...be needed to impregnate women physically. Opposed to biodiversity, the other downside to these scientists logics is that every other human being will just appear as another sperm donor’s child. These factors take away a traditional role for a man which is to be able to provide half of the production process. Scientists take away the nature portion of reproduction. Single women and lesbian couples who want to raise a child or children without the help of a man diminishes a man’s role as a father figure. In addition to the previous statement, independant women’s income is increasing making men less needed to support a woman or a family financially because the woman is financially independent and doesn’t need a man. A really great portion of Moloney’s article that I appreciated was how he described men as being fierce which allows them to be able to protect a woman, their children or the elderly from any harm. Moloney continues to explain that as opposed to men, women are also protectors. Women protect in ways such as protection towards their family, marriage generation and entities. Moloney said that this type of protection from women lasts far more longer than the protection a man can give. I really applaud that he says this because women do not need men for what society believes is best. It is best to be the protector of saving your family andmarriage because all the physical protection you can receive can result in bad conflict. I also pride that women can be their own financial...
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...Women of the Depression Era Trista Winchell ENG/220 08-16-2015 Ashlei Woelk Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have grown up in a different time or era? Or how the circumstances we grow up around shape us, are personality and are qualities and morals. Think about it, how different lives would be? According to the (Forum on child and family statistics) our demographic background, family and social environment as well as our economic circumstances, physical environment and education, all play a role in shaping who we become, so it’s safe to say growing up in a different time or era, would shape our lives and personalities. This is something I see when I look at my grandparents, my grandmothers Mary and Margret. Both of these wonderful women have a lot in common in how they think, believe and see the world. All though they both grew up with a different demographic background, the same social and economic circumstances they endured, play a major part in who they became as women. Both of my grandmothers were born in the 1930’s in the middle of the great depression and times were hard, this was also a time when there were a lot of pre-conceived opinions about women and their place in society. This is no doubt why my grandmothers are such strong women. because of the time and circumstances they both grew up in, my grandmothers have a lot in common and they share a lot of the same characteristic traits, but they are their own persons with their own unique personalities...
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...Woman’s Rights - Comparative Essay - Hinduism vs. Sikhism Throughout the history of religion, the dialectical process has been in full effect. The dialectical process begins with a thesis, an established entity. In opposition to the thesis, there is an antithesis. The antithesis spawns from the thesis due to oppression, objection or similar matters. This process is generally what happens within religion as well, and how the formation of new religions occur. Sikhism, a religion formed from Hinduism, demonstrates the dialectical process. Within this paper, I will be comparing Hinduism and Sikhism, and the rights of woman within each religion to demonstrate how Sikhism is more progressive within woman’s rights and gender equality. Hinduism is mankind’s oldest living religion; it is a religion that is said to be mother to all religions. It consists of many different religious groups that have evolved in India since 1500 BCE. One of Hinduism’s intentions is to lead individuals to live in unity with dharma, the right way of living, through it’s practices. Hinduism believes in many deities, and accepts that there is no correct way of practice as long as an individual’s ambition is dharma. The Bhagavad Gita, Hinduism’s holy book, quotes, “You are what you believe in. You become that which you believe you can become.” Sikhism is the youngest world religion. It was founded nearly 500 years ago in the Punjab region of India. Currently, there are about thirty million Sikhs in the...
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...I'm in full agreement in John Stoltenberg's notion that male sexual identity is entirely a political and ethical construction. Men should refuse the current model of masculine sexual identity, and learn one built on a different set of ethics that is not based on female objectification and dominance. Stoltenberg argues that we are not born belonging to one or the other of two sexes, but instead we are multisexed. Each persons genitalia is developed from exactly the same piece of tissue. “If you look at all the variables in nature that are said to determine human “sex,” you can’t possibly find one that will unequivocally split the species into two.” Gender is a socially constructed idea and while biological sex is a part of gender, it is not finite. In other words, being born with a penis or vagina does not biologically determine who you’ll be later on in life. People born with vaginas are taught to be girls and people born with penises are taught to be boys. This socially reproduced idea of categorizing two...
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...Great-Man Theory Defining a Leader Omar Quesada Webber International University Introduction As I have read about it, a particular interest in my has been raising about the wonderful way many people has utilized their natural abilities as a medium of reunion and leadership. I found a string link between this gifts or skills these men had and their particular behavior in the time they lived. I would like to talk about the special characteristics that had to be present; more specific the building process of a divine individual, a prophet capable of guiding its people and the importance they have represented to humanity, whether realistic or not, since the theory has been around ever since. Great-Man Theory In order to get to know more about the theory of the great man, we should not ignore that this is a theory based on leadership. So, what is leadership? Scholars have defined leadership as “ the process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task”. To my personal beliefs, leadership is: a medium to an end, it is a very particular tool with which gifted individuals in the interpersonal field can either alone or together command, guide, and lead another group of people towards completing an established goal by cheering, supporting and setting a relation with the subordinates based on a strong dose of trustworthiness. Now, the Great-Man theory of leadership according to...
