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  • Women in the 1920’s

    Women in the 1920’s

    Women in the 1920’s Women’s lives in the 1920’s changed dramatically. Everything from clothes to attitudes were affected in this unique time of the century. Jobs became available, clothing trends changed, and all of it was affected by the new attitude that was arisen. First, jobs were greatly relied upon by the women in the war and they became, for the first time, readily available in peace time. They were given what were usually considered

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    Essay Length: 345 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Mike
  • Domestic Violence Against Women and Children

    Domestic Violence Against Women and Children

    Domestic Violence 2 Domestic Violence Against Women and Children The statistics of domestic violence are rising each year despite the increase of the availability of help for the victims that this affects. “Domestic violence is where the victim to offender relationship is based on marriage, family ties, a romantic relationship, or a former marriage” (South Carolina Community Profiles, 2002, para. 1). Domestic violence includes simple assault, aggravated assault, intimidation, robbery, forcible fondling, negligent homicide,

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    Essay Length: 1,245 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Edward
  • The Rights of Women in 1700s

    The Rights of Women in 1700s

    "Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government." (Wollstonecraft, 1792). Women began to consider that the way they had been being treated might have not been fair. Women of the eighteenth century did not wish to have greater power then men. They only wished for equal rights. Young girls could only dream of continuing their schooling and obtaining a higher education. Men,

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    Essay Length: 1,008 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Anna
  • Women in the Gospels of Luke and Letter of Paul

    Women in the Gospels of Luke and Letter of Paul

    The concept of woman always seems to be a delicate topic in all types of literature. Many people believe some passages in the Bible to even portray women as inferior to men. In Paul’s letters to the Corinthians, women seem to be beneath men, instead of equal. However, in many other Bible passages, like the gospel of Luke and even Paul’s letters to the Romans, women are glorified as holy and the givers of life.

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    Essay Length: 1,094 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Yan
  • Sigmund Freud, Women and Child Abuse

    Sigmund Freud, Women and Child Abuse

    Sigmund Freud and His Views Sigmund Freud has been called the father of psychotherapy. His studies and views on how personality develops and is affected by different experiences or exposures to stimuli have been disputed and discussed for over 100 years. This paper will highlight Freud’s life and theories as well as answer two questions. These two questions are; did Freud sexually abuse children and did Freud have a personal vendetta against women? Life and

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    Essay Length: 1,702 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Vika
  • African American Women

    African American Women

    From Africa to America, African American women have embraced the spirit of creativity and survival. For years the black woman has been the backbone of our culture. It was our faith and positive spirits that played a great part in surviving slavery and being treated as second class citizens during the Civil Rights Movement. Now as we enter the 21st century, it is time to exert our strengths at a new level. The African American

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    Essay Length: 621 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Mike
  • Women in Kenya

    Women in Kenya

    Women face many obstacles in Kenya that make their lives very difficult and especially difficult to get an education. The women face specific gender division from men, violence, female genital mutilation, HIV and AIDS, and obstacles while on the campaign trail. In Kenya, women are expected to become mothers. They are also expected to cook, clean, and be submissive to their husbands. Men there do not carry anything; instead women are commonly seen hauling lumber

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    Essay Length: 563 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: David
  • Ancient Greek Women

    Ancient Greek Women

    Ancient Greek Women By: Marck Simichin In ancient Greek society women lived hard lives on account of men's patriarch built communities. Women were treated as property. Until about a girl's teens she was "owned" by her father or lived with her family. Once the girl got married she was possessed by her husband along with all her belongings. An ancient Greece teenage girl would marry about a 30-year-old man that she probably never met before.

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    Essay Length: 742 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Tommy
  • The Women of Islam

    The Women of Islam

    The Women of Islam Society in western civilization sees Islam’s treatment of women as heinous, unfair, and typically cruel. How can one respect a religion and culture that makes their women cover themselves from head to toe in 100 degree weather, walk behind her spouse, enter separate doors of the mosque (if they are even allowed to enter), pray in an closed off area separate from the men, marry complete strangers, and receive little to

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    Essay Length: 1,635 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Bred
  • The Role of Women in the Canterbury Tales

    The Role of Women in the Canterbury Tales

    The Role of Women in The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer serves as a moral manual for the 1300’s and years after. Through the faults of both men and woman, he shows in each story what is right and wrong and how one should live. Under the surface, however, lies a jaded look at woman and how they are the cause of the downfall of men. The Knight’s Tale is one of

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    Essay Length: 1,216 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Jon
  • Assess Whether You Believe That Representations of Women in Men’s Magazines Such as Loaded and Fhm Are offensive and in Poor Taste.

    Assess Whether You Believe That Representations of Women in Men’s Magazines Such as Loaded and Fhm Are offensive and in Poor Taste.

