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  • Women’s Rights

    Women’s Rights

    Country: Germany Committee: United Nations Commission of Women’s Rights Topic: Women’s Rights Conference: Bergen Academy Model UN Conference School: Ramapo High School, NJ I. The United Nations Commission on Women’s Rights or UNCWR, main focus is to ensure that women are treated in an acceptable manner. The problem is that some countries see women as inferior to men. I would like to use Germany as an example to less fortunate countries by showing how the

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    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Top
  • Women During the Holocaust

    Women During the Holocaust

    The Mothers of Israel The Jewish female is like the ovule of a flower, it spreads its seeds to create future generations. It is known that the true root of a Jewish person lies in the hands of his/her mother. As it was once said by Golda Meir, “To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.” (Golda Meir Quotes par. 1). And in fact it is true,

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    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Jon
  • Women’s Movement of 1960’s

    Women’s Movement of 1960’s

    The entire Women’s Movement in the United States has been quite extensive. It can be traced back to 1848, when the first women’s rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. After two days of discussions, 100 men and women signed the Declaration of Sentiments. Drafted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, this document called for equal treatment of women and men under the law and voting rights for women. This gathering set the agenda for

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    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Mike
  • Role of Women in the 1920’s

    Role of Women in the 1920’s

    The Role of the Women in the 1920’s The 1920’s was a time of conservation and a big social change. From fashion to politics, forces collided to make the biggest decade of the century. In the 1920’s, women began to grow more independent, which would change the role of women’s lives on the 1920’s. By the 1920’s, women had fought for the right to vote for 72 years. The battle came to an end when

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    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Mike
  • Free by '63: The March on Washington

    Free by '63: The March on Washington

    Free by ’63: The March on Washington One hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation was written, African Americans were still fighting for equal rights in every day life. The first real success of this movement did not come until the Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954 which was followed by many boycotts and protests. The largest of these protests, the March on Washington, was held on August 28, 1963 “for jobs and freedom”

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    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Men's Fashion for Women and Vice Versa

    Men's Fashion for Women and Vice Versa

    Men's Fashion for Women and Vice Versa Civilizations as ancient as Jericho and as widespread as the Roman Empire have used clothing and jewelry as a form of nonverbal communication to indicate specific occupation, rank, gender, class, wealth, and group affiliation. These same material goods are used today for similar modes of communication. While some modern societies like the Taliban in Afghanistan make such distinctions with utmost conformity (the Taliban of Afghanistan) others like America

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    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: regina
  • A Tale of Two Different Generations of Women

    A Tale of Two Different Generations of Women

    Henri-Rene-Albert-Guy De Maupassant (1850-1893), one of the major nineteenth-century French naturalist writers, wrote a timeless short story called “The Necklace.” Even though The Necklace was written in 1884, the main character, Mathilde, portrayed in this story has similar behaviors to an average woman in the 21st Century, but her social and financial status is dissimilar. Mathilde may live in a different century, but her behaviors are not so different from a 21st Century woman. She

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    Submitted: March 23, 2010 By: Victor
  • Great Expectations Atmosphere and Suspense

    Great Expectations Atmosphere and Suspense

    Great expectations by Charles dickens was written in 1860-1861. The opening chapter of great expectations is extremely important as it tells of each character from Pips perspective (also telling the readers just how naпve, young and innocent Pip is amidst this gloomy dwelling), for example Pip says “…my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones“ this tells us that Pip is a blank canvas ready to be painted on

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    Submitted: March 23, 2010 By: Monika
  • Artistic Traditions of the Northern and Italian Renaissance

    Artistic Traditions of the Northern and Italian Renaissance

    Van Eyck's Portrait of Giovani Arnolfini and His Wife, Givanna Cenami and Masaccio's Trinity with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist, and Donors are two paintings that clearly reflect the respective artistic traditions of the Northern and Italian Renaissance. Each painting is reflective of the buying public, the northern resistance to let go of Gothic design, the dichatomony of a more Humanistic tradition and a more religious culture, the area's climate, the restructuring of the

