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    In Sophocles Antigone‚ the title character’s gender has profound effects on the meaning of her actions. Creon himself says that the need to defeat her is all the more pressing because since she is a woman her rebellion upsets gender roles and hierarchy. By refusing to be passive‚ she overturns one of the fundamental rules of her culture. Women were subjugated and supposed to be silent spectators to the world around them as men’s‚ such as Creon’s‚ search for power fuels there desire to put women down

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    “The Language of the Brag”: Sharon Olds’s Poem on Female Accomplishments Defining what it is to be a woman‚ Sharon Olds’s poem “The Language of the Brag” examines where the achievements of women fall along the accomplishments of men. Capturing both my personal interest and intrigue‚ Olds uses graphic imagery in a poem that connects to the values of womanhood. Showing the transitions of a woman’s place in society through metaphoric conventions‚ Olds exhibits her pride in being a woman‚ a pride all

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    been used to either empower or control another person. When used together‚ these two opposites lead to sexual assault. Through Dreaming in Cuban‚ the female characters during the Cuban revolution were affected by the two extremes of sex and violence. Thus their family was torn apart by men using both sex and violence in different intervals. These female characters thus turned to using them together in hopes to gain back some of that power or control they had over their lives to begin with. Cristina

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    The problems faced by female students in carrying out group projects in Caledonian college of engineering in Oman Survey Report Submitted By Nawaf Hani Al-Bahrani 08360 Construction Engineering (BECON 1) Level: 1 Department of Educational and Professional Development Caledonian College of Engineering 20/12/2008 Acknowledgements The researcher would like to show his appreciation to Dr. Punamm and Miss. Smitha

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    truly been eliminated from all forms of discrimination? The above imaginary situation is in fact exaggerated‚ though upon careful scrutiny of the Human Rights matter‚ even nowadays Black girls are not even protected from barbaric‚ evil tradition; “Female Genital Mutilation[3]” (hereinafter referred to as ‘FGM’). Bearing in mind that there are around 130 million women worldwide affected by FGM (Amnesty International est.) and recognizing hundreds and thousands of girls still going through this

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    males have better spatial awareness than females? Spatial Awareness: the ability to be aware and conscious of ourselves and objects in our environment‚ and their movement in space in relation to each other. Experimental hypothesis: males will correctly identify more shape pairs than females in a mental shape rotation task measuring spatial awareness. Null hypothesis: there will be no difference in the number of right answers achieved by males and females in the mental shape rotation task measuring

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    Female circumcision is a practice not uncommon in Muslim society. Although this practice does not only occur within Muslim society‚ this paper will focus on the practices that do occur within Islamic society. The Islamic countries with the most prevalence in practicing this form of genital mutilation are Sudan (98%)‚ Somalia (98%)‚ and Egypt (75%) (El Saadawi 34). Other Islamic countries that practice this are Indonesia‚ Malaysia‚ Pakistan‚ and India‚ which practice this under the name of sunnah

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    Female Genital Mutilation is a controversial topic that forces people to choose between traditional cultural rituals and the ethical rites of the female involved. Female genital mutilation (FGM)‚ explores several different points of view as well as addresses many contemporary issues. Mainstream assumptions and stereotypes‚ contemporary issues‚ and the women’s cultural and traditional perspectives paint a broader picture of the issues and implications surrounding FGM around the world. Sub Saharan

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    I strongly oppose Female genital mutilation to the fact that it violates two important human rights‚ namely: the right to have a surgery or not; and the right to keep one’s own gender identity. Another reason why I stand against female genital mutilation is the fact that I think that female genital mutilation is a strong gender issue leaning in favor of traditional men who want to control their many wives while they take turns to sleep with them‚ since female genital mutilation reduces the urge

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    rights. Although lots have changed‚ women are still fighting for equality in athletics. Female athletes should be able to play on a team even thoses with males on it. To begin Female athletes should play on the same sports teams as males because girls can be better at a sport than a male. Maybe the girl is born to tackle‚ and run around the football field‚ but if people don’t want to combine male and female athletes on a team she could never show people what she can do. It states on Debate.org

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