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and cheer him up. How come a woman stepped into the role of a traditional masculine challenger and surprised the audience? Why was it difficult for the crowd to accept a woman in a power-challenging role? How was that swallowed?
In the body of the essay to follow, I go on to explore the traditional and cultural context of the confusion over accepting women in new roles traditionally associated with masculine authority. Specifically, I have two main sections of my quest. The first one deals with women reaching out of their current socially acceptable status and challenging the masculine authority involving traditional military settings and destructive power. The second part looks into the exact opposite scenario with women curving back into their shells to protect their traditional basic rights and to make use of the power they already possess.
To accomplish the first half of my objective, I am going perform a case study of the 1997 flick, G. I. Jane. Going even a step further, I am ...

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basis. They attempt to stack the deck by appointing the first candidate to the SEALs, an ultra-elite commando outfit whose training program has a 60% dropout rate. DeHaven's choice falls on the highly capable intelligence officer Lieutenant Jordan O'Neil. The bulk of the plot follows her and her group as they undergo horrific training at the hands of Master Chief John Urgayle. Hollywood dogma requires that, in a film whose plot centers on the main character trying to accomplish a specific task, there must be a point toward the end when enough setbacks have occurred that the task becomes clearly impossible. This manipulation establishes tension and gives the audience more of a rush ...

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