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    The Drowsy: A Short Story

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    Oh yeah‚ there’s just something about singing with a huge chorus‚ you know? I’ve been very fortunate to be in things like The Producers‚ The Drowsy Chaperone‚ Urinetown--quite a number of stuff‚ I guess. It’s just great to be on stage singing with a bunch of other people. I’ve not had the opportunity to actually be in a musical‚ but I was a music teacher‚ and I have gotten to direct musicals‚ and be the choreographer‚ and teach the music. Oh my gosh‚ you’re never sleeping. Definitely a tough gig

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    Gender Roles of Dracula

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    The Mixed-Up Gender Roles in Dracula In the Victorian Era gender roles were very clear-cut and were not to be ignored. Men were masculine‚ tough‚ and considered protectors. Women were meant to be pure‚ kind‚ matronly‚ and frail. These were the stereotypical social behaviors of the genders and they were very strongly enforced. Women wouldn’t find a husband if they began to act at all masculine and subsequently‚ men would never find a wife if they began to act feminine or do “girly” things. The

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    Gender Roles in Shakespeare It is a peculiar feature of Shakespeare’s plays that they both participate in and reflect the ideas of gender roles in Western society. To the extent that they reflect existing notions about the ’proper’ roles of men and women‚ they can be said to be a product of their society. However‚ since they have been studied‚ performed‚ and taught for five hundred years‚ they may be seen as formative of contemporary notions about the relationships between males

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    Gender Roles In The 1920s

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    Gender roles in America have not changed that much since the 1920s. Women’s role in the 1920s was to have an arranged marriage‚ to take care of the home‚ and to have children. Later in the 1920s‚ women are still expected to have these same views which defines what a woman is to act like. Even in today’s time‚ young girls are raised to be taught these values in the toy and costume market. Expected gender definitions blocks the true meaning to be a boy or a girl. Therefore‚ from the 1920s to 2015‚

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    Gender Roles and Society

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    Changing Gender Roles in Our Society: Women’s Education and Employment Education and employment go hand in hand now a day in order to become financially successful in life. These are two unmistakably major parts of society today. In order to become successful a good job is needed‚ and in order to get the job a good education is needed as well. But women especially need to emphasize more in these two subjects than men; due to past gender discrimination which brought on Equal Employment Opportunity

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    Gender can play a vital part in predicting criminal patterns. In the case of most crimes‚ the gender of the criminal could generally be bypassed completely‚ especially in the case of male perpetrators; or could become the sole focus of a case‚ especially in cases in which the perpetrator is a woman. Men are generally viewed as more violent and more aggressive by nature. Therefore‚ when women commit violent acts‚ their punishments can divert from the typical sentences given to their male equivalents

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    Gryphon Short Story

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    The short story Gryphon by Charles Baxter has an unusual character‚ a new substitute teacher at the rural community of Five Oaks in Michigan. The students meet with the strange lady who brings them strange yet fascinating lectures. Miss Ferenczi could be an exceptional teacher in a suitable environment‚ with her willingness to break the boundary in teaching method‚ her lectures on new materials never presented in textbooks‚ and her influence to help the students explore new things. I wonder if there

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    Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories Discuss the presentation and important of location in two of the short stories you have studied In this essay‚ I am going to discuss about the presentation and important of location in two of the short stories of Katherine Mansfield that I have studied. The two stories are "The Garden Party" and "An Indiscreet Journey". In "The Garden Party"‚ we have the Sheridan’s Family who live in the upper class side of an English Country. They are very high-class

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    Short Story - Emergency

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    Perspectives in Emergency Life can be repetitive‚ unclear‚ and colourful. It has its ups and downs‚ along with its dramatic twists and turns‚ but ultimately‚ life can be confusing. In the short story Emergency‚ Johnson suggests that when one is stuck in the same environment for too long‚ one’s grasp on life becomes artificial. Using symbolism‚ characters and anaphora‚ Johnson suggests that by “taking a break” from work‚ one can gain a clearer perspective on life. Johnson uses ‘blindness’

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    Despereaux: A Short Story

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    to 12’s. I fight alone‚ slogging through the muck of short passages‚ while others soar above on Nimbus 2000 broom sticks with Harry. I fight alone until I meet a little mouse named Despereaux.

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