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Essays 421 - 450

California's Gold Rush and 'The Shirley Letters'

In five pages this paper examines the personal accounts of life during the California gold rush penned by a young woman with the p...

How Women Lived in the 17th and 18th Centuries

essentially the same as they were in the colonies, aside from the fact that slaves were far more important in the colonies, or bec...

Women in Ancient Greece

conceive was thus a serious problem" (Women in the Ancient World). Now, of course one could also argue that this was a patriarch...

Sexual Harassment Case - Co-Workers

be defined as a sexual act and it made Peggy uncomfortable. According to the law, it is up to Peggy to do certain things before s...

Writing Exercise: Autobiography

like an angel because she was so caring and helpful, and I couldnt get her, or nursing, out of my mind. I soon realized that nursi...

Patterns Of Stereotypical Representation

stereotypes. However, the most pertinent scene where this bias gives way to an attitude change is when he meets her in the hotel ...

Women and War by Jean Bethke Elshtain

underpinnings for decision and action, nonetheless real for being symbolic. It is my contention that such constellations of enshri...

Emergency Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)

one comprising chronic illness or injury. Consider, for example, an individual coming to the emergency room complaining of chest ...

Seneca Falls and the Women’s Movement

simply did an overview of the movement. One of the things that is most striking about the Seneca Falls convention is that the Dec...

Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin on Equality

had children to raise on my own and my financial situation was not dire, but I had to earn a living and I turned to writing. Alc...

History of Women in Aviation

record of 512 miles, from Chicago, Illinois to Hornell, New York (Bilstein, 2001; House, 2006). When America entered the First Wo...

Women in Caribbean History

women did more than this, and perhaps provided a great deal of the food consumed by families. Figueroa (1996) states that the wome...

“Interpreter of Maladies” and “The Woman Warrior”

the U.S. Maxine Hong Kingston was born in the U.S.; her parents emigrated from Hong Kong. But even though she is American, the pul...

Adult Development/A Case Study

Art Institute. Each school could have one representative and Ritas art was chosen to represent her school. She won. This brief d...

Aboriginal Women in Australian Prisons

2008). When aboriginal women are imprisoned their families are left even more dysfunctional than before. Furthermore, reg...

Women: The Black Plague, the Renaissance and Reformation

feudal system. At the same time it also put the entire population of Westerners in a position where they truly questioned their fa...

Kate Chopin/The Storm

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

Lifespan Longitudinal Study

"content" baby, saying that she often preferred watching her brothers play from a playpen, perhaps because she felt protected. As...

The Terry Schiavo Case: Ethical Implications

diagnosis, Shiavo had been incapacitated and dependent on others for her care for fifteen years. Schiavos husband ultimately argu...

Case Study: Depression & CBT

patients did not respond to the same antidepressant drug. Individuals taking desipramine were successfully switched to amitriptyli...

Angelou: “Phenomenal Woman”

When she heard about the murder, she "fell silent and did not speak for five years" (Bloom). She began to speak once more when she...

The Role of Married Women in Japan

entire society will suffer. Why limit the contributions of half the population because of the tradition of male dominance? Becau...

The Position of Philosophy and Women in Ancient Greece

system in ancient Greece wherein a woman had a protector (kyrios) or one who watched over them. This was either a brother or their...

A Brochure for Women Called Greeting 40

Target audience. Most women are curious about menopause and what it will mean in their lives. Public health messages have been c...

Aging Attitudes

good job or find a second husband. (She does like being married.) She also feels that if she hadnt gotten older, her husband wou...

Sweatshops as a Women's Issue

that occurred in New York, before laws were implemented to take care of these harsh conditions. What is not widely reported is the...

Women's Rights and the Impact of Technology

little time for themselves, or to think about doing anything rather than staying ahead of what needed to be done. Because ...

Women's Influence Upon Edgar Allan Poe

death. Not simply because death equates with grief, but there is also the element of terror, the fear of a small child at the loss...

Education as a Key to Liberating Women

be educated together" (Wollstonecraft, 2005). She points out that if marriage is "the cement of society," then all mankind should ...

The Problem of Poverty and HIV/AIDS Risk for Black American Women

Study The central goal of this study is to consider the social problem of HIV infection/AIDS and the role that poverty and race/e...