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This paper examines a 2007 study by Chapleau et al (US)addressing ambivalent sexism, rape myth and ideas about sexual assault. The paper looks at the durability for rape myths among North Americans and other well informed Westerners who tend to retain some myths in combination with empirical understanding. The paper makes a mention of feminist stereotypes emerging from rape activism as in ideas of police insensitivity or rape prevention.

Tags:chapleau et al/07, critical paper, rape/fem approach

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The paper discusses the book "Ambivalent Conquest" and the case of a Spanish political figure and the Fransicans. In particular, the paper looks at why the Maya were not discussed in this case, considering that the Maya were a major force in the area.

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"In "Ambivalent Conquests", Inga Clendinnen looks at the history of the relationships between the Maya and the Spanish in the Yucatan between 1517 and 1570. When most people think about the Spanish conquest of the Yucatan they believe that only two groups were involved. However, three major groups seem to have been vying for power. These groups were the aforementioned Spanish and Mayas with the Franciscan missionaries also playing and important role. The Franciscan missionaries appeared to be working for their own purposes. Although they were often willing to work with the Spanish they were also..."

Tags:maya, spanish, franscisan

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This paper looks at Clendinnen's "Ambivalent Conquests" and discusses how the Mayans and other Yucatan natives were strong fighters. It points out however, that it was not only Spanish military conquest, but more importantly other events and interactions that brought about their ultimate downfall.

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"To remedy the common exemption of the Yucatan's perspective Inga Clendinnen wrote Ambivalent Conquests. She starts out with the very first encounter between the Spanish and Yucatan natives, which interestingly did not actually occur on Yucatan soil. Actually in the year 1502 A.D. Christopher Columbus came across a floating canoe manned by twenty-five naked people carrying bronze ax heads, cacao beans, pottery and other cargo apparently to trade off the coast of Honduras. Columbus' crew ravaged through the Indians' belongings and took whatever they liked along with an old man who seemed to be the canoe's guide in hopes that he would be a helpful navigator. This was a gentle precursor to the offenses Spanish intruders would later inflict upon the Yucatan's deep cultural heritage."

Tags:conquistadors, ecomiendas, mayan, spanish, yucatan

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An analysis of the book "Ambivalent Conquest" by Inga Clendinnen and the idea of the Yucatan conquest as 'ambivalent' in its nature. By discussing the characters in this historical drama, we can see how they intertwine, and can be compared with other conquests in the region.

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Analyzes the book "Ambivalent Conquest" by Inga Clendinnen and the idea of the Yucatan conquest as 'ambivalent' in its nature. By discussing the characters in this historical drama, we can see how they intertwine and how they can be compared with other conquests in the region.

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This paper discusses and reviews the book entitled "Ambivalent Neighbors", edited by Anatol Lieven and Dmitri Trenin, about the relationship between the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the member states that participated in these organizations.

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""Ambivalent Neighbors" subtitled "The EU NATO and the Price of Membership" is a text edited by Anatol Lieven and Dmitri Trenin. The text presents a total of stand-alone articles each of which is focused on some aspect of or issues related to the complex relationships between the European Union (EU), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the individual member states that participate in either or both of these organizations. The Foreword to the text provided by Jessica T Matthews of the..."

Tags:Europe, European Union, NATO

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The analysis focuses on the narrator's ambivalence and why he is ambivalent to whites, blacks and the institutions of society in American culture. How he learns to overcome this ambivalence through higher consciousness is also addressed.

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"In Ralph Ellison's account of oppression and racism directed at African Americans in U.S. society in 'Invisible Man", the author tells us in an opening dream sequence; "I too have become acquainted with ambivalence" but in the epilogue he concludes he will denounce and defend, condemn and affirm, say no and say yes, say yes and say no, and hate and love. The invisible man narrator adopts an ambivalent attitude toward many aspects of society from separatism and communism to racism..."

Tags:racism, Jim Crow, equality, oppression, electro-shock treatment, factories, communism, Black Nationalism, separatism, government, education

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This paper discusses Ben Jonson's famous play, "Epicoene or The Silent Woman." The paper analyzes the plot and the characters of the play. It discusses the style in which "Epicoene or The Silent Woman" is written and its structure of an overlapping array of plots that essentially subsume one another throughout the course of the play. The paper looks at Jonson's purpose in the play and its success.

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"There is also the sexual sub-plot, which is skillfully woven into the play. Truewit and Clerimont assert halfway through that the play seems to be a mere repetition of previous dramatic forms. But Dauphine, at the end of the play, reveals that he is one step further than the rest of the characters when he reveals Epicoene's true gender. Thus, Dauphine comes closest at this point to the role that the author, Jonson, has been playing throughout - as the author is always one step ahead of the audience. Again, Elizabethan conventions of dramatic form are exposed, ridiculed, and discarded in favor of a more open-ended, modern approach to the question of gender. An Elizabethan audience would not have questioned the fact that Epicoene was being played by a boy, as this was a norm during the Elizabethan period. But by exposing Epicoene as a transvestite at the end of the play, Dauphine - and Jonson, by extension - effectively disrupts this norm - the very sort of norm that would be upheld by Morose, who is the ultimate victim of this deception."

Tags:structure, audience, satire

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In this paper, the primary scholarship examined in this study relating to poetry between the 9th and 12th century Islamic reveals a slow and ambivalent fusion and eventual divergent view of secular and spiritual themes. The early poems of the Abbasid and Central Asian traditions of poetry reveal the use of many secular images that invariably are connected to the religious values that were part of the strict moral codes of Islam in its early development. However, with the consolidation of these spiritual values over the 10th and 11th centuries, the 12th century offered a far more spiritual look into natural and metaphysical themes in the Andalusian style.

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Tags:islam, poetry, history

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This paper is a book report assignment on Inga Clendinnen Ambivalent Conquest: Maya and the Spaniards in Yucatan, 1517-1570. It will give a brief idea of one's understanding of pre-Maya society and culture that largely come from Spanish sources of from sources that affected by European culture.