Essays Tagged: "Gender"

A study of Edouard Manet's painting, "A Bar at the Folies-Bergere"

Before attempting to anaylse the significance of gender within Edouard Manet's work entitled ³A Bar at the Folies-Bergere², one must first ... sed.In fact so intrinsic is Manet's personal background to the analysis of the artists treatment of gender within his work, that any substantial theory concerning this subject must, be founded upon a ... e viewing public. For, who else but a dying man would have dared to question societies treatment of gender by substituting Christ with the figure of a young girl?It is not until one has recognised the ...

(11 pages) 204 1 4.4 Apr/1997

Subjects: Art Essays

The Tempest

ior' men perceived themselves in contrast to lesser beings due to their race, financial status, and gender. We also are shown those who had reason to feel superior yet treated others equally and with ...

(5 pages) 172 0 4.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Sexual Harassment

n occupational environment, and this form ofharassment is not limited to a specific race, a specificgender, or any certain lifestyle. Today, throughout theUnited States, men and women are filing sexua ...

(4 pages) 339 0 4.5 Apr/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Gender In Sports

GENDER IN SPORTSIn high schools and junior high schools across the country the importance of intersc ...

(5 pages) 216 0 4.6 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Can a person raised as a Christian learn to live the path taught by Buddha? A Christain can maintain their religion and still learn Buddha's Philosophy.

losophy can be applied to anyone regardless of his or her background including culture, religion or gender.Christians often have many misconceptions regarding the teachings of Buddha. In comparing the ...

(8 pages) 238 1 4.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

This essay is about sex and what it is today

s would warn their teens that if they were caught kissing, holding hands, or even hugging the other gender they were considered doing some kind of sexual intercourse, and for their consequences, they ...

(7 pages) 344 2 4.3 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Summary of A Room of Ones Own by Virginia Woolf and sexism in this century

in many religious organizations.In recent decades, discrimination against individuals on a basis of gender has been viewed with increasing disgust. Societal pressure will probably increase on those re ... clergy on basis of the individual's intelligence, personality and knowledge without regard of their gender. However, the most conservative traditions within many religions have not followed suit. They ...

(3 pages) 171 1 4.2 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

Summary of A Room of Ones Own by Virginia Woolf and sexism in this century

in many religious organizations.In recent decades, discrimination against individuals on a basis of gender has been viewed with increasing disgust. Societal pressure will probably increase on those re ... clergy on basis of the individual's intelligence, personality and knowledge without regard of their gender. However, the most conservative traditions within many religions have not followed suit. They ...

(3 pages) 98 0 3.3 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

Computer crimes, due to society's declining ethical standards more than any economic need

because of society's declining ethical standards more than any economic need. According to experts, gender is the only bias. The profile of today's non-professional thieves crosses all races, age grou ...

(7 pages) 266 2 3.2 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut

hysically, and socially equal. Throughout the history of our country, Americans have sought racial, gender, and socio-economic equality. On paper such a society seems ideal. Through the story one migh ...

(2 pages) 209 0 5.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Gender and Relationships of Children

researchers in the past. Studies have been conducted on basic sex differences such as what toys and gender of playmates do young boys and girls prefer. The size of children's play networks, as well as ... n this study is that interactive behaviour is not just situationly specific, it also depends on the gender of participants.Some of the reasons given by Maccoby (1990) for attraction to same sex partne ...

(11 pages) 401 0 4.9 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

ESSAY QUESTION: Use a semiotic analysis to discuss the ways that gender is represented in one of the images provided (Nescafe advertisement).

re presence or absence" (Van Zoonen: 74). In this essay semiotics will be used to discuss ways that gender is represented in a Nescafe advertisement published in CLEO. The idea of first, second and th ... egrave;, featuring a popular celebrity, or can be interpreted further, examining representations of gender, culture and ethnicity.BIBLIOGRAPHYCLEO, Magazine, August 2000, p27.Lecture Notes & Cours ...

(3 pages) 176 0 3.3 May/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

"To Clone or Not to Clone...That is the Question." This essay provides reasonable arguments going for human cloning.

Wouldn't it be great if people could have children regardless of any diseases or even of their gender? Well, with human cloning, this may no longer be a dilemma to the human race. This is one of ... ng infertile or get diagnoses with some disease. Or, what if you choose to love someone of the same gender? These difficulties or choice in life should not prevent you from having a baby. So before yo ...

(2 pages) 426 4 3.9 May/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Advertising and how it has affected society.

advertisers have to figure out the location of where the product will be most popular, the age and gender of the population they are trying to sell to and how often those people are going to use that ...

(4 pages) 233 1 4.7 May/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays

What is human suffering? How does humanity understand/cope with human suffering? How do you reconcile suffering?

s, which makes it difficult to escape from.Although humans suffer regardless of their age, race, or gender, they suffer in different ways. Some people have to suffer more than the others, which make h ...

(7 pages) 270 2 4.3 Jun/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Discuss ideas of class identity and the concept of 'class consciousness' in relation to i) the upper class and ii) the members of an 'underclass'?

rms of two classes. The upper class and the notion of an underclass, along with the extent to which gender and ethnicity have a bearing on these.To return to the first statement the overlying subject ... denial of itself may never cohere enough to act for itself to remedy its situation.On ethnicity and gender, firstly we shall consider ethnicity. In the U.K. there was a number of large influxes of imm ...

(10 pages) 442 0 3.3 Sep/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Contrast of two upper class females

rations, and achievements of two upper class females were affected by the aspects of family, class, gender, and particularly race. Race will be particularly scrutinized because the individual intervie ... fferences and explicate them in sociological terms, while touching upon how the issues of class and gender also have an effect.Lee was born into a family that was already very economically established ...

(4 pages) 104 0 4.0 Apr/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Phoolan Devi

ni Akuma02/17/97Phoolan Devi: Perceptions of PowerThe purpose of this paper is to analyze and index gender and power as they factor into the life of one Dalit woman, Phoolan Devi. Particularly, I have ... o her society's hierarchical indexing. She resisted attempts to categorize and fix her into typical gender, class, and matrimonial positions. This is not to say that her resistance was always successf ...

(4 pages) 29 0 3.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Gender and Child Custody

Gender and custody within the courts Excellent grasp of concpetsGender and Child CustodyWithin the f ... concpetsGender and Child CustodyWithin the fabric of our society their seems to be a ideology about gender and child custody. This ideology stems from the facts about who should be the legal guardian ... the ideology of guardianship and the role of the mother. Nancy D. Polikoff, who wrote the article 'Gender and Child Custody Determinations: Exploding the Myths', attempts to clear some of the mis-con ...

(4 pages) 149 1 3.4 Oct/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Antigone

at exist in Sophocles' "Antigone". Three that are at stake in the central conflict are; the role of gender, pride, and human law vs. moral/divine law. Within these principles, the principle of power i ... ne law. Within these principles, the principle of power is intertwined.The principle of the role of gender is explored throughout "Antigone". The role of gender is a key principle as Creon relates wom ...

(8 pages) 302 3 4.2 Oct/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies