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    Four‚ Arthur Miller has demonstrated female roles and dominance through the use of the themes: prejudice‚ paranoia and power. Moreover‚ Miller also utilises poetic and language devices to express the female roles in the times of the Salem witch-hunts and trials in the 1600s‚ as well as the ‘McCarthyist’ era in the 1950s. Firstly‚ Act Three leads on and constructs female dominance as a follow on from Act Two‚ the playwright than ‘morphs’ female dominance into female submission as the play enters into

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    Female accomplices of the Holocaust were put in a peculiar environment. These accomplices embodied the symbol of the female but were voluntarily at sites of extreme violence. This proved to be troublesome for SS officers because they were under the assumption that they needed to protect these women. Instead‚ these women embraced the violence. One example of this environment was when Vera Wohlauf‚ a wife of an SS officer‚ was present at the liquidation of the Miedzyrzec-Podlaski ghetto. Wohlauf enjoyed

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    One in five female students who attend a college or university are either raped or sexually assaulted by a male student (Myers‚ 2015). The awareness -or lack of- sexual assault needs to be addressed as it is a growing problem in many communities. Sexual assault can be anything from rape‚ to unwanted sexual attention‚ or simply‚ the sexual exploitation of an individual on the internet. The media is one of the biggest supporters for male dominance and female objectification. Rape has unfortunately

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    Female Correctional Officers Jordan Beth Stevenson Introduction to Corrections October 25‚ 2012 Saeler Abstract This research paper consists of brief history of how female correctional officers came to be in the system and the court cases that hindered and helped their process. It also consists of the stereotypes and struggles the officers are faced with in this line of work; such as weaknesses and home life association. Sexual harassment and discrimination is a problematic topic

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    past generations have uncovered thousands of stone‚ clay and metal goddesses or female figures. Hardly any of these figurines are male. These numerous goddess figurines from archaeological sites have usually been immediately dismissed as "mere" fertility figures by both male and female researchers. The tiny three-inch figure named the Venus of Villendorf

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    Historically females were seen as non-criminals as their pathways into criminality was seen to be invisible. Daly and Chesney refer this as the gender ratio problem where gender differences results in female committing less crime than male. Heidensohn states that female offenders tend to serve sentences for nonviolent offenses such as property crimes‚ drug-related crimes and fraud. It was only prostitution in which female were dominated. However‚ the female prison population has increased. The female prison

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    The Makings of a Female Serial Killer Everyone’s childhood plays an extremely important role in determining who they will become and who they grow up to be. Your childhood molds and shapes you in every way. But not everyone’s childhood is happy and picture perfect‚ as some kids grow up in an environment that can set them up for hate and failure‚ which can ruin their chances for success. The childhood people have is the base that they build on to form their psychological base in adulthood (Vronsky

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    A Plotting Princess: Female Roles in The Odyssey and Antigonê Karen Rustad The fairy tale Snow White is a story about two women. One‚ the evil stepmother‚ schemes against her stepdaughter in order to assuage her envy and increase her power. She‚ of course‚ is thwarted by the end of the story. The other‚ Snow White‚ is a pure‚ innocent damsel entirely devoid of will. Nevertheless‚ by the end her prince saves her and she lives happily ever after. While Snow White is a European fairy tale‚ its

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    In constituting nature as female -- "I pursued nature to her hiding places" (49) -- Victor Frankenstein participates in a gendered construction of the universe whose negative ramifications are everywhere apparent in the novel. The uninhibited scientific penetration and technological exploitation of female nature is only one dimension of a patriarchal encoding of the female as passive and possessable‚ the willing receptacle of male desire. The destruction of the female implicit in Frankenstein’s usurpation

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    rule of equality. Males and female are born to be equal. Lets shun this fact that males are born to dominate. Males need to understand that without women their train of life would come to a halt. In fact‚ the entire life on earth would stop. God never sent us for this. Did He? No‚ not at all. Then why are we distinguishing between men and women. I think there should be no reservation‚ however‚ it should become a rule of law that equality prevails‚ with males and females on equal parameters. The fairer

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