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    Submitted: March 23, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Free Will in a Clockwork Orange

    Free Will in a Clockwork Orange

    “The Importance of Moral Choice” Choice and free will are necessary to maintain humanity, both individually and communally; without them, man is no longer human but a “clockwork orange”, a mechanical toy, as demonstrated in Anthony Burgess’ novel, “A Clockwork Orange”. The choice between good and evil is a decision every man must make throughout his life in order to guide his actions and control his future. Forcing someone to be good is not

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    Submitted: March 24, 2010 By: Steve
  • Affect of Concentration of Enzymes on Rate of Break Down of Egg White

    Affect of Concentration of Enzymes on Rate of Break Down of Egg White

    Enzyme concentrations Hypothesis The higher the concentration of protease enzyme the higher the rate of breakdown of the egg white. This is because egg white is mainly formed of collagen, which is a protein, which is what the enzyme protease breaks down. The more enzyme there is the more enzyme substrate complexes are formed which break down peptide links between the monomers of the protein accelerating the amount of protein broken down in a space

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    Submitted: March 24, 2010 By: Top
  • Representation of Women’s Roles in Society-Medea

    Representation of Women’s Roles in Society-Medea

    Women’s lives are represented by the roles they either choose or have imposed on them. This is evident in the play Medea by Euripides through the characters of Medea and the nurse. During the time period which Medea is set women have very limited social power and no political power at all, although a women’s maternal and domestic power was respected in the privacy of the home, “Our lives depend on how his lordship feels”.

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    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Andrew
  • What Effect Does Alcohol Have on a Person's Health and Life Expectancy?

    What Effect Does Alcohol Have on a Person's Health and Life Expectancy?

    Nicola Cooper Student No; cs329513 What effect does alcohol have on a person’s health and life expectancy? The consumption of alcoholic beverages dates back to approximately 10,000 years ago when ‘viticulture’ (the selective cultivation of grape vines for making wine) is said to have originated in the mountains between the Black and Caspian Seas. (1) It is one of the most commonly used psychoactive drugs in the world. Alcohol interacts with gamma amino bultyric acid

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    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Max
  • Sugar Free Trend

    Sugar Free Trend

    As the trend towards sugar-free and low-calorie foods gathers momentum, food and beverage firms like Cadbury, HLL, ITC Foods, Glaxo Smithkline and Weikfield are firming up plans to foray in this segment. While HLL is working on low-calorie pre-mixed tea and coffee mixes, Cadbury is planning to launch sugar-free chocolates and confectionery. “We are exploring options in the sugar-free chocolate segment,” confirmed a Cadbury official. Other firms working on sugar-free or 'healthier' food products include

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    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Steve
  • Painted Free

    Painted Free

    Why is it that when a person’s face is obscured by means of paint or a mask that their disposition changes? Is it the freedom in thinking no one knows who they are? Or the illusion that rules don’t apply anymore? Why do unusually fat men coat their bodies in the paint of their favorite sport team and go scream foul language at the top of their lungs to the other team? Why did the

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    Submitted: March 26, 2010 By: Mike
  • Women, Magazines, and the Creation of Reality

    Women, Magazines, and the Creation of Reality

    Question 1 Theme #1: The Still Photograph Constructs Meaning Women and Magazines Some women feel that beauty and fashion magazines are the devil. They fill peoples minds with a false reality. Though they claim to be helping women by being what Blyth refers to as “aspirational dream books”, they do quite the opposite (301). This essay will discuss the false ideals that magazine ads create and women’s need to pursue them. The creators of the

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    Submitted: March 26, 2010 By: Top
  • Online Dating Vs. Traditional Dating

