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    Women often took a backseat to men in the literature and storytelling from the Middle Ages. When they were portrayed‚ they were often weak or submissive‚ allowing themselves to mold to whatever decisions the male character had made. Even when religion came into play‚ women initially had a reputation that matched the “traditional misogyny and mistrust associated with Eve”(Levack 167). However‚ often through the voice or pen of men‚ tales of spiritual women did reach a larger audience. The popularity

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    their children how they feel about a divorce‚ they just have to follow either their mom‚ or their dad. If they are lucky they can visit one of their parents every second weekend. In this story Susan’s mom and dad get a divorce‚ but they forget how Susan feels about this.‚ and how she thinks about a divorce. She gets very sad‚ and confused‚ and think it is her fault that this divorce happens. The story is written Elionor Russel Smith‚ and was published in 1997. A 1.Person narrator tells the story‚

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    Susan Wong

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    I. Executive summary A lady named Susan Wong is budgeting for the coming year (Year X). During year X‚ she has to cover monthly expenses as well as irregular monthly financial obligations‚ and she plans to do so by investing the money not used to cover monthly expenses in either a 1-month‚ 3-month or 7-month investment scheme whose yields are 6%‚ 8% and 12% per year nominal respectively. When the investments mature‚ Susan will use the principals as part of her budget and invest all the interests

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    Susan Kare

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    Susan Kare is a graphic designer (born in 1954‚ New York). She graduated from Mount Holyoke Collage and received MA and Ph.D. degrees from New York University. Currently Susan Kare lives in California‚ but her office is located in San Francisco. Her first job as a graphic designer was a part time job at a Science Museum in Philadelphia‚ she was 14 then‚ and she has been designing ever since. He work includes working with typefaces and‚ also‚ small number of pixels She is famous for creating the original

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    appropriate to look at why sports participation at my school is so low. Sport is a necessary ingredient in having a healthy‚ happy life. As a growing number of young people are opting out of sport‚ actions need to be made to try and combat this. Femininity in sport Teenage girls still think sports are unfeminine. Sadly‚ there is still a belief in high schools today that it is not “cool” for a girl to be a jock. Sadly‚ it is still mostly true today. High school girls interviewed by Roselind Wiseman

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    Susan Griffin

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    Susan Griffin compares and contrasts cellular life and weaponry as she writes her essay‚ Our Secret. She uses these ideas together with characters and events‚ to help explain causes and effects in the essay. She alternates from the cell’s function to the history of weaponry throughout the essay. With both these ideas‚ she starts at the elementary level‚ with a cell’s life and with the Vergeltungswaffe missile‚ and tells how they progress. In this essay‚ I will describe how Griffin uses cellular life

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    Susan Sontag an author Regarding The Pain of Others and of four novels‚ and seven non-fiction books. States that "Photographs tend to transform‚ whatever their subject; and as an image something may be beautiful - or terrifying‚ or unbearable‚ or quite bearable - as it is not real life." These words spoken by Susan Sontag explain almost every aspect that goes into evaluating a photograph. For instance a picture

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    Freud‚ in his New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis‚ argues that there is ambivalence between daughters and their mothers and attempts to explain the cause of the ambivalence. By ambivalence he means a love/hate relationship in which the actor has opposing feelings for an object simultaneously. The source of the ambivalence is embedded in the process of feminization that girls undergo. I gathered that it is the product of two separate psychical changes that girls undergo. I will first explain

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    In today’s society‚ it is made up of androcentrism everywhere a person looks‚ even if they do not want to believe it displays androcentrism. Masculinity and femininity have been created and evolve on a long period of time; these traits of gender can impact an individual’s life in both a positive and negative way. If I had to live without androcentrism in society‚ I would defiantly become confused in what role I am supposed to be playing throughout my life. However‚ it may make my life a little easier

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    Williams conceives that Blanche and Stella show two different types of femininity in the play‚ nevertheless‚ both of them are dependent on men‚ showing that females have a sexual desire. This sexual desire has also been seen in Stanley in scene 3 when Stanley called for Stella to come‚ “Stella! Stella‚ sweetheart! Stella! Stell-lahhhhh!” (Williams 67). Thus‚ In A Streetcar Named Desire‚ Tennessee Williams juxtaposes Femininity and masculinity to reveal how women are dependent on men. Both‚ Blanche

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