Female Genital Mutilation: A Case of Cultural Relativism (Or Not?) Abstract Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a cultural practice that involves the cutting of external female genitalia. Issues that need to be considered regarding FGM are its health consequences‚ the fact that it violates basic human rights and democratic principles (of paternalism)‚ and that the reasons why it is performed are completely unjustified. Supporters of the practice argue how it is a cultural right‚ and hence universal
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Female Genital Mutilation – Violating Women’s Rights and Bodies Female Genital Mutilation is often abbreviated “FGM” and is also known as Female Genital Cutting (FGC) or Female Circumcision. According to the World Health Organization‚ there are 4 major types of practices. The most common one is the Clitoridectomy‚ a partial or total removal of the clitoris. The Excision is the partial or total removal of the clitoris and the labia minora and/or the labia majora‚ the inner and outer lips
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’Work is worship’ means that all labour‚ manual or otherwise‚ is full of dignity and nobility. It equals work with prayer. It emphasizes the point that empty verbal prayers are not as valuable as real achievement in any fields. Many people in the present generation‚ however‚ have a mistaken idea that manual labor is undignified. The higher and the middle classes in our country are apt to look down upon the manual work done by the poorer classes to earn their daily bread. Though in these hard days
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Cain - Twere better that he never had been born? Oh‚ do not say so! Where were then the joys‚ The mother’s joys of watching‚ nourishing‚ And loving him? Soft! he awakes. Sweet Enoch! Oh‚ Cain! look on him; see how full of life‚ Of strength‚ of bloom‚ of beauty‚ and of joy— How like to me—how like to thee‚ when gentle— For then we are all alike; is’t not so‚ Cain? Mother‚ and sire‚ and son‚ our features are Reflected in each other; as they are In the clear water‚ when they are gentle‚ and
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CHEM 3411‚ Fall 2010 Solution Set 5 In this solution set‚ an underline is used to show the last significant digit of numbers. For instance in x = 2.51693 the 2‚5‚1‚ and 6 are all significant. Digits to the right of the underlined digit‚ the 9 & 3 in the example‚ are not significant and would be rounded off at the end of calculations. Carrying these extra digits for intermediate values in calculations reduces rounding errors and ensures we get the same answer regardless of the order of arithmetic
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I picked this topic because I have a lot of female friends and a lot of male friends too. I’m going to talk about things you can do when you hang out with them‚ what you can tell them when it is good to hang out with them. There are many differences between the two. Female friends are good for a lot of things they understand more than boys do. Male friends are good to have for telling them about all the things you can’t tell your girlfriends. Girls you can go shopping with get your hair done with
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aggression. She was a “difference” feminist‚ a group of feminists who believe women and men have fundamental differences in how they act‚ think‚ and look at the world. So then‚ do men and women have innately different personalities? Do boys and girls behave differently only because they are raised differently by their parents and taught differently by teachers? Or are they different because they have inherited from their parents’ genes different ways of thinking and acting? Are men and women
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Female Genital Mutilation Female genital mutilation (FGC) is often referred to as female circumcision. The practice is common in many places around the world like parts of Africa and the Middle East. In many third world countries the practice has been part of cultural traditions for many‚ many years to initiate rites of passage. In extreme cases female genital mutilation is done to ensure fidelity. Efforts to stop this practice are in place around the world but are often presented with many challenges
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Sufferings of a Female Slave “Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women. Superadded to the burden common to all‚ they have wrongs‚ and sufferings‚ and mortifications peculiarly of their own” (Gates and McKay 294). Although male narrators like Frederick Douglas had touched on what slave women went through‚ the public had yet to hear it come from the mouth of a woman. Harriet Jacobs tells her story in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and brings attention to the problems
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Female Foeticide in India: The Plight of Being Born a Woman:- Life is a constant struggle‚ a fight against everything and everyone around you‚ a fight against the high tides to keep afloat. The battle for life commences right from the day a girl child is conceived in her mother’s womb. Her existence‚ her survival‚ is as unpredictable as the game of Pitch and Toss. The metaphor stands justified if one gives a quick glance towards some statistics‚ which tell you that around 10 million female fetuses
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