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An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

This 6 page essay examines author Miguel Leon Portilla's "The Broken Spears : The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico&quo...

Bedouin Society, Kinship, and Rights of Women

In five pages this research essay considers Veiled Sentiments by Lila Abu Lughod in a discussion of Bedouin society and the lack o...

Women and Gender Roles in Literature

This paper examines gender roles in literature in this overview of five pages that discusses how they are represented in The Awake...

Indigenous Peoples of Canada and Sociology of Crime

criminologists and sociologists have been actively involved in determining which factors contribute to such risk, how they may be ...

The Importance of Women's History

women to the sidelines of history, as insignificant to the progress of humanity. By implication, this view says that women did not...

Rights for Women in America

this issue, such as Craig v. Boren, in which the Supreme Court decided to look more closely at any type of classification based up...

International Women's Movements and Issues of Globalization

issues is a situation which traces its roots far back into history. The indigenous women of Latin America have been suppressed by...

A Case Study That Examines Amelia's Choices

their family unit - a time of stresses that dont need to be complicated about concerns such as career and college choices. Yet unf...

Why There Are Few Women Running for Office

as solid political material. As a result, there are handfuls of women politicians on the national level, perhaps a few more women ...

Postcolonial Literature and Displacement

group and not that of the colonisers, that the texts can be perceived as independent of the imperial system....

The Role of Women in Islamic Society

no means represent the lives of most Muslim women (2002). What are the lives of most like? How are women viewed in Muslim society?...

Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, and Early Feminism

(Woolf, 2002). Written for a largely female readership over a hundred years after Wollstonecraft, Woolf can afford to be more cri...

Journal Entries of Christopher Columbus

history select, describe, and explain historical evidence -- and thereby interpret" (p. 26). The end result is that, as MacLeod al...

Book Review of The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights

the Asian culture itself. Other than that, some of the authors point out that on the one hand, many times, Asian governmen...

French Public Schools and Veil Wearing Muslim Women

complete and unrelenting distinction between church and state. There would be no religious exceptions, whatsoever, and this inclu...

Indigenous Populations and the Gold Rush in the Klondike

Russians, the Spanish, the British, and the U.S. on previous occasions. Indeed, the country had been penetrated some three centur...

Eye Health Among Australian Indigenous Populations

US and New Zealand have succeeded, in varying degrees, to raise the health standards of their indigenous communities since the 198...

The Marginalized Status of Women in Muslim Countries

in the West over the last decade. Unfortunately, much of the increased awareness of this religion has been marred by political age...

Australia and Indigenous Female Convicts

16 years. In South Australia, however, a juvenile is a person aged between 10 and 17 years" (Australian Institute of Criminology, ...

The Suffrage Movement and Race

Women were fighting for their rights during the suffrage movement, but they could not move forward without addressing the issue of...

Why Isn’t the Prochoice Argument Applied to Prostitution and Drug Use?

The abortion debate is characterized by two camps of argument. These camps are the...

Hitler and Power

to exert any political influence with a situation where womens rights appeared not only to be low but also diminishing with plans ...

Development & Extraction and Indigenous Property

and Resource Development One of the most controversial issues with which indigenous peoples have had to contend in contemporary s...

Attitudes Towards Education of Aboriginal Students in Australia

instigating it, where the natives were perceived from a paternalistic attitude, and seen as inferior due to their lack of technolo...

Enhancing Aboriginal Students Experience of School with the Waldorf Model

to as the Waldorf model (Grindley and Hampson, 2008). To assess how and why this model may be appropriate some of the influences t...

The Problem of Inequalities of Health Outcomes for Indigenous People

have indicated that socioeconomic disadvantages are more significant than genetic vulnerabilities (Durie, 2003; National Health Co...

Indonesian Women, Their Status

This research paper offers an overview of the status of Indonesian women in regards to educational achievement, employment status ...

Legal Problems/Family as Public and Private

1992). Women are those primarily affected by the private sphere support group, however in order to be eligible for support, certai...

A Discussion of Caretakers of Our Common House by Carol Lakey Hess

values within mixed religious communities and they grow from this socialization, women too need an environment where they can asse...

Women's Special Interest Groups in Canada

both an arduous and complicated process by which change occurs at a slow pace - even slower when the special interest group is sup...