...were perceived as inferior to men intellectually, physically, and basically in every aspect in life. With Elizabeth as queen of England, she defied the gender barriers, which made many citizens of England extremely upset. Some believed that a woman in rule went “against all nature,” as John Knox stated in attempt his to prove how a woman could not in any way rule a country. Knox’s purpose of his protests against Elizabeth was to explain how Elizabeth’s rule was unrealistic and to make the people of England despise her and turn against her, causing there to be a new male leader in England. Additionally, women were not considered powerful enough to command men, which caused more troubles towards Elizabeth’s ruling, because men were reluctant to regard her as an official ruler. For instance, the bishops of England wrote a book during Elizabeth’s rule mentioning a woman’s role in the family. They stated how women are to always listen to their husbands and can never command or subject to them. This writing was written for the common people of England. This excerpt showed English citizens that women are not supposed to be in charge of men, and it is not suggested that women try to be more powerful than their male partners. Elizabeth’s reign was being criticized through this book excerpt because it is stating how men are supposed to...
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...and some similarities that Cleopatra was known for her beauty while both had to utilize this to rise to power. Whereas Wu Zetian whom did not have the quality of good attitude However Cleopatra being known for her charm served her way as a tool to survive later empire that they later become the ruler. www.womeninworldhistory.com/heroine6.hmtl Cleopatra family through royal standards she was however born of nobility, whereas her family members would marry each other or marry within the family far as, but still had a difference within them as far as daughters and uncles. http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/cleopatra Wu Zetian was ruthless and had the desire to rule and have all power. Although she was able to rule throughout a peaceful time in period. However, Cleopatra shares the similarity with Wu Zetian on being able to be better than a man. Thus Cleopatra unlike Wu who was a leader during times such as war and also expansions throughout. She believed herself to being a leader and being a female who utilized her power in time throughout her principals and ideas. Therefore, ruling she went through extreme measures to keep her throne. As far as their methods to rule involved Cleopatra was known to be the type that ignored her brothers’ accusations and ideas that woman were...
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...The Decameron and the Rule of Saint.Benedict Beginning from the 10th century, the religion of Christianity in Europe was fragmented and localized, as well as in the secular sphere. The Church was in a state of weakness and disorder with rural popes supported by competing nobles, the Abbot of Cluny felt the need to revitalize the church by adhering to the Rule of St. Benedict. The Rule was meant to foster an understanding of the relation nature of human beings, and to provide a spiritual support to strengthen the individual’s ascetic effort and growth that is required for the fulfillment of the theosis. Despite crises happening constantly during the long existence of the Rule, the Benedictines have not been immune to periods of laxity and decline. In the fourth story of Day One in the Decameron, Boccaccio uncovers the negligent of monasticism in the late middle ages through a witty sexual story took place within a monastery. Using great details in the tale, Boccaccio tries to claim the unfeasible practice of monasticism, as well as the viability of the Christian church in the later middle ages. This tale is about the monastic life under the governing of the Rule of St.Benedict. In the context, the ecclesiastical characters attempt to break the Rule for the sake of their body. The monk uses his wit to free his body rests on the assumption that the freedom and pleasure of the body are good, and that the physical vigour of the young monk is very good. This is particularly...
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...Examiner: Serial Number: Höstterminen 2006 Åke Bergvall Mark Troy X-XX XX XX Karlstads universitet 651 88 Karlstad Tfn 054-700 10 00 Fax 054-700 14 60 Information@kau.se www.kau.se Kate Chopin is known for writing about women and their struggles in patriarchal society. In her three works The Awakening, “A Point at Issue” and “Wiser than a God”, she portrays women who have taken on different types of female roles. Per Seyersted calls these roles the “patriarchal woman”, which I choose too exemplify by Mme. Ratignolle from The Awakening, the “modern woman,” who Seyersted exemplifies by Eleanor from “A Point of Issue,” and the “emancipated woman,” who Seyersted exemplifies by Paula from “Wiser than a God” (Seyersted 102-105). One can say that these women have accepted and internalized a female role in society, by either following the rules of patriarchal society or breaking them. Edna, the protagonist of The Awakening, is a woman in search of her female identity. She is uncomfortable in her role as the “patriarchal woman” and has trouble obtaining either of the other two roles. This essay will focus on Edna’s inability to find her female role. Comparing her to the three other types of women in Chopin’s works, I will show why she cannot conform to any one of these roles, and how the resulting suicide is a conscious choice very much in character with Chopin’s portrayal of her. To understand Edna’s role in society and that of the women whom she is compared to one must first know what...
