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The Treatment of Women in Literature, 2006.
Compares Susan Glaspell's play "Trifles" to Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky."
820 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 29.95
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Throughout history, women have been treated differently in American society during different eras. For example, in the 1920's, women were subservient to men and were expected to physically and emotionally defer to their husbands. Domestic violence was rampant and often unreported. The paper compares one literal personification of the various societal expectations of the time, Susan Glaspell's play "Trifles" with Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," a comic classic of the western genre.
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"On their journey, Potter tells his bride that they are going to go to the diner car and have the "finest meal in the world" since a dollar is not too much for this, their honeymoon trip. Another example of his chivalry is Potter's very treatment of his bride, pointing "out to her the dazzling fittings in the coach" and helping her off the coach at their arrival in Yellow Sky."
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The Treatment of Women in China, 2002.
An examination of the history of unequal treatment towards Chinese women as compared to the treatment of women in the "western" world.
2,571 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 77.95
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This research paper looks at the continued oppression of Chinese women throughout the culture's history. It refers specifically to the ancient times of the dynasties and looks at the traditions and practices on which this culture was based in an attempt to understand their treatment and attitude towards their female population. It looks at how this image developed over time and how finally with the emergence of Communism, relative equality was granted to women.
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"It is difficult for Westerners to understand China. While there are always analogies to be drawn between different civilizations, Europe has few parallels to Chinese history. The unbroken continuity of culture, the unique socio-political structures, and the amazing revolutionary experiment of the 20th century set the Chinese into a category by themselves, especially from the Western perspective.
While our Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian, scientific-industrial, imperialist-capitalist heritage has transformed the entire world, we have nothing resembling Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, or communism. Our nuclear families and weak kinship contrasts with their extended families and clans, while their collectivism and our individualism are polar opposites. Western women have only recently emancipated themselves from the yoke of male domination and achieved equality, yet nothing in the long history of sexism can compare with the oppression of Chinese women, unless it be the Indian civilization from which some of its worst features were derived. "Few societies in history have prescribed for women a more lowly status, or treated them in a more routinely brutal way, than traditional Confucian China" (Johnson, 1983, 1)."
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Mexican-American Women in Literature, 1995.
This paper compares the treatment of Mexican-American women in Sandra Cisneros' collection of stories, "Woman Hollering Creek", Arturo Islas' novel "The Rain God", and Cherrie Moraga's non-fiction work "Loving in the War Years": Sexuality, relationships a
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 3 sources, $ 79.95
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"This study will compare the treatment of women in Sandra Cisneros' collection of stories, "Woman Hollering Creek", Arturo Islas' novel "The Rain God", and Cherrie Moraga's non-fiction work "Loving in the War Years". The study will consider the sexuality of women, their relationships, and their ability to endure in the face of current obstacles and physical, moral and psychological traumas. The thesis of the paper will be that the three books, taken together, form a full portrait of Mexican and Mexican-American women. They should not be seen as being in conflict with one another, but rather as working together to give that full portrait of at least some of the alternative positions taken by women in that culture.
On the one hand, we find an extreme Chicana-lesbian-feminist viewpoint as expressed by Moraga. In the middle, we have ... "
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Ibsen's Treatment of Women, 2002.
An examination of Ibsen's attitude towards women in two of his works.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper examines and analyzes Henrik Ibsen's plays, "A Doll's House" and "An Enemy of the People". It assesses these plays in terms of Ibsen's portrayal of women, their nature, their relationships with men and their attempts to find identity and security.
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William Faulkner: The Treatment of Women in His Works, 2001.
An examination of Faulkner's lack of complex women characters in his works.
2,578 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 8 sources, $ 77.95
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"While Faulkner created several intensely profound female characters that, in fact, often provide the framework for his prose, he frequently failed to construct fully rounded women in his works. Most of the women in his books are either sexually immoral by his standards, ignorant, or rather earthy yet quite asexual. While Faulkner?s female characters are often catalysts for change in more complex male figures or representative of social and historical evolution and decline, few Faulkner women are seen as whole; one aspect of their lives usually dictates their fate. Whereas Lena Grove in Light in August may be the exception to this rule, Faulkner?s memorable women in As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, and his short story, ?A Rose for Emily,? all appear somewhat less than complete. "
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?Literature; Ancient Greek Literature?, 2002.