    For those who have not taken the time to read a selection of men’s magazines they may associate them with pornography or sport. Since the mid-90s, a crop of very successful magazines aimed at young men has emerged, spearheaded by the controversial Loaded. It is important for me to establish early on in this essay that men’s magazines such as loaded and FHM, are general lifestyle magazines; the modern men's magazine is about sports and

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    Essay Length: 327 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Max
  • 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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    Essay Length: 468 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Women’s Education from the Rensaissance to the 18th Century

    Women’s Education from the Rensaissance to the 18th Century

    Women's education and potential for learning evolved from the Renaissance to the early 18th century. During the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the 17th and early 18th centuries, women's education slowly increased from period to period. The Renaissance was a period in time where women were taught to how to govern a household, encouraged to abstain from sexual relations, and how to conduct herself in the social class into which her marriage would place her. Women

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    Essay Length: 648 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Social Status of Women in Corporate America

    Social Status of Women in Corporate America

    Social Status of Women in Corporate America There is an inevitable intersection between corporate America and gender, and this relationship is the reason behind many issues of question regarding the low status of women. The common view maintains that women are of lower status than men and are kept in that position because of social construct. Thus, the established argument is based on the fact that the women are situated into an inescapable hole because

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    Essay Length: 2,001 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Edward
  • Australia Has a European Past but an Asian Future

    Australia Has a European Past but an Asian Future

    “Australia has a European past but an Asian future.” Discuss Australia was first colonized by the British so of course Australia will always have strong links to the UK. But now times are moving on and so must we. We must look towards the future and the future is in Asia. To show we have a European past we have to look at the fact that Australia is a predominantly white country and for many

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    Essay Length: 467 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Monika
  • The Media and the Self-Image of Women

    The Media and the Self-Image of Women

    Distorted and unattainable sexist mass images are the inevitable consequences of a social system in which those who are thin and big breasted benefit most. We as a society have created an environment so image obsessed that those with power give approval for being thin and disapproval for being fat, creating a generation of women so self conscious about their body image, that it is affecting their health. In this essay I plan to discuss

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    Essay Length: 627 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Janna
  • Women: King of Sex?

    Women: King of Sex?

    In this day of age, many people take “love” for granted, and let alone, take sex for granted. Sex is an emotionally attaching bond in which women are provided a fulfillment in which they feel loved. This is the value that Dawn Eden vividly expresses and argues in “Casual Sex is a Con: Women Just Aren’t like Men.” Eden feels that unfulfilled need and emptiness as a result of casual sex and untrue love.

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    Essay Length: 961 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Women in the Early Nineteenth Century Vs. Women in the Awakening

    Women in the Early Nineteenth Century Vs. Women in the Awakening

    Women in the Early Nineteenth Century vs. Women in The Awakening There are many different types of women portrayed in The Awakening. The goal of this paper is to compare and contrast the women in the book to the women during the turn of the nineteenth century and the society’s reaction to the novel.. The novel shows the social constraints of women in the Victorian era. During this time, women were supposed to be docile,

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    Essay Length: 2,130 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: regina
  • Research into Native American Women and Berdachism

    Research into Native American Women and Berdachism

    Research into Native American Women and Berdachism: A Review of the Literature The purpose of this paper is to explore the lives and different roles of Native American women. In this paper we will discuss the term berdache, what it means and how it played an important role in the lives of Native American women. Furthermore we will be discussing an article by DRK, in titled A Native American Perspective on the Theory of Gender

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    Essay Length: 1,802 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Edward
  • 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
  • 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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    Essay Length: 485 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Max
  • Women of the Nineteenth Century: Relating Protagonists in Two Short Stories

    Women of the Nineteenth Century: Relating Protagonists in Two Short Stories

    Women of the Nineteenth Century: Relating protagonists in two short stories The short stories, A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner and A New England Nun by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, both contain analogous regional attitudes resulting in similar outcomes for the protagonists of each story. The archaic 19th century regional standards the authors utilized within the text of these short stories, emphasizes the role of a woman within society as being strictly limited to

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    Essay Length: 2,403 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Can Men and Women Just Be Friends?

    Can Men and Women Just Be Friends?

    According to recent research, over one half of the people in cross-sex friendships report sexual attraction or sexual tension (Afifi, 2000). Not only is sexual attraction present, but it can also be perceived as a benefit in such relationships. In a study done by Bleske (2000), “men evaluated the potential for having sex with their close opposite-sex friend as more beneficial than did women.” Men are also more likely than women to view their cross-sex

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    Essay Length: 1,378 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Tasha
  • The Impact of Domestic Violence Against Women in Tanzania

    The Impact of Domestic Violence Against Women in Tanzania

    Context of the Problem Women's violence is a main problem in Tanzania and this paper will describe, possible impact brought by domestic violence to women of Tanzania. Women experience the violation such as raping, beating, threats and involuntary prostitution. Few years ago woman violation was not a major issue in the society, and this is because of the social approach towards women, where by men were given more priorities in the system of education and

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    Essay Length: 5,028 Words / 21 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Monika

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