Essays 1981 - 2010
absence of a respectable life. The key, he contends, is to possess the right idiom, for the wrong one only serves to perpetuate h...
that they tend to destroy themselves from within. This inner destruction of the community toward one another is also symbolic of ...
role to play, on its own it does not give a moral framework, only a legal framework. However, in the opinion of Devlin it was more...
class, or sexuality, for example" (Butler, 1997). From within Butlers writings then, women and gender are more universal concepts ...
of their culture to be replaced by Catholicism. In short order the indigenous population was dominated and overcome by the Europea...
aggressive tendencies of human beings. Nature may lend triggering factors, such as personality glitches and proclivities, but most...
and Development of the California Womens Movement, 1880-1911, Gayle Gullett (1999) notes how women were experiencing a rebirth no ...
upon her every which way she may turn, reminding her that because she is of the female gender and not of the most prominent of soc...
several Southern and Midwest states Hispanics populations have more than doubled during the decade of the 1990s. Their numbers ha...
issues concern youth and the treatment of youth as adults. Acknowledging that there is a difference between youth and adult offend...
John knew he was more than qualified for the job and so did his boss. What was too painfully clear was the fact that John was an ...
charged with several felonies. Rather than suffering declining sales, "his Reebok goods continued their steady rise in sales. Mos...
dealt with it. But were the gender roles closer to the mark than other shows at the time? Perhaps. Clair Huxtable exampled the Af...
meant to be - mixing with society people and being decorated with fine jewelry. However, she ends up losing the necklace...
seem to discuss how she is a gift perhaps, sent from some higher power. This would indicate that she is perhaps thought to be beau...
by genetic make-up" (Dobson, 1997, pp. 44-45) -- and this lists but a few of many such manifestations. Depression related to eati...
possessed a higher IQ and the ability to reason. With this discovery, Singer writes, the line between a divine being and the lesse...
comes from the mother, is not one which is common in most European cultures....
in which: "most of the meaning is either implied by the physical setting or presumed...
Although she does not discuss this case specifically, Jacobys "Common Decency" allows insight to the Schmid cases and Oates fictio...
size, parents generally have managed only to replace themselves with their offspring. On a timeline that includes all of human hi...
peer pressure, societal norms, family expectations, all contribute towards "channelling" the individual into certain forms of iden...
or members of a family attempt to gain an understanding of self and others that will enable them to effectively solve problems and...
Smiler (2004) found that many of the socially constructed ideas about masculinity that are prevalent in American culture were prob...
in this short story depict them simply in neutral roles. Some of the female depictions in this story, however, at least hint at t...
makes the point that although Alisoun has been defined as trying to eliminate authority altogether, in the sense that she seems to...
looks at the picture of a man killing a lion, and says that if the lion had painted the picture, it would have been the other way ...
in the workplace" (Craig, 1992, p. 299), as well as the upsurge in home workers required to meet the need of a growing industriali...
and behaviours, and seen as being in direct opposition to "femininity", which is equally constrained in its parameters, and define...
In four pages this research paper argues that nursing's image needs to be changed and focuses on accomplishing this through the in...