...On December 3, 2015, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, announced the full integration of women into all combat military occupational specialties (MOS’s). Gender equality across military positions and occupations did not happen overnight, in fact, women have been vying for their right to participate in combat since the American Revolution and the Civil War. Pioneers like Deborah Samson, Sarah Emma Edmonds, and Frances Clayton hid their gender identity to bear arms and fight alongside their male counterparts in defense of their country and their freedom. Women’s modern day participation in combat is built on the initiative and gumption of those who hid their gender identity and went to war dressed as men. During the American Revolution, there were limited ways women could fight for America’s freedom from Britain. Deborah Samson, in October of 1778, dressed in men’s clothing and enlisted in the Army under the name Robert Shirtliffe. She was wounded twice during her three-year service; but, could preserve her sexual identity until medical treatment for a brain fever revealed it. Discharged from the military, she later...
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...Will the increasing number of women in law enforcement and the military eventually tip the balance of power between men and women, and result in greater gender equality in the above mentioned workplaces? Discuss this question in your essay, and be sure to cite your sources. I believe that with the increasing number of women in both the military and law enforcement that there will be a balance of power between men and women, resulting in gender equality in the both the military and law enforcement. If we look at most military branches and law enforcement agencies many have a number of women in supervisor roles and management positions. Let’s look at the military there are more 200,000 active women in the military and that includes 69 generals and admirals. Among the 69 generals and admirals only 7.1% are female (CNN Staff, 2013). Now let’s look at law enforcement even today gender inequality is still a big thing and women only make up a small share of all police officers in each department across the United States. Women in law enforcement are usually harassed by their male counterparts and usually are not given supervisory roles no matter their accomplishments and most women officers don’t even attempt to try and get in a supervisory role due to the biased of the males in law enforcement. There are women in law enforcement that have reached a supervisory role and tell the women in law enforcement that their careers are solely in their own hands and with hard work and dedication...
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...Yvonne Aguirre Essay Two - PPCC English 122 “The Rise in Depression & Suicide in Veterans of the Iraq & Afghanistan Wars” In Jared Diamond’s essay “Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions?” Diamond talks about four main points of why he believes societies make bad decisions. Diamond four main points on his reasons are as follows: “First of all, a group may fail to anticipate a problem before the problem actually arrives. Second, when the problem does arrive, the group may fail to perceive it. Then, after they perceive it, they may fail even to try to solve it. Finally, they may try to solve it but may not succeed.” Diamond has different viewpoints as to why each particular point might have happened. Our young men and women in the Armed Forces are experiencing some very hard and traumatic experiences in our current war. It seems that the very military that is supposed to help them overcome what they have helped to create is the same military that is hurting them by not providing adequate long term medical and mental treatment. Did we not learn anything from the Gulf War and the Gulf War Syndrome? These men and women are truly hurting and it seems that the military has turned a blind eye to how serious this problem is becoming. Men and women are returning from war and are acting unlike themselves before they went over there. They are committing more crimes, from simple robbery to murder and the depression and PTSD rates have steadily gone up for...
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...Bibliography Mackenzie, M. H. (2012). Let Women Fight. Foreign Affairs, 91(6), 32-42. An essay is presented on women serving in direct combat roles in the U.S. military. The author presents a case for changing U.S. law to permit women in all military roles. She notes that many women have served in the U.S. military, including in war zones, and says that the distinction between combat and non-combat roles has eroded in the context of contemporary warfare. She discusses the main arguments against women in combat, including their performance and effect on unit cohesion. Author Megan Mckenzie, in the article, “Let Women Fight,” from the journal Foreign Affairs, discusses the ability of women to serve in full combat units. She is avid about changing the laws to allow women full integration into combat infantry units, due to the history of women serving in combat roles in the U.S. Military (McKenzie 2012). McKenzie, argues that the lines that once existed, dividing combat roles from non-combat roles, in the U.S. Military has become blurred with today’s combat (McKenzie 2012). Due to this phenomenon, women have found themselves in the heat of combat, making them natural candidates for the allowance of women to fulfill these roles on a more permanent basis (McKenzie 2012). Simons, A. (2000). Women Can Never `Belong' in Combat. Orbis, 44(3), 451. Presents views on the debate over the exclusion laws in the United States which preclude women in the military from serving in front-line or behind-the-lines...
