to control population and the low value associated with females in these societies historically and culturally‚ both China and India are now facing a serious gender imbalance. Female infanticide and sex-selective abortion are responsible for this gender imbalance. The two atrocious practices have led to problems such as elevated rates in female kidnapping and slave trade‚ as well as forced marriages. This paper will focus on the roots of female infanticide and sex-selective abortions as well as the
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A hero in my eyes is someone who is strongly wise‚ helpful‚ and caring. My mother portrays all of these wonderful qualities. She is the greatest friend‚ Mom‚ and counselor to be around and look up to. To be a hero you have to be strongly wise.My mom knows how to help me out of tough times by staying strong and using her knowledge to guide me in the right direction. She has gone through so many of life’s obstacles that she knows from experience how to help me. When times get tough a hero never
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Sexting is the moral panic of our time. A moral panic is the intensity of feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten social order. Something commonly known as ‘Sexting’ is sending nude or semi-nude photos to another through mobile phone. More and more often‚ teenagers are sending sexually explicit images of themselves to their partner or friends for varying reasons. Females are using their ‘sexuality to survive’ (Christie Barron; Dany Lacombe‚ 2005) The ideal role
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A Cry Still Unheard: The Menace Of Female Foeticide In India “I am daughter of India. I am like your daughters who are playing in your premises‚ who are bringing laurels to the nation like Sunita Williams‚ Kiran Bedi‚ Kalpana Chawla‚ Sania Mirza etc. But there is a difference between me and all of you as I have been killed in the womb of my mother itself.” Once in our lives‚ most of us must have heard that a child is a ‘gift’ from God. Though whatever biology may suggest‚ it is not an uncommon
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covered life. As time passed by‚ the scenario changed‚ what turned out to be group formation for hunting during the nomadic times led to formation of groups as tribes for waging wars‚ and eventually in the urban times‚ now street gangs are formed in mostly developed cities‚ which are filled with crime and hate towards people other than their own gangs. Gangs all over the world especially in the United States of America‚ are very often very underlined as a male dominated one‚ and females that were supposed
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Madison Barlow Mrs. Burns English 10 Honors April 10‚ 2013 Female Infanticides in China For many decades China has been carrying out brutal actions among female infants which are known to be female infanticides. Female infanticides started in 1957 when China’s Chairman Mao Zedong wanted the country’s population to stay under six million for many years (Jimmerson). Leaders then came to a realization that a long term action would have to take place. Therefore they proposed a law stating that a
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Monday for the baby boy‚ and Friday for the girl. That’s no nursery rhyme but baby talk of the most dangerous kind. Doctors carrying out sex determination tests are using everyday language and symbols to divulge the gender of the baby to wealthy families. The results are shared mostly on emails‚ and are fuelling a business worth Rs 1‚500 crore. This is particularly worrying for a state like Maharashtra which loses 4.5 lakh girls every 10 years‚ 50‚000 every year and 148 every day. This and
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How do female characters portray resistance? The Handmaid’s Tale was written by Margaret Atwood in 1984 at a time when conservative religious groups were growing ever stronger‚ threatening to reverse the advances women had made over the last few decades. This feminist fear was very much a presence in Atwood’s mind and compelled her to write the novel despite her fears of how it would be perceived by readers. Similarly‚ The Crucible by Arthur Miller and Nineteen Eighty-four by George
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Unnecessarily Long English Homework Of Mice and Men (Awful book) Character Profiles: Lennie: A large‚ lumbering‚ childlike migrant worker. Due to his mild mental disability‚ Lennie completely depends upon George‚ his friend and traveling companion‚ for guidance and protection. The two men share a vision of a farm that they will own together‚ a vision that Lennie believes in wholeheartedly. Gentle and kind‚ Lennie nevertheless does not understand his own strength. His love of petting soft
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breathe through gills and do not have a tail fin like other fish. Seahorses have a dorsal fin on their backs that propels them forward through the water upright and moves almost as fast as hummingbird’s wings. The dorsal fin can move up to seventy times per minute! The seahorses’ pectoral fins near their neck are very important and are used for turning and steering. The coronet found on the top of a seahorse’s head is as distinctive to each seahorse as thumbprints are to humans. Seahorses do not
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