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  • The Revolution and Women’s Freedom

    The Revolution and Women’s Freedom

    How the American Revolution Helped Women The American Revolution (17-1783) was a time of great change in America. American men were fighting for their right to be free from an oppressive ruler 3000 miles away. They wanted to have their say about what went on in their own country. America won the Revolution and its freedom, but while this was going on something else was happening. Internally changes were coming about too during all this

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    Essay Length: 1,598 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: David
  • The History of Women’s Sexuality

    The History of Women’s Sexuality

    Dr. Thomas Laquer, author of "Orgasm, Generation, and the Politics of Reproductive Biology," is a distinguished history professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Laquer received his PhD from Princeton in 1971 and has since circulated various books and articles predominately on the history of sex. His latest endeavor was published by Zone Books in 2004 and was entitled, "Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation". Laquer is a popular speaker worldwide and is currently

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    Essay Length: 555 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Mike
  • Study of the Practice of Trafficking Women

    Study of the Practice of Trafficking Women

    Study of the Practice of Trafficking Women "Trafficking is the recruitment and or the transportation of persons by others using violence or the threat of violence, abuse of authority or dominant position…for the purpose of exploiting them sexually or economically for the profit or advantage of others, such as recruiters, traffickers, brothel owners and customers." (unknown author, "What is Trafficking?") Trafficking in women and girls has become one of the fastest growing criminal enterprises in

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    Essay Length: 2,511 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Kevin
  • The Music of the Baroque Era

    The Music of the Baroque Era

    The Music of the Baroque Era The style of polyphonic music containing elaborate ornamentation and contrasting elements, that is how Baroque music is defined. The Baroque era was a kind of transitional era in art and music. The Renaissance means rebirth and is typically regarded as such. The Baroque era in music is not a set style in music but many diverse styles which may be broken down into at least three distinct periods. A

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    Essay Length: 630 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Women in Engineering - Challenges in Women Engineering

    Women in Engineering - Challenges in Women Engineering

    Women in Engineering Challenges in Women Engineering Challenges What are the most significant issues, challenges, and opportunities facing women scientists and engineers today as they plan their careers? As a man I could only imagine what women today go through. I can only gather such information and write down what I have learned. Some of the problems I have gathered in my research of the subject matter are segregation, family, and the unwillingness for many

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    Essay Length: 772 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Depression and Mormon Women

    Depression and Mormon Women

    Depression in Mormon Women ‘Molly Mormon’ is the perfect woman. She never raises her voice. Her house is always sparkling clean and she excels in every church calling. She’s understanding and supportive of her husband and children. In essence, ‘Molly Mormon’ is the ideal wife, mother, helpmate, PTA leader, quilter, baker, and casserole maker; she is consistently well-groomed, cheerful and bright (Egan 1). For many Latter Day Saint (LDS) women, the overwhelming pressure to be

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    Essay Length: 725 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Jon
  • Self Image in Women

    Self Image in Women

    Abstract In the 21st century women have proven to be strong, independent and equal. Recent study in social cognition has focused on what specific environmental conditions would help promote the forming of gender stereotypes in regards to social perception and behavior. Television advertisements, and magazine articles and images are highly suggestible, persuasive elements of everyday life that do help form and strengthen gender stereotypes and self images. Analysis of television advertisements has shown that many

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    Essay Length: 2,022 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Vika
  • Women and Work in the 19th Century

    Women and Work in the 19th Century

    During the 19th century, change was in the air. Industrialization, involving the movement of labor and resources away from agriculture and toward manufacturing and commercial industries, was in progress. As a result, thousands of women were moving from the domestic life to the industrial world. During the 19th century, the family economy was replaced by a new patriarchy which saw women moving from the small, safe world of family workshops or home-based businesses to larger

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    Essay Length: 902 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: July
  • The New Women’s Movement

    The New Women’s Movement

    The New Women's Movement emerged in the 1960s with a reconditioned society. Women were moving into the labour force, their education levels were increasing, the birth rate was decreasing and the divorce level and single motherhood were rising, leaving behind new situations and experiences that opened up many unanswered questions and a new consciousness . The Kennedy Administration provided the atmosphere in which feminist roots could flourish. By establishing a Commission on women's affairs, Kennedy

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    Essay Length: 2,137 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Mike
  • Status Change for Women

    Status Change for Women

    Status Change for Women It seems these days, mid November 2001, that the most talked about issue is the war currently under way in Afghanistan. It now looks to be inevitable that the Taliban regime will come to an end and a new government will be formed. For the people of Afghanistan, this most certainly means a time for change, repressive rules have been lifted and freedom is closer than ever. This could be one

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    Essay Length: 2,291 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Mike
  • Women in Today’s Society

    Women in Today’s Society

    Women have been fighting for the right to be viewed as equals through out history. During the struggle for civil rights among African Americans, women were there too fighting for their rights. So why when women finally start being viewed as equals do they react in the manner they have? Leonard Pitts Jr. the author of “What has happened to our Girls” has the right point of view. Women seemed to have lost all respect

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    Essay Length: 351 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Progressive Era

    The Progressive Era

    The Progressive Era The Progressive Era was a period of reform in American history from the 1890s to the 1920s. It included reforms such as the efficiency movement, trust-busting reforms, women suffrage, and prohibition. Business owners had discovered that efficiency was the key to maximizing profit. If they could find a way to maximize output from their workers in the shortest amount of time then the companies they owned would be more successful. Progressives thought