    Online Dating Vs. Traditional Dating

    Online Dating vs. Traditional Dating Society today has changed in many ways. For example, we now have something called “online dating.” There is also traditional dating, which has been around for centuries. Online dating and traditional dating have many similarities, but yet at the same time have many differences. Online dating is one of technologies new advances. People can go to websites, create a profile describing themselves in full detail and chat with the opposite

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    Submitted: March 26, 2010 By: Artur
  • Free Lesson Plan

    Free Lesson Plan

    Grade Level: 7, 8 Subject(s): Computer Science Duration: 2 weeks Description: Students use the program SimCity to create a city. Afterwards, students use PowerPoint to create an election campaign to get themselves elected as mayor of their SimCity! Goals: National Educational Technology Standards for Students : Standard 3: Technology Productivity Tools - Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity. Standard 4: Technology Communication Tools - Students use a variety of

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    Essay Length: 474 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 26, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Alienation: The Fall of Man Through The Breaking of Moral Law

    Alienation: The Fall of Man Through The Breaking of Moral Law

    Alienation: The Fall of Man through the Breaking of Moral Law Is it possible to attain or remain in a state of true happiness when you break a moral law? To many of us, road signs have been handed down through the generations and are posted clearly as the 10 Commandments delivered to us through Moses. These commandments are generally viewed as religious moral laws, but can they be viewed also as natural laws of

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    Submitted: March 26, 2010 By: Fonta
  • The Affects of Advertising on Women

    The Affects of Advertising on Women

    In one day a person may see more than a thousand ads. They might see ads on television, in a magazine or on a billboard. However, people never fully realize that these ads seen daily have an effect on our society. Advertisers like to appeal to our fears, desires, vanities, egos, concepts of success, worth, love and sexuality. Advertisers also like to help form notions that we do not already have; what other reason could

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    Submitted: March 27, 2010 By: July
  • Women in Leadership Roles

    Women in Leadership Roles

    INTRODUCTION More and more women are rising to the leadership challenge, even in some of the most male-dominated industries. The increase in the number of women attending college, the increasing number of women in the workplace or starting their own business has demonstrated to men who own businesses that women can be both managers and mothers, thus showing their male counterpart that women can in fact "do it all". In this paper the history of

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    Submitted: March 27, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Great Expectations

    Great Expectations

    Great Expectations The title of this novel is Great Expectations and was written by Charles Dickens. Dickens wrote and set this novel in near the mid-1800 in London, England. Great Expectations is about a young, common boy named Pip that blossoms into a gentleman with high expectations of himself. The main and supporting characters are Pip, Estella, Miss Havisham, Magwitch, and Jaggers. Pip is the protagonist and narrator of the novel. The novel spans the

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    Submitted: March 28, 2010 By: Victor
  • Women’s View of Chivalry in King Arthur’s Court

    Women’s View of Chivalry in King Arthur’s Court

    Women’s view of Chivalry in King Arthur’s Court King Arthur’s court is often presented as home to noble knights; however it may also be found that opposing views exist of how Knights of the Roundtable carried themselves, such as presented in Marie de France’s Lanval and Chaucer’s Wife of Bath, where one knight is being mistreated by his fellow brothers-in-arms and another knight is simply a rapist. These authors question the nobility of the knights

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    Submitted: March 28, 2010 By: Anna
  • Women, Work and Family

    Women, Work and Family

    Women in Work Place Within the past decades there has been a dramatic increase of women participating in the work force from countries all over the World. In the 1950s, one American worker in five was a woman. By the 1980s this percentage had doubled, and soon women are expected to make up more than 44 percent of the labor force by the end of this century. The increase in female participation started occurring during

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    Submitted: March 28, 2010 By: Top
  • Little Women

    Little Women

    Little Women The upcoming Christmas looked like it would be a sad time to the four March girls. With their father at the Civil War battlefront, and their saintly mother, Marmee, as they called her, working to support her family, the holiday would not be the traditional pleasures they were used to. With the dollar Marmee said they might spend, the girls each settled on buying simple gifts for their mother and for the

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    Submitted: March 28, 2010 By: Janna