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    INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S RIGHTS ACTION WATCH 301-19TH AVENUE SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS MN 55455 USA TEL: 612 625 5093 E-MAIL: IWRAW@hhh.umn.edu www.igc.org/iwraw EQUALITY AND WOMEN’S ECONOMIC‚ SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS A Guide to Implementation and Monitoring Under the International Covenant on Economic‚ Social and Cultural Rights INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S RIGHTS ACTION WATCH Copyright 2004 International Women’s Rights Action Watch‚ University of Minnesota Funding for this publication was provided by the

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    night of the scorpion

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    spiritual fallouts in a typical ignorant village. Obviously the tone is satirical. Pungent yet Horatian; Subtle and biting‚ the tone is that of a wronged person who sees the futility of a protest in the face of an ignorant army. The author recounts the night‚ a scorpion driven by continuous rain hidden beneath a rice sack stung the poet’s mother and ran off after the attack. The villagers tried to search for the insect in order to immobilize it so that the poison doesn’t spread since according to their

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    Stormy Nights

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    to immediately fall asleep and wake up to a better day. That night I dreamt of a place where the sun was always shined so bright it almost glowed‚ a place where everything there was no noise apart from the occasion sounds of nature‚ and the water was so still it could be mistaken for ice‚ a place surrounded by luscious green trees and colorful flora and when the sun set there was complete silence across the entire countryside. That night I dreamt of a place where I could feel connected and at

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    The City at Night

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    The City at Night I step forward into the deep‚ soft snow and hear the sound of a muffled packing of frozen wetness. All the sounds are muffled‚ yet somehow amplified by parentheses they fall hard but slow‚ despite the weight. I look at the cloud they fall from and think how the snowflake seems like a frozen flake of a billowy cloud. Its cold and the snow that falls on my upturned face froze on my eyelashes until I blinked and now the warmth of my cheeks melts the snowflake and its

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    misty night

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    It was a misty night. The fog was all I can see. I stumbled‚ got up and stumbled again. Fear was screaming inside my head like the menacing roar of an angry lion‚ it felt like I was trapped in a never ending nightmare where all my greatest fears came to life. Frantically I felt the ground‚ finding for some clue to where I am. Wet grass. That is what I felt. The earth below me felt like ice all of a sudden when I recalled what happened. The picture of our car crashing through the divider and the screams

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    Night of the Scorpion

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    Night of the Sorpion’ is a poignant poem that evokes the strong hold of superstition within our social psyche. Ezekiel recalls the night when his mother was stung by a scorpion. With the onset of the monsoons‚ the ten hours of warm and steady rains had compelled the mysterious scorpion to crawl into the house and hid itself beneath a sack of rice in the dark store room. Without any mercy‚ it raised up its lethal‚ venomous and diabolic tail and stung Ezekiel’s mother in one of her toes while she was

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    Fly By night

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    TOPIC: Financial Statement Analysis CHAPTER LINK: Chapter 5 Fly-By-Night International Group: Can This Company Be Saved? Douglas C. Mather‚ Founder‚ Chairman‚ and Chief Executive of Fly-By-Night International Group (FBN)‚ lived the fast-paced‚ risk-seeking life that he tried to inject into his Company. Flying the Company ’s Learjets‚ he logged 28 world speed records. Once he throttled a company plane to the top of Mount Everest in 3 1/2 minutes. These activities seemed perfectly

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    Night Analysis

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    The Sacrifice of Humanization When people are told they are something over and over and over‚ they may begin to believe that it is true‚ and indeed they begin to become it. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel there is a use of a heavy symbolism. The most redundant and most important symbols that are used throughout his memoir are those of animals. In this memoir the constant comparison of the Jews to animals is used in a negative connotation and so that we see how the Nazi’s really were dehumanizing

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    In the Heat of the Night

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    The novel “In the Heat of the Night” introduces the reader to two characters‚ Virgil Tibbs and Bill Gillespie. Virgil Tibbs is a homicide detective at the Pasadena Police department‚ and Bill Gillespie is the Chief of Police for Wells County. In the novel they are shown as two completely opposite characters whose personalities differ almost completely. The basic aspect of the novel is how during the 1960’s people in the south underwent severe racism and prejudice. The novel also depicts how because

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    Night Reflection

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    The book Night‚ was written by Elie Wiesel. He was held hostage at a concentration camp for 15 years. Elie had a strong bond with his father‚ but it changed throughout the story. After being a “slave” for a long time changed him. I’m going to tell you how. First‚ Elie and his family got kicked out of their house and got moved to the ghetto. Elie felt horrible that his family had to leave. He also was upset about how families were being shot and getting kicked out of their homes. When Elie and his

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