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  • A Brief Analysis of American Lesbian Liberation Movement in the Late 20th Century

    A Brief Analysis of American Lesbian Liberation Movement in the Late 20th Century

    上海外国语大学毕业论文 Shanghai International Studies University A Brief Analysis of American Lesbian Liberation Movement in the Late 20th Century A Thesis Presented to College of English Language and Literature In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for The Degree of Bachelor of Arts By Liang Boning Under the Supervision of Professor Wang Enming April 2014 ________________ Acknowledgements In writing this thesis, I have had the support and encouragement of many people, and it is my great honor

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    Essay Length: 8,126 Words / 33 Pages
    Submitted: March 6, 2016 By: taylor987
  • The Struggle for Equality Against Racism

    The Struggle for Equality Against Racism

    The problem of racism has long troubled our nation through out history, the lack of humanity and humility was and still is a cause of the unjustifiable blame and finger pointing. The shear despise for being treated so unjustly sparked many altercations with many left bearing war wounds or even worst, the loss of their lives. Very often minorities were at the center of these attacks, due largely to the absurd assumption that minorities

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    Essay Length: 430 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Kevin
  • The Struggle for Equality

    The Struggle for Equality

    The struggle for freedom and equality after World War II continued endlessly for women and minorities. No class of people experienced more change as a consequence of the war than American women. During the war over six million women took jobs, increasing the size of the female labor force by 57 percent.Wages leaped upward, the number of wives holding jobs doubled, and the unionization of women grew fourfold(pg.11). Government and mass media encouraged women to

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    Essay Length: 807 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Steve
  • Struggle for Equal Work

    Struggle for Equal Work

    Struggle for Equal Work The development of the Lowell Mills in the 1820s provided American women with their first opportunity to work outside the home with reasonable wages and relatively safe work. About ten years later however, working in the mills wasn’t the same. Working conditions became more vigorous, the mills were unsafe and the pay received didn’t match the amount of work done. The Lowell family’s textile mills were set up to attract the

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    Essay Length: 681 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Monika
  • The Struggle of Equality for Blacks in the 21st Century

    The Struggle of Equality for Blacks in the 21st Century

    The Struggle of Equality for Blacks in the 21st Century On December 29, 2004, Richard Blakey was applying for a job interview at the very prestigious Public Relations firm, Ketchum, in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. He was the only black man applying for the job. Little did he know that he had no chance of getting the job no matter how qualified he was for the position because he was a black man and his counterparts were

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    Essay Length: 771 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 1, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Essay on Equal Pay in the Work Place

    Essay on Equal Pay in the Work Place

    Mike K. Essay on equal pay in the work place. In 1963, President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, making it unlawful to discriminate against a worker on the basis of sex. Since that time, the wage gap between men and women in the United States has narrowed by just 15 cents, now being 74 cents, as reported by the U.S. Census Bureau. Pay equality is most prevalent for the 16 to 24

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    Essay Length: 1,059 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 8, 2009 By: David
  • Agrarian Discontent in the Late 1800's - Why the Farmers Were Wrong

    Agrarian Discontent in the Late 1800's - Why the Farmers Were Wrong

    "Why the Farmers Were Wrong" The period between 1880 and 1900 was a boom time for American politics. The country was for once free of the threat of war, and many of its citizens were living comfortably. However, as these two decades went by, the American farmer found it harder and harder to live comfortably. Crops such as cotton and wheat, once the bulwark of agriculture, were selling at prices so low that it was

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    Essay Length: 1,527 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 8, 2009 By: David
  • Malcolm X - the Struggles of a Leader

    Malcolm X - the Struggles of a Leader

    In 1965 Malcolm X, one of the greatest black leaders in America, published his autobiography with the help of Alex Haley, a former writer for the Washington Post. In this autobiography Malcolm tells of the many struggles he had to endure in his lifetime. Things such as hate crimes, drugs, and prison. The autobiography begins with an incident his mother (Louise Little) told him about that occurred while she was still pregnant with him.

