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    C. GILLIGAN’S GENDER & MORALITY DEVELOPMENT Carol Gilligan compared the moral development of girls and boys in her theory of gender and moral development. She claimed that boys have a justice perspective meaning that they rely on formal rules to define right and wrong. Girls‚ on the other hand‚ have a care and responsibility perspective where personal relationships are considered when judging a situation. Gilligan also studied the effect of gender on self-esteem. She claimed that society’s

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    Tragedy‚ Arthur Miller and the Common Man Sophocles‚ Euripides‚ Aeschylus and Arthur Miller. At first glance this quartet seems like an simple case of “one of these things doesn’t belong with the others‚” though dig a little deeper‚ just beneath the surface‚ and you’ll discover that something unbreakable and timeless binds these seemingly disparate names tightly together. What could these four men all possibly share? Three of them were contemporaries‚ relatively‚ born well over 2‚000 years ago

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    Havelock interprets the settings and points out how the artists depicted the role of women through visual hierarchy and figure poses. Havelock continues to describe the role of women within this time period with the help of literary writings such as Medea and authors like Aristotle. Throughout ancient Greece there is an abundance of art and sculpture to study but what is lacking is the depiction of women in that art. Havelock refers to the temple of Zeus as to way to show cultural attitudes surrounding

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    Walking through the ruins of the Coliseum‚ I was filled with awe. How could a society that existed 2500 years ago plan and construct something so structurally stable‚ with the ability to outlive architecture created using advanced technology? Amongst the concrete jungle of the twenty-first century stands Rome‚ a glorious‚ immutable imprint of the past. Ancient History is the foundation of our society and its influence is inescapable‚ whether we look to politics‚ theatre‚ religion‚ philosophy or language

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    Amores ‚ in which are presented the autobiographical misadventures of a poet in love and the aspects of love‚ the single letters of the Heroides‚ mythological female figures who are writing letters to their absence husbands or lovers‚ the lost tragedy Medea and the didactic cycle comprising the Ars amatoria ( arts of courtships and erotic intrigue)‚ the partially preserved work on cosmetics Medicamina faciei femineae and Remedia amoris (instructions about how could somebody extricate from a love affair)

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    com/bonnie-strickland/ Young‚ J McLeod‚ S. A. (2008). Mary Ainsworth | Attachment Styles. Retrieved from http:// www.simplypsychology.org/mary-ainsworth.html McLeod‚ S. A. (2011). Bobo Doll Experiment. Retrieved from http://www.simplypsychology.org/ bobo-doll.html Medea‚ Andra. "Carol Gilligan." Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 1 March 2009. Jewish Women ’s Archive. (Viewed on October 8‚ 2012) <http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gilligan-carol>. Baumrind‚ Diana Kemp‚ Hendrika Vande. "Diana

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    ALLUSION VOCABULARY Second Six Weeks   1. Herculean: a. adj. - of extraordinary power‚ size‚ or difficulty relating to the characteristics of Hercules; having enormous strength. (Most often used in capitalized form when referring to Herculean task: may not require great strength‚ even though expression comes b. from name of mythical superhero. Such a task is a difficult or dangerous one.) Given twelve impossible tasks. Hercules completed all of them overcoming great difficulties

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    Aeschylus‚ Sophocles‚ and Euripides Great Tragedians Humanities 250 May 30‚ 2012 The three great tragedy play writes Aeschylus‚ Sophocles‚ and Euripides were ahead of their time. The ideals they portrayed in their plays are very relevant in this day and age. Love‚ loss‚ religion‚ politics suffering‚ being victims of fate; these are all things we hear about each time we turn on the news. The messages that were written into each play by each play write would be related to‚ understood and very

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    The article opens up stating how O’Neil takes a difference response with this play as if he was demonstrating Greek theatre. Henry is trying to explain that even though the play does not follow any particular play‚ that it echoes Hippolytus and Medea which both involve incest and infanticide (Henry‚ 2006). This type of behavior was highly intolerable during this time; this is what made the Desire Under the Elm stick out to readers and reviewers. In the article‚ the main point that is brought

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    scientific literature‚ Greece produced an unequalled number of writers and artists. Aeschylus‚ one of three major playwrights was a soldier who wrote nearly 90 plays. Euripides wrote controversial tragedies about realistic characters like the play Medea. The Athenians had always loved poetry and eloquence and during the Age of Pericles‚ he encouraged both and provided poets with rewards. Pericles was a friend to theatre; he built a small theatre‚ but also made improvements and adornments at the great

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