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    Too her surprise the man completed the task and even served his wife a drink without a word. Many of the women told of relationship differences, the Nigerian woman was use to living in a society where the men had all the power and the women obeyed or they would get beat or cast out (Mberu, B., 2007). The Nigerian woman is closely related to some of the other women interviewed in comparison to the male and female relationship. The American stood alone when it came to this comparison

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    When compared to other minorities and women, African Americans have gone through the most unjust and horrendous treatment above all and have made the most progress in the struggle for civil rights. "Most Southerners rationalized the exploitation, brutality, injustice, and degradation of slaves with the "old assumptions of Anglo-Saxon superiority and innate African inferiority, white supremacy, and Negro subordination." (pg.435) The most important struggle that African Americans faced was slavery

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    anything new for women to be looked down upon. Women have been seen as inferior to their male counterparts. Yet, the patriarchy has brainwashed women to believe that they have to seek out a romantic, male partner. The patriarchy also has brainwashed women to stay quiet when her romantic partner is speaking negatively towards her or about her. At least, that is what many people seem to believe. There are women who are trying to fight against the war on male dominance. Even if these women are catching

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    The United States of America has always had this ideal of what the perfect women should look like in today’s world has this idea that being the perfect women is the most essential inquiry in today’s world. Photographers in the fashion industry spend hours and hours editing pictures, taking off beauty marks, shrinking curves, and taking away women’s flaws, changing their looks to the ideal body we all have in our minds, completely flawless. There’s this stereotype of the white perfect girl having

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    Susan B. Anthony and The Struggle For Women’s Rights’ Susan B. Anthony was born to Read and Lucy Anthony in Adams, Massachusetts in the year of 1820. They were very big advocates of the abolitionist and temperance movement. The abolitionist movement was a movement that tried to abolish slavery in the United States and the temperance movement tired to reduce Americans’ usage of alcohol due to the violence associated with it. Read and Lucy Anthony held meeting in their home for members who supported

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    This project will be over the National Organization for Women and the struggle for the Equal Rights Amendment. This topic will be a great way to learn about the background of how women fought for their rights, and how they gained them. This will be a great way to find out how the gender "women" established their equal rights. Women's rights are really important in today's society, so this will be a great way to learn a little more about how women came upon equal rights. Women's rights didn't just

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    they are equally as strong as men to be the ruler. Declaration of Sentiments acknowledges the gender discrimination prevailing in nineteenth century America. Even though, all men and women are created equal but women on the other hand are not treated as such. Men have always been exercising his power over the women throughout the time. History of mankind

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    African American women had a huge impact on impact of society. For many years African American women fought for their equal rights. These women fought for every woman to have a voice to prove that a woman can do anything a man can. They started by protesting for women's rights. They wore and held high in the sky to prove they mean it. We have women battling through breast cancer and they are not giving up. As long as you fight and never give up you shall reach your goal. Women in the modern day

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    The Female Struggle to Fit into Society in Little Women The Victorian Era hailed many prolific authors, which were mostly male. A woman who wanted to be a writer at this time was not respected and would have been accused of being whimsical and flighty. However, women such as Louisa May Alcott redefined the norms and followed her heart with her pen by writing Little Women. The novel follows the lives of the four March sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – detailing their passage from

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    story of the glamourous and revolutionary young white women of the roaring 20’s, the flappers, the designers, and the actresses has been praised, the story of the African American women during that time hasn’t received the spotlight they deserve. Female African American artists were instrumental in the development of the Harlem Renaissance. Enchanting blues singers, admired socialites, and poets who captured the hundreds of years of struggle African Americans endured artistically on paper, all heavily

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