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...expectations influence how a girl is to be treated. Girls wear pink and yellow and wear dresses, play with Barbie dolls and help Mommy cook. Boys are to wear blue and green, wear jeans, play with trucks and eat mud. Seriously, if a boy comes into the house after he has been playing outside and is all dirty, that’s expected, whereas if a girl does that, it’s not lady like and is frowned upon. God forbid if you get your Easter dress DIRTY! Three areas that I will look into for this essay is sex and gender in the military, sexism and patriarchy and how women fulfill 4/5 properties of a minority. Sex and Gender in the military could be this whole essay, but I will try to just go over a few points. Even though, the ban has been lifted for women to serve on the front lines in combat, there is still a long way to go. An example of this is rape. 1 in 3 women serving in the U.S. military in Iraq are raped. This will continue to go on because this behavior is shoved under the rug and the military doesn’t want this to get out in to the media’s hands. The men that are in charge will try to stick up for the person that has been charged with this by saying...
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...Writer: Mashell Chapeyama Subject: History Selected essays on Greek civilization Introduction This booklet is a collection of essays that were written for academic purpose. The essays are centred on Greece. Particular emphasis is placed on the states of Athens and Sparta. The aim of the essays is to show the contributions that Greek states made to the modern world. The world has learnt a lot of aspects from Greece, being they direct or indirect. One of the things that Greece brought to the world is the democratic system of government. Together with lessons from ancient Rome the world has learned much. Essay1: Differences in terrain and climatic conditions between Athens and Sparta Greece has many cities and towns, however probably the main ones in ancient times were Sparta and Athens. These two cities shaped the political life and history of Greece for quite a long time. The influence mainly centred on land and agriculture. For, about 90% of Greece production was agricultural in nature, with grain production as the dominant area. Incidentally, grain was a staple product and food of Greece. As a result the land that was used for grain production was a vital part of wealth and a valuable asset, for which citizens compete for. This essay is going to explore the difference in terrain between Athens and Sparta and how it affected agriculture and political rights, including democracy as well as how agricultural production had an impact on the distribution of political...
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...There is a reason Sparta is still known for their military dominates today. Sparta made up the formation called the phalanx. The phalanx consisted of a tight group of soldiers each holding a shield that interlocked with his neighbor’s, each man carrying a short sword and a thrusting spear. Sparta also focused on their military, the boys left their families at the age of seven to twenty-first year of training. The strengths of Sparta outweigh the weaknesses because they respected authority, they had an advanced military, and because the women were respected. To begin, with the Spartans respected authority. In document it says, “The young men were required not only to respect their own fathers and to be obedient to them, but to have regard for all the older men.” How could Spartans be loyal to others if they didn’t respect authority? People should respect authority because now of days people go visit the elderly, and if we didn’t...
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...guide. We were assigned these essays because they are researched argumentative essays. Our final paper coming up soon will also be an argumentative essay. The first essay I read was "Coloring the Workforce" by Valerie Keys. I found this essay to be very helpful. The essay not only talked about African Americans struggling in the workforce, but it focused on African American women. The essay gave very relevant examples and statistics which helped with its validity. There was also an abundance of sources at the end which help verify that the author did their research. The second essay I read was "Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid Literature Review" by Vanessa Parslow....
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...ENGLISH ESSAY WRITING UU114 Evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of censorship in the society. Merewalesi Liwaiono S11096060 Tuesday & Thursday group 20 Alice Rore 30th August 2013 Plan Title: Evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of censorship in the society. C- Censorship L- Benefits, Drawbacks, society D- Evaluate Type: Discussion Essay Intro: Context- Policies Subject- Censorship Limitation subject- Benefits and Disadvantages of Censorship…/. Issue: What are the pros and cons of censorship for the society? Thesis: This essay will discuss the pros and cons of censorship for a society. Body: Disadvantages Disadvantage one: Resists questioning of conventional idea and it is costly. Detail: Convectional ideas are not questioned such as healthy oppositions based on sound valid premises and it is costly as it takes a lot of time and resources to implement the censorship activity in place. e.g.: when people compare the old times with the current era they find a lot of changes and have resources as to why it is happening thus do not question its existence. Disadvantage two: works against human rights Detail: teachers being banned to punish students. e.g.: empowering student, Lack of respect, As a result, exam result a bad….. Disadvantage three: Freedom of speech is compromised. Detail: Limitation on freedom of speech. When people put limits on what is not okay to express it. This sets up a slight slope where...
