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    “how did women reach their goals of the time”, but before answering the question as a whole, I have to ask myself smaller questions. What “women” do I want to focus on? Surely not all women had the same “desired result”, so which angle do I want to zero in on? The plight of the housewife was very different than that of the radical feminist. As the feminist tides turned in the 1970s, women were at war with each other and with the nation as a whole. Women made demands to better their gender as a unit

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    Social Media or Social Mess According to Pew Research, 95% of teens are Internet users with an astonishing 85% using Social Media. Social Media is defined as “websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.” Social media is a huge platform for cultural revolutions and controversies. There is a large amount of potential issues with this revolution including the possibility of cyberbullying as well as the depression that can be developed

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    The Issue Of Pro Life

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    capable of bringing one to tears, whether they be out of happiness or sadness. One of the greatest gifts presented to a couple is a child when a woman becomes pregnant. Far too many times, this gift is taken for granted because two people are not married or they do not want the child. In America, there is an on-going argument as to whether or not a pregnant woman, or her close family/friends, should be allowed to make a decision to kill a fetus while it is still forming in the woman’s womb, known as abortion

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    lifestyle that Nora had given to her. Kerman knew that she wanted to get out of where she was and do something exciting with her life. She ended up moving to San Francisco with her friend Lisa. Upon hearing this, Nora asked to come along. This was the point at which signs of trouble began to emerge. Nora had asked Kerman to go to Indonesia with her to keep her company. Kerman had never been out of the country before, and she jumped at the chance. She spent her days and nights at the beach partying

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    The criminalization of HIV transmission has sparked many debates on how the law and health policy are related and how they both have a profound impact on health. HIV criminalization was a policy meant to incapacitate and rehabilitate those transmitting the disease to others while the retribution of the act would deter others from engaging in transmission . However, the harsh realities of criminalization have caused many to reconsider its original purpose. The criminalization of HIV transmission in

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    A Nozick and Dworkin comparison Philosophy of Love and Sex Introduction This paper compares and contrasts the philosophical views of two thinkers: Robert Nozick and Andrea Dworkin on the subject of Romantic Love (Eros / Being in Love). By romantic love, Nozick and Dworkin are referring to the possibility of two individuals sharing a single identity: in other words, what Nozick calls love’s bond and Dworkin calls communion. Where Nozick and Dworkin differ is over the value

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    today about a goal, do not give up. Continue marching and success may come. After all, others have come before in the pursuit of goals. Out of those who kept pursuing their dreams, a fraction succeeded. However, the rate of success among quitters is zero percent. In their pursuit of goals, people will travel far and surrender their precious time. In the poems, “The Song of Wandering Aengus,” by William Butler Yeats, and “The Cremation of Sam McGee,” by Robert W. Service, Yeats and Cap both journey

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    Medea and Othello

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    In Medea, the story plot is sort of told through the chorus. The group of woman and the nurse, kind of act as Medea’s conscious and tells Medea what’s morally right and what’s morally wrong. In a way the chorus is inside Medea’s head, yet they tell us the basic story plot and what’s happening within the story. Whereas in Othello

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    of feminists and women in general based on her previous experiences.By narrowing in on her very own life experiences and her deep understanding of the often covered up realities of the treatment of women and their reputations,she zeros in on what it means to be a woman in the present day, exposes the injustices they frequently ecounter and ultimately explains why we should all be feminists.She focuses on the idea the everyone including both men and women are both the problem and solution to the controverisal

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    There is much one can learn about this tragic blemish on our history as the United States of America. The Salem Witch Trials have been sensationalized as of late, becoming a highly popular television show, and an event that many movies have been loosely based upon. Without doing the proper research, one would think that the trials were more violent than they became. There were no witches burning at the stake, or daily hangings, or drownings, but people of the time were frightened nonetheless. The

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