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...Women and Combat Women should not be allowed in combat situations. As a woman I know all the arguments of equality in the work force. Also being in a family with former and current military persons I see the arguments and effects of military life. The pentagon has changed some of its rules but not many. Physical limitations, psychological effects, maternal instinct with the possibility of becoming a target are still all reasons women should not be in combat situations. The pentagon has recently changed rules about women in combat. “The new rules will continue the long-held prohibition that prevents women from serving as infantry, armor and special operations forces. But they will formally allow women to serve in other jobs at the battalion level, which until now had been considered too close to combat (2012, The Associated Press.)” These changes will allow women to help combat units without the risks that are associated with combat. Women have always had physical limitations. A lot of combat positions offered to military personal require a level of physical fitness that is uncommon in women. It is known that women are smaller and weaker than men. For example all Special Forces training are hard, grueling, exercises to bring a person to their lowest levels and rebuild them. Even if a woman did go through the training it is most likely that the said person would quit. Many train for months even years and still withdraw them self from the training. The psychological effects...
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...unrest, political corruption, and old traditional ideals that developed into unwritten “rules” forced upon society. Guiding behaviors such as how a “good” wife or a “good” widow should behave, or such “rules” notably broken are prevalent in the famous true story of Giovanni and Lusanna. It is a Renaissance chronicle about a woman who is set out to tell the truth but reveals too much of herself and her rogue ways. Lusanna’s actions questioned the unwritten “rules “of Renaissance society and whether or not enforcing them was right or wrong. Lusanna was a beautiful Florentine woman who was married to an Artisan man named Andrea Nucci of low class Florence. She met and fell in love with Giovanni while she was still married to Andrea Nucci. Giovanni, a noble man of great class and status, loved her as well. He had promised to marry her if her husband were to die. His luck came true and Lusanna’s husband passed away. Giovanni fulfilled his promise and married the widow shortly after the death of her husband. It was a marriage that, before long, turned into political unrest as Giovanni decided to marry another woman. He insisted that he never married Lusanna and that he only considered her his mistress. Lusanna thought otherwise and knew that her marriage was lawful and thus decided to take legal actions in her favor. A legal fight of gender and class ensued. Giovanni blamed Lusanna for being a sexual whore and also created allegations that Lusanna had many sexual relations when...
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...from a sociologically point of view. In the United States of America, under federal law, murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought which will come with fatal consequences if you are found guilty of the killing. So in other words murdering someone is a taboo. Sometime the defendant would pled either not guilty, or guilty, on rare occasion they would pled insanity or self-defense. Self-defense stood out the most for me and it was the Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander case, Was it really self-defense or was it just pure jealousy? To start with, I was channel surfing when I stopped on CNN news channel. Nancy Grace was shouting at someone giving their opinion about something as she always do. I was about to change the channel when I saw a gruesome crime scene photo of a shower filled with blood. I wanted to know more about the bloody shower. Come to find out the shower and the blood in it belongs to Travis Alexander, a Mormon. Travis Alexander was murdered on June 4, 2008 by his ex-girlfriend Jodi Arias in his house. Alexander was stab nearly around 30 times and was shot in the head and his throat had been slit. Travis’s body was left in that shower for five days, decomposing and was later found by his friend. Jodi Arias was suspect for the killing of Travis’s death. Arias had three scenarios she told the cop when she was being...
