treatment of men and women and the active roles they play in society‚ such as the woman’s role to bear and nurture children. Medea ignores those feminine qualities and questions Jason’s sexist ideals. She internally struggles between self independence and motherhood. Euripides uses Jason’s affair with his new found wife and Medea’s obsession with wanting to bring much pain to him to display a feministic point of view in his play. Early in the play‚ when Medea is upset and somewhat depressed‚ she
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feminism and eventually produced robust movements to end violence against women and children as well as to end pornography‚ which radical feminists saw as anti-woman propaganda and a source of sexual violence. This collided with but did not merge with the demands of a growing conservative movement to police sex more rigorously and also incited opposition within the feminist movement as some activists were concerned about a return to state censorship and the intensification of an anti-sex backlash for women
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and rarely ever does one succeed. However‚ in “Daystar‚” a confessional poem that relies heavily on the poetic devices of connotation and imagery to describe the loneliness and weariness of a young mother who feels trapped in her domesticity‚ poet Rita Dove does just that‚ however briefly – she finds “a little room for thinking” amid the chaos and clutter of an otherwise dreary life. The first line of the poem‚ “She wanted a little room for thinking‚” states this common wish succinctly‚ and the
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“Our Town” The critically acclaimed three act play “Our Town” was and still remains popular to this day. Since its first performance in 1938 at the McCarter Theater in Princeton‚ New Jersey‚ it found its way to a successful Broadway run and eventually won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It also became one of the most performed plays in the 20th century. Written by American playwright Thornton Wilder‚ the play was molded into a timeless piece of Art. The play starts with a dialog from the Stage Manager
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Why Can’t Feminists be Feminine? In the fight for gender equality‚ some feminists feel that they have to purge themselves of their femininity to achieve the level of acceptance that they hope to reach‚ while others are proud of being feminine and feminist. This has become a point of contention amongst many women‚ causing women to question whether femininity and feminism can coexist. If we abandon femininity‚ we are creating a new stereotype. While being strong and achieving gender equality is
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Introduction In recent decades‚ as with the development of the economic globalization‚ the information technology has been updating constantly and the industries in the marketplace are faced with more and more stronger competition. In order to adapt to this severe situation‚ many enterprises‚ especially some hi-tech companies‚ are all trying to seek a new special organizational form‚ which in turn gives rise to the concept of ‘work team’ to restructure the work and organization process[1]. And
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To what extent does cognition control emotion ? In everyday life there is a constant evidence of interaction between cognition and emotion. If we see something funny we laugh‚ if we fear we run or hide‚ if we are distressed we find it hard to concentrate. However we do not need to present any of the emotions to others‚ we can regulate them‚ think about situations and consequences and estimate the outcome. We are able to control our emotions. Ochsner and Gross(2005‚p.242) argues that capacity
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Previous to the emergence of feminist theories in the 1960’s and 70’s the criminal justice system and studies surrounding it were developed under the assumption that males were the predominate perpetrators and victims of crime- particularly in cases regarding interpersonal violence. Whilst this was and still is true‚ the number of women being involved in interpersonal crimes is increasing‚ causing a new wave of interest as to what circumstances a woman finds herself involved in a criminal situation;
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They are good at educating people and raising awareness of the general public. They offer independent information to the public and they are very important in furthering our knowledge so we are able to make more sound‚ rather than rash decisions. However they may not be completely accurate but we gather enough information from different sources we can come to a judgement which reasonable or sensible. This is very good for democracy as they are informative and good at educating others such as Action
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It will be helpful to first examine what is understood by the term "language play". Used experimentally‚ language is inextricably connected to play. It is intrinsically symbolic‚ adventurous‚ informative‚ and dynamic. As Marian Whitehead writes‚ "Language and play share several characteristics: both use symbols to stand for a range of ideas‚ feelings and experiences; both are reflections of human thinking and also creators of new thoughts; both are part of our genetic make-up." Terry Campbell
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