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    Female Foticide

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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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    Examine some of the reasons why females may be less likely than males to commit crimes. Women in general seem to have a lower rate of offending than men. Some sociologists take the view that it is social factors rather than biological factors that cause the gender differences in offending. Sociologists have put forward three main explanations of gender differences in crime‚ which are the sex role theory‚ the control theory and the liberation thesis. The sex role theory and the control theory

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    WRITING TASK Write about the following topic: Universities should accept equal numbers of male and female students in every subject. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. Write at least 250 words. My competition: Although it is dramatically imbalanced that the proportion of male and female students in some subjects of some universities in China‚ I don’t think it is necessary to compel

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    Female Foeticide

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    female foeticide/ infanticide The term female foeticide means killing the female foetus in the mother’s womb. How cruel? The practice has been followed in India for ages‚ a country that once described its women as godessess. For this reason‚ Indian women will soon get extinct. Surprised? The most active part is being played by the women themselves -- why? Just for the mere want of a boy‚ mothers don’t feel bad in strangulating their daughters in their wombs. Can anyone be more cruel?  In India‚ sex

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    Male Gaze

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    Analysis We see the theory of the male gaze prominently in this scene taken from transformers in which the appealing force is Megan Fox and the character she plays. This is done through the micro-elements in the film and especially the cinematography in this scene. One major area is her style of clothing. We see her in a typical light‚ short skirt and a crop top alongside the tan and curves. This draws the eye of audiences in order to portray her in the light that male audience’s desire. Throughout the

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    Introduction An ecosystem is a community of living organisms (plants‚ animals and microbes) in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment (things like air‚ water and mineral soil)‚ interacting as a system.[2] These biotic and abiotic components are regarded as linked together through nutrient cycles and energy flows.[3] As ecosystems are defined by the network of interactions among organisms‚ and between organisms and their environment‚[4] they can be of any size but usually

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    Female Foeticide

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    humanity”. Female Foeticide is thus‚ the act of aborting a foetus because it is female. This is a major social problem not only in India but the entire world. Foetal sex determination and sex selective abortion by medical professionals has today grown into a Rs. 1‚000 crore industry. Social discrimination against women and a preference for sons have promoted. According to the decennial Indian census‚ the sex ratio in the 0-6 age group in India went from 104.0 males per 100 females in 1981‚ to 105

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    The savage male

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    The Savage Male Yanomamo a tribe of American Indians are labeled as the ‘fierce people’. They are one of the most aggressive‚ warlike‚ male-oriented people in the world. Yanomamo male is usually covered with wounds and scars due to quarrels‚ duels and military raids. Women are also covered with scars and bruises as a result of violent encounters with seducers‚ rapists and husbands. Yanomamo is a hot-tempered‚ drug-taking‚ warrior-husband. Kind husbands merely hurt and mutilate‚ the fierce one

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    Throughout both films The Harder they Come and The Mighty Quinn the characters face many major choices to make. Both Ivan in The Harder they Come and Maubee in The Mighty Quinn faced difficult decisions that were caused by postcolonial-independence. Both films difficulties were stemmed because of the influence of other countries in theirs at the time. The Harder They Come features the issues Jamaicans faced in the Ganja trade‚ which was controlled by other countries. The Mighty Quinn features Americans

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    Comodification of female

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    by the father or an adult male. In Greek‚ it means ’’rule of a father’’‚ stating that female live under father’s power because male are more muscular and powerful so they could determine what women should do or shouldn’t do through force‚ pressure‚ education or tradition to maintain their power. And women don’t have rights to make any decisions‚ they have to obey the values and demands appointed by male or the father. Nowadays‚ ’’patriarchy’’ means the power held by male in different aspects of the

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