Little Saigons have sprung up in U.S cities including Philadelphia, Houston, Chicago, and San Jose. ... Orange County's Little Saigon has became a major hub of the Vietnamese diaspora. ... Moreover, the presence of Vietnamese people is what makes Little Saigon more noticeable and exclusive. ... Those deliver news about their home country as well as news about their new community, Little Saigon. Little Saigon assists the newly arrived immigrants with a line of offices that provide translation services, school and job application assistance, English language classes, and employment that req...

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Women became the answers. ... Beauty defined the value of women. ... Eventually, single American-born women left the work force.6 The 1900s brought more jobs for women. ... 17 When women do not see other women at the top they get scared. ... The men feel intimidated and uncomfortable by attractive women as well as unattractive women. ...

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Similarly, the women Nick encounters reflect Fitzgerald's view of women based primarily upon his relationship with Zelda - a girl he met while stationed in Alabama who ended up following Fitzgerald to New York where the couple became engaged to be married. ... Upon meeting Daisy and Jordan, Nick Carraway noticed the "two young women ballooned slowly to the floor" (p. 12). ... Jordan Baker was "motionless with her chin raised a little as if she were balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall" (p. 13). ... The responses from the two women above are almost laughable in their...

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Job Segregation Just as the overall labor market remains sharply segregated by sex, women executives are concentrated into certain types of jobs mostly staff and support jobs that offer little opportunity for getting to the top. ... How many Women broke the ceiling? Boards Women hold 11.1% of board seats in the Fortune 500. 86% of Fortune 500 companies (429 companies) have at least one or more women director; 14% (71 companies) have no women on their boards.188 companies in the Fortune 500 have 2 or more women directors; 34 companies have three or more women directors. ... Women Executiv...

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From the little things such as the toys you played with when you were little, to the clothes you wear, how much of this can actually effect you? ... Though it isn't caused by social media, many factors could play into women feeling negatively about themselves. ... So when little girls carry around this crazily proportioned doll this is what they begin to view as beauty. ... Growing up most little girls get a Barbie and boys a G.I. ... So when little girls carry around this crazily proportioned doll this is what they begin to view as beauty. ...

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Barbara Walters did an interview with a few Afghani women, and questioned them about their treatment. ... Although there are many resources indicating that women under the Taliban rule in Afghanistan is very very unfair, many of these women are either afraid to speak out for fear of their lives, or they have just learned to accept it. For example, women under Taliban rule are not allowed to see a doctor for women's needs because male's are not allowed to touch females that are not related to them, and there is no such thing as a female doctor (Skaine 63). ... Women in this society ar...

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Approx. 87%of the British population wed and only 10% of women did not marry in America. ... The marital and property laws supported the idea that women were the inferior sex. ... This attempt to amend the Reform Act to allow women the right to vote failed. ... The 1870 Married Women's Property Act allowed women to keep their own earnings, personal property and money under £200 bequeathed to them. ... In America women were given legal status when married in 1848 under the Women's Property Act. ...

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Ever since sexual harassment received attention, there is often very little understanding and confusion among employers and employees of what constitutes sexual harassment in the work setting. ... In this paper, I concentrate on the experiences of women because even though women can sexually harass men, or there is harassment t hat takes place between the same sexes, there is very little research done on these issues. Most women give several examples, like staring. Women describe this as "undressing you with their eyes-. The women aren't referring to admiring looks, but to what they c...

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Topeka's Board of Education, that all segregated schools are "inherently unequal," 9 African American students enrolled at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The struggle between segregationists and integrationists, State of Arkansas and the federal government, and President Eisenhower and Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas became known as the "Little Rock Crisis." ... President Eisenhower, in turn, sent the 101st Airborne Division into Little Rock to ensure the safety of the 9 students, and to see that all Supreme Court rulings were upheld. ...

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There was also a substantial rise in the women's labor force during World War II when the men went off to war and the women were needed in the factories. ... Women's wage labor began to increase and men's began to decrease. ... The increase in the number of women who were becoming more educated was another contributing factor to the growing number of women in the labor force. ... Women also began to delay or forgo childbearing for a career. ... All of these reasons created an increase in the women workforce. ...

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The Women's Movement took flight in the sixties also. ... The book explained how women were being mistreated and what women can to do to be equal to men. ... In 1966, women formed the National Organization for Women. ... Two types of women's groups appeared in the United States during the 1960's. ... These organizations, known as women's rights groups, campaigned for the passage...

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Many women stood out and spoke out during the 18th century against slavery and the need for freedom. ... Women in the Abolition movement Women played a strong role in the abolitionist movement, often breaking new ground for women as well as for blacks. ... In fact, the idea for the first convention for women's rights, held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848, grew out of women abolitionists' dissatisfaction with the limitations placed on their role. ... Pennsylvania Hall was the site in 1838 of the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women. ... When the women emerged, arms linked in...

