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…methods of weight control. This includes fasting, enemas, excessive use of laxatives and diuretics, or compulsive exercising. Bulimia is a serious eating disorder which mainly affects females, although males may also become sufferers.Statistics vary…

…, baby - during pregnancy), the child is born. At birth, babies are born with 'primary control strategies' (behavioral strategies) that help them to deal with stressful situations. Primary control strategies are outwardly directed, they attempt "to change…

…understand and analyze their actions and behaviours. We may even attempt to use these classifications to predict future behaviour. Birth order theories are one such attempt to explain and forecast human behaviour. Although, birth-order studies have flourished…

…It would be impossible to disagree with the statement that “Chinese kinship is based on male predominance”. In fact this statement may even be under-emphasizing the control and absolute power that males wield across all levels of Chinese society…

…, the source of all things, or Tao itself, which never moves or changes; the foot is the movement on the path. Taoism upholds the belief in the survival of the spirit after death. Taoist believes birth is not a beginning, and death is not an end…

…increase in working-class women, a media that caters to women, knowledge about sexuality, birth control, and changes within the family unit (Burke 21). World War II was a turning point for women. Now, instead of being kept out of the work force, women were…

…profession as a faintly disgusting atavism. Hysterectomies were performed as a means of birth control, or to relieve unrelated symptoms like backaches. Many other factors contributed to the perceived devaluation of motherhood. There was, during the postwar years…

…such as Magdalene, Eve, madonna, the wife of Bath, drudge, or vampire. In Hawthorne’s works, The Scarlet Letter, Rappaccinni’s Daughter, and The Birth-mark, each female character is portrayed as unique and unconventional. Hawthorne expanded the characters of women…

…-class women, a media that caters to women, knowledge about sexuality, birth control, and changes within the family unit (Burke 21). World War II was a turning point for women. Now, instead of being kept out of the work force, women were 'welcomed…

…mock society in the way they feel it will be in the future if some of the actions that society takes go too far. They all do this by describing a different kind of “Utopia.” There are forms of brainwashing, censorship, control and fear in each novel which…