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protagonist play a more prominent role while women are only something to be looked at and acted upon. Both films possess a male and a female protagonist. His Girl Friday casts Cary Grant as a cunning newspaper editor named Walter Burns, as well as Rosalind Russell as former reporter and former wife of Walter, Hildy Johnson. Vertigo stars James Stewart as a former detective named Scottie Ferguson, and Kim Novak as Madeleine Ester, a woman Scottie is hired to investigate. Both films challenge the feminist’s

films, the image of the woman is important, as well as their role in the film. The image of the woman is highly sophisticated, proper, and simple. Throughout His Girl Firday, our leading female character, Hildegard “Hildy” Johnson, played by Rosalind Russell, was struggling to keep her current persona of a woman who wants to settle down in the newspaper business. When first introduced to Hildy, she was engaged and about to marry Bruce, an insurance agent played by Ralph Bellamy. Hildy wants to settle

Men and women face many social obstacles when faced within a community that has demanding masculine and feminine roles. Men are projected to be extremely masculine and not allow fear, anxiety, or vulnerability to show through. Women, on the other hand, are encouraged to be strong, pursue their careers, and experiment with their sexuality. Although women are gaining power, they are still left with a feeling of confusion about themselves. Leslie Bell author of, “Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women

The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 was a catalyst that allowed millions of women all over the world to fight for empowerment. The traditional mindset of the society was that women were not entitled to the same rights as men. This issue was not acknowledged in a major way until the 1800s. Women’s rights activists such as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Alice Paul made it their life goal to make sure that women were granted the same rights and liberties as the men around them. These

Altering Women “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex” (US Constitution 19th Amendment). These were the few words that thousands of women fought for. From the beginning of mankind women have been treated unequally from men. Women have had to fight to win the same rights as the men who were born with them. As women progressed gaining equal rights as men, society also became more advanced changing

Everyone perceives what it means to be a man in a different way. It is based on how you are brought up or raised. Society sees it as how masculine and tough you are. In order to be a part of the military, your mental and physical toughness needs to be off the charts. The Naked Citadel is an all-male military school that has a policy regarding males being the only sex allowed to attend and discriminated against women. Misogyny is prevalent throughout the whole passage and gives the opinions of the

SHAKESPEAREAN PLAY PHILOSOPHY The play to be reviewed is As You Like It, written by William Shakespeare. The prevailing philosophy throughout the play is existentialism. What is existentialism? Existentialism can be defined through its ontology. Ontology is the study of the nature of reality and is also called the theory of reality. The ontology of existentialism can be discussed in under concepts of man and existence. In the concept of man, existentialists believe that man is not bound by any antecedent

Westward Expansion During the westward expansion many important events happened. The Pony express was one of them it was a mail delivery system. Another very important event was the Transcontinental railroad, it was the first train track ever made! Both of these events were very hard to accomplish but we did accomplish them so that was good. Pony Express The Pony express was a mail delivery system, that started in April, 1860 and used a team of a person and a horse to deliver

Johnson 1 Kendra Johnson General English IV Mrs.Jones 11/16/17 The Pony Express Three men in the mid-1800s had an idea to open up a mail delivery system that reached from the midwest all the way from California. (Russell, William) The lack of speedy communication between the midwest and the west. The Pony Express employed about eight hundred to five hundred to carry these riders from one post to the next. ( Monthly pay for these riders was fifty dollars, which were

remains as a matter of personal opinion. "However, it was William H. Russell, and U.S. Senator William Gwen who actually discussed and put The Pony Express into operation" (The Founders n.d.). Three business partners named William B. Waddell, Alexander Majors, and William H. Russell are the founders of The Pony Express. "Personable, sophisticated, and politically astute, Russell went to Washington, D.C., to represent Russell, Majors and Waddell in the complex world of national politics. Majors