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    Role of Women in the American Revolution The role of women played in any given war is quite often severely underestimated. This sentiment especially goes for the American Revolutionary War‚ where women actually played an absolutely essential role in our victory against the British. Not only where there different types of women who had helped‚ but there were many different ways each of them helped--particularly as nurses to help save lives and tend to injured soldiers. Without women helping in

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    THE ROLE OF MUSIC IN BRINGING ABOUT SOCIAL CHANGE Term Paper Project Presented in partial fulfilment Of The requirement for THE MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK DEGREE UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI Mrs. Vaijayanta A. Jagtap Jason Rasquinha (Guide) (Student) College of Social Work Nirmala Niketan 38‚ New Marine Lines Mumbai-400020 MARCH 2013 Acknowledgement I would firstly like to express my endless gratitude to my guide Prof. Vaijayanta Anand Jagtap

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    In the text Mythology by Edith Hamilton‚ women are portrayed as being property and objects. During this time women were seen to be not as "good" as men. They saw perfection in relationships between men and young male adults as the best relationships to have. However‚ homosexuality was frowned upon. Men were considered knowledgeable and educated‚ but women were seen as a burden placed on man by the Gods. When it came to women nothing was valuable about them but their beauty. When a woman was beautiful

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    Women in Puritan society were strictly confined to traditional roles within their family and community structures. They were solely relegated to serve their husband and their household. These circumstances were made apparent in the journal of John Winthrop as well as the letters between him and his wife. The statements made in John Winthrop’s journal regarding Anne Hutchinson are descriptive of the restricted roles of women in the commonwealth. The way in which Margaret speaks to her husband

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    Throughout many pays and novels‚ women have had important roles of helping form the main characters‚ in the way they think‚ move or change the story. Women have always been subordinate to men all through history‚ but in plays‚ novels‚ short stories‚ etc‚ they have been given large enforcing roles‚ showing the power within women. William Shakespeare and Sophocles use guilt‚ pride‚ and influence to demonstrate the importance of the women’s role to support the main characters in both the plays of Macbeth

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    The role of women is a very important topic in "The Epic of Gilgamesh‚" and various women are chosen to represent various aspects of the mesopotamian conception of women. In the ancient times males were inessential to the preservation of life. "The Epic of Gilgamesh" shows how the inability of males to give birth causes a sense of despair and alienation. While the representation of women might seem confusing at first with its wide range of traits‚ the epic tries to demonstrate all aspects of women

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    Role of Training in Women Entrepreneurship Shikha Arora Email: shikha0211@gmail.com Key words: Training ‚ Analysis‚ Case Study ‚ Porter’s five forces framework ‚ PESTLE Analysis ‚ Support system ‚ Key Challenges ‚Current trends and road ahead. Abstract: This study involves the origin of Women Entrepreneurship‚ its present state and its scope in the future. Existence of Women Entrepreneurship has shown a number of challenges faced by different class of women in India on the way of

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    The Changing Role of Women in India Women in India are beginning to follow the direction that the women of the Western world took more than eighty years ago; demanding treatment as human equals. However‚ it has become more and more evident as the revolution ages that Indian women may have to adapt the Western feminist method to their very traditional and religious culture. India has different complications that put the development of women in a completely altered context than their Western counterparts

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    The cultural role of women in the Odyssey In Homer’s Odyssey the cultural relevance of a preferred woman’s role in society generally stands out in the roles of the female characters of Athena and Penelope simultaneously rejecting the negatively viewed characteristics of Calypso and Circe. The entire structure of Ancient Greek culture boasts its men in more superior roles than that of women. Greek society was largely built upon an idea that good women were only around to faithfully serve and support

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    construction of cruelty helps explain the female role perpetrators. By examining the situations where women are placed and immersed in it explains the roles and actions that they choose to take. In considering the role of gender for perpetrators I personally feel that the role of women in a genocide is vastly underestimated. I think that society has a stereotype for looking at women as unable to be perpetrators of genocide‚ nor do I believe that women do not hold the structure and store in society

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