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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Matt Unick Prof. Rhone 11/15/12 ENG 101 Consequences of technology The most significant event in history has been argued by many scholars through the years. The industrial revolution‚ the renaissance‚ or even the Neolithic revolution all have been the top choices. One event that doesn’t get as much attention is the event that is happening in the world today. The world is going through a technology surge unlike ever before. It is an increasing advancement in technology with every passing
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PSY 2110-10 March‚ 29‚ 2011 Female Magazines I read a magazine call “GL” which stands for girl’s life. It is focus on teens‚ and it is one of the popular teen magazines for female. Of course‚ the pop star “Justin Biber” was on the cover which caught my eyes. In the magazine‚ the question of today was “Are you cheating on your boyfriend?” wasn’t too proper for teen to start off. The advertisement weren’t bad; they were mostly movies‚ and clothing. The articles were somewhat positive and negative
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Female oppression Women have been exploited and faced oppression for ages. Until the 20. Century‚ societies had not been realized that situation or the opinions against women violence had not been spreaded enough. After the technological and intellectual development‚ many books have been written and movies have been made to increase awareness about the female oppression. I will analyze a movie and a book named Color Purple and Nora: A Doll’s house. Nora: A Doll’s house is one of the most
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A. Introduction The divorce rate continues to increase from year to year. While many studies are conducted on the reasons for divorce‚ fewer focus on the consequences that occur after. Although each case comes with its own set of circumstances‚ I am going to focus on two articles that look at some of the consequences that occur after a divorce. The first will focus on the adult children of divorced couples while the second takes an in depth look at how African American women fair following
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Ross Carroll rcarroll@sfu.ca Experiencing Society (120) Consequences of Conformity “Man is born free‚ and everywhere he is in chains” (Jean Jacques Rousseau‚ Social Contract‚ 1762). From the moment of birth‚ man is burdened with an immense social pressure to act within social guidelines that are considered acceptable. Whether they truly are beneficial or not is irrelevant. Influences such as the government‚ the media‚ and religion force us not only to abide‚ but to believe in these guidelines
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Consequences of GMOs In past years‚ genetically modified organisms also known as GMOs have replaced our diets with genetically altered foods‚ which have adversely affected the health of humans and local communities. GMOs are organisms that have been created through the gene-splicing techniques of biotechnology (also called
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Ellen Moers defines female gothic as the “work that women writers have done in the literary mode that‚ since the eighteenth century” (317). Gothic writings are fake fear; fear to stimulate what you might feel if this were actually to happen. But‚ gothic is not tragedy‚ tragedy is more terror and horror. Ellen Moers’ essay is about the evolution of different gothic writings and writers. As she states in her essay‚ “For Frankenstein is a birth myth‚ and one that was lodged in the novelist’s imagination
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As it has been described in the previous part‚ the developing countries due to inability to serve their debts were forced to borrow funds from the IMF and the World Bank and accept the severe structural adjustment programs bound to the loans. The same happened to the developed European countries‚ which were badly hit by the global financial and then by the Eurozone sovereign debt crises in 2008 and 2010 respectively. The debt crisis has shown that the problem of indebtedness is no longer exclusive
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“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” This famous quote from Mohandas Gandhi demonstrates the destructive consequences of vengeance. In addition to Gandhi’s quote‚ World War one is a case demonstrating the corruption of vengeance. This war took place in Europe and began with the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand from Austria- Hungary. Gavril Princip‚ a Serbian‚ was responsible for the assassination‚ leading to Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia. His motivation was
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