Like other women, they are burdened with the problems of being women in a male-dominated society that does not fully value the feminine perspective. ... Little is known about this woman who as a child "supposedly- roamed the woods with the Chippewa's. ... She was appointed as a resident physician at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, which was a hospital owned and operated by women physicians, from 1972-1881. ... Rebecca Cole started a Women's Directory Center to provide medical and legal services to destitute women and children in Philadelphia. ... She had given little i...

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By paying the factory workers as little as possible and producing as much product as possible the business workers were never worried about where they stood in society because everyone besides them were unable to break past the walls between the classes Owners of major corporations would disagree with Eugene Debs" opinion that the capitalist system is "incapable" of meeting the needs of the people in society for many reasons. ... Big business owners became quickly focused on mass production at the fastest pace possible, by paying the workers as little as possible. ... Jane Addams was a fort...

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Instead its conception has affirmed women to be fragile and it has also depicted women to not have the skills or talents to play and compete alongside men. ... Girls are often shunned away from little league games due to the toughness, manliness, or the possibility of becoming a tomboy. ... It wasn't that women were not physically capable of sharing the field with men, they were afraid of women taking the spotlight. ... Individuals opposed to women sharing the field often use the excuses that women are not as strong as men and smaller them as well. They often associate women with weakness...

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With restrictions on where Black men and women could work in the South, there were virtually no jobs but the previous slave duties they had. ... Just being who she was, broke the stereotypical role African Americans and women were portrayed in society at that time. ... She challenged racial hierarchy, by inquiring the ideal that white women were moral and chaste and black women weren't she sited instances where the sex between white women and black men were consensual and where white men had raped black women for years. She touched on subjects that no one dared to and did it just as go...

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Collins tries to identify with material experience, and the relationship amongst women. ... Women participated in task normally seen as men's work when needed, but there's little evidence that men performed women's work of nursing and caring for children. ... Black men cannot get over the image of the matriarch, and keep producing babies with black women who have very little economic and social support. ... She says women expect men to act as women, which is not fair to the male identity. ... So in most black communities women have agreed to share the mothering responsibilit...

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Throughout his essay she mentioned several women. Every woman in her eyes played a role in shaping the future of all women. ... Cooper also has a section written directly about African American women. ... The powers loving nurturing compassionate and just being a woman, though the seemed little were very mighty when a woman's mind was made up to what she believed to be right. ... African women didn't see themselves as innovators or designers. ...

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Walker, Marshall, and Hurston; Women writing other Women Alice Walker, through her essay "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens", and Paule Marshall, in "Poets In The Kitchen", both write about the African-American women of the past and how these women have had an impact on their writing. ... These women were searching for independence and freedom. ... Walker and Marshall celebrate these women's lives and they see them as inspirations to become black women writers. ... Some of these women had the potential to be great writers. ... These black women may have been treated li...

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Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield were both brought up as African-American women in a time where race was a social issue and of confusion. ... Both of these women come from a mixed ancestry, which gives them a very light-skinned complexion. ... In a sense she is also jealous of Claire's social status as passing as a white women. ... "Her lips, painted a brilliant geranium-red, were sweet and sensitive and a little obstinate. ... Nella Larsen's book exemplifies a wide range of women's issues in the earliest part of the 20th century. ...

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She made a difference in women's history and in african american history. Harriet wasn't just a slave she was a women slave and i quote Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women. ... Also had a great impact on the rights for women and african americans to vote. ... She always somehow managed to find a little bit of happiness and not look at the negative parts of life. ... Harriet is a very inspirational women for me and many other people....

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It will not only focus on the statistics amongst the races but also will discuss the average age, social status, and educational achievement of the people sentenced to die, the difference in the crimes that got them sentenced, and the small amount of women who have been faced with this court decision. ... Women have also played a very little role in the Death Penalty. Of the nineteen thousand executions only five hundred and fifteen have been women. ... They say the trend is of people who are poor, low in social status, and have very little resources. ... Now that you have read this I hope ...

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Beloved The setting, time, and main characters of the film Beloved all point to struggling aspects of African Americans and African American women in particular. ... It was because of women like her that African Americans have more control over their own freedom today. ... In Beloved, African Americans were basically understanding their freedom and struggling to make due with what little they did have. ... These people before hand, especially Sethe, dealt with prejudice, but that was just a little aspect of it. ... Beloved is a child who suffers a little mental-retardation from la...

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The most influenced by the growth in my opinion would be the women. Women were beginning to take on roles other than the typical housewife. ... Many employed women and children. They had long hours, little pay and harsh working conditions. ... Women especially shocked all with new hair styles and skimpy clothes. ...

