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Role of Women in Three Norse Sagas

This paper discusses the role of women in three Norse sagas. The writer argues that "Njal's Saga" and "Laxdaela's S...

Inner City African American Boys in Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here

Soon after meeting Kotlowitz, Lafayette told him that "if" he grows up, he wants to be a bus driver. Kotlowitz notes that the adol...

View of E.M. Forster's Room with a View

In five pages this paper discusses a young woman's healthy development as presented in E.M. Forster's Victorian novel Room with a ...

Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and Women's Role

Christian religion is being discussed. In Catholicism and the Lutheran faiths, women are not allowed to be priests or reverends. I...

Identity and Politics in An African-Nicaraguan Community

A 6 page review of the book by Edmund Gordon. The focus is on the downfall of the Sandinista regime. A brief history of Nicaragu...

Former Yugoslavia and Globalisation's Political Influence

In sixteen pages this paper discusses how globalisation has influenced the former Yugoslavia with changing women's roles the prima...

Gone with the Wind, Patriarchy, and Gender Roles of the Antebellum South

also of the survivors of the overall destruction of this exclusive caste system. Shortly after the initial publication of Gon...

The Bible and Women's Roles

In fifteen pages this paper examines women's roles in the Bible. Thirteen sources are cited in the bibliography....

Gender and Culture in America by Linda Stone and Nancy McKee

In five pages this book is examined and various questions regarding gender, biology, and culture are answered....

Literature and Women's Social Status

close to his sister, one has to contemplate the possibility of incest which adds to the seductiveness that many authors attribute ...

Women's Role and the Concept of Marriage

In eight pages this paper examines writings of St. Jerome, St. Augustine, and others in a consideration of the marriage concept an...

African Patterns of Migration, Geography and Climate Effects

In ten pages the patterns of early migration are considered in a discussion of the effects of the geography and climate of Africa....

Post 1970's Roles of Women

Resnick Sandler, while examining a presidential footnote on a Civil Rights amendment from 1968, discovered that President Johnson ...

Customs and Culture Associated with the Creek Indians

In twelve pages this paper discusses the detrimental cultural impact on the Creek Indians following European contact in a consider...

Fatima Mernissi's Beyond the Veil Reviewed

In five pages this text on Islamic women's sexuality is reviewed....

Various 'Pickup' Approaches

In seven pages this paper considers how both genders employ 'pickup' lines in an outmoded meeting approach that is still being use...

Societal Influence of Queen Nefertiti of Egypt

In eleven pages this paper discusses Nefertiti's influence on society in a consideration of women's roles, politics, religion, and...

Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Women

In five pages Circe, the Sirens, Nausikaa, Helen, Calypson, Athena, and Penelope are examined in this discussion of how women's ro...

Mozambique and the Roles of Women

This paper considers women's roles in this impoverished part of the world in five pages. Six sources are cited in the bibliograph...

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

This paper contrasts and compares the women's roles in these two stories featured in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer in 5...

Women's Roles in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion

In seven pages this paper compares protagonists in each play in a consideration of what they reveal about women's roles. Two sour...

African American Artist Charles White

In fourteen pages this research paper discusses the life and work of artist Charles White and how his art reflects his commitment ...

Major League Baseball and Influence of African Americans

In a paper consisting of twenty pages the racial integration that has come through professional baseball is explored in the contri...

Language Differences between Men and Women

The writer argues that society assigns certain acceptable roles to men and women, and that much societal behavior is learned. The ...

Women and the Impact of the Renaissance

In six pages this paper examines the European Renaissance in a consideration of how it positively and negatively impacted women's ...

Movies of Federico Fellini and Women's Roles

In six pages this research paper discusses the narratives in 3 movies by Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini in an analysis of the ...

Vigil in Maria Lopez's Cuba Neither Heaven Nor Hell and Gustav Firmat's Ano Que Viene Estamos en Cuba

This two Cuba texts are contrasted and compared in 5 pages with women's roles, democratization, cultural and national identity amo...

Colonial Peru and Women's Roles

In three pages women's roles during Peru's colonial era are considered in a summary and analysis of Daughters of the Conquistatore...

Films My Brilliant Career, Annie Hall, Educating Rita, and The Piano and the Portrayal of Strong Women

This paper examines women's roles and status and how they are portrayed in a comparative analysis of these films consisting of eig...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Challenges and Problems

In five pages this paper examines the problems and challenges associated with women's roles within the context of Achebe's novel. ...