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...Gabriella Twersky The Role Of Women In The Byzantine Empire Without a doubt the Byzantine Empire was a fascinating culture with many different background oriental cultures to it. In the Early Middle Ages, the Byzantine Empire flourished under the leadership of the Emperor Justin (527-565), and his co-ruler, his wife the Empress Theodora. Justinian began his political leadership under his uncle and that is when he met Theodora. Before meeting Justinian, Theodora was full of low class undertakings. Her father worked in the circus, and sometimes Theodora would perform as well and be an off stage prostitute. She was extremely smart but her background set her back. She moved to Egypt and that is where she became a Christian. Later she returned to Constantinople, met Justinian and they both fell in love with each other. Marriage was not possible for them because they were not of the same social status. Roman law did not allow a patrician to marry someone below him. Somehow Justinian convinced his uncle to get a law passed in the senate and they were happily married. Women in the Byzantine Empire did not have much of a say or position. Being a woman was hard because of all the struggles they had to deal with just because they were a female. Women could barely get any jobs and because of that a lot of women chose the wrong paths for their life just like Theodora did in the very beginning. Women spent most of their lives at home. “Keep your daughters as prisoners, confined...
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...{ATTENTION}{RELEVANCE} In today’s society, a hot topic of discussion is rights. The rights of minorities, the rights of women, the rights of gays and the list goes on. It is relatively easy to voice opinions on rights. Most of us could pull our phones out rights now, post a status on the matter and would never face any backlash for what we just posted. It was not always that easy. Early America was dominated by white men and anyone who did not fit the requirements had little voice on any subject matter. So image a black woman speaking out against civil wrongdoings in the mid 1800’s when slavery and black oppression was still very much alive. Today I will be speaking of a woman who did just that. Sojourner Truth. {THESIS} She spoke for those who were not free to speak and her courage was matched by few. {CREDIBILITY} All information presented here today has come from sources sponsored by A&E Television Networks and Sandbox Networks, Inc. Due to the fact Ms. Truth was born into slavery, no official record of her birth was ever made. It is estimated that she was born sometime in 1797 in upstate New York. She was one of 12 children, born to John and Elizabeth Baumfree. Sojourner was not her birth name though, she was originally born as Isabella Baumfree, but changed it later in 1843. Sojourner's...
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...Code of Hammurabi provides evidence that women had few rights and were seen as inferior to men. Women had the right to divorce therefore protecting them in that way; even if they left their husband, they wouldn’t be left with nothing. The law clearly states that a portion of the field, garden, and property shall be given to her. 1 The man controlled the finances in the family but there also had to be certain funds set aside for the women and their children. They were also able to buy and sell property giving them somewhat of an equal right as men. They could be property owners if the man bought a property and assigned a field, garden, or house to his wife or children.2 Another law that attempted to defend women, specifically pregnant women, stated that if a man were to strike at a pregnant woman and she had a miscarriage, he were to pay her ten shekels, and if the woman died, his daughter were to be killed.3 The punishment the man got for killing the woman's unborn child...
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...manner. However, there are several high profile cases in the media, when the issue of ‘sex’ has come into question. Perhaps most recently is the case of South African athlete, Caster Semanya. Semanya won the 800m race during the African Junior Championship, with the fastest time of the year. This lead to some spectators questioning her sex. When looking at the athlete she has an incredibly muscular and angular frame, and this coupled with her record breaking run made the International Athletic Association ask for a sex test. This case brought the issue of ‘sex’ into much disrepute. Now, we are led to believe that there is a third option, rather than just Male or Female. Scientists use the term ‘intersex’ to describe an individual who is ‘born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that does not seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male.’ (Tasmanian Department of Education- 2010). This somewhat confuses the majority of definitions of ‘sex’ now that we are aware of a...
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...In the 17th and 18th centuries, Isaac Newton made new discoveries in physics which influenced thinkers around him such as John Locke, Adam Smith and others. These philosophers did not all agree, but they each challenged thoughts on many different areas of society. The main idea of the Enlightenment philosophers was individual freedom. For example, John Locke believed in freedom to choose their own government in order to protect natural rights. Adam Smith’s said if all men are allowed freedom to make their own economic decisions it would increase the overall economy. If women had the same freedoms as men, Mary Wollstonecraft believed that they could then make similar contributions to society. Adam Smith expresses the idea of individualism...
