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Mary Wollstonecraft's Influence on Feminism

This paper examines the works and life of Wollstonecraft in terms of her impact on women's suffrage and the women's rights movemen...

Mortgage Industry Discrimination

In five pages this paper argues that the income and racial biases perpetuated by the mortgage industry are responsible for the ina...

Dorothy Allison's 'Question of Class,' William Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' and Class Distinctions

In five pages these two stories are compared in terms of their presentations of class consciousness where distinctions are clearly...

China's Poverty

government policy has contributed to the income disparity between the poor rural interior of China and the more prosperous urban c...

Wealth and Poverty and Issues of Social Identity

Realization of Differences As already noted, a child is not born knowing that he or she will attend Harvard, be given a...

Reform Movements of the 19th Century

In five pages this paper examines antislavery, women's rights, prison, education, and temperance movements of the 19th century and...

Hispanic Women from 2 Perspectives

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the views of Hispanic women featured in Chiquita's Cocoon: The Latina Women's Guid...

Public Welfare and the Roles of Women According to Adrienne Rich, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and John Stuart Mill

In six pages public welfare is examined with the focus being on women's contributions in a consideration of such texts as 'Of Woma...

Honore de Balzac's Pere Goriot

In five pages this paper examines how the author intertwines aristocratic and impoverished people in 'Pere Goriot.' There are no ...

Life and Contributions of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

In 5 pages this paper discusses this powerful and important woman's contributions to justice and her championing of women's advoc...

The Poor and Welfare Reform

In seven pages this paper argues that current welfare reform measures will hurt rather than help the nation's impoverished citizen...

Argument Opposing the Flat Tax

In five pages this paper argues that the flat tax would be unfair to impoverished individuals and would furthermore be damaging to...

Society's Impoverished

In five pages this paper examines how society views its impoverished classes from religious, philosophical, political, and economi...

Moral Obligations and Feeding the Impoverished

In five pages Garrett Hardin's and Peter Singer's perspectives are included in an examination of whether or not wealthy countries ...

Irony in Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson

In five pages Robinson's poem is analyzed in terms of the poet's use of irony as a way of revealing how a wealthy man's life can b...

Linda Gordon's Single Mothers and the History of Welfare - Pitied But Not Entitled

professionals were at best ambivalent on the question of whether women, married or unmarried, should be full-time mothers or peopl...

Impoverished Students and Their Educational Needs

In five pages this paper discusses poverty in the U.S. in terms of the educational needs of impoverished students. Ten sources ar...

Women's Rights and a Speech by Sojourner Truth

offered chivalrous acts, such as with going through doors and stepping over mud puddles; however, she also acknowledges that she, ...

Marguerite Duras' Novella The Lover and 'Requited Love'

In five pages this paper discusses the impossible love between an impoverished French girl and an aristocratic Chinese man in Indo...

Sheila Baxter's Still Raising Hell

In five pages this book report discusses the discrimination against individuals who are obese or impoverished as depicted in Still...

Holding the Line

The writer examines the Barbara Kingsolver book Holding the Line, which discusses the 1983 mining strike in Arizona. The book reve...

The Origin of the Two-Tiered Economy of Brazil

The writer discusses the history of the two-tiered economy of Brazil, in which a small, powerful wealthy upperclass has kept a muc...

The Transformation of the Role of Women in Mexico

4 pages and 5 sources. This paper provides an overview of the changing role of women in Mexico during colonialism. This paper pr...

Barbados, Haiti, Poverty and Socioeconomic Problems

In eight pages this paper focuses upon the problematic socioeconomic situations of Barbados and Haiti with the U.S. hypocrisy and ...

U.S. Women's Rights History

In six pages this paper examines the evolution of women's rights in a historical consideration that includes Anthony, Stanton, the...

China and Rights of Women

In five pages this paper examines this historical problem as addressed by the Bejing UN conference on women's rights in 1995 with ...

System of Education and Assistance to Diverse Families

In five pages this paper considers impoverished and immigrant families in an examination of how the teacher's promotion of parenta...

Homeless and Nursing

In seven pages this paper discusses the health care profession's lack of providing decent care to impoverished and homeless member...

Urban Transformation

quality is poor as well, and the large number of cars coming into the region makes it unlikely that this will improve (Ezcurra and...

Questions on Macroeconomics Discussed

fired), but most is completely voluntary and generally is temporary as those affected by it actively seek other employment. Effec...