A discussion of the relationship between ancient Greek burial and death rites and ancient Greek literature.
1,409 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper focuses upon illustrating the relevance of the obvious emphasis and taboo regarding Greek burial or death rites as it is portrayed in a significant amount of ancient Greek literature. It examines how literature has long been a relevant source that historians as well as other scholars can turn to so as to glean at least a marginal understanding regarding the societal norms of the era or culture in particular.
Outline
Introduction
Generalities Regarding Ancient Greek Burial Rites
Relevance of Literary Illustrations Regarding Ancient Greek Perspectives on Death
Burial Rites Within Ancient Greek literature
Conclusion
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"One of the first things that essentially needs to be taken into consideration is that, as a result of their significantly un-advanced and superstitiously primitive preconceptions and beliefs, that nearly all kinds of ancient literature is tinged, to some degree or another, with elements of the super natural or paranormal. The occult, witches, curses and ghosts, all are things that are mentioned, with varying degree of figurativeness and realism, within ancient British as well as Greek literature. Moreover, there appears to be a particular degree of emphasis upon the relevance and effectuality of such things as oaths and curses, especially in regard to the likes of such being implemented in concern to a particular person?s death or burial. This something that is quite strongly portrayed when Euripides? Hippolytus, the protagonist within the play, reasserts his confidence to his father in so much as taking an oath that in death may neither sea nor earth receive my flesh, if I have proved false (Lawson, 1964)."
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Women Offenders.
This paper is a literature review discussing the treatment of women offenders.
3,210 words (approx. 12.8 pages), 34 sources, MLA, $ 92.95
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This paper explains that the problem of women in prisons is a holistic issue interconnected with various problem areas, which may impinge on and affect another, such as the children of prisoners. The author points out the problem of sexual abuse by guards and that the prison staff may retaliate against women who protest and seek legal aid and advice to protect themselves. This paper relates that women's experience may cause post-traumatic stress when they are imprisoned, and women who enter prison may bring with them various problems, which are exacerbated in prison and can lead to treatment problems.
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Introduction
General Issues
Physical and Sexual Abuse
Psychological Problems
Women with Prior Problems
Mothers and Pregnant Women
Health Care
Conclusion
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"During the 1980's there was a radial change in the female prison population. "In 1980, there were just over 12,000 women in U.S. state and federal prisons. By 1997, that number had increased to almost 80,000. In about a decade and a half, the number of women incarcerated in the nation's prisons had increased sixfold". A recent study alarmingly states, "If the jail population continues to grow at the current rate, by the year 2053 the U.S. will have more people in jail than out. There are now 150,000 women incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails. According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, the rate of incarceration among women is growing at a faster pace than that for men."
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Women in Islam, 2004.
An analysis of the ethical treatment of women in Islam.
1,742 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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This paper discusses the treatment of women in Islam and looks at how in terms of the ethical teachings of Islam there is equality of purpose and treatment between men and women. It examines how in reality, when it comes to the actual implementation and adherence to these laws, there are many countries and communities that have deviated from these ethical principles.
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Introduction and Overview
Woman as an Individual
Conclusion
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"There is a generally common perception in the West that the ethical treatment of women in Islam amounts to gender discrimination, oppression and a transgression of basic human rights. Notwithstanding the issue of the way different cultures treat women, this is not a perception that is endorsed by many within Islamic communities and it certainly does not concur with actual Islamic teachings. This can be seen for the very outset in the way that the Koran describes the creation of women. In the Holy Scriptures there is no implicit difference made in terms of status or intrinsic value between male and female. In ethical terms, while there are differences between men and women, these biological differences do not impact or affect ethical values and treatment of women. Men and women are seen to be essentially the same in terms of relative value and status. Women are not seen to have any limitations when compared to men."
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Women in the Political Process, 2006.
This paper examines the treatment of women politicians and women voters in the mass media.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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The paper discusses that there can be little question that women have made enormous strides in recent decades in the area of political representation. However, one may feel about the more strident members of the feminist movement who, along with broader social trends, have successfully pushed for the increased prominence of women within the political process. With this in mind, the paper examines the treatment of women by the mass media, as the former seeks to carve out a niche in a realm previously dominated by men.
