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Class and Gender of Paris Hilton

in that respect. Her connection to wealth and her ability to spend it put her in a social class that is not...

Business Probability and Statistics

Table 1, the largest single group was women who have been with the company less than 2 years, followed by men who have been with t...

Suffering of Women and the Patriarchy in The Trojan Women by Euripides

of heroism in combat as they fought for noble causes and died for noble causes, with visions of lavish funeral rites dancing in th...

Nursing and Gender Role Stereotyping

first started to administer to the injured and the sick, the notion that nurses should be women has prevailed (Odendaul, 2004). T...

Gender and Educational Issues

suffer a decline in self-esteem at adolescence (AAUW Report). Because of their lack of self-esteem the report stated that gild fal...

Gender, Surgery, and Hypothermia

to correct these deviations (Nicoll, 2002). If the hypothalamus senses that the body is too cold, the first autonomic response is ...

Articles Reviewed on High School and Gender

most part, these identities tend to be those associated with femininity. Another article, How Girls Negotiate School found in the...

Romantic Era Human Rights and Religious Sentiments Represented by Mary Wollstonecraft

thousand years, which was directly related to the need for a shared responsibility for survival. This began to change, however, w...

Western Culture and Variations of Lingusitics, Socioeconomics, and Gender

criticism. Regardless of the form, however, it is an acknowledged fact that most forms of communication operate on a basis of rec...

Harvard Case Study of Japanese Businesswoman Sumiko Ito

value associated with women in the workplace. This discrimination then becomes a motivation, she is determined to get good job a...

Gender and Media

it is also important to recognize the way common standards, including stereotyping and the creation of the double standard, have b...

Education and Gender Bias

existing views of gender bias in education, it is necessary to assess certain educational situations and understand how cultural a...

'My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun' by Emily Dickinson

As a gun, Dickinson speaks for "Him" (line 7) and the Mountains echo the sound of her fire. Paula Bennett comments that "Whatever ...

Gender Roles and the Effect of the Great Depression

deemed suitable: nursing, teaching, office work (until marriage), waitressing, and domestic service" (p. 475). There were the femi...

Communications and Ethnography

various ways in which gender bias is expressed in English. This preference for male speech extends to the classroom setting. Clas...

Mental Illness Attitudes in a Correlational Analysis

social distance. The researchers found that individuals with some knowledge of mental illness were more likely to apply stereotyp...

Postmodernism and Feminist Therapy

has always been the primary quest of the feminist critical theory to assess the sometimes-strained yet always misunderstood relati...

Social Construction and Gender Roles

Smiler (2004) found that many of the socially constructed ideas about masculinity that are prevalent in American culture were prob...

Women's Equality and Plato

In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...

Society, Biology, and Gender Identity

environment that causes human beings to choose certain roles and lifestyles is a perennial controversy in sociobiology, but since ...

Content and Gender in Feminist Literature

Throughout history, until very recently, women have been little more than property, things men could do with as they pleased. But...

Gender Perceptions on Rape and Responsibility

Although she does not discuss this case specifically, Jacobys "Common Decency" allows insight to the Schmid cases and Oates fictio...

Great Britain and Achievement in Education

size, parents generally have managed only to replace themselves with their offspring. On a timeline that includes all of human hi...

Cheerleading and Sports Gender Constructs

peer pressure, societal norms, family expectations, all contribute towards "channelling" the individual into certain forms of iden...

Gendered Issue of Domestic Violence

independence and her equal partnership in marriage, is very much the exception rather than the rule. For the most part, women were...

Women in Sub Saharan Africa and High Rates of HIV and AIDS

on attachment to tradition and culture. Many aspects of this topic are explored and some conclusions drawn are only on the periphe...

Zadie Smith's White Teeth, Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters, and Themes of Gender and Race

all her fights are useless, futile, for there seems to be no positive movement, no positive gains made for women or blacks. She em...

Women and Men in the Sciences: Is There Any Difference in Ability?

cant say for certain, simply because women arent given the same opportunities as men to find out for sure. Women and Opportunities...

Malcolm X and Richard Wright

of his entire life was dedicated to helping the race. Wright was a man simply seeking his own identity and he seemed to have no re...

'Professions for Women' by Virginia Woolf

and they only aggravate the gender issue by putting blinders on people so as to avoid the truth. A relevant phrase in liter...