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Is the Feminist Fight Over?

was still needed, women split almost in half, with 48% saying yes and 45% saying no (Poll: Womens movement worthwhile). When men...

FBI Counterintelligence and the Civil Rights Movement

years earlier and prior to the U.S. involvement in World War II. The 1940 Smith Act criminalized any advocacy of "the overthrow o...

Gothic Movement in Literature

Davis also indicates that many scholars find Mary Shelleys Frankenstein to be incredibly fascinating and a far darker story than h...

Stem Cell Research/Not an Ethical Issue

equivalent. Stem cells are extracted while the embryo is, as yet, an undifferentiated ball of microscopic cells referred to as a b...

Greensboro Sit-Ins

turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...

Legal Issues and the Woman's Movement

professional schools" (Eisenberg and Ruthsdotter, 1998). The results have been amazing: "The number of women doctors, lawyers, eng...

Evolution of the Business Organization

of the colonies and increasing standards of living were attributed in part to the increased ability to produce more than ever befo...

'Beat Generation' Writers Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Neal Cassady

In eighteen pages this paper examines the American 'Beat Generation' literary movement popular during the 1950s in a consideration...

Free Speech and the University of California at Berkeley

In eleven pages this paper examines the University of California at Berkeley's 1964 Free Speech Movement. Eight sources are cited...

Military Women During the First World War

This paper examines the feminist movement and its impact upon women in the military during the First World War in twelve pages. S...

Reflections on Five Hundred Years of American History

In five pages five centuries of American history are considered in an analysis of significant quotes with political movements, civ...

The Ideals of Feminism

This paper discusses the ideals of feminism. The author defines the movement as an act to enhance womens' quality of life by chan...

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

her communist sympathies" (Lean 46). On the other hand, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas pronounced Silent Spring to be ...

Industry Safety Concerns Involving Storage of Hazardous Materials

Hazardous materials incidents can include gas and vapor releases, spills, explosions, and fires. When people are exposed to such i...

Louis Pasteur and 'The Germs Of Dissent and The Origins Of Life'

own ideals of the impossibility of such an occurrence. The concept behind spontaneous generation is that "life can form from dead...

Feminist Movement, Middle Eastern Women, and Gender Discourse

In twelve pages the regions of Iraq, Palestine, and Jordan are examined in a discussion of gender discourse and the feminist movem...

Nazi Party Resistance

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the Nazi Party that existed in France and Germany with resistance movements the pri...

Black Middle Class and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

to such an extent that?in retrospect?these witnesses now see the African-Americans who suffered as people, and not as "other." The...

Millerite Religious Movement of William Miller

In fourteen pages this paper examines the life of William Miller and the impact of the religious landscape of his childhood upon h...

History and Evolution of Hare Krishna

of Hare Krishna, which partakes of the spiritual side of life by eschewing that which is overtly materialistic and shallow. Creat...

Civil Rights and Political Action

In 1896, Plessy v. Fergusson asserted that "equal but separate" accommodations for blacks on railroad cars did not violate the "eq...

1920s' U.S. Labor Movement

and had existed since about 1900. It had grown quite large over and decade or so and was even able to stage a walk out in 1916. In...

Weimar and Dessau Phases in Architecture's Bauhaus Movement

witnessed in the arts was the combination of the Weimar Academy of Arts, the Weimar School of Arts and Crafts, and the newly affil...

Canada, The Philippines, and Women's Roles

the open. The center believes that in the near future the women in the rural areas will be treated better and that the living cond...

South Africa, the United States, and Civil Rights

In 1954, for example, the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown v Topeka asserted that the separate but equal concept...

Eamon de Valera and Irish Politics

run in Ireland. Perhaps it was his earliest experiences in America that led to his stubborn refusal to accept the Irish political ...

Piano Concerto in A Major by Wolfgang Mozart

provides color, form and melody throughout the work (Landon, 1956). In general, Mozart employed two types of punctuation tools t...

Critical Factors in The Battle of Chickamauga

primary adversaries would be Confederate Generals Braxton Braggs 19th Alabama Infantry Regiment, a regiment which both by design a...

Civil Rights Movement and Its Origins

We would be living in Utopia, Nirvana, Serendipity or some other mythical place of perfection were it possible for that principle ...

Serving a Volleyball and its Kinesiology

spin in a particular movement (Hudson 54). Kinesiology is an area of study that considers the developmental sequences that defi...