Abstract
This paper presents and analyzes various articles pertaining to the issue of gender roles. It describes the research question of each article, presents the writer's finding and discusses their conclusions. The paper presents articles that research gender issues and roles from differing perspectives, such as the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC), stress in the workplace and the biological make up of men and women.

Table of Contents:
Irwin
Artis and Pavalko
Miller
Stewart and McDermott
Choi
DeLunas and Kesic
Wentworth and Chell
Mellor
Sabattini and Leaper
Barnett

From the Paper
"The researcher stipulates that this societal belief has dominated political, as well as social organizations. This belief has further led many women to believe that in order to reduce stress they must leave the workforce. Yet, Barnett concludes that the evidence indicates that employment is generally not the primary cause of stress for women, the home life is. In light of these conclusions, Barnett suggests that psychiatrists take a new approach to assisting patients that appear to be overcome by stress."

Tags:housewife, workforce, mother, biology

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The paper discusses how "Rubin ""Hurricane"" Carter was a former championship contending boxer who was arrested and wrongly convicted for a triple murder at a local bar in Paterson, N.J. The paper relates that Carter was training for a championship boxing match in October 1966 when he, along with his companion John Artis, was arrested for the triple murder of three customers at a bar in Paterson, NJ. The paper reveals that it took almost 20 years for Rubin Carter to be released as innocent. The paper argues that he was the victim, not only of racism, but of a ""win-at-all"" costs mentality of the prosecutor and the police, who were willing to suborn perjury and distortions in order to get their conviction.

From the Paper
'Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was a former championship contending boxer who was arrested and wrongly convicted for a triple murder at a local bar in Paterson, N.J. Carter was training for a championship boxing match in October 1966 when he, along with his companion John Artis, was arrested for the triple murder of three customers at a bar in Paterson, NJ. Carter and Artis had been arrested on the night of the crime because they fit an eyewitness description of the killers, but they were not indicted by a grand jury when the one surviving victim failed to identify them as the gunmen. The state managed to produce two eyewitnesses, Alfred Bello and Arthur D...."

Tags:murder, race, wrongful conviction

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This paper explores swing jazz music's beginnings, its greatest popularity between 1935 and 1945 and its decline. The paper includes small sections on Western Swing and propaganda swing of the World War II period. Short histories of the careers of Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw and Tommy Dorsey appear, and attention is also given to its revival in the 1990s and the popularity of swing dances today.

Tags:swing, jazz, music

Abstract
Both "Rosemary?s Baby" and "I Walked with a Zombie" are movies that have explicit elements of what we might more commonly think of as ?horror? films. On the other hand, however, both rely so heavily on atmospheric tension and are so laden with strange ambiguity and ?arty? moments that they seem to transcend the genre. This paper explains why, given the large following for both movies, they are often just as likely to be described as ?cult films? as horror movies.

From the Paper
"Indeed, it is in these oddball and controversial moments where cult films typically find both the elements that connect with fans and where their most interesting moments lay. It is also in these controversial and strange aspects that the argument for cult films as genre becomes coherent; cult films are a genre precisely because of their tendency to mix genres in strange ways and to explore unusual and difficult themes that most "mainstream" films would not touch with a proverbial ten-foot pole. It is in these aspects of the cult film that both Rosemary's Baby and I Walked with a Zombie find their sympathetic resonance."

Tags:St., Sebastian, Castavets

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This paper explains that, on the surface, Rossetti's poem "The Portrait" may not seem to be specifically dealing with the line between love and possession. However, looking deeper, the reader finds that whether love still exists or not, at the end, its selfless nature has at least to some degree given way to the possessive and controlling aspects of the artist. The author points out that this is an ekphrastic poem, a poem describing a piece of art, divided rather arbitrarily into two stanzas, including an opening octave composed of two a-b-b-a quartets and followed by a sextet of the a-b-c-a-b-c variety. The paper relates that the orderliness of the rhyme scheme and its almost singsong nature help to evoke a sense of the more traditional, spiritual and emotive elements of the portrait.

From the Paper
"The plot of the poem, as it were, is a description of the way this faithful reproduction of the beloved is such that her beauty and soul-fullness shines through and may be seen by all, so that both the painter and many strangers may come together to look at the beloved in worship. It bears repeating that it is only on the surface that this poem is about a painting... on close examination, one finds that it is actually a poem describing the creator of this piece of art, as he relates to his lady, his audience, and his deity through art. In understanding the poem as dealing not so much with the description of a piece of art as with the way in which an artist can come to feel both about his work and about his models, one is able to open up whole new fields of interpretation, even allowing the work to be understood from a rather feminist perspective -- for as the author shifts from writing a poem about a painting and becomes caught up in righting instead about a person, one may also see his shift from the original love of that person to a point where he merely wishes to own, objectify, and eventually (an uncompromisingly) put them on display."

Tags:artis, plot, control, stanza, rhyme

Abstract
This paper summarizes Neil Simon's Pulitzer-prize winning play and then goes on to analyze the play's main characters and their family. The family is analyzed from a sociological perspective by considering such elements as family cohesion, adaptability, and communication.

From the Paper
"Say the words, "Neil Simon" and see what comes out as the automatic response. Most often it's "play" or "Broadway". Occasionally it's "Odd Couple" or "Good-bye Girl". Almost never is it "Pulitzer-prize winning author". Neil Simon is thought of primarily in terms of his plays and rightfully so; however, it is also true that one of his plays, "Lost in Yonkers", won a Pulitzer prize. He writes mostly comedies and yet one of his best plays is more drama than comedy. Funny, it's the same as the one that brought a Pulitzer into his vita as well as a slew of Tony awards. William A. Henry III has stated that "the ability to find humor in unlikely places, then shift emotional gears with no machinery showing, makes Simon a great comedist" (1991, p. 70). This play certainly takes the reader into "unlikely places" in order to find comedy within the theme of dysfunctionality."

Tags:dysfunctional, deviant, new, york, eddie, arty, jay, wife, cancer, money, mob, grandma