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    Ophelia’s life and the role of women in Shakespearean Literature By Lucerito Nicol Farías Medina and María Elizabeth Villablanca Fuenzalida Many people tend to standardize William Shakespeare as misogynist‚ a person whose hate towards women is incredibly high‚ but we tend to forget where he lived or how he was educated. Living in the era he lived‚ he could not understand what his words towards women mean today‚ though many experts have said that he was far from that. Shakespeare uses

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    affairs issue in the United States that is important to me is equal representation of races and gender within the sector of the media. Despite the United States being a nation that is becoming increasingly diverse‚ what is shown on screen and behind the scenes does not reflect our nation’s changing demographic. This is an important issue to me as a woman of color whose goal is to become a documentary filmmaker. Equal representation in the media is necessary because the media helps to form our perception

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    Representation of the Character I am playing a character called Jean Taylor from the play Fine ME by Olwen Wymark. The play was first performed at the Richmond Fringe Theatre at the Orange Tree on October 21st 1977; this play takes place in England‚ west London. This play is set in the late 20th century; the plot of this play is based on a teenage girl called Verity Taylor‚ who has suffered from an undiagnosed mental disorder for many years before being admitted to Broadmoor mental hospital after

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    Image and representation Architecture is understood and studied from drawings and images. Drawings possess a life of their own and express the intentions of the architect. In the following essay‚ I would annotate the various arguments brought forth in the two readings‚ “The Necessity for Drawing: Tangible Speculation” by Michael Grave and “Architectural Drawings and the Intent of the Architect” by James Smith Pierce. Both the readings discuss about the importance of the language of drawing in

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    Chapter II Review of Literature We know that the problem of obesity is a world-wide epidemic and is becoming an even greater threat to the United States. Currently the U.S is the world’s most obese country and with a large margin between second place (James‚ Leach‚ Kalamara‚ Shayegh 2001). America is also the front runner in a new trend: morbid obesity. Not only does America have the highest population of obese individuals‚ America also has the largest population of morbidly obese individuals

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    Literature review The labour supply of women has been the subject of extensive study both in Australia and internationally.1 Despite this‚ only a few international and Australian studies have examined the inter-temporal labour supply behaviour of women‚ and it remains a less understood area of labour supply research (Hyslop 1999).2 However‚ study in this area is growing rapidly due to the increasing availability of panel data and improved computational power and techniques. This chapter reviews

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    failed to extend the same rights to women and the African Americans. The Declaration was mainly directed towards the free white men’s rights. Abigail Adams fought for the rights of women and the African Americans. To begin‚ Abigail Adams made a plea for women’s rights. Women were considered inferior to men‚ and they did not have any rights to vote or own property. Most women cooked‚ did the laundry‚ and nursed the sick soldiers in the battles. Some women even disguised themselves as men and

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    “Ma” Rainey‚ Bessie Smith‚and Lucille Bogan to name a few. In this list actually there is many whom consider themselves to be apart of of the LGBTQ community such as Gertrude “Ma” Rainey‚ Langston Hughes‚ Bessie Smith and Lucille Bogan. The African American Women of the Harlem Renaissance fought homophobia and heteronormativity by sharing their thoughts and feelings through their lyrics‚ about being bisexual‚ gay or lesbian. During the Harlem

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    Effect of representation and visual culture on the female body Introduction Body image is a construct that has applications in several areas of psychology and medicine‚ including patients with neurological disorders leading to inaccurate perceptions of personal appearance‚ patients with noticeable physical deformities‚ individuals with pathological misperceptions about certain aspects of their appearance‚ as well as in eating disorder patients (Fulkerson‚ McGuire‚ Neumark Sztainer‚ Story‚ French

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    to be the lower or “working” class‚ more commonly known as the poor. The different medias that society are exposed to usually show poor people as being lazy‚ dirty‚ and often uneducated. According to Bell Hooks essay‚ Outlaw culture: Resisting Representation‚ “value was connected to integrity‚ to being honest and hardworking.” (pg 433) Although she points out that the media portrays the poor as lazy‚ and non hardworking‚ she fails to speak on the fact that the most hardworking people are actually

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