... females can be explained by either the biological aspect or the cultural/environmental aspect. Deborah Tannen, a University professor of linguistics at Georgetown University and an Author, suggests the biological explanation to the problem: "Sometimes when you are talking to someone from other gender, it is like you are talking to someone from another world" said Prof. Tannen when she ... by-side, they were looking around, through the whole conversation, and never looked at each other. The fact that these differences are displayed in an early age, support the biological explanation. Alt...

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... woman in turn would hunger for another woman, and finally the male/female androgynous being would also seek out his former half. Here thus, according to Aristophanes, we have an explanation for male and female homosexuality, as well as heterosexuality. In order to explain how this story might shed some light on Aristophanes idea of love, and what he believes are ... love to its perfect conclusion" How plausible are the views presented by Aristophanes in his speech on love? From an analogous stand point he does provide us with an elegant explanation for the ploysxuality of human beings, ...

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... . Girls prefer female-typical toys more than boys and vise versa (Turner, et al., 1993). Also, boys liked "sex-appropriate" toys more and "sex-inappropriate" toys less than girls. A possible explanation for this is that when parents are playing with their children, it was found that they spent the least amount of time with feminine toys, regardless of the gender of ... differences in their behaviour during play. Black (1989), found that boys preferred more creative topics than girls pretend play and girls used more conversation for planning than boys. One possible explanation for this is...

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... it is the point of most anecdotes that hopes are dashed, dreams ridiculed, things never turn out as expected, everything is always altered in a bizarre way and there is no explanation ever"(372). In this passage, I think that Munroe is trying to portray Prue leading a very normal life, hosting dinner parties and such, yet still underneath Prue's surface she hides empty ... , lonely feelings. Those empty, lonely feelings contribute to the absence of hope, and no explanation for why things work out the way they do. In Munroe's "An Ounce of Cure," the same type of loneliness is expressed th...

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... affair with her to his son Biff by coming out of hiding from the bathroom of Willy's hotel room. (676). What motive is given for this indiscretion? We get no explanation or motive behind this behavior. We are to believe that because she is a mistress, this type of behavior is to be accepted as norm without any ... explanation of her motive. "Of whom he knows two types. One is the wicked slut."(Bigsby, Christopher) Miller's depiction of this woman fits our generic perception of a stereotypical mistress character. In ... ...

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... of his husband. In this issue women are the only victims of the gender inequality. Women are treated unequally in many aspects of society, at work, school, family, etc. The explanation for this that exists from ancient times is religion. "So god created man in his own image and he took one of his ribs made he a woman, and brought her ... be called a woman, because she was taken out of Human Arrangements, "Gender inequality- pps319-21 2(Genesis pps9-10). man-(Genesis pps9-10). There are many people who still use this explanation of why women should be treated unequally. Let's look at thi...

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... study of non-human bisexual animals allows anthropologists to realize that the human beings are extraordinary, and it also calls for a complex explanation of how the institution of marriage evolved. From the reading, one could gather that no such explanation exists. Mating is a biological attempt at reproduction. Marriage is a public matter, and questions who lives with whom, who can claim paternity over ... ...

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... creeping pests, but none hath ever yet devised a balm for venomous woman, worse than fire or viper". Among the Romans, we find Tacitus picturing women as controlling and cruel. He quotes Severus Caecina as saying during a debate: "With good reason," he said, "had it been formerly decided that women were not to be taken among our allies or into foreign countries ... ...

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... the one doing all the talking. This only supports the common opinion that men do more of the talking in public places, but most "clam up- at home. Tannen paraphrases quotes from Sociologist Catherine Kohler Riessman form Riessman's book Divorce Talk, saying "most women interviewed "but only a few of the men "gave lack of communication as the reason for ... ...

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... her male precursors and contemporaries, Bradstreet's voicing of the humility topos discloses the dilemma of female poetic subjectivity: finding a voice in a tradition that denies women voices" is one possible explanation for what seems to be opposed underlying messages in "Prologue" (Scheitzer 293). Judith Murray was more precisely vocal in her feminist ideals in "On the Equality of ... ...

