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Confucianism and Daoism in 'Peony Pavilion'

an unthinking adherence to ritual. Analect 9.3 reads: The Master said, According to ritual, the ceremonial cap should be made of ...

An Examination of Arab Women

and even covers conditions now, explaining why women are often put in the position they are. This is a subject that confuses many ...

Freudian Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories

the beginning. He states, "From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was...

Workplace and Opportunities for Women as Opposed to Men

court case to struggle for the freedom of all people who were otherwise discriminated against, it does stand as one of the most in...

Comparative Perspectives on Politics and Women

are gender related expectations in various offices (2002). While nothing new, Borrelli treats the subject quite seriously, picking...

Homosexuality Perception of Female Athletes

that public image is just as much a part of the game as the ground stroke. People watch the Williams sisters because they are exce...

Afghanistan and Issues Related to Women

importance, is their goal of ending the human rights abuses and oppressive prejudice toward women and girls in Afghanistan. These ...

Military and Gender

and women in separate barracks does not cost more as feared ("Military," 1999) and so there is no reason to make them share facili...

Women Targeted in Puritan Witchcraft Accusations

was execution day for eight people in Salem Village, Massachusetts. Their crime: allegedly practicing witchcraft and worshipping ...

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...

Rosamond Lehmann, Virginia Woolf and Early Twentieth Century Women's Limitations and Challenges

is basically no place for an intellectual woman within the university environment. On a visit to a university, Woolf is told she i...

African American Social Contributions of bell hooks, Alice Walkler, and Betty Friedan

each womans strength is varied among these tales, they share a common thread of power felt from down within ones very being. It i...

The Importance of Women to Nationalism

are feminists or not, the truth is that men and women think differently. They possess different types of ideas and visions and act...

Sappho's Poetry, Homer's Epics, and Women

we mortals bear perforce, although we suffer; for they are much stronger than we. But now I will teach you clearly, telling you th...

Afghanistan and Women's Education

ethnicities. This is reflected in its make-up today. In the seventh century, however, the Muslim influence would contribute heav...

Reviews of Literary Works by Kaschnitz, Robinson, and Cisneros

the conscience of humanity. The young people in the story relate to their bilingual/cultural context, cultural heritage and domin...

Women's Roles in 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Wife makes it clear that she has always enjoyed sex and this verifies the Churchs depiction of women as licentious. In fact, t...

Women and Poverty in America

women were in a sort of Catch-22 situation. Charities did not want to contribute to able bodied women, but at the time women could...

Case Study Analysis of Earnings and Gender Discrimination

reason for the huge disparity in earnings between men and women. One reason behind this assumption is that women tend to take the ...

Women's Studies and The Importance of Having Their Voices Heard

their study that men and women process information differently. Furthermore, this research team asserts that there are asymmetrica...

Pros and Cons of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act

remove the disincentive toward working, it did little to impact the increase in illegitimate births or the increase in births to m...

Differing Depiction of Women in Homer's Epics 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'

Greek society was that imposed upon them by either their fathers or purchasers. They would never aspire to privilege or influence...

Female Preference Shown in Policies of Sexual Harassment

This question of definition is addressed in the Harvard University procedure manual. In the manual, it is noted that defining sexu...

Female Characters in The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Compared

etched in the hearts and minds of the mens affections they willfully toyed with. Estella is the quintessential cold bitch that vi...

A John McGahern Fiction Ecocriticism

(Glotfelty; Fromm, 2003). It invokes thoughts of whether men and women write differently about the natural world, thus presenting ...

Politics and Women's Leadership Roles

general. Why might the latter matter? It is easier for those with more means to vote. People who do not vote notoriously do not ...

Government Roles for Women

based on criteria, but that criteria really should not include gender. Instead, it is thought that presidents choose based on all ...

Jewish Mysticism, the Kaballah, and Perceptions of Women

female, given the fact that womens role in the general sense revolves around the gentler notion of nurture/caring, faith and symbo...

Cynthia Hoehler Fatton's Women of Fire and Spirit

in a different context. There is the need for a point of identity in any relation for those following, something that they can r...

Cultural Understanding of Chinese Women Through Literature and Art

woman who traveled to a foreign land, worked hard and then returned to her family would never be perceived in such a way. In fact...