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    Life is full with “Clark Kents”, too frightened to show the world “Superman”. “John Updike’s A&P”, takes a unique journey into the mind of a young man, searching for his own individuality and the difficult, yet necessary decisions that comes along with it. Many times in life we defer to taking the safe route, as opposed to taking the road less traveled, because naturally as humans we fear the unknown and or unanticipated. Furthermore, what complicates this dilemma is that we also fear living with

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    The propaganda poster “Are You?” by Lori Song explicitly uncovers the reality and future of the comfort women controversy between Korea and Japan. A sensitive part of both countries’ history, comfort women were Korean females who were sent to Japanese armies as sex slaves during WWII, a time when Korea was colonized by Japan. In 2015, the two countries settled an agreement that was considered the final talk on the issue. As part of the settlement, Japan gave $8.3 million as reparation and Korea agreed

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    positive (Kolcaba & Kolcaba, 1991). After the examination of the use of comfort in the past it was then looked at in the present time that Kolcaba was working within. Organizations like American Nurses’ Association and The Department of Health, Education and Welfare used the term comfort in stating their standards of care. The multiple works of theorists

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    Some say women cannot accurately shoot a gun or that they are not built for combat because of their low stamina and strength, or that they are not worth investing in because of all the time they spend training and teaching females to be as good as their male companions. The role of women in society are changing. Throughout history women have been helping the military through sending care packages to the front lines or by volunteering to train as nurses. Then when education became available for women

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    Character Identification In the book Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, out of the four main characters, I most resemble the little person Haw. Right away, it was obvious I was not like the mice. I am a thinker. Sniff and Scurry reacted far too immediately for me. When the change happened, they were already out in the maze seeing what they could find. Change tends to affect me more heavily than it did the mice. I tend to use a combination of brainpower and emotion when I am looking for my

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    years, the military totally excluded women from certain combat jobs due to their gender. “For most of the history of the U.S. military women have only served in roles in the medical field or clerical support” (Barry,19). Some of this is due to the different physical abilities between genders; cost of logistics and military effectiveness. We should not make every combat arm Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) of the United States military gender neutral. “Women were made a permanent part of the military

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    The search for self-actualization in Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal Dreams Self-actualization is the greatness achieved by someone through his or her full potential. This can be done through one’s creativity, a deeper understanding of the real world and gaining independence. In Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal Dreams, The story focuses on the journey of self- actualization with the main character Codi. She was able to connect with peacocks to aid in finding her true self. She was also able to become more

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    novel “Little Women” displays interesting qualities from her characters that represent aberrance and independence; Alcott challenged conventional beliefs about how women should behave in the 1800s. Similar to Alcott herself, the main character was determined to become a writer “despite the fact that popular portrayals of working women during the era often pictured them as socially deviant” and was considered unfit to become a motherly figure (Alcott, Louisa May). She wrote Little Women as a “‘moral

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    The classic tale of “Little Woman” has taken a place on many bookshelves throughout the world. The story follows the March girls through 15 years of their lives and is written in a very pronounced omniscient voice. Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy live with their mother in New England. Their father is away serving as a chaplain in the war, and the sisters struggle to support themselves and keep their household together. In the process, they become close friends with their wealthy neighbor, Theodore Laurence

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    collected online to support Jacqueline Sauvage (Yanan Wang,2016).French President Francois Hollande has reacted to an extensive plea that has mushroomed all over social networks to free Jacqueline Sauvage from prison and has pardoned her. SNS helps women to voice their problems that become embraced trans-locally, thus assisting in cross-border activism. #BringBackOurGirls was a powerful movement which transcended countries, religions, and ideologies, demanding safe homecoming of Nigerian school girls

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