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The search term, “Literary exploration of lesbian desire” yields three pages of results for pornography, erotica, and sexually explicit pictures. This perception of lesbianism as erotic extends throughout mainstream society, with images of lesbianism targeted to heterosexual men in advertising, film, and pornography. Lesbianism in literature has long served either as the pornographic subject of male voyeurism or subjects to be condemned by heterosexual authors—and in many cases, both. The genre lesbian

Munisha Sarfraz Professor Leighton AP English Language & Composition 6/7/2012 Haunting Past “You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.” (Glidewell) People say that one should leave the past behind them, but the past is always following them, holding them down like an anchor. The past comes back as a ghost, causing sane people to go insane, causing them to drown in their own past. Heathcliff and Catherine in Wuthering Heights by

The Great Gatsby is well known for its many uses of symbolism. Like most other works of literature, F. Scott Fitzgerald use of symbolism comes in a wide variety of people objects and events. Fitzgerald’s incorporation of meal scenes always coincide with the emotional and narrative tone of the novel.More specifically, the events that transpire in each individual meal act to foreshadow individual character plot developments for the rest of the novel. First, it is important to understand the meaning

The Importance of Dinosaur Discoveries When a paleontologist makes a discovery about Dinosaurs it is usually a celebrated event and will appear on all sorts of covers of magazines and even newspapers, with good reason. These discoveries are often quite exciting for a few reasons. The whole experience of finding a fossil that is hundreds of millions of years old is quite an adrenaline rush, but the fact that each discovery has the ability to answer questions in relation to evolution is quite

When “The Yellow Wallpaper” is viewed within the scopes of New Historical, Feminist, Psychoanalytical, Ethical and Reader response criticisms, the reader should first be imparted with the understanding of who Charlotte Perkins Gilman was, what she stood for, the time period in which the story was written, and how aspects of her cultural and historical background related to it. Second, how the circumstances imposed upon women’s freedom of thought. Third, the reader shall ascertain how Freud’s Psychoanalytical

From the end of the nineteenth century until the attainment of independence in the early 1960s, the countries of East Africa were under the colonial administration of European empires. After decades of foreign rule which saw unparalleled transformations within society, the post-colonial states that emerged have been blighted by ethnic conflict. It has been argued that the beliefs of British, Belgian and German administrators led them to completely reorganise the societies they governed based on a

because Quakers believe in peace and are against war, but Nathanael was very passionate about military sciences. Separating himself from the Quaker faith was a major decision Greene made. At the age of 32, Nathanael married a woman by the name of Catharine Littlefield. They both had six children, all but one of whom survived through childhood. Nathanael served in the colonial legislature and the Rhode Island General Assembly for about 8 years. He was first elected deputy

Throughout the years, society has become more accepting of diverse topics and ideas. As society continues to evolve, numerous entertainments have turned to displaying a greater amount of minority groups. Although movies and television shows are rapidly progressing towards this trend, video games seem to be cautiously starting to accept these ideas. Most of the advertising in video games are promoted towards the male population. Despite the fact men have previously been the dominant demographic in

Why Isn’t Food Justice Taught in Secondary Education Food Justice is communities using their right to grow, sell, and eat healthy food. “Healthy food” is food that isn’t just nutritious but also affordable, culturally-appropriate, and grown locally with care for the well-being of the land, workers, and animals. Food insecurity is when someone is without sufficient access to affordable, nutritious food. In the U.S. 83.5% of the population was food insecure in 2016 (Coleman-Jensen). Food insecurity

This paper examines the prosecutorial strategy that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court must adopt concerning sexual violence and gender-based crimes. The focus of the research is on the second situation in the Central African Republic, being currently investigated by the Court, because of its practicality since it is a conflict in which sexual violence has played an essential role. The author suggests that the origin of sexual violence is of the utmost importance when deciding to