Abstract
This paper explains, in detail, the gender and sexuality themes in Alison Anders' "Mi Vida Loca" ("My Crazy Life"), which realistically describes the lives of young Mexican-American women in Los Angeles who are involved in gangs, drugs and sexual activities. The writer believes that, Anders' own feminist agenda and ideology, such as non-normative gender roles, which challenge the traditional confinement of women to domesticity, seem to standout more than her stated goal to humanize people who don't get represented in film. The paper cites many feminist critics and relates their ideas to the film and concludes that Anders' feminism is not adequate. The paper uses MLA style footnotes rather than a works cited page.

From the Paper
"Anders' film fails to break from this patriarchal, phallocentric logic. Only by adopting masculinized gender roles and possessing the phallus (carrying guns) can the Locas construct their agency. Anders doesn't allow for alternate sources of female strength, only for women to act as male substitutes. After Giggles leaves Sleepy's place, the night she affirms her independence and strength, her style of dress does a one-eighty. While previously she tended to wear skirts and dresses, when she organizes the Locas she is wearing pants and a wife-beater."

Tags:phallocentric, third world feminism, feminist separatists, male-female relationships, gun

Abstract
This paper analyzes, compares and contrasts Shakespeare's tribute to love in "Sonnet 18", and Bill Nadvornik's contemporary lyrical "Alison's Sonnet." These poems are examines with an emphasis on mechanical structure, thematics, language, and rhetorical devices employed.

From the Paper
"William Shakespeare's popular Elizabethan tribute to love and the immortalizing power of poetic verse, Sonnet, and Bill Nadvornik's contemporary lyrical homage to his bride "Alison's Sonnet" appear, historical disparity notwithstanding, superficially analogous in theme and literary objective. After all, both poems are structurally similar sonnets that exalt their respective objects of affection via the identification of nature's perceived inadequacies. However, upon closer explication each sonnet reveals its own distinct argument and by extension the..."

Tags:Shakespeare, Sonnet 18, sonnet, Nadvornik, nature, love, structure

Abstract
This paper looks at Alison Baker's "Happy Hour" as an evocation of the absurdity of the human condition. It discusses Baker's use of irony and the story's focus on end- of -life family dynamics in an institutional setting.

From the Paper
"Reinforced by a context of narrative irony, Happy Hour presents numerous closely observed details about end-of-life family dynamics in an institutional setting. The irony is not laden with humor or smugness rather taking on attributes of an absurdity ..."

Tags:Happy Hour, Absurd, Irony, Short, Story, theme, Alison, Baker

Abstract
This paper examines how in Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir, "Fun Home" we see Alison growing up in an environment that consists of a repressed-homosexual father, a distant and enabling mother, and a family that often finds itself segmented, where everyone is frequently left to fend for themselves. The theme discussed is that Bechdel's life can be used as an example of how people are a product of their environment. The paper also provides a personal anecdote to describe the author's experiences with his family and how he discovered his religious views. In conclusion, the paper draws a parallel between Bechdel's story and another life experience, using both as evidence that we are simply a product of our environments - a predetermining factor for our character.

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"Parents try to instill their ideals on their children at a very young age. Don't chew with your mouth open. Respect your elders. Don't speak unless spoken to. And on, and on. Our parents' ideals create the strongest environment we grow up in. When these standards are expressed on a regular basis, without going overboard (especially for the things that come up every day, i.e., table manners, proper hygiene, etc.), kids will generally respond well, adapting to this environment. But when parents make a big deal out of something that a child may not understand completely, children will tend to rebel, as a psychological defense mechanism. A popular situation that comes to mind happens when a child inevitably asks the dreaded question, "Where do babies come from?" Answering that question calmly and creatively will probably satisfy the child's curiosity and everything will be fine. "

Tags:homosexuality, lesbian, environmental, factors

Abstract
This paper analyzes the satirical novel by Alison Lurie called "Foreign Affairs". It takes a look at the two very realistic characters of Vinnie and Lurie and how they cope on a holiday to Britain. It shows the insecurities in all of us and how we try and make other people seem less important for our own self-esteem.

From the paper:

"Alison Lurie?s novel Foreign Affairs details the two, parallel existences of American Anglophiles during a brief sojourn in London. One of these characters is named Vinnie Miner. Her name, suitably androgynous, complements her short gray hair and her childish, thin body. Vinnie is older, in her fifties, and Lurie details with wry observation how women of this age are often conceived of as asexual by the world?s eyes. Her heroine came of age long before the 1970?s radical feminist revolution. Yet Lurie is extremely suspicious and critical of this revolution and the way it attempts to encapsulate human affairs and human desires into political theories."

