Both females had large families, lived in ghetto neighborhoods and were deprived of a "real home.... Cisneros had a different account of what barrio life was for women then her contemporaries when she says, "To me barrio life was a repressive community. ... If you do get somewhere, you take your life in your own hands" (Satz 2). ... Similarly, Cisneros' mother knew what it is like to live a life full of regrets and didn't want her daughter to live that life as well; therefore, "She always supported her daughter's projects, so long as she went to school"(Intro...

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This was the era, in which Kate Chopin lived, and wrote The Awakening. ... While the "outside world" was changing, Edna lived in a state that showed no sign of changing. ... Adele lived exclusively for her husband and children. She was content and did not question her station in life. ... From a young age, Edna lived a "dual life -that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions" (Chopin 277). ...

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Without her mother's unselfish love Pearl may not have lived the life she did. ... Only a selfless hero can resort back to a life of solitude and confinement for the sake of her child's wants and needs. ... What she did want was for Pearl to be able to live a life of joy. Had Hester told her lover's identity from the start of the ordeal, Pearl's life would have been much more complicated. ...

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The act of doing whatever is necessary to attain equal treatment and the ability to live independently without a man in one's life are definitions that society has come to know feminism by (Humm, 1997). ... Psychologist Carl Jung once said, "There is no way to escape one's past, one can only live with it. ... Louise, too, risks her life to save Thelma's. ... Thelma helps Louise to realize that being dominated by a man is no way to live life (Sturken, 2000: 26-9). By the second definition of feminism (the act of doing whatever is necessary to attain equal treatment and t...

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The people of Japan are all members of several different traditions and each person may be more religious in one area at different times in there life. ... These books helped me form several ideas about the factor that the traditions of Japan play in the lives of the women who live in the country. ... In fact one parallel that early shamanesses had with women who live in remote villages today is that they both expressed their encounters with kami through poetry (Lardner 116). ... And ultimately it is part of what life is about, rooting yourself in society but more importantly your family....

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In One of Ours the main character, Claude, is confronted with life changing decisions in his social and personal lives. ... His troubles carry on through the story and become especially apparent in his sexual life. ... The cherry tree meant more to Claude than anything in the world at that point in his life. ... This view of women continues on through his life as be becomes attracted to women that are submissive and therefore safe. ... He becomes jealous of the man because he has lost all the memory of the women in his life. ...

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It can be argued that love is the most important aspect of one's life. ... However, although love may be an instrumental part in life, the true meaning of love is uncertain. ... Although both deal with the topic of love and what life in love should entail, two entirely different perspectives are presented. ... In the Franklin's introduction, he is presented as a simple man who simply enjoys life for what it is: a journey of exploration. ...

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Other women of lower class would not be expected to have no more than just live-in lovers, most likely husbands. ... Genji's womanizing life style obstructed his view of the true love he could have possibly had with Murasaki. ... Pekarik stated in his book that the affairs with Fujitsubo and Rokujō were the "two most improper loves in Genji's life- (220). ... At this point Genji's father became very displeased with his life style. ... This dwelling was a place that his "live-in- lovers dwelled in. ...

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She thinks that her true self is not revealed in this life; it will be in the next. ... She felt it was a good point in her life to die. ... He claims he will take his own life to be rid of society's grip on him and does at the end. ... She now can begin to rebuild her life with new values, and can resume her life's work of rebuilding the world. ... The people who live in Heartbreak House aren't professionals, they're amateurs. ...

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Apparently the royal life in Sicily kingdom is peaceful and harmonious. ... (I.12) It is obvious that if possible, they want to live in the perfect innocent world forever. ... From the moment he decides to expel Hermione, his idyllic life is pushed into disorder. ... This kind of woman will not live in the real society. ...

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If a couple were to live in the city, a couple may go out for dinner and dancing. ... In the past courting was meant to find your mate for life; that was no longer the case with dating. ... Through experience with a series of dates and steadies, you can gain awareness that will help you make a better choice of someone you might be able to live withhappily ever after?. ...

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"Although cities were growing with their shops and conveniences, most women still lived on farms and produced everything they used. ... Eliza herself once wrote to a friend about her daily life as the person in charge of three plantations: "I have the business of three plantations to transact, which requires much writing and more business and fatigue of other sorts than you can imagine. ... Eliza worked hard to make her life on the plantations a good one. ... Martha Washington led a slightly different life than Eliza. ... "As a young, attractive, wealthy widow, Martha Dandridge Custis probably...

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Edward must have had a privileged childhood as his "first car was a limousine" and his money earns him respect and power with his peers, such as Phillip Stuckey who says "I have pledged my life to you". ... , obviously indicating that she dreams of a better life for herself. ... Henry and Edward share the same viewpoint of women's positioning in their life. ... Higgins is comfortable as a "confirmed, old bachelor" and the presence of a woman would "upset everything", so he would also prefer to have no romantic hassles in his life either. The introduction of Eliza into his life does n...