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However there is little that can be done to change the frame of mind symbolic of society as a whole. ... Women's teams are not funded as equally as the men's teams. This goes even for college athletics, in the NCAA with equal men and women on campus, only 30% of operating budgets are given towards women's sports. ... Only fiver percent of televised sports contain women's events. Women play more fundamentally which is in fact, boring. ...

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I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit 1." African-American women had been under the racism and sexism of their environment for centuries. ... In her book, Giddings attempted to show the correlation between the gradual evolutionary dissipation of racism and sexism with the advancement of both African-Americans and women. 3) The primary way that African-American women were able to promote their independence was by noting the hardships that they had overcome - their experiences under slavery, their participation in the work force, their politic...

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This movement was led mainly by women, "That this was a grassroots struggle organized largely by local women-with the most charismatic leader being a woman-does not fit with prevalent conceptions of what the black freedom struggle looked like." ... Black schools were overcrowded, badly equipped, received very little funding and had outdated curriculums. ... Felicia Kornbluh's Black Buying Power: Welfare Rights, Consumerism, and Northern Protest demonstrates how the women's grassroots activism in the South heavily impacted a vast majority of underprivileged black women who were involv...

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The women in The Color Purple are all expected to abide by certain standards that differ from the men. ... The difficulty in relations between black men and women had its source in white male-dominated society. Within white society, men were expected to control the family and had status over women. ... White men felt superior to not only white women, but all men and women of color. ... Like most black people in the South during that time, Celie and Albert had little opportunity to move up from the working class. ...

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Does not the tem negative discrimination seem a little redundant? ... For thousands of years, women had been virtually silent. ... It wasn't until the Woman's Suffrage Movement that women finally demanded equality. As a result of the Woman's Rights Movement, women were able to do anything such as vote and go to work. Even then, women were still being deprived of employment because they were seen as weak and helpless. ...

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There are also little similarities like both elections were held on the exact same day, November 7th. ... Another difference is the fact that women couldn"t vote, and even though African American men could vote, people didn"t want them to, especially the democrats. ... Today, women and people of all ethnic races are allowed to vote and not kept away from voting booths. ...

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Being from two totally different generations, Tupac Shakur and Howlin' Wolf may seem to have little in common, besides the fact that they are both black men, and their birthdays being in the same month. ... "Back door man" is a phrase used in Southern culture to describe a man who sleeps with married women while their husbands are gone, then slips away, usually out the back door. ... " "I Get Around" is also a phrase about men (or women), who sleep with more than one person. ... Some can relate to the songs, and appreciate the humorous and realistic lyrics, whi...

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My name is Rehanna Little and I have had the great opportunity to grow up next to such an inspiring women names Josephine Baker. ... Her work ethic was also so persistent and she was such a strong and independent women, which is why she inspires me in many ways. ... At one point she was the most photographed women in the world and earned more than any entertainer in the world. ...

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There was little played out in the movie "Mississippi Burning" about the activists, but through out you hear a little more about them. ... After dramatizing certain events like the rapes and burning down the of houses of the black men, women, and children as well as beating them for no reason, the people in the audience are ready to become civil rights activists themselves. ...

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Women of color are judged according to white standards of beauty", and consequently they are always considered ugly. ... In addition, white beauty becomes equivalent with goodness and wholesomeness and even Pecola's father Cholly imagines God as "a nice old white man, with long white hair, flowing with beard, and little blues eyes"(pg 134). ... Being a black little girl in a society that idolizes blonde-haired blue-eyed beauty, Pecola sympathizes for the dandelions because she knows what it is like to be devalued. ...

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Covey gave Douglass severe whippings, cutting [his] back, causing the blood to run, and raising ridges on [his] flesh as large as [his] little finger (101). ... When reading about slavery one might think of black men, women and children tied together forced to work hard, and whipped if they did not comply with their master's demands. ...

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On December 1, 1955 a black women named Rosa Park refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery Alabama city bus to a white passenger. ... Desegregation at Little Rock started in 1957. ... (The Little Rock Nine: Integrating Central High, Pg. 1). ... Three of the Little Rock Nine students moved away. ... (The Little Rock Nine: Integrating Central High, Pg. 2). ...

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The letter spoke of how women in America could marry for love and not money. ... When Mary first stepped off the boat she was a frail young women. ... Luckily for her many Irish women were getting involved in the maid business. ... Those who could not would tell their employers that they stayed behind because they were faithful while secretly hoping to get a little extra money so they too could have a better life up north. ... Some got paid so little that it was almost impossible to survive. ...

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