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Feminist Essays and Term Papers
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by BEBE CAMPBELLRunning head: "Your Blues Aint Like Mine"
Claudine Moreno
Sociology
April 18, 2013
"Your Blues Aint Like Mine"
Bebe Campbell constructed a world of dynamic social interactions in her novel "Your Blues Aint Like Mine". The title alone suggests the antithesis between supposed "you" and ...
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First Woman Horse RacerIn the heart of the Woman’s Rights Movement in the 1960’s, there was one feminist pioneer who was paving new roads, but not in the office or as part of a protest, instead she took it to the track. The fearless woman in question is Diane Crump, the world’s first female jockey, who at the age of 18 ...
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RagtimeDeion Morris
AP English Literature
08 February 2014
Many people come to America to live what people call "the American Dream". Early in the 20[th] century immigrants would travel to Ellis Island, NY in a chance to live a better life. Blacks were still being treated with no respect and little ...
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Susan Glaspell"Trifles" by Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)
Born in 1876, Susan Glaspell was raised in Davenport, Iowa, where she graduated high school. A remarkable journalist, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, theatrical producer, director, and actor, Glaspell wrote for many newspapers including Morning ...
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Women As A Minority GroupFrom Social Forces, 30, 1951, pp.60-69.
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WOMEN AS A MINORITY GROUP
Helen Mayer Hacker
Hunter College
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Although ...
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The Simpsons SatireStatistics:
23 Seasons
18 million box sets of Simpsons seasons
27 Emmy awards for best primetime television series
21 bilion dollars worth of merchandise
Actors receiving 400,000 per episode
During the first season the average amount of viewers was 13.4 million
There are a total of over ...
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Women Can Do WondersChristie Smith
Professor Roberts
English 1301
16 October, 2014
Women Can Do Wonders
Christmas of 1977 there was only one thing I wanted. It was the same thing every girl in my kindergarten class wanted, Wonder Woman Underroos. Wonder Woman was the reason we raced to the playground every ...
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Intersexuals and TransgenderA 15-year-old girl is incarcerated in a Chicago mental hospital in 1981 and kept there for three years because she won't wear a dress. A Winn-Dixie truck driver is fired from a job he held for twenty years when his boss learns that he wears women's clothes at home. A small-time hustler in Falls ...
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Abortion - Is It Okay?Abortion- Is it okay?
Gabriela Kupryjanczuk
Abortion, according to the universal definition, is the "termination of a pregnancy", an option offered in most of the U.S. Abortion has been a very harsh topic for many years. Every person has a strong opinion on it, and whether it truly is ...
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Role Women Played In SocietyTacitus, in his seminal, anthropological work, "Germania" provided a comprehensive, ethnographic treatise on the people of pre-medieval Germany. This work, created a little less than two millennia ago, explores the geography, ethnicity, occupations, culture, lifestyle and the role of women in ...
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Cross-Gender Research In Third World CountriesThis essay is an evaluation of a recent paper published in the journal "Women's Studies International Forum," published by Regina Scheyvens and Helen Leslie titled "Gender, ethics and empowerment: Dilemmas of development fieldwork." The authors present facts and discussions related to several ...
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Kate ChopinKate Chopin
A once successful 19th Century writer, Kate Chopin faded into obscurity for decades. During the feminist era of the late 1960's and '70's, her writings were rediscovered and her critical popularity has made her forever a writer of renown. Her novel, "The Awakening" that launched ...
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Deceptiveness and Duality in Chaucer’s "The Wife of Bath's Tale"Deceptiveness and Duality in Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale"
The Wife of Bath is perhaps the most vividly drawn of all of Chaucer's characters, and her tale, together with its prologue, makes for satisfying drama as well as for exposition of a thought-provoking moral. Scholarly arguments ...
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Oedipus: A Victim of HimselfOedipus Rex is a religious parable of the dangers of pride. It is also a tale of the friction that occurs along the boundary of politics and religion. Ultimately, it a tragic fable that delivers a clear message, those who possess fatal flaws are fated to suffer dearly from them. In this play, the ...
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White Privilege In AmericaThis essay explores the idea of white privilege. The main argument of the paper is that the implicit and often invisible force of white privilege in America functions to produce effects that are equally (if not more) troubling than overt or explicit racism. The privilege that I speak of has to ...
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Mildred Pierce: Book and Film ComparisonIn contemporary filmmaking, "Hollywood-ization" generally refers to the re-creation of a classic work in a form more vulgar and sexually explicit than the original in an effort to boost movie attendance. After all, sex and violence sell. However, from the mid-1930's to the 1950's, ...
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A Doll's House Reflective Statement"Reflective statement; A Doll's House"
When I first started "A Doll's house" I thought it was just some out dated comedy not unlike todays "Modern Family," but in our Interactive Oral about play quickly changed my mind. Especially when presented with gender roles of the past versus the present ...
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Qui Ju: Character InteractionQUI JU
Films are depiction of human emotions, and the films that get popular or are greatly appreciated, achieves the feat, not only through excellence in technology and cinematography - but essentially because of the manner in which they show their characters interact with each other - be it ...
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Womens Liberation MovementWomen's Liberation Movement
The Women's Liberation Movement was a feminist movement that struggles to gain equality for women economically and socially. This movement first began in the 1960's and continues to strive in society today. Life before this movement was not very commendable for ...
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