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Gilman and Social Conformity, 2006.
This paper explores the struggles of feminist author Charlotte Perkin Gilman to break free from the male-dominated social norms in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
1,417 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper examines the birth of the women's movement by focusing on the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which is seen as one of the most volatile yet progressive times in the social progress of women.
The writer of this paper discusses the life and writings of author Charlotte Perkins Gilman who, despite her eventual success in breaking free of men's expectations of her, underwent a struggle to break free from social norms similar to that of many women of her time. This paper details the deplorable manner in which Gilman and other women were treated for post-partum depression, at the time known as hysteria or melancholia. The writer describes how womanhood of the period symbolized the Protestant order of religion, faith, sacrifice and hard work. Manhood, on the other hand, began an era of exploration, ruggedness and decadence.
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"Although Gilman did not finish her treatment with Mitchell, many affluent and middle-class women, including Jane Addams, did follow the doctor's advice. While it is more than likely that only small numbers of women met the fate of the protagonist of The Yellow Wallpaper, the effects the treatment and the hysteria were similar in their detrimental effects. For suffering women, the rest cure meant giving up individual interests and goals and resigning themselves to the traditional male construction of the proper female social role. While women on the rest cure experienced isolation and a push towards the standard of womanhood, Mitchell's male patients were encouraged to pursue "the west cure," which involved going west to a ranch to ride horses, fish, hunt, and search for individual identity."
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Conforming with Non-Conformity, 2001.
An analytical paper on Jack Kerouac's book, "On The Road."
1,310 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper discusses the concept of conformity and non-conformity through one of Jack Kerouac's greatest books "On The Road." It analyzes Kerouac's writings and relates it to the idea of conformity/non-conformity. It also discusses these ideas through the lifestyles of the beat generation which is embodied in the characters of the book.
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?During the early post war era, the presumed conformity in middle-class white American literature where enormous, and it should come as no surprise that a reaction against that conformity-the beat generation-should arise and attain notoriety.? --Robert Holton(265-266) Jack Kerouac, a ?self-proclaimed spokesman for the beat generation? (Miles 171), wrote a book that challenges the concept of conformity in a post war America. This book entitled ?On The Road? takes its two main characters, Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, in numerous journeys across America and to Mexico as well. These journeys, that takes them back and forth from the east coast to the west coast, illustrate the rebellious notion that Kerouac has towards rigidity and responsibility: two concepts that has embodied the idea of conformity. Through this, Kerouac is conveying the idea that living life to its fullest means the destruction of barriers to personal freedom. As Sal and Dean aptly demonstrates, life can indeed be lived to its fullest. They disregarded conformity to lead their own lives with their own rules. In many ways, they are the representations of the beat generation: they are Kerouac?s tools to profess his belief in non-conformity."
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The Cost of Conforming and Non-Conforming, 2003.
An examination of literature about life during the Qing dynasty in China.
2,101 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper discusses "Dream of the Red Chamber" by Tsao Hsueh-chin, "The Death of Woman Wang" by Jonathan Spence, "The Female Impersonator" by Yuan Mei, and "Six Records of a Floating Life" by Shen fu. It explains how these illustrate the consequences of conforming or not conforming. The issues concerning conformity range from rebellion against male authority to sexual deviation in these tales.
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"The Confucian ideology of ?Thrice Following? controlled women?s lives n the Qing Dynasty. As daughters, they had to following their fathers; as wives, they had to following their husbands; as widows, they had to following their sons. Many men viewed women as role models of purity, order and stability. Many males in Qing Dynasty literature are portrayed as being very immoral. They devote their lives to gambling and adultery, rather than living meaningful lives. An analysis of the fates of major characters in Qing literature illustrates that the degree to which the characters conform or fail to conform results in tragedy, the reinforcement of Confucian values and inevitable conflict."
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Cost of Conformity in Chinese Literature, 2005.
An analysis of the conformity or non conformity of several Chinese literary characters to Confucian values.
