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    1980s Gender Roles

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    do the roles of fathers and mothers change in television programs to reflect changing demographics? From 1980s onwards‚ the American demographics had begun to change significantly‚ especially for women: from being domestic housewives‚ increasing numbers of women had been entering workforce and professions. The change led to the norm of professional-working parents in each household‚ which then influenced the roles of fathers and mothers in the family institution. The change of the roles of parents

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    versions‚ all place negative gender expectations on women. Providing cultural and socio-historical information‚ fairy tales have helped to perpetuate stereotypical thoughts on the "ideal virtues" of women. Natural beauty‚ obedience to the husband‚ and dedication to the maintenance of the home are all standards for women modeled throughout different versions and adaptations of fairy tales. Cinderella‚ one of the most popular fairy tales with countless versions‚ reflects gender expectations on women in

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    Gender Roles and Society

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    Changing Gender Roles in Our Society: Women’s Education and Employment Education and employment go hand in hand now a day in order to become financially successful in life. These are two unmistakably major parts of society today. In order to become successful a good job is needed‚ and in order to get the job a good education is needed as well. But women especially need to emphasize more in these two subjects than men; due to past gender discrimination which brought on Equal Employment Opportunity

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    Gender Roles In Hemingway

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    During the early twentieth century and World War I‚ men and women in the United States were treated very differently. Each gender had their stereotypes and was not to stray from them. Men were to do masculine things and women were to do feminine things. It was very odd to find someone of either gender slip away from the stereotypes of their particular gender because they would be looked upon as “different” and “different” wasn’t usually accepted in the society. This is something Ernest Hemingway

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    Gender Roles in the Illiad

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    Gender Roles: Hector in The Iliad In Homer’s Illiad Hector‚ one of the primary leaders of Trojan forces and also a prince of the fated city of Troy fulfills the male gender expectations defined through prowess in war. However‚ male’s heroism is driven by the fear of shame and dishonor in war. Hector is an mortal character in Homer’s Iliad and all Hector seeks is war-glory‚ and he believes that one must die with a cause. He fears the indignity that he believes will come should he not fight nobly

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    Gender Roles in Society

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    In a society where gender norms have been set for many years‚ there are still an increasing number of people that go against it. Although it is more accepted than what it once was‚ there are still many criticisms of those that oppose gender norms. It is prevalent in sports today‚ as society stereotypes genders on what sport they can or cannot play. Sports such as football‚ wrestling‚ and other rough‚ physical games are viewed as manly sports‚ while hobbies such as shopping‚ cheerleading‚ or gardening

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    Awakenings

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    Awakenings” The movie “Awakenings” is based on a factual memoir also titled “Awakenings” written by Oliver Sacks‚ MD. The movie tells the story of a neurologist‚ Dr. Sayer hired by a hospital for the chronically ill‚ whom is caring for a group of survivors of an endemic of encephalitis lethargica that broke out in the twenties. These patients have all progressively reduced to a catatonic or vegetative-Parkinsonian state and have been in this semi-conscious state for decades. Dr. Sayer uses

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    Bamman Gender Roles

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    intend to to identify personas‚ which include gender of the character. In his paper he mentions that the gender of personas has changed over time‚ but he does not investigate that further: “latent character types might cast new light on the history of gender in fiction. This is especially true since the distribution of personas across the time axis similarly reveals coherent trends” (Bamman et al.). We can use some of his techniques to identify the gender of the characters and build off of this idea

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    or different. Furthermore‚ there is this struggle to be deemed as “acceptable” by society instead of focusing on one’s true self. In Kate Chopin’s novel‚ The Awakening‚ the story focuses on Edna Pontellier a wife and mother who is unsatisfied with her life and starts to experience awakenings not only sexual but most importantly an awakening of herself identity. Edna struggles with finding happiness in balancing her independency

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    The Awakening

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    The Awakening Essay Both of the female protagonist’s from Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and Zora Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God experience a similar plight throughout each person’s respective novel. Chopin and Hurston chose specific symbols used within each narrative to represent these characters as they struggle to understand who they are in life. The two most notable symbols contained within The Awakening are the caged birds and the use of the sea. The most prominent of the two is

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