When women rights activists flock to Africa with a mission to successfully convince African women of the harm and violation behind the procedure and falsify common cultural myths such that "uncut clitorises would grow branches" and prevent pregnancy, then and only then is the call for change rational. ... Most girls receive little information about the practice; when talking with one victim it is found she knows that "she is no longer a little girl, but that is all she understands." Indeed, girls have very little choice. ... It is due to the lack of choice and the powerful influence of tradi...

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In comparison to the women in the United States culture, women are given the liberty to participate in all activities and dress in any fashion that interests them. ... He can see that the women of Saudi Arabia have grown up in a culture that is forcing women to hide themselves in the presence of men and forcing women to limit themselves to segregated lines. ... In retrospect, the women of the United States are not stacking up to much more when looking at the social roles women have. Women in the United States are given the freedom to wear as much or as little as we like, however we are often s...

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In the time of the gods women were viewed as inferior to man. ... In some countries it is common for women to be seen as inferior. ... In some cultures the men are fed and nourished before the women. ... They want to women and nature to be respected. ... The companies that own these farms have so much power that the government can do very little about even regulating them, making it nearly impossible to stop. ...

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In addition women played no role in military power and were excluded from education. However, powerful women played some roles in religion and cultic service. ... However, a downfall of civilization is the injustice and inequalities of the roles assigned to women in society. ... They conquered many other civilizations showing very little mercy. ... Working under the hot sun these slaves were given very little water and many died of exhaustion. ...

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Women are expected to dress extremely modest, always wearing a skirt or dress. ... Or if two men or two women are friends, they will hold hands when walking together as a sign of their friendship. ... In their society, men are superior to women and children. ... Through this experience of traveling to Africa and seeing how different their culture is from mine, I have learned to appreciate the little things in life. ...

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Many come educated, with degrees earned in their native countries; but soon realize that their education has little or no significance in the United States job market. ... For instance, women were only granted the right to vote in 1920. ... However, obstacles such as the concept of "machismo" found in Latin American countries slows down the progress of women. ... Definitely, social status can hurt women as well. Living in poverty and under parents who still live in their traditional customs may hurt the progress of women. ...

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It is a story about a little girl who goes on a surrealistic adventure to find places and characters that were not found in her world. ... A child sees this women singing a song to her funny looking baby, while the cook is just tossing things around in the kitchen. ... The Duchess sings of her baby in a very menacing way, "Speak roughly to your little boy, and beat him when he sneezes: He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases. ...

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Little by little, the variety of the products that we can get locally is reduced and it seems that this will not stop until we are all dressed in the same way. ... For example, when you turn on the television or open a magazine, you find yourself surrounded by skinny young women who come between ourselves and reality. ...

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Little do they know it is easier to change or oppress a people due to physical differences. ... Not long after the tribe greets the family, Nathan (The Father), decides to start pushing his beliefs on the women of the village in order to fit his standards of what is civil and correct for females to do and how to dress. The women felt ashamed of their exposed bosoms, so they fixed their shawls in order to be what Nathan felt was right. ...

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Despite this, the way the aboriginals were treated was almost challenged by the way we today treat the environment (with little or no care). ... The women and girls were sexually abused and in doing so lost their rights as women. ...

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A large portion of our economy is only supported because of the money being brought in by the men and women who work out west and live in Bathurst in shifts, and we have a steadily decreasing population. ... This is almost as if we are prolonging our own city's existence by pumping outsider's money in little by little, not realizing we have limited time left before there's no one left here to show the place off. ...

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Men, women, children and families have come to seek freedom from persecution or to seek opportunity that does not exist in their own country of origin. ... However, in your mother's home, the place where you received your mother's milk, you were told to speak Spanish, taught to defend your honor and those of the women around you" (Vega 573). ... His little sister suffered rape; the women call it "the damage". ...

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A comedy about bending the rules to reach your goal, "Bend It like Beckham" explores the world of women's football, from kick-abouts in the park to free kicks in the Final. ... We tend to find humour mainly in issues that we have little information on or preconceived ideas about. ... There is also little or no accommodation on a national level for woman in "extremely physical" sports, and if there is, the pay is substantially less. ... "Bend It like Beckham's" tone of the film I think is aiming a little too desperately for laughs and the assemblage of obstacles are too carefully ...

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Also taking a method which has been seen to be somewhat loathed by critics, he has made Carnage and Culture work in such a fashion that Jean Bethke Elshtain, author of Women and War wrote that, ˜ Hanson is courting controversy again with another highly readable, lucid work Together with John Keegan, he is our most interesting historian of war[Jea01].' ... They did this with little to no contact with Greece, instead striving through their own discipline and officers diplomacy. ... The little things like this showed that the Aztec people were not as advanced culturally as the Wester...

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Winterbourne's views were quite different from his aunt due to his "old attachment from the little metropolis of Calvinism, he had been put to school there as a boy, and he had afterwards gone to college there-circumstances which had led to his forming a great many youthful friendships. ... Winterbourne's education and his liberal nature allowed him to continue his friendship with Miss Miller, a women of whom he was very attracted to. ... In Europe it is understood that young men are not at liberty to speak to unmarried women except under rare conditions. ...

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Along with that "Indian men and women look upon total nakedness with as much casualness as we look upon a man's head or at his hands." ... Neither group really understood each other, each thinking the other more than a little strange. ...

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Thompson and describes her a hideous individual, while in Andrew Stein's eyes she comes of as a beautiful blonde, thin, wonderful women. ... Besides being very fascinated on how a little outside influence like this can provoke many emotions that the tribe did not recognize agitating values and beliefs it was also affected by the way the tribe used this coke bottle for their everyday needs. ...

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Culture, as defined in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, is a: the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon man's capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations b: the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a raci...

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They way Mexican women were portrayed was that many worked endless jobs at a bra factory just to put food on the table. ... I liked doing this activity because I was able to get to know a little about someone in the class that I did not know. ...

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A sociologist found that school governing bodies often gave little or no priority to race issues and did not deal with racist behaviour. ... For example, "Bangladeshi and Pakistani women are more likely to be engaged in low-paid homeworking, sometimes for as little as £1.50 per hour. " (Flaherty 2004). ...

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" It appealed to a deep sense that the very men and women who had very little in common with normal people were best suited to mediate between believers and god".9 When looking at christianity in Ethiopia and Charlemagne's empire it is clear that christian ways have influenced them shaping society while surviving the test of time as it still lasts to this day. ...

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