3,154 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 91.95
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The Confucian society of ancient China was filled with specific norms and values. Conforming or not conforming to these specific values could cause negative or positive impacts in many individuals' lives. This paper discusses how the characters Pao-yu, Precious Virtue, Black Jade, Phoenix and Chia Lien from "Dream of the Red Chamber" by Hsueh Tsao Chin; Shen Fu and his wife Yun from "The Six Records of a Floating Life" by Shen Fu and Women Wang from "The Death of Women Wang" by Jonathan Spence do or do not conform to Confucian society and the affect that this conformity has on their lives.
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"Black Jade (Lin Ku-niang) another character from Dream of the Red Chamber is the woman Pao-yu is deeply in love with, like her lover she also has a rebellious nature. Black Jade is a very emotional, sensitive and dramatic girl who fails to conform to society because she was not an individual who showed filial piety, which was significant in a Confucian society. Black Jade loved Pao-yu and believed strongly that they were soul mates and destined to be married. The superiors in the Chia household especially the Matriarch, found Black Jade to have an arrogant and willful nature, they were not impressed by her unbridled behavior and found her speech to be most offending especially since it resulted as filial impiety. "
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Conformity, 2005.
A look at conformity from a social psychology perspective.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 19 sources, APA, $ 63.95
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This paper discusses conformity as a consequence of social perception that influences behavior. The paper examines the concept of conformity from the context of its significance in social psychology. Issues concerning conformity such as the need for acceptance, the role of authority and when and why conformity occurs are addressed by the paper.
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the phenomenon of conformity as consequence of social perceptions that influence behavior. The plan of the research will be to set forth the context in which this issue achieves significance in social psychology and then to assess when people are most likely to conform to normative social influences. To that end, the research will discuss the need for acceptance, when and why conformity occurs, the importance of accountability in a social context ,the power of propaganda to effect conformity..."
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2005.
This paper discusses the life of author Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her story "The Yellow Wallpaper".
1,605 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper explains that Charlotte Perkins Gilman suffered from postpartum depression (PPD) in the 19th century; her semi-autobiographical story "The Yellow Wallpaper" offers significant insights into her anguish. The author relates that "The Yellow Wallpaper" ,which follows Gilman's early married life, begins with the narrator and her husband John traveling to a secluded country estate for their summer vacation. Similar to Gilman, the narrator suffers from depression and it is hoped that this break will provide a cure. The paper states that Gilman as an author of 28 books, literary critic and speaker, signals a crucial transition from the nineteenth-century model of the domestic ideal to the twentieth-century paradigm of the new family.
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"In 1884, Gilman married a fellow artist, Charles Stetson, disregarding her own reservations about combining marriage and career as well as her husband's personal problems. When she delivered her daughter, Katherine, in 1885, she had a severe psychological breakdown. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, known as one of the greatest nerve specialists of the time, recommended the "rest cure" he had invented for Civil War shell-shock victims and then used for the "nervous prostration" of the "businessman exhausted from too much work and the society woman exhausted from too much play." Gilman underwent a month-long cure in 1887."
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Conformity in Elevators, 2002.
This paper is a psychology class research project paper which investigates conformity in elevators.
2,245 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 10 sources, $ 69.95
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This research paper states that most students conformed to elevator group behavior and more females than males were found to conform. The paper explains that, for the purpose of this study, conforming behavior is operationally defined as the "wrong way facing" in an elevator. The author feels that this research provides evidence that people tend to change their own response to conform to the group's behavior.
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Research Question
Definitions
Conforming Behavior
Elevator Group
Introduction
Literature Review
Definition and General Information
Influential Factors
Individual Mechanisms
Social Mechanisms
Methodology
Research Design
Participants and Subjects
Variables
Procedure
Data Analysis
Results
Discussion
Implications for Future Research
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"Conformity is defined as the changing of one's own response to be like that of the group's response. A further aspect of the definition includes the movement toward the group with the maintenance of congruence with the group. Thus, a person may originally conform to the group's behavior, but then a further decision to conform must be made in order for the behavior to be maintained. "
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Social Attitudes, Judgments and Conformity, 2007.
