... themselves competing for the press, but for the attention of their shared lawyer, Billy Flynn. Chicago' used the musical genre to allow the film to be "naughty but nice-, it shows the audience that the women are bad, but positions the audience on their side, so we are supporting them by the end. ... enjoy it. Her voice is deep and powerful also and the camera is often pictured below her giving her domination of the shot. Women are usually seen thought the male gaze, which is not true in this scene because Velma is seen as an independent woman. Unlike in much of Chicago' her body is not ....

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... cannot show his emotion fully because when they do so, their parents will scold them for being such a spoiled baby. The girls are also taught not to be a naughty girl for "to be naughty means to be a boy". Once the girls do a little mischievous thing, the parents will scold them and make them promise not to do the same thing again. The ... ...

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... that many generations have followed. Therefore, even though there are calls for gender inequality and the women may aware of their position, they have found it hard to change the thought that they have been taught since their childhood. Moreover, some women want to obey the rules to remain the tradition of the families and some refuse to change for it ... : "mother is the most necessary for her children, without or little care of the mothers are the causes of bad children". It is the reason that people often blame the naughty child for his bad mother rather than his father. Another myth ...

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... tells girls that their bodies , not their brains, are the means to power and success in the world today. In the last six years parents have watched Britney go from a naughty Catholic school girl with a shirt knotted instead of tucked in, into a completely shirtless model with knotted beads strategically wrapped around her body. Parents believe Britney has gone far too risqu ... ...

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... tells girls that their bodies , not their brains, are the means to power and success in the world today. In the last six years parents have watched Britney go from a naughty Catholic school girl with a shirt knotted instead of tucked in, into a completely shirtless model with knotted beads strategically wrapped around her body. Parents believe Britney has gone far too risqu ... ...

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... faced hundreds of paintings and began this process by choosing a painting by Edward Richard Miller, titled Sunbath. Sunbath shows a young woman in tranquility while deep in thought. This painting captures a lot of natural light, colorful gardens, and a contrasting violet and yellow color palette. This piece is roughly 3 feet by 3.5 feet ... was dark. The painting focuses on a young female subject, wearing an almost see through dress that slips off her shoulders. She seems deep in thought because she is in a tranquil setting, gazing past the mirror with her hand on her chest, indicating t...

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... hoping to fill her empty emotion. Although this abnormal maternal love helped her sons become outstanding, it also held back free growth of individuality, caused their thought variant and their personality split. According to Ann Oakley, " Women as the guardians of children possess a great power, they are molders of their ... spiritual confidant, Paul's return was mean. Paul was a pure male chauvinism, so he never took the status of women into account, even if he thought about it, it was from his own point of view. Many critics noticed that it was Miriam's love that made Paul's spirit te...

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... their plays. This was an accepted practice. Unfortunately, most of the evidence of the treatment of women came from men. There are some poets who thought men would be better off without the curse of women. These men were called misogynists. One particular poet, Hesiod, considered women to be a curse ... gift to man from an angry Zeus. Pandora was never really born but had been crafted. Pandora was, therefore, considered unnatural. In Athens, women were thought of as modern day "housewives", their place in the home. They would take care of the children, cook, spin weave and manage the ser...

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... court cases of Marie-Jeanne Bartonne and the Saddler Committee and the value placed on children we will see the overwhelming influence of popular thought in the verdict and decision handed down. To understand the outcomes of both of these cases you must understand the major philosophy of ... . I will start with Marie-Jeanne Bartonne and the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment, which was the offspring of the Scientific Revolution(SR), took intellectual thought from theologically based beliefs of how the world functioned to empirical research(which was a process developed during the SR) and th...

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... in a school setting. In order for women to be accepted as teachers, there needed to be reasons that would benefit society. Women have been thought to have better morals. Advocates of common school education in the 1830s and 1840s equated their goal with a universal improvement of character, to be ... as the children grew up they would be active members of their communities instead of deterrents due to the values they had learned. Women were thought to be less distracted by worldly "demons". Some of the restrictions women teachers had included being expected to stay away from liquor, not...

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... to improve their looks to advance themselves in the world. Bobbo has already stated that Ruth thought and talked in clichés'. If this kind of thought is considered a cliché, then it must mean that it is universally thought. Ruth is ugly. She says so herself, in this instance asking us how ugly women ... needing to be tall and strong. In this way, her size and strength helped her to get what she wanted, instead of hindering her, as she had thought before. I think that women in Ruth's society are supposed to have two parts that should go together that make them feminine'; one of which is...

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... . When George told her that war had been declared, and she saw his negative reaction, she still tried to convince him that war was a glorious act. She thought so highly of the war, that she was thoroughly confused by George's seriousness and could not comprehend why he despised it so much. Editha ... thought very highly of George and knew that he had a very limited amount of flaws. Still, it seemed that she felt like him going off to war would ... most celebrated things a man could do with his life. The brutal, violence of the war did not seem to strike her like it does most people. She...

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... make decisions regarding themselves 2) being able to converse with others and hold a relationship 3) consciousness, one must be able to make rational decisions and have thought (Warren). On important aspect of being person is the ability to be aware of its surroundings and decision making. Being a pregnant is not a situation ... . A fetus is not aware of itself and cannot relate itself to its surroundings. Therefore, a fetus does not have the ability to formulate rational thought and decision making, which is a vital. We have to rely on our decisions to get us through like and a fetus is ...

