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    The Lecturess

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    The Lecturess which was written and published in 1839. This novel is about a young woman named Marian‚ Marian is torn between falling into the ideal woman’s’ sphere of that time and following her heart and being a lecturess. Throughout this novel we meet a few different characters who either believe that she should be a lecturess such as her mother. While others believe that she should just fall into place as woman of this time period such as her good friend Sophia. Marian is torn between her

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    The media and especially that of magazines is able to act as a very prominent agent of privileging‚ socialisation and the normailising of distinct types of discourses about sexuality‚ gender and race. In most cases there is a distinct form of heteronormativity in which there is the active male and passive female dichotomy‚ which has been deeply embedded within and historically shaped by media discourses. n South African magazines‚ particular types of discourses about race‚ gender‚ and sexuality

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    When Aunt Alexandra moved in with the finches‚ "[She] fitted into… Maycomb like a hand into a glove‚ but never into the world of Jem and [Scout]" (Lee 216 Chpt. 13). Alexandra is the epitome of the south. She has hatred towards African-Americans‚ and she believes that girls should learn to cook and clean and never run around and play with her friends. As for Jem and Scout‚ they believe that girls can have fun and roughhouse‚ and think that African-Americans are equal to white people such as themselves

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    Death of a Salesman In this play-write‚ it shows that Biff is the protagonist. This is because unlike Willy‚ Hap‚ and Linda‚ Biff goes through a great change and is transformed by the action of the play. At the very end of the play‚ at Willy’s funeral‚ Biff announces that he’s leaving New York City. This is because he is ready to move on in his life‚ whereas Hap is holding onto the past‚ like Willy had‚ and decides to stay put. Willy‚ strong in his belief of the "American Dream"‚ never

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    Our Hidden Lives Summary

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    was a husband‚ an accountant‚ and an auxiliary police officer‚ who worked tirelessly as an executive of the Worker’s Educational Association (WEA) and still had time for a variety of other hobbies. Edie Rutherford was a South-African expatriate housewife that cared for an emotionally troubled husband. She worked as a clerk and would have been described as a food hoarder‚ if in the post-war Britain that term had any meaning. She was highly opinionated‚ politically minded‚ and never hesitated to come

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    Family Dynamics

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    disabled people in the household‚ they may care for them as well. Homemakers - Then •Traditionally‚ women have filled the role of homemaker •The role of homemaker varies in families based on ethical and racial cultures •The era of modern housewife definitely belongs in the past •The efforts of the feminist movement Homemaker - Changing Times •New roles for men as homemakers •Advertisers projecting more non-gender household cleaning media ads •Businesses providing paid and unpaid personal

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    In their article “Advertising and People of Color‚” Clint Wilson and Felix Gutierrez talk about stereotypes being portrayed in the media‚ even today. A good example of this is of the Aunt Jemima pancake mix. Then‚ the company featured a stereotypical‚ heavy‚ loud black woman (mammy) advertising the pancake mix. Some of the advertising was more neutralized; for example‚ Rastus is shown serving both black and white children breakfast (284). Another issue Wilson and Gutierrez talks about is the courtship

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    Hey There!: )

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    The First Measured Century 1. What type of research method was used in the study of Middletown/Muncie? According to the video‚ the research method used in the study of Middletown is surveys. The researchers survey high school students and housewife. And the information would help educators and social scientists understand the changings and the problems in this community the citizen face. 2. Discuss this segment as an example of historical/comparative and longitudinal research. The clip

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    Women in Entertainment

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    not changed a lot over the last 60 years. Women are still used more than men in commercials involving cooking‚ cleaning ‚ and taking care of kids. Women can be presented in commercials in several variants. The first one is the most popular: a housewife obsessed by a steam on a new tablecloth or a woman whose main problem is lack of ideas for dinner. (Case Study) Commercials/entertainment would not have women as doctors‚ lawyers‚ or any profession that involved them working outside the home other

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    Answer: Out of the many characters in the documentary “Queen of Versailles” Jacqueline Siegel is focused on a lot. She is the forty-three-year-old wife of billionaire David Siegel. David is an American businessman who founded Westgate Resorts Ltd. The documentary targets Jackie’s background life‚ where she was nothing more than a middle class woman that had an engineering degree‚ and worked as an employee for IBM‚ a computer company. Growing up her family worked very hard for what they had. The documentary

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