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Despite the encouragement of the house overseer, Frank Crawley, and Maxim's sister, Beatrice, the heroine struggles in her new life at Manderley. ... This discovery prompts Maxim to tell the heroine the truth: Rebecca was a malevolent, wicked woman, who lived a secret life and carried on multiple affairs, including one with her cousin, Jack Favell. ... Rebecca - In life, Rebecca was the beautiful, much-loved, accomplished wife of Maxim de Winter, and the mistress of Manderley. ... The heroine, dreaming, sees herself as a ghost, flitting through the charred ruins of the once-beautiful mans...

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And looking ahead, the prospect of her life made her feel as if she were buried alive ". ... "If I were a man, nothing's gonna stop me " As the England industrial atmosphere came, in the man-centered family, her husband treated her sadistically, in order to live, Mrs. ... Morel dominated her son so much so that her existence became the only support to Paul's life road to become an artist. ... Morel's life. ... Since she was very young, Miriam sincerely believed in religion, which played a major role in her life. ...

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Representation is a very important idea when looking at films that portray women in different societies, because they therefore have different ideologies to live up to. ... Roxie Hart, who has dreamed of fame and life on the Vaudeville stage all her life and Velma Kelly, a seductive club singer on the Vaudeville stage. ... Roxie uses her imagination on the stage as a diversion of real life. ... When he first meets Amos to discuss money it is shown the type of man he is when he says "Look, I don't like to blow my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today and had $5000 and ...

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An aristocratic women's duty was to live simply and modestly, abjuring luxury, and wearing only French-made clothing. ... The truly patriotic women would live honesty and attempt to restore morality to the nation. ... The market women demanded protection of their professional rights through the reestablishment of medieval trade guilds, complained about their work conditions, filthy hospitals, and the social injustice of making a living through hard daily work, while others earned money through taxes and lived lazy, extravagant lives. ... The women assured the men in the cahiers, they were...

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This was the Elizabethan belief in the ranking of all forms of life. ... He sees her loss of virginity as a loss of honour for the entire family, saying, "Hence from her, let her die" (IV.i.153), which means he'd rather she die than live with the shame of being unchaste. ...

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She spent a few years observing the life of South Indian peasants before marrying an Englishman and settling down in London. ... ["Women and the Hindu Tradition,"in Women in India (New Delhi: Manohar, 1986), 122-123] Thus, In India, with its strong bent for tradition, the woman is expected mainly to live for others than for herself because "others" controlled and moulded the social structure. Even woman in life and literature herself voluntarily surrendered to the ideal of self-sacrifice. ... Rukmani is reconciled to the vagaries of her life. ... She accepts the blow and moves on in...

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Chopin shows glimpses of a woman who is living a life that she did not want. On the surface, she seems to have the ideal life. ... It is as if society had written the story of her life but she was wrong for the part. ... And since her childhood, she was living her life without much thought, "just driven along by habit- (661). ... She was so far away from the life she had always known and felt good about it. ...

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Mother Savage In the short story of Mother Savage by Guy de Maupassant, we learn of what life was like for a widowed mother whose only son goes off to war, the setting taking place in Virelogne, France during the Franco-Prussian war. Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) lived during this time and participated in the war himself. ... Gwyn page 69 paragraph 3) Maupassant took the subjects for his pessimistic stories and novels chiefly from the Norman peasant life, the Franco-Prussian War, the behavior of the bourgeoisie, and the fashionable life of Paris. ...

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Nadel's article titled Witchcraft in Four African Societies: An Essay in Comparison (1952), he talks of how the Nupe have a concrete belief in witchcraft that include the perception of "witchcraft as unequivocally evil, as destroying life, mainly through mysterious wasting diseases, and as implying the power of witches to eat' the life-soul' of their victims- (p.18). ... Barstow (1994) speculates that during the peak of the witchcraze in Europe, women must have felt like an animal being hunted, and as a result, "[w]omen thus learned to live with a fear far greater even than ...

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Men define themselves through their work; success at work means success in life. ... Only upon her wedding day the girl received a formal name and, thus, an official identity within the community she lived. ... As with other physical pleasures, sexual pleasure might be an awful intense experience, it remains short-lived if not en...

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In today's magazines, movies, television and internet, a content analysis was done and the results showed that people thought "thin is normative and attractive" while being "fat is aberrant and repulsive" They say this because more than half of the women and men who live in the United States are overweight, considering that only thirteen percent of women and twenty-four percent of men on prime-time television are overweight (Brown, Bobkoski 103).When it comes to body dissatisfaction, there were large amounts reported by adolescent girls of having felt body dissatisfac...

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They are the two pieces of a puzzle without which life would be impossible. ... Women are often seen to be subjective, emotional beings, are usually associated with the private sphere of life and tend to be the care-givers. ... Men are more often associated with the public sphere of life, and are expected to be dependable income earners. ... This is the truth about the world in which we live, that it classifies people according to stereotypical beliefs. ...

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