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Kate Chopin/The Storm

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

Class, Race, Sexuality, and Identity

embraced and coddled when they are hurt. A boy may be given masculine toys and a girl given dolls. If a boy wants to play with dol...

Film and the Shaping of Stereotypes

the Bruce Lee craze of the 1970s created a new stereotype of the Asian man: namely, the martial artist, which still permeates in H...

Gender Understanding and 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). But beyond this bitterness, ...

Self Presentation and Self Perception

including children who were racially different from themselves, as well as a different gender or body type.ii The results of the s...

Self Fulfilling Prophecy and Stereotyping

that defines segmentation and the power of one definable group over another. Understanding elements of gender bias, cultural ster...

The Female Characters in William Faulkner's 'Light In August'

spirit of her brother and grandfathers abolitionist movement, however, this attempt is only an extension of what two strong men be...

Native American Society, Racism, and European Stereotypes and Misperceptions

In five pages the racism that has plagued Native American society for five centuries is examined within the context of European st...

Use of Stereotypes in Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

In five pages this paper discusses how stereotypes are emphasized while appearing to eliminate them in these works by Stowe and Ta...

Female Stereotypes in Post-Modern and Current Media

careerist (brunette), who slug it out on a veranda, in a lily pond, or during a mud slide .... A metaphor for the struggle between...

The Media and Female Stereotypes

a traditional wife (blond), the other a grasping, careerist (brunette), who slug it out on a veranda, in a lily pond, or during ...

Female Development and the Impact of Gender Stereotypes

to be the coldly practical sex, while emotionality is considered to be a trait of the masculine gender (Holme, 1972). The people o...

Workplace Segregation and Gender Stereotypes

In one page gender stereotypes are first defined and then how they are manifested in the workplace is discussed. One source is ci...

The Police as Portrayed in La Haine by Mattleu Kassowitz

This essay discusses the function and characterization of the police as they are portrayed in Mattleu Kassowitz's movie La Haine (...

Workplace Discrimination and Stereotyping

In five pages this paper considers how workplace discrimination results from age, sexual orientation, and gender stereotyping. Ei...

A Review of the Print and Film Versions of The Joy Luck Club

A 6 essay comparing and contrasting the film version of Amy Tan's popular book and the book. The essay emphasizes Hollywood's ten...

Workplace and Gender Stereotypes

II. The Beginning of the Paradox The word "stereotype" has been precisely defined as meaning "the generalization about people on...

Black Elk Speaks to John Neihardt

In five pages John Neihardt's interview with Lakota Indian Black Elk who managed to survive the Wounded Knee massacre is examined ...

Analyzing Elektra and Oresteia

An overview of the works by Hofmannsthal and Aeschylus is first presented in this paper consisting of seven pages and then the the...

Film Adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans

accusations, which effectively illustrates the films irony. Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe and Steven Waddington play th...

U.S. Hate Crimes

In seven pages this paper examines hate crimes in the United States and examines the roles of class and racial stereotyping. Thre...

Sociological Analysis and Summary of The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

In five pages this paper summarizes Steinbeck's great American novel and then presents a sociological analysis that considers conc...

Resistance and Stereotypes in the Poems of Grace Nichols

In five pages Grace Nichol's poetry is examined in terms of the images of resistance and stereotypes they employ with a discussion...

Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants,' James Thurber's 'The Unicorn in the Garden,' 'The Catbird Seat' and Gender Conflict

In 5 pages this paper examines how gender conflict is presented in these stories with Hemingway seemingly supporting conventional ...

Common Factors Within Sexuality and Gender

This paper addresses people's attitudes, stereotypes, bias towards homosexuality. This five page paper has one source listed in t...

Capitalism and Stereotypes in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and in James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans

In six pages this paper discusses how stereotypes and capitalism are depicted in these early American literary works. There are n...

Comedies of the English Restoration

entertainment. This particular period of English history (1642-1660) had been called the Interregnum." Morality was closely moni...

Children's Socialization Development

In a paper consisting of 20 pages children's socialization development is considered in a discussion of various theories from thos...

Television's Cultural and Ethnic Stereotyping

of television talk shows. Whatever socially redeeming qualities contemporary television talk shows may have, they have not made t...

African American Women Playwrights

In five pages the ways in which black female playwrights confront sexist behaviors and conventional stereotypes in their female ch...