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    In fact‚ it’s a model for her little daughter‚ who aspires to be like her: “I hope I look exactly as pretty as you” (Haynes). As in the case of Cary‚ it stands out in this way that the only thing a woman could aspire to was beauty‚ to be a good housewife‚ that complemented a successful husband (in the case of Frank‚ he is a very successful executive in a technology company). Those women willing to try to achieve greater ambitions beyond those will suffer terrible consequences‚ as it will happen with

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    girl band in the 90’s‚ Spice Girl‚ has made changes in her life as a housewife and turning her passion into baking cakes. She definitely understands what ’girl power’ means now - this is a phrase that makes Spice Girls popular among the young women in the 90’s. According to Daily Mail‚ Geri‚ 43 described girl power as not a great achievement or status. "Perhaps it could just be living an authentic life. If that’s being a housewife‚ looking after your kids‚ that’s good enough‚" Geri said. A photo

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    Poetica and Kitchenette building‚ they both share similarities and differences. They both share how one subject should have its own role in doing or way of being‚ and they contrast because they both focus on different stories. Kitchenette focuses on a housewife during the 1930s and Ars Poética is about the simplicities and forms a poem should remain. The authors of both poems have different mindsets to create these poems. The poems have different speakers and settings. As an example‚ Kitchenette Building

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    Un Chien Andalou As I viewed Dali and Bunuel’s Un Chien Andalou‚ the second scene‚ in which a woman who appears to be a housewife looks out her window and watches a bicyclist fall off his or her bike‚ stood out to me as a series of potentially meaningful images. Directly following the close-up shot of Bunuel’s cutting of a woman’s eye‚ I‚ as the viewer‚ found myself invited to look beyond the surface of this scene and make associations with the images represented therein. The scene begins with

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    How Desiree reacts and how she handles the situation with her husband leaving her and her child‚ you can better understand why Louise Mallord reacts the way she does about her husband’s so called death. Desiree’s story takes place in the late 1800s and that certain period of time is when women were to be considered better than the slaves but by a small margin. At that time the women had no say in anything and if they did say something nobody really listened to what they had to say. In "Desiree’s

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    Typical American Family Is there such a thing as a typical American family? What do they look like? Where do they live? What do they do? How do they behave? All of these questions have different answers to different people. Recently‚ Americans have become fascinated with televisions shows that portray the dynamic scenes of family life. One example‚ the “American Dad!” show‚ on the TBS channel‚ spotlights an animated version of the typical American family stereotype. The show focuses on C.I.A. agent

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    manner‚ which will‚ in my own opinion‚ constitute my happiness‚ without reference to you‚ or to any person so wholly unconnected to me” (Austen 260). As such‚ Miss Bennet articulates her own role and place in society‚ although still only as a housewife but a housewife that marries for love and her own values as opposed to the societally dictated "values" of wealth and a vast fortune. As one of the most significant developments in literary studies in the second half of the twentieth century‚ feminist literary

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    Castaway Just the thought of us never getting off this island‚ circled through my head. Barely any food or water is left‚ the shelter we made from palm tree leaves is destroyed‚ and nine other people I don’t know are stranded on this deserted island. All of this did not start off the way it did; in fact I would be laying on the beach in the Bahamas right now. But‚ all because of that storm we are here. Thinking back to the night like it was yesterday. My family and I are middle class living in

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    figures; for the reasons she had to make the decisions she did and in Gilman’s and Chopin’s the husbands were in control of the woman. In Olsen’s I Stand Here Ironing‚ the constraints of oppression were alive in her thoughts. Olsen’s fa’ade was being a housewife‚ she would have rather had other choices in her life and wanted more for her daughter as is told by the last quote in the story: In summary‚ all three women had no choice in their lives or they chose not to have a choice but to follow society’s

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    Latino is trying to eliminate the label of “invasion” and address the communication issue through learning the American culture and receiving the education. Not only the children prepares for the education of the English‚ the adult or even the housewife are also learning to speak the English and preparing to integrate into the American culture. They participate into different courses such as adult education classes‚ including English language learning‚ computer training as well as financial literacy

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