Running Head: SEXUALITY: DECISION MAKING
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Sexuality: Decision Making
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SEXUALITY: DECISION MAKING
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Outline
A.
Jeanette expresses typical courageous traits: strength, pride, aggressiveness and
religiosity.
I.
Physical description; strong brave risk taker, “Orange Is Not the Only Fruit.”
B.
Ennis and Jack use their strengths to the advantage of building relationships with
those around them.
I.
Occasionally facing challenges with their friends; losing loved ones but
eventually
making it to live a good blameless life, “Brokeback Mountain.”
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Although the novels have various characters, there is the interconnection in the
character roles, which define the different elements of the society to make the readers
more fulfilled because they can identify with the characters.
SEXUALITY: DECISION MAKING
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Sexuality: Decision Making
Gender relationships in women is portrayed as strong and brave, yet socially effective
figures in the society. In our everyday life, females struggle to stay strong regardless of the
challenges they face in the society. On the other hand, this vastly limits decision making to
choices that are deemed appropriate for women and men alike due to the fact that women do
not get the privilege to make major decisions in the areas they can handle well (Proulx, 2005,
p. 103).
Gender issues are applied to a basic research on relationships between women and
men, which is based on differences and similarities of personalities and their behavior.
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is also a focus on dynamic aspirations, roles and status of women in urban, industrial
societies and developing nations. Gender issues are explained in many novels as writers feel
that it is better to attract attention of many people when addressing to gender concerns
through their works, for instance in the work of Annie Proulx (Proulx, 2005, p. 103) and
Winterson (Winterson, 1987, p. 78-154). In these novels, there is a wide use of symbols,