A discussion of the priming effects on social attitudes, judgments and conformity.
1,783 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper examines the role of priming on several social psychology behaviors including attitudes, judgements and conformity. The paper provides a description of priming and of each of the social behaviors discussed in the paper. The paper then focuses on describing past research that shows the ways in which priming affects these behaviors.
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Introduction
Priming Attitudes/Judgments
Priming Social Conformity
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"Schemas are cognitive representations of nonsocial and social objects that are stored in memory in associative networks. Activation of a schema increases its accessibility in the present and in the future. One way to activate a schema is through priming. Priming is any experience or mental activity that occurs prior to an event or situation and which increases the likelihood that relevant schema will be made more accessible. Such experiences or activities are referred to as primes and primes vary in the level of activation or accessibility they create. The minimum prime required to activate a schema is called the response threshold (Moskowitz, 2005). This can then affect a perception, judgment, and/or behavior by associative processes in memory. In this paper I will examine priming effects on judgments and social conformity by describing several relevant studies and their results."
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2006.
An analysis of short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
1,108 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 38.95
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This paper analyzes the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It discusses how the story addresses the issue of the place of the female artist in a society that generally represses woman. Gilman's own life is described in this article and how she related it to the characters in her story.
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"The enclosed world of the protagonist is a representation of the closed world of the writer, a world carried out largely in the mind of the writer. The protagonist speaks through her journal, her means of artistic expression, and from the beginning it is clear that she is treated as someone who needs to be cared for and protected to the point where she has little choice in her own destiny. Her husband and sister-in-law do not want her to write in her journal at all, believing that it tires her out to think when they are there to think for her. The point of view in this story is hers throughout, and it is a point of view isolated from other people, directed into a journal, and unrestrained in terms of any need to please other eyes."
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Charlotte Perkin Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper", 2005.
An analysis of "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkin Gilman.
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The paper explores how Charlotte Perkin Gilman writes in her autobiographical story "The Yellow Wallpaper". According to the author the act of writing seems to be related to both the narrator's state of mind and to her ability to participate in her world. The paper analyses how Perkin Gilman, as the narrator of the short story, writes as both the writer and the reader.
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"Charlotte Perkin Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," presents some interesting ideas surrounding "active" writing and "passive" reading. The act of writing appears to be related to both the narrator's state of mind and to her ability to participate in her world. Writing is an active process. When a writer participates in the act of writing, he or she takes control of the environment. A reader, however, passively interprets the reality created by the writer. Over the course of this story, the narrator moves from writer to reader, eventually falling victim to the environment she is attempting to interpret. When the couple moves to the country, the narrator's husband is, essentially, the writer. He creates a world for his wife to interpret. When the narrator says, "I haven't felt like writing," we can see that..."
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman?s ?The Yellow Wallpaper?, 2004.
This paper discusses the themes of freedom and expression, which are at the heart of Charlotte Perkins Gilman?s short story, ?The Yellow Wallpaper?.
1,495 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper explains that one of the most powerful aspects of ?The Yellow Wallpaper? is its narrative form, which demonstrates Gilman?s straightforward style. The author points out that the story is a reflection of patriarchal conditions in the 19th century; women were often misdiagnosed and mistreated because they were women. The paper stresses that Gilman?s writing style is extremely important in ?The Yellow Wallpaper? because it demonstrates the narrator?s deteriorating state of mind.
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"Almost from the beginning of the story, the narrator is not quite convinced that her husband?s treatment is the best treatment for her. In fact, despite what her doctor-husband and brother tell her, she admits, ?Personally, I disagree with their ideas. Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good? (Gilman 475). Instead of congenial work, the narrator is forced to stay in what she refers to as a ?haunted house? (474). It is important to note how the narrator does not see a workable solution in her present circumstances."
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper", 2007.
This paper discusses Charlotte Perkins Gilman's novella "The Yellow Wallpaper", a canonical book of feminist literature.
