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    The modern woman “We generally didn’t see all that much of each other. Maybe once a month‚ twice at the most. I’d ring her up and invite her out somewhere. We’d eat out or go to a bar. We talked intensely; she’d hear me out and I’d listen to whatever she had to say. We hardly had any common topics between us‚ but so what? We became‚ well‚ pals. Of course‚ I was the one who paid the bill for all the food and drinks. Sometimes she’d call me‚ typically when she was broke and needed a meal. And then

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    Passing Down Values and Traditions In the mid-nineteenth century a girl named Ni-bo-wi-se-gwe (Oona) was born in pitch darkness in the middle of the day when the sun and moon crossed paths. The book Night Flying Woman by Ignatia Broker is biography of Broker’s great-great-grandmother‚ Oona. It describes Oona’s life through what Broker has learned from her grandparents when they passed down the stories. In the book‚ one of the main themes is passing traditions on. I chose this theme because in the

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    Ellen Ullman wrote How to Be a “Woman Programmer” it embarks on the sexism that she has faced during the sixties where sexism had started to peak. She and two other women has endorsed comments from her boss and coworker‚ touched when hadn’t consented to it. Women had become outsiders in the male dominated work place‚ and Ullman hired start-ups which consisted mainly of younger women. She doesn’t tell other women to bit the bullet and take all the remarks and anything else that comes with sexism because

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    This is a written text‚ containing a picture of a flawless woman with the title “Fighting the Flaws” and pictures of acne and scar treatments down the bottom side. The intended target for this article would be mostly women who want to present themselves and make them feel better about their looks. You can tell this because in the paragraph it states that; “Research suggests that around 18 percent of adult women suffer from acne.” The authors of this article want the reader to realize that they are

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    The book The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: witchcraft in Colonial New England‚ takes the reader on a journey looking deeper in to the female being viewed or seen as a witch in the Colonial New England times. Strong themes within this book discuss the role of women in the puritan society and the impact of that on gender relations. The underline concept in which the author is trying to portray is one of the women not necessarily being anything other than socially vulnerable at the time. When looking

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    Throughout the book‚ The Woman Warrior‚ by Maxine Hong Kingston‚ the generation gap between the narrator and Brave Orchid is evident. The narrator feels that her mother’s culture values have no relevance in America. In the chapter‚ At the Western Palace‚ Brave Orchid sends for her sister‚ Moon Orchid‚ to come to America and urges Moon Orchid to confront her sister’s husband. The ideas that Brave Orchid has are bold and they conflict with Moon Orchid’s nature. Brave Orchid and

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    or else‚ they are left as outsiders in society. After Grace gets the job to work as a house servant for Mrs. Alderman Parkinson‚ she meets Mary Whitney who influences Grace to follow the roles of women in order for her to have a positive life as a woman‚ instead of becoming an outsider: I should remember that we were not slaves‚ and being a servant was not a thing we were born to…it was just a job of work. She said it was the custom for young girls in this country to hire themselves out‚ in order

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    genitalia‚ with lower overall sexual satisfaction and a poorer quality of life in terms of body image” (Veale). All of the women who were surveyed wanted the operation because of the appearance of their labia. Obviously we cannot assume that every woman who gets or has gotten labiaplasty done does it because of how their labia looks‚ but a disproportionate amount do. This is not an urban myth I am making up to scare you or anyone else: this is a serious issue. I feel that it is also important to point

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    Charles Colson painted this “Portrait of a Creole Woman.” One attraction of the Old State Capitol’s interior is a large iron spiral stairway crowned by this beautiful stained glass dome. The building was one of the first in the South to be constructed of brick on a cast iron

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    deep historical bias‚ women‚ especially the unfaithful ones‚ were treated poorly and viewed worthless compared to men. Those that committed adultery were tortured and persecuted publicly‚ just like Maxine Hong Kingston’s aunt in her story “No Name Woman.” The aunt was pregnant‚ had her house raided by angry villagers‚ birthed her baby in a muddy pigsty‚ and then committed suicide by jumping into the family well with her newborn. In the essay‚ Kingston incorporated three different genres that worked

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