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    A Personal Tragedy

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    tackles similar issues is Louisa May Alcott and her novel “Little Women”. Alcott conveys different perceptions for women and conventions what they must adhere to. Conventions in this retrospect deals with ideology that at a certain age young women give up their what is determined‚ a ‘childhood passion’ to assume the role of a wife. Both Phelps’s novel “ The Story of Avis” and Alcott’s “ Little Women” brings forth the idea that women through marriage were being suppressed and abused by the social constraints

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    Bride Burning in India

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    Bride burning in the Hindu religion is a hideous custom enforced by the Brahmin priests to eradicate non-Brahmin women‚ in order to destroy the non-Brahmin races. Other methods used are wife-burning‚ sati or widow-burning‚ jauhar‚ and witch burning. Most of these murders are passed off or regarded as kitchen fires and are never brought to justice. This is a result of the low status of women in India who are viewed more as personnel property that can be disposed of at anytime. About eighty percent

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    inspiration and an enormous impact in the women’s rights movement in the 19th and 20th centuries. She led and guided the way for countless feminists as her life progressed. By having such a strong‚ powerful voice on her opinion and views of the rights of women‚ she pioneered the fight for equality between man and woman. Mary Wollstonecraft wrote and published “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” in 1792 as a declaration of woman’s civil liberties to equality of education and to civil opportunities. She

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    Experience: practical contact with and observation of facts or events. Our life experiences are what people do‚ how they act‚ what they have done‚ where they are going. Our actions and experiences shape people to become who they are. The most important factor in why people choose to do something is life experiences. The way they handle the situation is based off what they have learned through their life. In the excerpt from “Abuela Invents the Zero” by Judith Ortiz-Cofer‚ the narrator‚ Constancia

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    Through her book‚ Gilman was able to remain optimistic. Women and other minorities admired Gilman‚ “her writings had a strong impact on the first generation of twentieth-century feminists.” Women and Economics is still very relevant today. “Women of ease and wealth provide for their children better than the poor woman can; but they do not spend more time upon it themselves‚ nor more care and effort

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    is one the most significant published women poets prior to the Romantic Period. Her poetry clearly reflects her experiences and struggles along her witty personality and her candidness; her diverse work in poetry not only documents her personal struggles‚ but the social and political turmoil during that era. Undoubtedly‚ Finch’s greatness is due to the encouragement that she received from her family‚ husband‚ friends‚ and colleagues. Although education for women was neither common nor encouraged in

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    Shattered Bonds

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    Reflection Paper In this paper‚ I will be reflecting on the aspects of women studies that I have learned about‚ disagreed or agreed upon‚ and pondered about‚ felt a sense of empathy about‚ a sense of rage and a feeling of helplessness. I will be exploring what women studies is all about and what I have gotten out of the reading assignments for this class over this semester. This paper will be a summary of the key points in the readings of this class that left a mark on my mind and which have shaped

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    through the advent of the rise in fiction by Indian women writers that the woman has been able to assume a major role in the novel. Many of the Indian women novelists focus on women ’s issues; they have a woman ’s perspective on the world. This has allowed them to create their own world. It has made it possible for the women writers to set the conditions of existence‚ free from the direct interference of men. Among the different Indian women writers who have made the female character their main

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    The Day America

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    anymore? Does anything matter? Doubl comes with freedom as surely as ash follows fire. Americans in the 1990s haw more of both freedom and doubt-and of depression too­ than did any previous generation. In interview after interview‚ we saw men and women grappling with the cOl1l>equences of their new freedom to define their own moral codes: • If no one I can trust is available to counsel me‚ how can I be sure thal what I’m doing is right? • Is the other person-my lover‚ my business partner-playing

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    The Thing in the Forrest

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    experience in the forest. Then by chance meet back at the scene and briefly reassure one another that what happened really did happen. But their contact ends there once again almost as if seeing each other was too uncomfortable. Then oddly enough both women end up going back to the forest looking for some kind of resolve. In “The Thing in the Forest” the two little girls encounter a terrifying creature that profoundly affects their sense of reality; this results in similar personal traits and shared sense

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