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Founded 1960 by Sir Winston Churchill. Sister College – Trinity College Oxford. Men and Women – Undergraduates 470 Postgraduates 300. Following his resignation as prime minister in 1955, Winston Churchill, the irrepressible wartime leader and Nobel Prize winner for literature, started to think about creating a lasting legacy. During his travels he had been enormously impressed with M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA) and realised it was of national importance to be at forefront

Vassar College was founded by Matthew Vassar in 1865 as an all woman 's school. Vassar, a wealthy man with no children was prepared to give his money to build a hospital that would immortalize his name, but Milo Jewett convinced him it would create a bigger legacy to build a college for women (Vassar admissions). Vassar agreed with Jewett and set about planning the school. He wanted to produce well rounded women that would eventually graduate from a college that would be considered the female equivalent

Introduction The female advantage in educational attainment is not a new phenomenon. More women than men have graduated from college since 1950. The percentage of American women who are earning college degrees has steadily increased over the past 50 years, and currently there are more women than men earning every type of college degree. There are many explanations for this trend, however, this analysis will focus on three areas including Feminism, Marriage and Divorce, and Economic Factors. Feminism

want to focus on the second part because in today’s society this seems to be what is driving our Nation apart. IS IT JUST ME…??? I saw an article today on Heatstreet.com called “White College Women Told to Stop Wearing Hoop Earrings Because It’s Racist.” It goes on to talk about two colored women at Pitzer College in Claremont, California that spray painted on the college’s

Free-and-easy sex prides itself on being commitment free, no emotional ties attached. Today, this idea of leaving all emotions at the door is the supposedly, sophisticated choice on campus. It is now well understood that traditional dating in college has mostly gone the way of the landline, replaced by “hooking up”- an ambiguous term that can signify anything from making out to oral sex to intercourse - all complete without the emotional entanglement of a real relationship. As times have changed

essays and novels provide an insight into her life experiences and those of women of the 20th century. Her most famous works include Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando: A Biography (1928), The Waves (1931), and A Room of One's Own (1929) (Roseman 11). A Room of One's Own is an based on Woolf's lectures at a women's college at Cambridge University in 1928. Woolf bases her thoughts on "the question of women and fiction". In the essay, Woolf asks herself the question if a woman

Gibson. The Gibson girl was the idea of perfect women in the early XX century until the First World War. The illustration had appeared in popular magazines, it not only had showed physical ideas, and it also had represented the behavior and the social status of the perfect American women in that time. Gibson girls had portrayed the “new woman” a women who was educated, taking advantage from the access that women obtained to have secondary and college education; a woman who had more independence. The

As I walked into the glittery ballroom once again, trying my hardest to remove the white cat hair from my black sweater, I noticed that almost everyone had heels on and ignored the Panhellenic letter that suggested we wear “church attire.” I was already nervous about having to wear an overly conservative dress that didn`t match my style for the second day of sorority recruitment, so seeing that everybody else looked like runway models only added to my nausea. However, when I looked around the room

Good Evening my fellow neighbors. Most of you know me and for the ones who do not, I am Mabel Dodge. I am the daughter from a family in Buffalo and had what was considered the best education for girls in the nineteenth- century. Instead of going to college, I got married, became a mother and soon, a widow. Later, I traveled abroad and soon married a Boston architect, Edwin Dodge who I later realized the passion I had was no more- so I divorced him. I became bored and began to crave art, the beauty and

In the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, women’s rights was a hot topic. Virginia Woolf and Alice Walker are two women with two views that somewhat agree about this topic, with the goal of finding a way to use the limited resources that they have for the good of others. They particularly use women of their time period as the major examples in their essays. But it all comes down to this. Walker in her essay “In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens” agrees with Woolf that women’s abilities were