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    Little House on the Prairie is one of the most beloved television series of all time and is based on the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder which were published between 1932 and 1943. In an interesting note, Wilder originally set out to write an autobiography aimed at an adult audience but couldn't find a publisher, so she ended up using the material from her autobiography to write the Little House books. Bringing Little House to Television Walt Disney expressed interest in bringing the

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    Life is pink, or so says Louis Armstrong’s version of Edith Piaf’s beautiful French song, La Vie En Rose. Plato is arguably the most famous philosopher from Ancient Greece. The Symposium, one of Plato’s most famous works, is a brilliant piece of literature centered on a group of men telling their own versions of what they believe to be Love. The Goddess of Love however, is the main focus of Plato’s work more so than the act of actually being in love. This becomes the men’s main focal point for the

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    The theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes” (Merriam-Webster). Feminist, whether man or woman, organize their ideas based on this definition. For centuries, women have been a part of a misogynistic society that belittled women in comparison to men. Feminist thinkers were given the duty of challenging the teachings that society had engrained into the methods of politics, economic, and social issues. Christine de Pizan became known as a feminist because of her continuous

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    famous work is The Book of the City of Ladies. Written in the vernacular, Christine writes of all the injustices women face in society and how a woman could strike back. The book is as well, a formal and lengthy response of Jean de Meun’s Romance of the Rose, by defending women and providing a wide range of strong, famous women in history to defend her argument of a strong, independent woman. In The Book of the City of Ladies, Christine writes that “...others have said and continue to say and write such

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    An Ideal Renaissance Woman From 1330-1550, the Renaissance was a period emphasising a revival in the interest of art, music, and literature. As a result, being culturally advanced was the goal for many individuals. Machiavelli, Dante, and Chaucer are a few of the men who exhibited these values and defined literature of the time. Although advancement was a goal of the era, women were seen as subservient to men, excluding them from education and politics. Christine de Pizan; however, brought awareness

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    Outside of sex, learned women could manipulate powerful men via their intellectual abilities, reflecting the increased amount of knowledge they could potentially gain. Shahrazad takes on this role in A Thousand and One Nights, a frame narrative translated from Arabic into a Syrian manuscript in the fourteenth century centering on King Shahrayar’s disillusionment with women. After seeing his wife, his brother’s wife, and a demon’s wife all have affairs, he decides to take a bride every night and kill

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    instead they repeatedly drew inspiration from perpetuated stereotypes that further discredited the morality of women. These stereotypes were not only found in paintings but in literature as well. In Jean de Meun’s popular tale, Romance of the Rose, an older woman speaks on her advice for younger women. In this advice, we can see the

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    Section 2(h) of the Contracts Act defines contract as an agreement enforceable by law. A contract is said to be formed if the parties entering into it is bound together by it and also it must be enforceable against each other. But one must also keep in mind that every agreement is not a contract but every contract is an agreement. Certain agreements like domestic agreements and social agreements cannot be said as contracts because they cannot be enforceable by law. However an agreement can be enforceable

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    The Cuban Missile Crisis was a crucial moment in American history. As tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union rose, so did the risk of nuclear war. The Soviets, under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev, were in a position to strike the United States with nuclear missiles based in Cuba. This uncertain time caused much concern for the citizens of the United States and its President, John F. Kennedy (Brubaker, 2001). During most of the twentieth century, the Soviets and the

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    Rodriquez colloquy of Emily maxim "She was a "remembrance" of Southern heathenism, an mental of elapsed appreciate." She gets the emotion that Emily is at fixed battalion with the present age. Another reviewer Mary Ellen Byrne, also observe the village as a disposition in the stage. Byrne think that a liner comes to catch Emily by what the wick suppose of her. This can be

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