Women in Middlemarch by Mary Elizabeth Rupp February 23‚ 2002 A major theme in George Eliot ’s novel‚ Middlemarch‚ is the role of women in the community. The female characters in the novel are‚ to some extent‚ oppressed by the social expectations that prevail in Middlemarch. Regardless of social standing‚ character or personality‚ women are expected to cater to and remain dependent on their husbands and to occupy themselves with trivial recreation rather than important household matters. Dorothea
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Women prisons have less population than male prisons. Two out of every three women in prison have children. One out of three are pregnant when being incarcerated. There are many debates between the citizens and the community that pregnant women should not be incarcerated. If the women commit the crime‚ they should to their time. But I also believe in people changing and learning from their mistakes‚ with the jail programs and rehabilitation to learn from their mistakes and not go to prison in their
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Grace MacDonald Pd. 6 Should Women be Allowed in Military Combat? Imagine‚ as a male‚ in frontline combat with a female on one side of you‚ another male on the other side of you. Who would you trust most? A majority of people would trust the male over the female because of a male’s strength and endurance‚ and that is the trouble. Although it is proven that most women are physically weaker than men and have forty pounds less muscle mass and thirteen pounds more fat than men‚ it does not mean
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particular to the natural and the nonnatural. The central epistemological thesis is a counterfactual: natural properties are those that persons would exhibit were they never influenced by a social environment. John Stuart Mill‚ in his The Subjection of Women‚ asserts this view: "the artificial state superinduced by society disguises the natural tendencies of the thing which is the subject of observation. . . ." Suppose "all artificial causes of difference to be withdrawn‚" the "natural character would
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emancipation of women‚ i.e. their liberation from religious‚ legal‚ economic‚ and sexual oppression‚ their access to higher education‚ and their escape from narrow gender roles is not easily achieved. The struggle for sexual equality has a long history and is likely to continue for some time. Even if it should soon be won in the industrial nations‚ it may well rage on in many "underdeveloped” countries. In traditionally patriarchal societies any improvement in the status of women has far-reaching
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Workingwomen Why do women leave their children and go to work? Some women decide to work for financial support‚ some to escape from homes‚ and some to release their stress etc. however‚ some people believe women shouldn’t work; they should take care of their young children. On the other hand‚ others do not agree with it. I believe women should work‚ so the family can benefit in many ways. To begin with‚ having a working mother in the family will help the family financially. My friend Nima is a
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Throughout Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein‚ we are presented with various views of women‚ and their role in society and family. Here‚ I will explore the similarities of and differences between the female characters in the novel. The first female encountered in the novel‚ Caroline Beaufort‚ becomes a model around which many of Shelley’s other females are based. Frankenstein’s father first encountered her while she was tending to her dying father "with the greatest tenderness‚" and thus it is apparent
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one Shakespeare’s most famous plays. This essay will look at Hamlet’s perception of women in general but particularly Gertrude and Ophelia. It will also look at the historical presentation of women‚ comparing Hamlet’s time to today and seeing if the symbolic role that the female characters have is related to the period. I will also look at Hamlet’s madness‚ whether it was it was real or not and also whether women could be the cause of it. Finally it will glance at a possible Oedipus rex complex’
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Urbanization‚ urbanisation (see spelling differences) or urban drift is the physical growth of urban areas as a result of rural migration and even suburban concentration into cities‚ particularly the very largest ones. The United Nations projected that half of the world’s population would live in urban areas at the end of 2008. Urbanization is closely linked to modernisation‚ industrialisation‚ and the sociologicalprocess of rationalisation. Urbanisation can describe a specific condition at a set
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Our history takes us back to when women where taken advantage of and had no mind of their own. These manipulative actions have been taken on by the domination of the women by their spouses‚ their family‚ as well the way they where raised as young girls as in the story “Girl” these are just some of the sources of domination. A young girl is being manipulated as she is raised to be what her mother tells her to be. Her mother continuously over talks the girl as if she has no mind of her own. Don ’t
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