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MacArthur Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Postwar Japan

The years following World War II were a time of great change for Japan....

3 Women in Odysseus's Life in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

her part. What she didnt know was that Zeus was responsible for thwarting her attempts at consummating her relationship with Odys...

Terrorist Organizations and the Growing Number of Women

America, for example, has women representing no less than twenty percent of its fighting throng; similarly, western Europe, the Ta...

Seeing is Believing by Margaret Miles

religion is treated in Hollywood film; what forces of religion are considered "box office" (i.e., profitable); and what values do...

Short Story by John Cheever

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the short story called The Country Husband. This paper includes issues of trying to escape ...

Equal Pay

The past molds and conditions us yet few of us have an understanding of women's struggle for equality. Beginning in the early- to ...

Susan B. Anthony and Mary Wollstonecraft, A Dialogue

This paper presented brief biographies on Susan B. Anthony and Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as a short description of 19th gender ...

Politics/Aristotle

This essay is on Aristotle's "Politics" and how he saw the role of the city in human life. The writer relates his political thinki...

Do Women Earn Less Than Men

Women do earn less than men. This is true when calculating the overall incomes of all men and women in the country. It is also tru...

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"....

First World War and Significance of Women's Roles

Among the most interesting aspects of these considerations are the apparent differences in meaning the war had for men verses thos...

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih and Women

her, an early sign of emotional sterility and disdain for women however kind they may have been to him" (Mustafa Said-ism). He ...

Ibo Society and Lost Male Status Following the White Missionary Arrival

head position was responsible for "settling family disputes, and because he controlled the channel of communication with the all-i...

Society of India and Women

and their domestic responsibilities before themselves (Varma and Agrawal, 1992). In order to initiate sociological advancement, m...

Review of an Article on Nursing Research

to examine whether womens social roles mediate the impact of heart surgery on their psychological well-being" (Plach and Heidrich,...

The Cultural Construct of Gender

been responsible for designing womens role in myriad societies; many of these devices used in earlier centuries were related to re...

Gender Norms in American Society

the role of aggressor. Kimmel (2000) has observed that all cultures share the concept that men and women are different, and that...

Cultural Understanding of Chinese Women Through Literature and Art

woman who traveled to a foreign land, worked hard and then returned to her family would never be perceived in such a way. In fact...

Politics and Women's Leadership Roles

general. Why might the latter matter? It is easier for those with more means to vote. People who do not vote notoriously do not ...

Big Government Programs vs. Community Involvement

time, or on the other hand, the giant bureaucracy has more money, more programs and reaches more people on a widescale basis. What...

Fonissa by Papadiamantis and Women

the roles of men and women and the cultural history of this place. It also offers a basis for perhaps sympathizing with the women ...

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...

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...

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...

Schenkkan's The Kentucky Cycle

comes from the mother, is not one which is common in most European cultures....

U.S. History, Quilting, and Quilts

turkey red) on the basis of permanence (Mainardi, 1982). They were creating fine works of art that would be marveled over and app...

Women in A Woman by Sibilla Aleramo and The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

womans plight in a turbulent time in history. "The Leopard", in comparison, is more of an outline of male expectations in regard ...

Women's Role in The Third Wedding by Taktsis

men and of the meaning of love all together. She screams to herself, "will any kind of hole satisfy these beasts?"(Taktsis 1986). ...

Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Society

artist and a dutiful woman creates conflict and pushes the boundaries set by nineteenth-century American society" (Sparknotes). ...