Angered, she says, "My kinsmen will destroy everything blindly, ruthlessly when they discover I've been injured" (Narayan 65-72). ... She says, "if you reject my command, you'll be the first of your ancestors to go back on a promise for the sake of convenience" (Narayan 42-43). ... It is clear that these female voices in The Ramayana show a supreme embodiment of femininity, specifically how women have to struggle for their identity and space of honor. ...

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Further, she argues with Maria Mies that whenever women have protested against ecological destruction or nuclear annihilation, they were "aware of the connections between patriarchal violence against women, other people and nature " (Mies 1993, p. 14). ... The gap between legal and actual land ownership rights, patrilocal marriages, the segregation of public space and social interaction by age, class and gender, female illiteracy, high fertility, as well as male control over agricultural technology and dissemination of information put women farmers at a disadvantage (Agarwal 1994,p. 475; Jacks...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is my opinion that if a woman chooses to have children, they should be her first priority, not worrying about power and prestige in the workplace. ... We both must realize that being educated by mostly white males, there are areas, or empty spaces that will not be taught to us. ... Shelby Steele said something to the African Americans that applies to my point exactly. ...

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The world we live in is full of unforgiving inequality. All creatures are being categorized into different categories. Even animals are often intrinsically divided into groups according to their abilities to run, sense approaching danger, and avoid it. And each group will possess different habit...

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When she says, "I could understand that I was a bug riding on a dragon's forehead as it roams through space" (Kingston 38). ... She says, "I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes" (Kingston 38). ...

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• Grade Level: High School