The presentation of women and the bush environment in The Drover's Wife and Squeaker's Mate Henry Lawson's The Drover's Wife and Barbara Baynton's Squeaker's Mate provide a reflection of the privations and hassles that women of the bush are subjected to suffer. Th...

At the present rate of development, according to many scientists, the world will reach critical mass sometime within the next fifty years. With these doomsday predictions, many development models have come under scrutiny for their shortsightedness and lack of environmental concerns. Over the p...

Kate Chopin, born Katherine O'Flaherty, grew up in a prominent family on February 8, 1850. Her father, Thomas O'Flaherty, was an immigrant from Ireland who was a merchant. Her mother, Eliza Faris O'Flaherty, was from one of the oldest aristocratic Creole families in the St. Louis area. Kate...

Although women\'s art has been present throughout the history of art, feminist art as a political and art movement emerged in the late 1960s and established itself in the 1970s. Several countercultural movements arose simultaneously with feminism in the 1960s as part of postmodernism. At this time, ...

A Cry For Independence In the last half of the nineteenth century, Victorian ideals still held sway in American society, at least among members of the middle and upper classes. Thus the cult of True Womanhood was still promoted which preached four cardinal virtues for women: piety, purity, submissi...

A Warrior's TriumphThe Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston presents the story of a girl trapped between the cultures of her surrounding environment and that which her mother and family have forced upon her. Knowing only the Chinese way of life, this girl's mother attempts to familiarize her daugh...

Analysis of Watson's Sleek Advert I believe that the Watson's Sleek advert is meant for an older more mature audience. It is not aimed at a certain ethnic group but it is aimed at women rather than men because of the feminism of the product. They advertise that the women should buy the ...

On Violability In his philosophical novel Lancelot, Walker Percy touches upon a number of provocative issues. Although many are interesting, one topic that stands out in particular is the idea of whether or not a woman can be violated by a man. A discussion of the various positions of this ideol...

Identity What influences a person's identity? Is it their homes, parents, religion, or maybe where they live? When do they get one? Do they get it when they understand right from wrong, or when they can read, or are they born with it? Everyone has one and nobody has the same, is there...

"The Chrysanthemums" John Steinbeck, in his short story "The Chrysanthemums" depicts the trials of a woman attempting to gain power in a man's world. Elisa Allen tries to define the boundaries of her role as a woman in such a closed society. While her environment is portrayed as a tool for...

David Williamson's play Brilliant Lies explores the dynamics of sex and power, questions right and wrong and delves to try and find the truth. An attractive young woman accuses her former employer of harassment and unfair dismissal, demanding compensation of $40,000. Our view of the truth of th...

The 1980s was the time of The Reagan Revolution. Reagan used supply-side economics as a way to justify cutting taxes. This held in that tax reductions towards investors and businesses would create more jobs and set the economy on a better path. Another issue that was gaining momentum was the women&a...

Ran Chen's A Private Life, is a monologue written in autobiographical format that reflects on the coming of womanhood in its female heroine from the time period of the mid 1970s to the mid-1990s. The novel explores the main character's individuality of existence, her desires and sexual ide...

Lentils and Lilies Summary Jade Beaumont is walking down her suburban street going to an interview for a holiday job when she is supposed to revise for A levels. It is a nice day and she is feeling great. She looks back on her years at school and feels quite the opposite because of the school...

Maya Angelou, born, Marguerite Johnson, was sent along with her brother to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas, when her parents were divorced. Growing up, she learned what it was to be a black girl in a world whose boundaries were set by whites: "As a child she always dreamed of w...

Angela Mancini Professor Grobman English 135 April 11, 2002 Characters Overcoming Obstacles in Literature "What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger." This old saying can be applied to the characters in many popular works of literature. In studying the literary works of Al...

In the plays \"A Doll\'s House\" and \"Miss Julie,\" the characters of Nora and Miss Julie were victims, and also products, of their societies. They share many similar psychological characteristics, but at the same time, they are complements of one another; when one went from black to white, the oth...

Sadeq Hedayat's The Blind Owl is one of the most important literary works in Persian language. The central theme of the story is an attempt toward the resolution of the writer/narrator's dualistic experiences of the real versus unreal, the sensual against the spiritual and death as opposed to life. ...

In her novel, Domestic Manners of the Americans, Fanny Trollope makes a bold statement on the affairs of the new found country and its inhabitants. Of particular distaste to the author was the spectacle of evangelical religious practices. She made much, throughout her writing, over the role that the...

The dramatic and thematic concerns presented in scene five of, Box the Pony, by Scott Rankin and Leah Purcell, are important to the overall structure of the play. In scene five, we learn about the main character Steff, the fictional retrospect who plays Leah, who yearns for physical and spiritual es...

"Waking Up to the Reality of a Personally Fulfilling Future"Throughout Dillard's, An American Childhood, she describes the distinct gender roles of men and those of women in the 1950's. Dillard tells us of the explicitly different duties and responsibilities men and women had. The influ...

O'Connor Paper The writing style of Flannery O'Connor is a riveting and shocking one. The way she formats her stories gives the author full control of every situation and allows her the ability to completely change the motion of the plot. Many commonalities are used in her different sho...

It is hard to discuss a subject and analyze that subject when it is an accepted fact that no definition can be agreed upon. The definition of social control or lack of definition is one of those subjects. Many papers have been written, many theories have been proposed and according to Robert Meier...

The Power of Semiotics in Ads Very important to a successful advertisement is the use of semiotics. Semiotics, among other things, plays a major role in catching the attention of the intended target market such as men, women, adults or teens. The placement of certain images, text, colors, aand othe...

Have you ever thought of how you could take good care of your family if you didn't have access to the U.S.A? Put yourself in the shoes of a Mexican. Have you ever sat down to think how hard it is for them to immigrate to the U.S.A and then make a living? They arrive illegally and the...