Tags:human, steryotype, affection, sensuality, romantic, femininity, realistic

Abstract
The paper will uses the "determinants of global health framework" to evaluate the plight of women under neo-liberal globalization as outlined by Alison M. Jaggar's article, "Vulnerable Women and Neo-Liberal Globalization: Debt Burdens Undermine Women's Health in the Global South". The paper summarizes the article and explores the underlying determinants exacerbating the problem of women's health in the developing parts of the world. The paper also briefly explores the intermediate determinants of the global health issue and a looks at the proximate determinants shaping the issue. The paper aims to develop an appreciation of how all of these factors interact in a complex way - and also of how these factors are created and then perpetuated by political elites at the international, national and local levels.

From the Paper
"The following paper will use the "determinants of global health framework" to evaluate a pressing global health issue - in this case, the plight of women under neo-liberal globalization as outlined by Alison M. Jaggar's article, "Vulnerable Women and Neo-Liberal Globalization: Debt Burdens Undermine Women's Health in the Global South". More specifically, the next few pages will provide a summary description of the article and the aforementioned summary will then be accompanied by a look at the underlying determinants exacerbating the problem of women's health in the..."

Tags:global, south, women

Abstract
This paper discusses the plight of women under neo-liberal globalization as outlined by Alison M. Jaggar's article, "Vulnerable Women and Neo-Liberal Globalization: Debt Burdens Undermine Women's Health in the Global South". It provides a summary description of the article and then looks at the underlying determinants exacerbating the problem of women's health in the developing parts of the world. From there, the paper briefly explores the intermediate and proximate determinants of the global health issue.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Summary Description of Global Health Issue
Underlying Determinants Explaining Why Global South Women Suffer under "Neo-Lib" Globalization
Intermediate Determinants
Proximate Determinants of Why Global South Women Struggle from a Health Standpoint
Conclusion

From the Paper
"At the proximate level, many women in the global south must deal with the day-to-day reality of being malnourished; to this state of affairs one must also add the poor sanitation and insufficient access to suitable drinking water that one commonly finds in impoverished lands. It is important to also realize that the absence of a meaningful education also means that many of these women are ignorant of what they should be putting into their bodies and what steps they should be taking to secure their own long-term vitality. Just to elaborate on this last point, eating disorders are not merely ubiquitous in developing lands, but have been shown to precipitate troubling health problems in their offspring, as well ("Nutrition and Reproduction in Women," 193-200). This phenomenon thus allows health maladies to be passed on from one generation of young women to the next generation of young women."

Tags:impoverished, intermediate, proximate, determinants

Abstract
The paper discusses how handwritten script and the printed book cannot be considered equally responsible for the development of typographic man. The paper analyzes Alison Harwood's review of McLuhan's "The Gutenberg Galaxy". Rather, as this essay will contend, while script was important as a media for millennia, it was only through print technology that the signifying symbols of script could be mass produced in fixed, essentially identical, formats. The paper concludes that it was this mass production of fixed texts that altered human culture on such a broad scale as to lead to the development of what McLuhan terms the "typographic man".

From the Paper
"Alison Harwood, in her review of Marshall McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, describes the key components of McLuhan's theory of how the development of print technology led to a fundamental transformation of human culture and human perception of the world. Print technology involved the mechanization of the scribal craft. This allowed the production of consistently identical texts and led to uniformity and homogeneity of spelling and grammar, ultimately promoting individual authorship and the ownership of intellectual property."

Tags:summary, critical, discussion

Abstract
This paper will discuss the book "Henry VIII: The King and His Court" by Alison Weir, and the book "Henry VIII: The Mask of Royalty" by Lacey Smith, and seek to show how the first book gives us a clear look at the true Henry the VIII in action. By revealing the more Catholic and harsh view of Henry the VIII in Lacey's book, we find the Protestant reformer that is part of Weir's study to show his defiance to the Church of Rome. By pointing out both of the theories on the great King, we can see how Weir's book tells a more accurate story for Henry's rebellion against the Catholic Church.

Abstract
The paper discusses how Marx and others maintain that the most significant cause of female oppression is economic oppression. The paper shows how Marx believed that environment shapes the individual and he blamed economic depression on the capitalist/private property system that is in place in most of the world today. The paper also quotes Jaggar, a well known feminist, who believed that there is a direct and traceable link between class structure and the oppression of women. The paper concludes that the only way women will reach the status of true equality will be for them to be treated as equals in the economic sphere with equal pay for equal jobs, with credit being allowed for women with the same criteria as it is for men, and with women being offered an equal say in the economic decisions their families and government make.

Outline:
Introduction
Marx
Jaggar
Conclusion

From the Paper
"The feminist movement was big in the 1960's and 1970's in many industrialized nations, however the less developed nation and some of the developed nations did not jump on the bandwagon when it came to the equalization of women. The oppression of women has been occurring in many nations for many years and one significant factor that it can be reduced to is economic repression. Whether it is because women do not get paid as much as men do for the same job, or men in the homes keep a rein on the purse strings it cannot be denied that the underlying factor in the oppression of women is by wielding economic depression as a tool."

Tags:feminism, class, structure, environment, equality