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  • Status and Role of Women in Hinduism

    Status and Role of Women in Hinduism

    Status and Role of Women in Hinduism Her father protects (her) in childhood, her husband protects (her) in youth, and her sons protect (her) in old age; a woman is never fit for independence. (Manusmriti 9.3) Historically speaking, whether it was in ancient India or medieval India, the status of women in the subcontinent was never good. A present day woman would feel outraged, and rightly so, if she goes through the contents of the

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    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Kevin
  • The Crucible of Current Gender Demands and Their Effect on Adolescence

    The Crucible of Current Gender Demands and Their Effect on Adolescence

    Jeffrey Schein Adolescent Psychology Spring '05 Dr. Warren Spielberg Midterm Paper The Crucible of Current Gender Demands and Their Effect on Adolescence Gender has always had a major impact on adolescence for several obvious reasons. Adolescence is the time when our physical sexual characteristics are developing, along with an influx of hormones, and the onset of sexual urges towards one another. It is virtually impossible to ignore the concepts of gender and gender related

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    Essay Length: 1,776 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Why Do We Eat - New Insight into the Role of Brain Neurotransmitters

    Why Do We Eat - New Insight into the Role of Brain Neurotransmitters

    Why Do We Eat: New Insight into the Role of Brain Neurotransmitters Eating has taken its toll on people who live in the United States. One of the largest problems that people have is deciding how much to eat and what is healthy to eat. It was determined in the 1930s-1940s that the brain has a tremendous impact in controlling our eating habits. The main part of the brain, which controls this, is the hypothalamus.

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    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Financial Manager’s Role

    Financial Manager’s Role

    In a management atmosphere characterized by a multitude of complicated financial challenges, today's chief financial officers (CFOs) must perform many vital roles. They effectively add real value to their company by supplying reliable strategic leadership, a reliable financial perspective, and involved contribution to critical executive choices. Financial managers must look at long term strategies and forgo any short term quick strategies that do not represent the long term good of the company. The significance

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    Essay Length: 648 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Read the Passages in Chapter 3 Where Jack and Simon Are Each in the Forest. How Does the Language Convey Their Contrasting Character and Roles in the Novel?

    Read the Passages in Chapter 3 Where Jack and Simon Are Each in the Forest. How Does the Language Convey Their Contrasting Character and Roles in the Novel?

    Lord of the Flies is a thought-provoking novel about a group of English school boys who are stranded on a desert island. The book follows the striking change from civilisation to savagery, to illustrate the need for law and order in a society. Without this, the malicious nature of humanity can be revealed and the morality and values of life will be lost. Symbolism and imagery play an important role in the novel and through

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    Essay Length: 364 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Bred
  • Gender and Communication

    Gender and Communication

    Gender and Communications Communication is an ongoing, transactional process in which individuals exchange messages whose meanings are influenced by the history of the relationship and the experiences of the participants. (Adler, p.384) Communication depends on relationships between the people who are communicating, and on common basics between them. Problems in communications between people may arise due to differences in cultures, perceptions, values, and expectations from life. As in many other gender differences, miscommunications between males

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Monika
  • The Phony Gender Wage Gap

    The Phony Gender Wage Gap

    In the 21st Century the number of women enrolling in higher education institutions is surpassing the numbers of men enrolled. The graduation rates of women from high school and higher education are most often higher than for men. The number of women graduates from most professional occupations, including higher paying medicine, law and business, will exceed the number of men graduates in the near future. In numerous occupational areas with a majority of women graduates,

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    Essay Length: 1,445 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Janna
  • Gender Equality

    Gender Equality

    Equality, as we know it today, has been formed and molded into an idea that is still changing. Government officials, laws, and most influentially, people of the United States, have aided in the prevention of oppression towards women of all races and classes. The efforts of these individuals are counteracted with instances throughout history to prove that these men and women are not treated as if there were an equal condition. There are many

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    Essay Length: 953 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Changing Role of H.R Mgmt

    Changing Role of H.R Mgmt

    Changing Role of Human Resource Management University of Phoenix MGT 431: Human Resource Management Group: WH06BSM03B Edward Vicuna March 1, 2007 The Human Resource Management [HRM] function has undergone tremendous change over the past 25 years. Organizations looked to the "Personnel Department," mostly to manage the paperwork around hiring people. Human Resource Management has become a strategic function in the success of contemporary organizations. A primary function of workforce management is to develop internal talent

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    Essay Length: 739 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Role of a Lactation Consultant

    The Role of a Lactation Consultant

    Lactation Consulting 1 Running head: THE ROLE OF A LACTATION CONSULTANT The Role of a Lactation Consultant Laurel Kaiser Methodist College Of Nursing Nursing 350 Lactation Consulting 2 Lactation consultants are a vital part of the healthcare system. Together with the rest of the healthcare team they make sure that mother and baby's care as a breastfeeding pair is complete. The International Board Certified Lactation Consultant represents the "gold standard" in lactation consultant credentialing. Lactation

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Artur
  • Sex/gender Selection

    Sex/gender Selection

    GENDER/SEX SELECTION For a long period of time now, people have been interested in controlling the sex of their offspring. Whether it is a boy or a girl, there are many different ways to achieve this goal by either using modern science or Mother Nature. There are several arguments for and against sex selection. Many see gender selection to be all right if there is a medical reason involved. Some see it as a way

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Max
  • Role of Women in the Book of Rites

    Role of Women in the Book of Rites

    Role of women in the Book of Rites (Chinese text) In her book on Religious Women, Carmody tells of the role of women according to the Chinese text. The role of women in the Chinese is clearly demonstrated in the article. The distinction in gender role is shown from the very early years of life. For instance, the birth of a male child was received with great joy because the male child played a major

