...Shenae Leslie September 28, 2014 English Period 6 Do countries have a right to place restrictions on religious practices such as clothing worn in public? What would you do if the government placed restrictions on your religious practices such as clothing worn in public? How does society justify punishing some people for practicing their religion because it made others feel uncomfortable? After careful consideration, one may conclude that the government does not have a right to put such restrictions on clothing worn in public. In this piece, we will explore the controversy and debate surrounding this topic in France. Some believe that the government has a right to place such restrictions, while others disagree. According to the article entitled “Unveiling Europe”, the focus is centered on France’s burqa ban. For example, the article states “ an estimated 2,000 French Muslim women are affected by this law.” This enactment in France is affecting Muslim women because they are fined or jailed if they cover their faces in public. “This law has made my life miserable”, Muslim women feel this way because the niqab is a part of their religion and this law is violating there right to freely practice their religion. Another quote that captures the negative impact of this law can be seen where the author states “this law was meant to protect women but it has only imprisoned them instead”, the government believed that men forced women to wear the niqab but most women...
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...Some have described the founding fathers as "rich whites guys who didn't want to pay their taxes." This school of thought cites the fact that the American Revolution was a political revolution rather than a social revolution. Please comment on this statement. Do you think that it is accurate or do you disagree. Please be sure to include arguments or evidence to support your position. Some have described the Founding Fathers as “rich white guys who did not want to pay their taxes”, which would make the American Revolution a political revolution rather than a social revolution. I believe the American Revolution was truly a political revolution and not a social revolution. Some examples of social revolutions occurred in France (1789), Russia (1917), and in China (1949). In a social revolution the foundations of old order are destroyed and power is taken from the ruling elite or royalty and given to a new social group. The American Revolution created the United States by transforming a monarchial society, where the colonists were ruled by British Crown, into a republic. Citizens of a republic are directly involved in the political process. The average citizen such as merchants, farmers, sailors, traders, and villagers now had political significance. It was impossible for elites to openly oppress ordinary people. Before the American Revolution, there was a low percentage of white men participating in politics. Major political offices were held by an exclusive group of wealthy...
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...JJBB[Type text] [Type text] [Type text] Ban the Burqa? The Argument Against ð Jasmine Jaber -‐ 42886090 GEN320 End of Semester Independent Research Project Master of Research Thesis Proposal Jasmine Jaber Introduction The Argument Against 42886090 Over the past few years, the veiling practices of Muslim women have been the issue of public debate and come under direct government gaze. In particular, countries such a France and Turkey have issued a ban on wearing the burqa in public. The ban relates to the general wearing of the burqa and not for certain situations such as identity checks. This debate has spread to Australian soil where dozens of Australians, such as Cory Bernardi, have enunciated their approval and have called for such a ban in Australia. While some countries have similar meaning of the veil, the majority of non-Islamic individuals across Europe and Australia have interpreted the veil in their own way and thus attached to it different meanings causing different perceptions as to why or why not it should be worn. Using the article by Bernardi (2010) as a starting point, I will critique the feeble objections writers of the topic have against the burqa and justify why their reasons for a burqa ban are invalid and cannot benefit society, and if anything, set society backwards. By interpreting...
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...however, among all of the positive change were small localized issues that separated the country. The author of the 'No” view point, Neiberg, claimed that despite the growing issues of large-scale immigration and controversial urbanization, the country remained unified as the issues “melted away” when the economic boom came due to high demand in American products during and after the war. It is true that women's suffrage soared due to the need of factory workers during the war and their victory over gaining the right to vote, and due to demand for supplies from the economically neutral America caused businesses to flourish. Yet the underlying social issues of mass immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans led to public outrage. Of course being seen as a victor and a leader of the free world following the war helped ease resentment of the government by citizens who were against going to war in the first place, but did not extinguish public discernment of the act of unnecessary mass violence when we were not particularly threatened. It is noted in countries such as France, the United Staes was deemed a 'saving grace' to their protection during World War I, yet in the United States itself, the way immigrants were discriminated against generated a less than positive image of the country. And due to that decrease in a positive public image by the immigrants that inhabited the country, came an increase in American nativism. Prejudice against immigrants was apparent, and out of...
