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Essays 1951 - 1980

Women's Role in the Epic of Gilgamesh

lost natural state, at which point Shamhat offers to take him to the city where the joys of "civilization shine in their resplende...

Roles of Women in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

not take no for an answer when he still a respected man. For example, when Nwoyes mother asks whether or not Ikemefuna will be sta...

Women and Buddhism

"Buddhism is horizontal or human-oriented, not vertical or God-oriented"....

Hindu Women and Their Female Role

the case in India, however. In fact, many ancient religions, which pre-date Hinduism and even Christianity, place women as the dom...

Differing Depiction of Women in Homer's Epics 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'

Greek society was that imposed upon them by either their fathers or purchasers. They would never aspire to privilege or influence...

Opportunities for Women of Color in the American West

school systems and particularly in the realm of higher education at a time when only those with financial means were able to atten...

Women's Roles in 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Wife makes it clear that she has always enjoyed sex and this verifies the Churchs depiction of women as licentious. In fact, t...

Colonial History of America Until 1877 and Women

Women, which have always constituted half of the colonial population, did not receive any type of "civil, political, or legal" rig...

3 Questions on Philosophical Thought and its Effects

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

Change and Chinese Women

womans personal and relational conduct than any other contemporary sources of the time" (Condravy, 2005). In terms of what...

Virgin Mary's Visions and Significance

image they could understand and comprehend. They would envision her in clothing they comprehended and related to, images of heaven...

Themes in William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Sophocles' Oedipus

Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...

Sexual Culture of the West and Christianity's Impact

in Western cultures and set a standard for social expectations regarding virginity that separates the sexual identities of women a...

Antigone/The Female Role in Society

of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...

The Impact Of Women In The Military And Combat Roles

while the men were away at war. However, this particular battle represented a great deal of change within and among the steadfast...

Society and Women: Sense and Sensibility by Austen

which involved a patriarchal society. At the same time there are characters in the story, female characters, who possess money a...

Have International Human Rights Really Changed Over the Last Sixty Years?

is a law that is more basic that that which is made by man, supports of this such as Aristotle and the stoics such as Cicero and S...

The Patriot Act

vital to national security (Pike 1). The 9/11 Commission even pinpointed several failure of communication that occurred within th...

Women in Islam

the religion itself. And, one must perhaps understand that there are various forms and approaches to the religion so that there is...

The Cultural Messages of "Beauty and the Beast"

to "active" and "aggressive" pursuits. This is not the model we find in Beauty and the beast. In the fairy tale itself (this expl...

Women in the American Revolution

was developing. But, when her husband was taken it was very hard for her to do nothing. She constantly ended up battling with the ...

16th Century Social Mobility and the Film The Return of Martin Guerre

In five pages this essay considers the social mobility, daily life, and role of women in the sixteenth century as depicted in the ...

Jazz Musician Ann Patterson

In five pages the jazz influences of Ann Patterson and her female band Maiden Voyage are examined particularly in terms of develop...

Hopi Society and Gender Roles

In nine pages this paper examines early and modern Hopi cultural roles for women in terms of differences and evolution. Ten sourc...

The Wind Won't Know Me Book Review

In a paper consisting of five pages the conflict between the Hopi and Navajo is examined especially in terms of the impact this st...

Cultural Diversity Among Native American Women

An analysis of cultural diversity among Native American women and issues they face in the field of law enforcement. This five p...

Pre 1917 Shtetl Jewish Women and Their Role

In six pages this research paper discusses the pre 1917 role of Jewish women in Eastern Europe with references made to There Once ...

Islamic Culture and Women in So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba

focus in the Islamic groupings of Senegal. The two friends describe their lives in complicity and state things like "our lives de...

Love's Infinity in D'Aragona's Dialogue and Plato's Symposium

In five pages this paper compares the views expressed by these authors regarding women's role and the infinite nature of love. Fi...

Women in Medea and Lysistrata

In four pages this research paper contrasts and compares the portrayal of women and their roles in ancient Greek society as repres...