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Mexican Culture and Chicana Feminism

This paper examines the gender inequality that has always characterized Mexican culture in a consideration of Chicana feminism con...

Ulysses by James Joyce and Modernism

In ten pages this paper examines modernism within the context on Ulysses and how James Joyce varies the portrayal of Homer's Odyss...

Gender and Culture in America by Linda Stone and Nancy McKee

In five pages this book is examined and various questions regarding gender, biology, and culture are answered....

Various 'Pickup' Approaches

In seven pages this paper considers how both genders employ 'pickup' lines in an outmoded meeting approach that is still being use...

Scholarly Criticism of 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

to admit for three days that he was dead. The narrator says, "We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. W...

Feminism and the Role of Clytemnestra

Agamemnon's actions led to his demise at the hands of his wife, Clytemnestra. While Aeschylus shows her as a strong woman who exac...

The Early Christians and the Ancient Greeks Comparing Their Gods

Looking at Saint Augustine's 'Confessions' and Homer's 'The Iliad', the author finds characters and situations that represent the ...

Comparative Analysis of Achilles and Hector in 'The Iliad' and Penelope and Odysseus in 'The Odyssey'

Two characters from each of Homer's epics are compared in five pages in order to ascertain which is the most heroic of the charact...

The Anger of Homer's Achilles

In five pages anger as a motif and character motivation in Homer's 'The Iliad' is explored. There are no other sources listed in ...

Trojan War and 'The Iliad' by Homer

were arranged on three concentic terraces that focused on the royal residence ("New..." 33). Recent excavation has discovered that...

Romance and Epic Characteristics

individual stories into the tapestry that became his famous epics. He did not create the stories; they had come from hundreds of y...

Two Very Different Heroes Aeneas and Achilles

ultimate control, where there could be no arguments. Although all power was concentrated in the hands of a single ruler, Roman c...

Egypt's Burial Rites and Homer's 'The Iliad'

In three pages this paper examines the events presented in Homer's epic in comparison with the burial rituals of Egypt in a consid...

Male Sexual Harassment

In seven pages this paper discusses how contemporary society defines sexual harassment and considers how the law addresses victimi...

Wolfinger and Rabow's Article 'The Different Voices of Gender'

the content. This is a part of gendered speech that needs investigators. These were all reasons for the investigators to undertake...

Classical Literature Identity Questions

In five pages this paper examines the definition of identity in the works of Euripides, Sophocles, Sappho's poetry, the Oresteia, ...

The Iliad and The Aeneid

Homer's and Virgil's works are compared and contrasted. This research report suggests that various trends for each of these works....

Penelope of 'The Odyssey' vs. Desdemona of Othello

In three pages Homer's Penelope is compared with William Shakespeare's Desdemona in terms of Desdemona's simplicity and naivete in...

Armor of Achilles in 'The Iliad' by Homer

In five pages Homer's poetic epic is examined in a consideration of the significance of the armor worn by Achilles and the effects...

Heroic Comparison of Hector and Achilles in 'The Iliad' by Homer

In five pages this paper compares the heroes Hector and Achilles as presented in Homer's epic in an evaluation of whose heroism wa...

Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days Compared

In five pages the heroes in these classic works are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" - Class And Masculinity

of independence and material possessions as a way to shed the discomfort of her less-than-copious upbringing. While Dreiser sough...

Should Gay And Lesbian Couples Be Allowed To Adopt?

Accordingly, each parent represents a much-needed entity in the growth of a child: The mother provides stability and sanctity, whi...

Gender Roles and the Medical Field

of females in allopathic medical school constituted forty-five percent of the total number of students (Salsberg and Forte, 2002)....

The Role of Gender in Domestic Violence

abuse anyway? Does it mean beating another human being exclusively or can other physically violent acts qualify? In studying this ...

The Role of Gender in Violence

by men. Some people have argued that our society itself allows men to abuse women because of the fact that they are male. Michae...

Gender Role and Asian Depictions in Film

demanded. They were depicted as speaking little or no English and as sticking out in terms of being different due to their distin...

Review of Homer's 'The Iliad'

which the argument that arises between the Greek heroes, Achilles and Agamemnon. The poem begins roughly ten years into the war an...

Nursing and Gender Role Stereotyping

first started to administer to the injured and the sick, the notion that nurses should be women has prevailed (Odendaul, 2004). T...

Families, Gender, and Cultural Roles

paper, well examine the structural-functional paradigm and determine how it pertains to the role of gender in the family. Well the...