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  • Antigone

    Antigone

    Antigone: SCENE 3 Questions: 1. IDENTIFY THE THEME OF THE BRIEF ODE TO LOVE. Love often blinds people from reason and sound judgment, causing them to act contrary to their natural behavior. (love clouds reason) 2. WHAT IS THE LESSON FOR CREON IN THE ODE? Anger has caused a rift between father and son, but accomplished nothing. Only love has conquered. Summary: Characters- Haemon, Creon, Chorus, Choragus Haemon (Creon’s son and Antigone’s fiancй) tries to

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    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Top
  • Antigone

    Antigone

    Antigone Antigone was writtin in 441 B.C. This story has been used as far back as the early 1960’s to aid in the fight with civil disobedience as well as struggles for civil rights against the war in Vietnam. This play is utterly one hundred percent about feminism and the steps taken by women to make a difference, to stand up for what is right and just. Sophocles argues against the typical Athenian ideology of

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    Essay Length: 735 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Role and Functions of Law

    Role and Functions of Law

    Role and Functions of Law The law is a delicate yet malleable set of rules and principles that are formed to suite the needs of those deciding its purpose. The role of law for business and society is to provide set rules and procedures that fall within general functions which reflect the position of the people. In various types of governments the law is adjusted to suite the needs of the dictator, its citizens or

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    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Renaissance Women

    Renaissance Women

    Although it is disputed if the Renaissance (or Rebirth, namely of Classical ideals and design) as we know it happened or not, one new occurrence that came out of that particular period of time was the focus on the female as an object of beauty. The society we live in now knows nothing of this transition since we live in a time when women are far too often objectified by the media, and even themselves.

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    Essay Length: 332 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Violence and Conflict in Genesis and Antigone

    Violence and Conflict in Genesis and Antigone

    Violence and conflict have always been issues among animals and humans due to the instinct to survive and hack down whomever or whatever gets in the way. Violence and conflict are major themes in both Antigone and the book of Genesis. Antigone is laden with violent imagery; countless arguments causing conflict between Antigone and Creon as well as Creon and Haemon; and the blatant violence of the various murders and suicides present in the play.

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    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Antigone

    Antigone

    Oedipus was king of Thebes, he was hated and infamous. He lost the throne to Creon by tearing out his own eyes and killed himself. His two sons Eteocles and Polyneices fought each other for the kingship but ended up killing each other. Creon was hailed king of Thebes. Antigone and Ismene were sisters to Eteocles and polyneices. Creon favored Eteocles and he perceived him as the cities champion and ordered that Eteocles could be

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: regina
  • Men and Women in the Renaissance

    Men and Women in the Renaissance

    Men and women in the Renaissance In the Renaissance there were many different types of men and women. There was the ideal man, the courtier, and the working class peasants. Although there were many other types of men, the personalities of these man were the most prominent during the renaissance. These types of men have very different types of personalities, the courtier being the more educated and sophisticated one, and then the peasants the less

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Monika
  • Role of Customers in Strategic Planning Process

    Role of Customers in Strategic Planning Process

    Strategic planning is a continuous and systematic process where the guiding members of an organization make decisions about its future, develop the necessary procedures and operations to achieve that future, and determine how success is to be measured. For many successful organizations, the voice of the customer drives their operations and charts the course for their future. Companies have begun focusing on customers as one of the key drivers in planning for the future in

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Bred
  • Hiv Among Young Women

    Hiv Among Young Women

    It has been more than two decades since the commencement of the HIV/AIDS epidemic; over 60 million people have been infected with the HIV virus, including more than 20 million people who have died from it. Currently in the United States of America, close to one million people are know living with the HIV virus that are reported cases. Think about how many cases that go every year that is not repoted. This virus

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    Essay Length: 2,385 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Jessica
  • The Illinois Department of Public Health Agency and Its Role

    The Illinois Department of Public Health Agency and Its Role

    Public health involves a very broad range of services that impact many societies throughout the country. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is comprised of various fundamental programs that provide community services such as vaccinations, food, water and drug safety, health care licensing, infectious disease control, statistical health analyses, genetic screening, and programs for special health needs of women. All these systems put together allow the IDPH system to assume major responsibility for the

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Top
  • Men and Women

    Men and Women

    Men And Women What influences a person’s identity? Is it their homes, parents, religion, or maybe where they live? When do they get one? Do they get it when they understand right from wrong, or when they can read, or are they born with it? Everyone has one and nobody has the same, is there a point in everyone’s life when they get one? A person’s identity is his own, nobody put it there and

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Janna
  • Societies Role upon the Woman of Today

    Societies Role upon the Woman of Today

    When I look at myself in the mirror, all I see is the flaws. I look in the mirror and think about the “image” that our media puts out there today. Women are heavily influenced by how we are expected to look, instead of what needs to be done in order for us to be successful. When women are looked at, they are judged immediately; by their looks, the way they dress, and even by

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    Essay Length: 432 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Bred
  • Role of the Emperor in Meiji Japan

    Role of the Emperor in Meiji Japan

    Japan is a society whose culture is steeped in the traditions and symbols of the past: Mt. Fuji, the tea ceremony, and the sacred objects of nature revered in Shintoism. Two of the most important traditions and symbols in Japan; the Emperor and Confucianism have endured through Shogunates, restorations of imperial rule, and up to present day. The leaders of the Meiji Restoration used these traditions to gain control over Japan and further their

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    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Max
  • Would World Affairs Be More Peaceful If Women Dominated Politics?

