On April 1, 2011, the premium on a one-year insurance policy was purchased for $3,000 cash with the insurance coverage beginning on that date. Which of the following correctly describes the effect of the December 31, 2011 adjusting entry on the financial statements? (Assume that no adjusting entries have been made during the year.)…
The flint knife was produced in Egypt in about 3450 B.C. The blade of the knife is made of finely grained yellowish flint. To create the blade, the ancient Egyptians had to rough the stone, then trim the edge of the blade to make it smooth, polish both sides of the blade, and then produce the sharpness of the blade.…
In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, there is a motif of survival and a central idea that when one is put in a desperate situation, developments that may otherwise seem either mundane or horrifying may instead be seen as remarkable or amazing. When all the guards leave their posts because of an alarm signal, two cauldrons of soup are left unattended. All of the prisoners quickly take note of the soup and are in awe, “two cauldrons of soup with no one to guard them! A royal feast” (Wolff 59). The author’s use of hyperbole in describing the deliciousness and quality of the soup makes the disparity of the prisoners clear. The reader does not consider two cauldrons of soup that has been described as nothing better than “thick” to be a “royal feast”…
In This Boy's Life, a memoir by Tobias Wolff, as Jack ages, he loses innocence. In the novel, innocence is portrayed as simplicity and childishness, which Jack aims to lose as he develops. Wolff develops this theme through Jack's quest for masculinity, which he views as power. Guns and abusive male figures serve as recurring motifs for his diminishing innocence. Jack's search for masculinity dilutes his idealistic core as he changes his character to match what he believes is powerful; thus causing the withering of his innocence and complete loss of innocence at the end of the novel.…
To support the evolutionary perspective, the division of labour was shown to be an advantage. Men were the hunter gathers, breadwinners, while the mother was at home acting as the ‘angel of the house’ and looking after the children. If a women was to hunt, this would reduce the group’s reproductive success, as the woman was the one who was pregnant or producing milk. Although, the women could contribute to the important business of growing food, making clothing and shelter and so on. This enhances reproductive success but it also important in avoiding starvation – an…
They did the cooking, cleaning, taking care of the children but they also took care of the farm animals and helped their husbands take care of the land as well as farming beside them. By the 1900s, only men could work in the coal mines (http://appvoices.org/2011/02/04/intro/). Women were also known for keeping violence down. Even though they really didn’t have a voice among the men they were able to calm down a heated argument. Women were not very outspoken in early Appalachian history. They did not have as many rights as men. They were not normally educated. Later in the 1900’s more women left rural Appalachia to become educated. A lot of them became nurses and…
Social characteristics were very significant in the framework of both hunter- gatherer societies and Neolithic towns such as Catal Huyuk alike. In both societies, the women had the role of taking care of the children. However, while in the hunter-gatherer society men and women had equal roles (men doing the hunting and women doing the gathering), the Neolithic town’s gender roles contrasted greatly. In Neolithic towns such as Catal Huyuk, men did most of the food provision and agricultural-related activities, while women remained cooped up in the house or settlement and raised the children. This caused women to lose their social standing and freedom in Neolithic towns, while the fair balance of roles between men and women in hunter-gatherer societies allowed social standing to stay equivalent.…
As a result, First Woman states that women could get along without men, and so they separate. The separation of men and women, which is divided by the river, clearly illustrates one infamous saying that ALL women can attest to: “Men. You can’t live with them, and you can’t live without them.” The same saying can apply to men as well; whether you like it or not, one gender just cannot live without the other. The women in Diné bahane' did not fare well and were on the verge of starvation without the men to hunt the food for them. On the other hand, the men were unable to have children unless the women were present. The absence of one gender could lead to another gender’s downfall, as shown as a result of the argument between First Man and First Woman. However, they reconciled their differences by establishing the gender roles within their society: men hunt, women cook. Both responsibilities were significant in order for both genders to get along and survive; thus, the Navajo people are assured of their societal growth as long as social order is…
Women were taught to be subordinates to their husbands and be silent when other were around. Throughout the colonies, a women duties were to be helpmeets to their husbands. They would perform farm work. Farmwives tended gardens and spun thread and yarn. “They knitted sweaters and stockings, made candles and soap, churned milk into butter and pressed curds into cheese, fermented malt for beer, preserved meats, and mastered dozens of other household tasks. “Notable women”— those who excelled at domestic arts — won praise and high status,” (Henretta 97).…
Traditional gender roles are being threatened in today’s economy, the out-dated stereotype that men are better workers than women is now absurd. Although, the stereotype that women can take care of the household better than men has not changed. For as long as human behavior has been documented there have been strict ideals of the different gender roles in parenting. These hunter and gatherer sub sequential gender responsibilities have fundamentally defined what the correct social position for men and women are, yet recently in some households those traditional gender roles have become reversed.…
The skill sets that the women had were essential to everyone living during the American Revolution. As helpmates, women had to focus on skills that surrounded the house, garden, and hen house, where they would spend their time “processing the raw materials their husbands produced into usable items such as food, clothing, candles, and soap” (6). The role of women is very important throughout the American Revolution because men needed them to do tasks they couldn’t do while they were at war. Eventually, these women got “caught between the older ideal of ‘notable housewife’ and the newer ideal of ‘pretty gentlewoman’” (8). Although not very happy about it, the women needed to serve the men in order to have places to live and not risk…
Women’s societies also had important responsibilities for the communal tribe. They designed refined quillwork on clothing and ceremonial shields, helped prepare for battle, prepared skins and cloth to make clothing, cared for the children and taught them tribal ways, skinned and tanned the leathers used for clothing and other purposes, prepared fresh and dried foods, and performed ceremonies to help…
Through the coal mines, women and children were sometimes used, rather than horses, to carry loads of coal up the mine shaft and sometimes, up the hill. The work load was tremendous, but every bit of money helped. The women would leave their younger children with the neighbors, or an elderly woman if the child was very small, while they took the older ones with them to the mine late at night.1 Through these long nights, the children made very good use of themselves, as they were able to fit into small places that the men would normally be unable to.2 These conditions, however, left the families to lose comforts that they may have been used to. Instead of a man coming home in the morning to a warm fire and cooked breakfast, the entire family came home to a cold house, with nothing fixed to eat and everybody terribly exhausted.3 Along with the lack of comfort, many people frowned upon women, and girls, working alongside boys and men. The women and men would be working side by side, all wearing the same clothing, if any. One account stated that, “their sex was recognizable only by their breasts, and some little difficulty occasionally arose in pointing out to me which were girls and which were boys.”4…
The switch to agriculture and stationary living changed women’s roles in the new communities that were forming.(Phoenix,2016) Instead of contributing to the community by going out and finding food women were now more home ridden, they were having more kids and were taking care of the homestead while their husbands were out in the fields. This kind of domestic living led to a more governmental and patriarchal kind of society which put the position of a man and his sons higher than a…
Boys grow up thinking they are stronger and more important than women are. Fathers raise their sons to be courageous and to fear nothing. Women raise their daughters to be weak and gentle. They are taught to view themselves as accessories for men. Okonkwo said, "I will not have a son who cannot hold up his head in the gathering of the clan" (24). Men and women alike accept how they are supposed to act. They know what is expected of them. Women don 't object to washing the dishes, cooking food, and keeping the house clean. Men grow yam and cut wood for fires. Women are to plant melons, beans, and corn, and men plant yams, as "yam stood for manliness."…