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    Essay Length: 435 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 18, 2009 By: Jack
  • Equal Opportunities or Managing Diversity in Organisations Are These J

    Equal Opportunities or Managing Diversity in Organisations Are These J

    Introduction Equal opportunities are very important in the modern workplace. Providing equal opportunities involves providing the same opportunities to all the employees and prospective employees regardless of their sex, age, disabilities, ethnic origins, sexual orientations etc. Equal opportunities allow the employee to have rights therefore the employer is unable to take advantage, discriminate or manipulate staff. Employers have an element of power over their employees but by having the law on the side of the

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    Essay Length: 2,659 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: March 11, 2009 By: Bred
  • European Monarchs of the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuri

    European Monarchs of the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuri

    In northern Europe after the Middle Ages, monarchies began to build the foundations of their countries that are still in affect today. During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries these "New Monarchs" made many relevant changes in their nations. During the middle of the fifteenth century Europe was affected by war and rebellion, which weakened central governments. As the monarchies attempted to develop into centralized governments once again, feudalism's influence was lessened. This "new"

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    Submitted: March 18, 2009 By: David
  • Why Did American Nativist Groups Oppose Free, Unrestricted Immigration in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

    Why Did American Nativist Groups Oppose Free, Unrestricted Immigration in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

    "Why did American nativist groups oppose free, unrestricted immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"? The Untied States of America is commonly labeled or thought of as the melting pot of the world where diverse groups of people flock to in order to better their current lives. In our countries history this has proven to primarily be our way of living and how the people as a nation view immigration. However, in the

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    Essay Length: 624 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 23, 2009 By: Top
  • Rise of Us to Power During the 20th Century

    Rise of Us to Power During the 20th Century

    The U.S. Rise There were many factors that contributed to the United States' rise and roles as a world power during the early 20th century. Presidential policies during this time period were the foundation of the U.S.'s role as a world power. The conflict in the Philippines was evidence of the U.S.'s ability to crush uprising and control a territory. The Spanish-American War demonstrates the U.S.'s role as a world power. Although the U.S. was

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    Essay Length: 456 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 13, 2009 By: Janna
  • Female Boxing’s Lack of Equality in Olympics

    Female Boxing’s Lack of Equality in Olympics

    Equality has a Ring to It The pinnacle of any amateur athlete's success is measured in the Olympic Stadium. Upon the conclusion of the 2004 Athens Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) executive board met to review its program and make changes for the upcoming Summer Games. The committee discussed changes for events within the 28 existing sports, as well as options to add new disciplines. The board rejected the International Amateur Boxing Association's (AIBA's)

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    Essay Length: 1,133 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Jon
  • The Act’s of Racism in the 20th Century

    The Act’s of Racism in the 20th Century

    The Act’s of Racism In The 20th Century Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou were very well known authors of the early 20th century. Most of their writings were concerned with racism and equality. During that time period there was much evidence that African Americans had been treated unfairly, unjustly, and as if they had been beneath the whites. Segregation of schools, churches, bathrooms, and stores were only a few of the many things wrong with

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    Essay Length: 308 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Bred
  • Struggle for the Soul of Japan

    Struggle for the Soul of Japan

    Ancient and modern civilization at war for the soul of Japan is the main idea that revolves around the whole plot of the movie. The story takes place in the year 1876 where a rebellion took place in Yoshino Province. The revolt is primarily due to the rapid modernization of Japan through having an opened border for trading with the rest of the world. The movie encompasses the transition from Tokugawa shogunate up to the

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    Essay Length: 740 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Vika
  • Equal Marriage Rights for All

    Equal Marriage Rights for All

    Equal Marriage Rights for All Sociology Equal Marriage Rights for All Imagine finally meeting the person you can spend the rest of your life with. They are perfect in every way, even in their faults. You love that person more than yourself and they feel the same. You are not, however, legally allowed to marry that person-- and for no reason beyond people who are different from you not accepting your identity, because you have

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    Essay Length: 1,432 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Anna
  • Bram Stoker’s Dracula: A Struggle to Maintain Victorian Upper and Middle Class

