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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...

Showalter, Culture and Literature

formalist-structuralist critics have evaded the issue of sexual identity entirely or dismissed it as irrelevant and subjective" (S...

Depiction of Women in Classical Greek Literature

In ten pages this paper discusses how Euripides' plays depicted Clytemnestra in this consideration of the shift in women's portray...

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...

Literature Review for Use in a Project on Leadership in Kuwait

or values. It is by understanding leadership and its influences that the way leadership may be encouraged and developed in the con...

Classical Literature and Women

In eight pages the idealization of women and the restrictions placed upon them as reflected in Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Antigone ...

Are Western Strategies Suitable for Use in Businesses in China?

2050, there is a large pull factor for western companies to ether this market (Mintzberg et al., 2008). However, where there are b...

Classic Western Literature and the Portrayal of Women

The portrayals of Cunegonde by Voltaire in Candide and Gertrude by William Shakespeare in Hamlet are contrastes and compared in fi...

Early America and the Oppression of Women

established that women were not always inherently oppressed around the world, a fair question arises: what is it about Western civ...

Order and Chaos in Homer's 'Odyssey' and the Epic of Gilgamesh

In five pages this paper examines the relationship between order and chaos within the context of these two classical literary work...

Classical Greek Art

a great deal of art, was incredibly reflective of what was considered the good life. There was a change in the society at that tim...

Heroic Greek Definition in 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' of Homer

In seven pages the classical Greek definition of hero as revealed in the epic poems of Homer is discussed....

Geishas

Arthur Golden and then a major motion picture. In 1992, Golden traveled to Kyoto and interviewed Mineko Iwasaki, a legendary, reti...

Comparing Lysistrata by Aristophanes and Medea by Euripides

shown for "wives and women in general" (Vasillopulos 435). Christopher Vasillopulos observed in his literary criticism of Medea, ...

Effect of Childhood Experience of Sex Abuse on Marriage

a history of child abuse has an effect on their marriages. Literature review While it is generally accepted by the vast majority...

Questions and Answers on Early Nineteenth Century English History (1800-1840)

resulted in a huge public outcry against the King. Reformers and radicals alike encouraged dialogue regarding gender oppression a...

Classical and Hellenistic Statuettes

well distributed. It appears to be tighter, or spread out more, across the chest than it does the rest of the body. In this drapin...

Impact of the Great War on Western Literature

would be sent to war in just a few years, underscores the awful waste of youth, of life, of promise. The final stanza, in particu...

"Size Six" by Mernissi/An Analysis

those who enforce religious laws" (Mernissi). In other words, by being larger than a size six, Mernissi, in the salesladys opinion...

Western Medicine and Women's Health

In ten pages this paper examines women's health and the Western medical system from historical and feminist perspectives. Ten sou...

Book Review of Joan D. Chittister's Heart of Flesh

In ten pages this paper reviews this text in its consideration of women's ostracism from Western theology and public policy with s...

Emerging Nations, Women, and Economic Inequality

In five pages this research paper focuses on Western Africa and women's economic inequality in a consideration of the concepts of ...

Women's Roles in Western and Hindi Cinema

The movie industry in India is the largest in the world and produces over 800 films a year, twice that of Hollywood and is referre...

Disputes and Western Civilization History

the author indicates were very gracious to those they conquered and allowed them the right to still possess their traditions and t...

Comparative Analysis of Women in Kung and Islamic Cultures

of the book over and over and over again. The sense of modesty is important to the people and while it is especially true for wome...

Western Warfare Outline

The writer provides a one-page outline for the upcoming paper on the ineffectiveness of Western warfare methods in Afghanistan and...

Self-Esteem and the Impact of Advertising

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at advertising and its impact on women's self-esteem. The view that advertisers target...

Classical Era Transformation and Richard Tarnas' The Passion of the Western Mind

to accomplish this, Tarnas considers he authorship of men like Plato, as a basis for understanding the views of man and religion p...

Major Female Characters in Mohicans and Van Winkle

Women had few meaty roles in early American literature. This report deals with Cora and Alice Munro from The Last of the Mohicans...

Literature Review on Peasantry

(1983) noted that he is not worried about Marxism as historical materialism is a mode of inquiry as well as a form of revolutionar...