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  • Woman at Point Zero

    Woman at Point Zero

    Firdaus sheds her last grain of virtue. In doing so, she realizes the truth of her society. Seeing what a woman is and does in Egypt, her home, she sees the only way out of the situation. Firdaus, through her desire to be become a human being who was not looked upon with discontent; she finds that a successful prostitute was better than a misled saint. Throughout her life, Firdaus had incurred the abuse

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    Submitted: March 12, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Woman at Point Zero

    Woman at Point Zero

    Woman at Point Zero In the book, Woman at Point Zero, the character Firdaus seems to be a woman that has endured a tremendous amount of suffering and discrimination in a society that victimizes women. Throughout the story she has experienced several incidents which bear a strong effect on her feelings towards men. Her confrontations and observations of men as a young girl influence the way she is as an adult. Firdaus seems to be

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    Submitted: June 1, 2010 By: Mike
  • Woman on the Edge of Time

    Woman on the Edge of Time

    Connie, the heroine of the book Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy, is put in a mental institution, once for abusing her child, and again for attacking a pimp, trying to save her niece. She appears completely sane though, until she starts seeing visions of people living in the future who claim to have contacted her because she is "receptive" to them. The question is, is Connie sane and her trip

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    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Women and Their Wives

    Women and Their Wives

    Brady’s unremitting views on society’s opinionated expectations of women and their roles within the household depict that not only men, but the community as a whole, require the utmost service out of the female gender. Not only in Brady’s time, but as well as in the many generations before hers, women were confined under strict standards and were forced to commit themselves entirely to their duties and their husbands. Judy Brady’s valued principles challenge

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    Submitted: January 23, 2010 By: regina
  • Women Empowerment Is the Need of Time

    Women Empowerment Is the Need of Time

    WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IS THE NEED OF TIME The world is full of stories, the stories of all kinds, full of the stories depicting joys, grieves blessings and cursing of the world, There are stories which can give the cold shivers around your spine, stories that can give you goose bumps all and whole, stories that can take your heart out of chest and leave it to ground to feel pain… but few stories are more

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    Submitted: October 13, 2017 By: Humair Ahmed
  • Women in Hamlet

    Women in Hamlet

    Hamlet is one Shakespeare’s most famous plays. This essay will look at Hamlet’s perception of women in general but particularly Gertrude and Ophelia. It will also look at the historical presentation of women, comparing Hamlet’s time to today and seeing if the symbolic role that the female characters have is related to the period. I will also look at Hamlet’s madness, whether it was it was real or not and also whether women could be

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Edward
  • Women in Hamlet

    Women in Hamlet

    Hamlet is one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. In this essay I will look at Hamlets perception of women in general but particularly Gertrude and Ophelia. I will also look at the historical presentation of women, comparing Hamlets time to today and seeing if the symbolic role that the females characters have is related to the period. Also I will look at Hamlets madness, whether it was real or not and also whether women could

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Bred
  • Women in Pop Culture

    Women in Pop Culture

    If Oprah emphasized racial oppression more aggressively, would she be as popular? After reading Tammy Johnson’s article, I believe that answer to this question is probably no. I myself am a fan of Oprah and I believe that she is extremely generous and does more for the world in one year than most people can hope to do in a lifetime. I believe that Tammy Johnson raised some interesting points, but I don’t necessarily agree

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    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Women in Society

    Women in Society

    Religion has existed for as long as man has. Both men, and women believed in a superior being to explain the existence of life. Now with the different varieties of religions, men and women play different roles that are permitted by each one of them. Men are allowed to do as they please in the church as far as the worshipping of god is concerned, but women have been and still are restricted from performing

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    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: regina
  • Women Rights

    Women Rights

    Womens Roles in the 19th Century Today in society, women are about as equal to men as you can get. They have all of the same rights, including rights that women were once deprived of. Some of those rights are voting, working, and being government officials. In the play A Dolls House by Ibsen, the main character it Nora, the wife of Torvald Helmer. Torvald belittles her and treats her as if she were a

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    Submitted: April 12, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Women Roles in "the Things They Carried"

    Women Roles in "the Things They Carried"

    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

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    Submitted: May 2, 2010 By: Artur
  • Women, as Victims of Men, in Martin Scorses Films

    Women, as Victims of Men, in Martin Scorses Films

    Women, as Victims of Men, in Martin Scorsese Films My thesis for this paper is that director Martin Scorsese generally views women as victims of men. To illustrate this thesis, I will examine two of his well known films, Raging Bull, and Goodfellas. Raging Bull is not a film about boxing but about a man who is extremely jealous and suffers from sexual insecurity. For Jake LaMotta (Robert DeNiro), what happens during a fight is

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Women: Liberated or Sex Toys?

