...About Gabriela's Women's Party Gabriela Women’s Party is a sectoral party dedicated to promoting the rights and welfare of marginalized and under-represented Filipino women through participation in the country’s electoral system and organs of governance. It is a sectoral party composed of women 18 years and above, having varied occupations, education, interests, ethnic origin, religious affiliation, and sexual orientation. Gabriela Women’s Party seeks to harness the potential, initiative, skills, and leadership of marginalized women towards empowerment, justice, and equality. Her Story Women’s role in Philippine society has been shaped, by and large, by the Filipina’s demand for social justice, equality, freedom and democracy. That yearning and her consequent struggle have had a long and glorious, albeit invisible, history. Almost 400 years after she led a regional revolt against Spanish colonizers, Gabriela Silang remains a model, a beacon, and an icon to women of the Philippines. She was the seminal Filipina, leading long after her death her sisters to the struggle against social inequities and foreign domination. In 1984, fuelled by the resistance against the Marcos dictatorship and an overwhelming need for significant economic and political change in the archipelago, women from all walks of life – worker, peasant, urban poor, indigenous, middle class, artist, religious – banded together to set up a national women’s coalition. They took the name of the 18th...
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...Taylor Barto English 101 Holman 4/4/2012 Portrayal of Women in the Media In society today attractiveness can be the base of the empire that one builds. A certain look could be the entire reason someone gets a role in a movie or television show. Everything today is flashier, bigger, better, and more glamorous than before so why would women fall to any exception? These women on television can all play different roles, for example, the corporate climber, the supermom, the social butterfly, the ruthless villainess, but they all have one common denominator; their attractiveness. The women seen on television are beautiful, thin, and primarily white. These are the types of women the media wants us to strive to be like because it boosts their ratings. How many people would watch a television show about someone’s life that was less successful and less attractive? Many would agree that the last 30 years some progress has been made in how the media portray women in film, television, and magazines and there has also been a growth in the presence and influence of women in the media. Nevertheless, female stereotypes continue to thrive in the media we view every day. The media’s portrayal of women plays a significant impact on the effects to body image and self-esteem to implications in sports and politics. One current popular show that many young adults watch on television is a show, Gossip Girl. Gossip Girl follows the lives of Manhattan’s Upper East Side socialites. Each show...
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...well as Canadian women and the law; but did they do more harm than good? More specifically, does their work in favor of women’s rights, and women becoming recognized “persons”, make up for their love of eugenics and the many lives they ruined sue to their beliefs that people of different races and with different mentalities were not suitable for parenthood? This paper will explore both sides of their work, looking at the persons case, women becoming involved in the senate, as well as the eugenics and sterilization that they supported. These two women were not solely good or bad, they were good with some poor decisions along the way, “although their vision, like our own, was sometimes faulty and incomplete, it also embodied an uncommon personal politics of courage and optimism…Feminists don’t have to be perfect to be worth a respectful hearing.” (Strong-Boag). Nellie McClung is a feminist hero of Canada, “her zest, and her convictions, her campaigns helped shape the Canada we live in today.” (Gray, 5). She was a popular novelist, and she helped improve the conditions of working women. She was also one of the famous five women who worked to have women recognized as equal under the law, gaining women the right to vote and hold political office. She changed the world for women in Canada, “from Nellie’s perspective, progress was measurable in the improvements to women’s lives—and she...
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...founder and director of the Women's Mood and Hormone Clinic. She wrote "The Female Brain" and, just released, "The Male Brain." Brizendine will appear on HLN's "The Joy Behar Show" tonight at 9. She begins by explaining that the male and female brain are mostly alike but some profound differences do exist. * The male brain has an area called “the defend your turf” in the brain. Called the dorsal premammillary nucleus. Which is larger in the male brain which makes them more alert to threats. While the female brain has something called “I feel what you feel” which allows women to get in sync with other peoples emotions by reading facial expressions, voice tones, and nonverbal cues. * The biggest difference in males and female brain is that males brain have a 2.5 times larger sexual pursuit area. * And beginning in their teens males produce 200 to 250% more testosterone that they did during pre-adolescence. * So for example if testosterone were beer a 9 yr old boy would be getting one cup a day, but a 15 year old boy would get about 2 gallons of beer in one day. That’s a lot of testosterone. That testosterone then fuels their sexual engines making it even more impossible for them to not thing about the female body parts and sex. The article then begins to talk about “the man trance” Which according to luann is the glazed eye look a man gets when he sees breasts. And that to men it is the same thing for women who happen to see a butterfly. It is pretty and we...
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...There has always been a struggle with women having the basic rights that men do for over hundreds of years. In the novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, feminism is portrayed negatively throughout the novel. The Mirabal sisters were the symbol of strength and power in the Dominican Republic. They fought for what they believed in, which was to fight for an ethical government even if there were gender limitations forced upon women in the Dominican republic. This novel is significant to the world around us because as we all know, it is hard to be strong and stand up for yourself in tough situations. While Dede had a hard time standing up for herself at the beginning, she then grows into becoming stable and allows her opinions on the regime to shine through. Dede recited a gringo saying to her, “If you don’t study your history, you are going to repeat it”(Alvarez 175). When Dede goes against her husband Jamito, feminism is encountered in a nasty way. He threatens to leave her and takes the children to his mother’s house not letting her know where he went and stripped the house of all of their...
