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    Virginia Woolf is considered a foremother of the feminist movement for many reasons. She was a big advocate on women being able to receive the same education as men, to be able to make their own wages, as well as have their own property, and the ability to freely travel on their own. Growing up in a family where the boys were able to go away to an academy to be educated while her and her sister had to stay at home and learn from the literature in her father’s library, she’s been able to see the

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    Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own focuses on the women’s roles in fiction throughout a patriarchal society. The essay is constructed as a narrative in the mind of Mary Benton at Oxbridge College where she reinvents history by creating women in literature where there are not any. The character of Judith Shakespeare, sister of William Shakespeare is made. Judith is a representation of how women have been over looked and unappreciated for their minds since the beginning of history. Judith is just

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    “The Impact of Celebrity Endorsement On A Customer’s Buying Behaviour” Reviewing The Literature: This literature review aims to provide a comprehensive account of the different theories which will provide frameworks for answering market research questions relating to “The impact of celebrity endorsement on a customer’s buying behavior” and using celebrities in advertising and endorsing different products. Various Theories selected within this literature review are those which constitute a core

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    “The Impact of Celebrity Endorsement On A Customer’s Buying Behaviour” Reviewing The Literature: This literature review aims to provide a comprehensive account of the different theories which will provide frameworks for answering market research questions relating to “The impact of celebrity endorsement on a customer’s buying behavior” and using celebrities in advertising and endorsing different products. Various Theories selected within this literature review are those which constitute a core of

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    When liberal reformers presented proposals for women to attend university, they were greeted with incredulity; so radical and extreme was the concept in the 19th century. However, pioneering liberals are nothing if not persistent and in 1871 Newnham College was formed by philosopher Henry Sidgwick, a fellow at Trinity, along with his future wife Eleanor Balfour, local suffragist Millicent Garrett Fawcett, and the college’s first principal Anne Clough. ‘The Association for Promoting the Higher Education

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    Published in 1929, "A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf is deliberated the earliest major work in feminist criticism. This work of fiction scrutinizes on women’s capability of producing a high-quality literary work as well as, highlights on the restriction and limitations that female writers encounter. After deploying a number of fundamental causes on why there has been inadequacy in the number of female writers, Woolf fixes their minority status mainly to socio-economic factors, specifically

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    As for Google it is known for have a multicultural workforce however they lack on the amount of women working at google one of the reasons for this is they nature of the business, technology most women are actually not interested in technology jobs so it more prominently dominated by males. For this reason it more likely for the best candidates to be male as to there is more of them. However Google is using the diversity management to attract more employees from and develop the world’s most talented

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    Death Be Not Proud

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    and Tony Harrison both discuss death in their poems. They were written in different eras and both poems have different views on this subject. John Donne had a rather privileged upbringing as he was born into a prosperous family and studied law at Oxbridge. Donne, however, was also unfortunate as he lost is father very early in his life and this could have affected his views on death. Tony Harrison on the other hand was born into a proud working class family in Leeds. Harrison’s poem is completely

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    Subject: Law Question Number or Title: It has been consistently argued that the judiciary in England and Wales is not reflective of society. Critically consider the explanations for the lack of diversity within the judiciary and the extent to which government legislation and initiatives have tried to increase diversity within the judiciary? Student number: 149011027 Total word count: 1252 Over the years, judicial diversity has been an issue of concern for Wales and England. Reform initiatives

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    passion: I read French novels and articles and I listened to French music and podcasts. And yet, I craved more. I spent my summer after junior year seriously pursuing proficiency in French by taking a language immersion course in Montpellier through Oxbridge Academy. This gave me the opportunity to take classes in French, speak French constantly, and experience French culture firsthand. Being able to speak French in France made me feel like a local, as if I had earned entry into a culture that was not

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