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    Thin Is Beautiful

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    heavier than she currently is. Surely‚ any girl who is slightly heavier will feel negative about her image because the "popular" and "cool" characters on the show are making fun of her weight. Most any other sit-com has the same gorgeous style of women. On Will & Grace for example‚ the star playing Grace has a beautiful slim body and flaunts it from time to time. On Dharma and Greg‚ the star also has a thin body and wears smaller clothes as well. Search mostly any sit-com and surely‚ one will

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    The Storm: Hope Alcee Wore a Raincoat In the late 1800’s women were completely controlled by men. A woman’s purpose in life was to marry‚ reproduce and serve their husband and the cost of their own needs and desires. When Kate Chopin wrote “the Storm‚” in 1898‚ she wanted to express how women were sexually repressed and that women were in fact complex sexual beings that had sexual needs. It was long believed in Chopin’s era‚ that woman where not sexual by nature and incapable of having a sexual

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    Perception of a Woman

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    a gift of god‚ and nature. Women were also viewed as a figure that could purify passionless love that could bring a sinning man back to Christ. It was said that some women viewed religion as a kind of tranquilizer for the many young devoted girls and that it was better to “pray than to think”. The main reason why religion was viewed as so important was because it did not take a woman away from her duties‚ “proper sphere”‚ or her home ; unlike other activities that women would engage in such as the

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    As a result‚ Esperanza draws her strength from the very sources of her oppression (Kuribayashi and Julie). Since she was a child‚ Esperanza personality is rebellious. The segment of “Hair” Esperanza describes her family’s hair‚ but when she defines her he said‚ “And me‚ hair is lazy. It never obeys barrettes or bands” (Cisneros‚ 6-7). She describes her as disobedient. In “My Name‚” Esperanza demonstrates the perspective of racist Anglo society toward her Mexican origins. She compares her name to

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    In the poem Glory of Women Sassoon finds fault with women’s behaviour during World War one. Do the women in Cannan’s poem make the same mistakes as the women Sassoon describes? 700 – 1000 Both of the poems are about World War one‚ and describe the author’s thought on how women fit in the war. Sassoon writes very negatively about women‚ while Cannan is very positive. There are many reasons for this. Keep in mind that Sassoon is a man‚ who fought in the war and got wounded and treated in a hospital

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    Raise the Red Lantern

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    is what a woman is required to do. The purpose of her existence in a wealthy household is to serve the Master. Their lives are controlled by the Master and they have to do what the Master orders them to do. During the opening scene‚ the role of the women is explained by Songlian when she was talking to her mother about “a woman’s fate”. She said that a woman’s fate in a China is to serve their husband and that they should have no freedom. This scene was taken using a close up of her face and the tears

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    Phoebe Pyncheon

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    availability combined." She doesn’t fret about all the other things women usually do‚ like housework. She’s willing to work with a smile on her face and no complaints. This not only puts her as Hawthorne’s perfect woman‚ but also as the ideal American woman. She is part of the new revolution of women who aren’t only housewives‚ yet are out in society to make a name for themselves. Hepzibah’s beliefs differed‚ by her feeling that women were‚ “the shadowy food of aristocratic reminiscences.” Also‚ she

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    general‚ persuades young women to feel that any size above a two is too big. “In 1950‚ when televisions were first finding their way into homes‚ the media’s portrayal of “the ideal” female figure was drastically different than it is today. At that time‚ mannequins and models more or less reflected the average woman’s size. Mannequins and models have grown thinner by the year‚ increasingly desperate with the average women’s physical form (Radar).” Actresses and other famous women do not help with this

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    “While most of the women had sallow faces‚ hers looked white and healthy like fresh milk (148). Unlike the other women in her community who wore pants and jackets all the time‚ Mu wore dresses and that staggeringly separated her from the other noblewomen. The day she was taken by the guards “Mu wore a sky-blue dress‚ which made her different from the other women who always...”(p148). She had a “purple wart beside her left nostril” (p148)‚ that set her apart from the other women‚ a beauty mark I imagine

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    of the mask it to teach the young women refined attitudes and feminine gestures and how to move gracefully and elegantly through the movements of graceful movement of the dancers. The mask is worn by a man wearing a net tunic. The mask is also worn by boys undergoing initiation and other ceremonies to assist in fertility and prosperity (index.html). According to Manuel Jordan‚ the masks facial features include masoji‚ or tears‚ below the eyes‚ and that the women wear a clay-packed wig that is reminiscent

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