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    the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America”(5). Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior tells the story of Maxine’s childhood as the first American-born child in her Chinese family. In her transition from her Chinese household to the American culture and world around her‚ Maxine finds it difficult to fit in with both cultures. In Woman Warrior‚ Kingston uses

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    Shen Te’s male “other” in Brecht’s “The Good Woman of Setzguan” Brecht’s “The Good Woman of Setzguan”‚ with its intense surrealist element‚ cruelly unveils the immense ugliness of a capitalistic society‚ displaying aspects of exploitation and materialism through the prism of each of the two genders. Providing his heroine with a male “alter ego”‚ Brecht remarkably places the female in a male dominated society projecting women’s need to adopt male characteristics to survive and their endeavor to preserve

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    What did the Revolution mean for the women of America? Some scholars say the Revolution did little to change life for her at all‚ while others argue that the Revolution was the catalyst of change that paved the way for a more independent American woman. The argument of a woman’s property rights became a hot topic in the court systems of post-Revolution America. Women we key in raising productive members of society and the idea of Republican motherhood was born. In order to raise educated children

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    English Major-Italian Minor A passage from the Victorian to the Post-modern society -Charles in The French Lieutenant’s Woman- “Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to man himself”(MARX‚ Zur Judenfrage 1844). This is a citation from Marx which opens John Fowels’ novel “The French Lieutenant’s Woman”‚ one of his most world-wide read and appreciated novels. John Fowels constructs his novel by deconstructing what have been previously said about the

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    A Woman from Willendorf - fat lady with penis boobs Venus of Willendorf 25‚000 BCE made of limestone Goddess‚ no face Woman from Willendorf‚ c25000 BCE.  oldest sculpture known.  anatomical exxageration. possible fertility idol.  paleolith representation of women B  Lion Human from Germany- 30-000-26000 BCE‚ mammoth ivory‚ tactile (cannot stand on its own) seen from all sides.  not life like or found in nature. C Loacoon and His Sons‚ 1st century CE. 2 sculptors‚ Athanadoros‚ Hagesandros

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    Memo #1 1 " Religions of America Due: September 18‚ 2014 Change The “Night Flying Woman” was a story told by an Ojibway grandmother to her young grandchildren. While reading this book‚ I really fell in love with the simplicity of the Native American life before the “strangers” assumed control. I appreciate their beliefs about the resources they were granted by an ultimate power. The most influential point made throughout this story of Oona’s life‚ most certainly was

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    A Different Perspective In the article “What Makes a Woman?” Elinor Burkett begins by describing how she felt about the comments feminists were making and that the transgender community is a part of it. Burkett also points that women who were not born as women don’t truly know what it’s like to be a woman‚ they’ve never lived through the hardships we experience every day. “They haven’t gone through the world as women and been shaped by all that this entails.” (Burkett‚ par. 10) There are changes

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    The Young Woman In many paintings‚ you can tell the purpose or deeper meaning based on the artist and the year it was painted. Yet not all paintings are that simple. More often than not we come across an image not knowing anything about its origin. We are forced to think for ourselves and decipher what we believe the deeper meaning is. This is something that happened to me while researching a famous art piece. While I do not know who‚ the artist is‚ or when it was painted I still must decipher

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    Paula’s voice‚ in which the entire novel is related‚ combines convincing staccato storytelling‚ slangy working-class diction‚ frank revelations‚ and agonized reconstruction of the past in sometimes profane and often touching tones. Here Paula remembers her teenaged self‚ both attracted and repelled by the man she will so disastrously marry:   He was a ride. It was the best way to describe him‚ from the first time I heard of him to the last time I saw him. He wasn’t‚t gorgeous. There was never anything

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    Silent Subversion in A Woman On A Roof Abstract This paper centers on the unnamed woman sunbathing on the roof of her own‚ using her indifference and silence as rebellion toward the three men ’s provocation working on another roof‚ trying to explore women ’s subversion toward the gender bias and their self-consciousness raising in the society. Key words: silence;indifference;rebellion;subversion 1. Introduction Doris Lessing

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