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...>> Version of Record - Nov 13, 2006 What is This? Downloaded from asj.sagepub.com at University of Huddersfield on October 7, 2012 ACTA SOCIOLOGICA 2006 Work–Life ‘Balance’ in Europe Rosemary Crompton and Clare Lyonette Department of Sociology, City University, London, UK abstract: Although work–life ‘balance’ is an EU policy priority, within Europe there are considerable variations in the nature and extent of supports that national governments have offered to dual-earner families. In general, the Nordic welfare states offer the highest level of supports, although other countries, such as France, have historically offered extensive childcare supports to working mothers. We examine national variations in reported levels of work–life conflict, drawing upon questions fielded in the 2002 Family module International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) surveys for Britain, France, Finland, Norway and Portugal. We find evidence of a ‘societal effect’ in the cases of Finland and Norway, in that significantly lower levels of work–life conflict are reported in these countries even after a range of factors have been controlled for. However, support for childcare in...
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...Celebrity Endorsement in the fashion industry (march 2010) Table of Contents List of tables Acknowledgements Authors Declaration Abstract Introduction Chapter 1: Literature Review Chapter 2: Methodology & Objectives Chapter 3: Data Analysis/Findings Chapter 4: Conclusions Recommendations Appendice 1: The model of Celebrity Endorsement Appendice 2: The meaning transfer of McCracken Appendice 3: Questionnaire Appendice 4: Coding Questionnaire Bibliography List of Table/figure Table 1: 4 types of celebrity Appeals Figure1: Do you think that celebrities in fashion advertising help you to remember the brand and to be interesting in? Figure 2: I think the print advertisement is attractive Figure 3: I believe Kate Moss is an expert on the product Figure 4: Do you intend to know more about the product? (about the print advertisement) Figure 5: Do you want to purchase the fashion product/brand after watching the celebrity endorsed advertisement? Figure 6: Will you purchase the product because of the endorsing celebrity? Acknowledgements First of all, I would like to express my immense gratitude to my supervisor …… for her help during this project and to show me the way to do it. I would also like to thank my teacher …. without whom I would not have been able to lead this project. Finally I am also thankful to my family, friends and mates who have rendered their whole hearted support at all times for the successful completion of this project. Authors Declaration I, ......., declare...
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...the media. Any social movement, Women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, Police brutality, and many more began due to the direct attention of the media. The fact is, over 45 million Americans are affected by this crisis everyday, this should demand a social movement but it just isn’t happening. The numbers are staggering, this should be a story already written for media outlets, but it is because of the corporate greed in media that this is not true. With the rise of social media in recent years, media outlets have been struggling to keep their revenue streams afloat as many of their subscribers have left for social media on more accessible handheld devices and advertisers exploring new avenues such as social media reaching millions of people at a fraction of the...
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...Tales’ summaries The Wife of Bath’s Tale starts with a Prologue in which she gives an account of her colorful life with five husbands. The tale continues the main question of women’s desire for sovereignty over men. A young Knight rapes a maiden while she was returning home. As a punishment for his heinous act he has to discover within a year what women most desire. The Knight was searching in the whole country in search of the answer. At the end he promises to grant a wish to an ugly old hag in return for the right answer. When he has given the answer in court and secured his liberty, the old hug jumps up and demands that he marries her. The Knight begs her to reconsider and wish for something else but the old hag stubbornly refuses. The Knight marries her secretly. At night as they lay in bed, the Knight keeps on turning restlessly. The old hag asks him if he would prefer her ugly and faithful or beautiful and faithless. The Knight allows her to decide. The old woman is delighted to have won ‘sovereignty’ over her husband and rewards him by becoming faithful and beautiful all the time. The Knight’s Tale describes how two kinsmen Arcite and Palamon fall in love with the same woman named Emily, whom they first see out of their prison window. Emily is the niece of King Theseus. Arcite gains his freedom but is banished from Athens. He comes back masked since he cannot bear to live away from Emily. In the meanwhile Palamon breaks out of prison and coincidentally meets Arcite...