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...Reflection Essay #1 Gender Shaping Our Society Pamela Apodaca Contemporary Conflict Resolution CJS 460 Shilpashri Karbhari, Ph.D. February 18, 2014Shilpashri Karbhari, Ph.D.Shilpashri Karbhari, Ph.D. Gender plays an essential role in our nation’s security, military and our subconscious due to the portrayal of our media. The way we, as American’s, view our servicemen and women directly correlate with the level of security we feel for ourselves, our families, and our country as a whole. As Detraz states in her book International Security and Gender, gender can be defined as society’s expectations of how one should be. For instance, our society categorizes gender with color. Case in point, boys are generally expected to wear blue clothing and play with trucks, whereas girls are expected to wear pink and play with dolls. If there are individuals whom do not fall into their “correct” gender acceptable category, we as a nation have been trained to shun them or treat these individuals unfairly. Our media and our society carefully construct ways in which they can relay messages regarding suitable careers for certain genders. For example, the military was geared mainly for men until the last decade or so, and teachers, nurses and caretakers were all acceptable employment choices for women. Government officials are another occupation left primarily for men. For this reason, our nation is dependent on the decisions and policies that the men in these elected positions are...
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...At this time the United States of America does not required men to serve in the military like other countries? Well I have wondered why myself to. But I am going to point out three reasons on why I think men should have to serve in this essay. One being men need to learn discipline. Two we need to keep this country that we live in safe and secured. And lastly to boost our economy and put more people to work. Men should serve in the military to lean discipline. Men these day have no respect for there parents let alone the cops. The military will help train them to respect people above them. Not only that it will help them with work ethic from the discipline point of view to be able to do their job and work hard at doing it. They will break you down and build you back up through training and physical training. If you screw up they will teach you how to act and then make you do some kind of physical training so it will sink you to your head. It is vital in our country to keep it protected to keep our freedoms that our fore fathers fought for and all the men and women before us. There for all men should be required to serve in the military. We are in a world of terrorism in this day and age, for example September 11, 2001 automatically comes to mind when I think of terrorism. Therefore men shouldn’t have to be asked to join they should just want to join if they want to keep their freedoms that they have. Where are the jobs in this country? Where is the money in this country...
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...The roles of women changed during WWII by when millions of men went to war women stepped in for them in the workforce. A woman who was later named " Rosie the Riveter" was promoting women to get jobs. Likewise, in WWI women stepped in for the men going to war. The roles of the minorities were almost 1 million African Americans fought in WWII. Also, African Americans began to fill combat assignments in 1944. The Native Americans had a group of people who were called "code talkers". The code the "code talkers" used was never broken by the Japanese. This paragraph was about some of the minorities and the women going to work. Some other minority groups were the Latinos, thousands of Latinos served in the military at this time. The Latinos and...
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...Bibliographic Essay on African American History Introduction In the essay “On the Evolution of Scholarship in Afro- American History” the eminent historian John Hope Franklin declared “Every generation has the opportunity to write its own history, and indeed it is obliged to do so.”1 The social and political revolutions of 1960s have made fulfilling such a responsibility less daunting than ever. Invaluable references, including Darlene Clark Hine, ed. Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004); Evelyn Brooks Higgingbotham, ed., Harvard Guide to African American History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001); Arvarh E. Strickland and Robert E. Weems, Jr., eds., The African American Experience: An Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001); and Randall M. Miller and John David Smith, eds., Dictionary of Afro- American Slavery (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1988), provide informative narratives along with expansive bibliographies. General texts covering major historical events with attention to chronology include John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss, Jr., From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans (Boston: McGraw Hill, 2000), considered a classic; along with Joe William Trotter, Jr., The African American 1  Experience (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001); and, Darlene Clark Hine, William C. Hine, and Stanley Harrold, The...
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...is a trait of courageous men and women. An example would be those that work in the armed forces of the United States. Bravery and courage are two nouns that are synonyms. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines courage as strength in the face of pain of grief. The United States military have displayed acts of bravery since their establishment in 1775....
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...Essays Related to Military Troops 1. Military Troops Once President Bush made his decision to go in without the help of the U.N. it meant that more of our U.S. military troops were going to have to be deployed. ... The government and military should implement better conditions for the welfare of their troops so that they can perform to the best of their ability. A still debated issue th... Word Count: 1278 Approx Pages: 5 2. U.S. Military Presence Overseas The military has had a presence overseas since the military was founded well over 200 years ago. ... If the troops are pulled out of the Middle East, we take the chance of losing our oil supply. ... The troops get a good feel for what things could be like if they were not there protecting our beloved country. ... One thing that ... Word Count: 767 Approx Pages: 3 Has Bibliography 3. Israeli Military And Peace Movement The Israeli Military has one of the finest militaries and air forces in the world. ... Israeli men serve in the military from age eighteen to twenty one, while the women serve shorter terms. After their mandatory three year term is served with the Israeli army they will continue to be frequently drafted back into military service but only for a s... Word Count: 1040 Approx Pages: 4 Has Bibliography 4. A Policing Military In order for the U.S to maintain peace and democracy throughout the world, it needs to be anti-isolationist and pro-usage of...
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