Under the laws pertaining to "Of Succession- woman take clear inferiority to man in terms of inheritance, "Among Burgundians we wish it to be observed that if anyone does not leave a son, let a daughter succeed to the inheritance of the father and mother in place of the son."" ("Of Succession,"" 108) Only if there is not a son, can a daughter take full inheritance. Even if there is a son and daughter, the inheritance is not always split equally, "If moreover she has but one brother, let not half, but a third part go to her on the condition that, after the death of her who is a women and a nun...

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Many people come to America to achieve the "American dream" sacrificing their culture and traditions of their native land along the way. ... Gonzales continually stresses to his children the massive amount of struggles and hardships their ancestors had to endure to keep their culture and heritage alive, " I must fight and win this struggle for my son's and they must know from me who I am." ...

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"When talking about the history of this great country, one can never forget that America was built upon the genocide of the Native Americans and the enslavement of African people and it is criminal to say otherwise" Lee added. ... Two of Benjamin Martin's sons are taught to hide in the woods and fire at the passing British soldiers. This scene is followed by one in which one son expresses his joy of killing the soldiers and the other son lays crying and speechless as he stares motionless at the ceiling. ...

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And when the Europeans' dream land of abundance, riches and ease finally found its vessel: the American continent, the collision between the western society and the America's native Indian society was already inevitable. ... On one hand, she was mournful of her own experience, and on the other hand, she worried about her family, her husband, her son and daughter. ...

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Because France was at war with Germany, and she, a French native, was in love with a German soldier, it was socially unacceptable to be in love with the enemy, just as it was socially unacceptable for her to be in love with a Japanese man after the bombing of Hiroshima. ...

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Shelley was born in London in 1797, daughter of famous radical writers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin; both of whom exemplified the ideologies of the French revolution. Shelley's mother was a pioneer feminist writer who had made her name with her revolutionary ideas opposing the patriarchal oppression of the female gender. Her father was made famous by his radical ideologies of political and philosophical anarchism. Thus it is not unusual that, as the product of such revolutionary parents, Mary Shelley would harbour the same feminist and Romantic ideologies and subsequently challe...

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