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    Feminine Mystique

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    about themselves and their contributions? What did society as a whole think? 3) What role did mass media play during the 1950s and 1960s in regard to supporting or undermining the “feminine mystique”? 4) Which television heroine -- Alice‚ Lucy‚ or Miss Brooks -- came the closest to TRULY overcoming the feminine mystique‚ and elaborate on that heroine’s situation and relationship to the men in her life. It was 1957. Betty Friedan was not just complaining; she was angry for herself and uncounted

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    Charlotte

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    from this‚ one of the greatest proofs of how important friendship is was depicted between Charlotte and Wilbur. Without Charlotte’s help‚ Wilbur would be butchered in the slaughterhouse. In addition‚ it is exhibited in the story‚ that even though Charlotte’s life was nearing its end‚ she still thought of helping Wilbur‚ together with Templeton‚ in the fair to provide moral support for her friend. Although Charlotte passed away in the end‚ her life became more meaningful and happier by helping Wilbur

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    Esther Elaine Paddock

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    Esther Elaine Paddock was born as Esther Elaine Goddard on November 25‚ 1931. She was in New Berlin‚ New York. Esther’s parents were Doris Goddard and Lewis Goddard. Her sibling was Walter Edward Goddard. Esther lived on a hill. Esther started school when she was 5 years old. She attended Leonardsville Central School. This was a small updated school. Esther walked to school. Reading was Esther’s favorite subject. Esther enjoyed playing sports in school. The punishment used by her

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    The Feminine Mystique

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    provoked a second wave. The catalyst to mainstream feminism in the 1960’s through 1970’s was Betty Friedan’s book‚The Feminine Mystique. Women’s right activist and writer‚ Betty Friedan‚ a leading figure in the Feminist movement. Her book ‚The Feminine Mystique‚ was a major influence in the second wave of Feminism because it voiced what so many women lacked to say; they wanted more. The Feminine Mystique was published in 1963 and over two million copies were sold

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    Bronte Sisters

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    novel verges on turning into something else‚ like poetry or drama. In Wuthering Heights‚ realism in presenting Yorkshire landscape and life and the historical precision of season‚ dates‚ and hours co-exist with the dreamlike and the unhistorical; Brontë refuses to be confined by conventional classifications. The protagonists’ wanderings are motivated by flight from previously-chosen goals‚ so that often there is a pattern of escape and pursuit. Consider Catherine’s marriage for social position‚

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    The Feminine Mystique

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    In Feminine Mystique‚ Betty Friedan wrote about women’s inequality from men to women’s equality to men‚ women accepting the inequality to women fighting for equality. Feminine Mystique‚ is trying to encourage the reader to what occurred during the feminist movement. How women’s rights came to a reality‚ how women believed there was only one role to have which is a typical housewife that has a husband to overpower her. Not being able to vote‚ or have any rights as an equal to men. Friedan also

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    was firstly cultivated by their father Patrick Bronte. Patrick Bronte was ‘a poet‚ writer‚ and polemicist’ (Wikipedia.org)‚ who ‘was the author of Cottage Poems‚ The Rural Minstrel‚ numerous pamphlets and newspaper articles‚ and various rural poems’ (Wikipedia.org). He was an intelligent person‚ and he studied theology‚ general subjects‚ and ancient and modern history in Cambridge. His literary attainment influenced his children deeply. When Bronte sisters were young‚ they were allowed to read freely

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    Heroine Moll Flanders

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    Moll Flanders in Daniel Defoe’s novel is portrayed as a witty feminine heroine of survival and an innocent fallen angel of circumstance‚ rather than the vile and cruel criminals in factual materials in the 18th century. In comparing Moll Flanders with criminals in factual fiction‚ such as Anne Holland and Mary Frith (Moll Cutpurse)‚ there are a lot of resemblances. For example‚ the gender of these characters are all female; the last name Holland and Flanders are both some kind

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    Dad By Elaine Feinstein

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    Dad The poem that I’ll be analyzing in this commentary is called ’Dad’ by Elaine Feinstein. This poem is an emotional and lyrical poem in which the author is reflecting and recalling upon the memories of her deceased father. The main tones that are portrayed in this poem are sorrow‚ lovingness and mournfulness‚ and one way in which this is portrayed is through the methodology in which the poem is read‚ which is in a slow rhythmic speech and enjambment since it is a free verse poem. The author’s

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    Biography of Emily Bronte

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    Emily Bronte was born in Thornton on July 30‚ 1818 and later moved with her family to Haworth‚ an isolated village on the moors. Her mother‚ Maria Branwell‚ died when she was only three years old‚ leaving Emily and her five siblings‚ Maria‚ Elizabeth‚ and Charlotte‚ Anne‚ and Branwell to the care of the dead woman’s sister. Emily‚ Maria‚ Elizabeth‚ and Charlotte were sent to Cowan‚ a boarding school‚ in 1824. The next year while at school Maria and Elizabeth came home to die of tuberculosis

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