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    Despite how sublime men tried to act back then during the Peloponnesian War fighting for greed and ambition‚ being withdrawn from their animalistic desires instantly popped off everything they had fought in the past. Aristophanes’ Lysistrata (411 B.C.) ended the Peloponnesian War in his own comedic way with women seducing men to stop the war. The demand for animalistic desires of us‚ humans‚ is emphasized in the play becoming the only method women could use to influence the outcome of war. While

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    Female Roles in Television Advertising: Viewers’ Use of Gender Role Cues in Appraising Stereotypic and Non-Stereotypic Role Portrayals Richard H. Kolbe‚ Washington State University‚ Washington Carl D. Langefeld‚ Indiana University‚ Indiana The study uses the Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI) as both a self-rating and projective scale to predict viewer responses to stereotypic and non-stereotypic role portrayals in television conlmercials. Projective BSRI ratings of ad characters were significant

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    Gender Role Analysis

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    Gender Role Analysis Gender Role Analysis Men and women are different. How different depends on what stereotype one chooses to believe. Although it has been argued that some stereotypes are positive‚ they are never beneficial. Society creates gender stereotypes and perpetuates them through societal institutions. In this paper the roles of gender will be analyzed regarding education‚ public policy‚ and the workplace. How education shapes gender‚ the gender norms in government‚ the

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    How do Jason ’s feelings at the end of the play differ from those revealed in other encounters? In their first encounter‚ Jason appears to be trying to make himself feel as if he is better than Medea‚ and as if he is the bigger person than she‚ “You no doubt hate me: but I could never bear ill-will to you” implies that he is a better person for helping her even though she hates him – and that even after all that ’s happened and all she has said he still “could never bear ill-will”. He continues

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    Medea Prosecution

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    From what we can see‚ Medea clearly killed not only Creusa and Creon‚ but her own children. Good judge‚ I implore that you pay close attention to the horrible deeds that this woman has wrought on these innocent people. We can see that she had planned these murders out‚ and‚ despite knowing the evil she would soon unleash‚ continued with them with only the goal of hurting Jason. Medea hated Jason‚ and hate was also one of the overpowering motives of the murders. We know Medea killed them‚ and we know

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    Ellms Gender Roles

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    assigned according to sex‚ and coincide with traditional gender roles. The male employees do the physical labor and take leadership positions while female employees interact with customers and hand out refreshments. This policy becomes particularly problematic during the christmas tree season‚ when only the male employees are given the opportunity to cut trees and make tips

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    Gender Roles in Dracula

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    Gender Roles in Dracula In a time period where females had narrow gender roles‚ Bram Stoker wrote his novel‚ Dracula. The Victorian culture often suppressed women and their value. Traditional Victorian women were thought of to be pure and virginal. Bram Stoker revealed another side of women that was not often seen. These qualities were like that of the emerging new feministic culture called the “New Woman”. The concept of gender roles in the 1890’s was very conflicted; Dracula challenged traditional

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    In a study done by New Republic‚ they “examined films for their number of female characters‚ the roles these women played‚ how they were sexualized‚ and the gender of the filmmakers” which led them to their conclusion that “In the global analysis of these 120 films and their 5‚800 speaking or named characters‚ researchers found that women were grossly underrepresented in terms of sheer numbers‚ and that the female characters that do exist are often portrayed in lower level jobs‚ with overwhelming

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    whatever they want doesn’t usually go over well with some parents. Some dads might not want to see their little boy dress up as a princess and some moms might not want to see their little girl roll toy cars through the mud. Throughout the years‚ gender roles have been implemented at a young age by the way toy companies promote their toys‚

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    Halloween Gender Roles

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    definitely gendered and marketed to a specific gender‚ and it is rare to come across a gender neutral costume and never is it seen that a boy is wearing a princess dress on the packaging. It is also very common for Halloween costumes to separated into boy and girl sections at stores or on websites. If the costume is sparkly‚ has a dress or skirt‚ and described as “cute” or “sexy” it is geared to girls‚ even if occupations that do not have these gender differences in uniforms in reality‚ like police

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