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?The Nutbrown Maid?, 2006.
Examines gender issues in this sixteenth century poem.
1,959 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 0 sources, MLA, £ 43.95
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"The Nutbrown Maid", by an anonymous author, first appeared around 1503 in Richard Arnold's "Customs of London". While originally thought to have been written by a man who praises the virtues of a devoted woman, this paper explores the possibility that the poem was actually written by a woman. It argues that the poem seeks to prove that women can be constant in love, despite the existence of a host of poems portraying them as out of control of their own sexuality.
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"The stated purpose of the poem is not to prove that the squire is a good person, or even a fair one. Instead, its goal is to show that the Nutbrown Maid is constant in love. Now, it is generally considered true that a virtue exists in a person independently of other people. For instance, honest people are honest regardless how many others around them are dishonest, and are honest also with people they know to be dishonest themselves. If the Nutbrown Maid's virtue of constancy is conceived of in the same manner, i.e. as a character trait existing in her independently of the Squire and his own character, then her response to him is the correct one. She has pledged her love to him, and she will be faithful to that love, whether he is so or not. "For had ye, lo! An hundred mo, / Yet would I be that one / For . . . I love but you alone" (309-312)."
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?Robin Hood?s? Maid Marian, 2004.
This paper discusses the character, Maid Marian, as depicted in the 1938 sound film version of ?Robin Hood?.
825 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 20.95
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This paper explains that there have been numerous ?Robin Hood? movies, but the 1938 version created a new standard for the swashbuckling genre against which to judge various versions of Robin Hood legend. The author points out that character of Maid Marian, the love interest of Robin Hood, has undergone many modifications and enhancements over the years, being portrayed either as a meek and timid member of the royal family or as a strong and royal woman. The paper demonstrates that, in 1938 version of the film, Maid Marian was portrayed as strong-willed woman with a regal attitude, responsible for Robin?s rescue at a critical point in the movie.
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"This dialogue indicates that Marian was portrayed as a woman with a mind of her own who didn?t want others to make decisions for her. Unlike the 1922 version in which Maid Marian didn?t even know what her role was in the movie; Enid Bennett, who played the part later recalled, in this version, Havilland knew where she stood in the movie and that is what gave her character strength and meaning. This is how one writer presents the view of Bennett on her role in 1922 version of the film: ?Lady Marian Fitzwalter (Enid Bennett) served as Robin Hood's romantic interest and is rescued by Robin Hood in time to end the film in his arms. As Bennett noted years later, she did not have much to do, or know exactly what she was supposed to be doing, but she did enjoy doing it.? "
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Old Maid Delia Ralston, 2006.
A review of the novel "The Old Maid" by Edith Wharton.
1,300 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 30.95
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This paper explores the character of Delia Ralston in the Edith Wharton novel "The Old Maid". The paper discusses the novel's portrayal of the struggle between romanticism and realism. The paper shows how Delia, the novel's main character, learns a bitter lesson that her romantic visions will not survive unless they are supported by money -- aka "reality". The paper then attempts to understand whether it is society's limitations that cause Delia's heartbreak or her own cowardice. The paper concentrates on Delia's three romantic options: being an old maid (and rejected by society), being the wife of a starving artist (and rejected by society), or marrying a wealthy man she does not love (and being accepted by society).
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"The major focus of the novel "The Old Maid" is the main protagonist, or Delia, whose survival in the world is difficult because of her romantic nature, trials and tribulations to realize her vision of love in any way possible. Delia longs for romance in her life. Her longing for romance (with Clement Spender) is manifested in the novel with the descriptions of how Delia looks at the things she associates with the man she loves, Clement Spender. He is (to her) "her one missed vision [of love, romance], her forfeited reality [...]" (150). When Charlotte speaks about how a woman manifests her love for a man without words, she says: "[..]'A woman never stops thinking of the man she loves. She thinks of him years afterward, in all sorts of unconscious ways, in thinking of sorts of things-books, pictures, sunsets, a flower or a ribbon-or the clock on the mantlepiece', Charlotte broke off with her sneering laugh [..]" (175)."
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Maid in Manhattan, 2007.
This paper studies the film 'Maid in Manhattan' as a portrayal of cultural influences.
1,264 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 29.95
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In this article, the writer maintains that the overt message of the film 'Maid in Manhattan' is that "love conquers all." The writer points out that in real life, however, cultural differences between people are often complex and difficult to overcome. The writer discusses that as the story has very little substantial content and is really meant only to entertain, instead of looking for the messages it sends purposely, it is helpful to look deeper for messages, such as the casting of the characters, to see how the film portrays ethnicity. The writer claims that ethnicity and culture are treated in the film as though they are not very important in the larger scheme of things. The writer concludes that the message is that the rich treat the poor who serve them as though they were not really human beings.