3,205 words (approx. 12.8 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 92.95
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This paper explains that Charlotte Perkins Gilman's masterpiece "The Yellow Wallpaper", which is a semi-autobiographical work based on her own experiences with postpartum depression, was radical and advanced for its time; hence, the significance of this novella was not fully recognized when it was published in 1892. The author points out that the central theme is the development of a state of psychos and apparent insanity in the central character; however, the full meaning of the novella lies in the reasons and the causes for this apparent deterioration. The paper relates that the pattern in literature of male dominance and female subjugation, as presented by Gilman, has been noted by modern feminist literary critics and is a prime example of the use of art in the fight against sexual and societal oppression.
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Introduction
Summary and overview
Discussion
The Wallpaper
Theoretical Perspectives
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"From a social and gender perspective, there is little doubt that many commentators view "The Yellow Wallpaper" as an expression of gender oppression and the need for personal equality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Mental illness is interpreted in this story as the result of oppression and the denial of individual expression. The illness and the slide into apparent madness that the central character undergoes in this story is seen from one theoretical perspective as a form of resistance to conventional gender roles and male oppression in a patriarchal environment."
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper", 2005.
This paper explores Charlotte Perkins Gilman's use of sunlight and moonlight in her short story "The Yellow Wallpaper".
1,215 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper relates that the symbols or motifs of sunlight and moonlight are used, in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper", to bespeak the narrator's true feelings about gender roles and repression not only within her marriage and her society but also within herself. The author points out that, in the beginning of this story, shortly after describing the house, the narrator makes her first references to sunlight and moonlight and reveals how they have an effect on her behavior. The paper relates that the moonlight and daylight do not merely influence the narrator's behavior but also how she perceives her surroundings, such as the wallpaper. The paper stresses that Gilman does not use sunlight and moonlight to represent the masculine repressing the feminine, but rather, she uses sunlight to reflect the oppressive force that can be found in a woman who feels suffocated and burdened by the traditional roles of her gender.
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"The evening and the day, as she complains, have an effect on more than just her conduct, but also on her appetite; she has good appetite in the evening, and suffers from poor appetite in the morning. In this manner, it is established in the beginning that by moonlight, or in the evening, she is not only inclined to subtly rebel against her role as a submissive wife, but furthermore, it is in the night that she is inclined to satisfy her appetite for basic human needs-- of which food may only be one. And yet, the narrator's husband is not the only one who wishes that she subdues herself, as she does by daylight."
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Conformity, 2002.
This paper is a personal essay that discusses the conformity of being a student.
770 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 27.95
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The author states that that he is a student and that governs virtually everything important he does. The author defines being a student as conforming behavior. The author thinks that spotting conformity may be a little like pealing an onion, each layer hides another layer, so that may be hard to discover real personal choice.
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"For the most part I have been blind to this conformity. Perhaps that is the nature of conformity, that it requires that people do not make active choices. As I look at pictures of family members, I can see that all the young women in the 1970?s had long straight hair, but all the young women in the early 1960?s had bubble hairdos. I look at the young women around me today, and I don?t see such a pattern. Some have long hair; some have short. Some have medium length hair, but it?s blue."
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'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2006.
Summary and critique of the short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
1,021 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper reviews, analyses and discusses 'The Yellow Wallpaper', a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The paper reports that the central focus of this intriguing story is the development of an individual consciousness towards an apparent form of insanity and eventually into a state of total psychosis.
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"The narrator is virtually trapped in the room with the yellow wallpaper. As her life and consciousness becomes more restricted in the confinement of the room, so the wallpaper becomes an animated world to her. It is obvious that the writer is subtly suggesting that there is s a conflict between the rational and logical world, determined and controlled by male consciousness, and the more imaginative female consciousness and sensibility.
The story has therefore been interpreted in many studies from the point of view of the way that the women are treated in modern patriarchal society. In order to fully understand the depth and meaning of the story we must see it as an expression of the conflict between gender roles and the divide between the individual and the larger society. "
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