    Bram Stoker’s Dracula: A Struggle to Maintain Victorian Upper and Middle Class

    The Victorian men and women conveyed in Bram Stoker's Dracula are pure and virtuous members of the upper and middle class. However, hiding behind this composed and civilized conception of England lies a dark and turbulent underbelly. This underbelly is the lumpenproletariat, whom Karl Marx defined as "the lowest and most degraded section of the proletariat; the ‘down and outs’ who make no contribution to the workers cause". Victorian culture discriminated against these vagrants, who

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    Essay Length: 1,913 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Mike
  • Human Resource Management: Equal Opportunities

    Human Resource Management: Equal Opportunities

    Equal Opportunities The issue of equal opportunities is one which has developed to such an extent over the years that it has now firmly arrived at the forefront of discussion. The nature of equal opportunities is so broad that it affects almost every individual, from every background. Two vast areas link equal opportunities to companies: human resource management and employment law. This report intends, initially, to discuss the topic from both a human resource and

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    Essay Length: 771 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Fonta
  • African American Struggle

    African American Struggle

    The story of African immigration is unique among immigrant groups, just as the African experience in America has been exclusively essential to the course of American life. Unlike other immigrants, most Africans came to North America against their will, caught up in a cruel system of human exploitation. The treatment we endured in the United States was of a harshness hardly ever surpassed in recent history, and their role in U.S. society was contested with

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    Essay Length: 459 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: July
  • Music Industry Struggles to Get Cell Phone's Numbers

    Music Industry Struggles to Get Cell Phone's Numbers

    September 14, 2004 WSJ #1 “Music Industry Struggles to Get Cell phone’s Numbers” There is a new trend bringing together cell phones and digital music called ringtones. These ringtones are customized ringers that a customer can download directly to their cell phone. This business has seen quick and expansive growth in the past 2 years and is expected to grow for at least a couple more years. Initially cell phones came with just a

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Bound Feet and Western Dress -Chang Yu-I’s Struggle with Identity

    Bound Feet and Western Dress -Chang Yu-I’s Struggle with Identity

    Chang Yu-i’s Struggle With Identity Are you are confused as to where you are going in life? Do you sometimes feel like you just do not know who you are, or who you want to be? Do not worry, this is not uncommon. In fact, according to psychoanalyst Erik Erickson (1902-1994), most young people ages fifteen to twenty years of age feel the same way. Erickson, a psychoanalytic theorist, took the human life cycle

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    Essay Length: 1,394 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Kevin
  • United States Equality

    United States Equality

    United States Equality Throughout all the years, the United States has not fulfilled its promise of equality to its people. If they did, the African American race would have had the same rights as white people in the 1950’s. Instead, African Americans were discriminated in many different ways, like for example, not having the right to go to school with other white kids, or being banned from certain places that did not allow “Colored

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    Essay Length: 630 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Mike
  • Why Did American Nativist Groups Oppose Free, Unrestricted Immigration in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries?

    Why Did American Nativist Groups Oppose Free, Unrestricted Immigration in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries?

    “Why did American nativist groups oppose free, unrestricted immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries”? The Untied States of America is commonly labeled or thought of as the melting pot of the world where diverse groups of people flock to in order to better their current lives. In our countries history this has proven to primarily be our way of living and how the people as a nation view immigration. However, in the

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    Essay Length: 624 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Jon
  • Rise of Us to Power During the 20th Century

    Rise of Us to Power During the 20th Century

    The U.S. Rise There were many factors that contributed to the United States’ rise and roles as a world power during the early 20th century. Presidential policies during this time period were the foundation of the U.S.’s role as a world power. The conflict in the Philippines was evidence of the U.S.’s ability to crush uprising and control a territory. The Spanish-American War demonstrates the U.S.’s role as a world power. Although the U.S.

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    Essay Length: 457 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Artur
  • Equal Employment Opportunity in the Working Environment

    Equal Employment Opportunity in the Working Environment

    Running head: EQUAL OPPORTUNITY Equal Employment Opportunity in the Working Environment James A. Lee Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Management 317 Abstract This paper on equal opportunity employment will show a few different types of discrimination that would impede on a person from getting hired into an organization. It also shows some of the different Acts from the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that prevent discrimination when hiring workers into an organization. Equal Employment Opportunity in the

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    Essay Length: 1,848 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Fonta

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