Women’s Roles in Othello Shakespearean England was a thoroughly patriarchal society‚ with very few rights for women. This culture was borne of the perspective that women were of a lower worth in society than men‚ a view reflected in the treatment of the majority of women by the men in their lives. William Shakespeare wrote many plays about social issues across Europe‚ and his play Othello was especially focused on the mistreatment of women in England. Though Desdemona and Emilia‚ the two main female
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What would you do if one country’s dominance over your country changed your life for the worse? This is what was occurring to the lithuanians. During Stalin’s rule‚ There were many things he did to ensure soviet dominance. Stalin had a five year plan. This five year plan was to gain complete soviet dominance through the secret deportation of Lithuanians to siberia. The lithuanians faced many hardships not only in Siberia but on the way there as well. The first part of the plan was to deport them
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Jaisha Andrews Mrs. Considine English 101‚ Section 506 7 August 2012 The Negative Effects of Being a Black Male in a “Post-Racial” Society The University of Tennessee has 28‚000 students‚ in which 7.59% of that total is African Americans. Of that 7.59% of African Americans‚ only 998.8 of them are African American males. Once these black males graduate‚ they will begin to search for the desired career that they have academically and socially prepared for at the University of Tennessee. Every
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Shakespeare introduces Othello in the first half of the play as “valiant” and “noble” (qtd)‚ where the adjectives of courage and moral principles deter the Elizabethan notion that black people are treacherous and villainous (qtd). To add to that‚ the Duke of Venice “straight employ[s] [Othello] against the general enemy Ottoman” (1.3.49-50). Here The preposition “against” directs Othello’s martial body as the hero in Venetian society rather than the enemy for now. The respect for Othello as a black general
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MALE CONTRACEPTION Access to effective contraception is a prerequisite of reproductive health. If the goal of ensuring that every birth results from a planned pregnancy is to be achieved‚ a wide range of methods of regulating fertility must be available. Because women literally are left "holding the baby‚" family-planning organizations have traditionally concentrated on female methods. New developments in the last 10 yr‚ including new formulations of the oral contraceptive pill‚ medicated
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OTHELLO THEMES The incompatibility of military heroism and love; the danger of isolation- Othello is the perfect soldier‚ but his directness means he is unable to understand the subtleties of political life and affairs of the heart. Jealousy Jealousy 1: The play opens with a discussion of jealousy. Iago is upset because Othello selected Michael Cassio as his lieutenant. He is jealous of Cassio’s position both in the military and with Othello’s service. This initial jealousy is the catalyst
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MALE PRIVILEGES If you are male (and a man)‚ listed below are benefits that result from being born with that gender and sex. If you identify as a man‚ there’s a good chance you’ve never thought about these things. Try and be more cognizant of these privileges in your daily life and you’ll understand how much work we have to do to make for a society that is equitable to all people‚ regardless of their gender. 1. If you have a bad day or are in a bad mood‚ people aren’t going to blame it on your sex
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Before 1800 the right to vote was extremely limited to only specific people. In the original thirteen states‚ New England and the Southern states‚ voting was only extended to property owning white males or white male taxpayers. This limited group amounted to less than half of the white male population‚ and none of the free or slave black population or women of any race. This expansion of this right was only stretched out a bit from the original group. Many factors lead to this expansion; however
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“Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” by constructing the concept of a male gaze. Mulvey summarizes the notion of the male gaze as a heterosexual male actively objectifying a passive female recipient. She effectively limits females to being the object of the male gaze and heterosexual males to controlling the gaze‚ stating‚ “According to the principles of the ruling ideology and the psychical structures that back it up‚ the male figure cannot bear the burden of sexual objectification” (Mulvey 838)
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What Men Think Jake Brennan‚ in his article ‘Has Male Bashing Gone Too Far’ refers to depicting men as incompetent‚ calling it “male bashing”. He outlines an argument that it has gone too far‚ and that television is promoting this idea by stereotyping males as such. He also argues the difference between women‚ men and guys‚ and finally that men are still predominately in charge of society. In the article Brennan refers to numerous TV shows in order to convey his message and to try to persuade his
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