To What Extent is Lysistrata a feminist play In the play Lysistrata‚ women have absolutely no political rights. There is a war going on and one woman wants to put an end to it. It is my opinion the character Lysistrata can be viewed as a modern day feminist. She takes charge in the self-titled play and claims that war shall be the concern of Women! It is too important a matter to be left to men‚ for women are its real victims. Lysistrata wants to end the long war for it is taking a toll against
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Homer and "Lysistrata" by Aristophanes. "The Iliad" is a poem which is believed to be a collection of stories handed down through many generations but not of just one man. It is a story of the Trojan War and the leaders of the two city-states. When "The Iliad" was finally written‚ around 750 B.C.E.‚ the Trojan War had already been over for more hundreds of years. Because of this‚ many of the ideas and characteristics of "The Iliad" may have been changed from the original story. "Lysistrata" was a play
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The Double Standard With a Nike basketball shoes‚ and they are double cushion PU soles sold in the world‚ but it became the single cushion when the shoes are sold in China. What’s more‚ the price is 500 yuan higher than abroad. In the U.S.‚ the price is $ 125 (about 800 yuan)‚ and there are two ZOOM cushion. Beijing Industry and Commerce Bureau believes that Nike engaged in "double standards" on the product‚ and the Nike company discriminate Chinese and foreign consumers‚ and it against the Chinese
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We will all have experienced double standards once in our lives. We girls are constantly looked down upon for doing certain acts while most of the time boys are praised for the same things. Double standards may only continue to pervade our lives socially. Simply put‚ a double standard is a rule or principle applied more strictly to one gender than another. A simple action or attitude could have completely different implications depending on ones gender. What happens when a man or a woman steps outside
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Introduction As a universally used linguistic structure‚ double negation has long attracted the attention of scholars in foreign countries. But so far the research of double negation is limited to the study and analysis of negative words‚ negative markers and the surface structure of double negation‚ and is also restricted to one particular language. Despite the rallying cries of grammarians to banish the double negative‚ many people see the construction as a logical and vital part of the English
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The age-old double standard of sexuality and gender is a historical and still currently prevalent issue that both male and females both face‚ though one more than the other. A double standard‚ as defined by Merriam Webster‚ is a set of principles that apples differently and usually more rigorously to one group of people or circumstances than to another. It is clearly evident that there are double standards within the sexes regarding sexuality. Women are ridiculed‚ shamed‚ and stigmatized for being
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Do You Want People Who Have Committed Crimes To Roam the Streets of Our Free Society? Double Jeopardy Takes the Safety and Security that Our Government Promises Us Away. By allowing the double jeopardy rule‚ we are allowing‚ in some cases‚ people to "get away with it‚" as in‚ whatever they had done. You could argue that not all cases this happens‚ as a lot are innocent‚ but even if a few people were free after they had mass-murdered‚ then a lot of lives would be at stake. The reason that (most
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of income‚ expenses‚ assets‚ liabilities and capital change for a few transactions. 7. Double entry In this section‚ we see the double entry principles for income and expense accounts. 8. Example: Mr Allen - Double entry This section explains 3 transactions for Mr Allen in terms of double entry. 9. Double entry: Mr Allen - Student examples This section contains 6 transactions for you to complete the double entry required. After these transactions are recorded‚ you can then draw up the trial balance
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coined in 1903 by W.E.B. Du Bois‚ who described it as “the sense of looking at one’s self through the eyes of others”. Du Bois articulated that double-consciousness perpetuated oppression and did not allow for healthy individualism. As I started to discuss and write about the term‚ I began to realize that we all experience the effects of taking on double-consciousness in various facets of life. I could finally define what many new lifters‚ including myself‚ experienced in the
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of a double standard for Women today is a main reason why women become extremely radical. Women that do not appreciate being stereotyped and discriminated against‚ protest in forms of rallying and with lawsuits against people or institutions of society. The areas of society that use or even enforce a double standard against women may consider women to be inferior to men. This idea of superiority is discrimination. Often the work place‚ sports‚ and within homes do we see this idea of a double standard
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