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    THE ROLE OF THE WOMAN IN THE RENAISSANCE “Two of far nobler shape‚ erect and tall; Godlike erect! With native honour clad in naked majesty‚ seemed lords of all; and worthly seemed; for in their looks divine the image of their glorious Maker shone‚ truth‚ wisdom‚ sanctitude‚ severe and pure‚ whence true authority in men: though both not equal‚ as their sex not equal seemed; for contemplation he and valour formed; for softness she and sweet attractive grace; he for God only‚ she for God in him.”

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    Love and Pisces Woman

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    PISCES MAN He is very emotional and always allow himself to be very emotional. He can have a good night sleep and be in a good mood‚ and less than few hours at work he can be very moody. He does not understand things or try to understand things easily. If you notice him carefully‚ you will notice what kind of moods he is in. He is a thinker and able to do well at work and always succeed. His normal gestures mean he always look at other people faults‚ but he will not talk about it. He has the ability

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    Why Is Diotima a Woman?

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    character. She related to Socrates the theory of love that he described to the partygoers at Agathon’s banquet‚ a celebration of Agathon’s victory at the competition of Dionysis in Athens and of Eros. Before we search for the idea of why Diotima is a woman‚ we should first discuss a little about her. We know that‚ if she were an actual person‚ she would have been born around 470 BCE and died around 410 BCE. She might have been a priestess from Mantinea. Now if she was a real priestess or poet is uncertain

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    The Woman In Black By Susan Hill Before reading the book I already had a general idea of what was bound to happen within the story as I was brave enough to watch it last year starring Daniel Radcliff as Arthur Kipps which ruins the book for me . However reading the book was still interesting and enjoyable because the film is not exactly shown what’s on the book. The movie helped me picture the characters such as Radcliff within the story . Woman in Black starts as Mr Kipps as an elderly tells

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    have not been learned and therefore are not manipulated. In the movie Victor Victoria‚ nonverbal cues are used to emphasize the gender of characters. There are certain nonverbal cues that accentuates a woman. One example from the movie is Victoria’s long hair. Long hair in the 1930’s was how a woman was identified. Toddy cuts Victoria’s long hair to create the illusion that she is man. Along with a woman’s long hair‚ their breast were also a symbol of womanhood. Victoria is asked to wrap her breast

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    enjoyment of her friend‚ but‚ a wild woman‚ kept rollicking company” Kingston continues‚ “Imagining her free with sex doesn’t fit‚ though. I don’t know any woman like that‚ or men either (8).” This story and her portrayal of the events that led to her aunt’s suicide were the beginning of Kingston’s path to ending the silence and discovering her own identity. Kingston recognizes the injustice that her aunt‚ who she named the No Name Woman‚ received. Being a woman‚ she would have been blamed for the

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    Old Mrs Grey

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    Old Mrs. Grey” Born in 1882‚ Virginia Woolf was an author‚ feminist‚ critic‚ essayist‚ pacifist and one of the founders of the Modernist Movement in Literature. Like many of her contemporaries in the Movement‚ she employed a vivid and descriptive stream-of-consciousness writing style that was rooted in the popular Freudian psychoanalytic theories of the day; and in fact‚ both of her brothers became psychoanalysts. Woolf regarded herself as “mad”‚ having bouts of debilitating depression brought

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    Old Man Marlin

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    The Old Man and the Sea was wrote by the author Ernest Hemingway. Told in great power and simplicity‚ The Old Man and the Sea is a cuban fisherman with little to no luck when it comes to fishing. Yet what keeps him going is a kid named Manolin and a Marlin fish. Santiago is the name of the old man‚ and what makes him so happy to catch the marlin is because of his recent unluckiness of not catching a fish for 84 days. There is a strong sense of symbolism in the book‚ the symbolism is used to tell

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    Year Of The Woman In Film

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    TODAY Written byClaudia Puig December 20‚ 2002 Year of the woman in film Pg. 1E Nicole Kidman was convinced she wasn’t right for the part of Virginia Woolf in the film adaptation of the Pulitzer-Prize wining novel‚ The Hours. "I almost talked myself out of it‚" she says. Until she learned Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would be her co-stars. "From the moment they said these are the other women‚ I didn’t even think twice‚" says Kidman. "This opportunity rarely comes along. It’s unheard of‚ to be honest

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    The Old Maid Sexism

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    novella‚ The Old Maid‚ carefully details the lives of the Old New York elite in the 1850s. Despite having all the glitz and glamor associated with a lavish lifestyle‚ many of the characters do not have the courage to effect change in their lives. The truth of the matter is that money creates the illusion of free will because individuals are still limited by strict societal expectations‚ specifically unwritten codes of behavior‚ that if not followed results in bitter judgment. While this ironic repression

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