Student Name: Instructor Name: TA’s name: Class Engl: 101W Date: 2012-07-18 Female liberation in The Agency Y.S.Lee’s novel‚ The Agency: A Spy in the House‚ depicts Mary Quinn’s first assignment since entering The Agency. Mary became a thief during her miserable childhood and was rescued by a woman posing as a prison warden after she was sentenced to hanging. She then became a student in Miss Scrimshaw ’s Academy for Girls and was sent to Mr. Thorold’s home posting as Miss Angelica Thorold’s
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Women’s Liberation Movement Betty Friedan wrote that "the only way for a woman‚ as for a man‚ to find herself‚ to know herself as a person‚ is by creative work of her own." The message here is that women need more than just a husband‚ children‚ and a home to feel fulfilled; women need independence and creative outlets‚ unrestrained by the pressures of society. Throughout much of history‚ women have struggled with the limited roles society imposed on them. The belief that women were intellectually
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The Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 was for independence from Pakistan. Due to discrimination in economy and ruling powers against them‚ the East Pakistanis vigorously protested and declared independence on March 26‚ 1971 under the leadership of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. But during the year prior to that‚ to suppress the unrest in East Pakistan‚ the Pakistani government sent troops to East Pakistan and unleashed a massacre. And thus‚ the war for liberation commenced. The Reasons for war :Both East
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The Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) has shaped the changing rights and freedom of women in Australia since the late 1960’s. The Movement aimed to overturn the idea that women were inferior to men and to make society see women as people who could control their own lives. The Women’s movement sought to bring about change for women in a society that called for long overdue change. In Australia‚ the 1960s was an era characterised by questioning of the political‚ economic‚ and social status quo. It
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none of the requirements were present‚ it had given a stifling argument for all the negative responses that occurred. However‚ the counterpart of the decision was yet to be told. Canada had previously experienced many terrorist acts by the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ). The group believed the rights and justice of the French-Canadians would only be recognized if Quebec formally separated politically from Canada. Generally‚ governments cede to the terrorists‚ exchanging hostages for “prisoners
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events that would eventually culminate in the first‚ and only‚ peacetime usage of the controversial War Measures Act and forever smear the relationship between Quebec and the Canadian government. Although many only see the major players as the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) and Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau and his federal government‚ the media played such a large role in sensationalizing the events and making tangible goods out of abstract concepts – such as civil liberties and public safety
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commissioner in Montréal‚ by members of the FRONT DE LIBÉRATION DU QUÉBEC. The kidnappers’ demands‚ communicated in a series of public messages‚ included the freeing of a number of convicted or detained FLQ members and the broadcasting of the FLQ manifesto. The manifesto‚ a diatribe against established authority‚ was read on Radio-Canada‚ and on October 10 the Québec minister of justice offered safe passage abroad to the kidnappers in return for the liberation of their hostage; but on the same day a
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between the army and the Bengali Mukti Bahini an estimated 10 million Bengalis‚ mainly Hindus‚ sought refuge in the Indian states of Assam and West Bengal. [46] June – September The eleven sectors See also: List of sectors in Bangladesh Liberation War Bangladesh forces command was set up on 11 July‚ with Col. M A G Osmani as commander in chief‚ Lt. Col. Abdur Rab as chief of Army Staff and Group Captain A K Khandker as Deputy Chief of Army Staff and Chief of Air Force. Bangladesh was divided
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In December 1981 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army’s select‚ American-trained Atlacatl Battalion entered the village of El Mozote‚ where they murdered hundreds of men‚ women‚ and children‚ often by decapitation. Although reports of the massacre -- and photographs of its victims -- appeared in the United States‚ the Reagan administration quickly dismissed them as propaganda. In the end‚ El Mozote was forgotten. The war in El Salvador continued‚ with American funding. When Mark Danner’s reconstruction
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Cold fronts occur when a colder air mass replaces a warmer one. At a cold front‚ the cold air is behind the warm air. Because the cold air is denser‚ it pushes the warm air out of its way‚ forcing the warm air to rise into the atmosphere. * The slope of a typical cold front is 1:100 (vertical to horizontal). They would affect smaller area than a warm front. * Cold fronts tend to move faster than all other types of fronts. Cold fronts can move at up to 20mph faster than a warm front. They
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