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Women and Buddhism

"Buddhism is horizontal or human-oriented, not vertical or God-oriented"....

Colonial History of America Until 1877 and Women

Women, which have always constituted half of the colonial population, did not receive any type of "civil, political, or legal" rig...

Review of an Article on Nursing Research

to examine whether womens social roles mediate the impact of heart surgery on their psychological well-being" (Plach and Heidrich,...

Cultural Understanding of Chinese Women Through Literature and Art

woman who traveled to a foreign land, worked hard and then returned to her family would never be perceived in such a way. In fact...

Fonissa by Papadiamantis and Women

the roles of men and women and the cultural history of this place. It also offers a basis for perhaps sympathizing with the women ...

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...

Women’s Refusal in Euripides’ Medea and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...

Women in David Ferry’s Giglamesh

primary role was that of sexual object. But, at the same time it also illustrates that men did not like sharing their women with a...

“Interpreter of Maladies” and “The Woman Warrior”

the U.S. Maxine Hong Kingston was born in the U.S.; her parents emigrated from Hong Kong. But even though she is American, the pul...

Breast Cancer Risk

order to come to an uninformed answer to the research questions. Statistical analysis was not undertaken due to the inconsistenc...

“American Women in Flight Since 1940”: Insight into a Woman’s Place in Our Society

Much has been written about how womens societal roles have changed over the history of our country. One of the more interesting i...

Female Entrepreneurship

of female entrepreneurship and female career choices as well as underlying economic conditions (Mayer et al, 2007; Baughn et al, 2...

Greek Virtue

the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...

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 ...

Differences in Communication Between the Genders in the University Setting

politeness in womens communications, for example, that is often lacking in mens communication. Holmes (2005), in fact, describes ...

Two Passages from “The Iliad”

book, Ares is battling Diomedes; he thrusts at him but Athena knocks his spear away and Diomedes stabs the god. Ares flies up to O...

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...

Justice In The Labor Market For Women According To Age, Education And Work Experience: Southeast Region Of Puerto Rico

growing and the rate of unemployment falling, male labor force participation dropped by 3 percentage points...In sum, the U.S.-Pue...

WWII And The Cold War

This stereotypical clash with womens new on-the-job expectations created a shift in the treatment they received when toiling at a ...

The Relationship of Thetis and Achilles in “The Iliad”

Achilles is well aware that he is mortal and that his life will be brief, and Thetis recognition of his mortality "contrasts sharp...

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...

Supplication in "The Iliad"

its absolutely necessary, but then he wants something in return, because if he does lose her its a matter of honor. Achilles tries...

Society and Women: Sense and Sensibility by Austen

which involved a patriarchal society. At the same time there are characters in the story, female characters, who possess money a...

Antigone/The Female Role in Society

of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...

Women in Islam

the religion itself. And, one must perhaps understand that there are various forms and approaches to the religion so that there is...

The Cultural Messages of "Beauty and the Beast"

to "active" and "aggressive" pursuits. This is not the model we find in Beauty and the beast. In the fairy tale itself (this expl...

Submissive Women: Jackson, Miller, and Steinbeck

to Bill" (Kosenko). The women, in general, accept their position as submissive in the little community and it is actually only Tes...

Was Jesus A Feminist

women differently than the culture dictated? Did He treat them differently than He treated other people? Did Jesus behaviors place...

The Leadership of Women in Restoring the Everglades

p. 81). To Wollstonecraft, it was a mans world and the reason for problems in society had to do with the fact that women were he...

The Work of Jane Addams and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

living arrangements (Clinton & Barker-Benfield, 1998). In fact, a student writing on this subject notes that these women were call...