... to inform and educate the people of Athens. This according to Aristotle was the main goal of the theatre, to create happiness to the audience while educating it - "Learning is a very great pleasure". The theatre also showed the hierarchical status of the people, as did the Bema. The people of the highest status would be the closest to the speaker and the people of lower status would be at the back of the Theatre/Bema. This was socially constructing the audiences and the Athenian people, letting ... them know their status and place in society. The social function of the theatre and the ....

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... some call it, perfect. Without the technology we have today, the flaws of even the beautiful would show, stretch marks and all! Some women do not take their dreams of being "perfect" to anything higher than a dream, but others take it to the extreme. This is where eating disorders come into play. Anorexia, by dictionary definition, is "a prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite." ("Anorexia") Bulimia is ... serious illness, or even death. These disorders are linked to low self esteem which is linked to the fashion industry. "...seven million American girls and women, accordi...

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... to solidify her views of the injustice that society puts on women shows her true intelligence in a way of creativeness to show the inequalities in society through theatre. The protagonist characters in the plays are at the center of the plot and carry a life of success without the need for a man. "The stable connectedness of the community of women provides a genuine contrast with the transience and disconnected- ness of the men" (Kritzer 30). The female characters get little ... beneficial factors from the male characters. The male character's creates more problems than ... ...

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... ruled (7-2), and in the case it states the unborn are not included within the definition of "person" as used in the 14 amendment and the 14 amendment states "all persons born or naturalized in the US and subject to jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the US and of the state where in they reside. No state shall make or enforce a law which shall bridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the US nor shall a state ... have constructed many abortion laws that include regulating and limiting whether, when and under what circumstances a woman may obtain an abortion. According to the G...

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... unreasonable to worry about the person behind the role. If the actor or actress is doing a fine job of portraying the character one will have to think about the plot of the play rather then the masculinity of the character. If one cannot overcome a higher, feminine voice saying Hamlet's lines, then they do not understand the play. As stated before, there is a long theatrical history of actresses playing Hamlet. The theatre audience may be asked ... to forget that a woman is playing a man. However, in the performances of both Sarah Bernhardt ... ...

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... ." Hester could be included in the definition as an example. The last heroic act one could imagine that Hester did was to save Pearl from the legacy of the scarlet letter and instead left it behind for someone (Hawthorne) to find so that people could know of her story and continue to advocate for bringing the world to a point of equality. References Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. Boston: Ticknor, Reed ... Studies in Contemporary Criticism: Nathaniel Hawthorne "The Scarlet Letter". Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1991. Person, Leland. Aesthetic Headahces: Women and...

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... who could get himself elected sheriff--a heavy man with a big voice, who was particularly genial with the law-abiding, as if to make it plain that he knew the difference between criminals and non-criminals. [CITATION Sus p 39 l 5130 ]. The woman was being minimized in terms of image and personality when she was being compared to her husband, referencing that Mrs. Peters is not woman ... enough to be the sheriff´s wife. In one culture controlled by patriarchalism, the position of man over women is very common. That ... in Dickson County" [CITATION Sus p 39 l 5130 ]. For men of patriarc...

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... their husbands. Dorothy Hartman writes, "(during the 19th century) women's God-given role was a wife and mother, keeper of the household, guardian of the moral purity of all who lived therein." Women were expected to clean the house, take care of their children, look beautiful for their husbands, and nothing else. To some 19th century women this way of life was absurd and called for some change. This type ... of thinking lead to what Dr. Donna Wyckoff-wheeler describes ... as, "the 18th and 19th century "first wave" of feminism that ... ...

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... and his second wife, Rebecca Pidgeon, are both actresses. He has three daughters: Willa, Zosia, and Clara. Mamet graduated from Goddard College, a small liberal school in rural Vermont, with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Nary four years out of school Mamet founded the St. Nicholas Theatre Company in Chicago. During those four years, Mamet was an artist-in-residence in drama at Goddard. In ... the following years, Mamet became associate artistic director at Chicago's Goodman Theatre and taught at Yale, New York University, and Columbia. Mamet's first play, Lakeboat, was produced in 1970. Si...

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... women. More recent research by Gooden and Gooden (2001) showed that the total female count slightly edged out the male count with 51% of the population. Females were main characters 40% of the time in comparison with a 39% male representation. Furthermore, no significant difference was found between books of female and male main characters. However, while females were found more ... often, they were still given a lesser array of roles in comparison to ... the first five pages of the booklet, the students had to collectively operationally define six concepts. They had to define what a ma...

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... character. "Her simple beauty had a modest, angelic charm and the imperceptible smile which always hovered about her lips seemed to be a reflection of her heart". (1034) She comes off gentle and caring but slowly turns evil and conniving. Her passion for this fake jewelry was unusually and absurd. The imitation jewelry was made out of paste but is also made to look nice. Fake jewels ... have a beautiful reflection, but a reflection isn't what is on the inside. Monsieur Lantin never saw the difference and just thought ... of this jewelry as junk, he never looked deep into his own life. ...

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... cattle. Henry has just sold some cattle and has offered to take his wife out into town to celebrate. He goes off to gather the livestock and prepare the wagon for the outing that evening. While Henry is away, a salesman comes to call on Elisa. He realizes that she has a love for her flowers ... seedlings in a pot for the salesman to take. The salesman leaves and Elisa eagerly returns to the house to get ready for her outing with Henry. While Henry and Elisa are making their way into town, she discovers the flower seedlings dumped out on the side of the road. Elisa is devastated by the wa...

