Running head: A WOMAN ’S ROLE IN ANCIENT GREECE: 1000-500 BC A Woman ’s Role in Ancient Greece: 1000-500 BC A Woman ’s Role in Ancient Greece Most people can relate the city of Athens to freedom and democracy‚ as well as relate the city of Sparta to a highly restricted military dictatorship. This is because school has taught us that modern democracies are modeled after Athens‚ while military dictatorships are modeled after Sparta. However‚ history shows us that women had much more liberty
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`A Woman’s Voice: The Poems of Sappho of Lesbos(6th Century B.C.)` Sappho Translated by Stanley Lombardo Alley Miller- HIS 100 – Mid-Term Exam Essay `Sappho of Lesbos lived in a time in Greece where we have very little record of female accomplishments. Her poetry influenced stylistic poetry of the time and can be compared in composition and style to Elizabeth Barrett Browning or Richard Brautigan of a more modern era. Perhaps‚ what may be most notable about Sappho is that not only did her
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and Europe on the woman’s rights to vote and run for office which was later known as the woman’s suffrage. During this time period‚ only men were sought out as equals and acceptable to vote and/or run for office‚ whereas women were not viewed as working class citizens. In the middle of the 19th century‚ there was a demand in woman’s equality that became profound and well know as well as continuing to be a transformative history in time and today (Brown‚ 1993). Before the woman’s suffrage movement
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made. In the 1600’s‚ a woman’s role was to be a good Christian and live to serve your husband (Murkham). In the male-dominated world‚ a woman was to be a good housewife and take care of the kids. “Let our English housewife be a godly‚ constant and religious woman‚ learning from the worthy Preacher and her Husband.” In this short excerpt titled‚ “Countrey Contentments”‚ says the english woman should look up to the man and her religion (Murkham). Another example of a woman’s role in the 1600’s is from
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Reason why SHINee World loves SHINee endlessly The SM group is celebrating their eight year anniversary on May 25. It was not a short time for the group to survive in the strike of a huge K-pop wave nowadays. SHINee was debuted in May 25‚ 2008‚ and introduced as the contemporary group. Debut with so much talent in young age‚ SHINee also become the trendsetter among Korean youngster with their music and style. Their fans were involving so many Korean woman in various age‚ as they seem got star struck
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In Africa‚ AIDS Has a Woman’s Face The article In Africa‚ AIDS Has a Woman’s Face is about how women in rural Africa play a big role in the all around living of their families and how AIDS and H.I.V. is affecting it. What would be the outcome of Africa’s future if woman were no longer able to carry the same duties because of the AIDS epidemic? One of the main things is that woman in Africa are the back bone to the families and communities in general. Women are the ones that make all the decision
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A Black Woman’s Biggest Hater Is another Black Woman I like to think of myself as a cheerleader for all black people‚ especially other Black Woman prospering life. I’m 26 years-old and I have achieved some success in some areas‚ and I have come to find that my biggest hater is usually another Black Woman. --Shoots fired‚ this is a sensitive subject but it needs to be talked about. Now‚ you would think because we are all born with the same two strikes against us (being black and being a woman) that
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advertisement he promotes‚ leading to an increase in sexual aggression towards women. Tom Ford degrades women in all of his advertisements. In particular‚ his first fragrance ad was profoundly objectifying towards women’s bodies. The ad displays a woman’s body from just bellow her belly button to her mid thigh. Nested between her legs‚ on her pubic bone‚ is Tom Ford’s cologne. It is completely exploiting the female body. The woman in the photograph is no longer a woman‚ or even human‚ but instead her
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The Victorian Era: A Prison for a Woman’s Individuality As Victorian writer‚ George Meredith once dictated: “Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing‚ as we say‚ to die for the other‚ yet unwilling to utter the agreeable word at the right moment.” In the novella The Awakening by Kate Chopin‚ the main character Edna Montpellier is a Victorian woman awakened from a stagnant life of a typical turn-of-the-century marriage. She looks for a life outside of her family that she desires to branch
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In Naomi Wolf’s story‚ “A Woman’s Place” is about her giving women four messages for certain situations in a woman’s life‚ and that men always find a way to put women down in a sexist way. Wolf gives personal situations she or others have been through in their life‚ and what they faced as a woman. Situations from rape‚ sexual exploitation and becoming a woman. Wolf shows that it is needed for women to speak up and take action for themselves no matter what anyone says. For example‚ when Wolf says
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