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Rights, Motherhood, and the Problem of Prenatal Drug Exposure", there are currently no laws prohibiting pregnant women from using nicotine or consuming alcohol in the United States. ... In her review, Zivi continues to give examples of women who have been charged in unique cases for seriously harming their children in uteruo due to chronic drug and alcohol use between 1987 and 2000. ... The women who choose to use and abuse drugs and/or alcohol throughout their pregnancy may be bringing a socially, physically, and psychologically abnormal generation into the world. ... All of these issues...

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Globally 80% of human trafficking victims are women and 60% are children. ... At the end in little cocoa farms all over the Ivory Coast, there are thousands of children just like Chaga who still work as slaves.... Victims of sex trafficking can be women or men, girls or boys, but the majority are women and girls. ...

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Once the first Chinese Women arrived to America the celebration once again took a happy tone. ... While the calendar was accurate it was of little help to the farmers. ... While this is often done by the whole family the women are often in charge of the task. ... Men and children play and talk through the night, as women prepare the food for the New Year in the kitchen (Roy, 2005). ... It is customary that on the second day married women visit their parents, they bring their children and gifts. ...

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Since the passage of the Harrison Act in 1914, the federal approach to drug abuse control has included a variety of ways for reducing both the supply of, and demand for, illicit drugs. At first the supply and demand reduction strategies were grounded in the traditional deterrence model: Though legislation and criminal penalties, individuals would be discouraged from using drugs; by setting an example of traffickers, the government could force potential dealers to seek out other economic pursuits. In time, other components were added such as enforcement, treatment, education, and pre-venting...

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However, even though this was the beginning of freedmen and women of the south working with the government, it was short lived. ... In an effort to once again limit the rights of the newly freemen and women, many states passed discriminatory legislation known to some as 'Black Codes'. ... "Many of the testimonies presented to the Committee were stories by freedmen and "women that were similar to previous accounts that had been brought to the attention of the government, such as the murder of Bird Sims. ...

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In sixteenth and early seventeenth century in England women's attractiveness were played by the "practical visibility and erotic half-concealment"(Korhonen 335). ... "Gay men's revenge" is predicated upon a popular mode of double seduction: the selling of male bodies to both heterosexual women and gay men. ... Specially for the black women. ... (Linsey 110) Perhaps these men and women had the idea that if they would have lighter skin color they would have better opportunities in succeeding in their career and personal life. ... In the 1950s the ads in the news papers were informing...

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Domestic violence against women is widespread phenomenon that has affected the lives and health of women's mental and physical health. ... This may happen during rape when a women is forced to have sex, is physically beaten while sex or is strangled during sex. ... Violence against women is one of the major causes of death against women in United States. Roughly 6,000 women die each year as result of domestic violence. ... It is approximated that one out of three women and one out ten men will be the victim of sexual violence at least once in their lifetime. ...

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Rates of abortions have changed little between 2003 and 2008,, forty percent of the world's women had access to legal induced abortions "without restriction as to reason". ... There is little difference in terms of safety and efficacy between medical abortion using a combined regimen of mifepristone and misoprostol and surgical abortion in early first trimester abortions up to 9 weeks gestation. ... The American Psychological Association has concluded that a single abortion is not a threat to women's mental health, and that women are no m...

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A big question surrounding the topic of prostitution is what has brought it about and what keeps women doing it. I've often wondered what drives women into prostitution. ... Many women feel it is solely their right to choose if they can have an abortion and it is unconstitutional to deny them this right of choice. ... This right guarantees the right to women, if they choose to have an abortion. ... Others believe that if the women has been raped, her life is in danger, or a victim of incest, that abortion is a valid option given these c...

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Abstract The choice that journalist face when choosing whether or not to print victims' names in media is a passionate topic that almost always ends in disagreement. Some would say that media should print and broadcast the name because it alerts people of the crime and brings truth. While on the other side it would be argued that printing the victim's name would make them live the tragedy all over again and make victims not want to report crimes. As one of the most controversial topics in law and media today, court rulings have pointed their finger in one direction and that...

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The feminist orientation gives women a voice in a world that has been dominated by male-oriented perspectives in the past. ... Mattox (1995) notes in regard to the trend in the US: "In 1975 sixty two percent of all women aged 40-44 had given birth to three or more children over the course of their life-times. ... In older days it was known that women would stay home and raise the children as the men go out and make the money. Now that times have changed, you see a lot more women in the workplace. Women sometimes give birth at a later age because they are so busy with their career. ...

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Premarital sex is when a women and man have sex before they are married. ... Women are running to abortion clinics because neither they nor their partners took the proper precautions ahead of time. ... They believe that living together is a good way to get to know a woman intimately, since "it's the little things" that can wreck a marriage. ... In the US, nine percent of young women under the age of 20 are becoming pregnant each year. ... (DeLamter, 304) Even though, we see safe sex ads all the time, young women are becoming pregnant. ...

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THE BETTER KNOWN EATING DISORDERS There are many diseases, disorders, and problem conditions involving food, eating, and weight, but in everyday conversation, the term "eating disorders" has come to mean primarily anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder (Anorexia Nervosa and Re...

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