A Plotting Princess: Female Roles in The Odyssey and Antigonê Karen Rustad The fairy tale Snow White is a story about two women. One‚ the evil stepmother‚ schemes against her stepdaughter in order to assuage her envy and increase her power. She‚ of course‚ is thwarted by the end of the story. The other‚ Snow White‚ is a pure‚ innocent damsel entirely devoid of will. Nevertheless‚ by the end her prince saves her and she lives happily ever after. While Snow White is a European fairy tale‚ its
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Female Genital Mutilation: A Case of Cultural Relativism (Or Not?) Abstract Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a cultural practice that involves the cutting of external female genitalia. Issues that need to be considered regarding FGM are its health consequences‚ the fact that it violates basic human rights and democratic principles (of paternalism)‚ and that the reasons why it is performed are completely unjustified. Supporters of the practice argue how it is a cultural right‚ and hence universal
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Socialization We are currently living in a society where women are making new gains in the business world and are obtaining more jobs that at one time were considered "male" jobs. But‚ it is still no secret that women and men are not treated as equals. From the beginning of your life you are either treated as a male‚ or a female. Not in terms of sex‚ but in terms of gender. Stephen Sweet (2001) describes sex as being genetically determined‚ while gender is a social term that encompasses the expectations
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Female Genital Mutilation – Violating Women’s Rights and Bodies Female Genital Mutilation is often abbreviated “FGM” and is also known as Female Genital Cutting (FGC) or Female Circumcision. According to the World Health Organization‚ there are 4 major types of practices. The most common one is the Clitoridectomy‚ a partial or total removal of the clitoris. The Excision is the partial or total removal of the clitoris and the labia minora and/or the labia majora‚ the inner and outer lips
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In constituting nature as female -- "I pursued nature to her hiding places" (49) -- Victor Frankenstein participates in a gendered construction of the universe whose negative ramifications are everywhere apparent in the novel. The uninhibited scientific penetration and technological exploitation of female nature is only one dimension of a patriarchal encoding of the female as passive and possessable‚ the willing receptacle of male desire. The destruction of the female implicit in Frankenstein’s usurpation
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likely to affect females to a greater extent than males? • Sexually transmitted diseases are more likely to affect females to a greater extent than males because they expose a greater surface area of mucous membrane during sexual contact. Why is a woman more likely to get an STD from an infected male than a male is to get it from an infected female? • A woman is more likely to get an STD from an infected male than a male is to get it from an infected female because females expose a greater
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FEMALE SERIAL KILLERS Rudyard Kipling once said that the female of the species is far more deadly than the male. Female serial killers more than prove that theory‚ yet they have always been something of an anomaly in criminology and a puzzle for law enforcement. These are the ’quiet killers’‚ every bit as lethal as their male counterparts‚ but we are seldom aware of one in our midst because of their low visibility. Most female crime is hidden. Kelleher & Kelleher (1998) argue that female serial
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to be considered beautiful or “perfect”. The topic of the “ideal” female body is really important to me because not only does it affect me and could potentially affect me as a model‚ it affects all women‚ and has been affecting women for thousands of years. Opinions on what the female body should look like have existed since men and women were first created thousands of years ago. People’s opinions on the “perfect” female body have evolved and changed more in the last few hundred years than
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Female Are Better Than Male General Purpose: to persuade Specific Purpose: to persuade the students that female are better than male I. Introduction Do you know Helen of Troy? She is a character in Homer’s famous Iliad and described by Dr. Faustus in Marlowe’s play as “the face that launched a thousand ships.” Helen of Troy is the woman who started the Trojan Wars. How about the late President Corazon Aquino? I bet we are all familiar with her as she is fondly called as “Tita Cory”
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Male SB7 response: “Where’s the baby?” (It seemed like these two spirits were trying to communicate with me‚ but not in response to a question. We believe the baby that was being referred to was the baby of the woman who stayed on the 3rd floor whose baby was still born.” Todd: “Stop hiding.” Male SB7 response: “I am and I love it.” With the last response‚ SVPI decided to wrap up the session. “My heart was pounding as quickly as it had when I was a child and I had seen an apparition that startled
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