    Women: Liberated or Sex Toys?

    Times, they aren’t a-changin’ By Danielle Godwin Women: Liberated or sex toys? Bob Dylan once wrote, ‘the times they are a-changin', I beg to differ. The 1960’s were defiantly a time of dramatic change with the introduction of the women’s liberation movement. But has all that much changed? Are all western women really liberated or are they simply being told so and believing every word, like the good little housewives men want them to be?

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Mike
  • Women’s Basketball Directory

    Women’s Basketball Directory

    Women’s Basketball Directory University of Tennessee Lady Vols Basketball Pat Summitt Head Coach 865.974.0600 Holly Warlick Assistant Coach 865.974.0600 Nikki Caldwell Assistant Coach 865.974.0600 Dean Lockwood Assistant Coach 865.974.0600 Danielle Donehew Director of Operations 865.974.0600 Angel Elderkin Graduate Assistant 865.974.0600 Pam Owens Graduate Assistant 865.974.0600 University of North Carolina Lady Tar Heels Mailing AddressUNC Athletic DepartmentP.O. Box 2126Chapel Hill, NC 27514 Dick Baddour, Athletic Director Email 962-8200 Women's Basketball 962-5187 University of Conn. Lady

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    Submitted: May 5, 2010 By: Monika
  • Women’s Struggles in Little Women

    Women’s Struggles in Little Women

    In Little Women, one major theme is the struggles women go through during the nineteenth-century. Women are supposed to be good mothers and women are only to speak when they are spoken to. Society in the nineteenth-century did not expect women to work to support themselves. Family obligations and duties take away from the woman’s ability to attend to her own needs and wants. Little Women shows how women struggled in the nineteenth century.

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    Submitted: May 28, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Words and the Way We See Art

    Words and the Way We See Art

    Art is a thing that often surrounds us. It is now everywhere: in museums, magazines, plays, musicals, pictures, movies, TV and so on. When we want to see some professional and historical artworks, we usually go to museums. Some go there to see something that they are interested in. Some go there to study the artworks. Some might go there just to kill time. Because not everyone is a specialist on artworks, sometimes there

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Victor
  • Work

    Work

    George Washington Carver was born into slavery January of 1860 on the Moses Carver plantation in Diamond Grove, Missouri. He spent the first year of his life, the brutal days of border war, between Missouri and neighboring Kansas. George was a very sickly child with a whooping cough, which later lead to his speech impediment, and he was tiny and puny. George’s father, James Carver, died in a wood hauling accident when he was bringing

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    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: July
  • Working Capital Management of Pepsi Co.

    Working Capital Management of Pepsi Co.

    WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT PROJECT REPORT Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the award of Two year full time, Masters in Business Administration. By Sudhir Kumar DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY PHAGWARA (2008-2010) Acknowledgement Whatever we do and whatever we achieve during the course of our limited life is just not done only by our own efforts, but by efforts contributed by other people associated with us indirectly or directly. I thank

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    Submitted: May 7, 2010 By: Animesh
  • World War 2, Race, Popular Culture

    World War 2, Race, Popular Culture

    paper from: http://www.kevincmurphy.com/dower.html John Dower, War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War. List: 20th Century. Subjects: World War II, Race, Popular Culture. John Dower's War Without Mercy describes the ugly racial dimensions of the conflict in the Asian theater of World War II and their consequences on both military and reconstruction policy in the Pacific. "In the United States and Britain," Dower reminds us, "the Japanese were more hated than the Germans

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    Submitted: June 6, 2010 By: Mike
  • World Wide Connection or Isolation

    World Wide Connection or Isolation

    World Wide Connection or Isolation Can something as powerful as the Internet that connects people around the world also isolate people? The Internet has undoubtedly provided many options. For the technologically person, the Internet is a simple tool. However, it becomes a question of why people use the Internet. In “The Internet Encourages Isolation”, author Dorothy Chin express concerns over the increasing use of the Internet. Although she acknowledges the power of connectivity with the

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    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Bred
  • Would Frog's Approach Be More Suitable for Some Kinds of Development Projects Than Others? If So What Kinds Would It Be Appropriate or Inappropriate For?

    Would Frog's Approach Be More Suitable for Some Kinds of Development Projects Than Others? If So What Kinds Would It Be Appropriate or Inappropriate For?

