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Victorian Literature and Women

In five pages this paper discusses how social commentary during the Victorian Age was expressed through female characterizations i...

World Events, Bias, and Religious Prejudice

In seven pages this paper discusses such global events as sect to established religion transition, Medieval Christianity and Europ...

Misconceptions About African Women in Literature

family. He rejects anything feminine and never displays anything remotely resembling passivity. This contention is reflected in ...

Women and Geoffrey Chaucer

to some extent. One critics opinion seems to support such a perspective: "The Wife of Baths negative image seems only to have chan...

Women in A Woman by Sibilla Aleramo and The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

womans plight in a turbulent time in history. "The Leopard", in comparison, is more of an outline of male expectations in regard ...

A Study of Kuwaiti Women and Breastfeeding

just blame bottle-feeding for a childs rotten teeth). Second, from a cultural and societal standpoint, breast-feeding seems to be ...

Literature By and About Women

a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see that the past, which involves at least Sethes enslavement, is very real ...

Little Women Examined with a Critical Eye

mother, "Little Women centers on the conflict between two emphases in a young womans life-that which she places on herself, and th...

Women, Literacy and Health Care Critique of “A Winning Combination: Women, Literacy and Participation in Health Care”

by practicing nurses in this area. Both of the authors also hold advanced degrees: one holds a Masters degree and teaches at a co...

'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri and Gender

involving gender or related themes like romance and marriage. Yet, sex and love are highlights in the Inferno. Dante also writes o...

Role and Status of Women in 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton, Lysistrata by Aristophanes, 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer, and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

way to a jousting tournament rematch with the mysterious Green Knight, Sir Gawain is the houseguest of the absent Lord Bercilak, a...

Literature Review on Culture, Aging, and Women

This paper examines culture and aging as each relates to women in a review of Figuring Age by Woodward, Mother Time by Walker, and...

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...

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...

Gender Roles and African Women in African and French Literature

This paper examines the depiction of African Women in Camara Laye's The Dark Child and Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood in fiv...

Case Study/Self-Harm, Lacerations on Wrist

who self-cut associated this behavior with "acute and chronic states of emotional distress" in which these individuals indicated f...

The Depiction of Reality in the Age of Global Production

In all cases they may be seen as art that is breaking boundaries as they are seeking to break down social barriers and taboos, dea...

Women in African Literature

a household that is constantly physically abused by the father. He is a product of colonization and Catholicism and believes that ...

The Treatment of Women in Literature

of the real killer can be found, she is condemned and executed. Elizabeth marries Frankenstein and they flee to what they think is...

Case Study in Gender and Family Health

or not W is a farmers wife and if rural living is simply a lifestyle choice. Statistics suggest that there is a greater incidence ...

Smoking & Increased Prevalence of Lung Cancer in Women

be used to guide research investigation, as it can provide a framework on which empirical research can be based. For example, the ...

Mentally-Ill Homeless/Mexican-American Women

of child care (Rosenheck, Bassuk and Salomon, 2003). Homeless women and men are more likely to have a history of mental illness th...

Mexican-American Women/Access to Care

A 5 page research paper. A previous research paper on this topic (khmexamh) discussed mentally ill homeless Mexican American women...

Depression in Elderly Women

This longitudinal study examined gender differences in depression between a cohort of 754 men and women over age 70, beginning in ...

Karl Marx, A Life and A Philosophy

history. This paper describes his life, how he formed his beliefs, and what his contemporaries thought of him. It also discusses h...

Gender Discrimination in Africa

what emotional abuse is. The violence is almost always at the hands of husbands, ex-husbands, fathers, brothers other family membe...

The Impact of Religion on Women in Post-Colonial Literature

minority writers are rife with issues of postcolonial interest. It is commonly held that the literature of colonial societies refl...

Newspapers Their History and Their Future

Newspapers have played an incredibly important role in world history. For the last five hundred years of so, in fact, newspapers ...

The Stigma Borne by Muslim Women

Muslim women who are living in mainstream US society in many cases struggle with a definite societal stigma....

The Depiction of Women in Ancient Literature

political actions. Stories of Cleopatras focus on Julius Caesar and her use of Caesars images to maintain a relationship with Oct...