Elizabeth Pisani’s The Wisdom of Whores - Bureaucrats‚ Brothels and the Business of AIDS is a great book (along with a great website). Elizabeth Pisani is an epidemiologist with years of experience working on HIV/AIDS (or sex and drugs‚ as she puts‚ which sounds a lot‚ well‚ sexier) at a variety of agencies‚ including UNAIDS. The book is the story of her frustrations at the way the international community‚ national governments‚ NGOS and AIDS activists have dealt with the epidemics‚ as well as her
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Sexual rights of Muslim men on their wives and sex slaves. Koran is literal word of Allah who is the only God; Muslims would love and wish every one to believe this. In their effort to propagate their faith they say Islam means peace and justice and try to fool infidels in to believing that all those verses of warfare in Koran are meant for removing injustice. They will never explain what is ’injustice’ which is the key word. See‚ if Allah means so much against injustice why he legalized institution
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No Name October 23‚ 2006 The Image of Females Goddesses and Mortals The role of the Gods is a constant theme reoccurring over and over again throughout Homer’s Iliad but it’s the Female Goddesses and the image of femininity that displays contradiction. The Goddesses posses large amounts of power over mortals and at Mt Olympus mostly through manipulation and intertwining relationships that affect the war and the different individuals. The mortal women on the other hand display weaknesses
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Greek Gods/ Goddesses Question 1: Who are the Greek Gods and Goddesses? The Greek Gods and Goddesses are mythical people. They were made up by Hesiod‚ a possible contemporary with Homer‚ At the centre of Greek mythology is the pantheon of deities who were said to live on Mount Olympus‚ the highest mountain in Greece. From their perch‚ they ruled every part of human life. Olympian gods and goddesses looked like men and women (although they could change themselves
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but they do not always stand out. One may have to look deep into the use of his literary techniques to comprehend the story. Hawthorne effectively uses irony‚ conflict and imagery in “The Wives of the Dead” to create the mood of suspense surrounding the fate of the husbands. The story begins with two wives that are sisters learning that each of their husbands have been killed in the “line of duty” within two days of each other. The mood of suspense is created early on in the story with the use
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One of views that Pisani explains‚ is when she stated that religious dedication mainly in the Christian and Muslim faiths “stands firmly between what we should be doing to prevent HIV and what we actually do.” (P188‚ Pisani) To me what she is saying is that another way for society to tell people about the safety of HIV‚ and this way is through religion. In her passage she says that religion obscures the truth‚ so whatever these kids learn will be whatever the religion says and these kids will have
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Sociology of the Family The Stepford Wives Movie I can’t speak about the 1950’s family values because I was born in the early 1970’s. Then after watching the movie “The Stepford Wives”‚ the traditional family life has changed‚ but family values have remained the same to some extent. The movie tries to portray the traditional women femininity but also be the homemakers while their husbands are the breadwinners
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head and the couple was more than happy to welcome her into the world. After she was born‚ at age one‚ Hera and Zeus sent her away for a year to a school called Unique Kingdom located in Creative Island. At the school‚ there were many gods and goddesses that owned their own shops selling many varieties of food for students afterschool. Despina couldn’t help but feel left out because she had thought that she was the only one that was mortal in Unique Kingdom. She was young at the time and had no
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Army Wives Wendy Agbay Baker College The American public’s perception of military spouses is skewed due to a lack of information and incorrect media interpretation. Military spouses must be willing to sacrifice‚ as well as have courage and integrity to make their family work under extreme circumstances. This cannot be portrayed in the media accurately. Television shows such as Army Wives makes light of what a military spouse has to endure. In turn‚ this hurts the reputation of the military
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Major God and Goddesses Submitted By : *Jennifer Orevillo *Stephanie Orebillo *Dianne Tique *Nelialyne Basa *Jeremiah Sabalza *Rommel Urbano Submitted To : *Mrs.Lenilyn Robles Hades Zeus Poseidon Hermes Aphrodite Ares Hephaestus Hera ENGLISH IV Artemis (Diana) The daughter of Leto and Zeus‚ and the twin sister of Apollo. Artemis is the goddess of the wilderness‚ the hunt and wild animals‚ and fertility (she became
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