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Ancient Roman Literature, 2008.
A discussion of the worth of Roman literature and a comparison of the meter and themes of Roman literature to Greek literature.
851 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 30.95
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This paper discusses the value of the works of the great Roman poets and prose authors. The paper specifically discusses how Roman literature and poetry is criticized because it lacks originality, being greatly indebted to the Greek texts. It describes the meter and themes of Roman literature and discusses how these, and even the mere details, are most of the times only imitations of the Greek writings.
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"Thus, Roman art can be characterized by the lack of spontaneity and speculative power. The Romans were a logical and practical people, usually engaged in political affairs or warfare. The greatest conquerors of the antiquity, the Romans were also the greatest civilizing power. Their systematic and disciplined spirit laid the foundations of the Western civilization. As it is obvious from the lyric, dramatic and epical works of the Roman writers, they Roman people was certainly not inclined to philosophy as the Greeks had been. Indeed, the only writer who can be said to have contributed meaningfully to the realm of antique philosophy is the multidimensional Cicero, who is the only Roman methodological philosopher: "Philosophy was not a natural growth at Rome: indeed, it was regarded by the average Roman with definite mistrust, and we hear that philosophers were banished from the city in 161 B. C....The Roman, essentially a man of action engaged in the practical business of war or politics, was not given to pausing on his way to reflect deeply on the nature of the world or the ultimate meaning of human life."(Bailey, 183) The Romans were thus less preoccupied with the ultimate meaning of the universe and of life, as the Greeks were, but rather with the world of action and human behavior. Usually associated with imitation rather than creation, Roman art had nevertheless its own force precisely through its absolute conformity to classicism."
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Classical Marxist Theory and Literature, 2005.
This paper discusses the classical Marxist approach to literature, which views literature as essentially a social and cultural production.
8,870 words (approx. 35.5 pages), 85 sources, MLA, $ 185.95
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This paper explains that in its classical sense, Marxist theory does not deal explicitly with literature and art and does not develop an aesthetic of culture or literature. However, the theoretical trajectory of Marxist thought has impacted radically on art and literature as aspects of societal and cultural discourse. The author points out that the concept of dialectic refers specifically to the methodology or method of analysis, which is peculiar to Marxist theory;. In this sense, literature and art, as cultural products, are analyzed in relation to their social and historical context. The paper analyzes specifically " Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad, "A Passage to India" by E. M. Forster's and the writings of Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare.
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Introduction
Overview
Foundation of Marxist Theory and Literary Criticism
Marxism - Extrinsic and Intrinsic Approaches to Literature
The Premises of Marxist Criticism
Base and Superstructure
The Dialectic
Ideology and Alienation
Semiology and Psychoanalytic Theory.
Reader - Response Theories
A Marxist Critique of Literature
Analysis of the Echo in "A Passage to India": A dialectical reading
" Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad
Dickens
Shakespeare
Conclusion
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"From this perspective, literary works are essential structures of ideological formations. In other words, literature expresses and represents the ideals and aims of class formation that persist and maintain the society. "Literature is for Marxism a particular kind of signifying practice which tends to make up what can be termed an ideological formation". Therefore, Marxist critical perspectives will attempt to explain literature from within its social context and in relation to that particular historical time period. This in turn relates to basic strategies, such as the identification of class structures and class struggle within the literature of a certain historical period."
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Women In China, 2003.
Examines historical oppressive treatment of women.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 6 sources, $ 95.95
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Examines the lowly status and brutal treatment of women in Confucian China, economic, legal and sociological discrimination, the basis of Confucian philosophy of women, the spread of misogynistic doctrines, and foot binding.
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"It is difficult for Westerners to understand China. While there are always analogies to be drawn between different civilizations, Europe has few parallels to Chinese history. The unbroken continuity of culture, the unique socio-political structures, and ..."
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Theory of Literature, 2002.
Discusses the role of literature to the reader and the reader to literature.
