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Classical Greek Literature and Women's Tragic Marriages

Aeschylus introduces a complete reversal of gender roles, placing the character of Clytemnestra in a ruling role over Argos in the...

Three Novels on Women as Victims of Violence

In five pages this research paper analyzes how women were victimized by social oppression and violence in Edwidge Danticat's Breat...

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 ...

Social Issues in Brazil

wealthy elite and a massively poor population; women are making strides but injustice and problems based on gender are rampant; an...

Women's Changing Roles and Movie Remakes

In five pages this research paper examines 3 motion picture remakes and how this reflects women's changing social roles. Six sour...

Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Women's Roles

is the world of the domestic. That is domestic in the terms of one who serves, as well as domestic in the terms of limited to hou...

Theories of Henrik Ibsen and Soren Kierkegaard

This paper examines concepts of paradox and passion, women's social position, and individual autonomy in the philosophy of Soren K...

How Women Are Treated in the Writings of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how the social irony of women's treatment shine through in 'A Modest Proposal' by J...

William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and Elizabethan Women

beautiful and good-tempered woman and Baptista is aware that will have no difficulty in finding her a husband; however, Katherine ...

Family and The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

own time. It was that goal of establishing principles that formed his viewpoint regarding the character of a person and how a pers...

Woman's Shelter Worker's Views on Marital Rape

violence and an increase in the number of reported "date" rapes has led to the need for a social and legal response to the issue o...

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...

Women and Liberty According to John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville

Stuart Mill (that is, if they had been contemporaries). Both men believed that the greatest threat posed by democratic rule was in...

Identity and Gender Reflections in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Kate Chopin's The Awakening

it threatened who she was as a member of the white race and the upper classes. Therefore, it can be seen that Ednas desire to pa...

Designing a New IT System; Approaches, Quality Control and Timetable

and consideration of the real world. The first stage of the system is to understand the problem before even trying to defi...

Case Study Analysis: "Time To Dig Out"

Moreover, taxpayers would also support changes in criminal sentencing that ultimately reduces prison population, inasmuch as there...

Women’s Liberation of the 1960s

taking place within and beyond our national borders" (NOW). In this statement one sees that the organizations aim was to fight for...

Women's Roles in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and Bram Stoker's Dracula

contended to be a reflection of the culture in which he was purported by Bram Stoker as existing, so too are the women presented i...

Women's Careers and Social Roles

and while these are only fictional characters, they do indeed reflect the changes in society in terms of womens roles and work. Th...

'The Rains Came' and 'Memoirs of a Female Physician'

is condemned even by her own mother. Throughout the...

The Criminal Justice System

by Fisher and Sirianni, would not only give more visibility to the law enforcement officers in an area, but would engage the activ...

Portrayal of Women in Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones' Diary and in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

in Austens book. And, such realities are subtly reflected in Fieldings book as well, despite the fact that it was written only a f...

Militarization and How it Affects Women's Lives

minimum wages, and other stipends that directly affect women need to be considered. It is true that in some cases when the milita...

The Male Influences on the Writing of Adrienne Rich

born May 16, 1929 in Baltimore to Arnold Rich, a doctor and pathology professor and Helen Jones Rich, a pianist and composer. She ...

Women's Roles in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

contention that it was in the 1890s when social change would be rampant and that this change would be reflected time and time agai...

All About Eve Cinematic Analysis

provides evidence of repressed female sexuality, and reveals how the traditional patriarchy was threatened as a result of these ch...

UK Welfare Benefits and Asylum Seekers' Dissertation Proposal

and then will face a large number of barriers such as language and culture barriers. The barriers can create difficulty in finding...

US Civil War and Women in Combat

the importance of such an exhibit runs far deeper than merely providing a source of interest for a curious community, because it u...

Does PMS Actually Exist?

and those that are will suffer in varying degrees (What is Premenstrual Syndrome? 2003). Among the many typical symptoms...

Women's Roles in Homer's 'The Odyssey'

the strongest women in the piece are the goddess Pallas Athena and Penelope, Odysseuss wife. In addition, although her part was sm...