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Essays 1951 - 1980

Women's Halfway Houses and Transitional Housing

(Jacobs, 1997). It was founded by the Quakers and came about because of the concern regarding the conditions of the prisons (Jacob...

Society and the Beneficial Direction Women's Influence is Taking

charge of other countries. In some way, the fact that the most powerful nation in the world is run by males plays into the idea th...

Contemporary American Women and The Amish Women of Lancaster County in Pennsylvania

local movie theater. However, young Amish girls are not allowed to even think about dating until they reach age sixteen, and then...

Contemporary Women's Lives and Backlash by Susan Faludi

progress because of the biased portrayal of women by the media and society at large. In this regard, this book is...

Grace Nichol's Collection The Fat Black Woman's Poems

seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...

Chinese Cinematography and Women's Portrayals

in to the Japanese and be captured, however, eight of these women chose to drown in the Mulan River. One of the most...

Women's Independence and 1920s' America

it forced people into the underground and made them imbibe with fear always looming over their heads. After Prohibition was repea...

Three Women at the Spring by Picasso and Three Women by Leger Compared

In five pages these 1921 oil paintings are contrasted and compared using such criteria as style and composition as evaluated by th...

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare and Men and Women's Relationships

they marry or not, for there have been no grandiose expectations placed upon them to act a certain way. Benedick remarks, "That a...

United Kingdom's Labor Market and British Women's Position

the home, with the same percentage of non-married women also working (Dex, Joshi and Macran, 1996). When married women first beg...

Stephen Crane's Maggie A Girl of the Streets and Women's Opportunities

time period. Maggie When we first see Maggie as a young girl we immediately see the environment she lives in, the environment s...

Women's Aspects Concerning Marriage and Equality in Excerpts from Wollstonecraft, Ibsen, Mill, Chopin, and de Pizan

is considered a step in the right direction for women of the era who were trapped in unhealthy and unequal marriages. Regardless o...

19th Century Trends, Consumerism, and Women's Fashions

worth a great deal of cash and even on the hip hop scene, gold teeth are something to envy. In some way, this is as true today as ...

Early Modern Society of France and Men's and Women's Status

a patriarchal world would be a gross understatement and one that would also be staunchly supported by the likes of both Bertrande ...

The Necessity for Labor Unions and Women's Place in Them

a woman named, Mother Jones, who was well into her sixties when she embraced the cause, continued to fight for womens rights in th...

Alice Walker and Ellen Glasgow on Wives, Women, and 'the Other Woman'

willing to relegate to someone elses power. In Walkers essay, however, the focus is on pornography and the subtle way in which it ...

Women's Search for Independence in 3 Works: Finding Happiness

This essay discusses 3 works: which are a poem by Gwendolyn Brook, "The Beam Eaters"; a short story by Kate Chopin, "The Story of ...

Reconstruction, Progressivism, Labor Unions and Women’s Suffrage

This paper comments on these and other critical social developments that occurred after the end of the Civil War and through the e...

Reconstruction, Progressivism, Labor Unions and Women’s Suffrage

The United States has progressed tremendously since the Civil War and the Reconstruction years that followed. Much of the south h...

Women's Participation in Traditionally Male Sports

of the females role in society, which confined women exclusively to the home and the roles of wives and mothers, lingered well int...

WOMEN’S HEALTH AND ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES

Furthermore, the researchers pointed out, pain, depression and insomnia among this sample were "strong predictors" of CAM usage (E...

Black and Latina Definitions of Women in Deliver Us from Eva and Real Women Have Curves

simply to, "Just work" (Real Women Have Curves). This suggests that Latinas are expected to know their place - at the lowest rung...

Advancement of Women's Rights

Committees recommendations, particularly in regards to its efforts to fight HIV/AIDS and promote sex education ("Combined...Burund...

The Factors Reducing Battered Women's Independence

a part of the study. In the pretest data collection, 64 experimental and 53 comparison group participants were identified. In th...

Women's Struggle in the Workplace

were once again going to work for their country (not for themselves). It was during this war that women started working in the arm...

Elderly Woman's Life Odyssey

this, in that she learned to be quiet and respectful in church, as well. Louise gained a well-balanced education of what it means...

Paintings Seated Woman and Woman I by Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning

art. The "master style" that is featured in both paintings is invariably Cubism, despite de Koonings protestations, "I never made...

The Plays Sure Thing and Trifles and What They Say about Women’s Issues

its difficult to find true love, and that women are sometimes willing to take a chance unless they have a substantial chance of be...

Women’s Writing and Male Domination

both the other woman and herself. She tells her shocked husband, who faints when he sees her creeping around the wall, that she ha...

Men's and Women's Education and the Philosophy of Plato

people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...