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Portrayal of Asian Women as Whores in Miss Saigon

babies, which it did not do after World War II. However, even in this, the message is that America saves the day, while Vietnam r...

Victorian Women's Fallen Status in the Works of Charles Dickens

values, and sin versus redemption. The cycle of Pips life illustrates how Pip went from being an innocent boy, into being an arrog...

The Yellow Wallpaper and The Story of an Hour and the Female Characters they Include

world that she is a success. This character then stands as a powerful example of women from that era who were given few choices b...

Woman and Global Work

countries like this, sends a large portion of her salary home to support her children, as well as to pay the nanny who looks after...

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 Portrayal of Women in Biggers “The House Without A Key” T

assessment of the likelihood of her return "And was there any chance that his strong-minded relative would take the hint? Not one ...

The Position of Women in "Hamlet" and "To the Lighthouse"

Ramsay is not really a monster, but he is an autocrat who is cold and so detached from his family that he doesnt seem to realize h...

Women’s Rights/Incompatibility with Islam

of the state. They are always perceived in their relationship to men as defined by Islamic scripture. Within this social and polit...

Yinka Shonibare/A Flying Machine for Every Man, etc.

of Shonibares characters via their clothing. While Victorian in style, the design for the wax fabrics originated in the Dutch colo...

An Analysis of the Women's Movement

81). Later on, feminism would hold that the home was not the center of the womans world. At that time however, women were not read...

Wages for Women in Different Industries; an Hypothesis Test

lower level such as 90%. We will assume a 95% significance level. C State the critical, that is the cut off values, these may be ...

Women’s Work: 1900-1945

be things like housecleaning, cooking, caring for children, taking care of elderly relatives, and generally making a home. When th...

Poetry and the Reflection of Women's Status

rather than reality. This conclusion was probably made through the poets use of the repetition of the word "if." Any piece of lit...

At Risk Teens, Experiential Learning, and Spiritual Development

In sixteen pages this review considers how one woman's work with at risk teens in her community affected her spiritual developme...

Women in Wartime and the Conflict between Public and Private Duty

and the misery of the battlefield. It came as a particular shock because the years just preceding it were a "golden age." From al...

'Hedda Gabler' and 'Phaedra'

In this 5 page paper, the heroines of the respective works are compared and contrasted particularly in terms of how they depict wo...

Article 'It Wasn't Working Women's Experiences with Short Term Breastfeeding' Review

In six pages this paper criticizes this purportedly qualitative study by sharply questioning the validity of this classification. ...

Technology and Work from a Woman's Perspective

In five pages this paper examines how women can make employment use of technological advancements and computer networking. Two so...

Status and Role of Women in 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

so "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" are rare glimpses into the feminine status in what was essentially a strict Greek patriarchy. Wh...

Maria Luisa Bombal's Works Compared

her life, her childhood, her adolescence, her adulthood and she sees the conflicts riddled in her experiences. Her role in life, ...

Plantation Economic Impacts of Slave Women's Work

ramifications (Jacobs). Consider all of the white women who would discover their husbands having affairs with slave wome...

Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri and Portrayal of Women

woman who is generous and selfless: "So much more dear and pleasing is to God/ My little widow, whom so much I loved,/ As in good ...

Women's Lives and the Changing Roles of Child Care and Housework in More Than a Labour of Love by Meg Luxton

male figure of God, at which point ideals began to shift toward male superiority. Once the ideal developed, the belief that men w...

Richard Hoggart's Scholarship Boy

from even his or her family for trying to improve himself. Hoggart also addresses the working class who have taught themselves s...

Mainstream Cinema and the Portrayal of Women

that there is an interpretation of the films in a subconscious manner. Therefore, the reinforcing is appalling to the baser self, ...

Women's Emotions in the Works of Kate Chopin

"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...

Women's Search for Independence in 3 Works: Finding Happiness

This essay discusses 3 works: which are a poem by Gwendolyn Brook, "The Beam Eaters"; a short story by Kate Chopin, "The Story of ...

Women as Viewed by D.H. Lawrence

In five pages women's status during the time of D.H. Lawrence is considered in an exploration of his view of them as reflected in ...

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...

Immigrant Experiences and Angel Island

Before actually describing the art and poetry that came out of detainees from Angel Island, a look at the locations history would ...