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    Analysis of Popular Culture’s Depiction of Gender Roles [pic] Julia Roberts’s movies in general‚ seem to hate men. In a real way‚ her pictures are as objectionable as these movies are regularly pilloried for the objectification of women‚ functioning as something reactionary version of feminism‚ which tends to denigrate the opposite sex as the only means of achieving gender equality. The big secret of such films as Mona Lisa Smile is that they are no big-budget Hollywood movie scene

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    Shifting Baselines

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    in America. Retrieved from http://justthink.org/about/childhood-obesity-in-america/?gclid=CLKG_KTQsq0CFUca6wodxggfmA Cornish‚ E. (2004). The futurist. The Art of Foresight ‚ 38‚ 31-37 Imbornoni‚ A. (2011). Women ’s rights movement in the U.S: timeline of key events in the American’s women rights movement from 1980-present. Retrieved from http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline3.html

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    Appearance vs. Reality

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    Rye by J.D. Salinger‚ and Little Women by Louisa May Alcott‚ the characters experience appearance vs. reality in many different ways. The most predominant ways would be‚ trying to be someone different‚ lies‚ and Protection. Both Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye‚ and the girls from Little Women‚ experience that things are not always as they first seem to be. Firstly‚ Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye‚ and Marmee and Meg March from Little Women‚ goes through similar experiences

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    Cindy Sherman

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    not be considered to be merely self-portraits: they are much more than that. She has transformed and staged herself as an unnamed actresses in undefined B-grade movies‚ make-believe television characters‚ pretend porn stars‚ undifferentiated young women in ambivalent emotional states‚ fashion mannequins‚ monsters from fairy tales and those which she has created‚ bodies with deformities‚ and numbers of grotesque images. Her works have been highly touted by a wide range of viewers‚ from feminist political

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    The Female Tradition A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing by Elaine Showalter Review by: Ruth Yeazell NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction‚ Vol. 11‚ No. 3 (Spring‚ 1978)‚ pp. 281-285 Published by: Duke University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1344968 . Accessed: 15/02/2015 09:17 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit

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    Moss 1 Christian Moss Mrs. Suzanne EN 1113-30 06 March 2013 An Annotated Bibliography for Women on the Front Lines Thesis: It is the duty of the Pentagon to protect the service men and women of the nation’s military. Therefore‚ the Pentagon should reverse its decision to allow women in combat because service women have a higher risk of injury or death due to their feminine weaknesses. "APFT Standards." US Army Basic APFT Standards Comments. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 22 Feb. 2013. This document issued by the

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    Women's Status in Pakistan

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    The situation of women in Pakistan "No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you; we are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live." Mohammad Ali Jinnah‚ 1944 (taken from the US Library of Congress report "Pakistan - A Country Study") Men‚ Women‚ and the Division of Space

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    Women in In Custody are presented as oppressed by the males‚ thus they are in this sense‚ a parallel to the colonized because both women and the colonized experience oppression and struggle with breaking free from the control of men and colonizers respectively. They are bound by the identity that their oppressors impose on them‚ one that is generalised and that entraps them. However‚ Desai also develops the women in In Custody as characters who assert control over the males in the novel in such a

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    Bharat‚ India And Nature By Sandeep Singh‚ February 2013 [sandeepconsultant@gmail.com] * 1 Chapter : In recent times the nation has witnessed a debate on ‘Bharat’ and ‘India’. The word “Bharat” has been essentially used by marketers to define rural India and unfortunately‚ this is the only language understood by most in media. However‚ for the rest‚ ‘Bharat’ and ‘India’ represent a cultural difference. The difference of ‘East and West’ has become difference of ‘Bharat and India’ or to a great

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    Women in India have attained greatness through the ages – in political‚ academic and spiritual spheres. They enjoyed freedom and equal participation in public life in ancient India. In the Rig Veda‚ women are placed at the highest pedestal – ‘Yatr nariyastu poojayante ramante tatr devah’ or where women are worshipped‚ Gods preside there. The Taittriya Upanishad teaches us ‘Matridevo bhava’ or ‘Let your mother be God to you’.  Swami Vivekananda rightly said‚ “All nations have attained greatness

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