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    Essay Length: 462 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Tommy
  • The Role of Women in 18th and 19th Century Literature

    The Role of Women in 18th and 19th Century Literature

    The Role of Women in 18th and 19th Century Literature The role of women in literature has typically been influenced by their role in society. In the 18th and 19th centuries their role in society began to change. Women began their transformation from anonymous objects of their fathers’ and husbands’ possession into animate, productive members of society. This change was reflected in the literature of the time, regardless of the gender of the author, and

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    Essay Length: 1,558 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: July
  • The Role of Fire Ecology in Plant Succession

    The Role of Fire Ecology in Plant Succession

    Succession is defined as a directional change in community composition and structure over time (Gurevitch et al, 2002). Succession is either primary or secondary. In primary succession plants grow and colonize earth for the first time. In secondary succession plants inhabit and colonize earth that was once inhabited by plants life. A wildfire is one example of secondary succession. When a disturbance in the environment occurs, such as a wildfire, either part or all

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Politeness and Gender - Are Women More Polite Than Men?

    Politeness and Gender - Are Women More Polite Than Men?

    Politeness and Gender Are Women More Polite Than Men? Politeness is defined by the concern for the feelings of others. From Nancy Bonvillain's "Language, Culture, and Communication" she notes that, "women typically use more polite speech than do men, characterized by a high frequency of honorific (showing respect for the person to whom you are talking to, formal stylistic markers), and softening devices such as hedges and questions." Sociolinguists try to explain why there is

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Max
  • Role and Function of Law

    Role and Function of Law

    Roles and Functions of Law According to Merriam Webster law is “a binding custom or practice of a community: a rule of conduct or action prescribed or formally recognized as binding or enforced by a controlling authority” (Merriam). Law has many roles and functions within business and society. Some of the roles of laws set rules of conduct and ethical standards for business and society. Laws also provide a means to settle disputes. The law

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Theorizing Gender

    Theorizing Gender

    Upon entering this gender and communication class, my ideas of gender development stemmed largely from my own experience and observations. I mostly believed that how you deal with what you experience (the internal assessment that is turned into your personal history) is who you become. So, as I go through my life and faced multiple scenarios, I tell myself a story of what happened and have a stored feeling or reaction on some level, whether

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Mike
  • Gender Sexuality

    Gender Sexuality

    Sexuality Sexuality can be an awkward topic for many people. I am a psychology major and have seen lots of research covering sexuality and sexual orientation. Roles for men and women are at times drastically different and if you veer from societyЎ¦s path you may be seen as deviant or wrong for acting or feeling different from the norm. Today it is more common/excepted to see masculine heterosexual women and feminine heterosexual men. Just because

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    Essay Length: 492 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Mike
  • Action or Drama: Gender Differences in a Video Store

    Action or Drama: Gender Differences in a Video Store

    Hayes 1 Abstract The difference between male and females was examined in five investigations in a large, well known video store chain. Different genders were looked at in groups of all male or all female, single men and single women, and then groups of mixed gender. Differences between the two were measured in actions, words, and attitudes. The findings were in sync with what society generalizes so broadly as: men and women differ in

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    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Monika
  • Roles of Computer in the Society

    Roles of Computer in the Society

    At the beginning The Internet began to evolve when packet-switching networks came into operation in the 1960s. When transmitted, data is broken up into small packets, sent to its destination and then reassembled. In this way a single signal can be sent to multiple users. Packets can be compressed for speed and encrypted for security. ARPANET moves it forward Early packet-switching networks were set up in Europe. In 1968, a similar system was developed

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    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Edward
  • What Is the Role of the Insppector in an Inspector Calls?

    What Is the Role of the Insppector in an Inspector Calls?

    What is the role and function of the Inspector in An Inspector Calls? An Inspector Calls is a play with lots of political messages as well as social messages. J. B. Priestley believed in socialism and he used large amounts of his plays to try and convince people to his way of thinking. It was written in a time when Britain was ruled by a Labour government and socialist policies were seen to be a

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    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Women’s Roles in the Odyssey

    Women’s Roles in the Odyssey

    Women play a significant role in the text that forms an important part of The Odyssey, an epic written by Homer in the 7th century B.C. Within the poem there are three basic types of women: the goddess, the seductress, and the good hostess/wife. Each role helps to create a different kind of element and is essential to the completion of the story. The first female in the Odyssey to be seen in full effect

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    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Media Role Models and the Effect on Children

    Media Role Models and the Effect on Children

    Media construct our culture, and the media we use to communicate with one another shapes our perception of reality. Our society is centered on media, it is the most influential factor in constructing our culture, but is it a positive culture? If we examine the effect that media has on children, we can say that it breeds a harmful culture, one that throws values and morals out the window. This is because the media is

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Role of Women in "a Grain of Wheat "

    The Role of Women in "a Grain of Wheat "

    The role of women in "A grain of wheat " Though being a political narrative, the presence of women to strengthen the quality and reality of the novel is undeniable. Critic Abdulzarak Gurnah says: “Ngugi’s writing is never far from the subject” and this is perfectly applicable for his description of the African women. However, being rather objective he also points a picture of the white women who though being secondary characters play a certain

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: July
  • The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in Decision Making

    The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in Decision Making

    The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in Decision Making Introduction When making decisions humans commonly fall victim to errors in logic and reasoning. Since the inception of the study of the mind, psychologists have endeavored to isolate the characteristics and causes of errors in human thinking. Researchers and theorists have developed categories of such errors: representativeness heuristics, availability heuristics, memory and hindsight biases, etc. . . . In other words, to err is human. In 1957,

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Bred

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