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Tobacco Use and Gender

morning cough, were somehow genteel and ladylike. Philip Morris Cos. Inc. decided that its brand needed to have a classy, sophisti...

2 Essays in Christina and Fred Sommers' Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life

women, including approved activities, mannerism, education, sexuality and religious pursuits, as well as the extent to which there...

Courage is Named Maya Angelou

speaks of breaking free, not only from oppression and prejudice, but also from those things that bind and keep one from achieving ...

US House UnAmerican Activities Committee and Gender Bias

that institution must either be abolished or reformed. Indeed, the authors egalitarian argument is based upon the fact that justi...

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

in terms of socially dominant groups, but also between black and white: overcoming both these barriers is something which is prese...

Transgendered, Transsexual, and Homosexual Individuals and Religion

sex with a male, after the manner of sex with a woman, they have both committed an abomination, they shall surely be killed" (Quot...

Twentieth Century Literature and Gender

and large, the wealthy is a class of leisure. This upper class mentality is expressed in Whartons (2000) House of Mirth. The nov...

Body, Gender, and the Discourses of Mexico, Islam, and Hinduism

of both a man and a woman. These are considered to be pure beings made of Divine Consciousness which can be whatever they need t...

Andrew Cherlin's Introduction to Public and Private Families

we spend most of our personal lives, it is within this context that we make decisions about personal concerns, like whether to mar...

Workplace and Sexism

this positive assertion hold fast into the next millennium, or will women continue to be exploited for their contributions to a pr...

William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing and Issues of Gender and Loyalty

makes men the center of her life. In fact, Beatrice makes it clear that she has no wish to marry, and thinks very little of most ...

Gender Roles and Theme in 'A Jury of Her Peers' by Susan Glaspell and 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

contemporary society. "People began to look around to see the Hutchinsons. Bill Hutchinson was standing quiet, staring down at t...

Slut by Leora Tannenbaum

to her being labelled as a slut, presuming on the grounds that it is the sexual activity per se, rather than her consent or lack o...

Analyzing Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

In fact, Bastard Out of Carolina is very much the story of her own life (Dorothy Allison Talks About Working Class Guilt). Allis...

Changing Society, Sexual Instinct, and Sexual Harassment Issues

notice in psychoanalytical situations. There are, in fact, many differences between males and females which interplay to affect s...

Work and Gender

still, when we think back to the 1950s and 1960s, one cannot help but conjure up images of womens roles versus mens work roles. W...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Themes of Power and Gender

All the women are intrigued with Darcy and the potential marriage material he represents, however he is nonplused by what he consi...

Comparing and Contrasting 'Ar'n't I A Woman?' and 'What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?'

This 5 page essay considers how Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass attempt to through literature chronical the struggles of th...

Computer Games and Gender Prejudice

conspicuous, while at other times remain quite subtle; however, one thing is certain: the formation of these variations originates...

Gender Criticism and Hand To Mouth A Chronicle of Early Failure by Paul Auster

that same world. It could be maddening to watch him in action--a man who never seemed to care what others thought of him--but it ...

Dublin According to William Butler Yeats and James Joyce

this work many critics feel that Joyce gave Dublin a feminized gender. They assert that Joyces Dublin corresponds to Claudine Herm...

Stories by Virginia Woolf, Their Themes and Symbolism

Lighthouse, there is a subtle form of cruelty that thrusts the female protagonist into society as the woman is expected to act lik...

Colonial Powers and Gender Differences

outwards. When we look at this time we can see that there was already a change, the loss of colonial power was...

Gaining Weight, Gender, and Smoking Cessation

In five pages this literature review examines the connection between quitting smoking, gender, and gaining weight. Seven sources ...

Canada and Gender Violence

a semblance of a reason why a man might turn into a monster, and it just might be that domestic violence and substance abuse are r...

Female and Male Inequality and Societal Consequences

leads to a number of societal dysfunctions such as unequal access to education, jobs and other societal positions. A number of so...

Gender Bias and the Developmental Stages of Kohlberg

can negatively influence a persons choice of careers in either science or mathematics (Adams, 1998). As a result, these fields ar...

Social Divisions Reflected and Reinforced by Representation of the Mass Media

culture may be seen as the culture of ordinary people, but has a basis in history, Strinati (1995), argues that this is usually se...

Manufacturing Bad Mothers by Karen Swift

In four pages this report examines the issue of child neglect and the hidden realities represented by gender, race, and socioecono...

Women's Perspectives on Africa's Postcolonial State and Nationalism

efforts were not in vain, inasmuch as they "helped awaken others that followed her and forced them to mount offensives against the...