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    My Untold Story was about Abby Stein, activist, blogger, educator, student and a woman living trans experience who grew up in Brooklyn, NY from an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. This Yiddish speaking ultra-orthodox religion has minimal contact with the non-Jewish world and very limited access to technology. Assigned male gender at birth and as a rabbi in this community, Abby married at 18 years old with the marriage producing two children. Abby left her community to explore alternative views and

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    How often do young women get to meet the people they idolize, the actresses who mold the shape of who they want to be? In the Canby community, the most outstanding woman I have ever met has risen above the bar set by Hollywood celebrities. Abby Marine's spirited leadership, vigorous personality, and contagious determination has emboldened the Women's Choir and countless other girls in the community of Canby High to embrace themselves. As a girl living in a world where women are finally beginning

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    Women In Chrysanthemums

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    According to Barbara Wellers women in the nineteenth century were to hold the four cardinal virtues. Piety, purity, submission, and domesticity. Women were believed to be more religious and spiritual than men. Women are pure in heart, mind, and body. They were to be held in “perpetual childhood” where men dictated all their actions and decisions. There was a division between home and work, encountered by industrial revolution. Men went out into the world to earn a living while females were at

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    The Church's Template

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    Women play a complex role in Robert Orsi’s The Madonna on 115th Street, at some points exercising power and at other points exercising less power than men. In Italian Harlem when describing a “domus,” the woman at the center is the one actually being described. A domus, according to Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie, “constitute[s] a formidable reservoir of power and counter-power which could hold out with some degree of success against the external powers surrounding it.” Italian women in Harlem had no direct

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    The New Black

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    a panel of women who had all previously been to prison. This panel was particularly interesting because these women were the inspiration for the television series Orange is the New Black. The Netflix original series is based on Piper Kerman’s book of the same name. The book was based on her experience in the women’s prison Danbury, which is located in Connecticut. Piper wrote about her personal story and the stories of many of the women she interacted with. Several of these very women came to Suffolk

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    Women in Business

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    Women Entrepreneurs in Business While women still face an uphill battle when it comes to breaking the corporate glass ceiling, many women are finding success these days as entrepreneurs, building their own businesses without those ceilings to hold them down. The growth rate of women-owned businesses has climbed steadily, even as they continue to face challenges with getting the financing and other assistance they need to succeed. However, there's no doubt that women entrepreneurs are, as a group

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    Question 3, (p. 1135): What are the “trifles” that the men ignore and the two women notice? Why do the men dismiss them, and why do the women see these things as significant clues? What is the thematic importance of these “trifles”? The narrator sets the scene; the cold kitchen of the farmhouse the day after John Wright was found murdered in his own bed with a rope around his neck. Nothing has been touched except a fire has been started on the stove to warm the place a bit for when the sheriff

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    The Fight for Women Document 23.2 The British Parliament 's passing of the Contagious Disease Acts in 1866 resulted in Josephine Butler writing a letter to the International Convention of Women in Washington. The purpose of the act was to reduce prostitution and sexually transmitted diseases, specifically occurring within the military forces. Butler’s letter included topics, arguments, and political issues women had to work on even though they were not given the right to vote or engage in politics

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    Dorothy Allison who tells her story growing up in a memoir and she uses her experiences to explain the two or The things she learned. What makes this her story stand out is not just that it 's a memoir but also because the main point is beauty and how women in her family were put down and abused because of their appearance. Throughout this whole book Dorothy tries to send out one important message on beauty which from my understanding beauty is not based on what men say or society says, we live in a world

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    A Room of Ones Own by Virginia Woolf Essay

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    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

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