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The Seven Sisters/Women's Education

The cultural bias against education for women was so severe in the eighteenth century that Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), note...

Cultural Practices Reflecting the Unity Between the Spritual and Material World Among the Indigenenous Cultures of Africa and the Americas

however, a rich oral tradition. Many who study this oral tradition, unfortunately, tend to lump all of these cultures stories und...

Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women

speaks of the position of women in society, elements of a womans life that can often lead to a position where she is seen as littl...

Women And Depression

of their physical, biological and social milieu, and how we respond is governed by genetic make-up" (pp. 44-45). Postpartum-relat...

The Abortion Argument

the risk involved in the abortion is in and of itself a reason to suggest that it should be put off. Women use abortion-because it...

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...

Postcolonial Literature and Displacement

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

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 ...

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?...

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...

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...

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...

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, ...

Human Rights and Social Welfare: Martin Luther King Jr.

to his assassination (New York Amsterdam News, 2003). "Dr. King understood that civil rights meant more than the right to vote or ...

Article Analysis: Power as a Theme in Women's History

lives, because it cuts across all the important dimensions: community, family and work (Sklar and Dublin, 2002). Power is also use...

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...

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...

David Maybury Lewis's Millennium Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World

"humans from destroying themselves in the next millennium" (Ingram,...

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...

Human Needs, Human Resources, and Human Resource Management

to Kramer (1997), the current trend within the fundamental basis of business operations is to establish a sense of empowerment, bo...

Australia and Substandard Health of the Aboriginal Population

to Aboriginal Australians. Aboriginal Health In writing for the British Medical Societys journal The Lancet, Leeder (1998) expla...

Religion Exploration

America, they worked very hard to convert the Native American Indians, who obviously did not believe in Jesus Christ. The new set...

Australian Aborigines and Self Determination

either the land or one another which could be construed as an exertion of any sort of ownership. The now-infamous Mabo decision, ...

Feminism in the Nineteen-Thirties

discussed, or not discussed during the time period, abortions were available to those who knew where to look. But, it was a danger...

American Political Changes

no better illustrated than through a discussion of the particulars of our democracy itself, the particulars of who is allowed the ...

Stress Resistance and a Conflict in a Women's Work and Family

included the authors need to modify the job stress portion of the study in order to separate the overlapping measures of "other ke...

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...

Cecelski's Along Freedom Road

those societal institutions, such as schools and churches, which had grown out of the post-slavery era and reflected black cultura...

Civil Rights Activist Al Sharpton's Life and Achievements

age of nine (2003). Hence, even his childhood was entrenched in religion and preaching. That said, he did pursue other interests w...