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    practices. The campaign as a whole depicts exclusively Filipino women with pieces of men crudely attached to sections of their faces such as their mouth, eyes, head and even their entire face. This particular ad relies heavily on contrast and sharp alignments to create an emotional pull in the audience and shock the reader. The advertisement’s surprising nature and fairly…

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    In “Three Girls,” Oates uses the two NYU girl poets and Marilyn Monroe to display issues of society’s view of women during the 1950’s. The reader will be introduced to two girl poets in Strand Used Books, searching for their desired book as they routinely do. Both girl poets will later find themselves witnessing Marilyn Monroe in disguise. The reader may be led to interpret that this could have been Marilyn Monroe’s truest self and not what she was popularized for in media. The three girls…

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    “Well-behaved women seldom make history” are you agree or disagree? Throughout the recorded history the condition of women has been a constant fee. Whether it a social status, economic state, political position, or intellectual freedom. Women have always tipped-off to address this issues to find the solution and change the history. But there are women who risk their own lives and fought for the ideas that today most of us recognized as universal and whether we realize or not and one way or…

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    that will go unnoticed by her husband. For example, “Henry put on his joking tone. “There’s fights tonight. How’d you like to go to the fight?” (440). In a way he’s questioning her women hood and inferring women are weak and not strong to handle those things. Elisa is strong and what makes her stand apart from other women in her time. Since she has no children she devotes all her time into planting. The chrysanthemums in the story represent Elisa and her scope of life. The chrysanthemums…

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    by a woman, urges other women to not stand by when difficult situations arise, but to have the strength to overcome those situations. This strength is hard to find, especially in a male-dominated world such as the setting in To Kill a Mockingbird. The setting takes place in the early 1930s. Common knowledge reveals that the further back one goes in history, the less and less rights women have. During the 1930s time period, women were seen as second best compared to men. Women were to act as…

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    Sexism In Like A Girl

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    instructed to act out their responses. They begin to run furiously in place, some even taking the liberty to bolt around the studio. They start to punch the air intensely, determined to beat their imaginary opponent, not realizing they were defeating women 's suffocating stereotypes. They continue to throw the hypothetical ball far off into the distance, smiling proudly at this imagined…

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    this rhetoric in the form of a visual is beneficial in making this piece effective by creating the feeling of validity amongst viewers. Seeing real girls respond to these questions and take part in this social experiment adds to the emotional appeal. Women who are watching this may be able to directly relate to the scenario, whether they were an uninhibited young girl themselves or they are now subconsciously lacking the confidence they know they once had. Any connection a viewer may make with…

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    Catholic Church and the Christian religion have downplayed the role of women. She was considered as a being who was only able to do housework and unable to perform tasks that relate to a whole community. I refer to the work of a statesman, ruler, or any other position in which greater responsibility and management of mass was required. They were eager companions of kings, workers, leaders, men of law, etc. We can analyze the role that women played in medieval times in the texts “Beowulf” and…

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    by the time that Curley's wife hurried back home from the barn, where she had a secret rendezvous with Slim, the sun was fading over the horizon, painting the windows of the big old house and the clouds above it, in ominously fierce crimson colors. At the moment, there was hardly any movement in the air, but bright-red low clouds in the darkening sky foretold the upcoming day’s wind and calamity as clearly, as if they were announcing the weather out loud. Despite the evening hours, the…

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    opportunity to experience a life beyond anything I previously conceived. I had to grow out of limiting rules that I was taught to obey by the world around me. I think women in today’s society feel an excruciating amount of stress to live up to expectations a world where men inherently make the rules, and a lot of these “rules” aren’t practical for women. But not following these rules can separate you from the ability to live and thrive. A few years ago I was shopping with my mother. I told her…

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