As a wife, the patriotic Frenchwoman was faithful and fecund; as a girl she was required to be virgin. ... The cahiers des doleances, May 1789, served as the first opportunity for the women of France, along with the rest of the country, to share their grievances. ... A combination of his words, and the killing of two of his guardsmen prompted Louis to comply, which brought "the baker and the baker's wife" back to Paris (6). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The United Kingdom was one of the first countries that signed up followed by other members consisting of most of the east Europe and former communist countries. ... The state must comply with its obligations within its territory and, in exceptional circumstances, in different countries where it exercises effective jurisdiction. ...

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For example, in 1999/2000 a virtual working group under the auspices of UNIFEM conducted an email exchange about approaches to violence against women which included 2300 participants in 120 countries. ... A worldwide petition campaign gathered over 300,000 signatures from 123 countries, putting the issue of violence against women at the center of the conference (Friedman 1995: 27-31). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They made a great analogy between euthanasia and heroin: As far as I am aware, all countries outlaw the sale and use of heroin. ... These are areas of concern in our country and euthanasia should be as well. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Depending on the country and specific group involved, a variety of instruments, usually crude ones such as special knives and even sharp stones are used to perform this procedure. ... It also crosses ethnic and cultural lines and is performed in many countries around the world, but is most prevalent in Africa. ... Female circumcision is currently practiced in at least 28 countries stretching across the center of Africa north of the equator (Perry, 1998). ... Furthermore, these scholars maintain that the Qur"an provide the concept of a wife being given pleasure by her husband during sexual i...

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The spouses of civil servants - their husbands were needed to know what could be the level of difference between the answers of males and females and what do husband consider his wife to be and what are the ideological constraints do they both have in participation of women with men. ... In the following chapters the work will be based on the objects to compare the level of using political rights between men and women and to find out the reasons for "unequal correlation of representation of both sexes" in political sphere of our country. ... The equality of rights between men and women...

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Many countries have followed our decision on the abortion issue and some of these include Canada, England, and France. Other countries still believe abortion should be illegal, they include Germany, Ireland, and New Zealand. ... In southern Kentucky, a man by the name of Robert Hollis brutally assaulted his wife in effort to abort the fetus he suspected wasn't his. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the modern world of high level of information accessibility and mass awareness of professionals' legal obligations, the role of decision-making in healthcare delivery has evolved into a system where health care policies and ethics has given the service users the absolute power to decide about the...

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Albert Memmi, The Two Answers of the Colonized Memmi writes that colonizers are creatures of want while all who are colonized need change. The fact that the colonizers do not see this is due either to a lack of understanding of colonization or their own selfishness. If the colonizer is acting as th...

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Prisoners retain certain basic rights, which survive despite imprisonment. The rights of access to the courts and of respect for one's bodily integrity - that is, not to be assaulted - are such fundamental rights. Others may be recognized as the law develops. Prisoners lose only those civil rights t...

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