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The Renaissance and Female Composers

a woman did have talent and want to compose, Brown tells us her only choice was to enter a convent, where she would "receive the p...

Hobsbaum and Scot on Bureaucracy, Prosperity, and Peace

them. But the threat of nuclear annihilation itself was enough of a deterrence on both sides of the ocean. But Hobsbaum po...

Oedipus Rex, The Iliad and The Odyssey and how these works relate to Gender

Oedipus. He learned that his predecessor and his wifes late husband, King Laius, had been murdered, Oedipus contends that it shou...

Mary Maria Matilda by Mary Wollstonecraft

(Wollstonecraft 62). Men have the power over women in most areas, they know this and to fight against it women are seen...

Strong Women in Ellen Glasgow's Barrow Ground and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

In six pages this essay compares and contrasts these two female authors' depiction of strong women protagonists in their respectiv...

Comparative Analysis of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

In five pages this essay contrasts and compares these works in terms of such issues as liberation for women and sexual equality. ...

Women's Educational Views in Juan Vives' The Education of a Christian Woman and Moderata Fonte's The Worth of Women

This paper contrasts and compares these works in terms of how they depict the education of women in 5 pages. There are 2 sources ...

Tutorial Sigmund Freud Lecture

In seven pages this tutorial essay instructs how to deliver to a group comprised of older Jewish women a lecture on Sigmund Freud....

The Lowell Offering Writings by New England Mill Women, 1840-1845 by Benita Eisler

In nine pages this report considers the lives of women who worked in fabric mills in Lowell, Massachusetts during the mid nineteen...

Females as Morality Agents

In six pages this paper discusses the morality of women and how females have throughout the history of patriarchal society served ...

Nineteenth Century Prejudices and Obstacles Against Women in the Workplace

In five pages this paper discusses the formidable obstacles that have been in place preventing women from achieving professional e...

Three Hypothetical Approaches Analyzed in a Consideration of Cash Grants for Earned Income

In two pages Hawaii's working women are examined in this analysis of earned income strategies. There are no sources cited....

A Review of Battered Women in the Courtroom by James Ptacek

This 5 page essay explores the legal complications faced by a woman litigating abuse. 1 source....

Anne Trapnel's Report and Plea and The First Examination of Anne Askew Compared

In a paper consisting of 5 pages these works are compared in terms of the similarities and differences in the ways these women app...

Depression and its Impacts on Women

In five pages this paper discusses how depression impacts women in this overview that includes such topics as alcohol, family, wor...

Women as Depicted in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue' and 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' Featured in The Canterbury Tales

will use my instrument / As freely as my Maker has it sent. / If I be niggardly, God give me sorrow! / My husband he shall have it...

The Legend of Good Women, Dante Alighieri, and Geoffrey Chaucer

In eight pages correlation between The Legend of Good Women and the works of Dante and Chaucer is established through textual clue...

3 Passages from The Color of Water, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and A Raisin in the Sun

Three passages from these works are contrasted and compared in terms of how they thematically depict women, family, racism, and sl...

Essay Explication on Three Varying Topics

This 9 page paper examines three essays in detail, comparing and contrasting the concepts used. The papers are entitled Robust Sat...

Technology and Minorities

In five pages this paper examines the field of technology and the biases that impact upon the involvement of women and blacks....

Knowledge and the Roles of Beauty and Art

in a commercial seed catalog. I thought they were great, Hickey enthuses. Those paintings were the opposite of anything anybody ...

The Son's Veto by Thomas Hardy and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In eight pages these two works are contrasted and compared regarding the relationships between men and women they feature in the c...

The Career of an Administrative Assistant

5 pages. This paper relates the specific career information that a person applying for a job might need if they were applying to ...

Sphereland and Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott

In five pages Abbott's 19th century work is analyzed in terms of its presentation of women as inferior that was meant to serve at ...

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Her Life and Career

Court in August of 1993 by a Senate vote of ninety-seven to three (Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg). Indeed, it can e...

Comparative Analysis of 'The Odyssey' by Homer and 'The Aeneid' by Virgil

In two pages this paper contrasts and compares the depictions of women and the journeys undertaken by Aeneas and Odysseus in these...

La Morte D'Arthur, Beowulf, and Gender

time, Grendels mother is literally a monster, so one could in fact give Beowulf some slack in that he took on a woman. Can a monst...

Slavery According to Octavia E. Butler's Kindred and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

In one of the most significant slave narratives ever written, Jacobs -- born a slave to mulatto parents in 1813 North Carolina -- ...

Mythology of Greece and the Roles of Antigone and Medea

This paper consists of five pages with the focus of discussion being Greek mythology particularly as it pertains to the role of wo...

Western Classical Literature and Women

was forbidden to her, period. It was not her place to try to reason why; it was her place to obey without question. This is what w...