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lives, because it cuts across all the important dimensions: community, family and work (Sklar and Dublin, 2002). Power is also use...

writing The Pagan Servitude of the Church, which is also known as The Babylonian Captivity of the Church. Luther states overtly th...

all elections and public referenda and [be] eligible for election to all publicly elected bodies" (quoted Sakr, 2000). Therefore, ...

of their physical, biological and social milieu, and how we respond is governed by genetic make-up" (pp. 44-45). Postpartum-relat...

gender equality is seen throughout the world and not limited to the Middle East (Kandiyoti, 1991). To assess the link between wo...

The cultural bias against education for women was so severe in the eighteenth century that Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), note...

The right to vote can be considered the most important liberty that is provided by the American system of government. Unfortunate...

This research paper explored organizational websites of intuitions that focus on global issues, such as environmental issues, pove...

shocked the public because the protagonist, Edna Pontellier differed dramatically from the prescribed gender role for white women ...

background. Chopin does not relate a great deal about Ednas early life, but what she does indicate is extremely revealing, as the ...

century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...

the heros quest is self-realization, with the glory being more internal than external, the awakening of inner strength and self-kn...

in the only way that is culturally significant, as he would link her present to that "golden chain of male to male" (Lee 31). As...

but while she wears a scarlet A, she changes the nature of this symbol with her needlework. She makes this A from- ...fine red clo...

down, there was no living thing in sight" indicates a sort of foreboding as well, an indication that life ended here, in the water...

after the stories are done. In the beginning of both of the novels the women seem to be relatively happy, and perhaps ignorant, ...

This 6 page paper discusses the literary works and reputation of Kate Chopin, with emphasis on “The Awakening.” Bibliography lists...

to her parents, her teachers, and her classmates that something was diverting her attentions from her studies and even from her fa...

In six pages this paper considers the protagonists Dean Moriarty, Sal Paradise, and Edna Pontillier's self quests in On the Road a...

She was viciously attacked for her frank depiction of a woman who broke her marriage vows, despite the fact that the book is a psy...

one-way interplay between the ad and the viewer is a result of what Marx termed commodity fetishism, whereby the illusion of immed...

adopted Korean daughter of mixed racial heritage. Hata also was originally Korean, but was adopted by a Japanese family. Through f...

according to Wolff, cannot find a "partner or audience with whom to build her new story" and she is unable to build one all by her...

ways, but at the same time there are serious hints about her controlled and adequately "mature" life. In many ways the reader can ...

one dies alone is something that is realized here. In the end, Edna commits the ultimate act. No one can die with another human be...

an awareness of who she is and wants to be. The unfortunate thing about this discovery is that society and her husband stand as ma...

was a woman who was independent, has affairs, leaves her husband, isnt interested in being the sole person responsible for the upb...

freedom as expressed in The Awakening is a freedom from rules, expectations and people. Yet, other types of freedom had also been ...

for the homeless boy. This novel has garnered severe criticism in recent decades because Twain makes use of nineteenth century la...

page of fax.) Likewise, Teresa de Laurentis argues that Edna, in rejecting the "biological" definition of the feminine gender, al...