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    Student’s Name Professor’s name Course Date Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Dohra Ahmad, the author of the Wondrous life of Oscar Wao book, provides the book setting in the united states and the Dominican republic. In particular, the author analyses the harsh regime power ruled by Trujillo which exposes people to hostility and violence. As a result, various characters within the book flee from their country into America. The author has used an authoritative tone to reflect on Trojan’s leadership. There

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    of vulnerability in the workplace such as women and the disabled, considering that they will have less conflict and therefore more fluidity to relate and work as a team people. In contrast, Islam is mainly seen as a religion characterized by male chauvinism and female mistreatment, which is considered to interfere with working with women because of a lack of respect and professionalism, underestimating them and hindering the work in the company. Stereotypes about family Classical happy family is the

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    partner in this relationship. Although Nora takes out a loan individually for saving Torvald’s life, she hides her true self, an independent and determined thinker, for catering the society’s dominated men thought. Since she knows her husband, who is chauvinism, can never accept a woman had helped him. When she asks Torvald for money, she seems not mind of the inequality state in this relationship. Nora enjoys performing the role of a responsible

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    from being repressed to being liberated from her repressive spouse; her transition is accomplished through the writing of her diary, her determination to find the symbolic meaning of the wallpaper, her recognition and rebellion against John’s male chauvinism, and finally her decision to destroy the wallpaper aiming at liberation of the woman trapped behind it. It is of true surprise that “The Yellow Wallpaper” parallels the story of Charlotte Perkins Gilman as she also suffered from a mental breakdown

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    Margaret Atwood- Feminism

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    although she doesn’t believe so “Every time you write from the point of view of a woman, people say it’s feminist.” Critics all of the world disagree with her and say that Atwood’s novels are blatantly feministic. Margaret Atwood uses time, male chauvinism, and jealousy to display her belief that women aren’t treated fairly, yet they deserve to be. Atwood’s mute female roles create the setting for her In Atwood’s works, time is vital is showing that her feminist beliefs sets the outline in which

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    When it comes to accepting refugees and immigrants to your country, it is always important to focus on the security aspect. Janice Kephart writes about how the United States has a lenient immigration system, which could be the reason that the US suffered from the attacks on 9/11. Kephart came to that conclusion after she explored the cases, of about 94 Middle Eastern men that were involved in the plotting of terror attacks in U.S. soil; in each case, she studied their immigration background. Her

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    children dropped on an uninhabited island; secondly, occasional references to bomb, firing and so on, that point at the cruelty of the grown-up people; thirdly, the fluffy suggestions of the boy's unhappy family life and lastly, the presentation of chauvinism as the remains of colonial feelings mirrored in the naval officer's speech at the end (Santwana, 2010:

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    Name Professor Course Date Female Victimization Female victimization is a phenomenon that leads to a physical and psychological assault of women by the society and male power dominance through brutal and ruthless insidiousness such as sexual assault (Kim, Byeon & Lee 6). The macro-social phenomena in female victimization are a broad focus oriented on social structure shaping the society as the whole. In the other hand micro- level orientation studies focus on the social interaction in a specific

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    A Raisin in the Sun is the story of a lower-class African American family living in poverty in the south of Chicago. The family seeks to move into a white middle-class neighborhood. The son of the family feels an entitlement to the money that they derive from the insurance pay off. The mother buys a house with a portion of the money, set aside $3000 for the daughter’s education and give the rest to the son to the manage. The son is conned of the money by his street acquaintances, and the family is

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    Abusive Relationships: The Flawed Ideas of Machismo & Masculinity The term ‘abusive relationship’ brings to mind a relationship of unequal power distribution. The perpetrator is usually imagined to be the husband in heterosexual relationships and we, generally, identify the wife as the victim of such cases of abuse. However, recent findings suggest that it is not always the husband who is the perpetrator. In many such cases, the dominant abusive figure is the wife. Although abuse exists in both

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