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Adolescent Females and Role Models

In ten pages this paper examines adolescent girls in a consideration of how role models are portrayed by the media. Fourteen sour...

Religion and Women's Images

either they werent invited or were present and were later written out of the scriptures. This resulted in the Pali canon being der...

Society of Ancient Greece and Women

This paper examines how women in Ancient Greek society were portrayed in a comparative analysis of the plays Lysistrata by Aristop...

Contemporary Literature and How Emotions Are Portrayed

In five pages this paper examines how emotions are portrayed in the contemporary literary works The Things They Carried by Tim O'B...

Melodrama and Gender Conflicts in Society and Film

This paper examines the efficacy of portraying the struggles of women in various films. This five page paper has six sources list...

The Role of the Common Man in Government

This paper analyzes the role of commoners in various governments from the 1500s through the 1700s as portrayed by the literary wor...

Women in Haddawy's Translation of One Thousand and One Arabian Nights and in Muhammad's Holy Qur'an

out and to do so without question. If one did not bring to bear this responsibility, Muhammad was not reserved in instructing the...

Women as Depicted in Sangre y Arena and La Barraca by Vicente Blasco Ibanez

The way women are portrayed in these 2 Ibanez texts are contrasted and compared in a paper consisting of ten pages. Seven sources...

Media Depiction of Women in the Third World and in Film

In nine pages there is a third world emphasis in this consideration of how the media especially cinema portrays women. Eight sour...

Literature and Gender Issues

This research report compares and contrasts the ideas of Salmon Rushdie and Conan Doyle in respect to gender roles. The concept of...

The Golden Notebook by Lessing

In three pages this paper discusses children being failed by women as portrayed in the 1962 book. Three sources are cited in the ...

Contemporary Families in Jonathan Kozol's Amazing Grace and Stephanie Coontz's The Way We Really Are

"The Woman Who Walked Into Walls" by Roddy Doyle. The Complexity of Families Today In Coontzs book many different families ar...

Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher and Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

In five pages these texts are contrasted and compared as they portray the pressures of contemporary American culture on young wome...

Shrewd and Hostile Women in 'Five Easy Pieces' and 'Rip Van Winkle'

counterparts instead. By transposing these characteristics from male to female, the male character is given the opportunity to el...

'Hawksian Women' of Director Howard Hawks

In five pages this paper considers how Hawks portrayed women in his films with a discussion of Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Ba...

Portrayals of Women in Sunset Boulevard and Breakfast at Tiffanys

A 6 page essay reviewing how women are portrayed in these classic movies. The plots are outlined and compared. Societal circums...

Althol Fugard/Valley Song

choir. However, she ahs peered through neighbors windows and caught glimpses of singers on television, realizing that her talent c...

Hemingway's Men and Women

Hemingways protagonists often suffer war wounds similar to his; "excoriate the mother" as he did; or "reflect contemptuously on th...

Analyzing Once Upon a Time in America and Its Use of Violence

in "Once Upon a Time in America", is known for his portrayal of violent characters. Noodles, the character De Niro portrays in "O...

Maxine Hong Kingston/Warrior Woman

property rather than fellow human beings. Tourist information on St. Thomas indicates that St. Thomas Market Square is today a "...

How the Media Portrays Princess Diana

other inconvenient women with temporal ties to the throne" (6). In truth, Diana did bear a significant burden in her time in histo...

Women: The Other

the point of their clothing which was powerfully restrictive. In this poem the narrator states, "Aunt Jennifers tigers prance ac...

"Pride And Prejudice" - Erodes Sexist Stereotypes Of Women

relation to her own marriage. Compromise is the defining factor between Elizabeth and Charlottes ability to erode sexists stereot...

Gayle Gullett's "Women Progressives And Immigrant Women"

every forward progression middle class women had made. So it was to be that the California Daughters of the American Revolution s...

The Function of the "Gaze" in "Vertigo"

dizziness and dislocation. For most of the first 45 minutes of the film, Scottie (James Stewart) gazes at Madeleine (Kim Novak) f...

Portrayal of Women in Two Play by G.B. Shaw

that there is little, if any, true relationship or familial feeling between the two women, as Vivie tells Mr. Praed, "I hardly kno...

The Dynamic Presence in Little Women, Jo March

This essay pertains to the way in which Jo March is portrayed in "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott. The argument is presented th...

Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions

the way in which females, both girls and women, use their bodies as a means of protesting both the restrictions of patriarchy and ...

Article Analysis: Women and Power

the same qualities that society considers intrinsic to, and acceptable in, women. This goes back to something that Freedman says ...

Lerner/Grimke Sisters

is not a phenomenon that emerges overnight. It builds over decades. Angelina and Sarah Grimke argued for womens rights a full ten ...