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Glass Ceiling

during the day to discuss in private her opinions on market performance and financial projections" (The "Glass Ceiling"; 319). But...

The Glass Castle

neglected their children. But, at the same time they also clearly instilled in their children a love of adventure and knowledge. ...

The Glass Castle

This setting moves, however, to West Virginia where things truly crumble. The father, who grew up in this town, seems to be immedi...

Socialist Feminism: Past and Present

a branch of feminism created in the early 1970s to get women to win reforms that will improve their lives, give them a sense of po...

"Dr. Glass-Case" by De Cervantes

Cervantes "rather formulaic" descriptions of Italian cities were "perfectly in tune with the rhetorical canons of the time" (Cerva...

Teaching Character Education

Jean Piaget and also on the philosophy of American educator John Dewey (Barger). This model of moral development pictures children...

Milton/Satan in Paradise Lost

who displays unconquerable courage. In this manner, Milton portrays Satan as a heroic figure, and elicits sympathy for him. As Sat...

Death in Chopin’s The Story of an Hour

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

The Shipman in The Canterbury Tales

way down the social ladder. The Shipman, i.e., the "sailor," is placed between Chaucers description of the Cook and the "Doctor of...

Pygmalion's Liza Doolittle in the Context of Early Twentieth Century Britain

panacea when it came to womens rights. Liza was caught in this time period where she wanted to strike out on her own but was held ...

Congreve and Pope: Resistance to Marriage

draws a moments air independent on the bounty of his mistress. There is not so impudent a thing in nature as the saucy look of an...

Book Review of Tom Standage’s A History of the World in 6 Glasses

served as a form of currency in these regions because it was used as wage compensation. A crucial point Standage made is that bee...

Naming Conventions in "Beloved"

harrowing existence would lead a mother to that sort of desperate act. But still, no matter why she did it, and even if death is b...

Management - Glass Ceiling - Managing Oneself

reported that among Fortune 500 companies, women hold 16 percent of corporate officer jobs and 15 percent of Board seats. Among th...

Henrik Ibsen: Developing His Characters

leaves, but in Hedda, both Eilert and Hedda die. In his introduction to The Feast at Solhoug, which came in for its share of cri...

Lord of the Flies: Jack & Hitler

but he was placed in charge of hunting. Jack then pushes this role to the limit, getting more and more boys to join him in an incr...

"Obasan"

work on a road gang, where his frail health will ultimately doom him, the girl is raised by her aunt and uncle, and it is this aun...

Flaubert's A Sentimental Education

friendship that endures, but had been weak and strong at different times in the lives, largely due to circumstance. Prior to the n...

Beloved and Personal Demons

She has attempted to find a place in herself wherein she can survive and go on despite her actions. It is a very cloudy place that...

Uncle Tom in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

their slaves to do so; they decide to sell Uncle Tom, who is middle-aged at the time, and a young boy named Harry, who is the son ...

The Devil Wears Prada: The Glass Ceiling

are called "driven" or "committed" - but when used by women results in them being characterized as "bitches" or even sex-starved, ...

Why I Identify with the Disney Character Goofy

friendly and happy. The image of fun is helped with the movement of the character. Although presented as an animal, Goofy was actu...

The Mysterious Will Ladislaw

much loved by a young baronet, Sir James Chettam, she marries instead the Reverend Edward Casaubon, who is much older than she is,...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Green Knight is without fear, and without any weakness it would seem. He has simply come to dare any man to show that they are rea...

Character Analysis of Emily Grierson in "A Rose for Emily"

that a womans association with a man is what defined women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, Emily was le...

Faulkner and Bambara on Communities

expensive toy store. The children are amazed, as this gives them a glimpse of another world and lifestyle that is totally alien ...

The Animated Characters of Disney

in the way different characters are presented, as well as beauty in different meanings at different levels. It may be argued tha...

'The Looking Glass' Article by Lawrence Weschler

In five pages this report examines the article that appeared in a January 2000 issue of The New Yorker in which American artist Da...

Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game and Intellectualism

capacity for sublimation. . . Soon afterwards philology followed this method and began to measure linguistic configurations as phy...

Days of the Week Characters in Chesteron’s Novel

in anarchy wherein a lack of rules in a society would lead to utter chaos and the ultimate destruction of order in the world. Sy...