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...her aim in life was to secure a husband, succumbing to the political propaganda. As Foster states: Because so much importance was attached to the roles of wifehood and motherhood, marriage was deemed the apotheosis of womanly fulfilment, alternatives to which were regarded as pitiable or unnatural.( Foster 1985: 6) In this role of wife, woman's great function is to praise her husband and, in return, she shall be praised for ruling inside the home where she can be 'incapable of error' (Ruskin 1865: 149) In Ruskin's lecture his view is that a husband is a chivalric knight guarding his wife from the 'peril and trial' he encounters. For the 'noble' woman, her true place is in the home, an 'incorruptibly good household nun', praised for choosing 'self-renunciation' over 'self-development'(D'Amico 1992: 69). This could also be viewed as oppression. Rather than the female 'complementing' the male, she is oppressed by him, and the praise offered by Ruskin could be viewed as a weapon, lulling the female into a false consciousness, trapping her inside the home. For the Victorian woman, serving man's desire appears more important to serving her own. In these social conventions an unmarried woman, virginal, innocent and ignorant of sexual matters, is defined as pure, well situated for marriage. The woman not wishing this 'glorified' role of wifehood, while still wishing to express her sexuality and satisfy her desires, however, is deemed to have 'fallen' and is equated...
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...traditional social gender roles, to the modern gender roles that were developing. Writers during this time would portray men and women roles, as they saw it in society. As the Western culture progressed societies view changed as well with gender roles. In the early stages of the twentieth century, playwrights such as Strindberg, Ibsen, and Lorca, wrote characters such as men and women in gender roles that fit to the societal norms during that time. Plays like Trifles by Susan Glaspell, gave the appearance of the common societal gender roles in Western cultures. The play shows the controversy of men having the power and wisdom over women. Glaspell shows through...
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...realized that death was a natural stage of life and was not something to fear. The reactions and avoidance people had concerning the topic of death motivated her to be the voice of the dying. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross moved out of her family home at the early age of sixteen, where she began working at a war clinic during World War II. She always had a desire to help others so spending her free time supporting others during the war was a perfect opportunity. She also volunteered as a laboratory assistant, which enhanced her interest in science. In 1945, Elisabeth was involved in the International Peace Organization. Through this institution, she had the privilege to travel to Sweden, Poland and to visit the Majdanex concentration camp where she witnessed hundreds of butterflies carved into the cement surroundings. Elisabeth was moved and inspired by their displays because the butterflies symbolized the voice of people who unfortunately knew their lives were coming to an end. The butterflies illustrated their souls moving on (Julie). During her volunteer work in Poland, she filled many roles and positions as a cook, nurse, and a carpenter. She assisted in rebuilding schools and clinics in war. Elisabeth Kübler Ross’ experience helping others during the war clarified her goals and passion in life. After Elisabeth Kübler-Ross completed her work as a volunteer, she attended the University of Zurich to study medicine during 1951-1957. Kübler-Ross met a man during her studies named...
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...shoulders,” run when another whistles and unthinkingly defend their stronghold of learning against the presence of a woman. In a Room of One’s Own, Woolf progressively unfolds an allegory of two sexes, both trapped in cages, where being locked in or out is detrimental to the society. The thinking of the hairy old dons at Oxbridge is set in stone, like the foundations of the great buildings at the university. To them men and women have different and separate roles to play– men in the public sphere and women in the domestic. The skeleton of the meta narrative which informs their thinking continues thus: men create and build empires; women support and nurture men in the home, men are the bastions of truth, knowledge and the rational; women are ruled by emotions and are equated with nature. For the preservation of patriarchy, it becomes the interest of the powers that be to maintain the strength of those locks that keep men and women in their roles by reinforcing ideologies of gender. An individual’s sex determines which gender role they will be locked into. The ideology that informs the...
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... 2 Welcome, you are about to embark on a journey into my inner world. Along the way, you will discover the following: (1) what in my background helps me to think through and identify what is right and wrong, as well as what constitutes ethical professional behavior; (2) my ethical decision-making style. My unique style of ethical decision making which reflects my early and ongoing experiences with moral values and issues which has been influenced and shaped by my parents, relatives, peers and valued adults in my life such as teachers and mentors; (3) individuals that have most impressed me and serves as a role model for me; (4) and my current developmental status and how it has and will likely impact my work as a counselor. I therefore invite you to dive into my world and may your life never be the same. Growing up in a Christian environment, I was raised to have my “…perceptive powers trained to distinguish both right and wrong.” (Hebrews 5:14) In short, I received moral values made up of strongly held beliefs based on the Bible, along with a conduct that conforms to those beliefs. Early on, as an adolescent, I began to take a close look at the Holy Scriptures and have come to appreciate that Bible’s counsel is based on godly wisdom, which is far superior to human thinking. I regard the Bible as trustworthy and relevant...