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...MARKET SURVEY REPORT ON CUSTOMER SATISFACTION ON [pic] INPARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION M.J.P.R.U, BAREILLY (SESSION: 2010-2011) SUBMITTED TO: SUBMITTED BY: Mrs. Sandhya Tripathi Pragati Dixit IIMS Faculty BBA-VI sem-C 915584 contents: 1. introduction 2. objectives 3. research methodology 4. company profile 5. literature review 6. data presentation and analysis 7. FINDINGS 8. conclusion 9. limitations 10. RECOMMENDATION 11. BIBLIOGRAPHY 12. ANNEXURE INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION: L’Oreal is the global leader in cosmetics, with 25 brands. They have 5 key areas of expertise − hair care, hair colorants, skincare, make-up and fragrances. There is a huge motive behind the study of L’Oreal. The study will help us to understand the operations which are carried out by L’Oreal. The operations such as marketing strategies, business plans, company at a glance, business structure, management and operating structures , competitors position as...
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...Assignment 1 How was the south changed? The chief accomplishment of the new south was the expansion of textile production, as the number of cotton mills grew from 161 to 400. There was also an increase in the lumber industry, coal production, and tobacco growth. Although, the majority of southern farmers were not flourishing, which caused sharecropping and tendancy to increase between blacks and whites. The bourbons perfected a political alliance with northern conservatives and economic alliance with northern capitalists. They also reduced state expenditures and public debt. Attitudes about race became more strongly felt and the prospect of an electoral alliance between poor whites and blacks that could threaten the power structure became a possibility, so the southern states came up with various ways to disenfranchise blacks. Also, “Jim Crow” laws were enacted to mandate public separation of the races. Legalized segregation reinforced the notions of white racial superiority and African-American inferiority, creating an atmosphere that encouraged violence, and during the 1890s lynching’s of blacks rose significantly. Define the New West. After 1865, the federal government encouraged western settlement and economic exploitation. The transcontinental railroads opened the western half of the nation to economic development and created an interconnected national market. Needing rapid communication, companies built telegraph lines along the railroad as the track was laid...
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...CITATION It is an established rule of U.S. constitutional law that the state cannot impose or pursue race or gender quotas.[1] In the private sector, an employer’s pursuit of numerically fixed race or gender balance is suspect under Title VII.[2] Under both bodies of antidiscrimination law, quotas are regarded as discrimination. If a civil rights initiative can be portrayed as encouraging employers to adopt quotas, its political demise is nearly certain in the United States.[3] Narrow forms of affirmative action have survived, legally and politically, only to the extent that they can be distinguished from quotas. Quotas are so widely regarded as legally, politically, and morally repugnant that they are taboo: The “q-word”[4] is rarely the subject of any serious debate, even by those who favor stronger civil rights protections for women and minorities. The related belief in the illegitimacy of ever pursuing numerically informed demographic balance – especially along lines of race or gender -- is gaining strength in the Supreme Court’s major antidiscrimination cases in the last several years.[5] It is widely accepted – even by civil rights advocates – that pursuing racial or gender balance as a goal, “for its own sake,” would be illegitimate.[6] This principle threatens the constitutionality of race-based affirmative action, which may meet its demise in Fisher v. Texas next Term. Meanwhile, in Europe, quotas have made a definitive comeback, as a way of pursuing gender equality...
