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    Role of women in Odyssey Homer wrote the Odyssey in 8th century and it is a Greek epic poem. The story background begins ten years after the Trojan War. After the war‚ Odyssey tried to go back to his home‚ but he had a lot of hardships. During that time‚ many people helped him‚ but not all of characters. There are various important characters and each of them has different personalities and roles. In 21 century‚ most of women play a big role. What about in 8th century? According to the book Odyssey

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    The Women of Beowulf: More Than Just a Pretty Face Throughout time‚ female characters have never played pivotal roles and do not gain recognition for what the contribute. In a book titled “The Women of Beowulf: A Context of Interpretation”‚ Gillian R. Overing writes that “the women of Beowulf…. are marginal‚ excluded figures…” Even Bernice Kliman claims that “their inferior position in society results from their lack of strength‚ the most important attribute when war is a constant activity

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    Throughout the tales‚ from long extensive stories like Lancelot to poems like Lanval‚ women are portrayed differently. From lovers to witches‚ women are given side roles. Male characters are the one who move the plot forward and women just play a part in it. The ladies have no active role in the stories. Most of the tales revolve around men. Women are described as beautiful‚ fair and young. They are constantly complimented on their bodies. Their body shape is explicitly described through the texts

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    Guy de Maupassant is one of the most popular French short story writers from the 19th Century and was also considered to be the father of modern short story writings. Maupassant belonged to the naturalistic school and took issues like the attitudes of the bourgeoisie or the Franco-Prussian War‚ along with the highly fashionable life of France in his age‚ and these became the key aspects of the cynical style of writing. Taking some of the aspects of his life in relation to his works‚ it is stated

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    The role of women in the United States has changed dramatically in the last 50 years. The proportion of women attending college‚ matriculating from graduate schools‚ and obtaining doctorate degrees has increased dramatically. No longer are women associated with low expectations both in education and the workforce. Women now seek and receive the highest leadership roles in education‚ professions‚ and business. For example‚ according to Laff (2006)‚ in the banking industry women holds several management

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    Each of the sources suggests certain aspects about the roles that women played in Ancient Greek society. Three things it suggests about women are that not all women were of the same social status‚ women were generally used as slaves or laborers‚ but were still a vital part to Grecian society. The first thing the sources suggest about women in Greek society is that despite being female‚ which was looked upon as the lesser sex‚ not all women were of equal social class. This is made apparent through

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    Role of Women in the American Revolution The role of women played in any given war is quite often severely underestimated. This sentiment especially goes for the American Revolutionary War‚ where women actually played an absolutely essential role in our victory against the British. Not only where there different types of women who had helped‚ but there were many different ways each of them helped--particularly as nurses to help save lives and tend to injured soldiers. Without women helping in

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    In this book there are three major women Linda‚ Martha‚ and Mary Anne. Linda’s role is positive yet very saddening because she in a way has given Tim O’Brien the power to tell stories so in depth using memories. Mary Anne’s role is encouraging because she comes to Vietnam and throughout the journey she discovers herself; she redefines the typical role of women. Martha’s role in this book could be considered positive because she is keeping up Jimmy Cross’s morale but‚ at the same time it could be

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    Women in Puritan society were strictly confined to traditional roles within their family and community structures. They were solely relegated to serve their husband and their household. These circumstances were made apparent in the journal of John Winthrop as well as the letters between him and his wife. The statements made in John Winthrop’s journal regarding Anne Hutchinson are descriptive of the restricted roles of women in the commonwealth. The way in which Margaret speaks to her husband

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    territory of the former Soviet Union had not quite doubled. In 1991 the natural rate of population increase (the birth rate minus the death rate) in Uzbekistan was 28.3 per 1‚000--more than four times that of the Soviet Union as a whole‚ and an increase from ten years earlier (see table 2‚ Appendix).These characteristics are especially pronounced in the Autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan (the Uzbek

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