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DOUBLE STANDARD BY ELLEN WATKINS HARPER

girl, outcast, forlorn/as thrown her life away?"). But the poet is adamant that both parties, the man and the woman involved in th...

Current Prejudices against Women in the U.S.

stereotypes about lesser female competence" (Swim et al, 1995, p. 199). Modern sexism, however, is characterized by "the denial of...

Strategic Campaigns in World War Two

North Africa - Operation TORCH: TORCH represents the first combined Allied action of the war, when British and American troops lan...

Gender Identy as Affected by the Media and Video Gaming

A 16 page essay exploring gender roles as they are affected by the media and by video games. These influences promote aberrant vi...

Betty Freidan's The Feminine Mystique

This paper provides a reading of Betty Freidan's book, The Feminine Mystique. The author points out how the role of the woman has...

Questions and Answers in Social Science

be changed by the individual who takes on a role and this is a positive aspect of roles. There are effects or consequences attache...

Genocide Since World War II

that barbarous act destroys the narrators faith: "Behind me, I heard the same man asking: Where is God now? And I heard a voice wi...

The Iron Age: Gender and Women

In 5 pages, this paper examines how roles and status of women were determined during the Iron Age. There are 4 sources cited....

Viewing Steingerd's Kormac's Saga from the Life and Death of Cormac the Skald

In this paper consistingn of five pages the nature of societies and the roles of women are presented in a consideration of values,...

Old Testament and Women

The temptress or protector roles of women in the Bible's Old Testament are discussed in a paper consisting of 5 pages. There are ...

Roles of Women in Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Ilyich and Anna Karenina

to them" (Rowe, 3). Intensely shy, he was nonetheless intensely sexual, and this was to present problems for him for the rest of h...

Philosophy's Role and Defense of Socrates in Apology by Plato

In two pages this paper examines philosophy's role and human activity purpose as well as Socrates' defense as represented in Apolo...

Theater Women and Their History

In five pages the role of women in theater is the focus of this historical overview that dates back to ancient times. There are 5...

Foreign Policy of Egypt and Women's Rights

In ten pages this paper examines Egypt's policies regarding women and women's rights. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography...

Medieval Women

"bodily integrity" on women are simply not present. Likewise, in regards to formal written statutes that pertain to the possession...

The College Experience for Veterans of World War II and Vietnam

pursued careers and got married and had children. The veterans of World War II settled down to were raise the children who were to...

Post 19th Century Canadian Workplace and the Role of Women

s labor force commitment are difficult to track as few studies have measured s labor force commitment at more than one point in ti...

Female Equality Struggle and 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

balance the levels of power each is able to wield. Not a Particularly Likable Woman! Since the Middle Ages of Chaucer and, no dou...

Automobile Repair Racket Targeting of Women

1992 that of every dollar women spent on automotive repairs, fifty cents of that dollar were not necessary expenditures and at tim...

'Black Woman' by Leopold Senghor

reality that the poem depicts is, therefore, purely African. It speaks of a passionate attachment to the land that works through t...

School Principal's Role

This extensive research paper describes the changing functions and role parameters for school principals. The writer describes the...

John W. Jeffries' Wartime America The World War II Home Front

In five pages this historical text is critically analyzed with the focus being on the author's informative perspectives. There ar...

Education and Women in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

and, indeed, inferior in learning only to the parson" (Irving). Interestingly enough, this also brings into play women, for the na...

Role of the Feminine in Ancient Creation Myth

males. In both "Enuma Elish" and in Hesiods mythology, the Earth goddess is described in terms of motherhood. Tiamet first rages a...

Historical Overview of Racism in California/1850 to World War II

its sweatshops while the lush farmlands of California had vast farming and cattle empires that depended on equally vast numbers of...

Enlightenment Theories and Rights for Women

In five pages this paper assesses equal rights for women in an examination of the Enlightenment theories expressed by Gouges, Woll...

Historical War Role of Technology

a society put all of its resources into technological research so that they could win a war. WWI gave the world better and faster ...

World War II Film The Best Years of Our Lives

three-time Pulitzer Prize winner. William Wyler was chosen as director, and an award-winning cast was assembled. It should be no...

Coaching Across the Gender Gap

New ideas on gender roles espoused by the feminist movement have resulted in women taking positions that were heretofore denied th...