She learned how to read, write, and enjoyed reading especially poems. ... But most of these ideas did not take place until years later. ... She got a lot of her ideas from reading Richardson's novels, especially the book Sir Charles Gradison. ... She met with other politicians like John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, and later George Washington. ... Then later in the book, he goes on about life in London and how she had many friends in London and that most of them were Americans (Abigail Rogers) (pg 109). ...

• Word Count: 1735
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Someone she loved once passes by - too late to feign indifference to that casual nod. ... It's as if Harwood is just sitting back watching this woman - and reading her thoughts. ... how the children "whine and bicker" and later on states how "sweet" it is "to hear their chatter." ... In this case, the person thinks it is morning when it is, in fact, late afternoon. ... Harwood's skill in her use of language to create amazingly elaborate and realistic images and vivid atmosphere is remarkable, and this is what really captivates me when I"m reading her poetry. ...

• Word Count: 1594
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• Grade Level: High School

Many years later, author Linda Colley explored Elizabeth Marsh's life while researching for her book, Captives. ... There was also a marked increase in women's non-fiction including Marsh's The Female Captive.9 Female authorship brought up anxieties, suggesting that novel reading would take women out of the domestic sphere and spawn desires that could not be met by the domestic contract.10 With Colley using Marsh's book as a source for her biography, arose some controversy. In Elizabeth Marsh's writings of her travels, on no account did it contain any detailed note...

• Word Count: 1708
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• Grade Level: High School

Since they know that they will get a baby boy, they start to paint the baby room with blue color and, later, buy "masculine" type of toys such as robots, car toys, gun toys, etc. ... The reading from Current Science titled "Who Are Smarter? ... The differentiation in gender of what society expects continues until their later years. ... Later, if the children do mischievous thing, it is the mother who got the blame for she cannot teach the children well; not the father. ... Nonetheless, when a married man comes home late, the public would only think that he is such a hardworking person for he s...

• Word Count: 1274
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• Grade Level: High School

She is reading about other women and issues related to women. ... These are also not tips that your standard feminist would want you to be reading about either. ... The models though are not typical in that one of them is pregnant and the average age of them appears to be from the late twenties to early thirties. ...

• Word Count: 2194
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• Grade Level: High School

After reading "Oranges," a poem by Gary Soto, the only words that run through my head are "how cute." ... The answer to this is found later on in the poem/story. ... No thoughts of "how cute" would remain in one's mind after reading this poem if it wasn't for the oranges. ...

• Word Count: 1527
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• Grade Level: High School

In 1995 Laura Kaplan wrote The Story of Jane, a compellation of personal stories, including her own, about Jane, an underground abortion counseling service during the late 1960s and early 1970s. After reading a short excerpt from it, I feel that Laura makes a strong, effective argument that persuades the audience abortions should be placed in the hands of the woman. ... In reading her argument, she appeals to the emotion of sorrow, while at the same time, control and exhilaration. ...

• Word Count: 1384
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Truth is a leader and is very inspirational to many even to this day, she built a path that was later followed by some of the greatest women activist stated today (Biography Channel). ... Because of this I spent a lot of time reading and reviewing books and articles about her. Surprisingly one day, I had spent a total of two hours just reading about her and looking for different information to state about her. ... At the age of eight-teen Truth was married to an older slave and conceived her first child, a daughter named Diana, later Truth birthed four other children, three girls and a son:...

• Word Count: 1936
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Women of the late 20th century are fighting more to end the discrimination, and a lot has improved. ... After reading many articles and writings about the gender inequality issue and social mobility, I have found a mix of expected and unexpected things. ... It's more of a question of gender discrimination than an actual glass ceiling in later years. ...

• Word Count: 1851
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In 1927, Picasso met Marie-Therese, who would later give birth to his daughter. ... He would later change her name to Maya Walter. ... "Why have Maya continue to grow a lie, hearing at school or reading a newspaper and magazines things that her mother denied at home? ...

• Word Count: 1477
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The feminist reading of Chaucer seeks to prove (through the means of historical information; satirical study; and stereotyping of the other pilgrims) that the Wife of Bath represents not Chaucer's act of feminism, but his apparent reconstruction of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun's "La Vieille" in The Romance of the Rose. ... We later find out in the Tale what it is that women want: "My lige lady, generally," quod he, "Wommen desire to have sovereinetee As wel over hir housbonde as hir love, And for to been in maistrye him above, This id youre moste desire though ye me...