    Would World Affairs Be More Peaceful If Women Dominated Politics?

    Would World Affairs Be More Peaceful If Women Dominated Politics? A recent addition to the study of international relations is the idea of gender and the difference it may have on political beliefs and actions. The argument is rooted in the concept that women are not as prone to violence and war as men, and therefore would lead the world in a more peaceful direction than it is currently going. To make this assumption,

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    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Capitalism, Globalization and the Perpetuation of Women's Oppression: A Vicious Cycle

    Capitalism, Globalization and the Perpetuation of Women's Oppression: A Vicious Cycle

    CAPITALISM, GLOBALIZATION AND THE PERPETUATION OF WOMEN'S OPPRESSION: A VICIOUS CYCLE By Kelsey Lavoie NDYA, Provincial Youth Liason According to the World Bank, women make up 70% of the world’s poor and their wages world wide are on average 50% to 80% of men’s. One third of all households word wide are headed by women, they are responsible for half the world’s food production, and yet they own just one per cent of the world’s

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    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Max
  • Women in Pro Sports

    Women in Pro Sports

    Professional sports are a form of entertainment that is accepted all throughout the world. A professional sport simply means that the participants are getting paid for engaging in a specific activity. It is because the participants are getting paid that pro sports are considered businesses. In order to run a successful business one must be able to sell a product or a service. Because of this I believe that pro women sports may never achieve

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    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Artur
  • Compare and Contrast the Part That the City or State (polis) Plays in Antigone and Oedipus the King.

    Compare and Contrast the Part That the City or State (polis) Plays in Antigone and Oedipus the King.

    Compare and contrast the part that the city or state (polis) plays in Antigone and Oedipus The King. Antigone is a play about the tension caused when two individuals have conflicting claims regarding law. In this case, the moral superiority of the laws of the city, represented by Creon, and the laws of the gods, represented bt Antigone. In contrast, Oedipus The King is driven by the tensions within Oedipus himself. That play both begins

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    Essay Length: 868 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Women in Greek Society

    Women in Greek Society

    Women in Greek Society Ages before the first civilizations arose; men and women lived equally amongst themselves in tribes. Throughout the years however, mankind slowly but surely advanced as a race. The first civilizations of Mesopotamia , a land mass located in the Middle East , arose and fell and did not last very long. These civilizations included some of the earliest ideas within them including: 1. The first calendar (which included the concept of

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    Essay Length: 1,141 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Violence and Women

    Violence and Women

    Violence and Women I thought that our discussion went well. We had a small group of about six people but three of us were leaders so we had a lot to talk about. Each of us went around and asked one question because we did not have time to discuss them all. But that did not matter because the other leaders had similar questions to mine. I was able to retrieve different responses from the

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    Essay Length: 619 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Janna
  • Leading Women in Business - Diversity Perspective

    Leading Women in Business - Diversity Perspective

    Leading Women in Business: Diversity Perspective Keywords Women at work, Glass ceiling, Gender issues, Women’s equality. Abstract This paper will look in depth at qualified women’s representation in the workplace according to gender diversity and business performance in the organisations. The first part of this journal is a preliminary part to entry the women’s role in business. The second part draws on overview the position of women employment within the firm and followed by some

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    Essay Length: 3,166 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Edward
  • To What Extent Can Islman Be Held Responible for Violence Against Women

    To What Extent Can Islman Be Held Responible for Violence Against Women

    To what extent can Islam be held responsible for violence against women Violence is an important issue for any religion. Violence against women is an extremely controversial and much debated issue. In this essay I aim to explore one aspect of this and examine to what extent can Islam be held responsible for violence against women. In order to achieve this aim and answer this question several factors need to be taken into consideration. The

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    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Janna
  • Informative Essay: Women in the U.S. Army

    Informative Essay: Women in the U.S. Army

    Today, many opportunities are available to women in the United States Army. Women can serve in all positions held by men, but women cannot be involved in direct ground combat. This restriction, which some women in the Army resent, has its adherents and its opponents. Nevertheless, while the views about women in the Army differ, women join for the same reasons men do: pride for their country, funds for college, job training, and travel.

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    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Mike
  • Women in the Middle Ages

    Women in the Middle Ages

    The medieval woman was allowed a larger measure of freedom and status than the usual image we have of the Middle Ages. Women were allowed to own property and inherit from their family. Some women were employed and some were in charge of businesses. Among the upper class, women were as educated as their male counterparts. In Europe, women were allowed to inherit property from both their fathers and their husbands. In most cases, whatever

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    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Mike
  • Law Enforcement officers Role

    Law Enforcement officers Role

    The major issue affecting our community in the San Francisco County is the manner of how law enforcement officials are performing their duties. Are our police officer’s using excessive force needed to apply towards arresting or apprehending a suspect or suspects? This question seems to be the major issues that surround our police department. Sworn police officers not following their responsibilities and duties. Why I chose this field of expertise as a functional role in

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    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Tommy
  • What Women Want, They Get

    What Women Want, They Get

    What Women Want, They Get Women used to be thought of as the stay at home mother by men. She was supposed to take care of the children and take care of the home. Seeing a woman in the workforce was desirable as long as she had an education. Women were seen working in factories or as teachers but they had no say in the government. Thanks to a few women dedicated to making

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    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Janna

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