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    Essay Length: 356 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Top
  • A Comparison of the Status of Women Within Two Ethnic Groups

    A Comparison of the Status of Women Within Two Ethnic Groups

    It is not a secret that throughout the history women suffered an underprivileged social status. This particularly applies to the Muslim society, where even up to this day women are often thought of as having no soul (Kaleem). With the change of American immigration policy, the people of predominantly non-White origins started to pour into this country, thus contributing to the creation of multicultural society that we immensely enjoy nowadays. Yet, it was being noticed

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    Essay Length: 1,474 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Mikki
  • The Progressive Era’s Influence on the New Deal

    The Progressive Era’s Influence on the New Deal

    The accomplishments taken place upon the onset of the many New Deal legislations owe much to the seeds implanted and unknowingly disseminated by the pre-WWI Progressive movement. Sparked by the new image as a world power, industrialization, and immigration at the dawn of the new century, a new found reform movement gripped the nation. With the new found image of the nation and world as a whole, the reforms advanced the position of the previously

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    Essay Length: 1,341 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Alcoholism and Social Services for Women

    Alcoholism and Social Services for Women

    Introduction Alcoholism and Social Services for Women. Alcoholism is a chronic disorder characterized by dependency on alcohol, repeated excessive use of alcoholic beverages and decreased ability to function socially and vocationally. (Western Dictionary). Here in the United States are 60 percent of alcoholic women. Studies show that women are more likely to die from lives and heart damage; they tent to lose control of self-esteem. Also women who drink alcohol are physical abused. To begin

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    Essay Length: 1,059 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Vika
  • Victorian Female Artists

    Victorian Female Artists

    The Victorian period was an era of constantly shifting and contradicting ideologies concerning women, which extended over many areas of society and culture including politics and the media, the family and domestic field as well as the contemporary and traditional beliefs within the art institutions. The body of the belief systems about women and the feminine ideal that are present in each of these areas involve a combination of established or traditional ideas versus those

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    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Yan
  • How Does Stevenson Represent Victorian Society in His Novella ’jekyll and Hyde’?

    How Does Stevenson Represent Victorian Society in His Novella ’jekyll and Hyde’?

    How Does Stevenson Represent Victorian Society In His Novella 'Jekyll And Hyde'? Throughout the novella 'Jekyll and Hyde', Robert Louis Stevenson represents Victorian society in various ways. The characters used in the novella are an example of what Stevenson thought of London in Victorian times. Moral views of people living around this time have changed imensely to the present. The Victorian era seems to be a time of many contradictions and secrets from the rest

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    Essay Length: 1,253 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Effects of Pornography on Women and Censorship

    Effects of Pornography on Women and Censorship

    EFFECTS OF PORNOGRAPHY ON WOMEN AND CENSORSHIP "Pornography and the New Puritans" by John Irving discusses the pornography victims' compensation bill. "Reply to John Irving" by Andrea Dworkin argues against pornography using her own personal experiences. John Irving argues that the victims' compensation bill is ridiculous because it makes the publisher and not the perpetrator responsible for what is acceptable. It is in violation of our First Amendment and should never be passed. Andrea Dworkin

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    Essay Length: 1,117 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: July
  • What Is a Man What Is a Women

    What Is a Man What Is a Women

    Try to imagine the challenges of poverty, the daily fears of victimization and the frustration of not being able to provide for a child, struggling every day just to survive. Poverty not only affects adults, but children as well. When we think of poverty in America what image comes to mind? An old rundown shack in southern Alabama? Or a rat infested tenement house in New York City? The United States defines poverty for a

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    Essay Length: 1,636 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Top
  • A Women’s Right to Chose

    A Women’s Right to Chose

    During the past quarter century, abortion has joined race and war as one of the most popular subjects of controversy in the United States. Abortion poses a moral, social and medical dilemma that challenges the way many of us think and feel. There are many points of view toward abortion but the only two fine distinctions are "pro-choice" and "pro-life". A pro-choicer would feel that the decision to abort a pregnancy is that of

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    Essay Length: 882 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • 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
  • The Andrew Lowe House and Victorian Funeral Customs

    The Andrew Lowe House and Victorian Funeral Customs

    THE ANDREW LOWE HOUSE AND VICTORIAN FUNERAL CUSTOMS The Victorians are known for their fascination with death. During the Victorian era (1837-1901) they took death very seriously, no expense was spared when arranging a proper funeral. During this time most American’s lives became restricted to the family. As the emotional focus of people narrowed to the immediate family, the significance of the final act expanded. We will take a closer look at Victorian funeral practices

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    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: David
  • Red River Examines Reconstruction-Era Massacre

    Red River Examines Reconstruction-Era Massacre

    Red River Examines Reconstruction-Era Massacre Red River gives a rich impression of a family history expansively and proudly told. Lalita Tademy tells us that extracting the history of her father's ancestors was sometimes painful. A different type of family story, lacking shape and enthusiasm, only stingily disclosed, rationed with vague hints or whispers, and only then with great reluctance and obvious discomfort by the teller. It's a tragic fact that the voices of many African-Americans

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    Essay Length: 586 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Fonta
  • 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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    Essay Length: 1,365 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Monika
  • 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

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