• Word Count: 1773
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Kate spent much time with her French-Creole grandmother and was very interested in music and reading. ... Written in 1899 and set in the late 1800s The Awakening focuses itself on an upper-middle class Creole woman, Edna Pontellier. ...

• Word Count: 1324
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Written and set in the late 19th century, Bram Stoker's epistolary novel, Dracula, is a pivotal book in the horror/gothic literature. ... Just reading about Van Helsing's thoughts on Mina, an example of the type of woman men wanted, that hom, "She is one of God's women, fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth. ...

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However, these readings tend to be overly autobiographical: they read Maggie as an avatar of Eliot herself. ... Later, her hunger for pleasure, and for intellectual and sensual stimulation is channelled through her equally sinful sexual desire for Stephen. ...

• Word Count: 1369
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, these readings tend to be overly autobiographical: they read Maggie as an avatar of Eliot herself. ... Later, her hunger for pleasure, and for intellectual and sensual stimulation is channelled through her equally sinful sexual desire for Stephen. ...

• Word Count: 1370
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These are two famous short stories from different female writers that were written in the late 19th century and that illustrate the gender role at that time. ... In this story, Kate Chopin focuses on a late nineteenth- century American woman's striking hour of awakening into individuality, which allows her to live the last moments of her life with a consciousness of life's extensive beauty (Jami 215). ... "A quick reading of the phrase might mislead the reader into thinking that Mrs. ... The story is about a young mother's mental deterioration, postpartum depression, in w...

• Word Count: 2447
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography

"She was carrying a baby, Chester Gillette's Baby" Mattie realises after reading the incriminating letters. ... It is then revealed later in the movie that Andy drops down a size in clothing to "size... 4" where she is then congratulated by a coworker. ...

• Word Count: 1463
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This gives the girls an advantage in things such as reading and comprehension, the boys receive an upper hand in areas of spatial and abstract reasoning (Gurian, 1996, pp. 13-14) Girls" corpus callosum form more in advance compared to boys allowing the corpus callosum to grow faster, and larger, than the males, in the crossing over between the two hemispheres of the brain. ... Dr June Reinisch observed that a "female's disposition to communicate first and act later shows up early in life." ...

• Word Count: 1675
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Lady With The Dog In the beginning of the story, Chekhov begins with the simple line, "It was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front - This passage shows that the local residents of Yalta have discovered an outsider, a person they know nothing about. Chekhov asks the reader to co...

• Word Count: 1592
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• Grade Level: High School

A few days later, Pozdnyshev discovers her crying and because he is unable to understand his wife, they have a fight. ... After reading all these stories about the vices of mankind, it can be concluded that true love does not exist, at least in Russian literature. ...

• Word Count: 1555
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• Grade Level: High School

Later we see that her version of love seems to be exclusive of all other women, even just looking. ... We see this in life every day and as we can see from these readings, the authors chose to show us this same conflict in three different and effective ways. ...

• Word Count: 1832
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• Grade Level: High School

As women grew as literary writers by reading and responding to their contemporaries, their literary tradition grew with them. ... Writing was still considered a male-dominant art form and in general women were still looked upon as the lesser of the two sexes and expected to maintain the domiciliary roll in society but this view would begin to change in the mid to later part of the nineteenth century. ...

• Word Count: 1471
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• Grade Level: Graduate

A woman raised in the U.S. in this day and age, reading the letter for the first time, may be quite taken aback by its apparent chauvinism. ... After this incident is recorded, a strong church is mentioned in Philippi later in the Bible. ...

• Word Count: 1918
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• Grade Level: High School

One worrying factor is that these gender stereotypes are not aimed at audiences who can evaluate them thoroughly but at younger children who absorb the information and use these stereotypes to reflect upon society in later life. ... Belle of Beauty and the Beast is far more interested in reading books than in the overtures of the macho Gaston. ...

• Word Count: 2236
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Later in the play, the reader sees how Olivia bided time so that she could choose her own lover, and in a bold move, she asks Cesario to marry her, without waiting for any proposal from any other man. ... An alternate reading, however, may yi...

• Word Count: 2208
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate