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    The Kite Runner is the book I recommend more than The Color Purple by Alice Walker for incoming 9th Grade Honors students.The Kite Runner shows very emotional story of friendship‚ family‚ mistakes‚ and love. It was a very interesting book which caught my attention and drew me in. Although The Color Purple was a book about a less fortunate‚ uneducated‚ African-American fourteen-year-old girl who comes across struggles in her life so‚ began to writes letters to God to help and guide her. I don’t recommend

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    Feminism is defined as‚ "the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political‚ social‚ and economic equality to men" yet all around women seem to be taking a step back from such "progress" they have so called "fought" for. Not only as a traditional Chicano male but as a Christian I believe that there are certain things a woman must and mustn’t do. Feminists want to be seen equal as a man but can’t live up to what they claim. If a woman wants to be seen equal as a man why must she use her sexual

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    the story “The Bluest Eye” & the movie “The Color Purple”. In the story “The Bluest Eye” was mostly about A girl name Pecola Breedlove. Pecola was the daughter of Mrs. Pauline Breedlove‚ and Cholly Breedlove‚ also the sister of Sammy her 14 year old brother who ran away. In The Movie it was about the main character‚ Ms. Celie‚ she was Common law wife of Albert. They had 2 kids‚ named (Olivia & Adam). Introducing the other characters in The Color Purple… Shug Avery‚ A Juke Joint Singer. Harpo‚ Albert’s

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    The American movement for women’s liberation and rights was undoubtedly the most progressive in the decades that followed the Second World War. The second wave of feminism that ensued in the 1960s and 70s redirected the goals and ambitions in the fight for gender equality in many aspects. This new wave of liberal reform allowed women to break free from the domestic sphere from the conservative restraints of the 1950s‚ which have traditionally limited a women’s access to the same political‚ economic

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    of abortion‚ a feminist perspective of a woman’s control over her sexuality and how this relates to abortion‚ birth control‚ and lastly the reasoning behind why women may choose to abort. The writing style the persuasive paper will follow is APA style‚ and the following are a list of scholarly sources that will be used: 1.Himmelweit‚ S. (1980). Abortion: Individual choice and social control. Feminist Review‚ 5(1)‚ 65-68. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/fr.1980.13 is one of the sources that will be

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                                1   Women‚  Weapons‚  and  War:  Feminism  in  the  U.S.  Military     In  Iraq  and  Afghanistan  the  front  lines  are  everywhere‚  and  no  matter  what  their  job  description   says‚  women  in  the  U.S  military  are  fighting.  In  Band  of  Sisters  Kirsten  Holmstedt

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    The Color Purple By Alice Walker The intensively descriptive novel‚ The Color Purple is about Celie‚ a poor uneducated woman born in the early 1900’s‚ unselfishly surviving the social injustices of those times. As the novel unfolds‚ Celie experiences so much sorrow‚ that she is forced to grow up quickly and learn to appreciate the little that life has to offer her. As new people enter her life‚ she is encouraged to look at life differently and she discovers that she too can have a chance to

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    The Role of Women in 18th and 19th Century Literature The role of women in literature has typically been influenced by their role in society. In the 18th and 19th centuries their role in society began to change. Women began their transformation from anonymous objects of their fathers ’ and husbands ’ possession into animate‚ productive members of society. This change was reflected in the literature of the time‚ regardless of the gender of the author‚ and in a variety of genres and styles. Whether

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    The Color Purple I choose to read the book “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker. The book talks about the life of an African-American lady by the name of Celie that lived in the southern United States in the late 1930s. It addresses the numerous issues that included the low ranking of American social culture. In the book it talks about how she wrote books to God because the father she had would beat her and rape her. He also got her pregnant and then she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. Her father

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    dominated by men? What if all women had no say in things they believe‚ and every woman’s voice was considered useless? From the 1800’s up until today‚ women all around the world have been told they can be nothing more than a housewife and man’s eye candy. Thanks to brilliant trailblazers like Susan B. Anthony‚ Alice Paul‚ and Lucy Stone‚ the term feminism has been well respected and has grown into a worldwide phenomenon. Now more than ever‚ feminism has allowed women across the world to use their

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