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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desires in a very supportive society. Unfortunately‚ this is not the case for all women. Millions of girls and women today are fighting for their most basic right‚ the right to their body. Despite increased backlash female circumcision is still shockingly prevalent in many third world countries. Many advocators of female circumcision argue the procedure is an integral part of culture. Despite the cultural significance of female genital mutilation‚ the procedure is a violation of rights and causes intense
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Female Foeticide in India What is female foeticide? The act of aborting or terminating a foetus while it’s still in the womb‚ because it is female‚ is known as female foeticide. This can be done after determining the sex of the child before it’s born‚ through ultrasound scans. Although‚ sex determination in India is illegal‚ the practice is rampant and has become a multi-million dollar industry. Coupled with prospective parents desperate for a boy child‚ and physicians who are carrying out these
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of Seeing‚ John Berger had already proposed that in Western culture‚ from painting to advertising‚ “men acted and women appear‚” or rather men look at women and women watch themselves being looked at‚ (Berger‚ p. 198). Accordingly‚ Mulvey’s theory works in Hollywood film as follows: the male character looks at a woman and the camera films what the man is seeing (a point-of-view camera shot)‚ and because the camera is showing what the man sees‚ the viewer is seemingly required to look through the male’s
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Probability Theory and Game of Chance Jingjing Xu April 24‚ 2012 I. INTRODUCTION Probability theory is the mathematical foundation of statistics‚ and it can be applied to many areas requiring large data analysis. Curiously‚ that the study on probability theory has its root in parlor games and gambling. In 17th century‚ dice gambling was a very common entertainment among the upper class. An
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Female Foeticide In India India is a country of incredible ironies. It is a land where people worship myriad forms of female Shakti in quest of wealth‚ wisdom and power. In this country it is a common sight to see thousands of couples making arduous journeys every year to shrines of goddesses in order to be blessed with a child. But strangely enough‚ in this country‚ a couple is said to be ‘blessed’ only when it has a male child; for a girl is never considered a blessing in our society. Her birth
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FEMALE FOETICIDE INTRODUCTION: Contemporary Indian society professes a profound faith in every individual’s “right to life and dignity”. The rights relating to the weaker & vulnerable sections of Indian society especially women‚ and more specially the girl child were violated. The twin social evils of female foeticide & female infanticide were the main causes.Violence against women exists in various forms‚ in all societies‚ the world over. In 1996 the world health assembly endorsed the fact that
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John Winthrop was one of the first settlers of the Massachusetts Bay plantation in 1630. He delivered a sermon called A Model of Christian Charity‚ while aboard the ship taking these Puritans to the New World “which outlined the principles by which the new colony should be run” (Mulford 237). He uses Bible scripture to reinforce his idea of how their community should be created. As the Bible is the foundation for these Puritans‚ it is important to see how he uses scripture to create their perfect
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Factors Similar for Gang-Involved‚ Pressured-to-Join‚ and Non-Gang-Involved Youth? A Social-Ecological Analysis” written by Gabriel J. Merrin‚ Jun Sung Hong‚ and Dorothy L. Espelage. I found that the article was a very great source of enlightenment of the world of the gang involvement. I am going to share with everyone the things in the article that got my attention. I found that it was strange that males are more than likely to become involved in gangs more so than females. Youth boys and girls are
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Honors English 10; 4P 3 December 2013 I abide by the Honor Code Charity “Peace is the work of justice indirectly‚ in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity directly‚ since charity‚ according to its very notion‚ causes peace.” - St. Thomas Aquinas Charity is the kindly or sympathetic disposition to aid the needy as a result of deep feeling or understanding. Charity exists in many different forms. It can be seen in the forms of helping the poor‚ those
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