At the night of the last day of October, people, especially children, will dress in some costume to pretend they are evil or ghosts. ... That night is a crazy night when everyone releases himself or herself from the rules which force them to be good on the normal days and nights. This ad uses colors like orange to remind the audience the Halloween night when everyone can gain relax and indulge in carnival. This implies to the audience that they will enjoy every night as Halloween night in this hotel. ...

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On one hand, Indian women working in call centers experience a greater freedom of movements as they now work at night in order to provide a 24/7 customer service as "physical mobility and temporal mobility are jobs requirements" are job requirements" (Patel, 2008, p. 3). ... Parent-child relations also go through a transformation as a consequence of daughters who work the night shift in order to provide a 24/7 service to the American citizens (Patel, 2008). ... As Patel states: "The call center industry in India with its upscale office environment and night shift requiremen...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Some of the most interesting female characters in Shakespeare's writing are Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Viola and Olivia in Twelfth Night, and Gertrude, the Queen of Denmark and Hamlet's mother, in Hamlet. ... In A Midsummer Night's Dream, the reader recognizes right away that Hermia is not ordinary woman. ... Until this early point in the play, Hermia is an admirable and even heroic female figure, especially for the feminist reader, for both in this and other examples from A Midsummer Night's Dream she has succeeded in breaking the rigid mold of social conven...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

When looking at the similarities between Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and As You Like It, the most obvious connections lie in the manner in which the two main female roles both disguise themselves as men within the plays. ... Throughout Twelfth Night Shakespeare examines patterns of love and courtship through a repositioning of traditional Elizabethan gender roles. ... Twelfth Night is not without its own homoerotic subtext. ...

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One of the "shift-worker" couples, Gary and Denise, had Gary change his flights to night time ones, so he could do the day time care which meant only leaving the night time care for Denise (Ranson, 2010). ...

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The advert 'Mum's Night Off' was created to appeal to men so as "Women can get out of the kitchen and men can get in it"2. ... NZ Pork's 'Mum's Night Off' has gone past the target market of men to plain sexist and is no help to preventing the societal issue of misrepresenting genders. ...

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Drawing upon the implications of Mr. Hales statement "women used to worry over trifles," seems to be old fashion. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters have a lot to offer for the investigation. The Author Susan Glaspell shows an obvious stereotypical attitude by men towards women in her story, A Jury of Her ...

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What does family mean to you? This question, as simple as it might sound, is one that can bring out a wide range of answers and opinions. Because of this self-defining concept, your family will always be different from the one next door. Healthy communication is one of the most vital ...

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In the eleventh century the typical married couple would be a housebound wife that has no self confidence and handles everything her manly husband tells her to while, he does nothing but bring home that night's dinner. ...

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She recognizes the individual strife of each man and knows that she "can accomplish anything if she puts her mind to it."" (141) Her transformation to independence does not happen over night; we find her years later still trying to be "self-reliant- so that she can "discover her own strength."" (216) Warĩĩnga has broken out of the subservient female role: she has a job, a man, self-respect and confidence. ...

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Wife of Bath Tale and Tale of Florent: Sincere Superiority or Corrupt Dominance During the Medieval age under the rule of King Arthur, tales of women's empowerment began to contradict the traditional role of women's inferiority to men. Two of these tales were the Wife of Bath's Tale and the Tal...

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Upon the wedding day, Walter makes clear to Griselda his expectation of her which are similar to those listed above: "I say to you must be ready with good heart to do my pleasure. . .and never must you grudge it, night or day, neither in words nor frowning countenance. ...

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Maltese Falcon The Maltese Falcon, was not only a detective film, but a film that displayed many different aspects of the female and the male character in the movie. The film was more than a story, but a story that explored the ideas of the detective genre and the different characteristics of fe...

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In Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, Nora and Torvald Helmer show the possible effects of gender conflict in a marriage. When a woman faces the constraining roles of a strict patriarchal society, she may choose to step outside these roles in order to maintain her own individuality. Nora and Torvald pla...

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Why have so many films of the "gritty realism" tradition been set in northern landscapes? There are several factors that have contributed to many films of the gritty realism tradition being set in northern landscapes. I propose a review of the evidence that Historical, Economic, Sociological, Pol...

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there really such a thing as a feminist fairy tale? Fairy tales are ancient stories that entertain the masses and teach morals to children. They are considered oral traditions that are passed down through the centuries as a tool to teach children how to act and think. In today's society some of tho...

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She no longer possesses command over her husband that makes them think she is the greatest: "And every night and day 'twas his custom, When he had leisure and took some vacation, From all his other worldly occupation, To read, within this book, of wicked wives." ...

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When I was young, my father was my hero. I remember the smell of his cologne in the mornings as he wrapped me in my pink jacket and held my small pink hand in his as he walked me to preschool. The late night smells of pipe tobacco that lingered in the living room just before bed, always made me f...

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Readers view texts in perspective, to enable them to understand the books they are reading. Gender roles have been prevalent in our communities for centuries now and they are unfortunately still common; in today's society. The novel Speak , by Laurie Halse Anderson paints a vivid image on gender rol...

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Matthew J Coffee Freshman English 2 November 3, 2003 Boys and Girls The story is about a young girl who struggles against society's ideas of gender portrayal, stereotyping and expectations of the female role, only to find herself trapped in the ways of the world. The story is told through the ...

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The role of women in cinema and in society is analyzed by various writers: Berger, Doane, and Mulvey. In their essays, the authors make assumptions about gender and how it structures the culture industries. Speaking on the patriarchal structures of cinema and society, Mulvey, along with the other...

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THE AWAKENING- as a comment on the 19th century American feminine predicament At the center of THE AWAKENING is Edna Pontellier, a woman of the 19th century who rebels against social constraint of that time and acknowledges her sexual desires. She does even more than just acknowledging she has the courage and the inner strength to act upon her feelings and desires. She has the courage to break all conventions of society and to discover her true self, to discover that she is more than just a wife and a mother, roles that society had given her. Edna discovers her identity as an independent...

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She gave up work to care for her daughter and stay close to home; she could leave her workplace and go home at night exercising her newfound freedom that many women did not experience in imperial China. ...

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She described the reaction to these responsibilities as "a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States As she [the housewife] made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the question " Is this all?'...

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The theocratic totalitarian regime operating in Gilead was instigated and is controlled by men, the male protagonists in the novel are seen as caring and sympathetic. Although one or two women have become quite close through their ordeal, despite the fact that they have had no other choice, "We"re ...

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