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... in a sexual fashion. Even when women are in an authoritarian role they are still objectified through the use of beauty, lack of clothing and body language amongst many more. The explanation of how the male gaze dominates is quite obvious as one watches practically any film. This is not apparent specifically in films alone, this is apparent in art, film, music ... ...

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... th e boy as the mother. Without the father to follow example, Chodorow concludes that a boy will identify masculine characteristics be doing that which is not feminine. This could be an explanation for the big difference in the number of chores the girls d o versus the boys. Though you might disagree with the morality of this statement, you have to admit that it ... ...

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... companies and in the education system because, for some reason, their rate of progression along the line is altered before they have a chance to make it to the top. Another explanation for the increasing wage gap are that women sometimes choose professions that pay less and they choose jobs that can accommodate them when and if they decide to start a family ... ...

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... . According to Herring, (1994, p11) the term flaming can be defined as, the expression of strong negative emotion, the use of derogatory, obscene, or inappropriate language and personal insults. One explanation that Herrring gives to support this phenomenon is the fact that CMC is text-based and anonymous and so the users feel less inhibited and sometimes tends to forget that ... ...

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... th e boy as the mother. Without the father to follow example, Chodorow concludes that a boy will identify masculine characteristics be doing that which is not feminine. This could be an explanation for the big difference in the number of chores the girls d o versus the boys. Though you might disagree with the morality of this statement, you have to admit that it ... ...

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... concept. Namely, in A Room of One's Own, she holds that an overwhelming amount of literature created prior to the eighteenth century is predominantly male-written (Woolf 55), subsequently providing a sound explanation for women's consistent exclusion. Here arises the problem of society's perpetually accepted belief that women have and perhaps never will contribute to matters outside of the domestic realm: men created ... ...

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... research has shown a steady increase in female characters and roles, it seems unlikely that over the past five years a relationship between gender and role relationship has been eliminated. A more conceivable explanation may be found in the inexperience of the student raters and the possibility that they failed to adequately judge the characters based solely on their operational definitions. The limited and ... ...

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... more inequalities in terms of educational achievement. Studies have shown that pupils from upper and middle classes usually acquire a better standard of academic achievement than their working class counterparts. The explanation of "failing boys" as a reason for this gap in academic achievement could therefore be insufficient, as the underachievement of the majority of boys might not be due to their gender ... ...

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... bright feathers three' [ln 7] Your hands were like paws then, your face blue and bleak But now I'm bewitched by your delicate cheek' [ln 13, ln 14] Whilst completely ignoring her explanation which is quite harsh -We never do work when we're ruined- said she' [ln 20] Melia has been ruined' in her own words; however she does not elaborate on ... ...

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... fact that the University of Maryland states that people in power are usually the offenders, it is implied then that offenders are usually male. Thus, the organization of language and explanation of sexual misconduct gives rise to gender discrimination consisting of the notion that males commit sexual offenses while females are the victims of such. The victims of sexual assault and ... ...

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... depiction of how society looks at a man w ho shows his emotion. Society frowns on the crying male because he is not supposed to be weak. However, I disagree with Chion's overall explanation about the usefulness of gender screams. It is a rarity to see a man scream in a film. Many films exploit the female scream because of its message and power. The underlying fact ... ...

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... . Chekhov supports this theory where he writes, "It seemed to him that he had been so schooled by bitter experience that he might call them what he liked-(238). Another explanation for Dmitri's feelings may be the social norms at the time which this story was written in. In the book Sexuality and Subordination : Interdisciplinary Studies of Gender in the Nineteenth ... ...

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... . Evolutionary psychology perspectives believe that sexual selection can explain sex differences. They look at how male and female behaviour relates to evolutionary factors, unlike biological psychologist who look for a biological explanation such as brain differences and chemicals such as hormones, they believe that to promote successful reproduction different characteristics and patterns of behaviour have developed in males and females. Reasons given ... ...

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... ) is the author of Reading Between The Lines: Boys' Literacy. In this web article he clearly spells out both the statistics and facts on the issue but also offers an explanation. Stoesseger presents some hard' facts such as: The 1994 Inquiry into Boys' Education in New South Wales (the O'Doherty Report) revealed that: "Boys under-perform in literacy tests at both ... ...

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