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...Edited by Kristen Walker Painemilla, Anthony B. Rylands, Alisa Woofter and Cassie Hughes Edited by Kristen Walker Painemilla, Anthony B. Rylands, Alisa Woofter and Cassie Hughes Conservation International 2011 Crystal Drive, Suite 500 Arlington, VA 22202 USA Tel: +1 703-341-2400 www.conservation.org Editors : Kristen Walker Painemilla, Anthony B. Rylands, Alisa Woofter and Cassie Hughes Cover design Paula K. Rylands, Conservation International : Layout: Kim Meek, Washington, DC Maps [except where noted otherwise] Kellee Koenig, Conservation International : Conservation International is a private, non-profit organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501 c (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. ISBN 978-1-934151-39-6 © 2010 by Conservation International All rights reserved. The designations of geographical entities in this publication, and the presentation of the material, do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of Conservation International or its supporting organizations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Any opinions expressed in this publication are those of the writers, and do not necessarily reflect those of Conservation International (CI). Suggested citation: Walker Painemilla, K., Rylands, A. B., Woofter, A. and Hughes, C. (eds.). 2010. Indigenous Peoples and Conservation: From Rights to Resource Management. Conservation...
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...COR 130 Individual Research Paper The Aztecs and the role of Human Sacrifice The Aztec was a culture that dominated the Valley of Mexico in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. All the Nahua-speaking peoples in the Valley of Mexico were Aztecs, while the culture that dominated the area was Tenochca. At the time of the European conquest, they called themselves either "Tenochca" or "Toltec," which was the name assumed by the bearers of the Classic Mesoamerican culture, stated in Manuel Aguilar-Moreno’s book, Handbook to Life in the Aztec World. Sadly, many of the Aztec didn't survive after the arrival of the Europeans. But during the earlier years, the Aztec became one of the most advanced civilizations because of their religion, war, and agriculture. The Aztecs gained an infamous reputation for their bloodthirsty human sacrifices with explicit tales of the beating heart being ripped from the still-conscious victims, decapitation, skinning and dismemberment. All of these things did happen but it is important to remember that for the Aztecs the act of sacrifice was a strictly ritualized process that gave the highest possible honor to the gods and was regarded as a necessity to ensure mankind’s continued prosperity. The Aztecs were not the first civilization in Mesoamerica to practice human sacrifice; human sacrifice was practiced to some extent by many peoples in Mesoamerica and around the world for many centuries. But it was the Aztec empire that really took the ritual...
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...when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. – By Washington Irving * A mother understands what a child does not say. – Jewish proverb * A mother's heart is a patchwork of love. – Anonymous * A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking. – By Helen Rice * A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. – By George Eliot * A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. – By Peter De Vries * All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother. – By Abraham Lincoln *...
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...THE LEADERSHIP TRAINING ACTIVITY BOOK 50 Exercises for Building Effective Leaders LOIS B. HART, Ed.D. CHARLOTTE S. WAISMAN, Ph.D. AMACOM AMERICAN MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION New York | Atlanta | Brussels Chicago | Mexico City | San Francisco Shanghai | Tokyo | Toronto | Washington, D. C. Special discounts on bulk quantities of AMACOM books are available to corporations, professional associations, and other organizations. For details, contact Special Sales Department, AMACOM, a division of American Management Association, 1601 Broadway, New York, NY 10019. Tel.: 212-903-8316. Fax: 212-903-8083. Web site: www.amacombooks.org This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional service. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hart, Lois Borland. The leadership training activity book / Lois B. Hart, Charlotte S. Waisman ; foreword by James M. Kouzes. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-8144-7262-1 1. Leadership—Study and teaching—Activity programs. I. Waisman, Charlotte S. II. Title. HD57.7.H383 2005 658.4′092—dc22 2004019036 © 2005 by Lois B. Hart and Charlotte S. Waisman All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America...
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...------------------------------------------------- Famous the world over for his exquisite shoes, follow in the footsteps of Jimmy Choo as he shares his favourite parts of Malaysia - his treasured homeland Last updated 18 March 2010 Although I live in the UK, Malaysia is still my country, and I am passionate about it. In my new role as Tourism Malaysia Ambassador, I hope to persuade many more people to visit – it’s such a spectacular place with so much on offer. I still have lots of family there, and go over about six times a year. The people of Malaysia are very friendly and speak English well. Staff in the resorts and hotels are well trained and really look after visitors with care and attention. Whichever part of the country you visit, there’s so much for holidaymakers to do, both in peninsular Malaysia and in the separate states of Sarawak and Sabah, on the island of Borneo. Apart from its natural beauty and fantastic wildlife such as orang-utans and Sumatran rhinoceros, the country has great activities, from diving and white water rafting, to golf and bird watching. Penang I was born on Penang, so it’s one of my favourite places. Called the Pearl of the Orient, the little island has been one of Malaysia’s top tourist destinations since the 1970s, when backpackers first discovered its beautiful beaches. I can remember riding around on my moped and camping out with friends when I was a teenager. Penang is a fascinating blend of Malay, Indian, Chinese and a bit...
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