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...educated elite. One famous example of this is in the Declaration of Independence where it says “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Another example is from The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. The first point it makes is that, “Men are born and remain free and equal in rights; social distinctions may be based only upon general usefulness.” The first part of the sentence says that men are considered equal in their rights as people but not necessarily equal in...
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...a very oppressed minority, African American women. Raisin in the Sun has a lot of social and economic conflicts within the play and the characters are representing a race that is being harshly treated in the midst of the Civil Rights and Woman’s Rights struggle. Woman’s rights is something that women are battling today. I was once told, by my employer’s bookkeeper, I was making woman’s wages, which I thought I was making pretty good money. I never thought that a man doing my same job, would be getting paid more than me. Women continue to battle an inequality between men and woman’s earnings, in the same positions, in today’s society. I couldn’t even imagine what it would be like living in the 1950s and being discriminated against by Caucasians for the color of your skin and African American men because of your gender. During the 50s, both women and African Americans were having a hard time being heard. They had to demand their rights, but African American Women fell right in the middle of a venn diagram of the Civil Rights movements.They had the toughest time being dually discriminated against. They had the white community looking down on them for the color of their skin and husbands oppressing their wives and not treating them like equal partners. When Ruth tells her son,Travis, they do not...
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...IAH 211B Gender Politics in Ju Dou In the film, Ju Dou, Zhang Yimou shows us the more oppressive side of China in the early 20th century, and how its laws and policies have affected the underprivileged living there. On the surface the film is about a traditional Chinese male-dominated society, where men treat women like they are just some objects to be owned whose only real purpose in life is to bear the child of the man, while women are supposed to be obedient and submissive to males. However, if one were to look deeper than that, the film would actually be a subversion to the typical maledominated power politics as Ju Dou has more power than either Jinshan or Tianqing. Throughout the film, Ju Dou never acts subservient to Jinshan even when he tortures her, and with regards to her relationship to Tianqing, she’s the dominating one while Tianqing is the one who is submissive. Ju Dou even becomes the dominating one in her relationship with Jinshan later on in the film, though it is only temporary. Looking deeper then, the film would actually be about a women having a higher level of power than men in gendered politics, in a society where males hold superior power in gendered politics than females do and the consequences of a female holding such power in such a society. Early on in the film, after showing him her bruises while he was peeping on her and later on when she was begging to die, Ju Dou attempts to seduce Tianqing. I reason that Ju Dou does this because...
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...BRIANA | History of Black Women | June 16, 2016 BAXTER, BRIANA | History of Black Women | June 16, 2016 CHILDREN WITH NO LIGHT a Fatherless Society CHILDREN WITH NO LIGHT a Fatherless Society For years Fathers have been the back bone of society. Fathers are gods, they not only carry the seed of life they also have the power to create a mini God in his image. An offspring of himself that can make the world a better place. For the past two decades their role is being stripped from them, society not only says but also states that the father role is no longer needed or necessary, because he is the reason why there is complete discord and mayhem running rampant in the world. But society is wrong. Fathers are not to blame. Only society is to blame for the decline of the gods. In fact, I could argue that fatherless girls have a more profound and long-term impact on society than fatherless boys. You see, boys without dads often act out in spectacularly violent and disruptive fashions, whether it’s flash mobs or gang membership or rapes or robberies. When a fatherless boy is acting out his pain, we know it. However fatherless girls are seldom this dramatic. Instead, they act out their pain and suffering in different ways. Fatherless girls are far more likely to drop out of school, suffer from depression or other emotional disorders and mask their pain through increased promiscuity. In short, fatherless girls have babies. Without fathers. Since the 1960s, women have been sold a bill...
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...University of Phoenix Material Appendix G Define the following terms: Term Definition Gender Gender is defined as the sex you are when you are born. If you are born a girl your gender is female if you were born a boy your gender is male. However it’s not just defined as when you were born some may mask the identity of their true gender as well and these folks are referred to as transsexual. Nevertheless gender is what sex you are. Sex Sex can be defined in two ways. Sex is the act two consenting adults do to have more babies as well to show their affection of love between the two consenting adults behind closed doors. Sex can also be referred to as gender. What sex is your child? He is a boy. Sexism Sexism is when a man or woman holds transgressions against the opposite sex. Such me saying you are a woman, you can’t perform the job duties of a day laborer because you’re a woman and the work is too hard for a woman. This is sexism when you don’t think the opposite sex can do the same task as yourself being man or woman. Sexual orientation Sexual orientation is the preference emotions and love you have for the opposite, same sex or even both sexes. This is when we determine ourselves straight or gay even bisexual. It’s the orientation of our sexual preference. Homophobia Homophobia is when you hate against a person that may or may not be gay. This hate is usually due to the not understanding of one’s preference and is a display of ignorance. Just because...
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