2,300 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 70.95
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What kind of work does literature do in the world? What does a text do that a song does not? What difference does it make that we can read? And, indeed, why should we read at all? Does the written text have any redeeming value in our own age, or are we in a post-textual (as well as a postmodern and post-structuralist) age? What can the purpose of literature be when anything that is actually produced through the technology of the printing press (which once changed the world) now seems rather horribly quaint? What kind of work does literature do in the world, and what kind of work is it that we do as readers? These last two questions lie at the heart of this paper. They are not in fact the same question merely differently phrased. The paper argues that literature ? the text qua text ? and reading (the subject as agent consuming the text) can be quite different from each other. Before the writer sets forth his own ideas on the function and purpose of literature, he explores the ideas of others on the subject who have tried to define for their own times and places (and for their own writers and readers) what it is that literature does in the world.
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"But, while the impassioned literary warriors on either side might not want to admit to this fact, it might well be that there is no single correct way to analyze a text. Or rather there may well be no single correct way to analyze every text. There may be one best way for each text, requiring us to consider local definitions of analysis rather than universal ones. However, this moderate position is one rarely admitted to by either those who support or those who oppose reader-response models and it is in fact easy to understand why this should be the case: The two embody fundamentally opposing world views. Is the purpose of literature one that is determined by the creator or by the consumer?"
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"Fuente Ovejuna" ( Lope De Vega ), 1999.
Examines the theme of criminal justice in Spanish literature, focusing on the treatment of women in de Vega's historical novel.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 14 sources, $ 87.95
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The purpose of this research is to examine the theme of criminal justice in Spanish literature, particularly in regard to the treatment of women, with an emphasis on Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega. The plan of the research will be to set forth the pattern of ideas that emerge in the action of the play and then to discuss how these ideas articulate an attitude toward the phenomenon and enactment of criminal justice and the social position and role of women in Spain, past and present.
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the theme of criminal justice in Spanish literature, particularly in regard to the treatment of women, with an emphasis on Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega. The plan of the research will be to set forth the pattern of ideas that emerge in the action of the play and then to discuss how these ideas articulate an attitude toward the phenomenon and enactment of criminal justice and the social position and role of women in Spain, past and present.
Based on fact, Fuente Ovejuna is set in fifteenth-century provincial Spain, at the moment of history (1476) when the Spanish monarchy was in the sixth year of consolidating its government institutions under Ferdinand of Castile and Isabella of Aragon. In the background of this project were several centuries of war among various feudal kingdoms of the Iberian ..."
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Teaching Children Literature, 2002.
Conceptual analysis of the literature on storytelling and child development in relation to reader response and and structural models of instruction in literature appreciation. Includes the development of an integrated model.
4,467 words (approx. 17.9 pages), 13 sources, APA, $ 116.95
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This paper develops a perspective on the structural and reader response approaches to literature appreciation that is based upon empirical findings observed in research into the influence of storytelling on child development. To this end, this report first reviews the literature on how storytelling can influence the social, cognitive, and psycho-emotional development of children as well as its basic influence on learning. This examination of the effects of storytelling on child development is followed by an explication of both the structural and the reader response approaches to teaching literature appreciation. Based on the review of all of this material, the report discusses each theory in terms of the support or lack of support offered for it by the storytelling-child development literature. Where relevant, this discussion is used to modify, hone and refine theory into a new model of instruction (The Integrated Model) in literature appreciation, a model that focuses on storytelling as a mode of instruction and that incorporates elements and postulates of both the reader response model and the structural model.
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"Effects of Storytelling on Social Development. There is a good bit of literature that supports the notion that storytelling can strongly contribute to both very young and older children's social and psychosocial development. For example, Pellowski (1990) reports that research has shown that stories inform children about the lives, the dreams, the hopes, the problems, the tensions and the conflicts of diverse social and ethnic groups. In this way, storytelling helps familiarize children with how groups of people, some of them which may be very different than the group children were raised in, perceive life and its events.
Simultaneously, while informing of group differences, storytelling serves the function of maintaining a sense of the human community by telling the story using universal themes common to all. In other words, storytelling operates to broaden children's view of the world and the diverse societies it while also emphasizing the social ties that bind communities and groups of people together."
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