Essays Tagged: "Housewife"

Basic stereotypes of women in the workplace, in modern day america.

e told to be strong, powerful and the protectors.Throughout history women have taken on the role of housewife, mother and nurturer. Women are stereotyped to stay at home and take care of the house. It ...

(15 pages) 595 1 4.5 May/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Reasons For Dropping Out of School

n outstanding student in the class. Jim's father was a successful businessman, and his mother was a housewife. His father was the only provider for a whole family. When he was studying in college, Jim ...

(3 pages) 123 1 3.0 Jun/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

How women were treated during the enlightment. A very opiniated paper

e making a point that he wasn't aware of what she did, thus disobeying what her true purpose was, a housewife rather than looking for comets. This shows how many men did not show any respect for the a ... ville, a female French anatomical illustrator, stated that woman should not step over the line of a housewife, instead they should be thankful for what they had been given. This shows how women did no ...

(3 pages) 47 2 3.0 Jul/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

The Men We Carry In Our Minds

asier lives than toilers because they have more freedom of choice available to them. For example, A housewife has the freedom of being able to schedule her own chores, but a toiler has to do what his ...

(2 pages) 110 2 2.7 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Mildred's Success as a powerful woman

parates with her financially unsupportive husband and begins secular work leaving behind her former housewife routine. Mildred's younger daughter, the better one, dies from pneumonia. To add to this m ... . To see a woman in control of a company and acquiring real profits was a nail in the coffin of the housewife ideal. The very name of her restaurants says a great deal. "Mildred's", as it was called, ...

(2 pages) 47 0 3.5 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

A Morning in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

ives a long puff. The chair creeks as she reclines to prop her head with a strong, chubby hand. The housewife is up to make some breakfast for the hungry family.At ten minutes to seven she manipulates ...

(1 pages) 45 1 3.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Mauppassant's "The Necklace" outline and paper.

She finally filled the urge to be a beautiful, classy woman.B.Mathilde changes from being a spoiled housewife to a more conservative woman.1.She and her husband search frantically for the lost necklac ...

(5 pages) 194 0 4.3 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"The hours" by Michael Cunningham.

nia Woolf in 1923, to the printed page in 1925, to the young, timid, unsteady hands of a California housewife in the 1950s, to the thoroughly modern, hardened eyes of a New York City businesswoman. Th ... y're also shown sleeping in the same bed). Laura kisses her neighbor (only in Hollywood can a 1950s housewife suddenly lock lips with an unsuspecting neighbor and have her passions unhesitatingly retu ...

(4 pages) 98 0 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Traditional family

r, and two or three children. Where the father worked full-time the mother usually stayed home as a housewife. The traditional family has been changing rapidly enduring many changes in the recent deca ...

(2 pages) 97 0 2.6 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Joseph Haydn. A four page biography of his life, music, and accomplishments.

Haydn was born in Rohrau, Austria on March 31, 1732. His father was a wheelwright, his mother was a housewife, and his family enjoyed the comforts of a well off middle class family. Haydn was sent to ...

(5 pages) 59 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

The House Fire. This is an event essay describing a young mother's actions during a house fire.

At that time the basement appeared fine, with the faint light of a flashlight.I was a typical young housewife at the time. I was not only unaware but unsure of what to do. My only option was to call m ...

(3 pages) 40 0 4.2 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

This essay is about comparing and contrasting the Athenians and the Spartans, the two most outstanding city-states of Greece

to weave and to draw. They stayed at home watching their mothers as well since they would become a housewife in the future. The men stayed out in the public place as known as the polis or attended th ...

(3 pages) 68 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Womens Civil rights movement- research paper

n Society.The Women's Rights Movement began July 13, 1848. On that day in upstate New York, a young housewife and mother, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was invited to tea with four women friends. When the c ...

(10 pages) 386 0 3.0 Mar/2004

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

How has the transition to modern society changed women's lives?

nd enduring consequence of industrialization for women has been the emergence of the modern role of housewife as 'the dominant mature feminine role' Thus a combination of factors which included ideolo ... , and restrictions of the employment of women, locked the majority of married women into the mother housewife role. This led to the idea of a 'cornflake packet family' where the male was the breadwinn ...

(8 pages) 244 0 4.4 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

General Media Studies : representations of women

mpsons" it is a comical representation of everyday life. Marge Simpson is seen as the steriotypical housewife, who doesn't have a job, stays at home and looks after three kids, this representation is ...

(2 pages) 50 0 2.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Critisism Report on Irvin Faust

nd Pauline Faust. His father Morris worked in the field of insurance business, and his mother was a housewife. In the year of 1943 Faust served in European theater and in the Southwest Pacific for the ...

(3 pages) 13 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Tesla / The history of tesla and the fued with Edison that blackend his name. A very thought out paper about tesla being left out of history because of his budgetery concerns.

nt cleric in the Serbian Orthodox Church, fluent in several languages. His mother was an illiterate housewife with a photographic memory who frequently invented tools to help her around the house (Che ...

(6 pages) 31 0 4.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

A Woman's Desire in "The Storm" by Kate Chopin

scribe the temptations, and thunder and lightning of the storm to describe the deception of a young housewife and mother in the late 1800's. In the beginning like a storm, Calixta is quiet, cal ...

(3 pages) 124 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Ibsen, Henrik "A Doll's House"

cterization to illustrate the effects of human corruption. The characters include Nora, a repressed housewife who ultimately abandons her children after realizing that her life no longer represents wh ...

(4 pages) 213 0 4.6 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Biography on Steven Spielberg (1038 Words)

nvolved in the development of computers. Whereas his mother Leah was a concert pianist as well as a housewife. He was the oldest of four children, them being Annie, Sue, Nancy and himself. He later st ...

(4 pages) 80 2 4.9 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies