In the past 100 years the role of women has changed a lot ‚in this century women has become an important and necessary part in nowadays’ society from around the world. This is particularly true for women in the Australia and China. In both these countries before the early 20th century‚ women were born to serve men‚ and unfairly‚ women were deprived of all rights and their marriages were arranged. They were treated as a tool of pregnancy‚ and they also did housework like washing‚ cooking and cleaning
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Gone are the days when women sat at home‚ managing the house and looking after the children. Today women have been given bigger role to play in the society. They are entrusted with more responsibility than their male counterparts. Earlier in the olden days‚ women use to sit at home detached from the outside world. They use to manage the home and look after children. They were devoid from the responsibility of earning income for the family‚ leaving it exclusively to their male counterparts. The responsibility
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and household. While women had almost no respect their husbands had extreme amount of power over them. These situations have gradually decreased over the years to a point where the woman’s role in society may be the same as a man’s but with these mental transformations‚ there were major changes in the whole world too‚ proof that the mentality of society did not change from one day to another. Therefore‚ representing a major discussion to society since the beginning‚ women’s role in society has changed
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matter which way you state it‚ women have struggled to be their own person through literature. Obstacles have always been present when women have to try to find themselves. Their roles have either been the crazy feminist or the obedient wife‚ with many other roles in mind. Women have always struggled in literature due to male dominance and societal views. What truly is their role? Many authors have tried to answer this question. Others have shown their idea of women’s’ roles through their point of view
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International Review of Business and Social Sciences www.irbss.org Vol. 1‚ No. 9‚ Aug 2012 [68-76] ISSN: 2226-4124 FACTORS AFFECTING BUYING BEHAVIOR OF FEMALES FOR PURCHASE OF COSMETICS (A Study of Universities Female Students from Peshawar Pakistan) SHAHZAD KHAN PhD Scholar International Islamic University Islamabad Pakistan Shahzadkhan.lecturer@gmail.com FARYAL NOOR MS Scholar City University of Science I-T Peshawar Pakistan city.uni67@yahoo.com Abstract The main aim of this research
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Persepolis Film Review – Women’s Rights and Cultural Shifts Iran during the Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq war was shrouded in darkness; it represents a time of major oppression by the Islamic-based government and is marked a huge shift in culture for the Iranian people‚ protests‚ and general resentment of the government. The coming-of-age film‚ Persepolis‚ reveals the plight of a young girl trying to find herself whilst simultaneously living in fear and being prosecuted for her seemingly
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institutions and by fighting with action to resolve those inequities. Resistance takes many forms‚ and all of the texts demonstrate the full definition of resistance‚ but the different clauses and phrases will be best exemplified by certain texts. In Persepolis‚ Satrapi shows that the manifestations of resistance that she saw in her childhood ultimately existed so that a fairer world would be created. In Pedagogy of the Oppressed‚ Freire gives voice to the resistance against socio-economic oppression by
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Power is used as a theme in the book “Persepolis’ because it uses the definition of the word power as the capability of doing or accomplishing something. The word power fits in this book because Persepolis is mainly based on gender inequality and how the females are basically treated less than males. One of the major issues in Persepolis is how the views and expectations of women changed in revolutionary Iran as author Marjane Satrapi grew up there. At a young age‚ she wants to fix social inequalities
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Karly Simmons Written Communications I Dr. Fuqua 14 September 2013 Persepolis One might only image the misfortune of growing up during a time and in a place plagued by war. The conflict resulting from this war not only affects the government‚ but also life a home for many. Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel‚ Persepolis‚ brings to light the negative effect of social statuses in Tehran‚ Iran. Social statuses change throughout the book and people in Tehran find their world flipped upside down as the invisible
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the book‚ Persepolis‚ Marjane writes about her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen. She tells of the years she witnessed the overthrow of the Shah‚ the satisfaction of the Islamic Revolution‚ and the ruinous effects of Iran’s war with Iraq. Both of her parents valued her education and were committed Marxists. Engrossed in a bloodline of wealth and royalty‚ Marjane experienced a childhood filled to the brim with history. Through its robust black-and-white pictures‚ Satrapi’s Persepolis portrays
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