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...Marriage Practices Michelle Moses ANT 101 Prof. Larissa Begley November 28, 2013 Marriage Practices Decades ago, what was known as the traditional wedding would be between one man and one woman. Today, traditional and other marriage practices have changed tremendously. When it comes to marriage, all cultures respect and honors its own marriage practice. Many marriage practices may be confusing and misunderstood from an outsider but will always be sacred within his/her tribe. In today’s society, we tend to self-judge another’s culture marriage practices because it is not the traditional marriage that we were brought believing. Even though we have become narrow-minded towards other forms of marriage and have come to believe that any other way wrong, marriage practices will always be performed differently. While some cultures believe in arranged marriages and same sex marriages, other cultures believe in multiple marriage partners which is known as polygamy. In some types of culture, all three of these marriage practices are accepted. Because of this, we should research farther into various cultures and find out what the reason is behind performing the different martial practices that they do because marriage will still continue in several different ways. Even though traditions might be similar to a particular point, the meaning and the marriage practices behind them are very different. When we do not have the power to choose who we want our future mate to be...
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...to choose. There is an expectation though that one will choose the option that is considered moral. Ethical questions or problems face every human being at some point in life. One such moral question is; “is it right for women to have abortions”. Abortion has been a major cause of controversy all around the world, with people having different views on whether abortion is good or bad based on their moral beliefs. The main issue that surrounds this ethical dilemma is whether the fetus should have rights to life. Another issue is whether there is justification for a woman to perform abortion based on the rights to her body considering the fetus also has rights to life (Tännsjö, 2008). The deontological theory is not in support of abortion; the objection though, is that women also have rights over their bodies. Discussion Deontological ethics is a moral theory that is in line with common sense intuitions, the scriptures, and natural moral duties or rules. The theory mainly focuses on compliance with moral duties or rules. The main principles of the theory include a task should be carried out for the sake of the obligation. For instance, there is a duty not to do certain things such as murder, lie or break promises since these acts are considered to be wrong. The expected consequences define what the duty is. Secondly, human beings should never be considered as a way to reach an end but rather themselves as ends that is, their general welfare and happiness is more important according...
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...(AGG)The group known as the Taliban used its control over Afghanistan to enforce strict and unfair rules on the women and made harsh punishments if these rules were broken.(BS-1)The book, Under the Persimmon Tree correctly portrays that being a woman in Afghanistan has a lot more disadvantages than the men of Afghanistan who have more advantages.(BS-2)The author of Under the Persimmon Tree, Suzanne Fisher Staples uses the fact that the men of Afghanistan had more advantages than the women in Afghanistan, to develop and create conflicts and it also helps us to hear a voice that we wouldn’t otherwise be able to hear.(BS-3)From this book and the research that was done about the Taliban’s treatment of Afghan women, helps us to hear the voices...
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...Ashley Guthrie History 394-001 December 8, 2017 Final Paper Assignment A Conversation with Simone de Beauvoir INTRO PARAGRAPH? Ashley Guthrie: The Second Sex is by far your most influential work. One of the major themes found throughout the book is existentialism. What lead you to the belief in existentialism and a person’s free will, rather than the work of a higher being? SDB: Well part of it goes back to my upbringing. I grew up in a world dominated by rules. Rules that dictated everything you do, from how to act in social situations, how to address others, how to act in the political world. Everything in my life growing up was determined by strict rules determined by several generations of de Beauvoir’s. There was a time when I adored...
