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    As explained by Barbara MacKinnon‚ the two main principles that make up the Just War Theory are Jus ad Bellum‚ which is the justness of going to war and Jus in Bello‚ which is the justness in war (MacKinnon‚ p. 223). Each of these principles contains several subcategories that explain how they are able to argue war as a just action. Jus ad Bellum has four subcategories

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    Summary #2: Angelina Grimke’s Letter To Catharine Beecher Angelina Grimke’s letter to Catharine Beecher addresses the immorality and injustice faced by women in this time period. She begins her letter by basically saying that a lot can be learned from slavery in terms of morality and human rights than any other means in the world. Comparing the rights of all men‚ ranging from royalty to slaves‚ she says their rights are based upon the moral nature of man. She then states that‚ “the circumstance

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    Economic Justice‚ what is economic justice‚ and is it truly just? MacKinnon opens this chapter with a conversation between two people who have different views on the subject. One believes that wealthy citizens have a right to keep the wealth that they obtain; while the other believes that it is the responsibility of the wealthy to share their good fortune. This conversation raises the questions; what does society owe its citizens‚ and what do citizens owe society. One issue that is raised while

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    The St. Catharines Chamber Music Society was held at the Sean O’Sullivan Theatre of Brock University in Saint Catharines at 7:30 p.m.‚ on Friday‚ 18th January‚ 2013. The four performers mostly showing on the stage‚ Xiaoling Li‚ Andrée Simard‚ Gordon Cleland‚ Karin Di Bella are violinist‚ violist‚ violoncellist‚ pianist respectively. Then‚ the soprano Charlotte Knight joined the performance to present us a wonderful and colorful music. The stage in the Sean O’Sullivan Theatre is surrounded by cambered

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    Group 1‚ Question B The eroded status of the American women in Fuller’s time period is emphasized by her blatant indications to American society’s demands for women. Society’s narrow-minded perception of what an American woman should be even goes so far as to denote the occupation most suitable for women. One such instance is when Fuller briefly discusses society’s presumption that women are more fit to be teachers since women are “…less immersed in other cares and toils [and] from the preparation

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    Philosophical influences in early American sport and fitness From the late 1700s to the mid-1800s‚ three nations–Germany‚ Sweden‚ and England–influenced the early development of physical education in the United States. German immigrants introduced the Turner Societies‚ which advocated a system of gymnastics training that utilized heavy apparatus (e.g.‚ side horse‚ parallel and horizontal bars) in the pursuit of fitness. In contrast‚ the Swedish system of exercise promoted health through the performance

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    Women in past western society have been seen as the unintelligent‚ powerless‚ and insignificant gender. Though something began to change between 1790 and 1860. Economically Women were now able to work‚ have money‚ and help their families; Domestically‚ there was the great admiration for women in the home now instead of just expecting their place to be there. The Industrial Revolution brought many changes to the whole nineteenth-century. It brought technology to make life much easier‚ economic growth

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    In reality the clubs usually don’t receive enough money to fundraise and that is where the provincial government comes in to help find venues and other amenities for cheaper prices or get government funding. Many clubs have expenses at Brock such as clothing/uniform purchases‚ equipment purchases‚ they have small budgets‚ funding limitations and paying to set up special events. This leads all the executives scurrying to get as many volunteers as possible because it is expensive to pay the clubs and

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    political opinions in the public sphere. Women would attend abolitionist meetings and hold debates in order to get other men in women to join the movement. Two notable authors of the time‚ Catharine Beecher and Elizabeth Stanton‚ each wrote about their different opinions on women’s involvement in politics. Catharine Beecher’s essay “The Duty of American Females” is a response to women’s involvement in politics and especially

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    Suppose one accepts MacKinnon and Dworkin’s suggested statutory definition of pornography. How does one who generally accepts MacKinnon and Dworkin’s views on the pervasively harmful effect of pornography‚ and who accepts a need for legal redress of the harms perpetrated by pornography‚ deal with pornographic material? The ordinance proposed by MacKinnon and Dworkin would deal with such material by enacting legislation which gives people adversely affected by the works‚ which clearly fit their definition

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