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    Sex Trafficking and Apne App Sex trafficking has been around since the beginning of time. Apne App is a women’s right organization that is bringing to the forefront awareness of sex trafficking and knowledge to help fight it. Their purpose is to help end prostitution and sex slavery primarily in Indian and Southeast Asian countries as well as the rest of the world. Additionally they empower the women to live out their lives free and give them the skills to succeed. Apne App wants to show these

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    Lucille Ball 	Lucille Ball has made significant and positive contributions to the country with her comedy. Many consider her America ’s best female actress. Kathleen Brady‚ in fact‚ says‚ "Lucille Ball is one of the greatest performing artists America has produced" (ix). Throughout her career‚ Ball has not only been a comedienne‚ but also a superb businesswoman‚ an excellent role model‚ and has won numerous awards. 	Lucille Ball ’s major contribution has been as a comedienne. Not only

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    First-wave feminism refers to a period of feminist activity during the 19th and early twentieth century throughout the world‚ particularly in the United Kingdom‚ Canada‚ theNetherlands and the United States. It focused on de jure (officially mandated) inequalities‚ primarily on gaining women’s suffrage (the right to vote). The term first-wave was coined in the 1970s.[by whom?] The women’s movement of that time‚ with its focus on de facto (unofficial) inequalities‚ acknowledged its predecessors by

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    work which would allow for more creativity (Garner). She said that "I began writing in my early twenties out of desperation" (Faulkner). Her first published piece of writing was in a magazine called Ingenue and it was an interview with feminist Gloria Steinem (Britannica). Sometime after this publication‚ in 1973‚ she legally changed her name to Jamaica Kincaid to reconnect with her Caribbean roots (Britannica). From there she became the assistant of George Trow who wrote "talk of the town" for The

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    emotional support‚ financial support‚ or even to give them status in society‚ rather‚ feminist theory taught independence. Some forms of feminist theory has established that women do not need men to survive; a quote to back this up is one from Gloria Steinem‚ and she says “ A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” This backs up the idea that women do not need men to function‚ and this can be seen as a cause for a higher divorce rate. Some feminist theories are seen as extreme and Eva Figes

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    The Women ’s Liberation Movement Since the beginning of time‚ women had been working to advance their place in society. From the Stone Age through the twentieth century‚ individuals and organized groups had felt that women were treated unequally‚ and they vowed to do something about it. Perhaps the peak of this movement occurred in the 1960s and 1970s‚ when the Women ’s Liberation Movement was recognized as an organized effort to gain equality of women. Beginning in ancient times‚ women of

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    women are capable of both force and love. “Women represent love; men represent force. Man’s use of force without love brings evil and unhappiness. Wonder Woman proves that women are superior to men because they have love as an additional force” (Steinem 345). In the Wonder Woman comic book‚ as a reminder of what they were put through and why they were made‚ all Amazons must wear bracelets that resemble the shackles they were once threatened with. Most young boys do not possess the empathy needed

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    30 seconds left in the game‚ my blood pounding in my ears‚ I get down into position‚ body aching‚ breathing heavy‚ the opposing team’s center yells out‚ “Red 22‚ Red 22‚ Ready!?!?” I get lower‚ watching my target‚ the linebacker in front of me‚ like a predator and its prey. “HUT!” I launch forward hitting the lineman in front of me and keep pushing until he’s down‚ 20 seconds. I look up‚ scanning for the ball like coach taught me‚ even before I realize I spotted it I’m on the move‚ it’s in the quarterback’s

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    manifest itself at the ballot box and when does information regarding candidate qualifications or the lack thereof matter in this relationship?” Previous studies such as Steinem (2008) as well as the drastic underrepresentation of women in politics implies that gender is “probably the most restricting force in American life” (Steinem 2008)‚ going as far to affect American Politics. The author decides to test this using the IAT (Implicit Attitudes Test) due to dual process theories of mind as well as

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    The Sexual Content in Angela Carter´s “The Bloody Chamber” The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories‚ is a selection of fairytales which have been re-written by Angela Carter to place them in the modern day. Carter has taken seven fairytales whose “latent content” she says were “violently sexual”‚ (qtd by Robin Sheets‚ “Pornography Fairy Tales and Feminism” 642). The stories include a variation of classics fairytales such as “Bluebeard”‚ “Beauty and the Beast” and “Little Red Riding Hood” with sometimes

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