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"Puerto Ricans are actually migrants, not immigrants. Their island became a protectorate in 1898 when the U. S. won it in the Spanish-American War. As natural citizens, they should have an advantage over immigrants from foreign countries; nevertheless, life in the U. S. has been difficult for them. Puerto Rican migration occurred from 1946-1959. Most of the migrants were jibaros, farm workers, poor and uneducated, who moved into large city slums. Since then, they have been subjected to discrimination, denied employment opportunities, and kept out of nice neighborhoods. The film hints at this when Marissa tells Chris he ought to spend some time in the Projects and get to know the people living in them. She tells him he could then speak knowledgably about low-income housing, and wouldn't have to memorize a speech."
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The Maid, 2001.
Examines Jean Genet's play in terms of "theatre of cruelty" proposed by Antonin Artaud.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, £ 38.95
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" In The Theatre and Its Double Antonin Artaud proposed a 'theater of cruelty' in which "violent physical images pulverise, mesmerise the audience's sensibility, caught in the drama as if in a vortex of higher forces" (63). He held that a new kind of play was needed, one that would depart from the standard word-based, dialogue-bound plays that had dominated Western theater for many centuries. In place of this type of play Artaud suggested a theater in which the specifically theatrical elements of a play's presentation--visual, aural, spatial, as opposed to mere lines of dialogue--be given the primary role. He held that incantation, ritual, exaggeration and fresh combinations of effects would provide the surprise and shock that would generate a visceral reaction in audiences for whom the spectacle would be meaningful as traditional plays no longer were. Artaud seldom.."
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"Maid to Order in Hong Kong" ( Nicole Constable ), 1999.
Critical review of work on physical, psychological & social lives of Filipina domestic workers in homes of Chinese in Hong Kong.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, £ 32.95
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" Nicole Constable, in Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Filipina Workers, describes the physical and psychological lives of those domestic workers in the homes of Chinese in Hong Kong, their attitudes toward own lives and work, and the attitudes of the workers and the Chinese toward one another. Constable's primary purpose, from a scholarly perspective (she is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh), is to document the particulars of the lives of these women for others interested in labor relations, cross-cultural attitudes, class differences, and the role of the state in regulating foreign workers. However, underlying this scientific viewpoint is the author's clear intention to humanize a group of workers who have previously been dehumanized both by their employers and by those with no first-hand knowledge of the women's experience, but with.."
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Drama Analysis, 2002.
A comparison of "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" and "The Country Wife".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, £ 18.95
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This three-page undergraduate paper discusses how the urban setting of "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" and "The Country Wife" affect the presentation of the world and its manners and problems, and examines the way in which the fact of the city as a local background determines issues, behavior, attitudes, solutions.
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France's Economic Environment, 1997.
Examines the nation's potential for the export of Minute Maid orange juice by Coca-Cola.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, £ 27.95
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"Introduction
Coca-Cola is one of the largest beverage companies in the world, and is best known for its flagship beverages which carry the Coca-Cola (or Coke) brand. However, the company manufactures beverages which are not carbonated or cola-based, and these include Minute Maid products of frozen and refrigerated orange juice. The company has a strong market presence in the United States, and this research considers some of the factors which the company would need to take into account if it were to decide to export Minute Maid products to France.
The economic and investment climate of the destination country is important to exporters because this climate determines how successful the product will be in the destination country. France has a culture which is similar to the United States, a workforce which increasing ..."
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"Global Women", 2003.
A review of "Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy", a compilation of essays edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild.
1,126 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 27.95
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This paper examines the phenomenon of the globalization of the lives of women around the world and on the communities from which they came. It discusses the sociological and economic reasons for this migration. The paper also discusses the tone and writing style of the book. The author of the paper concludes with a personal opinion on the topic and the book itself.
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"The consequences of globalization on women, and of migrant women on existing social and economic institutions, are vast. Furthermore, the implications of women's migratory labor patterns affect receiving as well as sending countries. In "Love and Gold," Hochschild describes the trend as reflecting traditional, or more recognizable, forms imperialism. "That openly coercive, male-centered imperialism, which persists today, was always paralleled by a quieter imperialism in which women were more central," (26). Now that much of the developing world has already been plundered for its natural resources, female labor remains a vibrant and thriving economic frontier. Service professions, whether legal and legitimate like housekeeping and childcare or illegal and illegitimate like the sex trade, provide a bustling form of trade between first and third world nations."
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Franchising Of Services, 1999.
Prevalence, forms, advantages, relationship with franchisor, statistics, example ("Berlitz") and types (security, home inspection, maid, educational).
2,925 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 5 sources, £ 71.95
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Franchising is a popular way of starting a business for yourself yet not by yourself. It offers a person the freedom to own, manage, and direct his/her own business with the assistance of the franchisor on such concerns as site selection, financial support, management support, personnel training, business setup, advertising, and product supply.