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... 39 of Kate Chopin's story The Awakening, one is able to see that the author planned to depict the final scene to be tragic yet triumphant. Like Edna's final act in chapter 39, the first half of chapter 6 allows the reader to understand that Edna is lost in her search for individuality and freedom in her life. Perhaps the most apparent connection between the two chapters is the symbol and role of the sea ... which allows Edna to find the light that ... she has been searching for. In the end, the reader is able to see that all ... ...

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... and a desire to be treated as an equal of their male partners arose in spheres of both work and domestic responsibilities. Such desires are quite vividly portrayed in the gender ideologies of Nancy, a character from Second shift [Arlie Hochschild, 1989: Pg. 39-41]. Nancy tried to establish herself as the career woman. Her gender ideology centered on the idea of herself as a woman who would be needed and ... , et. al, 1996: Pg. 143,]. According to a 1995 USDA study, a couple had to spend an average of 26% of their income on a single child and 42% on two children. For a two children famil...

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... . The reader can sense the amount of stress that was inflicting Martin, one of the siblings, when this description is presented to the reader, "Martin is fit to be tied. There's a scowl on his face that would scare rats and he's muttering away under his breath." p. 373. The pressures of signing the Will has made Martin greedy and malicious. "Martin is like a man that's after getting a glimpse of the Promised Land. You can see the glory of ... this vision shining out of his greedy little eyes." p. 373. Another reason that the title of the book is ironic because this is pastorale behaviour...

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... hard, and he is a loving husband. As this story unfolds I see an attribute of loyalty that most men lack. He is a loyal worker at his job as a clerk in the office of the Board of Education. He remembered "[H]e would have to be at the office by ten o"clock" (68). Even though he stays out with his wife till ... who in one night put them so far in dept. Allot of men would have left her or at least divorced her within the next ten hard years. Mr. Loisel remained loyal to her even though she had lost a necklace that cost an absurd amount of money. Another reason I admire Mr. Loisel is apart f...

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... in Mustafa Sa'eed the African of the legends and fantasies. He enchants them with his outrageous stories of lions and elephants walking down the streets of the cities. "...when I'm lying on my bed at night I put my hand out the window and idly play with the Nile waters till sleep overtakes me".(39) Is this an image of colonization in reverse? Is the childlike sense of awe and mystery which ... draws the European women to Mustafa Sa'eed the same type of fascination felt by the colonizing ... men who overtook the African continent? ... ...

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... cultural practices that we can easily observe throughout other people. People who adapted themselves to believe in follow these cultural practices think that the best thing to do is to get them involved in these kinds of cultural practices. One of the things that we can say that would be weird from people from other cultures to observe can be people's worryness about their ... damage in people. Sometimes, girls who are pretty and have a nice body to show up, believe that they are getting fat and they start to eat less and less until the point that they become really thin, but they don't...

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... homage by writing many poems about him. However, she wasn't intrigued by poetry until she moved from aristocracy in England to the wilderness of New England. This caused her to appreciate life way more then before and caused her to grow spiritually. Thus, she wrote ... of writing but later wrote more about her husband and personal experiences. Strikingly, later on she doesn't fully renounce her religious beliefs but strays from them. She said she made every effort to submit to God's afflictions which were necessary to her. " Straying soul which in prosperity is to much in love with the w...

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... holds control and power when it comes to his wife is one of the reasons why this would be considered as a topic of feminism. Throughout the narrative you see classic examples of domestic over powering, such as when Jane says "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage" (Gilman, Paragraph ... laughs at her but then because dangerous and she is then labeled as mad. As a primary example of her labeled madness from her husband only comes as a completely ignorant thought, "And I know John would think it absurd. But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way-it is such a ...

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... regrettably they were not viewed equally during the Renaissance. In the early part of the Renaissance (from early 1500s to mid 1500s) women were able to fight and receive some form of education. As time gradually moved forward, the need for female education began to dwindle to the point that it would be absurd to marry an educated girl (approximately in the early 1700s). Early modern European society ... was pro education of women in the beginning but ... unfortunately this same European society turned their views around as time went on. Women's fight for education gradually diminished ...

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... in his book, "The Old Man and the Sea." But, despite this, many experts and analysts claim that the novelette is overflowing with it. For the purpose of analyzing the title of this book lets assume the experts are correct, that the book is full of symbolism, and attempt to find this symbolism in the books title. Though I was asked to analyze the all of the words in the title, I think ... it would be frivolous to analyze "The" so I will start with "Old." ... takes, and completely fills Santiago's thoughts. The other definition defines the "Sea" as the world. In it a man feels small and i...

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... on summer vacation her husband seems to have complete control over her and every movement she makes. He seems to first display a problem with control when the women explains that she has a schedule for each hour of the day. The woman says "He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special directions. I have a schedule prescription for each hour in ... almost anger in her words making her mad at the walls of the room which begins to change her mental state. Slowly, she begins to think deeper into the colour of the walls and makes it mean so much more than it should. ...

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... . Terance Martin's analyzes of characters in the novel are expressed as, "Women in the novel, one comes to see quickly, are powerful forces of control. They represent sinister contemporary versions of feminist tradition in American literature" (Martin 314). This reference makes note that women in the past have typically been acknowledged as fragile characters. But in the novel, men are considered to be weak. Another example of the inversion of traditional roles ... can be examined through the character Harding. Harding can be seen as an ... ...

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... break with her husband represents a "type of regression rather than growth- (Martin 22), then we can see The Awakening as a tale of frustration. The New Woman wants freedom, and deserves it, but has not been given the skills necessary for survival. Images of birds, from the caged bird at the story's beginning to the symbolic one of the pigeon-house into which Edna retreats suggest that the New Woman is a bird with broken ... wings. In the best way she knows ... houses-) would not be enough to allow a place in society for a new female identity, whatever form it may take.""(Martin) Chopi...

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