The Civil Rights Movement also acted as a training ground for the eventual participants in the women's liberation movement. ... Advocacy continued and turned into legislative success in the passage of the Civil Rights Act. During debate over the law, women took advantage of a segregationist Congressman's likely hostile amendment to include "sex" in Title VII, which would ban employment discrimination. ...

• Word Count: 2185
• Approx Pages: 9
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As he so eloquently says in act I scene ii, "my parts, my title and my perfect soul/ shall manifest me rightly-. ... At the climax of his rage, Othello loses his virtue of reason and falls into a trance in Act IV, scene i. ... In Act I, scene iii when Othello "calls for the lady-, Desdemona in her first appearance on stage challenges her father, explaining to him that: I am hitherto you daughter. ... When Emelia is tending to her in Act IV scene iii, Desdemona asks Emelia if "thou in conscience think/ that there be women do abuse their husbands/ In such gross kind?... When Emelia is te...

• Word Count: 1558
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An individual can progress from a act of deviance that would be considered small such as petty theft, and later move to something much more serious such as armed robbery. ... Whether the act will proceed depends on how public the act is and what the tolerance quotient of the reactors is, because it is the individual set of values that determine the severity of the act. ... Becker looked at deviance as an interpretation of meaning as seen by the reactors who give the title of deviance to actors. ... Once a deviant act is noticed, the third stage is reached in which the individual is labele...

• Word Count: 1737
• Approx Pages: 7
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In "The Revolt of "Mother,"" Freeman, by comparing Sarah Penn's personality and actions to historical revolts involving men, places Sarah's female act of domestic disobedience in the context of important patriarchal revolts and shows how Sarah revolts against three male-dominated structures. ... Her act of moving into the new barn without her husband's permission is an act of "domestic disobedience" given authority through the historical precedence of patriarchal society. ... Societal standards would have forbid a woman from dictating to men how to go about their work, yet ...

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Indeed, before her rape Emma is bathed and the performance is plainly characterized as an act of healing, a reasonable act of duty. ... Noah's misinterpretations of kindness is continued in an attempt to "heal" Emma, he viciously rapes her with the Unicorn's horn thinking that this act of rape would heal her illness. ... The cruel nature of hierarchical authority structures lies in Findley's title: those who are Not Wanted on the Voyage are referred to by the dominant only as objects. ...

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To begin with, let us break down the title into its most basic interpretation which is 'what measures have our government taken to reduce inequality and improve social mobility through the medium of an education system based on equality?' ...

• Word Count: 2087
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This goes to show that Voltaire saw the aristocrats as people merely concerned with another person's title or stature in the community. ... Voltaire used this violent act to express the inhumanity of many groups who cruelly tortured others. ...

• Word Count: 1280
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

(If there are only daughters, the property is divided equally among them)' Contrary to that, in order to lay the proper social foundation, the tragic tale of the title character was saved until last. ... In accordance with the prevailing social attitudes, this was not an act of murder, but rather a justifiable homicide in what the Christian religion would describe as an "eye for an eye." ...

• Word Count: 1444
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For their child care services for children in out-of-home care, they are funded by Child Care and Development Block Grant, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and Title IV-E of the Social Security Act (Casey Family Programs, 2002). ...

• Word Count: 1722
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• Grade Level: High School

In Islamic culture, the word Shahid, originating from the Qur'anic Arabic word meaning "witness" and also used to denote "martyr," is used as an honorific title for Muslims who have died fighting in the way of Islam. ... Social groups constitute one of the most important concepts that sociologists apply to examine how people are molded and why they act the way that they do. ...

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'Secondary socialization is the wider process of learning; a child learns what is expected of them, and what is acceptable/appropriate behavior, for them; within a small group that The essay title 'all children in the UK are given an equal opportunity to succeed' is a functionalist opinion and very much subjective. ... Once labeled a 'failure', many Black-Africans acted out the role with poor behaviour and failure of exams becoming hallmarks of their final years in education. ...

• Word Count: 1664
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the story we can see how social classes influences the way people act toward one another. ... The difference of social classes often creates attitudes that are related to the title of this novel. ... (p. 289) Over exceeding of social class conscious can also effect the way how people act. ...

• Word Count: 1942
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• Grade Level: High School

The mandate men received from God was not to act reflexively and reform themselves according to God's standards, but to "be fruitful and multiply and replenish the Earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the foul of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the Earth." ... As long as resources were under title to the bourgeois, alienation among workers and exploitation of the masses would remain a problem. ...

• Word Count: 2003
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate