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Masculinity construct builds on the opposition between what is "feminine" and what is “masculine.... ?? "Feminine" traits are associated with softness, weakness, passiveness in contrast to masculine features of being hard, strong, active.... Masculinity stereotypes are reflected in… In this paper we view Superman stereotype and how his image contributes to the social perception of masculinity.
The popularity of Superman and other related phenomena suggest that the films about superheroes “highlight the issue of manhood, an expression of Superman constructs a certain role model of manliness reflecting popular 20th century concepts of masculinity....
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The women of Yoruba are shown to be swerve and strong as shown by undulating torso and the generous pendant breasts of the woman supporting the warrior in the sculpture.... It has also been indicated that the house post sculpture bears resemblance to many other works of art designed by Olowe for other palaces, which reinforce the social roles of people in the palaces and those who interacted with the palace (Homberger, Abiodun, Dreval and Pemberton 50).... western art usually prefers two dimensional structures and motion....
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In the paper “The Death of General Wolfe by Benjamin West” the author analyzes the idea of art as propaganda, which is explicitly expressed in the Oath of the Horatii by David and The Death of General Wolfe by Benjamin West.... The Oath of the Horatii is a big painting that was done in 1784 by Jacques David....
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Later on “at the western palace”, when Brave Orchid is at the airport waiting for her sister from Hong Kong, she describes all the non-Chinese people at the airport as “ghosts”.... The paper "Summary of the woman warrior Written by Maxine Hong Kingston" discusses that ghosts, in the “Warrior Woman”, refer to both Americans and Chinese, people and animals, whether living or dead.... The book -the woman warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston is a collection of memoirs, which can be best classified as creative non-fiction....
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In his book The Shorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature, Mair (2000) brings out the Confucian idea of a woman as a person who is cautious and intelligent.... From the script about autumn floods, a woman is seen as an individual who understands fundamentals.... It implies that the value of a woman is in the level of integrity she holds.... In addition, a woman is a person who has the potential to assess risks and determine whether she is in danger or safe....
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Following two great events – rise of the Islam religion and decline of the western Roman Empire under the barbarian urge Europe suffered a great and total transformation on all the levels.... In the following essay the analysis and the commentary on Geoffrey Chaucer's “The Wife of Bath's Tale” will be presented in order to revise and reflect a historical period of the Middle Ages due to the mission of finding facts about woman's rights, feminist and… “The Wife of Bath's Tale” by G....
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The Maasai culture upholds ceremonies like “Enkipaata (senior boy ceremony), Emuratta (circumcision), Enkiama (marriage), Eunoto (warrior-shaving ceremony), Eokoto e-kule (milk-drinking ceremony), Enkang oo-nkiri (meat-eating ceremony), Orngesherr (junior elder ceremony), etc” for initiation or transition from childhood to adulthood (Maasai Association, 2014)....
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He had unequaled skills and competence as a warrior and is in fact feared by the Trojans.... These skills and temperaments as a warrior, the superior physical endowments, all had the stamp of fate in it.... All of his men, as well as Agamemnon, further buttress this state of affairs, by pleading with Achilles for the warrior to fight and to fulfill the destiny of the Greeks of overpowering Troy.... On the other hand, as far as Achilles is concerned, the more desirable choice is to go back home and to live a long life, obscure to be sure, but one where he is spared the fate of the warrior who dies in battle, and for what?...
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