went to the Shimerdas' house ... and so perhaps assists the narrative in making his character more feminine. His constant references to Antonia's masculine ways highlight the confusion between male/female gender boundaries as he recalls at one stage how "Antonia ate so noisily now, like a man, and she yawned often at ... -assured man. Cather challenge...

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... Angelina Jolie ( I think that she would help my film to attract money, and she is a fairly good actress. Also she would help to gain male and female audience members beacsue she has sex appeal. ) Weapon Designer friend - Jeff Goldbrum ( I think that he would be a perfect actor for this role because he ... Angelina Jolie ( I think that she would help my film to attract money, and she is a fairly good actress. Also she would help to gain male and female audience members beacsue she has sex appeal. ) Weapon Designer friend - Jeff Goldbrum ( I think that he would be a perfect actor for this r...

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... has mentioned in her essay about The Winter's tale, the position of men and women in Shakespeare's society is as follows: That society is, of course, masculine, with male and female roles, in general, conventionally defined. Because men rule, the "masculine" values are power, law, and reason; because men is hardheaded, disciplined, practical, as well as honorable. Weakness is "womanish," as ... in Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies. She acts as the heroine's double, defender and surrogate. But unlike the others who are often depicted teasingly more than idealized, Paulina becomes the ...

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... more importantly a son. Euripides Medea is one of the tragedies that shows a woman dominating the rest of the characters in the play. This female character throughout the play criticises the conditions of women and they way they were treated. "Surely, of all creatures that have life and will we ... which she lives, Antigone adopts the characteristics of the dominate sex to achieve her goal. However, she revets back to what was considered the traditional female role prior to her death, in calling herself "accursed, unwedded," and refers to her tomb as her "nuptial chamber". "With no part...

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... do these abilities really control women? Both Allende and Pramoedya's novels help readers to explore the many questions and conflicts between the female characters and male characters in the novels of The House of the Spirits and This Earth of Mankind. Both Allende and Pamoedya seem to develop some ... because she is a European woman; on the contrary they look up to her because she is a woman with her own independent ideas and beliefs. The female characters in both novels also possess wisdom and intuition. In The House of the Spirits, for example, Alba is an educated woman who is very ope...

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... and significantly, since 1991, women have made a significant impact in politics which continues till this day. For instance, Kathleen Wynne, the first female Premier impacted the male dominating political sector since 2013. Wynne is Ontario's 25th Premier and the first woman to serve in that role (" ... (Décoste, 2015). With her new status, Kathleen Wynne decided to take action and plans to use her status as Ontario's first female Premier to improve the certain situations that women can be involved in starting with an action plan on sexual violence and harassment (Bryden, 2015 ... comes...

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... example, a car commercial aimed at a man usually advertise a sports car or a truck, while a car commercial aimed at woman usually advertise a minivan, and the female would be portrayed as a soccer mom. Companies even show their commercials at a certain time of day to get to their targeted audience. During the day time most ... men, men's women, women's women, and women's man. Men's men commercials are commercials which are obviously aimed at men, there are rarely any important female roles. Men's women commercials are commercials where women are used as an object of desire. Women's wome...

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... in a world that for a very long time up until recently, had only been observing of only two particular sexes; the male sex and female sex, there has forever been an ageless conflict and as one of my classmates so bluntly put it, "Men and women are eternal partners ... most of modern mankind. According to an article by professor Darren Rosenbalm, by using the traditional standards of assigning a newborn baby either male or female we are ignoring everything contemporary science knows about sex, namely that many factors of sex difference - chromosomal, genital and hormonal, instead make sex ...

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... in how advertisements elect to depict them; no, what's truly important is how attractive or sexy such a woman comes across, both to the female recipient (for which the ad is targeted) and the male observer (for which the ad will be objectified and scrutinized). Quite simply, a ... as sex-objects and/or artificial, men are portrayed as confident, self-reliant, and successful. In my assessment of six print ads (three from female-targeted magazines, three from male-targeted magazines) observed from four different magazines (Cosmopolitan, Glamour, GQ, and Men's Health), I attached William L...

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... troupes consisted of both male and females but the leading role known as "the great one of the troupe of musical performers" was always a female. This was a very high ranking role. The women's role in Ancient Egyptian temple ritual basically consisted of priestesses and musicians. There was a ... in unknown. Some poems have been found that were supposedly to have been written by women, but it is questionable whether the author was actually a female or a male impersonating a women. This makes it very difficult to know the real perspective of a woman's life in Ancient Egypt. In statuettes ...

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... this world. The once male dominated, corporate, "white collar" America has seen a phenomenal influx of women within the last thirty years. Although a female lawyer, physician, or CEO is no longer considered a rarity in our times, women still face quite a deal of oppression in comparison to their male ... . In certain situation women have always controlled some professions, and men have not made a noticeable advance in these fields. In 1970, finding a female lawyer to represent you would be a difficult task, since less than five percent of the profession were women. Today, that number has...

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... like real men again. The film itself is very in your face and gritty, with extreme violence. I believe that Fincher, although not entirely discluding the female audience, but by making "Fight Club extremely gritty and violent was attempting to overwhelm and bring out the masculinity of the audience in the two and ... women and the feminine leads to chaos, just as in his bland life before, the absence of masculinity led to an incomplete life as well. The other female character, Chloe, is also a tragic character with a pitiful life. Having been told she only has a short time to live she c...

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