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...leader? Socrates in “The Republic” and Machiavelli in “The Prince” both discuss what it takes to make a good leader. One interesting topic discussed by them is the corruption of the people in charge and whether or not in affects the leadership role in a negative or positive way. Another determining factor in leadership skill is whether a woman would be a good leader and whether it matters that the image of a man in charge is what best for society or can women do just as much as men can based on their natural skills. Machiavelli speaks about how “Fortune is a woman” and men must take advantage before they get taken advantage of. One of the other components that make a good leader with good leadership skills is deception and whether to have it or not. Deception in leaders can either be helpful or hurtful to whomever is in charge. While Machiavelli has the perspective of a person being a leader that will do anything by any means necessary to stay in charge is how the Prince should run what he is in charge of. Socrates believes in doing what is right by the people. From what Socrates speaks about, he doesn’t feel like people should be corrupt in being a leader. Justice plays a big role in leadership in his opinion which is why he tries to find out from a few people what their definition of justice is and does a good job in trying to get them to understand why they are wrong although it’s frustrating to one of the people he was talking to about the topic of justice. Socrates doesn’t...
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...one way or another. Within this paper, there will be examples of the ways women are treated and how they react to this treatment. It will also discuss various situations that strengthen this argument. In the Tanakh, when God created man, God took a look at man and decided that he needed someone to help him. God did not create woman to be his equal, but God created her to be his helper. In Genesis 2, the Tanakh somewhat puts women in the same category with the animals, but one step higher due to the fact that she was made from man. When Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, they had free reign to go where they wanted, eat what they chose, do what they wished… anything except eat from the tree of knowledge. It was Eve who initially bent the rules and ate from the tree of life. She showed reckless abandon for the rules that were set by the ruling power (just happens to be God in this case) and chose to do what she wanted because she “felt” like doing it. The general feeling in both the Tanakh and Antigone is that women act more on their feelings and do whatever they do and face the consequences later. They realize that they have the same set of rules that men have, yet they can’t control their emotions enough not to break them. They are not above the law, but merely that they act more on emotion than men do. When Antigone lost her brother, she knew that there was a law that he was not to be buried. Yet she felt that he needed to be buried and that she was going to do it....
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...Should you require the Ninety day rule of your man? Yes. Of course, I believe a woman should require certain rules for a possible relationship. Just to define respect –is to hold one in esteem. Respect denotes both positive feeling of esteem for person. A woman should have certain standards from the beginning because she has no knowledge or history of this particular man. First and foremost my man would have to prove that hardworking, able to keep a job and is a breadwinner in order to be in a worthy relationship with me. This would be the beginning stage before we could move any further. If he proves that he is capable of meeting the requirements, then we can start a relationship. My man would have to have benefits because it doesn’t do a woman any good to get someone in the same state that she’s in. It would only lead to disaster depending on how ambitious that man is toward the relationship and what he desire for the future. My man would definitely have to meet the challenge in order to prove or show me that he is serious. Another aspect is if my man is faithful and on time for his job to receive the promised benefits. Then I know he would definitely prove that he is up for the challenge and will not stop until he has attained the reward which is “me”. Speaking from a woman’s perspective, you have to demand respect. You can’t lower your standards because it would make a man challenge easier and he wouldn’t put up the effort because he know that the benefits with you are...
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...Mary ran things and focused more on the topics she felt important, although the public believed that trivial subjects such as her unwilling to marry, or have children, and the fact that she was in deed a woman. Elizabeth embraced the her femininity and used it to comfort the public in which she ruled rather than intimidating them with it, or trying to seem more masculine. She found no reason to hide behind a man, and in that way she paved the way for feminists hundreds of years later to stand up for themselves and march to be treated as equals. Queen Mary was crowned in 1553 as the first queen of England, ruled in a way that showed that she too could be treated the same as a man, referring to herself as a “prince” in many speeches, she metaphorically took the role as a man to help relate to the public rather than proving to them that she as a woman could be just as strong as a man. Upon her death in 1558, Elizabeth took over the throne and “mirrored” that strategy. Instead of hiding behind metaphors and word choices, she embraced the fact that she was one of the first reigning queens and did not let anyone forget it. When she took the throne, Elizabeth was in the same situation as her sister just years before. She was not looked at as a new leader, but instead as “a single woman in a traditionally male role, expected to reign, wield power, and produce a male heir.” (Beemer,...
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