In addition, the franchisee gets the use of a well-established name. The franchisee pays an up-front fee and on-going royalty for these
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"FRANCHISING OF SERVICES
Franchising is a popular way of starting a business for yourself yet not by yourself. It offers a person the freedom to own, manage, and direct his/her own business with the assistance of the franchisor on such concerns as site selection, financial support, management support, personnel training, business setup, advertising, and product supply.
In addition, the franchisee gets the use of a well-established name. The franchisee pays an up-front fee and on-going royalty for these services (Fladmoe-Lindquist, 1996, 420).
Thus, franchising allows a company to expand its brand by using the resources of others, that is, the funds and hard work of those who buy franchises, and in return, the franchisees gain the right to use the company's trade name and to distribute its products."
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Film: Jacques Tourneur's "I Walked with a Zombie", 2007.
This paper analyzes a specific scene from Jacques Tourneur's 1943 classic film "I Walked with a Zombie".
1,365 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 31.95
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This paper examines the love triangle with a zombie and two brothers, in Jacques Tourneur's film "I Walked with a Zombie", as delineated in the scene in which the maid Alma brings Betsy her breakfast in bed. The author points out that this scene demonstrates the way this film is deliberately and carefully crafted. The paper utilizes Roland Barthes' model of textual analysis, which determine the meanings of a specific text, to dissect this interaction and interpret the ways in which it ties the characters of Betsy and Jessica together. The author states that Barthes's approach to analysis still leaves important questions unanswered. The paper concludes that no system can take into account the infinite ways in which an adroit author can manipulate his or her text, subverting it, twisting it and then simply ignoring parts of it completely.
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"Lastly, the Cultural Code is a loose concept that acknowledges the importance of common cultural knowledge in understanding texts. As mentioned above, again the cultural code is most relevant in this sequence in relation to class and race. A knowledge of Western racial history enables viewers to understand that, as privileged members of the racial upper class, both Betsy and Jessica enjoy a similar social status that places them above Alma. To illustrate, it would be surprising to see Alma wait on Betsy if she too were black, which itself would be surprising since blacks at the time of the film were generally denied the opportunities necessary to enter the medical field in the first place."
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"Penelopiad", 2008.
An analysis of Margaret Atwood's "Penelopiad" and how it represents the revisionist features of modern mythology.
1,237 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 29.95
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This paper looks at Margaret Atwood's text "Penelopiad" and discusses how the Canadian author uses her revision of the ancient tale of Odysseus and Penelope to offer a feminist counter-narrative to Homer's legendary myth. In particular, it discusses the double-standards, hypocrisies, and hierarchies which relegated the maids to second-class status (and also to death) and forced Penelope to wait almost interminably for a faithless husband. Finally, in addition to looking at the sexual violence that Atwood feels pervades the original narrative, the paper discusses the author's emphasis upon how women in the antique world of Homer were treated as reproductive vessels and little more.
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"Another element of the new narrative, a narrative told exclusively from the perspective of women, is the manner in which sexual violence is addressed in Atwood's tale. It is not entirely clear if the suitors raped the maids and if these unlucky women are being killed simply because they are the victims of the wrong men. However, there is a point in the story when the Chorus exclaims, "If our owners or the sons of our owners or a visiting nobleman or the sons of a visiting nobleman wanted to sleep with us, we could not refuse. It did us no good to weep, it did us no good to say we were in pain" (Atwood, 13-14). When the "sins" of the maids are examined against this backdrop, it may be said that the new myth concocted by Atwood attacks the sexual violence that, for a whole host of reasons, Homer never finds the time to denounce (or even much care about) in his original work from roughly 2500 years ago. "
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Human Trafficking, 2006.
This paper discusses the problem of human trafficking, a new era of slavery.
3,965 words (approx. 15.9 pages), 11 sources, APA, £ 74.95
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This paper explains that the three basic human trafficking markets, both legal and illegal, are (1) the legitimate or conventional market economies such as restaurants, factories and farms, (2) legitimate domestic service economy such as households maids and (3) the criminal economies of the forced sex industry, mostly prostitution. The author points out that, through deception and empty promises, people and even children are shuttled in secret, often illegally and in frightening conditions, to do work, which no one else will do, to places where they often cannot communicate and are forced to work through threats of violence. The paper relates that there are few resources to help these victims and very limited legal protection in the United States and elsewhere. The paper has many long quotations.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Face of Human Trafficking
The Economic Side of Trafficking
Legal Issues of Human Trafficking
Conclusion
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"Here are just a few statements from women who have been victims of human trafficking and forced prostitution. There are more stories than there are people to write them and more dehumanizing occurrences than most people would even believe. Yet, for the most part the public is not even aware of the situation; even historically, as few people know of the forced prostitution rings that sprang up in the Western United States during the gold rush and even fewer are aware that it happens today, here and all over the world."
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