representation of female subjects More than three quarters of Degas’ works‚ including his paintings‚ drawings‚ pastels‚ prints and sculptures‚ comprise of images of women. Degas‚ similarly to a scientific researcher‚ investigated the female form through a plethora of representations‚ ranging from his early and rather reserved portraits of relatives to the laundresses and cabaret singers of his Impressionist years. Moreover‚ he was even dubbed to have been obsessed by the pursuit of the female image the
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Tracy Gibson November 4‚ 2012 Female Body Image: The Victim of Women’s Magazines There are over twenty thousand magazines published every year in the United States‚ and the vast majority targets a female audience. Women who read magazines on a regular basis do so because they believe the information they find within will bolster them up and help them be better women. What they don’t realize is that they are inadvertently supporting an industry that purposely sets out to foster
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Writing From/About the Exile: Joanna Russ’s Utopia The Female Man " Culture is male. This does not mean that every man in Western or Eastern) society can do exactly as he pleases‚ or that every man creates the culture solus‚ or that every man is luckier than every woman. What it does mean…is that the society we live in is a patriarchy. And patriarchies imagine or picture themselves from the male point of view. There is a female culture‚ but it is an underground‚ unofficial‚ minor culture‚ occupying
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The webinar presentation‚ loneliness among older adults in Canada presented by Professor Norah Keating. The presenter began by defining what loneliness was using various geriatric theories about the aging process. Prof. Keating described the difference between being alone and being lonely. During her study‚ she wanted to research what risk factors cause people in Canada to be lonely and how to reduce them. Loneliness is the quantity or quality of one’s social interactions and expectations regarding
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Doth he Speaketh the Truth? Nay say I. While reading the Funeral Oration made by Pericles‚ son of Xanthippus and a Athenian General‚ I realized that he made some statements about Athens that did not seem quite right‚ in fact down right boastful in certain places. So I did some research and found a few other sources that wrote about that same speech to include my history textbook to see if what I was reading/thinking was correct. My objective with this essay is to show three instances of the speech
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different pieces from people like Pericles‚ Aristotle and Dahl from those we learned what they think makes a democracy work. Pericles was the leader of Athens from 460–429 B.C. He developed a democracy based on majority rule. In “Pericles Funeral Oration” he describes Athenian
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When I look at the topic male-female communication‚ the first thing that comes up to my mind is that man and woman must have a very good communication‚ because there are only men and women in the world. But as I think a little bit deeper‚ there is something different between a man and a woman‚ different types of talking styles‚ different ways of thinking‚ and different point of views. For instance‚ if a guy thinks that he spends too much time on his girlfriend‚ but somehow she might think that he
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Pericles uses the speech of the Funeral Oration to promote Athens. He believed in his people and through this speech he was able to get the people to be proud to be Athenians. Athenians were very proud of their city and its customs. They had a great deal of respect for the warrior class and believed they were top members of their society. Warriors were classified as heroes. The funeral oration was to respect the ones who had died in battle or after battle to build this city into what it had become
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The Athenians in ancient Greece have been known as being a historically significant civilization with exemplary moral and legal codes that have been used as a model for democracy in the western civilization. However‚ in Pericles’ Funeral Oration‚ Pericles expounds on how the Athenian mentality and way of life is superior to all the others due to the values that they deem as important in their society. According to Pericles‚ the Athenians consider themselves to be an intellectual people that treat
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Both Pericles “Funeral Oration” and George W. Bush’s address to the nation after the 9/11 terrorist attack were given at times of grief and mourning. Pericles “Funeral Oration” was given in 431 BC after the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War. Pericles gave this speech to pay tribute to the people lost in battle. Pericles was chosen to give the “Funeral Oration” by the city of Athens as he was a leading citizen of Athens‚ as he was an orator and general during the Golden Age. This was
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