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... as a devouring of it" (Greenblatt 45). Othello had a perception of Desdemona that was altered by the machinations of Iago.  Desdemona contributed to that perception by fulfilling a role that she thought was ideal for Othello. She wanted to be Othello's perfect woman, so she portrayed herself as pure and virginal to her husband. She was not guilty of wrong-doing in ... that purity was questioned, he quickly concluded that there was nothing left for her to be but sexually impure. Desdemona did notice the shift in Othello's feelings for her and thought the best way to combat Othello's ang...

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... Parker, and Elizabeth Bowen utilize a poetic license in a gallivant manner to illustrate a story as it unfolds to them. In her composition "Ada"", Gertrude Stein uses a specific structure to symbolize a virgin thought or stream of consciousness. She narrates, "Barnes Colhard did not say he would not do it but he did not do it. He did it and then he did not ... what it was-not love. Not love, not meaning a person well. What did he do, to make me promise like that? I can't remember "(Bowen, 532). Bowen's similar use of erratic thought seems to flow easily, poetically defining her characte...

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... early European history, will show difference in time-line and reasoning, but one thing stands true; women were the focal point, and were most often thought to be, and accused of being witches. In S. F. Nadel's article titled Witchcraft in Four African Societies: An Essay in Comparison (1952), he ... assuming he may have drowned, they blamed an elderly woman with whom the man had spent a great deal of time (Nadel, 1952). The Nupe thought of this kind of relationship as "something like a protégé of that woman or son of the house' [a term] applied to any ... mild and sticking it in a sk...

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The Women's Advantage It seems that in times before the women's movement, women weren't thought of by men to be capable of being self sufficient. All a woman could do and was expected to do before today's times was to get married, take care of the ... often treat their wives like children making them listen and obey every command that was given. Women were often looked at as weak and incapable of intelligent thought. Because women were thought of this way, they thought this way as well pretty much until the women's movement. These views become apparent in the readings of "A Doll's House," an...

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... nothing but a playroom. I have been your play-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls. I thought it great fun when you played with me, just as they thought it great fun when I played with them. That is what our marriage has been Torvald." "I must stand quite alone, if I am to understand myself and ... everything about me. It is for that reason that I cannot remain with you any longer (Ibsen 64)." And with that the play turned around. Who would have thought that a "little skylark" could stand up for herself and overcome a man's domineering ...

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... was unconsciously compelled to try and find something that worked. After meeting "the lady with the dog-, he thought of "her slender, delicate neck, and her lovely gray eyes."" Before he fell asleep though, he thought, "There's something pathetic about her, anyway,"" as a reaction to what always seemed to inevitably happened. He ... prevailed and she continued to care for the man who is not her husband. She also did not think highly of her husband as much as she had thought she had when he took her, as his wife. "I was twenty when I was married to him. I have been tormented by curiosity;...

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... ending of a story, whether it is an anticipated or a surprise ending, is a crucial point in any story because it gives a final thought to a particular aspect in a story. What is expressed in the ending will determine what the reader will take away from the story and ... to be planned, are surprise endings where the reader is led to believe an anticipated ending and then is surprised when the ending is not at all what they thought. A good example of a surprise ending is in the story "Pastorale" by Patrick Boyle, where the ending is a complete shock and leaves the reader with ... farm is...

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... themselves to teach lessons to others about right and wrong. Just like any other medieval man aware of his dominant trait as a man, Sir Hate thought it was his duty to teach Lady Hateful how to be a good wife. Even though Lady Hateful did learn her lesson after having her husband ... was no the seduced or the seductress, but she was just strangely cheered on by husband to commit adultery. Women in the Middle Ages were thought of as having wildly creative imaginations. They were capable of much more description and creativity then men. This is portrayed in all of medieval literature. ... ...

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... were considered the fulfillment of the female role." This was what a woman's life was headed towards and was thought to be the purpose of life. For a young girl to die before she had children was a fate thought of as being extremely sad. Women did not marry for love; the reason for marriage was usually for ... perhaps were they even interested in it, but the choice was not theirs to make. Men utilized the domestic skills of women but still thought of them as inferior. "Women's work was productive, but because it was the same as slaves work, it was not highly valued." Wives were not ... ...

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... chapter she is relating the story of selling her maize in the city and she tells us that "I would have been frightened of being alone if I had thought about it." The way she switches from the view point of a young girl to one of an enlightened adult kept me engrossed in the novel, wondering what ... I found most problematic was Tambudzai's lack of confidence as a youngster, though I think we see that she evolved into a secure woman as she looks back on her life. I thought her a such a strong, rebellious, determined young woman, however, we are often given insight into her mind where she...

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... by Katherine Mansfield, soon finds herself in reality. Miss Brill can be clearly seen as a flat, yet dynamic character, as can be portrayed through her thought transformation. "Miss Brill was glad that she had decided on her "fur- for that Sunday afternoon in the park. Her little friend she wore around her ... people sitting about, but they never make a sound, though after this she admits to listening to their conversations. "She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn't listen, at sitting in other people's lives just for a minute while they talked ro...

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... toward something."" Raymond says that friendship is a passion, a thoughtful passion, that manifest in a thinking heart. A passionate friendship holds no separation between thought and passion. Emily Dickinson articulated the uprightness between the two with this passage: The Heart is the Capital of the Mind " The Mind ... is a single State " The Heart and the Mind together make A single Continent " She implies that a friendship with both characteristics, thought and passion, will ensure that a friend does not lose her Self in the intense affection for another women. Raymond goes on to de...

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