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    Each country has its own cultures about gender roles. To be more specific‚ the female roles in Vietnam and America differ. First‚ Vietnamese women tend to taking care of their children by following and watching them daily. They spend much more time with their children‚ even if they are busy with work. From Vietnamese mothers’ perspectives‚ the children is everything they have so they can sacrifice anything to lead the children into a better future. This leads them to be more strict and sometimes

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    Contrary to the dominant narrative that portrays women as victims of war and genocide‚ women have played a vital role in the participation of these atrocities‚ ranging across region‚ time‚ and event. Beginning in the 1990’s‚ with a rise in feminist and gender theory‚ historians have become interested in studying women’s roles in war‚ not only as victims of violence‚ but also as perpetrators. One of these watershed moments in this study was Jean Bethke Elshtain’s Women and War‚ which argued that women

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    Women’s roles were arguable in the 20th-century‚ they had many limitations in politics‚ education and jobs. Many women disliked how they were perceived‚ women were described as “The weaker sex but the more virtuous one”(Canadian Encyclopedia). This description of what women were seen as in the 20th-century is why so many women came together to make a change. The way women banded together to change the way society viewed them had a big impact in history. Throughout the 20th-century women have made

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    World War II delivered destruction in all countries that are in war and women roles are very significant‚ they became men in their respective countries and provide support in different ways woman also saw combat during WWI firstly as nurse in the army nurse corp. and united states navy nurse corps during the pearl harbor attack on Dec-7-1941. During WWI and WWII woman were called a by necessity to do work and to take on roles that were outside their traditional gender expectation. In Great Britain this

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    Gender Roles within Bless Me‚ Ultima Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me‚ Ultima is considered to be one of the centerpieces to Chicano culture. The novel follows a family of six children during the Second World War. Three of the children have left for the war and the family takes in an old curandera‚ or medicine woman. Progressing through the novel‚ Anaya opens a window to the Chicano gender roles to the reader. Broadly speaking‚ in a typical male dominated culture‚ the men are responsible for all affairs

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    Women’s Role in Ancient Roman Society Women in ancient Rome had different lives and education than women today. Since their lives differed so much from men’s lives‚ women were treated in a different manner than men. Their lives were different in the household‚ in society‚ and even in the educational system! Even the poor and the rich had a large gap between them based on what they were allowed to have or do in society. The way women were treated back then has changed so much‚ and it is important

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    Born on approximately April 23‚ 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon‚ England‚ William Shakespeare is considered by many to have been the greatest writer the English language has ever known. His literary legacy included 37 plays‚ 154 sonnets‚ and five major poems. Among his many plays is the notable‚ Twelfth Night‚ a romantic comedy‚ placed in a festive atmosphere in which three couples are brought together happily. The play opens with Orsino‚ the Duke of Illyria‚ expressing his deep love for the Countess

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    Christopher Sanchez Sanchez 1 ENC 1102 Professor Smith 05/25/17 The Moralities of Opposite Genders In his play entitled‚ “A Doll’s House‚” the creator Isben exemplified the theme of women and the role they played in society. In this play‚ you should pay great attention to the lack of inequality between women and men. How may you ask? Torvald‚ who was Nora’s husband‚ believed that women had simple‚ but specific duties to tend to. He believed that it was a women’s duty to not only honor and

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    almost every line. In the play‚ the idea of marriage is completely satirized‚ where Felix is seen as the stereotypical cleanly wife‚ and Oscar is seen as the untidy husband. Because of Simon’s authentic yet comedic development of both characters‚ gender role norms are completely mocked‚ and the line between heterosexuality and homosexuality is questionably crossed. To begin‚ Neil Simon created characters that depicted two different extremes‚ clean and messy. The character of Oscar Madison has come to

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    This passage talks about the role of women on the civil war and World War Two.It also showed how hard they worked during the war. In the first five lines it talks about the stuff the women does before and after the war. It talks about the roles each person had.It also told how it didn’t suit the women well.The Native American women struggled to maintain their cultural identity in society that seemed to have a little place for them.women in the 1800’s filled many unofficial jobs. The hardworking

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