course of people’s lives. World War 2‚ for example‚ changed the role of women. They stepped in to do man labor while the men were at war. Women soon realized they are capable of working as doctors‚ electricians‚ mail carrier and others after experiencing it. That is when the workforce expanded for women. Another way World War 2 changed women’s lives in a less obvious way was when the only few men came back after the war‚ a lot of women married these few survived ones‚ partly because of their relief the
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Women are seen as some kind of ownership. Men marry women to take control over them. However many times it did not happen like they wanted. Women overcome this controlling‚ and stand up. In Othello‚ the women take a major role in the craziness. They are accused of cheating and being whores. It seems in Shakespeare’s plays the women look to their husbands as lord or masters and do as they are told. They are like puppy dogs following them around. The wives seem to make sure their husbands are taken
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The Role of Women in Iliad Homer’s Iliad is remembered so many years after it was written as a poem and story that revolves around fierce war and anarchy between the Trojans and the Greeks. Men of might and heroic reputation slaughter and kill each other mercilessly in the story in hundreds and thousands (Farron 17). The aggressiveness and ferociousness that characterize the Homeric story sidelines and leaves very little space for women who are by all measures cannot withstand the intensity and atmosphere
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Women in the 1920’s Before World War II no one believed women had a place in the military‚ yet women overcame this and helped the United States reach victory. Women felt they needed and wanted to get involved in the war instead of sitting at home‚ taking care of the children‚ cooking dinner‚ and cleaning the house. Women joined military support organizations like the WACs‚ the WAVES and the WASPs. These kinds of organizations contributed immensely toward the United States war effort. Women felt
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hundreds of years women have been through many trails and tribulations to maintain women’s freedom we have today. Expectations have escalated‚ and our standards are much higher then they used to be. The things women have gone through throughout the 1930’s has increased the respect woman and has resulted in equality. Women’s efforts showed that they were dependable‚ meticulous people that could make boundless contributions to society. Women just needed the chance to prove it. Women were expected to
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The 1920’s were the years of expression‚ change‚ innovations and new opportunities. Within these years women were exposed to different types of cultures and expressions some major ones being jazz and flappers. Women also gained the right to vote when the nineteenth amendment was passed allowing women to now have a say in political circumstances. Sheppard-Towner Act was also passed making it possible to have well-baby clinics‚ educational programs‚ as well as nursing. Expression for women came from
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usually involved familial relationships and are intended to show justice through punishment. Many of these justices involve women who are killed‚ beaten or tortured because of being accused of unfaithfulness or adultery. In the play Othello‚ the main cause of Desdemona and Emilia’s death was the failure of forgiving hatred and disapproval and due to the position of the role women play in a relationship or marriage. Many view Othello’s jealous actions as stereotypical manly and alpha male‚ which was
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After the Civil War ended the economy was indubitably unstable‚ American farmers encountered a sequence of problems from transportation to a complex worldwide market‚ for instance‚ some of these complaints were: unfair railroad fees and tariffs policies. These dilemmas led farmers to a horrible economic situation in which some homesteaders even lost their homes and farms. Consequently these farmers displayed a series of complaints in which they specified all the problems they were facing due to
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forcing herself to become more violent in order to attain her dreams. Lady Macbeth takes the involuntary role of the dominant partner in the marriage from the beginning of the play‚ due to Macbeth’s lack of masculinity. During the Medieval times‚ women were only responsible for childbearing and looking pretty for their husbands‚ but Lady Macbeth had to uphold other tasks that Macbeth could not. She has to call upon the scheming spirits to “unsex” her because she knows that Macbeth’s manhood is questionable
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Big hair‚ neon lights‚ Jordache shorts‚ and fast cars. The 1980’s were loose‚ wild‚ and rock and roll were the perfect matches to the powerful machines rolling out of Detroit. Although the late 1970’s were the start of the Malaise era of cars‚ the late 1980’s saw a real resurgence in fun cars with power. Automakers had learned to cope with emissions regulations and with technological advances engines became more powerful‚ more efficient‚ and thanks to computers had some impressive dashboards. This
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