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    As a result‚ Esperanza draws her strength from the very sources of her oppression (Kuribayashi and Julie). Since she was a child‚ Esperanza personality is rebellious. The segment of “Hair” Esperanza describes her family’s hair‚ but when she defines her he said‚ “And me‚ hair is lazy. It never obeys barrettes or bands” (Cisneros‚ 6-7). She describes her as disobedient. In “My Name‚” Esperanza demonstrates the perspective of racist Anglo society toward her Mexican origins. She compares her name to

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    is what a woman is required to do. The purpose of her existence in a wealthy household is to serve the Master. Their lives are controlled by the Master and they have to do what the Master orders them to do. During the opening scene‚ the role of the women is explained by Songlian when she was talking to her mother about “a woman’s fate”. She said that a woman’s fate in a China is to serve their husband and that they should have no freedom. This scene was taken using a close up of her face and the tears

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    something else entirely: a flower of "Southern womanhood‚" an idea that itself is‚ according to Atticus‚ a "polite fiction" (15.39). But to justify sending an innocent man to death‚ the jury has to believe in her as a representative of "fragile" white women everyone: A young girl walked to the witness stand. As she raised her hand and swore that the evidence she gave would be the truth‚ the whole truth‚ and nothing but the truth so help her God‚ she seemed somehow fragile-looking‚ but when she sat

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    “While most of the women had sallow faces‚ hers looked white and healthy like fresh milk (148). Unlike the other women in her community who wore pants and jackets all the time‚ Mu wore dresses and that staggeringly separated her from the other noblewomen. The day she was taken by the guards “Mu wore a sky-blue dress‚ which made her different from the other women who always...”(p148). She had a “purple wart beside her left nostril” (p148)‚ that set her apart from the other women‚ a beauty mark I imagine

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    of the mask it to teach the young women refined attitudes and feminine gestures and how to move gracefully and elegantly through the movements of graceful movement of the dancers. The mask is worn by a man wearing a net tunic. The mask is also worn by boys undergoing initiation and other ceremonies to assist in fertility and prosperity (index.html). According to Manuel Jordan‚ the masks facial features include masoji‚ or tears‚ below the eyes‚ and that the women wear a clay-packed wig that is reminiscent

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    modernity is best viewed through the mother/daughter relationship of Nyasha and Maiguru through the subordination of women in their culture‚ their rebellion to the British education they received‚ and their isolation as a result of this education. Traditions are a strong part of the African culture in the novel. They dictate every action of every person in that culture‚ especially the women. Women are taught to think a certain way as inferior‚ subordinate‚ underneath the men of their culture. The main character

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    “womanly” things (being kind‚ tolerant‚ sexy and obedient)‚ to be good at “manly” things (being competitive‚ strong‚ and successful) and‚ to be perfect 100% of the time. These are contradicting views and some believe that it confuses women but others believe that it gives women more choice and gives them the respect of expecting that they can do more than just tend a home. The triple bind‚ according to the author of “What is the triple bind?” Stephen Hinshaw‚ is a set of rules that makes girls do everything

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    Living in Sin is a poem that I feel encompasses the majority of young unguided women today. The type of woman I speak of‚ are the ones with the dreams of fairy tales and magic. Stories of love and happy endings. The unrealistic‚ with never a thought of anything other than that things are perfect and if they are not then they will eventually be. Such as the character in the poem‚ if she could tell her story before the poem‚ what would it be? That she wanted love? Maybe she wanted happy ending with

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    clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry;” (Lines 1-2). This first two lines already emphasize the basic role of women as the caretaker of the house. The beginning lines of the poem seem to summarize the poem’s perspective of what defines a woman: doing the household chores‚ which start with laundry. The mother teaches the girl all the chores that women do from the simple task of setting the table‚ to cooking‚ laundry‚ ironing‚ sewing and everything else in between. Essentially‚ to

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    In today’s society men and women are supposed to be equal. We all try to believe that they are but unfortunately this isn’t true. Men have always been given a higher social place in society. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman shows how these issues were even worse then they are now. In this book Arthur Miller tends to show woman as inferior. We do not know if Arthur did this to show that people need to make a change or to show his view on women’s place in society. Regardless the message of the inferior

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