Period 4 21 Oct 2013 The Female Body In “The Female Body‚” Margaret Atwood is discussing how both women and men perceive the female body‚ through their own eyes. She starts off by describing how her own body looks and feels‚ but does this in an indirect way by referring to her body as her topic. Also uses that type of wording to enforce the judgment that people give toward the female body. Atwood describes what type of accessories can come along with the female body. This shows that women are
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Women are murdered all over the world. But in India a most brutal form of killing females takes place regularly‚ even before they have the opportunity to be born. Female feticide--the selective abortion of female fetuses--is killing upwards of one million females in India annually with far-ranging and tragic consequences. In some areas‚ the sex ratio of females to males has dropped to less than 8000:1000. Females not only face inequality in this culture‚ they are even denied the right to be born
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Aarron Eilers February 22‚ 2010 Female Offenders The number of women incarcerated is growing at a rapid pace. This calls for a reevaluation of our correction institutions to deal with women’s involvement in crime. Increasing numbers of arrests for property crime and public order offenses are outpacing that of men. The “War on Drugs” has a big influence on why our prisons have become overcrowded in the last 25 years. Women are impacted more than ever because they are being convicted
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Female Ambiguity: Kirke from The Odyssey vs. Bianca from The Taming of the Shrew Women are ambiguous characters throughout texts such as The Odyssey and The Taming of the Shrew. In these two stories‚ there are female characters that are deceitful and beguiling towards men. Kirke and Bianca are two comparable characters that display such behavior. I will explain how both characters display ambiguity by hiding their true nature behind actions that they wouldn ’t normally take; therefore these
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Orissa Review * December - 2008 Female Foeticide in India : A Serious Challenge for the Society Dr. Krushna Chandra Jena Introduction : Women who constitute half a human population have been discriminated‚ harassed and exploited irrespective of the country to which they belong‚ unmindful of the religion which they profess and oblivious of the timeframe in which they live.1 Everywhere women are confronted with many challenges. Female foeticide is perhaps one of the worst forms of violence
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certain issue. The two works The Female Body by Margaret Atwood and The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin romanticizes the view of women in their own opinion‚ emphasizing ideas such as women being portrayed as common housewives‚ objects‚ emotional delinquents‚ and submissive individuals. The similarities include both authors has their own distinct
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Female Feticide: Causes‚ Effects and Solutions The curse of the girl child The curse of the girl child Female feticide Female feticide Isolation Isolation Female Feticide Pursue this fragment of an otherwise innocent conversation Doctor (female): It’s a little late. Besides‚ IT has grown too large in size to eliminate. Woman: Does that mean you can’t do anything to get rid of IT? Doctor: Hmm‚ maybe a timely pill or an injection can still kill IT. The money charged will increase
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to turn a deaf ear to. Female infanticide is one of them. Female infanticide is a deliberate and intentional act of killing a female child within one year of its birth either directly by using poisonous organic and inorganic chemicals or indirectly by deliberate neglect to feed the infant by either one of the parents or other family members. On the other hand‚ female feticide is the termination of the life of a foetus within the womb on the grounds that its sex is female. This practice is also
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THEME PAPER Female Foeticide Host Organizations: TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 4 INTRODUCTION 4 Definition 4 Sex Ratio 5 Purpose 7 Primary Data 8 Secondary Data 8 Process 8 Reproduction rights: - 9 Economic stability: 9 Social Status: 9 Challenges 9 The Context 9 DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS 10 1) Government schemes 10 a) Ladli - 10 b) Kanyadaan: 11 c) Incentives for Panchayat 11 Inference 12 2) Present and past sex ratios
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FEMALE INFANTICIDE Imagine a world with no women. There are no wives‚ no sisters‚ no daughters‚ and no mothers. Unfortunately‚ this world is on the brink of becoming a scary reality for Asian countries such as China and India. Due to attempts 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
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