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    From birth, females have been pre-disposed to judgment, standards, and obligation. They are shaped into becoming what “society” views as a woman. They have been ridiculed, used, and discriminated. In Margaret Atwood’s piece “The Female Body” she gives seven points on the way men perceive what being a woman is like. Using detailed imagery and metaphors Atwood has given an understanding of what it means to be a woman in today’s society in the mind of a man. Within the first few points. Atwood reflects

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    Female Pattern Hair Loss

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    Female pattern hair loss (also known as female pattern androgenetic alopecia) represents a common condition with a multi-factorial etiology that affects a large number of women worldwide, characterized by a progressive reduction in hair density (most notably on the crown and frontal scalp). Initially, a general term "diffuse alopecia in women" was used to describe the disease. Nevertheless, when the role of male hormones in the classic pattern baldness in men was elucidated after 1942, the term

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    Dracula and Carmilla Female Sexuallity as Disease In the two classic gothic vampire tales, Carmilla and Dracula, both novels have similarities through their displays of sexuality. Sexuallity isn’t just displaying sexual intentions towards other people. The two novels explore how vampirism represents female sexuality as a disease through different means. In Carmilla, the character of Carmilla’s vampirism is linked with disease because she has bitten Laura, one of her many victims, and fed off of her

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    Female Vs. Male Answers

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    advertisements per day, which can do a number on healthy everyday individuals let alone people who are considered “overweight” by society’s standards. This research paper will talk about the results of a body image survey, comparing and contrasting why female vs male answers are different and how the rest of the world (outside of oakmont) is reacting to body image controversy. The students and faculty of Oakmont Regional High School, much like the rest of America, have a distorted sense of body image,

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    every female and male look to for guidance when it comes to fashion, beauty, and information. “Magazines and advertisements are used to help women better themselves by giving information and products to make them look and feel better” (Serdar 1). Without magazines and advertisements there wouldn 't be an exact focus on beauty standards.. People would have the freedom to choose what they like and what they consider beautiful instead of following the crowd. “Sociocultural standards of female beauty

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    In sports, coaching is male dominated. Does the public react negatively to females getting jobs as coaches for men's teams? Is it harder for females to get jobs as coaches? There are many examples and reasons why the public may react negatively to female coaches, but not all of them are negative. My developed hypothesis is that I believe it is harder for females to get jobs as coaches in men sports because females aren’t looked at as powerful/ dominant figures and it is a societal expectation in

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    focus on female protagonists who are the center and driving force behind a detective narrative. I will compare and contrast Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs and Lisbeth Salander from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo to explore two women that are progressive in breaking through traditional gender roles and are successful at portraying a female that goes against the grain. These women portray unique and progressive ideas about sexuality. Clarice and Lisbeth are two empowered females that are

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    sex offending accomplish by female offenders and the penalty in which female sex offender obtain. Introduction: The focus in prevention of any type of sexual offenses was to learn the habits from the male sex offenders perceived to possess prior, during, and after a sexual incident. Due to this focus of male sex offenders’ habits, the lack of attention, book, research studies and criminal justice system has created a minor delay in understanding the nature of the female sex offender. Recently

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    “ Where Are The Female Heroes?”,the conductor Christopher Bell addresses how dangerous gender roles can be. However the division doesn't seem as obvious as first because a girl can find costumes for any male superhero and plenty of merchandise but as you start to pay attention you will realize that the female characters are non existent. Costumes often times have their male characters in a wide variety of reimaginings in order to also fit women but the same can't be said for female characters because

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    It’s pretty clear that in today’s society males are the dominate figure in sports. Unlike female athletes, men receive a tremendous amount of media attention than female athletes. Young boys grow up watching television bombarded with heroic images of male athletes. They have something to look up to, while young girls do not receive the same images. Male and female athletes have many equal opportunities when it comes to playing and succeeding in sports. Yet it seems that male sports happen to catch

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