    Case study of Frog's - Question 4 Frog's approach would be more suitable for some kinds of development projects such as: electronic product, mobile product, Internet services, the energy, healthcare, software computer, and media, retail. Based on the frog process, it is clearly seen that the main task of Frog is about the stretch from initial conception to the completion of a product. Moreover, the three phases of Frog, which includes Discover, Design and Deliver

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    Submitted: May 2, 2011 By: Vivian78
  • Would the World Beat a Path to Trap-Ease's Door?

    Would the World Beat a Path to Trap-Ease's Door?

    Would the world beat a path to Trap-Ease's door? Trap-Ease is a new product designed to remedy household mouse problems avoiding health and safety risks and unpleasantness. The product has won awards including the best new product in the National Hardware Show in Chicago and appeared in an article in People Magazine. The new innovative trap had also been issued in various popular press and trade publications. Trap-Ease has been distinguished in these reports from

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    Submitted: May 17, 2010 By: July
  • Wrinkle in Time - Good Versus Evil

    Wrinkle in Time - Good Versus Evil

    Theme Analysis advertisement Good versus Evil The universe in A Wrinkle in Time is a battle between the forces of light and darkness, or good and evil. The evil is represented metaphysically by the Dark Thing or the Black Thing, and manifests in the physical forms of the man with red eyes and IT. The representatives of light are perpetually involved in a struggle against darkness. The good characters are various. There are Mrs.

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    Submitted: May 10, 2010 By: David
  • Write of Passage

    Write of Passage

    To be a Man, or Not to be a Man The transition from a young boy to a man has two major aspects to it, one is physical and the other is mental. Holden is a young adult in J.D Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye who has yet to experience the mental element of the maturation process. To complete this right of passage Holden had to conquer what he feared most. The right of passage

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Janna
  • Writer Is Observer

    Writer Is Observer

    CHAPTER 5 – Writing to reflect * Writer is OBSERVER * Kinds of documents: Memoir, photo essays, short stories, literacy narratives, reflective essays * HOW TO WRITE: * Find a conversation and Listen in: Explore ur experience -> Ask questions abt promising subjects -> Conduct an observation * Reflect on Your Subject: Examine ur subject ( explore processes, consider implications, examine similarities and differences, trace causes and effects, consider value, identify challenges and difficulties, reflect

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    Submitted: January 20, 2015 By: kainjung
  • Writing Women's World: Bedouin Stories

    Writing Women's World: Bedouin Stories

    Sara Al-matroud Writing Women's Worlds is some stories on the Bedouin Egyptian people. In this book, thwe writer Lia Adu-Lughod's stories differ from the conventional ones. While reading, we discover the customs and values of the Bedouin people. We see Migdim, a dominator of the people. Even though her real age is never given, one can assume that she is at the end of her life, maybe in her mid to late eighties. Migdim's life

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    Submitted: February 20, 2010 By: Steve
  • Written Analysis of the Short Story “the Revolt of ‘mother’ ”

    Written Analysis of the Short Story “the Revolt of ‘mother’ ”

    Written analysis of the short story “The Revolt of ‘Mother’ ” Shirlley Padia Lopes This work will treat about the short story “The Revolt of Mother”, written by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman and it will be based on the feminist criticism. By this criticism, this short story from Freeman is a kind of innovation in literature made by women. Feminist Criticism has been developed with the rising of the feminist movement in sixties, and particularly

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    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Wuthering Height

    Wuthering Height

    Wuthering Heights This novel is one of the greatest literatures, which are filled with knowledge and absurdity of human behavior related to love, and it touches me quite a lot. I think this novel will be effective for a reader who wants to deeply consider human behavior. Emily Bronte wrote this novel, which is one of the greatest in the world. This is her only full-length novel and the main theme of this novel has

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    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights

    Character: Hindley Earnshaw Actions: Against Heathcliff (an orphan who his father has taken in) 1. [pg. 38 and 39]: beats Heathcliff 2. [pg. 46]: after Mr. Earnshaw’s death, Hindley returns and treats Heathcliff as a servant. He denies him education and relegates him to manual labor. 3. [pg. 47] locks him out of the house 4. [pg. 53] groups him among the servants when Catherine returns home from Thrushcross Grange 5. [pg. 58] forbids him

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: David
  • Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights

    In the novel Wuthering Heights, the expressive but reserved character Heathcliff is an orphaned boy who is found in Liverpool that is faced with adversity from his foster family, which affects the actions of his adolescence and the emergence of tribulations of terror, provided, this forces the thematic message of rejection with an allusion of discovering one's self. (CD-CX) Childhood is the time in one's life where a positive foundation is built and habits are

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    Submitted: April 27, 2011 By: TJSmith
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