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...politics since the collapse of the communism in East Europe.’(Fukuyama francis,1989) I disagree with this statement in a large extent. Overview Fukuyama published the idea of ‘end of ideology’, which became a controversial issue in 1989. No doubt, fascism and communism had both lost their appeal after the collapse of the communism in east Europe. In the postwar period, the three ideologies-liberalism, socialism and conservation –came to accept the common goal of capitalism. ( Lee, 1990) However, it does not mean that capitalism is a triumph of the world. Jacques mentions that there are many types of Marxism. For instance, orthodox Marxism is produced by the unique history tradition. Therefore, when one specific communism is collapsed, it does not mean that the communism is collapsed. In fact, there still are states that pursue other types of communism. People reflect and become interested in Marxist if capitalism cannot bring them into utopian era. There is no way to say that ideologies are becoming irrelevant to the discussion of politics. Also, All human are political thinkers. We all have difficult thoughts and diverse perceptions when the things happen around us. Modern ideologies such as feminism and ecologism are witnessed. From the observations and judgments, we can find out our own belief of what our world is and what we ought to be. ‘equality , ’rights’ ,’freedom’ ,’justice’ are the expression that always appear in our life. Of course, different...
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...both in Europe and in the Pacific, and explain why the United States acted as it did throughout the conflict. LO 4 Describe and discuss the American home front during World War II, paying special attention to long-term societal changes. LO 5 Explain how World War II was brought to an end, both in Europe and in the Pacific, and discuss the immediate aftermath of the war both in America and around the world. 9781133438212, HIST2, Volume 2, Kevin M. Schultz - © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. No distribution allowed without express authorization Just as World War II transformed the world, it also transformed the United States’s role in world affairs. “ ” If the New Deal could not end the Great Depression, a world war would. Beginning in the late 1930s, talk of war became more insistent and The Second World War can be seen as an energizing urgent in Europe. The finanevent in American history rather than a destructive one. cial uncertainty of the worldStrongly Disagree Strongly Agree wide depression had created 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 political vulnerabilities that assisted the rise of militant, expansion-minded dictators in Italy and Germany. Americans watched the continent nervously, uncertain how European affairs might affect them. Little did they know that, in the end, the Second World War would transform America even more than the New Deal. The war prompted a tremendous mobilization of American resources, at a level unseen since the Civil War....
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...Lincoln High School IB History Internal Assessment Student Handbook Table of Contents What is the History IA? Planning Your Historical Investigation Examples of Types of Investigations Examples of Research Questions Choice of Topic 20th Century History of the Americas Alternative The Written Account & Assessment Criteria A. Plan of the Investigation B. Summary of Evidence C. Evaluation of Sources D. Analysis E. Conclusion F. Sources and Word Limit Sample History IAs 1Trotsky and the Russian Civil War 2US in Chile 3Women in the French Revolution 4PreWWI Alliances 4 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 14 1 2 2 3 4 10 16 Information in this guide is gathered from a variety of sources, including, but not limited to: The IB History Course Guide, Oxford’s IB Skills and Practice, IBOCC, and anecdotal experience. What is the History IA? The History IA is your chance to explore a period, theme, or event in history that you are interested in. For full IB Candidates, it also serves as 20% of your final History Grade. The final paper will be assessed by your teacher, with a sampling sent off to IB for score moderation. The History IA asks you to use the full range of skills you have been taught in class. In particular: ● knowledge and understanding ● application and interpretation ● synthesis and evaluation...
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...Hartman Strom, Political Woman: Florence Luscomb and the Legacy of Radical Reform Michael Adas, ed., Agricultural and Pastoral Societies in Ancient and Classical History Jack Metzgar, Striking Steel: Solidarity Remembered Janis Appier, Policing Women: The Sexual Politics of Law Enforcement and the LAPD Allen Hunter, ed., Rethinking the Cold War Eric Foner, ed., The New American History. Revised and Expanded Edition E SSAYS ON _ T WENTIETH- C ENTURY H ISTORY Edited by Michael Adas for the American Historical Association TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS PHILADELPHIA Temple University Press 1601 North Broad Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122 www.temple.edu/tempress Copyright © 2010 by Temple University All rights reserved Published 2010 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Essays on twentieth century history / edited by Michael...
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